Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 615 Wizard Factory
As the Overlord Fern Spear descended towards the deepest part of Kungudin Bastion, Wizard Mike could only continuously adjust the spell model of the [Wall Building] spell to modify the internal structure of the bastion and reconstruct the walls created by various architect spells in order to stop the Overlord Fern Spear from continuing to fall towards the core of Kungudin Bastion.

"What kind of spell is this? I've never seen him use it during the competition before!" Wizard Mike thought he had withstood Locke's most powerful spell attack, and just as he relaxed, Locke delivered such a powerful spell.

The speed was so fast that it caught him off guard.

The architect's strength lies in the meticulous design of buildings, the strategic value and team contribution of cooperating with teammates on the battlefield, and the functional role. However, even the wizard Mike was caught off guard in dealing with this unexpected situation.

Fortunately, the Kungudin Bastion spell is very powerful.

In participating in this kind of competition, the Wizard actually took a shortcut; his Permanent Defense Field could only protect himself and did not provide much benefit to the Bastion.

As a architect, most of his combat power lies in this building. Therefore, in this kind of competition, as long as he overcomes the weaknesses of architects such as slow spellcasting speed, poor individual combat power, and insufficient burst power, everything else is an advantage.

Wizard Mike could only hurriedly chant a spell, using the last defensive magical fortification of the fortress he had designed long ago: the Rotating Maze.

Immediately, the core control room where he was located began to move underground in the fortress, while several decoy target rooms in the maze were moved to higher up in an attempt to deceive Locke and also to provide some defensive capabilities.

The walls of each of these rooms are earth elemental walls created using the first-circle architect's spell model, "Rock Wall." Even if placed within the earth elemental plane, they will not be crushed by the plane's supergravity; they are earth elemental walls formed from highly condensed magic.

It possesses exceptional hardness.

'Bang! ~'

The first room was shattered by the Overlord Fern Spear, then the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth...

In the last decoy target room, which was just above his head, separated only by a wall and a hollow space, the Overlord Fern Spear stopped.

Right above his head...

Wizard Mike breathed a sigh of relief, because with the [Rotating Maze] in place, Locke might not be able to pinpoint the location.

Once Locke enters the underground fortifications of the bastion, he will be trapped in a rotating maze. He can also use earth magic spells such as earthquakes, which are powerful enough to cause him great harm.

Once Locke enters, his least favorite area, aerial combat, transforms into his most proficient underground fighting.

Just as Mike breathed a sigh of relief, Locke decisively summoned the Peach Arch Thorn Arrow and fired an arrow at the large crater created by the Overlord Fern Spear.

A great sun arrow fell.

In a mere instant, as if the sun were setting, it dealt the final blow to the Kungudin Bastion.

On the judges' panel, the third-ring wizard from Kungudin College sighed slightly. Just now, he had hoped that Locke would enter the architect's fortress, and then Mike would win.

Mike the Wizard can directly secure his third-place ranking.

Unfortunately, Locke made a fatal mistake and instead of foolishly going down, he used the Peach Blossom Thorn Arrow to fire the final, decisive arrow into the sky.

The wizards of Mount Roosevelt and others nodded.

The witch Catherine watched the arrow with satisfaction, not because of victory or defeat—that was irrelevant—but because Locke's Peach Arch Thorn Arrow magic had reached a very high level of perfection.

It's clear he's studying very hard.

Moreover, he has a good talent in this area.

If she follows her plan, Locke can use the Peach Arch Thorn Arrow as the core, combined with some ecological magic systems, to complete a similar massive magic—Beast Tide Ecology.

Her beast tide ecosystem itself developed around the core of the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow magic.

However, the witch Catherine was unsure whether Locke would follow this path, although their choices had been remarkably similar along the way.

As the Great Sun Arrow fell, the entire bastion completely collapsed, splitting into three pieces, and then fell from a height of five thousand meters.

