Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 581 The Arrival of Truth! The Age of Enlightenment!
Inside Catherine's office on the seventh floor of the Shinji Institute castle.

She looked up at the witch before her and said, "Shirley Holmes, one of my cooperating wizard students at the Institute of True Knowledge has a special resource. In two months, you will travel to the Enclave of the Jade Flower with him."

After listening to Catherine the Witch's story, Shirley's eyes lit up with interest. "Thank you for your concern, teacher."

"Historical research on the Nameless King is indeed a hot topic, and the Istoria Archaeological Prize is very attractive to archaeologists. I never expected that a friend of my junior colleague would actually find the tomb of the Nameless King's wife. I don't know if it's true or not, but it's definitely worth exploring."

"Teacher, I will protect my junior brother."

Catherine the Witch glanced at her.

Shirley was dressed in the robes of a Holy Wizard. "Dark wizards are treacherous, and I don't trust any of them. However, with you here, Master, I will certainly do as you wish to protect Locke."

“He is the fresh blood of the Academic Committee, more important than me. I will not allow him to encounter any danger in the Dark Wizarding Lands.”

Catherine the Witch frowned. “Shirley, that’s not what I meant. Regardless of status, you are very important to me. You’ve been with me since you were a third-class wizard apprentice, and now you’re a first-ring crystallization wizard, a chair wizard of Mount Golden Crown, while I have already obtained the title of Crown.”

"You and I share many experiences. These memories form the foundation of our relationship."

“But… I do want you to protect Locke Augustine,” said Catherine the Witch. “Both of you are important to me in some way.”

Shirley's eyes welled up with emotion. "Thank you, teacher."

"I will guarantee my junior brother's safety and ensure that his mind will not be corrupted in any way."

A hint of helplessness flashed in Ekaterina's eyes. "You're still the same, Shirley. When we return from this exploration of the ruins, I will arrange for you to advance to the second-circle wizard level. I have already obtained a tourmaline peach for you."

Shirley looked at the witch Catherine with surprise, slightly taken aback. "Even you, applying to the academy for the Tourmaline King Peach, should only be possible once every five years. The Tourmaline King Peach is the most special peach among the twelve peaches of Golden Crown Mountain."

"It can increase the success rate of the user in constructing powerful magic. It is one of the most famous special magic peaches in Golden Crown Mountain. Teacher, I thought you would save this for your junior brother."

"If you apply for it for me, what about my junior brother?"

“I’ve used this resource, which means that for a long time, my junior brother will not be able to obtain this special resource.”

The witch Catherine took a sip of her Eagle Tooth Red Tea. "We'll talk about that later. Right now, my priority is how to get you into a second-circle wizard."

"Besides... I haven't fully grasped his potential yet, so thinking about how much resources to give him before that's all just worrying unnecessarily."

Shirley bowed gratefully to the witch Catherine. "I understand, teacher. Thank you again."

"I will protect my junior brother and also protect his mind from being tainted by the reactionary and backward ideas of the dark wizards."

The witch Catherine suddenly asked, "Shirley, have you been teaching too many political education classes lately?"

Due to the requirements of the White Wizarding Association headquarters, many top wizarding schools have opened political and ideological courses taught by holy wizards.

Essentially, this is a form of political correctness.

Academies like Jinmianshan may think this kind of course is useless, but they absolutely cannot not offer it.

It is also necessary to ensure that a certain number of wizarding apprentices take this course each year.

Shirley paused, looking at the witch Catherine with confusion. "I haven't been assigned to political education classes lately, teacher. However, the academy's higher-ups have asked me to teach a course on modern history, and I'm currently lecturing on some aspects of the Enlightenment."

"I am telling the story of how the world's first white wizarding society was founded during the Enlightenment, under the oppression of despotic wizarding monarchs."

"It was a great upheaval of blood and fire, which overturned the heavens, shattered the earth, and brought about a tremendous change in magic. In that event known in history as the 'Truth Advent Event,' a great transformation was born on that very night."

"The Age of Enlightenment has officially begun."

