Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 680 Purchasing Witchware and Renting a Small-Scale World
As he poured a drop of Zero Potion onto the rock, the stone's spirituality seemed to change instantly.

This Zero Potion was created by King Otto during his demonstration within the Historic Monument Spell, and he used a Royal Artifact to make it appear real, transforming it into a bottle of potion.

Essentially, the wizard who drinks this potion will possess a blank spirituality, which is of ordinary second-circle quality.

Locke hadn't drunk it before because it involved the very essence of humanity—the spirituality, a level that could only be viewed using the Queen's Chessboard.

Therefore, before knowing its effects, before anyone had taken it, and before conducting the three phases of experiments with modern magical civilization, I dared not risk my own spirituality by merging with the spirituality within a mysterious potion.

Moreover, there is nothing in the blank spirituality; it has no effect other than adding a portion of spirituality.

A person's soul will not change simply because they reach the second level of spirituality.

The spiritual shackles between the first and second ring roads still exist.

But at this moment, after absorbing the Zero Elixir, the rock underwent a special change. The surface of the rock quickly absorbed the essence of the Zero Elixir and seemed to be giving birth to some kind of new life.

The rock, which had been worshipped by the Dune people for decades, responded to Locke from a spiritual level, as if some vague idea had been born within it.

"The rocks have come to life?"

Locke was astonished. He had only added a second-level spirituality to the rock. "Although stone golems are very common in the wizarding world, they are elemental life forms. And what is this rock? Elemental life forms have obvious life structures and possess obvious biological macromolecular structures—ordered energy flows."

"That's a characteristic of life."

"But it is indeed just an ordinary rock. Even with the wisdom and ability to restrain its form and move by the school of sorcery, it is still just a magical creation, not a real life."

Locke had extensive contact with the sorcery school in the Southeast Corner and the Land of the Six Towers, so he understood that the sorcery school's bestowal of intelligence upon inanimate objects and the creation of life were two completely different concepts.

I once had several Amorphophallus titans, and I used magic from the sorcery school to give them the ability to judge and make their own choices.

But they are still not intelligent beings.

At this moment, in Locke's spiritual vision, the stone, on a spiritual level, became something that seemed to be alive yet was not.

Locke's expression was strange. "This wasn't caused by me or the Zero Potion. It's just that I used the Zero Potion to enhance the special spirituality inside this rock, which caused me to accelerate its original natural evolution."

"I personally accelerated its formation. However, I don't know if this state means it has become a complete form or is still in the process of forming."

"Forget it, let's extract its spiritual essence first, and then use Full Moon Growth to fuse this spiritual essence with my Sea Gold Sand and see if it can promote the evolution of the Sea Gold Sand."

Locke placed his palm on the rock, and he guided out this strange, lifeless spirituality. At the same time, under the light of a full moon, this spirituality merged with the spirituality of the ordinary sea ginseng in his hand.

Instantly, the branches and leaves of this Lygodium japonicum tree shone brightly, shimmering in the bright moonlight, which enveloped it like gemstone dust.

The ordinary sea lily, resembling a spiral staircase, broke free from its grasp and floated into the air.

The special spirituality, due to the addition of the blank spirituality, has expanded in both quantity and quality. Originally, it could only accelerate the slight evolution of ordinary plants, but now it can directly interfere with a first-ring magical plant and force it into a [rapid evolution state].

All of Haijinsha's potential has been developed and is evolving in a possible direction.

The energy required for evolution is paid for by special spiritualities whose quantity has been increased by the blank spirituality.

The special spiritual energy was placed into the full moon growth by Locke, transforming into moonlight and amplifying it by about two times, so as to reflect in this sea ginseng.

That ordinary sea holly seemed to have transformed into a moon fern, awakening in the moon.

Locke frowned. "That special spirituality was affected by my magical power? No. That special spirituality is a possibility in itself, it could be neutral. It's just that it might have been given by my magic, so it might have leaned towards the characteristics of my magic."

"Whether it's blank spirituality or that special spirituality, it's inherently susceptible to being tainted by other magic, resulting in a fusion phenomenon."

At this moment, the ordinary sea holly changed color under the moonlight, from golden green to a gradient of silver and blue, while white spiritual energy swirled around it.

The fern leaves release moonlight, their veins acting like optical fibers to transmit it. In the center of each fern leaf, a translucent crescent-shaped vein is visible.

Locke glanced at it and gave it a name—[Crescent Moon Pattern].

Locke will re-summon the magical plant that has grown crescent-shaped markings and changed color back into his hand.

"The magical plant's shape seems to have doubled, and the ordinary sea gold sand, which originally had the golden magical attribute, seems to have developed the ice attribute."

“The appearance of the crescent moon pattern signifies that they have accepted my favor,” Locke pondered. “As long as we guide them into the contract mechanism within this favor, we can make them sign a contract with me the moment they accept my gift.”

Locke glanced at the Dune people who had been startled. They looked at the Moon Fern floating in mid-air, bowed down, and called upon the Moon Goddess.

Locke glanced at them, then placed the ordinary sea ginseng in his left palm. "Roughly speaking, its spirituality has improved by half a level of life. In other words, a second-ring level of spirituality can guide magical plants to improve by half a level."

"It's just that we don't know yet what level of magical plant it can guide."

"Is it effective against second-ring magical plants? Is it effective against magical plants at the top of the first ring?"

“And…” Locke placed his palm on the fern leaf of the sea gold sand, his fingers absorbing its spiritual energy, and then he pulled it out.

As this moon-like spiritual essence was extracted, the original sea gold sand slowly returned to its original state.

"Because of the unique property of blank spirituality that it can merge or separate, I can bestow or take away the bestowal upon the demonic plant."

"I can take whatever I want from the magical plants under this moonlight."

