Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 486 The Second-Ring Wizard's Lucky Pick

‘Dong dong~’

Inside the volcano, above the erupting lava, the eggshell that was giving birth to the demon suddenly cracked. Then, the demonic weapon that had been pierced into the embryo was suddenly flung away, and at the same time, the demon embryo flashed with streaks of lightning.

A large amount of luck from the mage plane has converged into it, especially now that the mage plane is experiencing a systemic collapse and the Worldstone has been corrupted by a wizard's emotions. In order to protect themselves, the mage plane subconsciously allocates more resources to the chosen one.

And this luck replenished the last bit of energy that the demon lacked.

Seeing this, Yuriel put his hands behind his back and smiled. "It's done."

Jer Fisher looked at his hands in confusion, and was horrified to discover that he was no longer human, but a demon. His body was composed of twisted earth elements, a stone-like substance that did not feel like flesh to the touch, but only like a stone.

Yuriel's expression was subtle.

Although he initially wanted to get the demon system to dominate this plane before Sura, he soon realized that this was unrealistic.

The two systems competed with each other, and neither could gain the majority, nor attract the favor of the world's will, nor set up a magic array to reduce the world's will to a lower dimension and condense it into a physical form. After realizing this, he immediately changed his tactics.

The Dark Cave Scorpion Woman was one of his ideas. Although Sula made many changes, Yuriel still managed to figure out Sula's thoughts by reading her recent articles on bloodline studies and designed the series of traps beforehand.

The ultimate demon is meant to absorb the soul and luck of the chosen one in order to complete his work.

The completed ultimate demon will be created by Sura, and will gather all the distorted earth elements, that is, demonic energy, accumulated by his previous demon system. Then, the world's will will be forced by Sura to actively invest a large amount of luck into the embryo's destiny power. Finally, as a hybrid of demon and human, Jel Fisher is also a mage.

His soul merged with the Dark Abyss, and with his help, Jer Fisher's soul completely merged with the Dark Abyss at the moment of his death, instantly transforming him into a Sage.

Thus, a special demon appeared, who combined the identities of the Chosen One, the Sage of Law, and the Ultimate Demon, and his demonic nature became the dominant element.

Yuriel, by borrowing from Jer Fisher, usurped the position and directly invaded the mage system with the demon system, merging the two and achieving a level that the two systems could never have reached.

Yuriel's soul, formed from demonic energy, floated in mid-air and said to Jer Fisher, "Hello, Jer Fisher."

"Now you possess the power of both demons and mages. You have the highest authority over the Dark Cavern. Even without the authority Sura gave you, you can still use the elemental spirits spewed from within the Dark Cavern."

"Now you are the ultimate demon, congratulations."

Jer Fisher's face lit up with joy. "I've become the ultimate demon? So, only I can curse the Great Demon God Sura?"

Uriel nodded. "Yes, let's storm the World Hall quickly."

"Stop that outsider."

At the same time, the appearance of the World Hall has also changed drastically. The style of the Holy Hall of Magic is no longer the main style of the World Hall, and the architectural style of the Demon race has become the main style of this World Hall.

In an instant, the great wizard Sura realized that the World Stone, which had been perfectly compatible with him, had become incredibly resistant to him. Then, in the next instant, he was actually thrown away by the power of the World Stone.

“How is this possible…” The great wizard Sura turned his head with a grim expression to look behind him at the demon Jel Fisher who had walked in through the world gate he had pushed open, and Yuriel who was following behind this ultimate demon.

“What happened? My mage system has been usurped. The world's will no longer favors me, but instead favors... Yuriel.”

At that time, Uriel's soul had arrived in front of the Worldstone. He placed his hands directly on top of the Worldstone. In fact, Uriel's condition was even worse than that of the great wizard Sura.

The Great Wizard Sura still has at least two movable bodies, while Yuriel, having reached the limit of his soul even earlier than the Great Wizard Sura, and due to an experimental error, finds that as soon as his soul returns to his body, his power immediately bursts his body. Therefore, Yuriel can only exist in this wandering soul form, barely clinging to life.

Now, Yuriel looked at the World Stone, his eyes filled with longing. "Finally... the World Stone is mine."

He quickly placed the hands of the spirit formed from demonic energy onto the Worldstone, while fragments of his memories and emotions rapidly entered them. Unlike the great wizard Sura, Yuriel always used advanced meditation techniques to control his emotions, and all the transmitted memory fragments and emotions were positive.

“Sura, I actually gave you a chance, but you couldn’t seize it,” Uriel said. “If you hadn’t made that mistake, I could only watch as you successfully marked the Worldstone and completed the Great Magic.”

“Jer Fisher, stop him!”

"We must join forces to stop this demon."

High Wizard Sura hadn't expected things to turn out this way, and he glared angrily at Jer Fisher. "Foolish, he's an outsider too."

Jer Fisher stared greedily at his hands, unmoved.

Immediately, Grand Wizard Sura realized that Jer Fisher had been aware of this all along, but Uriel had given him immense power, power comparable to that of a wizard at the first stage of crystallization.

That power had made Jer Fisher lose himself, so Jer Fisher naturally had no reason to oppose Yuriel.

Grand Wizard Sura's expression changed drastically. At the same time, Jer Fisher punched him, unleashing a burst of demonic energy. Grand Wizard Sura was sent flying by the punch.

The treant clone of the great wizard Sura attacked Jer Fisher, but the branch blade that his left hand transformed into was blocked by demonic energy before it could get close to Jer Fisher.

Those demonic energies were essentially mutated earth elements, naturally incredibly dense, while Jer Fisher had essentially become an elemental lord creature, thus his body spontaneously formed an elemental shell.

