Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 577 Summoning the Great Demon King, Summoning the Three Kings!
Locke placed the Book of Dragons on the chessboard, and instantly the entire Book of Dragons flipped over like origami, transforming into a paper dragon. The dragon roared, and its spiritual energy surged rapidly in a short period of time.

The Queen's Chessboard forced its source matter to overflow, and within the chess squares, it automatically deduced the possible histories of its various source matter.

As Locke had originally envisioned, the amount of historical material indeed increased dramatically during this process.

In just a short time, with the help of the Queen's Chessboard, his historical records increased by at least one-tenth.

Keep in mind that this historical material was obtained through a deal with two archaeologists!

Its total quantity was already quite large, but under the impetus of the Queen's Chessboard, it experienced an order-of-magnitude surge in a very short period of time.

Locke, exhausted, had completely lost control of the possible directions of the source matter, leaving the Queen's Chessboard to automatically deduce the possibilities of these historical source matter in the past, present, and future.

"As expected, I can reverse-engineer historical records using source material."

"The Queen's Chessboard is not only an excellent tool for my research in potion-making and breeding, but also a treasure trove for my advancement in archaeology!"

Locke gave this approach a vivid name—"historical reverse engineering."

Because of historical reasons, the source matter changes. Therefore, if we can use a top-tier three-ring magic artifact like the Queen's Chessboard, which can predict changes in the source matter in the past and future, we can predict the changes in history by observing the changes in the source matter.

For example, a piece of historical information can be deduced and its authenticity verified through the Queen's Chessboard. It can also be deduced at the Force level how many layers of changes it contains.

This historical record has undergone numerous changes, some of which may have never occurred in history.

Locke deciphered the historical changes on the Queen's chessboard. "The Wizarding Age has a long history, and the current Wizarding Age is the modern magic age."

"But there are still many past eras."

“Some eras are even buried in the ancient past, and even archaeologists who are good at digging secrets from the past are unaware of their existence. I traded historical materials with two archaeologists and learned that an era before the modern magical era was the [Age of Enlightenment].

"Dark wizards are a product of the modern age of magic, while white wizards are a product of the Enlightenment."

"One counterintuitive point is that dark wizards are a newer concept than white wizards."

"Before the modern era was the Enlightenment, before the Enlightenment it seems to be the Pureblood Era, and before the Pureblood Era was the Great Void Exploration Era."

"However, the history of the wizarding era before the Great Void Exploration Era is unclear and the historical records are incomplete due to various reasons. Part of the reason is that it is too far away from the present, and another part is that the wizarding civilization experienced rapid expansion during the Great Void Exploration Era, which obscured the traces of civilization before the Great Void Exploration Era."

"Moreover, the wizards at that time, in order to explore the Great Void, disregarded everything and long-term interests, digging deep into the ground to extract resources, building primitive void warships, and going to the void to search for planes. This resulted in the destruction of many historical relics and historical materials."

This further increases the difficulty for archaeologists in uncovering ancient history.

Locke said, "Therefore, after the four established eras, that is, the period before the Great Void Exploration Era, the wizards lost their linear history. But there were indeed many eras before that that have been confirmed to exist, but the chronological order is unclear, and there are still many unsolved mysteries—"

"Among them are the Imperial Age, the Age of Stars, and the possibly existing Priestly Age... Every mature archaeologist will likely have their own perspective on this area."

"Warwick indirectly discovered a lot of historical materials by excavating the Abyss ruins, which in turn proved that the Age of Stars in the Wizarding World did indeed exist."

Locke looked ahead and saw countless historical records being deduced on the chessboard.

One of these was a historical document from the Age of Stars that Warwick obtained in the Abyss Ruins.

That was a historical record about the Evil Tooth Kongwu Kingdom.

Legend has it that during the Age of Stars, due to the collapse of the Magic Empire, many powerful wizards seized territory and became powerful wizard kings, establishing magical kingdoms.

To prevent their countries from being invaded, some Abyss Witch Kings sought to obtain the power of the Abyss. After their deaths, according to an agreement, these Abyss Witch Kings would have their subordinates place their bodies in coffins and seal them into the Abyss plane.

This was their pact with the abyss.

Warwick once excavated the tomb of a sorcerer king of the Evil Fang Kong Kingdom in an abyssal ruin on the Abyssal plane, and obtained historical records of the Evil Fang Kong sorcerer king's conquests in the south and north because he had obtained the power of the abyss.

The Witch King Evil Fang Kong established a vast witch kingdom in what is roughly the location of the Spiral Basin in the present world.

The documents record the achievements of the Evil Fang Kong Witch King throughout his life. He was respected and loved by his people before being transported to the Abyss Plane.

The Witch King of Evil Fang borrowed too much power from the abyss, and he could not break his promise. So he had no choice but to send himself to the abyss. But in order to prevent his body from being contaminated by the power of the abyss after his death, he gathered the power of the whole country to build a mausoleum for himself and sent the mausoleum into the abyss, hoping to use the power of the mausoleum to protect himself.

