Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 605 The Blueprint for Ultimate Magic

A full moon hangs high in the sky.

The lunar tides command all plants under heaven. The full moon's gravity altered the growth cycle of the magical plants. When Camilla's thirty man-eating flowers approached Locke within ten meters, their magical pressure had already expanded to almost the limit for a first-ring magical plant.

Camilla smirked as she approached Locke within five meters. Although she didn't know what had happened, she felt she was about to win.

But at that moment, the magical plants that had reached the limit of magical pressure of the first-ring magical plant suddenly began to wither rapidly.

Camilla the witch was stunned.

The carnivorous flower jungle surrounding her continued to collapse with deafening crashes, causing the witch Camilla to frown. "What kind of magic is this? I've never seen anything like it before? Tidal Growth?"

"How could the moon's gravity have such a significant impact on the growth cycle of magical plants!"

The wizards below the stage were stunned by what they saw.

A second-ring breeder suddenly spoke up: "This is a spell model that has never appeared before. Look at the spell model of the spell cast by the wizard Augustine. Although it is difficult to see the whole thing, if you look closely, you can see a spell model with completely unknown characteristics."

"This must have been created by him. But judging from its strength, it is either a blueprint spell used for extremely powerful magic, or it is most likely a spell model constructed by observing the Void Beast."

"The characteristics of this spell have indeed reached the level of a blueprint spell for great magic."

At this moment, on the arena, the witch Camilla was in a panic, as she saw that every magical plant in the carnivorous flower jungle was rapidly decaying.

"It's... the magic pressure is rising continuously, and the magic energy is insufficient, causing the magic plant to wither rapidly."

The difference between a first-ring magic plant and a second-ring magic plant lies in the imaginary root.

Without imaginary roots, the magic pressure of a first-ring magic plant has increased to a certain level, and not only can it not be increased further, but there is also not enough energy to supply them to continuously increase their normal magic pressure.

Under Locke's acceleration, the man-eating flower jungle not only flashed with a momentary brilliance, but also began to transform into a second-ring stage of magical pressure.

These magical plants were forced to evolve to the second stage by Locke using the Full Moon Growth technique, but they were unable to adapt to the evolution and thus all died instantly.

Otherwise, if relying solely on the original full moon growth could accelerate the plants to their abnormal peak, then these plants should still have time to launch an attack on Locke before reaching their peak.

However, during this competition, Locke came up with a new idea, which enhanced the growth of the full moon and amplified the influence of the magical moon he summoned on the magical plants.

Locke held a bottle of No. 2 Overlord Element. While observing the wizards' battle, he suddenly realized that he could use the Full Moon Growth spell model as a carrier, combined with No. 2 Overlord Element, to forcibly overlord all the magical plants.

Just now, under the blessing of the witch Camilla's combined botanical magic [Man-eating Flower Jungle], each of the thirty magical plants had reached the limit of the first-level magic pressure.

Therefore, during the stage when Locke forcibly made them dominant, all these magical plants were forced to develop towards the second stage.

Using this bug, Locke was able to eliminate the troublesome carnivorous flower jungle almost instantly.

Even the carnivorous flower jungle seems to be immune to some kind of damage, making it impossible to destroy with ordinary magic.

Camilla stood on the shattered corpses of the carnivorous plants, her mind in turmoil. She quickly used the magic necklace on her chest to summon three fire shields in front of her.

“Each man-eating flower costs 15,000, so thirty would cost 450,000… All the wealth I had accumulated over so long has vanished in one go.”

Camilla stared at the moon summoned by Locke, a look of fear flashing in her eyes. "What exactly is the mechanism by which that moon harmed my carnivorous flower jungle? It seems to be some kind of mechanism of giving first and then taking back?"

Is the moon still there?

"Could it be a persistent environmental magic?"

Sweating profusely, the witch Camilla murmured. 'How could such a thing exist? If something like this exists on the field, how can I still summon magical plants?'

'Is this the level of Mount Golden Crown?'

Camilla the witch glanced back at the arena, at the direction where her family and the wizards of Nexus were seated, and at that moment the wizards of Nexus were cheering her on.

The details of the battle on Arena 1 were also magnified by the Cloud Arena through the Cloud Projection, allowing more viewers to see them.

Camilla, the witch, breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Locke did not continue his attack. She tentatively took out two magical plants from her astral ring: a five-star grass at the first-class wizard apprentice level and a meteor flower at the first-ring level.

As soon as the two herbs were taken out, the magical pressure began to rise rapidly again. Then, the two herbs quickly grew larger and thicker, and then, in the next moment, both herbs withered rapidly.

The witch Camilla has tested it out. "It's not a restriction on specific levels of magical plants, but a restriction on all magical plants."

"As long as you take out the magical plant, you will be enhanced."

"Once enhanced, the magical plant will die immediately if it cannot keep up with the nutrition. Even if an apprentice-level magical plant is supplemented with high-grade nutrient solution, a certain pattern will appear on it - the Overlord Pattern, which will poison it to death."

For a moment, the witch Camilla looked at Locke with a terrified expression.

