Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 472 Summoning the Torrent of Life Essence
Wizard Edgar activated the Tree of Life's backup plan. Instantly, the eight mages of the No. 1 Sureas Legion channeled all their magical power into the Tree of Life. Following this, countless pale green spirits appeared on the battlefield and, as if drawn by some kind of gravity, all converged towards the Tree of Life.

In the theater, the wizard Edgar David said to Locke and Diana, "The Tree of Life has the ability to summon spirits. These spirits are the primordial forms of the souls that wandered in nature at the beginning of life in this world. They are the original spiritual entities that were everywhere in this world before the first soul appeared."

Locke and Diana looked thoughtful.

"I never imagined the Ancient Tree of Life possessed the ability to manipulate primordial souls. Research on related essences is still relatively scarce at the first stage," Witch Diana said after some thought. "But what are you planning to do with all these essences?"

The wizard Edgar stretched out his hand toward the sky and began to whisper some kind of incantation.

Locke recognized the incantation. "The Spell of Shared Breath?"

The witch Diana immediately turned around nervously to look at Locke and asked, "What is the 'Synergy of the Branches' spell, and what are its effects?"

Locke glanced at her, deciding there was nothing wrong with the information, and said, "It's a botanical magic that can combine plants with each other, and also with one's own energy. It's a support-type magic."

Diana looked thoughtful.

Locke saw that the Tree of Life, which was filled with a large amount of natural spirit, was connected to the wizard Edgar's aura. Then, the Tree of Life raised its right hand like Edgar, and the aura of the Tree and Edgar became closer and closer.

Three minutes later, the entire ancient tree of life transformed into a 10-meter-tall, enlarged version of the wizard Edgar.

Its branches mimic Edgar's limbs, while its face mimics Edgar's features.

At this moment, a small portion of the images on the dome were of Edgar the Treant, indicating that the True Sight Crystal system held this spell in extremely high regard.

On the screen, Edgar the Treant and the Edgar the Treant in the theater spoke in unison: "The Tree of Life possesses the ability to manipulate primordial spirits: essences. By gathering primordial spirits: essences, it can transform the body of this Tree of Life Treant into my body, Edgar David, in a short period of time."

"In other words, the Tree of Life has the ability to become the avatar of a botanical wizard, and you should all understand what it means for a botanical wizard to have such a powerful avatar of natural forces, right?"

Edgar the Treant raised his right hand, made of branches, and attempted to unleash a life science botanical spell, Natural Storm, in front of him.

In an instant, a natural storm tornado a thousand meters high appeared, with wind and rain raging, engulfing all the Mekani people. At the same time, many grass seeds fell into the crevices inside the Mekani people's bodies during the storm. In just a moment, a large number of grass seeds took root and sprouted, growing inside the Mekani people's bodies.

The planetary gear system inside Mecani's body constantly generates electrical sparks, malfunctions, and explosions.

At the same time, Edgar the Treant raised his foot, and a vine appeared on the ground. The vine lifted him over a large number of Mekanian troops and directly attacked the metal fortress hidden beneath the Cloud Lake behind him.

The wizard Edgar chanted a spell in the theater, and the treant Edgar on the battlefield chanted the same spell at the same time. The treant Edgar plucked a branch from its crown, and the branch instantly transformed into a spear of life, which attacked the depths of the cloud lake.

The ultimate botanical magic of the first ring: the Spear of Life!

Extraordinary Spellcasting: Double Casting!
Extraordinary spellcasting refers to special spellcasting techniques developed by wizards in certain regions. Locke had never encountered this subject before, only having read about it in books. Upon seeing these so-called extraordinary spellcasting techniques, his eyes lit up.

Double casting can enhance the power of a spell.

The camera on the dome screen showed that the life spear thrown by Edgar the Treant pierced the cloud lake and quickly grew and sprouted, transforming into a small war treant.

Immediately afterwards, the war tree plucked a branch from its body, which transformed into a spear, and hurled it at the Mekani people's war fortress hidden beneath the cloud lake.