This was also a common practice among the Witch Kings of the Age of Stars who borrowed much of the power of the Abyss.

At this moment, the source material deduction on the Queen's chessboard automatically filled in segments of source material, automatically filling in the missing parts of that historical record.

First, according to the original historical records, before the death of the Witch King Evil Fang Kong, his country was under attack from another magical kingdom, and his kingdom had begun to decline.

According to historical records about the character of the Evil Fang Kong Witch King, he would never have allowed his country to be destroyed so easily. In addition, other clues in the historical records led the Queen's Chessboard to fill in several of the most likely historical sequels during the deduction process.

The most likely version of the story is that after his death, the Witch King Evil Fang Kong transformed himself into a lich through a magic circle left in his tomb, then left the tomb again to return to his kingdom and protect it once more.

The evidence, according to the historical records Warwick provided, shows that the tomb of the Witch King Evil Fang Kong underwent several renovations, proving that his kingdom's power actually increased after his death. Moreover, during the subsequent renovations, some very obscure and ambiguous sacrificial inscriptions were added to the Witch King Evil Fang Kong.

Sacrificial magic is an ancient and obsolete form of magic, but it was still used by many wizards in the Age of Stars.

The magic of wizards at that time was full of primitive and violent characteristics. They always used various bloody things to sacrifice to something, most commonly to their ancestors or their king.

The eulogy mentions that the Witch King Evil Fang Kong was a king who transcended both success and failure.

This is not a commonly used eulogy describing the undead witch king.

It is evident that the people of the Evil Fang Kong Kingdom at that time must have been concerned about the Evil Fang Kong King transforming into a witch, or perhaps the Evil Fang Kong King himself was concerned about it.

In any case, despite its subtlety, the Queen's Chessboard, through its source material deduction, captured the clues and deduced this possibility.

Locke, however, successfully deciphered it.

Similarly, other historical materials also saw a rapid increase in quantity using this method.

However, these historical materials still need to be interpreted and organized by Locke before they can be rearranged into the correct order and become truly useful historical materials.

This may take some time.

Previously, he had not fully deciphered the historical materials he had obtained through transactions with two archaeologists. Currently, he was only using these materials as tools and had not yet fully internalized them.

While it's fine to use these historical materials as tools, to go further, we certainly need to interpret them.

Locke exhaled a breath of stale air. At this point, his energy had reached its limit, so even though there was still half an hour left in the 24-hour period, Locke still stopped using the Queen's Chessboard to deduce the historical materials of the Book of Dragons.

The Sovereign's Book at the first crystallization stage can only be used to [Summon Demon God] and truly unleash the Sovereign's power after the user has been trained (by deciphering historical materials). However, at this moment, Locke recited the incantation.

Locke stretched out his right hand and said, "I have borrowed a demon king who has wreaked havoc on the world from the past five hundred years."

Suddenly, a black light fell from the void and entered the ground, causing the ground to ripple and undulate like black water.

Then a warrior's armor, made of black steel, crawled out of the black water, like a demon crawling back from hell.

This is the [Summoning of the Great Demon King!] skill, usable only by a Sovereign's Book at the first stage of Liquefaction.

These are the three spells recorded in the Witch King's Codex for summoning past kings.

These are Summoning the King of the Tomb, Summoning the King of the Dead, and Summoning the Great Demon King. Before Locke stood a terrifying black warrior clad in black steel armor and wearing a dangerous white bone mask. His eyes blazed with soul fire—the power of the Great Demon.

The Great Demon King appears in the form of a high-ranking undead Black Knight; in essence, he is a larger version of the Black Knight undead.

The moment the Great Demon King is summoned, residual battle information from the surrounding area is rapidly collected, and these negative energy particle fields are gathered in the form of the Modo language and converged towards the Great Demon King.

This information contains a wealth of battlefield details, personal combat information, and details of spells used.

The three spells that summon the King of the Past each have their own focus in terms of information gathering and demonstrate different applications of historical materials.

At this moment, the Great Demon King looked at Locke and clicked his tongue. "I never thought that I, this war maniac, would be summoned by a true dragon."

"Ancient dragon, do you also have enemies you wish to eliminate?"

His eyes revealed a desire born from the destruction of purity. "Leave it to me."

Locke glanced at the profile and realized that he had just summoned the Great Demon King using the personal information of a general from a wizarding legion who was at the first stage of liquefaction five hundred years ago. This general was a murderous demon king who had killed countless wizards.

Eventually, even the wizarding academy he attended began to fear him.

They gradually discovered that some people simply enjoyed war.

Locke snapped his fingers, the Book of Dragons flipped, and at the same time, the Tomb King, a high-ranking mummy, and the King of the Dead, a high-ranking death knight, descended.

The three spells combined to elevate all three kings to the first level of liquefaction magic pressure.

"Summon the Three Kings is a combination spell that can not only upgrade all three kings I summon to the first level of liquefaction, but also reduce my spellcasting cost."

