Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 661 The War of Plunder! The Black Hole of the Demon Realm! The Storm of the Demon Realm!

After Locke made contact with Scarlett the Witch, he returned to the Ash Cult on Reef No. 13 in the Qionghua Enclave. He then contacted Warwick the Wizard, McKinley the Wizard, and Shirley the Witch, and together they submitted an article to the Starfield Sea journal, "The First Ring History".

The four of them emerged from the White Wizard Association on the main island of the Qionghua Enclave and immediately sighed. Submitting a manuscript to the Starfield Sea had cost them 8 magic stones.

Wizard McKinley was indignant. By this time, his right hand had been replaced with an alchemical prosthetic arm, so it wasn't that he couldn't grow another arm.

Although as an archaeological wizard, he was certainly not skilled in life magic, Locke could still regenerate an arm in a short time from this level of injury.

However, it seemed that Wizard McKinley wanted to try out the magic alloy arm, so he directly purchased a magical prosthetic arm.

Wizard McKinley said, "The Starry Sea is going too far! Just for submitting a manuscript, they charge 80,000 magic stones! This is outrageous! We rob colonies, they rob us, and in the end, all the wealth of our Qionghua Enclave will flow to the Starry Sea!"

The witch Shirley couldn't help but retort, "Most of the magic stones are flowing into the Starfield Sea; the Starfield Sea doesn't need to use such methods to harvest you."

"It's because the magical tides in the Starfield Sea have become too intense recently, making the transmission of matter and information increasingly difficult."

Wizard Warwick said, "That's true. Previously, the fee for submitting a manuscript was only 30,000 magic stones, but recently it has risen to 80,000 magic stones. This is due to the unusual and continuous price increases recently."

Locke suddenly recalled an article he had read in a free general education journal, which stated that in order to maintain a constant magical tide concentration gradient between high-magic and low-magic regions, the two regions would naturally generate a barrier force.

That is, a high-magic region will involuntarily rise into the sky and transform into a special region of the world.

Essentially, the floating islands of Qionghua Enclave operate on a similar principle.

Regions with higher magical tidal concentration gradients will rise in altitude within the world, while regions with lower magical tidal concentration gradients will fall in altitude.

Of course, there are a series of complex conditions involved.

In short, if the Starfield Sea is indeed to become a high-magic region, it will make communication between the Starfield Sea and the other fifty-two wizarding lands in the Eastern Boundary increasingly difficult.

In the end, it is very likely that the flow of time and the rules of the world will be different.

Because the difference in magical tidal density between the Starfield Sea and other wizarding lands in the Eastern Boundary is too great, an invisible force that refuses to contact the regions is generated.

"So this is the growing pain of reform," said the witch Shirley.

"The Star Domain Sea is currently implementing the Demon Ascension Plan, which will change many things in the Eastern Boundary, and some things will even become subject to frequent changes."

Locke said, "No wonder Starfield Sea is pushing fifty-three wizards to collectively ascend to magic. Otherwise, Starfield Sea would probably be all alone."

Wizard McKinley shrugged. "The growing pains are only for this era, but for us individual wizards, this isn't growing pains, this is being ripped off. Eighty thousand magic stones, split among the four of us, that's twenty thousand magic stones each! My salary at the Ash Cult is only sixty thousand a month!"

"That's a third of my salary this month!"

Warwick the Wizard coughed, reminding him not to reveal too many of the school's secrets.

The witch Shirley glanced at them and said, "This income is already considered quite good in the Qionghua Enclave."

Locke nodded as well.

Although in Yunze Wetland, the average monthly income of a wizard or potion master at the first crystallization stage is around 100,000.

However, this should be taken into account that this is the enclave of the Qionghua, and that the wizard McKinley is an archaeology wizard.

Although the Ash Cult only paid him a monthly salary of 60,000, he received other benefits, such as a quota for entering the Wizarding Realm and other projects within the academy.

Locke estimated that the wizard McKinley's monthly income was around 100,000.

However, if the other party occasionally discovers something very useful during archaeological digs, and then sells these items or technologies, they may earn more money in a short period of time.

