Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 614 The Battle with the Constructor, The Overlord Descends!

Before Locke left the Ice Mirror Chamber, he summoned Mason Witch and two others, explaining that he had already paid for 24 hours of use.

But we still have a competition today, so in order not to waste money and opportunities, we simply let Mason Witch and the others come and use this Ice Magic Mirror Room.

Mason Witch seemed very happy because it was Locke's money that was spent this time. Although the 30,000 could be reimbursed through the project fund, it felt good to get it for free.

Mason Witch entered first and greeted Locke. "Team leader, thank you in advance. Our project as a trio definitely still needs the Ice Mirror."

Locke nodded slightly, greeted them, and then summoned the cloud whale to the arena.

He first participated in two matches and won them.

Before the fourth match in the afternoon, I also watched the entire battle between Antoine the Wizard and the Preston Witch.

Despite the Preston Witch's formidable fighting prowess—transforming into a white dragon and using the Blood Beast's body to enhance her physical abilities, making her invincible in melee combat—Antoine once went even further, using 21 magical artifacts.

The Ten Commandments' elemental system unleashed a continuous barrage of ten powerful elemental spells, one after another, a feat beyond the reach of ordinary wizards.

But what's even more terrifying is that he summoned at least five elemental magic mirrors, and also used the Wind and Thunder Twin Wheels bronze magic artifact, as well as a magic wand, a wizard's sword, a wizard's robe, and a substitute wizard porcelain.

He used the substitute witch porcelain to evade the deadly attack of the white dragon's breath, which was created by the Preston witch using the bloodline universal spell "Temporarily Change Subject." Then, he used the remaining magical artifacts to concentrate his attack, causing the Preston witch, who had not fully controlled her bloodline, to suffer a bloodline backlash once again.

The Preston Witch appeared beside the ring, looking disheveled.

Her face looked pale.

Antoine had clearly practiced tactics specifically targeting her; she had revealed too many of her trump cards during her last fight with Locke.

The wizard's battle is a battle of information.

In a short period of time, she was unable to adjust her tactics for direct combat centered on the White Dragon's body, which allowed Antoine to use his substitute, Wuci, to evade her most powerful frontal attack.

As a result, she lost the magic combat tournament.

The Preston witch, in a foul mood, chased away the talent scout wizard who had tried to recruit her to a magical combat league.

She walked up to Locke and said, "Brother Locke, it's fortunate that I lost to you yesterday. Because of today's battle, I can only tell you that Antoine hasn't used his full strength yet."

"He can actually use so many magical artifacts at the same time, and not just mindlessly. He must be an alchemist! And he has excellent telekinesis skills."

"But that's all. The problem is, why is his total magical pressure so high?"

The Preston Witch turned to look at Antoine on ring number 1, who looked at her with a mocking expression and uttered two words that spelled "trash".

The Preston witch was furious; she had never been so insulted in her life.

As a dragonblood wizard of Golden Crown Mountain, she is the witch with the most powerful background among the first-ring wizards of Cloud Marsh Wetland.

Wherever she goes, people respect her.

Even if she does something slightly wrong, I will tolerate her and give in to her.

The Preston Witch quickly used the advanced meditation technique, Dragon Claw Meditation, to enter a state of no-thought, thereby suppressing her anger.

Her anger came quickly and went quickly.

Ignoring Antoine's provocation, the Preston Witch said to Locke, "Little Locke, let's not let him affect our mindset. By the way, this competition depends on you. Right now, we need to defend the top three positions for Mount Golden Crown, and you need to defeat that genius Construct Wizard, Kungudin, who has only lost once so far because he didn't participate in the competition."

“His current score is too high. Someone has to make him lose at least once, otherwise he will be third, surpassing me and the witch Julian, surpassing the witch Sera, and the other wizards of our Golden Crown Mountain.”

"In addition, you also need to defend our academic committee's championship title."

A hint of apology flickered in the Preston Witch's eyes. "I'm sorry, Locke. These things were originally my responsibility, but now you're the one having to handle them."

"Unfortunately, I'm not as strong as I thought. I need to ask my parents what happened. Why is there still something I can't do even though I'm so strong?"