That's not the kind of empty, superficial realm that monks possess.

In other words, Jer Fisher is currently a genuine high-level first-circle magical creature, and this is the masterpiece of Yuriel as a cybernetic master. In essence, Jer Fisher is Yuriel's magic as a cybernetic master.

Just as the great wizard Sura stood up, Jer Fisher rushed over and punched him hard in the chest.

He was instantly sent flying again. "Damn it. If my body weren't so fragile, this level of magical creature would be nothing more than a twisted earth elemental lord. What have I to fear?" "Uriel, it seems our feud isn't over yet. I can no longer distinguish who was right and who was wrong in the past." High Wizard Sura rose from the ground. "It seems this matter won't end until this experience is settled."

Yuriel turned to look at him. "You're out of cards, Sura."

High Wizard Sura pointed at Yuriel and said, "Yuriel, you completely overlooked one point. The existence of Jel Fisher has not only allowed your demon system to invade my mage system, but it has also allowed my mage system to invade your demon system."

"This gives me one last option."

In an instant, the great wizard Sura used his last desperate measure, and Yuriel immediately realized what Sura was about to do. "Sura, are you going to self-destruct the Dark Cave? You want to detonate my demon system and your mage system at the same time, making all our efforts of more than a hundred years go to waste."

"Are you insane? If you do this, you will die immediately. Although I will definitely not let your Plutarch family go after I become a second-circle wizard, you are not yet at your wit's end."

Yuriel quickly calculated in his mind and discovered the possibility, and he also realized that the development of this matter seemed to be something that the mage plane would also like to see.

In this way, both of them would lose, and the will of the mage plane would win. The mage plane would eliminate both of them and be able to accept the assets they left behind for this plane.

The plane's will in the mage plane made a huge profit.

Meanwhile, Grand Wizard Sura was thinking to himself, 'Uriel's hatred for the Plutarch family runs too deep. Although he's protected by six towers of faith, I still can't let him advance to the second-circle wizard level. Besides, if I don't advance this time, I'll be close to death. And since death is inevitable, the difference between dying sooner or later isn't that significant.'

Yuriel raised an eyebrow. "Damn it, you're actually going to self-destruct your secret spot."

The World Hall has become unstable, as if the power of the world is about to escape at any moment.

Yuriel sighed. "Fortunately, I understand your personality and had a backup plan."

Upon hearing this, Sura immediately tensed up and looked at Yuriel.

Yuriel then said, "Teacher, please make the move."

He took out a talisman from his astral ring. The talisman was a spatial locator that could summon people from afar.

The next moment, a huge black and red skeletal giant appeared in the arena. As soon as it appeared, it attracted all the death energy around it, as if it were the master of death.

This skeletal giant was a powerful spell cast by a second-circle wizard, and a vast expanse of white bones appeared faintly behind it.

Meanwhile, amidst the despair in the eyes of the great wizard Sura, Uriel cried out, "Teacher, quickly help me stabilize the World Hall, and then help me control Sura, don't let him self-destruct the Dark Cave. I need to mark the World Stone, I'm just a hair's breadth away from succeeding."

"Teacher, wait until I become a second-circle wizard..."

But the skeletal giant completely ignored Yuriel's words. Suddenly, it grabbed the Worldstone with one hand, and the powerful magic collided with the power of the world. Instantly, the sky and earth shattered, and a huge gap appeared in the ground of the World Hall, which was composed of the power of the world.

The skeletal giant simply snatched a third of the World Stone from it and then turned and left.

The turn of events stunned both Yuriel and Sura.

Even Locke, who witnessed this scene through the True Sight Crystal, was stunned.

Sura burst into laughter, "As expected of a dark wizard, hahahaha..."

"Uriel, it seems neither of us will succeed today."

The next moment, Sura detonated his hidden pit.

Locke placed the True Sight Crystal into his Astral Ring, then sat down in his chair and rubbed his temples. The True Sight Crystal had become extremely valuable.

After all, it contains the complete record of the two wizards' attempts to advance to the second ring and their subsequent failures.

It has extremely high reference value.

Locke was also sitting in a chair, processing what he had seen through the True Sight Crystal. "Advancing to the second ring is indeed extremely dangerous; one wrong step and you'll fail."

"Both Grand Wizard Sura and Uriel were fully prepared, yet they still fell victim to the machinations of the Mage Plane. After both sides fought to the bitter end, the Mage Plane ultimately emerged victorious."

Locke said, "There's also the soul decay before breaking through to the second ring, and the need to output positive emotions when marking the Worldstone."

"These are all valuable pieces of knowledge."

"Great magic, second-circle wizard, advanced meditation technique—I now have a general understanding of the relationship between them. Next, I need to find a way to obtain advanced meditation technique and find a medium-sized or larger world that has not been developed by wizards."

"I also need to establish an energy cycle in that world as a precursor to a great magic/magic source, and find a way to force the world's consciousness to favor me."

“Although there are still many unknowns, knowing these things has given me a certain understanding of second-circle wizards and gives me hope of becoming a second-circle wizard,” Locke pondered. “At the same time, I have become quite proficient in compression techniques.”

"Next, there shouldn't be any obstacles to advancing to the first-ring crystallization wizard level; it's just a matter of time. Therefore, we should start collecting the resources needed to break through to the second-ring wizard level now."

Locke said, "This time I won the Yunze Cup, so it should be much easier for me to obtain resources than before."

"After winning the championship, I should receive more offers from wizarding organizations, and the quality of those offers will be several levels higher. I can wait and see if any wizarding academies from the Starfield Sea will offer me a teaching position."

(End of this chapter)