Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 604 The Infiltrators of the Twin Demon Realms and the Use of Full Moon Growth

The chairman of the Grand League, who was in charge of this spell-fighting competition, suddenly took notice of the first-level spell-fighting tournament and then chuckled. "An interesting little fellow. I didn't expect Golden Crown Mountain to have such an interesting researcher. Is this kid Catherine the Witch's apprentice?"

"It's hard to believe that a witch as serious as Catherine could raise a wizard with this kind of personality."

The league director of the first ring, along with the Senate wizard Fisher and the patrolling deacon wizard Kraft Roosevelt, all looked at the Grand League president with curiosity.

The Spell Fighting Tournament at Yunze Wetland is divided into a small league and a large league. For this competition, Jinmian Mountain invited the league committee to co-organize it to ensure the fairness of the Spell Fighting Tournament and to include it as part of the small league.

This strengthens its commercial attributes.

Only those skilled wizard fighters selected from the smaller leagues can participate in the truly commercialized, top-tier tournament of the Three Swamps – the Spell Fighting Grand League!

The league committee of the magic combat tournament has two chairmen at the third-ring level.

One of them was the middle-aged wizard standing before us, with a wisp of white hair on his forehead.

But for some reason, the usually serious wizard Franklin suddenly started paying attention to a first-ring wizard.

Roosevelt the Wizard said with some displeasure, "Ah, that kid did indeed win against my student by sheer luck."

"However, this is nothing unusual."

"It was just the second day of the sports festival, and my student didn't want to go all out."

The chairman of the major leagues, Franklin the Wizard, laughed and said, "No, no, that's not what I meant."

Franklin used the Ganoderma lucidum plant to bring up Arthas's interface. "Look at this... I rarely see wizards who treat their matches like a live-streaming e-commerce platform. This kid is really interesting."

Kraft Roosevelt, the wizard, was speechless as he watched the sales of the Tyrant Hummingbird Pineapple Wizard Shoes continue to rise and even enter the top 100 in total sales for the day.

Previously, Locke's behavior of constantly dodging and avoiding conflict in the early stages of the fight was explained.

It turns out that guy was showing off the performance of his pure magic plant wizard shoes!

Kraft the wizard whispered, "This guy..."

"Is that so?"

Old Wizard Fisher's lips twitched. "No wonder I found it strange that he didn't fight Sera the first time."

Is he that short of money?

The old wizard Fisher noticed the description of Locke's product and frowned. "The first commercialized product of Tyrant Essence No. 2?"

The Grand League Chairman, Wizard Franklin, looked at an ordinary second-circle wizard staff member beside him and whispered, "After the sports festival ends, you can ask this wizard if he is interested in joining our two-tiered fighting spell competition and becoming a wizard fighter."

"This kid really has a knack for business," the wizard Franklin said, pointing to his head. "And his fighting talent is pretty good too. Don't let my long tenure as chairman of the Grand League fool you; I used to be a talent scout."

"This wizard has the qualities to become a star fighter."

The two third-ring wizards from Mount Golden Crown remained silent. Since Locke wasn't their partner wizard, they were indifferent to what Locke might become in the future.

Unless someone insults the level of Golden Crown Mountain, they have no reason to respond, especially since Chairman Franklin clearly favors Locke.

The wizard Kraft thought for a moment and said, "I don't think there's much hope. The witch Catherine wouldn't agree to you doing this."

Meanwhile, Wizard Fisher looked at his grandson in the arena, hoping that his grandson could defeat everyone and win the match.

At this moment, in Arena 2, Antoine Fisher activated the [Shattering Curse] enchanted on the yew wand in his hand, which was made of five million magic stones.

A flash of blue-purple magical light streaked past, and his opponent in front of him was instantly sent flying.

The Shattering Spell is a powerful incantation of the Power School.

It is the most powerful magic at the first stage of the ring.

Antoine the Wizard glanced at Arena Number 1, displeased that his limelight had been overshadowed by Locke and Sera the Witch. He scoffed and turned to walk off the stage. "That witch was defeated because of a cheap wizard's sword. They're all clowns."

"I am the most powerful genius."

Meanwhile, on the judges' panel, the Grand League Chairman, Wizard Franklin, whispered to the second-circle wizards around him, "However, have you not yet discovered the identity of the infiltrator from the Twin Demon Realms?"

The league staff shook their heads.

A Moon Ring Wizard in charge of this matter responded in a low voice, "Not yet. The wizards of the Twin Demon Realms are very good at this. There should be a third-ring level psychic medium who has done some concealment for this intruder's true identity. The person who made the move should be one of those old friends."