“After that night, the Crown Magic, symbolizing the supreme power of the monarch, was thus permitted for all third-ring wizards to learn. The Crown Magic, once used to determine the supreme privileges of individual wizards, was no longer limited to the absolute ruler, but was shared with all wizards. It was a victory for knowledge, a victory for truth, a victory for us Holy Wizards.” Shirley trembled with emotion as she spoke. “The wizards who participated in the event of the Advent of Truth were the creators of our Holy Wizard system…”

“That night marked the beginning for all of us Holy Wizards,” Shirley said. “Those dark wizards who tried to destroy the great social framework established by us Holy Wizards were foolish and wicked.”

"Teacher, what's wrong?"

The witch Catherine said, "No, it's nothing. You spoke very well, so go back to teaching your students."

After taking her leave, Shirley departed.

Catherine the witch watched her departing figure and shook her head slightly. All holy priests are basically stubborn, only differing in degree and direction.

They are too fixated on so-called values.

“Holy Master…the event of the advent of truth…” The witch Catherine glanced at the inquiry form for the waterway project in her hand.

This is a consultation letter from the high-ranking officials of the Starfield Sea to all wizards of the third ring and above in the Eastern Boundary, to confirm whether the waterway project will be popular.

For the higher-ups in the Starfield Sea, this "public opinion" refers to the opinions of wizards above the third ring in the Eastern Boundary.

“What has been will be again. What has come will come again,” sighed Catherine the Witch. “The Truth Descends event… is beginning to reappear in the Eastern Frontier. I just wonder if this time, the upheaval of that year will happen again.”

Back then, the first generation of Holy Wizards of the Holy School took the initiative to unite with the first generation of Contract Masters, rallying wizard armies from all over the world to form a force against the wizard tyranny monarchs and challenge the old order of the entire wizarding world.

The massacre spread from the Wizarding World's homeland to most of the Wizarding World's colonies in the endless void.

That night's events led to a significant shift in the development of the entire wizarding civilization. Their attitude towards the colonized world was no longer one of brutal plunder or mere economic exploitation, but rather one of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.

Catherine the Witch shook her head slightly, wrote her objection on the consultation form for the waterway project, and expressed her objections.

If Starfield Sea wants to ascend to magic, it needs to unify the Eastern Region. However, this would involve a great deal of issues and would seriously change the landscape of the Eastern Region and even the entire Wizarding World.

The waterway plan was deemed unfeasible by Catherine the Witch.

……

After Locke and Warwick parted ways temporarily at Dragonblood Market Castle, Locke returned to his dormitory first.

He needed to immediately create the binding cell of the No. 2 Overlord element designed in the Queen's Chessboard, and complete his binding cell before the defense meeting a week later, and create a successfully overlord-transformed Lygodium japonicum.

To empirically demonstrate the actual effects of phytoestrogens 2, the final key data related to phytoestrogens 2 was presented at the defense meeting.

At the defense meeting, many wizards representing the shop alliance will come. He was able to cooperate with Arthas before because of this defense meeting platform.

Therefore, I need to complete the final key data before the defense. Perhaps this will bring me some unique insights.

Since he was going to the dangerous Abyss River to explore the special Abyss Ruins, it would be best to use some of his remaining 3.5 million in savings to exchange for items that could immediately boost his combat power.

In addition, it is necessary to fully learn the Peach Arch Thorn Arrow magic within two months and obtain advanced meditation techniques from the witch Catherine.

Only in this way can one obtain the greatest guarantee when exploring the abyss ruins on one's own.

If you lack the strength to explore dangerous abyssal ruins, you might as well be courting death.

Inside the makeshift laboratory, Locke received a [Clear Sky White Birch] that he had purchased from the Golden Peach Garden for 10,000 magic stones.

At the same time, they also accepted all the magical tree plants they had previously purchased in the Golden Peach Garden, as well as the magical plants that had been given as gifts.

Locke had two of his students spend half a day transplanting all the magical trees into his forest sanctuary.

Because of the presence of the ancient tree seedlings, the transplanting difficulty is greatly reduced. It is only necessary to transplant 105 beech trees and 81 holly shrubs into the forest sanctuary.