"What I can tell you is the abilities I forced Antoine to display during the battle. Also, his magical pressure seems to be something he possesses himself, different from the external magical pressure amplification you used before, and the magical pressure amplified by the innate magical porcelain used by the wizards of the Demon Nexus."

"Be very careful. I need to report this to the teacher. I'll be there to cheer you on in your next fight with him, little Locke."

The Preston witch summoned a carriage pulled by a dragon-horse, entered it, and the dragon-horse raised its hooves, then drove the carriage into the air and quickly left.

As Locke turned around and walked over, he was surprised to see Antoine walking towards him.

Antoine looked him up and down. "You're Locke Augustine? Hmm... your magic is alright, about the same as the Preston Witch. But your equipment is terrible."

"You think you can fight me with that junk? That's laughable."

Antoine said, "You'll have to deal with that wizard from Kungudin Academy for me. He's good at close combat and his ranged magic is also quite powerful. But he doesn't seem to be good at aerial combat. Be careful not to fail. Kungudin Academy has some tricks up its sleeve. If you lose, I'll have to deal with him on behalf of Golden Crown Mountain."

"I can't be bothered to waste my time on trash like you."

"If someone from Kungudin Academy makes it into the top five, I'll be even more upset. Trash should stay where it is!"

Locke looked at Antoine, and the two brushed past each other. Locke suddenly spoke. "Wizard Antoine, have you heard a story? A wolf disguised himself as a dog for so long that when he left the pack, he found that he had still retained the habits of a dog."

The wizard Antoine paused, then turned around, frowning, and said, "I don't understand what you're saying."

Before he left, Locke said, "I will make sure he loses a game, so that his points, along with those of Julian Witch, Sera Witch, and Preston Witch, will be back to normal balance."

"That means they've all lost two matches. Tomorrow, whether the wizards from Kungudin Academy can make it into the top five will depend entirely on their own abilities."

The wizard Antoine didn't even turn his head. "That's up to you. What does it have to do with me?"

……

On arena number 1, the wizard Mike, who always went shirtless, was wearing a magical robe, a rare sight indeed.

The surface of this magical garment is incredibly smooth, as if woven from flowing spring water.

Locke was somewhat surprised to see this. "Spring Water Silk Magic Robe? This kind of magic robe has a special resistance to gold magic. It is woven from special gold-eating water silkworm silk."

Locke said, "I never expected that a architect like you would need to buy such a magical robe."

Wizard Mike smiled. "It's worth three hundred thousand magic stones!"

“Your plant magic is indeed powerful. Without a countermeasure, I really have no confidence. It’s plant magic that can rival a dragon’s body.”

"It's hard to believe that an ordinary Lygodium japonicum plant can exert such great power in your hands."

Many wizards standing near Arena 1 nodded in agreement upon hearing this.

Locke has recently been using Sea Sand in battle, which has not only helped him sell his own goods but also earned him the title of "Sea Sand Master".

Haijinsha itself is just an ordinary first-ring magical plant originating from the boundary between darkness and light.

Wizards typically only use this type of magical plant up to the first liquefaction stage before abandoning it, because it is too weak and its damage conversion efficiency against magical pressure cannot keep up with the wizard's progress.

However, Locke enhanced it three times in a row, allowing it to still shine in the Spell Fighting Tournament, a competition featuring the strongest first-ring wizards.

This is indeed something that wizards can marvel at.

Many wizards believe that Locke's research on sea gold sands has reached an unprecedented level among the wizards of the first ring of Yunze Wetland.

They may even be the most powerful users of Haijinsha for a very long time.

Locke raised an eyebrow and summoned two Sea Gold Sands. Instantly, two dark purple pagodas descended, hovering in mid-air and releasing eerie magical pressure in all directions.

As soon as the two demonic plants appeared, they spontaneously released the Overlord Domain. At the same time, the Overlord Domain intertwined with the energy of the abyss and began to construct the spells within the domain.

A cautious glint flashed in the wizard's eyes, and the Overlord's Domain sparked magically within the surface of his magic robes. Although the Spring Silk Magic Robe couldn't dismantle the magical power within him, it still suppressed half of his strength.

