Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 666 Building a Legendary History!

Five days later, Locke used the Queen's Chessboard to deduce the seven key natural magical structural components contained within the roots of this special ancient flower. The Queen's Chessboard confirmed the key mechanisms of action and formation at the Force level.

At the same time, there is also information about the ancient flower roots at the level of primordial force. In this way, a model of this special flower root can be printed out using a modeling machine to obtain the relevant plant essence.

Locke looked at the information before him and couldn't help but marvel at the great power of nature. "The roots of this special flower have a special structure called 'glandular root sacs.' The surface of the root system is covered with purple vesicles, which contain a mixture of liquids composed of seven natural magical structural components. When this liquid is secreted, it will react with the sand and soil in seven different ways. The substances produced in these seven reactions will interact with each other, eventually leading to a very complex chain reaction that ultimately turns the sand and soil into soil."

"A single Queen's Chessboard is simply not enough to fully analyze it, or perhaps I simply don't have the time. Unless I can use the Queen's Chessboard day and night for several months in a row, it will be difficult to fully understand this chain reaction mechanism."

However, the operating cost of the Queen's Chessboard is quite high, and even if someone were to use it for themselves at cost price for six months, it would be unlikely.

“This special ancient flower root is simply a miracle of nature,” Locke said. “The reason why the wizards’ magical heavy industry is prone to serious pollution is firstly because it does not conform to the laws of nature, since it is impossible to completely conform to the laws of nature. The production speed of many things must be fast.”

"The second is the wizards. Things are interconnected, and a small change can have far-reaching consequences. Wizards cannot guarantee that their experiments will be conducted with all aspects in mind, so they can easily cause huge pollution in the production process."

"But the power of nature has enabled the emergence of ancient flower roots as a natural transformer of soil."

Locke exclaimed in amazement, "The Ancient Flower is just a single-ring magic plant, but by utilizing the energy utilization and conversion efficiency of a single-ring magic plant, it has achieved a conversion efficiency that surpasses that of a continuous wizard factory."

In essence, an ancient flower is a wizard conversion factory that is not large in size but extremely efficient.

Locke said, "We can reach the second stage and then find the conditions to fully analyze this ancient flower root. But at this stage, I can already use the Queen's Chessboard, the three magic mirrors, and the modeling machine to use its plant essence to modify my magic plant."

"All you need to do is obtain its plant essence."

"The structure of this special flower root itself is an energy-locking structure. These glandular root sacs can store energy for a short period of time under normal circumstances, serving as a short-term energy buffer."

"Release energy when it is scarce, and store it for a short period when it is abundant."

"Ordinary magical plants store energy through their tuberous roots, rhizomes, starch granules, and other magical plant organs. Except for specialized ones, almost all magical plants lack dedicated short-term energy storage structures; they are all long-term energy storage organs. Therefore, plants can only borrow some plant structures to barely replace temporary energy buffers, such as mesophyll cell vacuoles, etc..."

"But these ancient flower roots have organs specifically designed for short-term energy storage. It must be because they need to convert sand into soil, which requires a huge amount of energy, and common organs of ordinary plants do not have this ability. Therefore, nature had to evolve temporary storage organs that can increase instantaneous energy output power, such as these glandular root sacs."

Locke pondered, "I have already benefited greatly from analyzing this ancient flower root. Unfortunately, I do not currently have sufficient resources and capabilities to fully analyze it. A first-class project grant, just to study the glandular root sac structure within this ancient flower root, would be sufficient to pass the application and complete the project."

"As for the more complex reaction chains formed by the seven natural structural components, let's talk about that after I become a second-circle wizard."

Locke didn't know whether a second-circle wizard had the resources and ability to explain such a complex reaction mechanism.

After all, with dozens of reactions mixed together, there are simply too many variables, and they interfere with each other.

Intermediate products are difficult to capture.

Not to mention that these reactions involve the very complex process of sand transforming into soil.

All I can do for now is to release a new energy-locking structure and the natural magical structure components in these seven locations.

Locke looked at the ancient flower before him. "I have confirmed, through the Queen's Chessboard analysis, that this artificial flower is programmed with a self-destruct mechanism."

"They will perish as soon as their numbers reach a certain level."

"Moreover, this ancient flower, due to some special mechanism, constantly induces human desires and then absorbs those desires. If there are too many of them... it will cause enormous ecological destruction."