"Chairman, as you know, that was a cover-up by the dark wizard, the medium who corresponds to the Throne Wizard. We still can't find out for the time being. Based on past experience, the Twin Demon Realms probably want to send someone to steal our magic fighting competition, in order to undermine the Golden Crown Mountain Sports Festival."

"However, we cannot yet determine whether the Infiltrator competition is at the second-ring level or the first-ring level. Furthermore, we cannot yet confirm whether there are any actual infiltrators."

"Or is it just a deliberate attempt to create a false impression?"

Chairman Franklin said, "Focus on investigating wizards whose match data is abnormal."

Roosevelt the Wizard interjected, "The most important thing is that even if we find out, as long as his identity is not falsified and he applied to participate through the normal process, we have no reason to refuse his participation."

Chairman Franklin said, "After all, it's a live broadcast. Even if it's just a small league of magic fighting tournaments, there will be a lot of viewers."

"Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, we should not suspend or interfere with the competition because of such trivial matters. However, I do have some suspects. The participant from Kungudin Academy and the witch from the Demon Nexus both seem to be performing too well."

……

'Boom~'

In the afternoon, Locke saw a first-ring crystallized wizard from Kungudin Academy on arena number 3. His magic pressure had reached 9999. He was shirtless and usually held a specially made, life-sized threaded steel staff.

At this moment, he actually used earth elemental magic from the Evocation School on the arena, specifically a spell that subdivided into a small area of ​​construction, to build an earthen fortress on the arena.

His enemy maneuvered within the fortress, but all the stones within the fortress turned against him, raising hexagonal stone pillars to attack him.

Immediately afterwards, steel bars suddenly emerged from the stone fortress, attacking the Storm Master of the Evocation School like steel snakes.

'Boom~'

All the lightning magic summoned by the storm master was pierced by the steel snakes and then slammed heavily to the ground.

The wizard, stroking his steel staff, said cheerfully, "I told you yours weren't hard enough."

“My friend, you need to increase the hardness of your storm, otherwise how can you stand against my ‘Bastion Arrival’? Once my bastion is complete, even if ten first-ring crystallization stage wizards attack me at the same time, I will still be able to win the match with my hardness!”

Many people in the audience were whispering among themselves.

"Aren't architects better at construction than individual combat?"

"The fortress he constructed can control all the internal building parts to attack the enemy, and there seem to be quite a few components that can be used, but they haven't been used yet. Kungudin Academy... seems to be an academy moved from the Northern Frontier."

"The Northern Boundary? Could it be from... the Mysterious Heaven?"

"I don't think so. Mysterious Heaven is on par with Starfield Sea, but it seems to come from a decent wizarding land as well. Anyway, our White Wizard Association here welcomes their academy to bring resources and voluntarily enter Cloud Marsh Wetland."

"Is Kungudin Academy planning to challenge the status of Golden Crown Mountain this time? I heard that Kungudin Academy used to be a top wizarding academy in the wizarding land, but it left the wizarding land after losing the competition and was invited by our White Wizarding Association. Now it seems that they want to seize the position of a top power in Cloud Marsh Wetland and obtain the corresponding resources, and their target is... Golden Crown Mountain."

The wizards all wore expressions of anticipation, as if they were watching a good show.

Clearly, Kungudin had reached some kind of agreement with the White Wizards Association of Cloudweed Wetlands.

However, some wizards held differing opinions. "Give me a break. Don't forget our responsibilities in the Three Swamps. We are the logistics hub of the Eastern Boundary, but that's not all. We are also one of the gateways to the entire wizarding world. Our waterways are constantly invaded by foreign enemies. They haven't even fought a single Chaos War, Demon War, or Abyss War, yet they want to replace Mount Golden Crown as one of the seven top academies?"

"Even if they win the magic combat tournament this time, they are still far from achieving that goal."

Another second-circle wizard nodded in agreement: "Indeed. Moreover, the most powerful medium-to-large-scale wizarding organization in the Golden Crown Mountain region should be the Nexus City."

"Anyway, the war to seize power is very long, and it may take up to a century. It starts with sports competitions, then academics, the number of articles, and performance in foreign wars. As an outsider, Kungudin College still has a lot of areas to improve."

Meanwhile, Locke had been observing the match for almost the entire day.

Because he had already tried reading a lot of materials, but hadn't made any progress in a short period of time.

In fact, it is difficult for a person to improve linearly indefinitely; that is a luxurious learning process. In most cases, after a period of improvement, one encounters obstacles and easily gets stuck in a certain place for many years.

This is the norm for wizards in the wizarding world.

It was only through my continuous pursuit of excellence and exposure to more and more things that I was able to keep moving forward.

However, having already spent more than six months studying the materials from Yunze Wetland, and with the limitations of the Second Ring Road pass, it's difficult to make any significant progress in a short period of time simply by reading books.