The abyss-devouring sea gold sand before my eyes seems to be the end of all evolutionary paths.

The so-called convergent evolution means that Haijinsha uses the Overlord Domain to force a patch of magical plants and creatures in the vicinity to evolve in the same direction as it, forming the most favorable growth environment and ecological environment for the Overlord Haijinsha.

"What a domineering magical plant!" Wizard Mike chanted a spell and shouted, stomping his foot on the ground. Instantly, a fortress rose up from the Cloud Arena.

The Wizard shouted, "But the rigidity of my magic surpasses that of yours. There is no ultimate direction of evolution; my structures are eternal."

Inside the fortress, rows of stone pillars completely ignored Locke's Overlord Domain and attacked him.

Locke's eyes flickered; the Overlord's Domain could not affect inanimate objects.

Naturally, the abyssal energy combined with the Overlord's Domain will not affect these stone pillars that are attacking it.

The next moment, the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow appeared behind Locke and used the Plant Mimicry Technique: Green Dragon.

Locke flew through the air, maneuvering rapidly to avoid the attacks from the stone pillars within the fortress.

He suddenly created distance, and the two sea-golden sands rose up behind Locke.

Wizard Mike was taken aback, because as Locke took to the air, the stone pillars of his fortress city could not keep up with him.

"You want to fight me in the air?"

"Don't even think about it. If you fly upwards, I'll lift the earth into the air for you."

The wizard Mike chanted a spell, and the entire fortress floated into the air, flying upwards with Locke.

When Locke flew up 100 meters, the fortified city floated up 100 meters as well.

Wizard Mike laughed heartily. "Augustin, get down here, let's see who's tougher! You can't escape."

The wizards beside the arena looked up as the two of them rose to a height of about three thousand meters above the Cloud Arena.

Locke, however, seemed not to hear and continued flying into the sky.

Wizards specializing in earth elemental magic within the Evocation school compete with themselves to see who can fly the highest in the sky.

What a joke.

Sure enough, they climbed five thousand meters into the clouds!
The fortress's ascent speed is getting slower and slower.

Mike the Wizard's expression changed slightly. He used magic to lift Kungudin Bastion five thousand meters into the air, which was actually the limit.

Ordinary architects don't have this ability.

Actually, he secretly took out a core of a floating city from his astral ring and used alchemical items to enhance his fortress; otherwise, it would have been impossible for it to fly so high.

However, the higher you go, the thinner the earth element particles become.

This is already the limit.

Wizard Mike thought to himself, "I can't let him keep flying like this. He has a flying magic plant, and I don't know how many thousands of meters he can climb through the clouds. If he wants to go 20 kilometers into the sky, am I, as a architect, supposed to climb up with him?"

“Create a superstructure canopy to confine the surroundings.” The next moment, two fern spears descended from the sky.

'Boom~'

If Wizard Mike hadn't summoned the six gates of Prism Fortress in time to block his way, he would have been knocked off the stage on the spot.

This is a ring of botanical magic: the Golden Fern Spear.

However, with Locke's repeated enhancements, it has reached a level that this magic originally did not belong to.

The next moment, the two sea gold sands transformed from their fern spear form into their pagoda form, and then released a large amount of golden spore powder.

Golden Sands Torrent!
Strands of sand bypassed the six heavy fortress gates and attacked the wizard Mike who was hiding behind them.

The Wizard Mike's expression changed slightly. Standing on the ground of the fortress, as a builder, he was invincible as long as one stood within his structure.

With a single clap of his hand, a watchtower rose from the ground, resisting Locke's magic.

The architect is definitely the wizard with the strongest defensive capabilities.

The next moment, Locke, who was in the sky, snapped his fingers. The spores of two sea ginseng plants gathered together and turned into a finger, which attacked the wizard Mike.

One-ring botanical magic: Golden Finger!
It is also the most powerful magic of the Scorching Gold Sand Stream.

This kind of powerful move that used to be used can now be used as a minor move with Locke's magic pressure.

The continuous exchange of offense and defense was dazzling, and the True Sight Crystal, floating in mid-air, quickly took pictures of it.

Locke also seized the advantage of the botanical wizard's relatively fast casting speed, constantly using speed to defeat slowness and air combat to fight ground battles.