A wizard at the first crystallization stage can make quite a bit of money if they delve deeply into a field long enough.

Warwick and McKinley escorted the two to the wizard's airship docking point. Warwick said to Locke, "Locke, Shirley, we have now compiled our archaeological findings and submitted them to The First Ring History and the Estoria Archaeological Prize."

"The reply address is listed as Qionghua Enclave Ashes Sect, so I will notify you immediately when I receive a reply."

"Thank you both for exploring that abyssal ruin with me this time."

"Aren't we really going to celebrate?" Warwick asked, rather regretfully. "I've prepared quite a bit of good wizarding liquor. The kind that can get all of us drunk."

The value of wizard's wine lies in its ability to get a wizard drunk.

This feature alone is enough to motivate many wizards to buy it at a high price.

After all, a wizard rarely loses his mind and speaks nonsense. But if you have a cup of wizard's wine in your hand, you have a reason to talk nonsense or say things you wouldn't normally dare to say.

Afterwards, simply say that you were drunk and that's why you talked nonsense.

Whether you are truly drunk or faking it

Just for this practical function, the Rainswamp, the main production area of ​​Wizard's Wine, has made a fortune and developed it into a trillion-dollar magic stone market.

However, Locke had no intention of selling wizard's wine. There were indeed many breeders who sold and improved wizard's wine.

The brewers who make wizard's wine are themselves a variant of breeders.

The problem is, according to Locke's understanding, this is an industry even more perverse and class-stratified than wizard shoes. Basically, if you're not a wizard from a certain academy in the Rainswamp, you can forget about making money from the wizard brewing industry.

You can sell on a small scale, but once you gain fame, that's when suppression and sabotage begin.

The power behind it was so great and deeply rooted, and it was a wizarding-level force, so Locke never thought of going to mess with it.

At least in the early stages of the first and second rings, Locke would not consider starting a wizard's wine business if his magic level was not high enough.

The waters behind this are much deeper and far more complex than the wizard shoe market.

Locke said to Warwick, "Mr. Warwick, I appreciate your kindness. However, my senior sister and I are busy returning to Golden Crown Mountain in Yunze Wetland to conduct experiments. And your jar of wizard's wine may very well make my senior sister and me drunk for seven days."

"So, we appreciate it."

Wizard Warwick chuckled, “It certainly takes a long time. In that case, let’s say goodbye here. We’ll have the chance to work together again in the future.”

Locke said, "Okay, this collaboration has been very pleasant."

After saying goodbye to them, Locke boarded the wizard airship with the witch Shirley.

Once the massive, bulky airship rose into the air, it ascended into the sky. Locke looked down at the Qionghua Enclave and saw that the floating islands of the Qionghua Enclave were constantly drawing magical tides from the earth.

The wizard airship quickly climbed 50km and entered the second sky, then passed through the net passage and entered a waterway within the second sky.

An airship is like a boat sailing on a river.

Meanwhile, the witch Shirley sat in the free library, opened a magazine, and idly flipped through it.

Locke, equally bored, searched for ecology-related journals or literature in the free reading area.

He sat in a corner of the library, looking out through the Time Crystal window, and thought, "I can make the Sea Gold Sand also have Pixiu horn spirals to enhance its power."

"At the same time, whether it is the Overlord's Mark, the Pixiu Horn Spiral, or even the Abyss Devourer, I can actually spread them through the Moon's gravity."

"While the Mirror Moon is already sufficient as the essence of my ultimate magic, I believe that my lunar magic can still become a better ecological cycle, achieving higher quality and a more wondrous essence."

An idea popped into Locke's mind. "The Moon Mirror can reflect my magic, so most of my magic can be applied to those magical plants that are exposed to moonlight through the medium of the moon's gravity."

"By making good use of this mechanism, we may be able to create a better ecosystem."

"Of course, this also hides a great crisis." Locke read the ecological data in his hand and conceived his own great magic in his mind. "Such large-scale interference with the ecology of a certain place will inevitably cause a large-scale ecological collapse. I'd better find a plane to conduct relevant ecological experiments."

“Perfect timing. I have a month on the wizard airship, which gives me time to come up with some grand magical ideas.”

