Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 576 The Queen's Chessboard and the Possibility of Source Matter!
Locke looked at the opened stone door, glanced back at the green dragon half-dragon who seemed terrified of the stone chamber, observed for a moment, and, after confirming that there was no problem, went inside.

The moment they entered the stone gate, countless rays of light burst forth in the air, flowing like water.

Throughout the entire stone chamber, from every brick to every grain of dust, flowed a deep blue radiance like flowing water. Even Locke's skin, which entered the chamber, began to shimmer with this substance that resembled both water and light, a substance that did not exist in the natural world.

Before closing the stone door, the green dragon half-dragon shopkeeper bowed to Locke and said, "The usage time is 24 hours."

"During this period, you may use the Queen's Chessboard as much as you like."

Locke nodded. As the stone door closed, Locke knew that this stone chamber was the most famous historical layer of the Queen's Chessboard.

Within the Queen's Chessboard, the past, present, and future of everything are summoned and exist in the form of the Force.

In this special region where the Force is summoned, the source matter within all matter is forced to manifest.

Locke didn't really know what the source matter was, he only knew that the book said that everything has a source matter, it's just a matter of how much or how good it is.

Within the Queen's Chessboard, everything is forced to manifest its source state.

The source substance seems to be something at the level of primordial force, the original substance of life and matter, the foundation upon which all things exist, and is extremely important.

One of the great dangers of the Queen's Chessboard is that the essence of life is forced to manifest, which is extremely dangerous for the wizard who wields this magical artifact. It is like an egg without a shell; if the essence of life is contaminated in any way, the consequences will be very serious.

Locke used the Permanent Defense Force Field and Life Force Field, and instantly a green crystal barrier enveloped his body, preventing his own source essence from being forced to manifest.

A wizard's permanent defensive field can resist the torrent of primal force that forces the manifestation of source matter within a magical artifact, but the permanent defensive field of a first-ring wizard is not strong enough, which is why it appears dangerous.

However, Locke was using Abyss Energy, Mister's Power, and Life Armor at the same time. Sure enough, under the two special permanent defensive force fields, his life essence completely stopped manifesting.

Locke walked through the stone chamber and saw that many objects were suspended from the sky by special magical threads, which were arranged together like the squares of a chessboard.

"Is this the realm that only high-ring wizards can study—Source Material?"

Locke's finger touched a wand that was suspended from a silk thread. The wand's surface displayed a special elemental substance, but Locke's finger did not change its quantity, quality, or state after touching it; it only slightly altered its properties.

Locke's finger touched the essence back into the wand, but the wand, which was slightly altered by the contact with his finger, still retained its magic pressure. It was still a wand with the ultimate magic pressure of the first ring, naturally possessing 9999 magic pressure.

"As the book says, for a first-ring wizard, or even a second-ring wizard, the source matter is completely mysterious. Even if you change the source matter of an object, it's as if nothing has happened."

"The magical pressure level, the spiritual level, and the three-dimensional microscopic level have all remained unchanged; no characteristic has changed. This change can only be observed using equipment capable of observing the Force level, and although there is no change now, I will change it in the future."

Locke moved cautiously across the Queen's Chessboard. "No wonder that half-dragon was so wary of this place. Who would enjoy moving around so precariously!"

"Fortunately, my two types of Myster power can effectively counter the power of the magic weapon."

Locke walked to the very center of the stone house, where there was a huge chessboard filled with empty spaces.

Locke walked over, placed the liquid mixture of the single-element natural magical structural components he had extracted from the inside of the King Pineapple into a glass bottle, opened the cap, and placed it on the ground.

Instantly, the source of the natural magical structure compound inside the glass bottle also manifested automatically, flowing out in a state that was neither water nor light nor fog.

Locke put on a special pair of gloves before touching the source material with his fingers.

The moment he touched the substance with his finger, the ground trembled, and one after another, source material chess pieces fell down from all around.

These chess pieces are all composed of source matter.

All of them are the source material of the No. 2 Overlord Element.

The Queen's Chessboard allows wizards to amplify a certain elemental source by an order of magnitude, and observe and record the three-dimensional structure, spiritual properties, and magical pressure characteristics of these sources.

At the same time, the Queen's Chessboard can evolve various changes in the past, present and future of this source, and discover the historical changes related to this source.

