Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 597 The Sleep of the True Dragon and the Book List

Catherine glanced at Locke, then opened her left hand, revealing a dragon-headed peach tree.

Catherine raised her left hand, and the dragon-headed peach tree seemed to come alive, glaring angrily.

The next moment, a roar was heard. Locke seemed to see countless powerful beasts surrounding a dragon-headed peach tree, some flying in the sky, some running on the ground, some swimming in the water, and some burrowing in the mud.

Countless wild beasts surrounded that dragon-headed peach tree.

It was as if that dragon-head peach tree was their true form.

"This is my ultimate magic, [Beast Tide Ecology]."

"It is a relatively rare type of summoning spell within botany. It can use plant mechanisms to summon a group of magical creatures that have formed a certain relationship with the magical plant and command them to fight for me."

The witch Catherine said vaguely, "This magic is something I created myself. My original ultimate magic at the second level was not this. Instead, I modified it based on my original ultimate magic and, after four forgings, it evolved into this form."

Locke listened intently.

In fact, Catherine did not reveal much information about this great magic, such as how to summon magical creatures to fight for her.

However, Locke realized from her description that the basic research on magical plants conducted by Groups Six and Three had a significant supplementary effect on Catherine the Witch's ultimate magic.

'But the entire sixth group of the True Knowledge Institute is related to the mentor's Ten-Person Plan. Perhaps her Ten-Person Plan is related to Great Magic? No, that's not right. Great Magic is only at the second level of magic, while the Ten-Person Plan is at the third level, a project half a level higher than the Throne Fund project.' Locke was momentarily dazed.

That was a project halfway to the Fourth Ring Road.

'So it may not necessarily be related to ultimate magic. But a byproduct of this ten-person project should have benefited the teacher's ultimate magic,' Locke made a preliminary judgment.

Ekaterina said, "Great magic creates a source of magic for oneself, so it is best to use a certain attack magic as a blueprint, so as to create a powerful source of magic to the greatest extent."

"Moreover, using great magic can amplify the permanent defensive field. By modifying the spell model, one can bring their permanent defensive field to the second level."

"There is no need to add another permanent defensive force field to myself."

"Using defensive magic to create massive magic usually results in a very low instantaneous energy burst, and the defensive advantage cannot be fully utilized."

The witch Catherine said, "Unlike a permanent defensive force field, a great magic is just a powerful magical source and does not have a permanent characteristic. It is just that its energy is enormous and will not be exhausted in a short time."

"However, when fighting at the second-ring level, or against a legion composed of first-ring wizards and apprentice wizards, the use of maximum magic at full power consumes a great deal of energy, so it is easy to deplete all of one's magic power."

"Therefore, choosing defensive magic as one's ultimate magic naturally puts one at a disadvantage compared to others. The instantaneous energy output is lower than that of other wizards, the total energy during the formation stage is lower, and one cannot actively attack others, only defend. This is really a huge loss."

Locke nodded.

Indeed, that is the case. In that case, the permanent defensive force field and the ultimate magic are like a wizard's shield and sword, one for offense and one for defense, and the two are in perfect balance.

But it would be interesting if a wizard who chose offensive magic as a permanent defensive field in the first stage made a choice contrary to the mainstream in the second stage.

The witch Catherine has suppressed her beastly ecology.

The moment her beast tide appeared, Locke felt as if the rules of the world around him had changed, and he felt extremely uncomfortable.

There was some kind of force, seemingly trying to change itself at the level of its biological habits, to make it submit to the dragon-headed peach tree.

If the witch Catherine was deliberately targeting him, he probably wouldn't be able to resist this strange ecological force at all.

The witch Catherine looked at Locke and said, "So you also need to choose one from all kinds of offensive magic as the blueprint for your own ultimate magic."

"As for which offensive magic to choose, that depends on what you like, what you are interested in, or what you are good at."

Locke asked Catherine the Witch, "Teacher, do you have any recommendations?"

The witch Catherine gave him a list of books. "Go and exchange these articles and books, and read them. Some books will require a lot of contribution points to exchange, about 2000 to 3000 contribution points, as they are top-secret information."