"And it would be best to add some energy-locking structures inside my ultimate magic." Locke left the free reading room and returned to his room in the wizard airship. Both return tickets were bought by the wizard Warwick for himself and the witch Shirley.

He wanted to thank himself for helping him decipher the abyss ruins.

He returned to his room and went to the makeshift laboratory that had been set up inside. He took out ten flowerpots and prepared to conduct an air plant experiment.

"The deadline for submitting the design drafts for the wizard shoes is in a month, so I have to hurry up and make my fourth pair of wizard shoes on the airship to participate in the procurement for the Golden Crown Mountain Demon War. The details of the Snow-capped Pineapple are not perfect yet, and I still need to make some modifications."

“The previous pair of Snow Pineapple Shoes was just the first version. It needs to be optimized within that framework.” Locke recalled the dark wizards from the Twin Demon Realms he had encountered before. “It needs to be specially designed for the Demon Realm War. It would be great if I could have some dark wizards to experiment with; that would make things simpler and easier to verify the performance of the wizard shoes.”

"Anyway, as long as the design draft and sample are produced within a month, as long as we can pass the Golden Crown Mountain Wizard Shoes Procurement, we can then use the various production bases in Arthas's colony world for mass production."

As long as there are orders, I don't need to worry about how to process them.

It is unlikely that there would be a situation where there are orders and channels, but no processing is possible, especially in a well-developed industrial and commercial society like Misawa.

Locke looked at the large black diamond pineapple and the large snow-capped pineapple in front of him, and with a wave of his hand, the historical projection of the ancient flower appeared next to the two pineapples.

Twenty-eight days later, the communication arrays throughout the wizard's airship emitted a notification sound: 'Dear wizard passengers, greetings.'

'Due to the recent increase in the concentration of magical tides and the improvement of waterways in various wizarding lands, the travel time to and from these locations is constantly decreasing. What used to take a month to complete the journey now only takes 28 days, and we're already nearing the Cloud Marsh Wetlands.'

Passengers, please prepare for arrival at your destination in about half a day.

'The Cloud Patrol Ship Vocational Academy and all its staff extend their respects to all the wizard passengers.'

Locke stood in the makeshift laboratory in his room, slightly astonished. "Twenty-eight days already?"

"The travel time to and from the wizarding lands in the Eastern Boundary is constantly decreasing. Of course, the cost of travel is still very high." Due to the special network of paths and cloud lakes in the Three Swamps, it only takes one month to travel to and from all the wizarding lands in the Eastern Boundary.

However, if one doesn't take the special network route and instead moves from one wizarding land to another, it would take at least half a year to travel from Qionghua Enclave to Yunze Wetland.

A round trip takes a whole year.

In fact, this timescale is the normal time for traveling from one wizarding land to another.

Therefore, the Three Swamps became a logistics and freight center and a trading place for various magical resources.

Locke, however, focused his attention on the fifty pineapple plants in front of him.

During these 28 days, I continuously used the finite element method to cultivate subspecies of the large snow-capped pineapple, and used synthetic magic to explore a subspecies of the large snow-capped pineapple that better mimics the special spiral angle.

This led to the cultivation of fifty subspecies of large snow-capped pineapple.

At this moment, Locke raised his right hand and, according to his design, used his magical magnetic field to accurately cut out the plant factors he needed from fifty different types of air pineapple subspecies.

Locke then combined these plant factors into a set of plant essences and injected them into the seed of a large snow-capped pineapple.

Then, with the help of Locke's last piece of mossy pith and the rapid growth spell model, this large snow-capped pineapple grew.

This large snow-capped pineapple naturally has a wizard's shoe-shaped shape, and its leaves do not show any spiral angles.

During these 28 days, I mainly made some minor functional adjustments to the Big Snow Pinscher to better adapt to the scale and intensity of the Demon Realm War.

I had previously seen information about the Demon World War.

Besides that, I mainly added two major functions to this pineapple.

The primary function is theft prevention.

The second major function is to conceal the existence of the spiral horn pattern of the Pixiu, preventing it from being discovered by other wizards.