Locke took out a piece of paper and began frantically recording the various historical changes of the source material of the No. 2 Overlord Element. By combining these records, one could indirectly understand the true characteristics of the source material of the No. 2 Overlord Element at the Force level.

By understanding the properties of the source, we can accelerate the commercialization of Tyrant Essence No. 2 and gain a more comprehensive understanding of its various magical properties.

In other words, wizards use the Force to force the source material of Tyrannosaurus 2 to manifest, and then use the source material to understand the magical properties of Tyrannosaurus 2 in the past, present, and even future. By tracing the source material, one can learn all the information about a substance.

This is, to date, the most powerful way Locke knows to investigate information about a substance.

Of course, even the Queen's Chessboard is not omnipotent, because it is a deduction result generated by amplifying and simulating the source matter. Therefore, it still needs to conduct relevant basic research and use the three magic mirrors or other equipment for relevant verification.

First, to prevent errors, multiple verification methods are needed.

Secondly, even with the Queen's Chessboard, you can only see most of the possibilities, and the outcome is still affected by the Wizard's skill level.

Therefore, it is still necessary for low-level wizards to use the three magic mirrors to conduct research in order to identify and fill any gaps.

Moreover, what we see using the Queen's Chessboard are only the material properties of the three major levels of the source matter.

There are certain differences between the actual characteristics at the macro level and those at the macro level.

Every substance has a deviation from its source substance, and this deviation is like the difference between oneself and one's reflection in a mirror.

Thirdly, there's the issue of cost-effectiveness.

The Queen's Chessboard is extremely expensive. Ordinary natural magical components or ordinary research do not require such a high-level magical artifact.

Despite these limitations, the Queen's Chessboard remains the most powerful magical artifact device Locke currently knows of for analyzing the structural components of natural magic.

A Queen's Chessboard costs at least hundreds of millions of magic stones.

Unless it's truly important research, no one would be foolish enough to use the Queen's Chessboard, especially considering its extremely high operating costs.

Locke walked to the opposite chessboard and placed the mixture of elemental extracts of Tyrannosaurus 1 on one of the opposite squares.

Suddenly, various possible source substances of the No. 1 Overlord Element also appeared on the other side of the chessboard. The Queen's Chessboard allows one to see the past and future possibilities of a substance through the Force level.

Locke manipulates the spell model to make the source material pieces of both sides collide. At the moment of collision, the source material structure, magical pressure and spirituality of both sides also collide. The similar parts will disappear, and the different parts will remain.

This is one of the uses of the powerful Queen's Chessboard.

Using this method, Locke could easily analyze the experiment that originally required more than a dozen first-ring wizards to spend more than ten years using the three magic mirrors to do little by little.

Locke continuously manipulated the collisions of the two different source matter chess pieces, recording the differences between the two substances at the source matter level.

12 hours later.

With a wave of his hand, Locke stored the Time Crystal container holding the No. 1 Overlord Element into his Astral Ring, and all the Source Chess Pieces disappeared.

Locke placed an ordinary sea ginseng in the opposite square, and immediately the source energy between the branches and leaves of that ordinary sea ginseng floated out.

One by one, the primordial essences fell like chess pieces, shaping the future of the Sea Gold Sands.

However, the Queen's Chessboard can only analyze the past and future possibilities of a single substance, while the source matter of the sea gold sand as an object is simply too complex.

There are at least several thousand varieties.

At this moment, Locke manipulated one of the source material pieces of the No. 2 Overlord Element to collide with one of the source material pieces of the Sea Gold Sand. After the two pieces collided, they immediately merged into one, but a few seconds later, the piece exploded.

Locke then tried dozens more times, observing the changes between the source substances. Through the mutual influence between the two source substances, he could see the combination of sea ginseng and tyrant sucrose.

Locke chose the sea ginseng, a magical plant he was most familiar with, as the starting point for his domineering breeding technology.

To research the No. 2 Overlord Element, I only need to use one magical plant, but the opportunity is rare. I happen to be using Sea Gold Sand as my research subject, which is the most convenient way for me to make Sea Gold Sand into an Overlord.

Otherwise, Haijinsha will fall further and further behind its current state.

