Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 681 Has the once immortal ruler been resurrected?

Locke didn't indulge Camilla the Witch; he sent her a message directly, warning her: 'Watch your tone. This isn't how you treat your collaborators.'

Camilla the Witch did not reply immediately on the Water Hyacinth system panel.

But after a while, Camilla the Witch sent a message: 'I'm sorry, I lost my composure just now.'

"Locke, for the sake of our first pleasant transaction, please tell me, do you have any way of getting your hands on the Dragon View Peach?"

Locke glanced at the message he had just sent to the witch Catherine, requesting permission to trade a Dragon Peach.

The witch Catherine immediately refused—'Dragon's View Peach Garden is an asset of Golden Crown Mountain, and I have a special contract with Golden Crown Mountain. My Dragon's View Peach Garden receives resources from Golden Crown Mountain for its maintenance and upgrades. Furthermore, the output of the Dragon's View Peach Garden is strictly controlled by Golden Crown Mountain.'

'A Dragon's Eye Peach wouldn't be given to a first-ring wizard. However, you don't need a Dragon's Eye Peach either.'

The witch Catherine sent a message: 'Also, regarding the matter of great magic, I have two things to tell you.'

'First, the owner of the Dragon's Saliva Peach Garden, one of the twelve peaches of Golden Crown Mountain, a Moon Ring Wizard, was killed by a Third Ring Wizard from the Twin Demon Realms. The Dragon's Saliva Peach Garden has automatically flown back to Golden Crown Mountain. This peach garden is equivalent to half a Great Magic; using it to build your own Great Magic can save you a lot of resources.'

"Currently, the Senate, the Academic Committee, and the Deacon Inspection Team are all vying for ownership of this Peach Garden. Do you want it? If you do, I can spend some resources to secure it for you. Of course, I'll need to contribute some resources, but you don't need to worry about those things."

"Secondly, the Grand Magic Modeling Competition is approaching. At the request of Dean Gaia, I have invited a participant from the Golden Crown Mountain in last year's Silent Holy Grail Competition for you. Come see me in a week."

'The contestant from ten years ago was a wizard from Lu Xuqiao; he's now a Moon Ring Wizard.'

Locke was stunned. Ten years ago, the wizard from Luxu Bridge represented Golden Crown Mountain in the competition. And this time, the wizard was actually willing to help Golden Crown Mountain and come to guide him.

By the way, as Catherine the Witch mentioned before, the relationship between Luxu Bridge and Golden Crown Mountain is special. People only think that the two are constantly fighting, but few notice that Luxu Bridge and Golden Crown Mountain have always been fighting but never breaking apart, and their relationship has always been close.

In the eyes of the White Wizarding Association, these two wizarding colleges are still a wizarding university.

Locke pondered for a moment, then sent a message to the witch Catherine: 'Teacher, after I obtain the Dragon's Saliva Peach Garden, will I still be able to leave Golden Crown Mountain? Also, what effect will this peach garden have on my powerful magic?'

The witch Catherine sent a message: "No. The Dragon Saliva Peach Garden is a valuable fixed asset of Golden Crown Mountain, passed down for thousands of years. It is impossible for a witch to take it away."

"Ambergris can grant a wizard a special vitality and a variety of wonderful uses. Simply put, it can repair a wizard's physical body and spirit, even if both have been severely contaminated. The properties of the Ambergris Peach Garden will greatly influence your ultimate magic."

After careful consideration, Locke declined. "Teacher, I'm sorry. I don't think I need the Dragon Saliva Peach Garden."

To become a second-circle wizard, you only need to create one major spell.

The framework for his first major magic spell has been completed. With the Moon of Evolution, as long as he combines it with the spell model of Peach Arch Thorn Arrow, he will have a spell model framework for offensive magic.

At this point, joining the Dragon Saliva Peach Garden would undoubtedly force him to adjust the framework of his spell model to make way for this so-called thousand-year-old heritage.

Moreover, once I take this thing, I'm afraid I'll never be able to leave Golden Crown Mountain for the rest of my life.

Therefore, it's best to refuse.

Catherine the Witch didn't seem too surprised. 'I understand.'

Locke then sent a message to the witch Camilla: 'Dragon's Peach is a vital asset of Golden Crown Mountain; I can't help you get it.'

Camilla the Witch: 'This is truly disappointing. Then our deal is off.'

Locke hesitated for a moment. 'Camilla, bring your sister here. Perhaps I have another way to help her solve this problem.'

'Of course, I'm just saying it's possible. Let's take her to the Feathered Serpent Pavilion.'

Locke blinked his right eye and, through his vision, saw the special stone spirit he possessed in the demiplane.