Although Locke's previous magic was powerful, it had not yet reached the point where the wizards of the Nexus felt it was unsolvable.

The Peach Bow Thorn Arrow is a classic, ancient, and powerful weapon, but its demanding usage conditions, coupled with the moderate risk of magical backlash, are enough to deter most wizards.

Not to mention, their Nexus's carnivorous plant jungle has a special restriction that only iron tools can kill these magical plants.

Wizards rarely use iron tools.

Therefore, any wizard who is unaware of the details of their magic will most likely suffer a great loss if they encounter them.

Originally, the witch Camilla intended to use this method to make things difficult for Locke, but before she could even set up the problem, Locke summoned a moon and destroyed it.

Camilla the witch took a half step back, distancing herself from Locke, and then cautiously took out a mushroom from her astral ring. The next moment, the mushroom plant died due to its overlord transformation.

Without using the Queen's Chessboard and birch cells to create cell complexes for domination, generally speaking, it would only poison the plants.

Camilla the witch was heartbroken.

She lost another 20,000 magic stones.

She looked at Locke, sighed, and raised her right hand directly to the referee wizard. "I surrender."

"It's such a loss for me to fight the referee against him."

"In just a short while, nearly 500,000 magic stones have been lost."

The referee wizard immediately announced, "Locke Augustine wins, earning 1 point."

Camilla the Witch sighed, turned to look at Locke, and a look of fear flashed in her eyes.

Even if she lost a direct fight with Locke, she wouldn't feel this fear.

This fear comes from the unknown.

It also stemmed from the fear of that moon.

The witch Camilla gave Locke a dueling salute. "Witch Augustine, that spell is the blueprint for your ultimate spell, isn't it?"

"As expected of the blueprint magic for ultimate magic. I accept my defeat wholeheartedly."

"In the end, your first-ring wizards from Golden Crown Mountain are indeed more skilled than our first-ring wizards from Demon Pivot City. My man-eating flower forest, if it were anyone else, would probably be difficult to defeat, but in front of you, it's like a clown."

The witch Camilla said, "I shouldn't have tried to be clever before, and I apologize to you."

Locke nodded. "Okay."

With a heavy heart, the witch Camilla retrieved the corpses of the demonic plants into her astral ring.

Then, she turned and jumped off the ring.

Meanwhile, Locke looked up at the moon in the sky. The full moon had turned slightly red, seemingly due to the addition of Tyrant Element No. 2. 'The blueprint magic for ultimate magic?'

"Although I didn't mean it, the full moon's growth has indeed shown this trend. The arena tournament is not just a competition, but also a learning opportunity." Locke retracted the moon and slowly walked off the arena.

'During this competition, my understanding of offensive magic deepened rapidly. I was even forced to think about what my ultimate spells should look like, because I had to increase the efficiency of my magic pressure, my character sheet, and the magic pressure-to-damage conversion of my spell models.'

'I have to think about what kind of energy cycle I should create if I need to construct immense magic in the future, to integrate with that colonized world, and to interfere with...all the plants in that colonized world.'

Locke looked at the magical moon in his hand. 'This is the initial result of my thinking. This competition is like an alchemical furnace; the battles and events are the flames, and we wizards are the materials to be refined.'

'I see. Using the competition as practice—that's the point of this match.'

Meanwhile, in the stands of the city of Nexus, many wizards from Nexus showed signs of disappointment.

If Camilla, the outstanding young first-ring witch of their generation in the Nexus, had lost this match after a hard-fought battle, they wouldn't be so discouraged.

Who knew that Camilla the Witch could be so easily defeated?

On the judges' panel, in the city of Magna, the most powerful wizarding academy in the Golden Crown region, there was a third-ring wizard watching the competition with a livid face. Wizard Roosevelt pretended to be kind and comforted him, saying, "Old Klin, don't be too sad."

"Sigh, it's also that girl's bad luck. The spell our researcher from Golden Crown Mountain used is powerful enough to be the blueprint for a major spell. The most crucial thing is... her observation skills are really limited."

Roosevelt the Wizard said, "That boy's magical pressure was at least two-thirds depleted. That spell consumed more mana than she and the boy themselves realized."

"Actually, if that little girl just waits a little longer, she can find a way to break the deadlock."

"It's really interesting to watch the young players fight," said Franklin, chairman of the major leagues.

At that moment, Locke had just stepped off the field when he felt a sudden emptiness in his magic.

After resting for a while, I finally recovered.

The full moon growth required more magical power than he had imagined.

Without fixing this flaw, there's no point in talking about building a blueprint for ultimate magic.

On the judges' panel, Klin, a third-ring wizard from the Nexus, snorted coldly. "Even if that kid is forced to dispel that blueprint spell, what's the use? Camilla's carnivorous flower jungle has been destroyed, and she has no other tricks up her sleeve."

"That was originally a difficult problem that our Demon Pivot City was going to pose to your Golden Crown Mountain here... Never mind, it's embarrassing to talk about it. Let's not talk about it anymore."

Roosevelt the Wizard suppressed a laugh and forced a serious expression, saying, "There's still a chance. This problem is useless to the wizards of Golden Crown Mountain, but it should still be an unsolvable problem for wizards from other wizarding academies."