In order to enter the planes and fight in the future, I will definitely need reliable magical plants, so the further strengthening of Haijinsha is imminent.

In a sense, I have become an expert on sea gold sand.

Twenty hours after Locke entered the Queen's Chessboard, Locke was panting heavily. He had recorded all the relevant characteristics of Tyrant Element No. 2 and discovered that Tyrant Element No. 2, like Tyrant Element No. 1, was extremely toxic to other plants.

Therefore, when I injected the No. 2 Overlord Element into various magical plants, none of the apprentice-level magical plants had time to complete their true overlord transformation before they self-destructed.

Locke gritted his teeth, and a model formed from source matter appeared in his hand. "Using the Queen's Chessboard, I have finally designed a special cell that can perfectly accept Tyrant Essence No. 2."

Locke took out a bottle of specially treated birch tree plant cells from his astral ring. Birch trees can stabilize various forces, and their plant cells have special abilities that can be easily affected by source matter, resulting in corresponding changes.

Locke placed the source material into it, and after just one day, the birch plant cells would change.

I will then purchase another 1-ring grade [Clear Sky White Birch].

By injecting these cells into that tree, the special properties of the white birch can be utilized to modify its cells into a compound that can bind with tyrosinone, thus eliminating the toxicity of tyrosinone No. 2.

When this compound is mixed with tyrannol and injected simultaneously, it can completely transform other plants into tyrannical plants after they are injected!

Locke looked at the birch tree cells inside the Time Crystal container in his hand. He wasn't sure if the source material had affected the birch tree cells, nor did he know if his design had been successful.

Anyway, after I put the source matter into it, nothing changed at all, as if I had just put a wisp of air into it.

I had no idea what had happened.

The most terrifying thing is that the Queen Chessboard used one million magic stones at a time, which is equivalent to her using one million magic stones to design a special binding cell that can make up for the defect of the No. 2 Overlord Element.

According to the instructions for using the Queen's Chessboard, the cell receiver I designed should be successful.

However, there are too many steps that will be ineffective if there is a mistake in operation. So Locke looked at this bottle of Time Crystal container and did not know what the result would be. He could only wait 24 hours, then buy a Sky White Birch, and then wait another week.

Then he knew whether his design of the No. 2 Tyrannosaurus Rex cell conjugate had been successful.

"Although there are still four hours left, it would be a shame not to make use of them, but my current energy is not enough to support me to continue operating." Locke smiled bitterly.

Controlling the Queen's Chessboard is just too tiring for me right now.

He could clearly manipulate the magic mirror for days and nights without any problem (if allowed), but even after secretly opening the beast panel, he could only operate this magic device for 20 hours continuously.

The magical pressure required to use this magical artifact is truly immeasurable.

Locke gathered everything up, and all the source material pieces on the chessboard disappeared in an instant.

Locke looked at the chessboard and suddenly had an idea, summoning his own Book of the Sovereign. "Logically speaking, the historical data of the negative energy particle field contained within the Book of the Sovereign should also possess source matter. The Queen's Chessboard can use source matter to deduce the possibilities of the past, present, and future of source matter."

"Could you help me deduce the historical materials inside my Book of the Sect Master?"

"The Queen's Chessboard is something unique to the White Wizarding Society. I think, generally speaking, it's very difficult for an archaeologist to access something so deeply within the White Wizarding Society. They might not even have considered that the Queen's Chessboard might be useful for the historical materials within the Book of Sovereigns. I am probably the archaeologist who has come closest to the Queen's Chessboard..."

Locke pondered for a moment. The more he calculated, the more he felt that by utilizing the characteristics of the Queen's Chessboard, he could deduce the possibility of historical materials and obtain a larger scale of historical materials.

That is, put your own patriarch's book into the Queen's chessboard and refine it, and you might be able to increase the historical data by two or three times.

If that's the case, then he wouldn't need to rely on Warwick's Book of Sovereigns; he would have a second way to quickly increase his own historical materials.

Locke drank five bottles of Holy Spring Dew potion, depleting his Astral Ring's reserves and forcibly restoring some of his strength. "In that case, let's try putting the Sect Master's Book inside and see what happens."

"Before I do it, I will back up my historical materials. If they are all destroyed, my loss will be too great."

(End of this chapter)