Locke opened his left hand, and ordinary sea gold sand floated in his palm. "Actually, using this special spiritual cultivation method, cultivating magical plants may not necessarily result in the same life level being forcibly raised by half a grade in a short period of time as this sea gold sand, and corresponding changes appearing."

"That was just me injecting a lot of special spirituality into it when I was urging it to evolve, turning it into energy, and forcibly ripening it."

"If only a portion of special spiritual moonlight is injected, it will only give this demonic plant the possibility of raising its life level in a short period of time."

"Therefore, the amount of special spiritual moonlight injected determines whether it directly accelerates evolution, or only allows for a possible evolution, or if a little more is given, it will induce some kind of evolution."

Locke only needed to organize his thoughts slightly to discover three uses for this special spirituality.

During battle, a large amount of special spiritual moonlight can be directly injected into a magical plant to accelerate its growth in a very short time. In normal times, when breeding magical plants, this special spiritual cultivation method can be used to speed up the process while using other cultivation methods.

It's important to know that a major limitation that determines the speed and quality of magical plant cultivation is the number of generations the magical plant has grown.

The stronger a magical plant is, the longer its growth cycle takes, and the higher the cost of each generation.

If this special spiritual cultivation method is used to accelerate the growth generation of magical plants compared to other cultivation methods, it will greatly improve the cultivation of other magical plants.

At the same time, it can give a magical plant the possibility of upward leap. If handled properly, it may make a magical plant that is originally stable and unable to develop upward have a chance to continue to evolve.

Inside the Dune people's cave, Locke looked up at the moon. "The Moon Mirror? No, this is the Moon of Evolution."

"This is the essence of the great magic I need."

"This essence is what gives me enough height to support me on my journey, and even to become a higher-level wizard in the future. I have found the path to great magic. The rest is to solidify the foundation and fully construct my Moon of Evolution spell model and ecological cycle."

The Great Magic Modeling Competition seems to be about how robust everyone's ecological cycle is.

Therefore, the ability to perform large-scale magical modeling and simulation within the Silent Grail would indeed be very useful.

Locke looked at the special spirituality that had transformed into moonlight and pondered, "For convenience, let's call it the Essence of the Moon."

"Therefore, the abbreviation is Yuehua."

"This cultivation method is called the Moon Cultivation Method."

"Although we don't know exactly what this special rock spirit is, it is indeed very useful."

Locke spent another day analyzing from various angles what would happen if the stone were moved.

It was eventually determined that the stone was a self-contained entity, and even if it were moved, nothing would happen.

Locke then stored it in the space where his Forest Sanctuary was located.

The dune people were very anxious when they saw the stone spirit suddenly disappear, while Locke hesitated for a moment, blinked his right eye, and opened a demiplane gate.

These two hundred dune men were nothing more than a group of ordinary people.

Even if they were allowed into his sacred forest, facing five thousand acres of magical plant forest, if they could shake it, then he would be too ridiculous.

Letting these mortals in wouldn't be a big problem; even if they wanted to damage the ecosystem, their current numbers wouldn't be enough.

Let's settle them here for now. I have money on hand, so I can go to the Dragonblood Gathering to rent a Plane Conquest Service and find a Plane Exploration Team to help me find a small world to settle these Dune people.

Until they find and replicate this stone spirit, these dune people are their irreplaceable treasures.

Of course, if I could replicate it myself, the Dune people would become even more precious, because in the vast and endless void, for an individual wizard to find such a life form that is suitable for creating special stone spirits, I might really need some luck and time, as well as a lot of magic stones.

These dune people saw the Stone Spirit through the dimensional gate and, without much hesitation, immediately believed it to be the Stone Spirit's guidance and blessing.

Because... no matter how you look at it, the world behind the dimensional gate is a paradise.

Compared to this dune plane, it's like heaven and earth.

So they all went inside.

Locke spent another day observing the group of Dune people who had entered his demiplane, confirming that they had built some simple buildings next to their own forest sanctuary and had begun to settle there.

All I need to do is periodically throw in some water and food, and they will all survive and reproduce in it.

These mortals will probably think that these are all gifts from the Stone Spirit.

I'm too lazy to go on stage myself.

With the omnipotent Stone Spirit around, all I need to do is use the Stone Spirit's name to make them obey.

Although this meant the Dune people were living in a completely different world, they had no idea what was happening.

Everything seemed to be a gift from the Stone Spirit.

They didn't even know that wizards existed.

Locke returned to the research institute and soon received a message from the witch Camilla.

At his workstation, Locke saw a message from Camilla the Witch: 'I've been thinking about that deal you mentioned last time, and I think it might be worth doing.'

"But I have one condition. I want one of your teacher's Longguan peaches!"

Locke frowned. "Dragon Viewing Peach?"

That's a special magic peach that can break down the boundaries between humans and animals. It allows animals to gain human spirituality and wisdom after consuming it.

This is one of the twelve peaches of Jinmian Mountain, which is not easy to handle.

Locke didn't immediately refuse, but instead sent a message: 'Why the sudden change of mind?'

The witch Camilla sent a message: 'My sister… I've had many potion-makers treat her, but she remains in that same dazed state. She's turned from human to beast. Damn the Twin Demon Realms, those despicable thieves and robbers!'

"Locke, I need Dragon's Eye Peaches. The Demon City tried some methods for my sister and me, but ultimately told me that Golden Crown Mountain refused to provide us with Dragon's Eye Peaches."

'The Nexus wants me to give up. But how is that possible?'

"My sister is my only family in this world. I have to save her. If you can get me a Dragon-Viewing Peach, I can get you as many of your own natal magic porcelains as you want. Can you actually get me a Dragon-Viewing Peach? If you're lying to me, I'll fight you to the death!"

(End of this chapter)