Therefore, Locke chose to seize the opportunity of the magic combat tournament and watch the various wizards' attack spells live from the sidelines.

By observing firsthand, the wizards of the Golden Crown Mountain region who were most confident in their magical dueling abilities abandoned their permanent defensive fields and focused solely on the performance of their offensive spells, contemplating how to improve themselves.

Learn from these opponents and competitors.

Even with wizards who were clearly inferior to him, Locke could still learn something from them.

By observing why they failed, where the problems occurred, and whether they have any strengths, we can comprehensively consider and evaluate them.

By using reverse thinking, we can learn some non-optimal solutions from them and gain insights that can inspire us.

Locke observed the entire day's competition and noticed that most wizards, after finishing their matches, would immediately take a break or continue practicing certain spells by reading documents or using equipment.

These wizards were all very nervous and took winning or losing very seriously; they had focused all their attention on the upcoming match.

His perception of his surroundings had dropped to its lowest point. Locke walked up to a wizard who looked very ordinary and was slightly taken aback. The other person, like himself, was the only wizard among the contestants who was just casually observing the scene.

The wizard greeted Locke, "Hello, I'm Shelley, a power master. Are you a contestant too? Why aren't you preparing for the competition?"

Locke said, "I've just hit a bottleneck, so I wanted to see the magic of the other contestants."

Shelley the wizard chuckled, “I’ve watched your match. Locke Augustine, you are a very good wizard. I am the chair wizard of Elm Garden on Golden Crown Mountain, and you are a researcher at Black Nightshade Garden. You are still better; we are different.”

"My skill level is really insufficient. Although we are all wizards at the first stage of crystallization and our magic pressure is 9999, I feel that my offensive magic is still inferior to others. My research in this area is too superficial, so I can only skim through it here."

"Locke, your Peach Arch Thorn Arrow magic has a very high attack power."

"I'm going to watch the next match now. I hope I don't run into you too early. Otherwise, I'll definitely lose all my points and have to withdraw from the competition."

Shelley said with a sigh, "Come on, Locke."

Locke greeted him, glanced at him, and then focused his attention on ring number 6 in front of him.

'Boom~'

With a loud bang, Locke looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the witch Julian had been knocked off the number 1 arena, with blood at the corner of her mouth.

Standing on ring number 1 is Antoine Fisher.

Antoine was wearing a set of powerful magical artifacts, with ten offensive magical artifact rings on his fingers. It was the Ten Rings Set, a famous luxury magical artifact set in Yunze Wetland.

He also carried a magical pet creature created by the Reptile Garden in the Rainswamp—a Crystal Core Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The Crystal Core Tyrannosaurus Rex feeds on Rafflesia flowers and must replenish a certain amount of Tyrannosaurus Essence every day, but it is incredibly powerful.

The Reptile Garden is a top-tier wizarding force in the Rainswamp. As a luxury magical creature cultivated by the Reptile Garden at the first stage, the Crystal Core Tyrannosaurus Rex is naturally incredibly powerful.

It is said that if this Tyrannosaurus Rex were taken to another world, it would be a world-destroying monster, capable of causing the apocalypse.

Even Julian the Witch was unfortunately defeated by Antoine's invincible spending, and was knocked off the number 1 arena.

Wizard Antoine laughed heartily. "I've defeated the third generation of the Deacon Patrol Team. Hahaha... I've got the Spellfighting Tournament title in my hands."

"Who is my opponent now?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Locke saw the witch Julian stand up, dust off her wizard robes, and show no anger on her face; her eyes were cold and unwavering.

She glanced at Antoine, then turned and left ring number 1.

The magic combat tournament uses a points system, and the champion will not be determined until the final seventh day.

Therefore, as long as you maintain a certain number of points before then, you won't be eliminated by losing once.

Of course, since losing once is equivalent to winning three times, the elimination rate is still quite fast.

Julian the Witch looked at Antoine the Wizard and frowned. "That guy... he's really good at pretending."

"Everyone must think that he crushes other wizards because he has money, but that's not the case. Most people have been misled by him. Being able to use so many magical artifacts at the same time means that the total amount of magical pressure he possesses is frightening."

“Of course, this is likely something he forcibly increased through a series of rare resources.” The witch Julian shook her head slightly. “It wouldn’t make much sense for me to fight him head-on beforehand.”

"Let him win."

Locke walked down to the bottom of ring number 1. His eyes met Antoine's for a moment, but Antoine curled his lip in disdain and looked away.

Locke heard the wizard referee announce his last match of the day.

"In Arena 1, Locke Augustine, the breeder from Mount Golden Crown, will face off against Camilla the witch, the breeder from the City of Demons."

"Both contestants are required to come to the stage within ten minutes, otherwise they will be considered to have forfeited and will automatically lose."