Wizard Mike quickly bent down again, slapped the ground with his left hand, and instantly hid inside the Kungudin Bastion. With a 'bang', his golden finger collided with the bastion.

Locke frowned as he watched this scene. Constructors usually use earth elemental magic, and if it were ordinary earth elemental magic, it would be so clumsy that it would be of little use.

However, the architect's earth elemental magic can be used to construct a series of defensive fortifications to defend against enemies.

The Wizard in front of us is definitely the best of the best.

The fortress itself possesses formidable defensive capabilities, and every brick within it is imbued with his earth elemental magic; all the structures within it serve as tools for his self-attack.

Moreover, many components have unique spell models.

For example, six city gates that can be stacked together to defend against enemy attacks, or separated to defend against enemy spells, seem to be a single architect spell – the Rock Gate.

The watchtower that blocked its own torrent of golden sand was a guardian watchtower, and its spell model was extremely complex.

And the slow casting speed of the architects seems to have been greatly improved by this Kungudin Bastion.

“Every component here is a magical wonder of earth element designed with blueprints. Most of the fortress’s components exist in his astral ring, waiting to be summoned when used against the enemy, combining with the earth element power he has temporarily gathered to transform into a bastion and descend.”

Locke saw a turret rise from each of the six corners of the bastion. As Wizard Mike chanted incantations, the six turrets gathered earth elemental energy and fired at Locke, creating super-gravity rock cannons with highly concentrated magical energy.

The rock projectiles were continuously directed towards the sky, tearing through the air wherever they passed.

The air currents were intense.

Locke looked at the bastion he had breached, now with a gaping hole in it. "So, to defeat you, I need to completely breach this fortress?"

The voice of Wizard Mike came from within the fortress. "Locke, that's right. If you want to defeat me, you must defeat this one-ring combination magic—the Kungudin Bastion—developed with the utmost effort by the Kungudin Building Materials Academy!"

As he chanted the incantation, magical runes suddenly appeared on the drawbridge of the fortress wall. A construction spell was completed, and a huge drawbridge made of earth elementals flew towards Locke, seemingly with automatic tracking.

No matter how Locke dodged, he couldn't escape the suspension bridge's lock.

The heavy rock cannons followed Locke closely, attacking him relentlessly.

Locke quickly dodged the rock cannons; fortunately, the current altitude was so high that the bastion's attack accuracy was severely reduced.

Locke said, "This bastion must have used Wizard Tower technology, and there is probably an elemental fission pool inside."

"It's troublesome to fight against architects who have laid out their buildings. However, wizard towers are very complex, so this bastion does not have the effect of amplifying the magical attack power of wizard towers."

Locke saw that, without his knowledge, the wizard Mike had summoned brick after brick in the sky, forming a rectangular canopy, seemingly to limit his ascent altitude.

Locke smiled coldly, and the two dark green pagodas behind him instantly turned golden green. Then, a series of golden fingers appeared on Locke at the same time.

Now that things have come to this point, the final ultimate move of the original Scorching Sand Flow can be unleashed repeatedly in Locke's hands!

A series of golden rays shot towards the fortress.

Six city gates descended, stacking up once more to block Locke's advance. However, under the attack of the ten golden fingers, the six city gates were forced back step by step, and gaps appeared.

Finally, as the last city gate opened up, two golden fingers fell towards the bastion like shooting stars.

At this moment, the first-ring wizards watching the competition were shocked by what they saw.

The battle between the two was different from the battle between Locke and the Preston Witch. When the Preston Witch transformed into a white dragon, her power level increased, her body was protected by immortal dragon scales, and her bloodline magic body further enhanced her body's defensive capabilities. Therefore, Locke dared not use conventional magic.

This time, however, he clashed with Wizard Mike using a large amount of conventional magic.

It's hard to say which of the two combat methods is better or worse; it's simply a matter of which is more suitable or less suitable.

But if they fought like that, the scale of the battle would definitely be much larger.

Moreover, many second-circle wizard viewers have commented that, without the presence of extremely powerful magic, the two have already achieved quite a feat in the realm of conventional magic.