"But the prototype of this plant, or rather the prototype of the ancient flower root, should be a plant found in certain areas of the Black Sun Tower."

Locke pondered, "But why aren't such powerful plants widespread in the modern magical world?"

"No, this is not a normal magical plant at all."

Locke waved his hand, extracting only the root projection of the ancient flower from the torrent of the Force. Using the modern magic crystal Queen's Chessboard, he forcibly simulated the spirituality of its prototype from this root, in order to deduce the original characteristics of this magical plant.

The peculiar ancient flower roots, as deduced by the primal force of the Queen's chessboard, all pointed to the fact that these roots would suffer severe self-destruction a hundred generations later.

This plant will disappear completely in an instant.

Locke said, "This prototype plant likely went extinct in its original world. Furthermore, it did not have the opportunity to pass on this special plant essence through the wild."

Locke pondered, "Thinking about it carefully, this plant is indeed not a normal magical plant. If we continue to transform the soil, it will lead to soil enrichment, which will cause ecological extinction and also lead to the greenhouse effect."

"Therefore, this prototype plant should have been positioned as a special pioneer plant in its original dimension. It came and went in a hurry."

"It only leaves behind a specific, modified environment, and then it self-destructs. This is very likely a kind of magical plant that prevents itself from becoming desert, nurtured by a powerful special plane."

Locke waved his hand, and the phantom of the ancient flower appeared in front of him.

"These artificial flowers are all made from parts of the Black Sun Tower, borrowed from various excellent magical plants. So, they are a collection of various excellent magical plants. But... the result of so many excellent magical plants coming together... is that they have deteriorated in some way."

In some respects, the prototype plant with the spiral angles and unique root system of the ancient flower is superior to the magical plant characteristics of this ancient flower.

Why didn't the Tower of the Black Sun use the methods of breeders to modify and utilize these special magical plants that they obtained by leveraging their dominant position in the wizarding world?

"Breeding science could have better brought out the potential of these special magical plants. Instead, a bunch of messy technologies were used, which deliberately degraded this artificial composite of the various advantages of these magical plants."

"While I may say that the Tower of the Black Sun is incredibly foolish, as a botanical wizard, an archaeological wizard, and a breeder, I cannot simply and crudely attribute this strange phenomenon to problems caused by certain personal qualities."

Locke pondered, "There's definitely some secret hidden here."

He snapped his fingers, and the ancient flower historical projection in front of him disappeared, while the ancient flower seeds were also stored in his astral ring.

"Never mind. We can figure these things out slowly later."

"Next, I will use the Queen's Chessboard mechanism that I discovered to compile the historical materials in my Lord's Book into a history book."

"I only have one day left to use it. After all, it's an opportunity I got by spending three hundred magic crystal cards. I need to make good use of it." This isn't a small amount of money.

If he didn't have a lot of projects on hand, he wouldn't be able to spend so much money so easily.

Ultimately, however, research is a money-burning endeavor; as long as you have enough money, you can accelerate it.

Locke placed his Sovereign's Book on the Queen's Chessboard, and immediately a large amount of historical material was deduced spiritually. The spiritual river flowed around Locke himself, while Locke moved his palm, constantly deducing the content and the results.

By deducing, one can find the connections between different scattered historical materials, and then combine many scattered historical materials into a long line, just like pearls strung together by silk threads.

"Although archaeological wizards still rely on philology and textual studies to organize historical materials, to be honest, using the Queen's Chessboard... is very fast and has unique advantages."

Locke's expression was strange.

Because the Queen's Chessboard can deduce the future from the Force level and find connections between things, in this process, many missing parts in historical records will be automatically filled in by the deduction results, many details will be involuntarily deduced as possibilities, and then the connections between small details in these different historical records will be discovered.

For example, Locke previously deduced from the Queen's Chessboard that the Witch King Evil Fang Kong had transformed himself into a lich.

This is corroborated by the fact that Otto's army of the Vanishing Kings during the Age of Stars seized the flags of the Evilfang Magic Kingdom. Furthermore, I myself saw many liches with the Evilfang Magic Kingdom's symbols parading through the projections of historical monuments at that time.

This explains the chronological order between the Evil Fang Hole Magic Kingdom and the mortal era, and also provides evidence for the final fate of the Evil Fang Hole Magic Kingdom.