When fighting the dark wizards of the Twin Demon Realms, the first thing to worry about is having your belongings stolen.

Locke had seen those wizard shoe manufacturers and devised many ways to prevent this.

For example, if the wizard's shoes are stolen, they will automatically fly back.

Alternatively, the wizard shoes may need to be bound to a specific magical fluctuation, otherwise they cannot be used.

Alternatively, use enchantments to make theft more difficult.

The core of the thief magic in the Twin Realms lies in the Twin Siphon Organs, but each dark wizard's Twin Siphon Organs have a limit.

Just like a shark's throat is no bigger than a whale's throat, many wizard shoes are enchanted to instantly increase the coverage area of ​​magical pressure for a short period of time, in order to prevent a dark wizard's twin siphon organs from swallowing it, thus creating a stealing effect.

The twin siphon organs are like a person's throat and tongue.

Locke came up with a better solution to this problem—the Pixiu spiral angle constraint equation set, which exists on the Great Snow Peak Air Plant. It creates a situation where, under a specific upper limit of magic pressure, the magic pressure coverage area (total magic pressure) of this magical plant is inexplicably larger than that of other magical plants.

Locke, on the other hand, increased the total magical pressure of this air plant by continuously cultivating a subspecies with a larger magical pressure coverage area, which means a larger total magical pressure.

In this way, as a first-ring magical plant, the Wizard's Shoes has an extraordinary total magical pressure, making it impossible for it to be stolen by the twin siphon organs of the twin demonic black wizards at the first-ring stage.

It's like a small fish that can't eat a baseball.

Locke released his magical pressure onto the large snow-capped pineapple in front of him, and the magical plant spontaneously released its own magical pressure to counteract his own.

Without any tools, just a simple test, Locke discovered that the total magic pressure of this thing was unusually unreasonable among first-level magic plants.

Of course, this creates an even larger magical tidal vortex.

“That way, my wizard shoes won’t be stolen by the wizards of the Twin Demon Realms,” Locke thought. “Although I could later find an enchanter to enchant my magical plants with the function of automatically flying back to their owner, I don’t need to design such a function for cost control and functionality considerations.”

According to the data from the Demon Realm War, the total magical pressure of this giant snow-capped pineapple is something that a first-ring dark wizard could not possibly steal.

However, if it is stolen by a second-ring dark wizard, whether or not to perform the enchantment to automatically fly back to the master is irrelevant.

Moreover, this kind of enchanting treatment is quite expensive.

If a pair of wizard shoes were to undergo this kind of enchantment, the cost could be thousands of magic stones.

Because you can't make bad enchantments, you have to make good ones, and good enchantments are still very expensive even in mass production.

As Locke read the materials, he gradually realized that in addition to making wizard shoes, another key point of his job was to control design costs.

The cost is too high; no matter how good the features are, it will never pass the test.

After all, this is equipment for the first stage of the game, not equipment for high-level wizards, so there's no need to consume a lot of resources to pursue maximum performance.

The second major function is to conceal the helix angle. This is also necessary.

This is to keep their technology secret.

Locke looked at the large snow-capped pineapple in front of him. Its spiral angles were no longer visible on the outside. It was covered with three layers of useless decorative leaves, while the real nutrient leaves of the air plant were inside.

The three-layered decorative leaves possess a spell-like ability similar to the enchanting school, which can serve as a concealment function. Locke added the plant essence of the Great Snow Pinscher from other magical plants through grafting cultivation.

Some magical plants naturally possess powerful enchanting-related spell-like abilities that can be used to conceal certain important designs and functions.

Therefore, there is a whole set of methods in breeding science that use special magical plants to conceal important designs.

These three layers of camouflage leaves can block various magical probes, and they also have a mechanism that will cause them to self-destruct if forcibly explored or dismantled.

Locke placed the remaining pot of March Orchids into his Astral Ring, a gift from his senior sister, the witch Shirley.

After all, he hadn't prepared for this special magical plant, which was specifically designed to use the finite element cultivation method to extract plant essence and provide certain magical plants with the function of blocking functions.