"But I think you'll gain a lot from reading it. My advice is to try to choose plant magic stories with the word 'ecology' at the end."

Locke paused for a moment, then asked, "Teacher, why is this? Is there any special benefit? Or is it that magic constructed in this way is particularly powerful?"

The witch Catherine shook her head slightly. "Every great magic will eventually change as the wizard forges it himself. By tapping into the potential of great magic and forging it again, wizards will forge their own unique and powerful magical source through the process of no forging, illusory forging, false forging, and true forging."

“In these forging processes, a second-circle wizard will come into contact with…” Ekaterina suddenly paused, then changed the subject, “Whether a second-circle wizard’s ultimate magic is powerful or not is not simply determined by what offensive magic he uses. That’s too superficial.”

"It's like my great magic, which has changed drastically since its inception."

"But it would be much simpler to forge great magic by using plant magic with the ending in ecology as a blueprint."

The witch Catherine said, "The reason why Celt failed five times, besides lacking talent and being too impatient, was that he used the second-circle spell [Vegetarian Assault Storm] as the blueprint for his ultimate spell."

"It's not that it's bad, but that would just increase the difficulty unnecessarily. For botanical wizards, choosing spells that end with ecology from the beginning would make it much easier to create massive spells."

“Great magic requires the formation of a special energy cycle or the accumulation of a large amount of energy. In any case, this is an ecosystem in itself. Therefore, ecological plant magic is very suitable as a great magic, which can reduce the difficulty by at least half.” The witch Catherine said, “It’s just that given the conditions in the Celts at that time, no one should have told him about this.”

"Moreover, given his learning conditions at the time, it was already quite good that he had access to spellbooks with second-circle magic spell models, as well as related literature and journals. Naturally, he didn't have many choices; he couldn't just pick whatever he wanted."

The witch Catherine said, “But you are different. You are a student of the Throne Wizards, a researcher at the Golden Crown Mountain, and you have access to the most cutting-edge magical theories.”

"First, follow the reading list I gave you and read through 'Photosynthetic Ecological Spell,' 'Aura Ecological Spell,' 'Anima Realm Spell,' 'Ether Network Spell,' 'Lim Cycle Ecological Spell,' and other related literature that I recommend."

Locke felt immense pressure because all the books and documents that Catherine the Witch had assigned him were at the second-tier level.

This is a huge pressure for me.

Especially since I'm going to participate in a competition soon, prepare for the next round of funding, and also have to pass the fourth round of the ladder test...

But this was the other party's good intention, and it was a list of books that I had to study in order to advance, so I had no choice but to work hard.

It can only be said that breaking through the limits of the soul a second time is this difficult.

Every person who breaks through the limits twice is a symbol of civilization and a valuable asset of civilization.

It's worth to admire.

"Besides that," the witch Catherine suddenly said. "you'll also write me a book report every month."

Locke paused for a moment, then bowed to Ekaterina. "Yes, teacher." Ekaterina waved to Locke. "Five days from now, I've arranged for two wizards for you, a third-ring wizard and a moon-ring wizard. They will send their students to sign the authorization fee agreement for Tyrant Element No. 2 with you."

"I've already negotiated the terms for you, so all they need to do is send a student to sign a contract with you."

The witch Ekaterina said, "These two witches have already spread the word, causing the stock of the shops associated with the No. 1 Overlord Essence to plummet. They bought at the bottom, so you've been very hated lately."

"If I were you, I definitely wouldn't go out anytime soon."

"But I've already shielded you from most of the trouble. You're smart enough to know that you can't mess around with these things on your own, otherwise you'll die one day without even knowing who you offended."

"I've already taken care of the trouble for you. I've taken the blame for you. If you did this, people would be jealous, but if I did it, no one would dare to say anything."

Locke bowed to Catherine the Witch. "Thank you, teacher."

With her hair disheveled, Catherine the Witch sat back down at her desk. She seemed unwell, her eyelids drooping and her breathing becoming longer.

She leaned against the desk, propping her cheek up with her hand, and lazily looked at Locke. "Oh, and could you pass on a message for me? Tell the six team leaders not to come looking for me anytime soon."