Locke noticed that the Mummy King, the king of the tombs, suddenly trembled and then seemed to break free from his control. The next moment, he snapped his fingers, and all three past kings disintegrated into pure information.

"With my current level of archaeology, directly summoning the three kings is still a bit of a stretch. I almost lost control of the spell," Locke pondered. "The historical materials inside the Book of Dragons have increased by at least one-tenth. I need to spend a certain amount of time every day, at least an hour, reading the historical materials and organizing my own understanding."

Archaeological magic isn't something you can improve simply by collecting historical materials.

As an archaeologist, Locke needs to organize these historical materials, develop his own understanding, and compile and verify them in order to enhance his magical power and use more advanced archaeological spells.

Furthermore, the spell model of archaeological magic itself requires a certain amount of time to learn.

Therefore, I still need to read historical materials every day and build my own understanding.

Locke pondered, “The two archaeologists I traded with were basically focused on some trivial historical fragments of the Age of Stars, that is, on a specific topic, while their research on general history and period history was very superficial.”

"If I could exchange historical materials with some archaeologists who study general history, I could understand the general history of the wizarding world. At least I could figure out the main threads of the modern era, the Enlightenment era, the pure-blood era, and the Great Void exploration era."

A dynastic history, on the other hand, is the study of a specific era; in essence, it is a general history of that era.

So far, all three archaeological wizards Locke has encountered are experts in the study of specific historical topics.

That is, it studies a certain social culture or other aspects of a certain period of time or point in time, so there is no consistent framework.

However, Locke easily understood why this would happen.

For archaeologists, only by studying sufficiently ancient materials can they obtain the most negative energy particle fields, which are historical records.

In the last four eras of the Wizarding World, much of the information about negative energy particle fields has not yet been fully formed, and the historical depth is not deep enough, so not many archaeologists choose it as a research subject.

Especially in modern times, including the Enlightenment and the Pure-Blood Era, archaeologists studying these subjects naturally find it more difficult to make progress.

Therefore, there are many archaeologists studying the Age of Stars.

Locke left the Queen's Chessboard room and went up the spiral staircase, out of the basement, and out of the Feathered Serpent Pavilion.

He first returned to his dormitory, spent the morning writing a final report, and then went to the public breeder's laboratory to find the Celtic team leader.

At the workstation.

The Celtic leader looked up and was immediately startled, for Locke's face was extremely pale and he looked very weak.

The Celtic team leader said, "Locke, you need to rest. What did you do?"

Locke handed the project report to the Celtic team leader, then said somewhat weakly, "I used the Queen's Chessboard."

The Celtic leader raised an eyebrow, because even for a second-circle wizard, the Queen's Chessboard was an extremely expensive, super-large-scale breeder's device.

For second-circle wizards, using the Queen's Chessboard within the academy requires a huge sum of money.

Locke was only working on a second-class grant project, yet he still needed to use the Queen's Chessboard.

Locke said, "Team leader, I'm going back to get some sleep."

The Celtic team leader immediately abandoned his idea of ​​getting Locke to answer the question and said, "Okay, remember to take a break."

"Here's a white dew peach for you."

Locke looked at the white peach that the other party had given him with surprise.

White Dew Peach is a specialty of Jinmian Mountain in January. Its special effects are restoring energy and magic power, as well as helping wizards adjust their mind and body, allowing them to get rid of their most tired state.

It belongs to the lower grade of the Water Jade Peach produced in February at Jinmian Mountain.

The Celtic leader explained, "This is a reward from the academy for completing a small task. But as a second-circle wizard, eating a White Dew Peach has almost no effect on me. You might as well eat it; the most powerful effect of the White Dew Peach is that it can heal your physical and mental fatigue."

Locke said to him, "Thank you, team leader."

After Locke left, Celtic began to peruse the project completion report Locke had submitted, reading through the details. "Analysis of the mechanisms of action of 26 pineapple-type magical plants… As expected of Locke, there are also seven newly discovered natural magical structural components…"

Celtic gasped. "He alone is almost equal to what my entire Sixth Division achieved in ten years, and maybe even more."

"Hmm? Number 2 Overlord Element... taking up so much space, there seems to be a special reason for it."

"But I remember Bawangsu...isn't that a key natural magical structural ingredient in a very important industry...?"

"Did he discover a second type of 'tyrant essence' in the pineapple?"

The final report only contained a simple report of the results, without any detailed information.

Therefore, the Celtic team leader did not realize at first that Locke had adjusted the No. 2 Overlord Essence to a level sufficient for commercial use.

They also did not realize that No. 2 King Element could rival No. 1 King Element and had unique and special uses, possessing functions that No. 1 King Element did not have. It was a special natural magical structure that could change the status quo of a small industry.

The Celtic team leader said in a low voice, "We'll only know the specifics when Locke attends the final defense."

"I wonder if His Majesty will participate in his defense this time."

(End of this chapter)