With the help of the Queen's Chessboard, Locke quickly compiled the historical materials. Since most of the materials were from the Age of Stars, he compiled his own Sovereign's Book into a rather rudimentary history of the Age of Stars, titled "A Brief History of the Age of Stars".

Locke looked at his own Book of the Sovereign and saw that the title on the cover of his Book of the Sovereign had changed to this title.

A second-level archaeology spell requires transforming one's blank sect master into a legendary history book.

This is one of the keys to advancing archaeology magic to the second level, but to construct a history book, at least one legendary historical source is needed to support this legendary history book.

Of course, this wizard also needs to become a second-circle wizard.

At this moment, his own patriarch's book has not yet truly become a legendary historical record, because he has not yet completed the compilation of archaeological historical materials.

Locke assessed the progress. "I was too optimistic before. Three days is simply not enough time to use the Queen's Chessboard."

"If I had the money, I would love to spend twenty days a month in the Queen's Chessboard. At this rate, I would need at least ten more attempts to complete the prototype of the Legendary History."

Locke frowned. "For me, archaeology is just a minor, so I can't invest that many resources in it."

"The way to shorten it... is to lower your ambition."

Locke waved his hand, and the title of his book of patriarchs changed. It was no longer a concise history that attempted to summarize the entire Age of Stars, but was now titled "The History of the Development of the Court of Heliotos".

In this way, the amount of data that needs to be organized and the amount of historical data that needs to be extrapolated are reduced to the greatest extent.

Locke estimated for a moment. "Based on this estimate, I only need to use the Queen's Chessboard seven times. But that's still too many. Although using the Queen's Chessboard instead of textual exegesis and literature is already a shortcut."

"But I have an even more ingenious way."

"In any case, legendary historical records, unlike permanent defensive fields and ultimate magic, do not touch the wizard's soul. If you want to change them later, you can do a major overhaul with a little time. Therefore, there is absolutely no need to pursue perfection at the crucial stage of advancing from the first ring to the second ring, or to set the bar too high and strive for perfection."

"The goal of the history of civilization development is too big, and it easily fragments my knowledge. I need to narrow down my goals again."

Locke waved his hand, and the title of the book became "The Political History of the Court of Heliotus".

After careful consideration, he realized that even this goal was too broad; historical research should not set the bar too high.

Advancing to the second ring is sufficient.

Therefore, the shorter the research period, the better, as it makes data organization easier.

With a wave of his hand, Locke changed the title of the Book of Sovereigns to "Thirty Years of Otto's Reign"!
Locke thought about it again and still felt it wasn't quite right, so he had no choice but to apologize to his half-teacher of potions who had taught him the reverse alchemy method.

He changed the title of the book "The Master's Book" to "A Very Short History of Ancient Plants".

This topic was something he had been reading and thinking about whenever he had free time. He had spent a lot of time researching it in that tomb city, and he also had a complete set of magical plant seeds from the Age of Stars.

I even went so far as to use the hibernation cabinet to publish the article.

I am proficient in this field, and it can also be linked with botany, breeding, and potion-making, giving full play to my accumulated knowledge and further reducing the difficulty and complexity of my research.

Locke smiled with satisfaction. "In this way, we only need to use the Queen's Chessboard three more times to complete the compilation and organization of the history books. As a Holy Master, Senior Sister Shirley probably doesn't have much experience with the Queen's Chessboard. I'll recommend this method to her next time."

"If I could see her again."

“Using the Queen’s Chessboard to help me organize historical materials from the Force level, although I still need to put in the effort myself, it has greatly improved my efficiency,” Locke said. “Unfortunately, most archaeological wizards probably haven’t even heard of this device.”

Locke originally wanted to narrow down the scope of his research again, for example, to a rebellion, in which case he might not be able to use the Queen's Chessboard again and could complete the construction of the Legendary History.

However, he realized that he would not be able to complete the construction of the legendary history book in that way, because the historical materials used would be too few and the information of the negative energy particle field would not be concentrated enough.

Essentially, neither the Book of the Sovereign nor the Legendary History Book are true history books or ordinary history textbooks; rather, they are a field of negative energy particles.

Historical records determine the size of this particle field, while historical texts determine its internal microstructure.

Therefore, if Locke makes the history book too small-scale, it will prevent the magical model of the legendary history book from being constructed at all. This is not what he wants to see.

No matter how lazy you are, you can't be this lazy.

(End of this chapter)