"I will enter the slumber of the true dragon."

Locke paused for a moment, then remembered seeing descriptions related to the Sleeping Dragon when he read journals.

That's one of the ways true dragons increase their power. True dragons can increase their power simply by sleeping; every so often, they will find a place to fall into a deep slumber.

The timeframe could very well be as long as a century.

Locke was startled. Was the Catherine the Witch going to sleep for a hundred years?

The witch Catherine whispered, "I only need to sleep for a month."

"See you in a month."

The next moment, Locke blinked and found himself no longer on the seventh floor of the True Knowledge Institute, but on the back of a white cloud whale outside the True Knowledge Institute castle.

"It seems like they used some kind of spatial magic from some school of sorcery to teleport me out directly."

Locke looked at the True Knowledge Institute with surprise.

At this moment, the entire seventh floor of Zhenzhiyuan had completely disappeared, as if there had never been only six floors.

Therefore, no wizard can now find the Catherine the Witch.

Locke gave a wry smile. "I never expected that my teacher would fall into the slumber of a true dragon."

"I even caused their stock price to plummet, so I'd better stay home as much as possible these days. Hmm, I still have the Celtic team leader to protect me."

Locke quickly contacted the Celtic team leader, told him the information, and asked him to pass it on to the six team leaders.

……

At three in the morning, Locke went to room number 13 in the witch's kitchen at the invitation of Scarlett the Witch.

Scarlett the Witch bought Locke a cup of duck tooth tea out of her own pocket as an apology, and then said to Locke, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Locke. I've been really busy lately because I was recently promoted to a gold-level trader and I have to manage several more flagship products. I was planning to meet with you this afternoon, but something came up."

Locke waved his hand, "If you ask me out this afternoon, I won't have time."

At that time, I had just returned to digest the secrets of creation.

I also just went to the library and spent 29,000 contribution points to exchange for a bunch of materials from the book list given to me by the witch Catherine.

This also resulted in all of his contribution points being used up.

Because I had other miscellaneous exchange expenses before, and exchanged two Wizard Realms for two apprentices, plus the contents of this book list, I directly used up all my contribution points.

Catherine the Witch likely created her reading list based on her remaining contribution points.

I need to write a few more articles and accumulate some contribution points for future use.

Fortunately, thanks to the Tyrant's Eye potion, I might be able to write another post for Zone 1.

As for advanced meditation techniques, due to contractual restrictions, I am unable to use the knowledge gained from them to publish articles. This was stipulated in the contract from the beginning.

The White Wizarding Association does not want the knowledge of various advanced meditation techniques to become readily available, mass-produced goods.

Advanced meditation techniques are inherently dangerous.

Ordinary wizards are prone to killing themselves through their studies, or becoming mindless puppets who have mistakenly entered a state of illusion.

Locke asked Scarlett the Witch, "But what brings you here?"

Scarlett the Witch looked at Locke and said, "Sports Day is coming up on November 1st soon. What are your plans?"

Scarlett the Witch was taken aback. "I thought you'd be prepared. Not prepared? We made sales history on Love Day, and I was even planning to make history with you at Sports Day."

Locke nodded. "I've been busy with other things lately."

My main focus lately has been developing an improved version of the Tyrant's Eye potion to increase my magical pressure.

To be honest, my magic pressure has increased by 700 points in two and a half months, which is an amazing increase.

There are too many resources that ordinary wizards cannot access.

The inversion of the natural primal force plane, the Peach Blossom Arrow magic, the soul artifact, the creation secret of advanced meditation, the Abyss Battlefield ritual, the compression method given to him by the witch Sophia, as well as the insights he learned from ritual magic, the two kinds of Myster power and the Forest Sanctuary.

Only by combining these factors can one grow so quickly.

Scarlett the Witch said, "If you weren't prepared, it might not be too late to prepare now. It's better than doing nothing, isn't it? Don't you want to make money?"

Locke said, "I'll make money! I'm definitely going to make money!"

Scarlett the Witch laughed, "Here you go, these are all the event information from the day of the sports festival!"

(End of this chapter)