Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 652 Obtaining the Recipe for the Zero Potion!

King Otto straightened his clothes. "At least I have solved the problem of the undead ruling. The undead, who had accumulated over thousands of years in the Age of Stars, were wiped out in one fell swoop. I completely disrupted the original plans of those undead liches. They once fantasized about turning the entire wizarding civilization into the dead, stopping time completely, in order to maintain their rule."

"You can erase this history, but you can't erase the changes I've made to the world."

"I have solved one of the four major problems for this world, and that is enough."

King Otto said, "I have made the same mistake as them, even though I am facing death."

King Otto snapped his fingers, and in the Golden Palace, in front of a magic mirror, King Otto's physical body vanished into nothingness, revealing only a skeleton.

He actually used necromancy to allow himself to survive.

Princess Loom covered her mouth in surprise and exclaimed, "Otto, you..."

King Otto lowered his head. "Faced with the pressure of death, I have finally made a compromise. Of course, there is another reason: I need to confirm one thing."

He looked up at Locke.

Of course, Locke knew that he was only looking at the wizard of the Black Sun Tower who had once stood before him in history.

King Otto said earnestly, "I also want to confirm one thing: whether the immortality created by necromancy is truly immortality. And the moment I transformed myself into a lich, I immediately understood the real reason why the Tower of the Black Sun forbade the immortality created by necromancy."

“Death always takes something away. This is a fundamental principle of necromancy. So the moment I transformed myself into a lich…” King Otto’s soul fire flickered in his eye sockets. “I discovered that I had lost my empathy for humans. This is irrational. This proves something, although the proof is not rigorous, but from a practical point of view, I think it is sufficient.”

"Liches have never truly escaped death. Death still takes away some quality from them, extracts something from their souls. This causes them to remain in a certain moment, and they also become accomplices of death. Every lich, in essence, is nothing more than a puppet of death."

"The liches escaped death? Heh heh heh... The liches are just being controlled by death in another form."

"The immortality created by necromancy is flawed. You should have known this long ago."

Locke heard himself speaking. "Yes. What the Tower of the Black Sun truly rejected was not an immortal ruler, but a lich created from an unsuccessful necromancy."

King Odor walked back up the steps to his throne. "In that case, you need not kill me. Give me the dignity of a king. A king's death should not be by the hand of another."

He sat on the throne, wearing a crown, the flickering flames of his soul gradually dying out in his eye sockets.

"Death wants to make me its puppet... That's impossible."

"I have spent at least half of my life as someone else's puppet, so I never want to be someone else's puppet again. Such so-called immortal life is worse than death."

King Otto is dead.

The princess knelt before the throne and began to weep.

At the same time, the image shattered like a mirror.

In the dark space, the young wizard stood before Locke. He frowned. "You failed. The final secret, the one the princess wanted to tell future generations on behalf of the Nameless King, was the recipe for the Zero Potion, which the Nameless King completed just before his death. But just now, until the projection of the past ended, you still hadn't obtained the recipe for the Zero Potion."

Locke frowned, noticing that he hadn't left the space created by this special historical landmark spell. "Then, Grandmaster, do you have any other methods?"

If I could, I wouldn't want to stop here, at the very end I was about to reach.

He was just one step away from getting what the princess wanted to tell him.

The young wizard seemed to be deep in thought. "I ask you, in your time, was my archaeology a prominent field of study?"

Locke thought for a moment, “It is a first-level discipline. It is indeed a prominent field of study, and the most important magical force for dark wizards.”

The young wizard said, "Dark wizard? Never mind, let's not talk about that. If that's the case, then the first condition for lifting the curse of the Black Sun Tower has already been met."

"My archaeology, at the high-level stages, can reconstruct the past and rewind time. So, have any wizards ascended to magic and created tens of millions of magical kingdoms? Has the wizarding world conducted extensive explorations of the Great Void?"

Locke recalled the Demon Ascension Plan in the Starfield Sea and the Great Void Exploration Era, and said, "That is indeed the case."