She still has a large amount of blank spirituality left to use. If she takes out a portion of it and uses the Full Moon Growth spell model to fuse this spirituality with the spirituality of Camilla the Witch's sister, she might be able to replenish the portion of human spirituality that was stolen from her.

……

In the underground floor of the castle in the Longevity Peach Garden of Golden Mound Mountain, a portal to another dimension has appeared in an empty, secret room.

The next moment, Douglas stepped out of this plane. His face was gloomy, his wizard robes were tattered, and there was a wound on his left arm from which black pus was oozing out some kind of foul-smelling substance.

Douglas's magical pressure was extremely chaotic. "Damn it, how can there be a void serpent in there?"

"Teacher, I almost died in that dimension."

The voice of the Witch-King Lagmamon appeared in his ears. "Void creatures can survive in the void. That was just a young snake, with only ordinary second-circle magic pressure. It must have been blown into the plane I used to hide my treasure by the void currents."

“That young snake was hibernating and only attacked you unconsciously just now. Otherwise, you would be dead inside by now.”

Douglas was somewhat apprehensive. "What should I do?"

King Lagmamon whispered, “That young snake is lying on top of my treasure vault. I cannot access the vault until it is dealt with.”

"If you want to quickly reach the first-ring crystallization stage, you need to obtain special resources from the treasure vault. However, to deal with that young snake, you'll need a second-ring wizard to help you."

Douglas was overjoyed. "Teacher, by possessing my body, wouldn't you be able to unleash the combat power of a second-ring wizard!"

Lagmamon the Wizarding King said, “No. That Twin Demon Realm might be related to the Tower of the Black Sun. Right now, the Twin Demon Realm is in near-Earth orbit in the Wizarding World. I cannot risk helping you at this critical time.”

"There are so many high-ring wizards on Mount Golden Crown, you can pick any one you like."

Douglas frowned in distress. "There are many high-ring wizards on Mount Golden Crown, but if I seek out others, I'll have to share the treasure with them. Besides, I'm only a first-ring wizard. If I cooperate with a second-ring wizard, it's like asking a tiger for its skin. Whether I'll even get a share of the treasure is another matter."

"Unless... unless I invest in advance and befriend a second-circle wizard at the first-circle stage, establishing a good relationship beforehand."

The Witch King's voice appeared in his ear. "This is one way. You decide for yourself. Anyway, the incantation to enter this secret chamber is in your mind."

Douglas recalled the person in Golden Crown Mountain who was most likely to become a second-circle wizard and who was closely related to him, and instantly one person came to mind—Locke Augustine.

Douglas left the secret chamber and then pretended to be just strolling around the peach orchard. He occasionally bumped into servants and wizard apprentices in the castle, and acted as if it were nothing out of the ordinary.

They showed no sign of guilt, in order to prevent others from noticing anything amiss.

Douglas thought to himself, "Do I have anything at hand that could attract Locke Augustine? Not much. However, my teacher once taught me how to create a Kingdom Domain."

"That wizard might be interested in this part of the knowledge."

"Alright, let's try to befriend them first. My talent is limited, and whether I can successfully crystallize my spiritual power depends on the special resources in that treasure vault. And to open that treasure vault, I need the help of a second-circle wizard."

"Then I'll have to put my hopes on Locke. Or I can wait until the Demon War is over, but I've heard that the Demon War has been going on for quite a while."

……

On the third day, inside the Feathered Serpent Pavilion, Locke saw the witch Camilla and her mentally challenged sister in a quiet room.

The witch Camilla looked at Locke nervously and asked, "Locke, do you have any ideas?"

Locke examined her sister's condition. "This is definitely not something an ordinary potion master can cure."

"I'm not entirely sure either. I can only say I'll try my best to help you."

The witch Camilla hesitated for a moment, then said, "I brought a sufficient number of my own natal magic porcelains with me this time. If you can heal her, I will trade these natal magic porcelains to you."

"Each one only costs two hundred thousand magic stones."

Locke nodded. Two hundred thousand magic stones was quite reasonable, and it should even be just the cost price.

Generally, a magic weapon of the first-level crystallization level costs around 100,000 magic stones, while a higher-quality one costs over 100,000 magic stones.

As the most cutting-edge research achievement in Demon Pivot City, the 200,000 magic stones for the Bazi Wuci (Born to be a magical porcelain) are not expensive.

This item doesn't belong to Camilla the Witch, so the other party can only choose to trade with me, not give it to me.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to balance the bills.

It's likely that she was already under a lot of pressure to bring such a large number of her own natal witch porcelains with her.

Locke opened his palm, and a magical moon appeared in his right palm, its bright moonlight dancing between his fingers.

