Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 474 Chasing the Champion

Diana stood in mid-air, wearing ice skates. Every time she swung her laurel wreath, an ice slick would appear in the air, which she could then use to glide across.

Meanwhile, she chased the steel fortress above Cloud Lake, and with each slash she made, the steel fortress would be covered in frost, sometimes even affecting Locke, who was chasing behind the steel fortress.

However, no matter how many times the laurel leaf blade, which is imbued with the fragrance of osmanthus, is struck, it can only break at most five layers of Locke's permanent defensive force field. But because the permanent defensive force field can quickly regenerate itself, it is not a big deal as long as it is not completely broken in an instant.

As Diana chased the Iron Fortress, she noticed Locke and raised an eyebrow in surprise. "A nine-layered, permanent defensive field? It couldn't even penetrate a strike with the characteristics of a second-circle ultimate magic?"

The witch Diana instantly realized that if Locke were to fight him, she seemed to have no other means to break through Locke's tortoise shell except by using ritual magic.

Moreover, even if ritual magic is used, it may not be possible to break through Locke's ultimate tortoise shell.

Edgar the Treant descended from the sky, using a branch from the Tree of Life to summon three War Tree Treants, which then formed three Battlefield Trees, enveloping all the Mekanis protecting the nearby Iron Fortress.

At the same time, he leaped onto the top of the steel fortress and slammed a Treant Fist into its summit.

'Boom~'

Instead of collapsing as expected, the steel fortress that was hit by the hammer underwent a peculiar transformation. The building that Edgar Treeman had destroyed quickly transformed into a series of standard cube-shaped sub-robots.

After the robots disintegrated, only a few were damaged, while most remained intact. They quickly reassembled and pieced together a tall building in the adjacent location.

Wizard Edgar paused for a moment, "Wait... Could it be that this fortress isn't actually made of magical alloy, but is essentially a set of building blocks?"

A building block made up of those sub-part robots!
Like every individual Mekanis, they possess the structure of a golem-like wizard's permanent defensive field.
At that moment, the metal streets of the fortress city suddenly began to collapse, and a large number of block robots began to roll on the ground. Then, the block robots built a huge super energy cannon, with the muzzle pointed at Edgar's tree man.

The next moment, a burst of intense heat engulfed Edgar the Treeman.

Edgar the Treeman was thus driven out of the Iron Fortress.

Diana and Locke, one gliding on the icy path and the other with the Great Blue Leaf Dragon Sparrow behind her, passed over the Edgar Tree Man who had been knocked away and approached the steel fortress at the same time.

Edgar the Tree Man then spoke up, saying, "You two, that fortress is not simple. Its basic structure is not steel and mechanical structure at all. The entire fortress is a block fortress composed of sub-component robots that imitate a permanent defensive force field."

“Each block-shaped robot component… is like a cell.”

As Diana the Witch slashed twice, cube-shaped robots immediately appeared on the steel fortress, rolling and forming hundreds of high-temperature cannons on its surface, heating up the air to counter the two exaggerated ice spells Diana the Witch had unleashed.

Seeing this, Locke did not rush into a pointless attack, but observed from the side for a while.

As they chased the steel fortress, countless Mekani were falling into the city. The moment they entered the fortress city, their bodies disintegrated, turning into small, blocky standard robots.

These component robots, like individual parts, will be pieced together to form this fortress robot.

In other words, each Mekani is just a component of this fortress.

The Mekani people have always been a single entity.

Every Mekani is a component of the real Mekani Steel Fortress.

The Mekanians have evolved to this point over the past thirty years of the Cloud Cup, and their technology of simulating the permanent defensive force field of wizards is already commendable.

Locke chased after it, using Sea Gold Sand and Gold Sand Torrent. Streams of gold sand slashed at the steel fortress like countless sharp blades. The buildings inside the steel fortress immediately began to transform into countless small cube robots, or sub-component robots, which recombined their shapes to become holes in the city's ground, causing all the gold sand torrents to miss.

Locke immediately chanted an incantation, changing the direction of the flowing gold dust and transforming it into scattered blades that attacked the surrounding area. This attack did have some effect, but the damaged component robots were immediately dragged away by the intact component robots and taken to the mechanical repair shop deep within the fortress. Meanwhile, the intact component robots were replaced, and the entire steel fortress remained intact.

Locke immediately realized that, despite the continuous attacks from the three of them, the steel fortress with its simulated permanent defensive force field was still completely intact.

"The entire city is as if it is protected by a permanent defensive force field, something that even a genuine permanent defensive force field cannot do."

Locke's expression changed repeatedly.

His nine-layered permanent defensive force field blocked all the intercontinental ballistic missiles that attacked him.

"It shouldn't be said that the city has turned itself into a permanent defensive force field... even if it is temporarily damaged, it can recover immediately."

Locke quickly realized it was the enemy's energy problem. "Although energy is their Achilles' heel, the energy provided by a first-ring solar transmutation array is enough to power the void warships. I think the energy source inside that fortress might be even more advanced than the principle behind the solar transmutation array..."

"Then this city is essentially an impregnable city."

"No wonder the tournament organizers made us fight our way here; now I know why."

Edgar the Treant continued charging forward defiantly, a massive vine appearing beneath his feet that tossed him into the steel city.

After a brief moment of thought, Diana the Witch immediately followed.

Locke followed around the steel fortress. "The only way right now is to cooperate. The three of us will work together to force ourselves to have an attack power that completely surpasses the opponent's simulated permanent defensive force field in an instant, and use this method to achieve victory."

"But...this is a competition."

Locke glanced at Edgar and Diana and knew that the two had no such intention.

"Then we can only try to find a way to break through this simulated permanent defense force field in the shortest time."

"Huh?" Locke slapped his forehead. "I almost got myself into trouble. That's not a permanent defensive force field at all; it's just a simulation created by robots using sub-components. I have a solution."

……

On the judging panel, 130 judges were scoring the contestants.

Currently, the number of scenes featuring Locke, Diana, and Edgar is roughly the same, with Locke and Edgar having slightly more screen time.

Wizard John looked at Witch Catherine and asked, "How did that contestant Locke manage to transform his magical pressure into dragon's might? Was that really dragon's might?"

The witch Catherine said briefly, "Yes, that was indeed a dragon's might with very high positioning accuracy."

Several third-ring wizards showed surprise, after all, something like dragon's might is relatively rare at the first-ring stage.

A third-circle wizard from the Rose Council said, "I originally thought the new rules would be detrimental to the only liquefaction wizard, but it turns out they have no effect on him. He has completely covered up his disadvantages by using bloodline science, botany, and other methods."

John the Wizard said, "Actually, I felt from the beginning that this rule didn't put him at a significant disadvantage. Think about it, a first-ring wizard with nine permanent defensive fields stacked on him... would he really be at a disadvantage?"

John the Wizard said, "I don't know if any contestants will be able to capture the fortress this time. The competition is nearing its end. In previous years, we haven't even managed to force this steel fortress to come down. We determine the rankings based on points."

"But this Yunze Cup is different. Let's announce the results of the competition after the Mekanians' fortress is destroyed."

(End of this chapter)