The young wizard smirked. "No wonder the Extinction Curse reacted so weakly this time. Just four first-stage archaeology wizards managed to break part of the Extinction Curse."

"So, the three conditions that maintained the curse of exoneration no longer exist. Seventy thousand years later, the world has changed, and things that were once impossible have now been accomplished."

“It is truly your good fortune that you can live in the future,” the young wizard said. “There is one last way. I can use all the spirituality of this memory clone as a price to exchange for another chance. But there will only be one chance. You can ask King Otto about the specific recipe for the Zero Potion in the projection of the past.”

"This is the princess's last wish. It will also benefit you greatly. The Zero Potion recipe is the final achievement of King Otto as a potion master."

"Although it disappeared from history due to the curse of exoneration and has never appeared in the history of wizarding civilization, that does not mean it is... worthless. If you can obtain it, you can obtain the legacy of King Otto in potions. Before he died, he was a third-circle wizard, and a third-circle wizard who was close to a fourth-circle wizard."

Locke nodded and said, "If possible, as a potion master, I would certainly be interested in obtaining King Otto's legacy. That blank spirituality is indeed very interesting."

"But how do I get the recipe?"

The young wizard smiled and said, "You really like to play dumb. I won't answer your question. Locke Augustine... you're an archaeology wizard, a potion master, and a botanist wizard. You understand this better than I do. I'm just an archaeology wizard. I know nothing about potions."

"It would be pointless for me to answer."

"That will only mislead you."

The young wizard's figure gradually shattered. "Locke, this time you really have to rely on yourself. My spirituality is about to disappear."

"Locke, seize this last chance. This is your last chance to obtain the formula for the Zero Potion. Once you miss it... the Zero Potion will truly and completely disappear from history. This is the tragedy of civilization, and also your tragedy."

The next moment, the young wizard's figure shattered completely. "I entrust all of this to you."

……

At the Golden Crown Mountain, in the True Knowledge Institute, the witch Catherine looked impatiently at the crowd in the Storm Tower before her, a hint of disdain in her eyes.

Wizard Smith politely addressed Witch Catherine, saying, “Your Majesty, this is the wizard from the Thunder Demon Society, and also a victim of this incident. We have come here to demand an explanation from Golden Crown Mountain.”

Catherine the Witch raised an eyebrow. "A saying? What saying?"

Wizard Smith's face stiffened. "Your Majesty the Throne..."

Catherine the Witch ignored him and looked at a third-circle wizard from the Smith family, saying, "If you really wanted an 'explanation,' you shouldn't have come to Mount Golden Crown empty-handed."

"What you want is not justice, but an excuse."

"Tell me what you really want. If you can, let's make a normal deal; if not, then leave on your own. That way, we won't damage the harmony between our two academies." The third-ring wizard from the Smith family immediately bowed to the witch Catherine. "Your Majesty, you are very straightforward."

"We were naive and thought the world was black and white, please forgive us. Actually, we just wanted..."

The Third Ring Wizard coughed and ordered Wizard Smith to take the Thunder Demon Wizard out first.

Wizard Smith immediately showed a reluctant expression, but he could only lead the wizard from the Thunder Demon Society out.

……

Within the Abyss Ruins, the Historical Boundary Marker Curse Space.

Locke found himself back in the Golden Hall, while King Otto rose from his throne and resumed the previous round of conversation.

'Has time been reset within the historical reenactment?' Locke suddenly realized what the final chance meant when the founder sacrificed his spiritual essence.

Locke asked directly, "King Otto, I would like to ask about the recipe for the Zero Potion."

King Otto seemed not to hear these words, and continued speaking to himself, "I know what the Tower of the Black Sun fears... You planted those flowers of destruction on my land..."

Locke frowned. 'This is bad. If this continues, it will only repeat the same outcome. King Otto will choose to end his own life.'

'Even the final chance to start over, earned by our ancestor, will be wasted.'