Although Wizard Mike managed to recover from the barrage of arrows thanks to his magical robes, he discovered that his magic had gone out of control, causing the entire defensive structure to completely collapse.

At that moment, the first-ring wizards standing in the Cloud Arena looked up at the city that had fallen from the sky and shattered into three pieces, and the expressions on their faces were all filled with horror.

Many inexperienced first-level wizards, upon witnessing this scene, thought they would be hit by a building falling from the sky.

However, this did not happen. When the building was within a kilometer of the Cloud Arena, the entire building disappeared, and Locke and Wizard Mike were teleported to the vicinity of Arena 1.

Locke stood on ring number 1, while the Wizard Mike sat down beside ring number 1, still shaken.

Wizard Mike wiped the sweat from his brow, exhaled a breath of stale air, then sat down on the ground and said to Locke on the arena, "I lost. You are the first wizard to make me lose in this competition so far."

"It seems that Jinmian Mountain is indeed not as simple as it seems. Our Kungudin Academy has just moved here from Jiuyuan Mountain and definitely needs more time to mature and accumulate experience. It would be very difficult to challenge Jinmian Mountain now."

Wizard Mike stood up, drank a potion, and his weakened magical pressure began to recover. He gave Locke a thumbs-up. "Locke, I admit your toughness is indeed superior to mine!"

"you win."

Locke exhaled a breath of stale air.

This time, he did his best, except for not using the Porcelain Moon.

Locke said, "Wizard Mike, your bastion defenses are indeed difficult to break through."

Wizard Mike waved to Locke, then turned and left.

Locke jumped off the ring, at which point the wizard Antoine snorted, "Looks like I've indeed saved a lot of time."

He turned and left.

Julian the Witch also looked at Locke warily. She had only lost to Antoine once, and tomorrow would be her last battle with Antoine, her only chance to win the championship.

Camilla, the witch of the Demon City, looked at Locke with some lingering fear. She had been resentful that Locke had defeated her with just the Full Moon Growth technique.

Now it seems that if Locke hadn't used the full moon to grow, she might have... lost even more miserably, and even more tragically.

Over the next afternoon, Locke quickly finished the remaining two matches. Neither opponent was strong, so he only needed to use Peach Blossom Thorn Arrow to completely solve the problem.

In this final match, Locke decisively defeated a male wizard from the small-to-medium-sized organization, the White Elephant Clan, with just two Peach Arrow Thorns.

The short-looking wizard stood beside the arena, watching Locke, who was once again shining brightly as he endorsed his product, and asked in a low voice before Locke was about to leave: "Locke Augustine, have you been to those wizard factories of the Cloud Marsh Wetland Shop Alliance?"

Locke turned to look at him curiously. "No."

I am indeed very busy, especially since the competition for various levels of grant applications from the Zhenzhi Institute is extremely fierce.

If I'm not careful, I'll be pushed out of the picture. I haven't gone to bed at the standard time recommended in the book for a long time.

The short wizard whispered, "No, of course you didn't. How could someone as privileged as you possibly go and take a look at a wizard's factory?"

"You have no idea what the suffering of a wizard who lacks talent is like."

You don't know the pain of losers.

"You people of noble birth have never known our suffering!"

“Those apprentices who are not capable of becoming formal wizards, and those ordinary formal wizards who are not capable, who do not want to give up magic and do not want to return to the mortal world, can only go to magic factories, where they suffer systematic exploitation and even have their lifespans reduced.”

"And you are all beneficiaries!"

"The beneficiaries of this sinful system!"

Locke looked at him questioningly. "Isn't the Ethics and Morality Review Committee strictly prohibiting this kind of thing?"

The short wizard sneered. "If it can't be done openly, how many are done in secret?"

"The White Wizard's greed is endless. Because you are all chasing money. But we are different."

Locke gave him a strange look, then turned and left.

At that moment, Locke noticed that there were witchers lurking nearby, secretly watching the wizard.

(End of this chapter)