Next, all the apprentice-level magical plants were transplanted into the Forest Sanctuary.

Because the workload was simply too great, Locke didn't have time to work on it slowly, since he also needed to complete the key experimental data for Tyrannosaurus Rex No. 2 within a week.

Therefore, Locke could only call upon two of his students to come and help.

Fortunately, the Forest Sanctuary is no longer a secret to me, and it's quite easy for someone with a keen eye to find out about it.

Moreover, his own forest sanctuary is now extremely powerful.

Even if they wanted to target it, how to deal with the ancient forest composed of 303 first-ring magic plants and tens of thousands of apprentice-level magic plants was something their enemies needed to think about carefully.

So Locke called upon two of his students, who were also his confidants, and asked them for help.

They even got the vampire Howard to lend a hand.

Half a day later, the work was completed.

All four of them were covered in dirt and grime, their hair disheveled and their bodies filthy.

Locke told the two students to go back and think about the competition.

Then, he stood in front of the Sky White Birch, feeling the power of the ancient forest composed of 303 first-ring magical plants.

Powerful natural energy descended upon this forest space, filling every inch of it with terrifying energy.

This sacred forest, covering thousands of acres, is lush and verdant, possessing an incredible amount of magical pressure.

Both the total biological quantity and the total magical pressure have exceeded the limit of magical pressure possessed by a first-ring wizard.

This is a phenomenal power that surpasses even that of a first-ring wizard.

Now, he has control over the power of this vast forest, which has become the foundation for his future as a second-circle wizard.

Locke used a syringe to inject the cell complex into the birch tree in front of him, which was about 30 meters tall, straight, with white bark and golden leaves.

"Using a first-circle magic spell for rapid growth can accelerate the transformation time of the Sky White Birch, which should take about six days."

Six days later, Locke calculated the time; the defense would be held at 1 p.m., and it was currently morning.

Therefore, if I hurry up, I should be able to complete the experiment and obtain the key data.

The premise is that the cell complexes you designed on the Queen's Chessboard are successful.

Locke used an ordinary grafting knife to cut open the bark of the white birch tree, and white sap immediately flowed out. Locke collected it and put it into a column-based elemental separation device, using the device to separate out the No. 2 tyrannol.

Locke glanced at the grafting knife, which had developed a notch.

The magical pressure of the Sky White Birch tree was already quite high. In addition, the Forest Sanctuary's blessing on the Sky White Birch tree caused the grafting knife itself to suffer a backlash when it cut open the bark of the Sky White Birch tree with its grafting knife.

Those cheap ones that cost a thousand magic stones each are simply unable to withstand this magical pressure; they're already half-crippled and unusable.

I definitely need to buy a good grafting knife.

Locke walked up to the sea hyacinth fern he had cultivated within the Druid's Ring over the past week, and then injected the No. 2 Overlord Essence into it using a syringe.

The moment it was injected, the magical pressure of the shimmering sea gold plant underwent a dramatic change.

The light of the sea gold sands shone brightly and shimmered continuously.

The stems, branches, and leaves of this Lygodium japonicum plant have become larger and swollen, but they haven't grown too tall; they've just been growing horizontally.

At the same time, black stripes spread across the surface of the shimmering gold sand, and an unusual magical pressure emanated from it, forming a magical pressure radiation belt centered on the shimmering gold sand.

Flames appeared in mid-air.

There were also flashes of lightning.

Locke, however, was not surprised but delighted.

When he saw the typical features of the Overlord – the Overlord pattern, he knew that his cell complex design was good, and even if he failed this time, he was very close to success.

The monstrous pattern is a typical characteristic of monstrous plants.

However, due to the highly toxic nature of Tyrant Element, the original Demon Plant would have self-destructed before it could become Tyrant. But the appearance of Tyrant Marks proves that the toxicity of Tyrant Element No. 2 has been greatly reduced by itself.

Locke watched with anticipation as Haijinsha became the dominant force.

It's unknown what changes will ultimately occur at Haijinsha.

This is the third variant of Lygodium japonicum that I've tried to create.

(End of this chapter)