Camilla the witch stared wide-eyed. "The perfection of this spell... is it really that high?"

Her eyes looked somewhat lost.

To her, this magical moon was so perfect, so close to the real moon, and the complexity of its magical model was beyond her comprehension.

It's even hard to understand.

She looked up at Locke in astonishment, finding it hard to believe that Locke had once used this spell against her carnivorous flower jungle.

Locke's improvement in less than six months is astonishing.

A hint of admiration appeared in Camilla's eyes; compared to her, she had made almost no progress in the past few months.

"Locke, the complexity and sophistication of your spell model make me think at first glance that it is a very powerful spell."

"This is the extent of my master's ultimate magic."

"Unfortunately, we are still missing a World Stone."

The witch Camilla sighed, "I will subscribe to this year's Silent Grail War."

"But what can be done? Can my sister be cured?"

At this moment, Locke absorbed the spirituality of the stone spirit within the demiplane of his right eye and merged it with the moonlight, transforming it into moonlight, which fell upon Camilla's sister.

The witch's spirit was refusing to unite with the essence of the moon, but the degree of refusal was not very high.

A minute later, the two successfully merged. In an instant, her sister suddenly looked up, as if someone who had been sleeping for a long time had suddenly woken up.

The witch looked up in astonishment at Camilla the Witch. "Sister?"

"No, Lady Camilla."

The witch remembered that the witch Camilla had told her not to call her "sister" in the Nexus, but to use a respectful title, so she quickly changed her address.

The witch Camilla was initially taken aback, but then her expression brightened with delight.

She looked at Locke and said, "Locke, thank you. I didn't expect you to actually have a solution."

"It's unbelievable that you were able to solve a problem that so many potion masters couldn't."

The witch looked at Locke, her eyes suddenly filled with confusion, and then she asked, "Master?"

"No, why should I call you master?"

The witch clutched her head, seemingly in great pain. "Ah, my head hurts so much."

Camilla the Witch immediately turned to look at Locke, her eyes blazing with anger. "Locke, didn't you promise to heal my sister?"

"How is this going?"

Locke had previously tried anything as a last resort, fusing his special spirituality with the witch to replace the part of her spirituality that had been stolen from her.

But who knew this would happen?

Moreover, judging from the situation just now, human spirituality and special spirituality are inherently incompatible, like water and fire.

If this witch hadn't had a portion of her human spirit stolen, leaving her in a state of being transformed from a human into a beast, she probably wouldn't have been able to use the full moon to grow and merge the special spirituality with her own.

Locke looked at the witch Camilla and said, "Don't be hasty. Your sister has at least regained her sanity. Did you see that?"

Camilla the Witch gave a speechless look. "She has regained her human sanity. But she's still under your mind control. What methods did you use?!"

"Don't think we're easy to bully. You...you...mind-controlling a white wizard? If I go to the Holy Wizard Court, you'll be in deep trouble!"

Camilla the witch instinctively wanted to threaten him, but thinking of Locke's Full Moon Growth technique, she realized that she was no match for Locke no matter what, so she changed her mind and said that she was going to the Holy Tribunal.

Locke frowned. At that moment, Camilla the witch's sister covered her head and sat down on a stool.

'After merging with a special spiritual entity, will it spontaneously form an allegiance to me?'

'This should be related to the Stone Spirit itself. However, I still don't know what the Stone Spirit actually is. According to the information I've found, it's neither a native god nor a totem god. I don't know what it is.'

'In short, this thing has become loyal to me, and anyone/anyone whose spirit merges with this thing will also become loyal to me. But it seems that the identity of 'human' conflicts with that of this thing, so I cannot merge this spirit with 'human.''

Locke suddenly realized something, reached out and pressed his hand on Camilla's sister's forehead, then withdrew the special spiritual energy from her.

In just a moment, her sister's eyes went blank again, and she sat in the chair, dazed and confused.

Locke, on the other hand, found a half-dragon shopkeeper at the Feathered Serpent Pavilion and obtained a white mouse for testing medicine. Locke then tried to fuse his special spirituality with the white mouse, but the two could not be combined at all.

'Can it only fuse with plants?'

'The witch I just gave me didn't actually integrate the special spiritual energy I provided; it was merely attached to her due to the properties of the Zero Potion. Therefore, it can't really be said that a spiritual fusion occurred.'

'Therefore, the witch is caught in a dilemma: to listen to me or not. If she were to fully merge with me, she should now be loyal to me.'

This special spirituality can only merge with plants.

Locke understood.

However, by making good use of this mechanism, any magical plant affected by one's own Evolution Moon can be made to voluntarily become loyal to one.