Many ordinary second-circle wizards, if they lower their magic power and only use regular magic instead of powerful spells, are not much stronger than the two of them, and their advantage is limited.

Of course, the most important thing is the second-circle wizard's stats and maximum magic power.

The two are certainly far from being as good as each other right now.

At this moment, in the sky, Locke used a large number of gold sand cannons to bombard the super gravity rock cannons fired from the hexagonal bastion.

The next moment, Locke crashed into himself on the suspension bridge, having summoned a Golden Eye Grass first, causing the grass and the suspension bridge to collide.

It made a loud noise.

The eye grass has been damaged.

Locke took the opportunity to throw thirty diamond succulents toward the fortress, and at the same time used a normal full moon growth and a branching technique. At that moment, the ten diamond succulents were connected by their energy, and under the stimulation of full moon growth, they instantly sublimated to the limit and bloomed in a moment of beauty.

Then, a huge burst of light appeared.

A mushroom cloud appeared.

The watchtower that blocked the light burst was blown to pieces.

The entire bastion trembled.

Under Locke's combined attack of Diamond Succulent, Linked Branches, and Full Moon Growth, an unparalleled mushroom cloud of light burst forth.

Many wizards watching the battle were horrified by what they saw.

I wondered if they could survive if they were at the epicenter of the light burst.
Meanwhile, Wizard Antoine stood below Arena 1, and surprisingly, instead of immediately returning to the lounge to rest, he unusually came to watch Locke's match.

He looked up at the scene, lost in thought.

Meanwhile, the witch Julian crossed her arms and looked at the projection above the Cloud Arena, where she could see the details of the battle.

'I've never seen that kind of succulent before. Did Augustine develop it himself?'

'However, the powerful one isn't that kind of succulent. It's the one with the full moon growth pattern; if I'm not mistaken, it seems to have become even stronger.'

'And Locke's exquisite manipulation ability—able to control thirty interconnected objects at once. Is this level of manipulation truly something a wizard can achieve?'

The two second-circle wizards of the Tower of Transformation have witnessed how Locke has progressed and continuously improved himself.

A second-ring wizard whispered, "In an instant, he used the 'Linked Branches' technique to connect thirty magical plants with magic pressure at the first-ring vaporization stage."

"If you make even the slightest mistake, the entire magic will become a joke. I've assessed myself, and it seems I can't even achieve that level of control."

This is a capability unrelated to the panel.

It is a world within a small space.

He had no idea how Locke possessed such powerful manipulation abilities; it must have required an extremely high level of mental sensitivity!
Another second-ring wizard said, "That light burst was indeed very large. But that Kungudin bastion... wasn't destroyed. It's unbelievable how advanced the magic of the architects from the Nine Plains Mountain Academy is."

At that moment, in the sky, Wizard Mike was hiding in the core control room of the Bastion. He coughed, feeling a bit out of breath due to the magical conflict.

"He almost blew up my bastion. But he probably doesn't have any of those magical plants on him that can unleash a similar attack on this scale again."

"We made it through."

"According to our architects' philosophy, whoever can withstand the peak of the enemy's attack is the winner."

"Only the one with the highest rigidity can win!" Wizard Mike's confidence soared, and the next moment, a Tyrant Fern Spear wrapped in emerald green natural force field descended from the sky.

'Boom~'

Where the Fern Spear landed, a large number of buildings collapsed around that point.

A terrifying force swept far and wide.

Locke twirled the clover ring on his right ring finger. This ring could store one spell of his own power, and he had stored his Myster power.

This allows him to unleash the Overlord Fern Spear once during battle!
"Finally, I felt a little bit satisfied with the fight."

Locke used the Dragon-Holding Peach Wand to enhance the Overlord Fern Spear. The tip of the Overlord Fern Spear carried the power of Mist, transforming into a force capable of shattering everything. As it descended, everything in its path collapsed.

Large sections of the city walls began to collapse.

Shockwaves surged into the distance.

The entire Kungudin Bastion is collapsing.

One building after another is falling downwards.

Inside the core of the fortress, Wizard Mike was stunned. "Could it be that he's going to breach my structure head-on?"

"Compare my hardness head-on!"

(End of this chapter)