“The March Orchid is the most common, effective, and expensive special secret magical plant. Even if a wizard knows of its existence, they generally do not have the ability to purchase it. It is a special functional magical plant that only breeders in a few regions such as Golden Crown Mountain can obtain.” Locke pondered, “The Great Snow-Capped Pineapple, which combines the March Orchid, will not be in danger of its secret being leaked for a considerable period of time.”

This period of safety is approximately ten years.

The triple illusion leaf, created by combining the plant essence of the March orchid, has a very powerful comprehensive blocking ability.

The only way to crack this is through human effort and time, slowly grinding it down.

Most people probably wouldn't think that the uniqueness of his Wizard Shoes' magical plant lies not in the special plant factors, but in the special energy-locking structure of the leaves. Therefore, as long as he combines it with the late-stage processing of the enchanting school, it would be enough to ensure that there would be no imitations of his product for the next fifteen years.

Of course, this cannot be guaranteed over time.

Moreover, if a high-level wizard were specifically targeting it, it would be very troublesome and should shorten the time required to decipher the code.

But that takes time, and it violates ethics and morality, which could easily attract the attention of an ethics committee.

Furthermore, I will write an article and publish it sooner or later regarding the Pixiu angle fractal spiral constraint equation set, so this short period of closure is sufficient.

That's enough to earn money and continue researching ancient flowers until the results are perfected and an article is published.

“Even if I didn’t announce it, a second wizard would have known about this special spiral angle.” Locke thought of the witch Catherine. “It’s just that my teacher probably wouldn’t tell anyone without my knowledge.”

"Once we arrive at Golden Crown Mountain, we should hurry over to Scarlett the Witch's place. Luckily, we returned to Yunze Wetland ahead of time, otherwise I was really afraid that we would be too late and miss the deadline for submitting the design."

'Boom~'

As soon as Locke finished speaking, the entire wizard airship shook.

Warning sounds emanating from the communication array inside the wizard's airship immediately filled the air.

At the same time, Locke saw small, fang-shaped void flying machines outside through the window of the Time Crystal, and he also saw the symbol of the Twin Demon Realms on those flying machines.

These aircraft were not targeting the void warship they were on.

It was actually a building housing a certain wizarding organization.

However, the foundation of the building broke, as if it had been grabbed and thrown into the air, and then targeted by the thieves and robbers of the Twin Demon Realm.

At this moment, the small void flying vehicles of the Twin Demon Realms are besieging the wizard organization's building.

At the same time, Locke heard a huge scraping sound. He looked up and saw a black hole opening in the sky above, from which countless buildings were falling.

It was like rain.

The black wizards' flying vehicles from the Twin Demon Realms, like sharks smelling blood, immediately swarmed forward.

The captain's warning rang out from inside the wizard airship. "Please don't worry, everyone. Our void warship has comprehensive security measures in place. Those terrifying dark wizards from the Twin Demon Realms won't attack us on their own!"

"Everyone, the Demon Realm War is about to begin, so the world power of the Twin Demon Realms is constantly invading the Cloud Marsh Wetlands, stirring up a Demon Realm storm. Buildings, people, magical tides, and everything related to them, even some concepts, that are swallowed by the Demon Realm storm will be swept into the Twin Demon Realms by the Demon Realm black hole."

"Some of these things are hard to digest, such as these wizarding academies that were swallowed up by the demon storm, and these buildings that were protected by magical barriers. They were thrown into the second sky or the void, where the dark wizards attacked and destroyed them, removing their ability to resist and looting them."

"When the war in the demon realm begins, the Twin Demon Realms, which were originally only petty thieves, will transform into terrifying raiders and wage a war of plunder against the wizarding world. For countless years, the Twin Demon Realms have survived by plundering the wizarding world, but for some reason, the size of the Twin Demon Realms has never increased much and has remained within a certain range."

"Please rest assured, everyone, the affairs of the Twin Demon Realms are unrelated to this wizard's airship. Please do not worry about safety. Furthermore, the opposing side in this Demon Realm War is the powerful Golden Crown Mountain of Cloud Marsh Wetlands, so the harm caused by these thieves is limited. Please, wizard passengers, have nothing to worry about."

(End of this chapter)