When Camilla the witch saw her sister had turned back to normal, she became anxious. "Locke, what are you doing now? I only said a few words to you casually, how did you make my sister turn back to normal?"

Locke was speechless.

He said bluntly, "You were the one who was bothered by it earlier, thinking that I manipulated your sister. But with my current abilities, this is the only way to save your sister."

"At worst, she can just stop seeing me. As long as she doesn't see me, she won't fall into that contradictory state."

"However, if you mind, there's nothing I can do about it."

Camilla the Witch fell into doubt. "You really can't get your hands on Dragon Peach?"

“Catherine the Witch is your teacher. And she dotes on you very much.”

Locke coughed. "I'm just her co-wielding wizard; she treats me the same as everyone else."

Locke gave her a strange look. "I really don't know what you're talking about. The teacher is a Third Ring Throne Wizard, what can I do to get to Dragon View Peach?"

Camilla the Witch sighed, caught in a dilemma.

She looked at her sister, who was in a daze, and said, "Alright then. Even if you've mentally controlled me, at least I can go back to being a normal person first."

"At most, I'll just keep her away from you. Distance is the best way to defend against special magic. If necessary, I'll send her to another wizarding land."

"With such a formidable barrier in the way, I don't believe your magic can still work."

"Furthermore, we can also use the sealing magic of the Protection School."

Camilla the Witch said, "Locke, then you can control my sister again..."

Locke reminded her, “Watch your words. I’m a legitimate potion master, and I’m just treating your sister. Don’t act like I’d mind control an ordinary first-level wizard.”

"What's the point of me controlling a wizard of this level?"

Moreover, the other party will fall into a special mental conflict state when they see me, and will basically fall into a state of incapacitation.

Locke placed a dose of the Zero Potion on her forehead, and the witch's eyes regained their senses.

She looked up at the witch Camilla and Locke. "Sister... Master..."

Camilla, who had just been looking excited, now pursed her lips and looked at Locke questioningly.

"Didn't you say you didn't care about mind control over ordinary first-level wizards?"

Locke shrugged.

The reason he didn't care and spent most of his special spiritual energy on this witch was not only because he desperately needed a large amount of his own natal witch potions, but also because the Zero Potion was an irreplaceable and rare resource for him at the moment.

But the moment he enters the Silent Grail War, he is confident that he will immediately become a second-circle wizard.

After all, I had already used the second-ring trial card twice before.

Once you become a second-circle wizard, you can use the bronze cauldron and the reverse alchemy to concoct the potion of zero.

This step is also a crucial one in constructing his own immense magic.

Therefore, at this moment, in order to give a large amount of the special spirituality inside the stone spirit to Camilla the witch's sister, it is not a loss for him.

Camilla the witch exchanged a few words with her sister and was relieved to find that, apart from the strange behavior of intermittently calling Locke "Master" and questioning why she was calling him "Master" after seeing Locke, her sister was otherwise normal.

However, her memory seems to be stuck in the time period of the magic combat tournament.

The witch asked Camilla nervously, "Sister, has the dark wizard from the Twin Demon Realms left? Are we safe now?"

"That dark wizard said he would steal my talent. And an ancient spirit possessing me would also steal it."

The witch Camilla immediately asked, "Who is that dark wizard? Do you know his name? No... you certainly don't. Do you know what he looks like?"

The witch pondered, "I do remember what he looked like."

Camilla the witch's eyes flashed with wild joy.

If we can find that dark wizard, we'll have a chance to get back what he stole from my sister.

Camilla said, "It's alright. I'll ask a magic painter for help, and he can quickly draw his portrait."

Locke then asked the witch, "Possessed by an ancient spirit? From which era? What's going on?"

The witch looked at Locke respectfully, “Master, once there was an ancient spirit from the Age of Stars who possessed me, and with his help, I quickly became a first-ring wizard.”

The witch Camilla exclaimed in surprise, "How come I didn't know about these things?"

The witch said guiltily, "That spirit said this matter is of great importance, so it forbade me to say it."

"Strange, why should I call you master..."

The witch is once again caught in a dilemma.

Locke fell into deep thought. 'Back then, the Twin Demon Realms' sudden attack on the magic combat tournament wasn't primarily aimed at disrupting the sporting event held at Golden Crown Mountain, but rather at capturing those ancient spirits awakened from the Age of Stars?'

'How could these ancient spirits have survived the passage of time? The souls of third-ring wizards are immortal, let's leave that aside, but what about second-ring wizards? Is the one possessing Camilla's sister a second-ring or a third-ring spirit?'

'So, is it possible that those immortal lich rulers of the past have been resurrected?'

(End of this chapter)