Locke frowned and said to King Otto, "King Otto, I am not Ezra Clarkson."

King Otto pointed to the bronze cauldron before him, opened it, and said, "I have a new idea... this blank spirituality..."

Locke frowned. "Completely impossible to talk to? No matter how I try to talk to him, he's just talking to the historical Ezra Clarkson."

"But the fact that the patriarch dared to send me back means that this situation is not a dead end. I possess something that can still change the course of history!"

"What is it?! We're running out of time!"

Locke, seeing that King Otto was still speaking, used the botanical magic [Sympathetic Connection] to try to link his spirituality with the other's.

But the spell failed.

The two sides appear to be standing together, but there seems to be an infinite distance between them, making it impossible for them to truly be of one mind and share the same breath.

Locke frowned. "Wait, let's look at it from another angle. I was chosen by the Historian Curse to be Ezra Clarkson's replacement in this history because my power composition is similar to his. So, where do I differ from Ezra Clarkson?"

"What do I have that he doesn't..."

Locke took out the iron ball he had obtained from the Astral Ring.

King Otto paused abruptly, looking at the iron ball in his hand.

"A royal artifact. This is a royal artifact that I created."

"Since you are a wizard of the Tower of the Black Sun, how could you possibly possess a royal weapon that I created?"

“You…” King Otto said, “You are not the wizard of the Tower of the Black Sun. Are you?”

"There seems to be a vast distance between me and the real you. It would take immense strength to break through it."

Locke frowned. "So that's how it is."

Locke exhaled a breath of stale air. "I wonder if my magical power is sufficient."

He summoned the Golden Palace Remnant Branch and used the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow. At the same time, a full moon rose behind him, amplifying the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow in his hand.

He shot the arrow, and instantly the little golden date fell towards King Otto.

'Boom~'

Locke realized that the magical power of this arrow was still insufficient!
The two remained a great distance apart, and his magical power was unable to bridge that distance.

King Otto looked at Locke with a puzzled expression and took two steps back.

Locke raised the Peach Arch Thorn Arrow and summoned two Abyss Devourer Sea Gold Sands. The two Sea Gold Sands were combined with the power of Mist and turned into a Fern Spear.

Overlord Fern Spear!

The fern spear landed on the peach bow, transforming into an arrow that absorbed moonlight. This was Locke's most powerful attack spell at this moment, without using ritual magic.

Locke released the bowstring, and the next moment, the Overlord Fern Spear arrow shot towards King Otto!

But the next moment, the arrow also disappeared into the distance, vanished without a trace.

Locke frowned. In that case, he only had one last option left—to use ritual magic.

Borrowing the power of the Jade Dream!

Suddenly, Otto stretched out his hand and grabbed something. "I've got it!"

The Overlord Fern Spear appeared in his hand. "Hmm? Unfamiliar magical pressure?"

"It seems there is a long period of time separating us. In that case, I will lend you my kingdom."

"Although this kingdom's territory is currently damaged and has degenerated to the second-ring level, it should be able to enhance your power to some extent, and perhaps allow us to truly meet."

Locke was stunned when he suddenly realized that the kingdom within the Golden Palace, which had previously resisted him, had once again accepted him.

Locke seized the opportunity to use the Porcelain Moon, and a full moon rose in the golden palace, while Locke, as the holder of the Demon Dragon bloodline, transformed into the Dark Sun.

Inside the golden palace, the sun and moon revolve in perfect harmony.

Locke's magic pressure broke through from 9999 to 10000 once again!

This time, Locke did not place the Golden Palace Branch on the Porcelain Moon, but instead chose a Kingfisher Sands plant. The Kingfisher Sands plant took root on the Porcelain Moon and transformed into a Moon Fern.

Meanwhile, Locke tried using [Golden Finger] on the Porcelain Moon!
Instantly, the spell model enveloped it, and at the same time, a large amount of golden spore powder appeared, and a celestial-level Golden Finger appeared!
(End of this chapter)