Because Locke had inadvertently cracked one of the Nexus's secret techniques, even Wizard Fisher noticed him and nodded slightly. "Your Majesty's first-ring wizard is indeed of an extremely high level."

"Although he's not as outstanding as my grandson, he's still quite good. My grandson has already defeated Julian the witch from your patrol team."

Wizard Fisher's lips curled into a smile. "Wizard Roosevelt, I think the wizards representing Golden Crown Mountain in this year's Plane Conquest Tournament will most likely be from our Senate."

"I wonder when that third-generation member of the academic committee will run into my grandson. It's better to get a result quickly so as not to hurt the harmony among our family members."

Wizard Kraft's expression shifted slightly. "Having just stabilized the situation, are we going to have to settle things among our own people?"

Wizard Fisher chuckled and said, "First of all, it's just a friendly competition. Every competition has winners and losers."

"Secondly, my philosophy is that the right to engage in internal strife is a privilege of top-tier wizarding academies."

The next moment, Wizard Fisher's expression changed slightly.

Because the match on Arena 5 has once again decided the winner, the architect from Kungudin Academy has once again defeated a researcher from the True Knowledge Institute of Golden Crown Mountain, sending the lecturer and researcher flying off the arena.

That researcher was actually Nelson, a senior researcher at the Golden Crown Mountain Institute of Truth, and also a senior researcher at the Institute of Truth under their Senate.

He studied magic from the power school.

It was an alternative option left by their Senate after three generations failed to secure a spot in the competition.

At this moment, I was actually defeated by a Kunquing bricklayer architect.

The architect, hands on his back, wiped the sweat from his brow with his right hand and burst into laughter. "Brother, your rigidity isn't enough."

Wizard Nelson got up from the ground, touched his bald head, and said, "Hmm, you're right. I do need to improve."

Wizard Nelson exhaled a breath of stale air. "Fighting you is so difficult. I feel like I can't even get close to you. When I finally do get close, I find that you are even more skilled in melee magic than I am."

"The architect actually won a melee magic contest against us power masters... that's impressive."

"But I'll definitely beat you next time."

On the judges' panel, Wizard Fisher's expression changed slightly. He looked at the Grand League Chairman, Wizard Franklin, and said, "This young first-ring wizard from Kungudin has a problem. I think his combat strength is abnormal."

“Wizard Nelson is the second strongest power master among the younger generation of Golden Crown Mountain.”

"This must be an undercover agent from the Twin Demon Realms."

On the judging panel, the third-circle wizard from Kungudin immediately spoke up. "Your Golden Crown Mountain is indeed powerful, but Kungudin Academy is not without judges here."

"That wizard was also the best architect in our Kungudin. Defeating your best power master in Golden Crown Mountain—isn't that perfectly logical?"

Seeing the two bickering, another judge from Mount Roosevelt, the Wizard of Roosevelt, frowned.

Anyone can win a normal competition: the Senate, the Inspectorate, the Academic Committee, and even the contestants from Lu Xuqiao.

But we absolutely cannot let the Nexus and Kungurdin, those two wizarding organizations that are eyeing the position of Mount Golden Crown, win.

If it were other niche sports competitions, losing wouldn't be a big deal.

It's no big deal.

But the magic fighting tournament, the most popular sport in Yunze Wetland, is a different story altogether.

……

Instead of going home to sleep, Locke watched the game all night, pondering how he could further develop his offensive magic from his existing power.

Since there were no magic combat tournaments in the evening, he would watch other competitions, such as the 30,000-meter life-or-death race in the Illusion Maze, or the potion relay race at the first level.

That night, Locke watched as wizards from various wizarding organizations drank all sorts of potions in a potion relay race.

Among them were poisons, magical potions that altered the body's state, and magical potions that forced the body to transform.

Looking at the effects of these potions, Locke suddenly had an idea—could I put Tyrant Essence No. 2 into the Full Moon Growth and use the moon's gravity to spread Tyrant Essence No. 2? Could I also put potions into it?
However, the excessive mana consumption during the full moon's growth remains a problem that needs to be solved.

Moreover, potions are different from No. 2 Overlord Essence. Potions involve more natural magical structural components, making it difficult to take effect in this way, and they will also conflict with the spell model of botanical magic.

Locke organized his thoughts; he needed to think further before he could figure out how to further enhance his magic.

Currently, the best development direction for enhancing one's offensive magic in a short period of time is still to focus on the spell model [Full Moon Growth], which was obtained from the pattern on a feather of a Void Beast. This is more realistic.

Locke looked at the potions manual and suddenly thought, "Wait a minute, I seem to be able to use potions to enhance my Sea Gold Sand. My research on Sea Gold Sand is already very in-depth. While my research on pineapple magic plants is in-depth, it's basically all basic research."

"Enhance with a magic potion... the Overlord Sea Gold Sands..."

Locke fell into deep thought. He saw Gregor and Williams walking towards him, but without greeting them, he summoned a cloud whale, climbed the clouds, and headed towards the Feathered Serpent Pavilion.

(End of this chapter)