Soon, a short, first-ring crystallized witch with a magic pressure of 9800 stepped onto the number 1 arena.

Camilla the witch is only a little over 1.3 meters tall because she is a fairy.

She frowned and whispered, "I'm so unlucky. I actually ran into a star player from Jinmian Mountain."

"I don't know if I can win. If I can beat him, my status in Demon Hub City will rise sharply. When I go back, I will be able to get more resources. If my teacher is in a good mood, he might even give me some resources that will help me advance to the second ring."

"My family will also value me more and will proactively give me more resources."

Camilla the Witch saw Locke come on stage, but she lacked confidence. "Hello, I am Camilla the Witch. Mr. Augustine, could you please go easy on me later?"

"Just look at the fact that my magic pressure is 199 points lower than yours."

Locke was speechless. This was the first time he had ever seen a wizard at the first stage of crystallization be so shameless.

However, upon closer reflection, this strategy based on the other party's personality isn't entirely unworkable.

Besides being shameless.

What if you encounter someone who's easily embarrassed, or someone who thinks they're so great?

They might agree.

In any case, all she got in return was a shameless question.

But if you agree, the payoff would be too high.

Locke refused outright. "A competition is a competition. One is one, and two is two."

All I can do is respect you. And the way to respect you is to give it my all.

Camilla the witch pursed her lips in anger. "You... you have no sense of chivalry whatsoever."

Camilla the Witch is a gentle-looking, short, and adorable two-hundred-year-old witch. In her anger, she took out ten large-mouthed man-eating flowers from her astral ring.

Locke frowned slightly; he rarely saw anyone summon so many magical plants at once.

For botanical wizards, having more magical plants does not necessarily make them more powerful.

On the contrary, having too many magical plants will consume too much mana and will not enhance oneself much, which is unwise.

Locke had an idea. A magical eye appeared on his forehead, and he opened his spiritual vision, piercing through his surroundings. He discovered that in the spiritual world of the witch Camilla, an elegant porcelain piece in shades of blue and white appeared in her spiritual light.

Wuci!

It is also the biggest advantage of the Demon City.

Wizarding academies like the Crypt of the Demon, which are close to Mount Goldencrown, have their own advantageous research topics.

There are three Golden Crown Mountain sites in this regard, while there is only one Demon Pivot City, which is the origin of its name—the Witch Porcelain System.

The unique magical porcelain made in the City of the Demon Pivot can even store a large amount of magic power, empowering wizards during battle.

No wonder the opponent could use ten large-mouthed man-eating flowers at the same time, now I understand.

Camilla the Witch didn't stop, continuing to summon ten more giant man-eating flowers, and then another ten.

Many people present were stunned. They did not expect that the witch Camilla's magical porcelain was so powerful that it allowed her to control thirty first-ring magical plants at the same time.

This is truly astonishing.

If this were taken to a wizarding community, it would absolutely astound the botany wizards. It's a kind of magic that can break the conventional rule of botany wizards controlling a large number of magical plants at the same time.

Camilla the Witch said angrily, "Lock Augustine, I don't need you to let me have my way. Let me show you my magic—the Man-Eating Flower Jungle!"

The large-mouthed carnivorous plants in the surging carnivorous plant jungle constantly bite into the surrounding air.

Locke unleashed a Peach-Arrow Thorn Arrow spell, instantly severing half of the carnivorous plant in half.

But within a short period of time, those carnivorous plants mysteriously returned to their original state one by one.

"Hmm? I haven't looked into this attack spell before. Is it a spell that quickly restores magical plants, or is it a plant attack spell with special resistance that can only withstand certain types of damage?" Locke quickly assessed the current situation.

Camilla breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.

Locke snapped his fingers, and a moon appeared in his palm. "Very well. That's the point of the competition. Without a strong enough opponent, I wouldn't even be able to put the full moon growth spell I learned from observing the matches of more than a dozen wizards into practice."

"This combination attack magic of the carnivorous flower jungle is just the right time for me to test my full moon growth."

Camilla the witch looked at Locke in confusion, because Locke had used magic to summon a magical moon, and the moon's phases guided her jungle to grow rapidly, which actually strengthened her carnivorous flower jungle.

Camilla the Witch looked puzzled. "What are you doing?"

Below the arena, the spectators and wizards watching the match were also stunned.

"Huh? Why would he deliberately enhance the combo tool magic of that wizard from the Nexus? Isn't that helping the enemy?"

"You can take advantage of the opportunity to make your move against that witch in the Nexus, while she's strengthening her carnivorous flower jungle."

Camilla, reminded of the importance of this, immediately raised her right hand and commanded the carnivorous plants to open their mouths wide towards Locke!
(End of this chapter)