The war fortress beneath the cloud lake quickly activated its planetary gear system to enhance its mobility, spewing out countless flames to move the mechanical fortress and dodge the long spear of war.

In this way, the steel fortress was forcibly forced out of Cloud Lake by Edgar the Treant and exposed to everyone's sight.

Inside the theater, Edgar's eyes gleamed with longing.

While previous Yunze Cups have generally produced winners and losers, none have truly forced the Mekani people to reveal their steel fortress. But today, he did just that.

Edgar looked at Locke and Diana and said in a low voice, "You are both excellent wizards. But there can only be one champion, and that is me."

"The magic technology of the Suryas people is more than three hundred years behind that of the wizarding civilization, and their magical disciplines are extremely incomplete; otherwise, this war would have ended long ago."

"Using the power of the Ancient Tree of Life, I can create an avatar of myself on the battlefield. However, it requires a large amount of spiritual energy to connect my spirituality with the avatar of the Ancient Tree of Life. This is a special ability unique to the Ancient Tree of Life, which allows me to transform into an avatar of a certain wizard!"

"Moreover, it's not an ordinary clone, it's a natural avatar!"

An embodiment of nature?

Locke glanced at Edgar. No wonder the lake surface where Edgar's treant clone was located was currently equal to the image of his own Hydra with eight permanent defensive fields superimposed on it. This meant that the True Sight Crystal System believed that its creation could rival the other's creation.

Locke recalled the description of natural avatars in the ancient texts. They were special forms of avatars, similar to the descent of saints by deities. Natural avatars were like regional natural forces directly descending as an avatar.

Every action can be aided by regional-level natural forces.

Locke had experienced firsthand the power of using botanical magic when the Force of Nature flowed back, after all, his consciousness had once reached the Force of Nature plane.

If the Tree of Life can actually transform into a wizard's natural avatar, then it's no wonder that the True Sight Crystal System judged it to be a tactical-level magical plant on par with its own Hydra magical plant.

Edgar laughed loudly: "Hahahaha... Locke, Diana, feeling tricky, aren't you?"

"After all, no matter how good your magical plants are, those Sureas people can't bring them to their full potential. Only when we breeders step in can we fully unleash the power of the magical plants we've painstakingly cultivated."

The wizard Edgar said, "I'll take the spoils of victory."

At that moment, Yennefer, who ranked third in the qualifiers, suddenly raised her right hand and said, "Tournament Committee, I want to report that Edgar David violated the competition rules by directly stepping into the competition as a breeder, which completely violates the spirit of our Yunze Cup."

The wizard Edgar was just about to use Edgar the Treant to pinpoint the location of the Iron Fortress when he heard Yennefer suddenly report him, and he turned around in disbelief. "What are you saying?"

"Didn't you see? That's a special function of my Tree of Life."

The witch Yennefer immediately pointed out the flaw in his statement. "Then why were you chanting the spell in the theater? Wizard Locke Augustine has already pointed out that you were using the Bound by ...

Yennefer glanced at Locke.

Wizard Edgar clearly hadn't expected anyone to report him on this matter, and he immediately became anxious. "You...this third-place finisher...how dare you!"

A True Sight Crystal shattered in mid-air. "Since a player has reported this, the tournament committee must take it into consideration."

"Regarding this issue, our competition committee had a heated discussion and completely disagreed, so we decided to leave the choice to the general public."

"Each paying viewer will vote to see if Edgar the Wizard's behavior violates the rules."

"During this process, the tournament committee asked the wizard Edgar David's clone to stop moving forward, while the other contestants were allowed to continue the competition as usual."

Edgar the Wizard's face darkened. He had already used his clone to force out the Mekanis's main force. He was just one step away from reaching the Mekanis and ending the Vengeful Machine Soul.

Little did anyone know, Yennefer reported him at that very moment.

Yennefer smiled, then quickly used the Ganoderma lucidum plant to notify the Suryas people to take advantage of this opportunity and attack the steel fortress that had been forced out by the wizard Edgar.

"Thank you, Wizard Edgar, otherwise I wouldn't have known where that fortress was located."

(End of this chapter)