Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 699 The Dual Cycle of Internal and External Circulation and the Magic Weaver's Answer Sheet
In the Silent Dimension, in the far north, on a train, Wizard Smith displays magic, captivating his gunslinger.

He quickly left the train with a gunslinger and all the cultists who had summoned him in the ritual.

After getting off the train, the group hid and dodged along the way, trying to avoid the sight of the world's inspectors.

Finally, they found one of the cult's strongholds, an abandoned factory.

Wizard Smith looked at his native followers with a cold gaze. "I come from beyond the heavens, bringing supreme truth. Today I will impart to each of you a secret incantation for praying to the stars. From this day forward, you shall offer daily prayers and invoke my true power from beyond the heavens to descend upon this world."

The sixteen-year-old priestess's eyes sparkled as she looked at her idol. "God, if we do as you say, can we see the truth, overthrow the emperor's tyranny, and restore civilization and freedom?"

Wizard Smith gave her a cold glance. "Just do as I say, and don't ask questions you shouldn't."

At this moment, his entire focus was on the Great Magic Modeling Competition, determined to squeeze the other three contestants out of this world. He had no time to care about the thoughts of these natives.

In his eyes, these natives were even worse than the wizard laborers in the black factories of his family's business, but they were just a bunch of puppets in this competition, and their thoughts didn't matter.

Efficiency is the most important thing.

He wanted to perfect the framework of his ultimate magic before others, accumulate the total amount of magical pressure, and then attack others to knock them out of this plane.

The Silent Grail is called both the Plane Conquest Competition and the Ultimate Magic Modeling Competition because the construction of ultimate magic is itself a process of plane conquest by wizards, which was the initial reason.

Wizard Smith felt some of his previously imprisoned thoughts begin to stir. "The Silent Witch's Great Magic of Truth, forged four times, has long been refined and solidified, transforming from the illusory into the real. The Silent Grail's Great Magic possesses the ability to imprison thoughts and seal secrets."

"The seal that the Silent Grail placed on the data of this competition was lifted at the very moment we entered the competition."

To ensure fairness in the competition, all spectators and participants, after leaving the Silent Dimension, will only remember the part related to their own ultimate magic.

In addition, all the secrets of this plane are sealed by the Silent Witch's ultimate magic, the Holy Grail of Silence.

The Silent Grail only ceases to function during a match.

While sealing the secrets of an entire region with a single, powerful spell, especially one from the wizarding world, is simply too outrageous.

Even if Wizard Smith racked his brains, he couldn't figure out how a person could have such great power.

How could one person's magical pressure and spell model achieve this level of power?

But the Silent Witch's ultimate magic is...

They are all powerful spells, but there are differences in the number of times they have been forged and the magical support provided by the user.

Wizard Smith looked at the cultists; in his eyes, these were not people, but merely NPCs, simply tools of production.

"priest."

A young priestess, who looked exactly like Locke's priestess, gazed at Wizard Smith with adoration. "God, please teach me the secret incantation of the stars. Let me feel the truth of this world and overthrow the emperor's tyranny."

Wizard Smith said, "I'm going to tell you about the Sirius Prayer."

He looked at the gunslinger and said, "I'm going to tell you about a [Prayer of Mars]."

"And you, I must tell you, Arcturus Prayer... and you, the Demon Star Prayer... there are a total of one hundred and eight prayers. Each prayer requires at least ten thousand people to pray continuously day and night. Once you start praying, you cannot stop; you must pray continuously for at least three days without eating or drinking. This is what is called the Three Days of Star Prayer."

“Pray for three days each time, without ceasing, throughout your life.”

He had already constructed the core of the Celestial Meteor - Great Magic, and at this moment, this magic had become his second soul, becoming one of the sources of his magic.

In this way, a wizard can complete a dual cycle of internal and external circulation, drawing magical tides from the outside world and transforming them into his own magical power.

One's own immense magic can generate magical tides, which are then transformed into one's own mana.

This is the world of the Second Ring Road.

A dual world, inside and out.

The realm of wonder is something that even the current wizard Smith still needs to carefully consider and study.

Because he had only recently become a second-tier member of the organization, he now realized that some of the things he had read in books before might have been misunderstood.

Because he was only a first-ring wizard at the time, he couldn't understand the world of second-ring wizards. His attempt to understand it through books was just trying to fit the thinking of second-ring wizards with the mindset of a first-ring wizard.

It looks similar, but the basic process is completely wrong.

'My ultimate magic, Celestial Meteor, is complete. However, to increase the total magical pressure, I need to utilize the natives of this world.'

Wizard Smith pondered: 'Humans possess a special spirituality, a spirituality that distinguishes the human soul from the souls of animals—that is humanity.'

'Humanity possesses power. By borrowing these human prayers to the astral plane, and then by using my ultimate magic—the extraterrestrial meteor shower—as gravity, I can pull the cometary planes I desire from the astral plane. When these cometary planes fall into this world, they will alter the celestial phenomena, becoming part of my ultimate magic—an eternally magnificent meteor shower—a natural phenomenon that increases the total magical pressure of this world.'

'Therefore, my immense magic will become increasingly important to this world.'

'What is ultimate magic? Ultimate magic is a wizard's asset in this world! If my assets are large enough, I can use them to bankrupt others with smaller assets. And people are the most productive means of production.'

'These people are the perfect tools to increase my assets. With enough assets, even in this world, I can achieve great things with a small investment, turning the tables and becoming the dominant force, just like those high-ring wizards who only hold a small stake but can control their alliance of shops with crucial authority! Effortless, like a gazelle leaping across a cliff!'

Wizard Smith pondered, 'Therefore, my strategy for the competition is to immediately gather a group of natives in this world to perform Star-Calling Prayer for me, continuously increasing the total value of my Great Magic assets.'

The young priestess looked troubled. "God, we don't have enough people. One million eight hundred thousand, and our order can't even muster a thousand devout believers."

"No, let alone a thousand, we probably don't even have a hundred devout believers."

Wizard Smith’s demands seem easy to meet, but in reality they are very difficult: to pray for three days at a time, to fast for three days, and to continue doing so for the rest of one’s life.

Even the young priestess doubted that the cult she had helped God establish could gather ten such devout believers.

Wizard Smith scoffed. "Help me arrange a meeting with the world's most powerful nobles. Then... under the guise of recruitment, hire factory workers. Their job will be to pray."

The gunslinger was speechless. "Hiring?"

Wizard Smith said indifferently, “Yes. Aren’t these all just jobs? Whether someone is a believer or not doesn’t matter, as long as they do it. As long as you pay them, they become devout. As long as they have this belief—'prayer is work, and you get paid for completing prayers'—my Star Prayer Incantation will also succeed.”

“As I walked along the way, I saw that in your society, there are even three-year-old children cleaning chimneys and children under ten working for you in dark rooms. So my job requirements are nothing compared to that.”

Gunslinger looked at Wizard Smith and said, "Sir, even so, it is dangerous for you to meet with the great nobles of this world. Because those great nobles will inform the Emperor."

Wizard Smith said, “They won’t. I have countless benefits to offer them: immortality, beauty, and the satisfaction of their desires.”

"Alright. Priest, go and find a way to contact the city's high-ranking nobles and big businessmen. These are my potential allies."

Wizard Smith said, "We need to hurry."

He was unsure of the other contestants' current progress.

……

In the arena where the Silent Grail was being watched, many wizards saw Wizard Smith's decisive and efficient actions and nodded in approval.

Enter a world, seek out potential allies within that world, and then quickly hire people to begin building your own immense magic.

This is the standard procedure for a wizard to colonize a world.

Of course, there are many different ways of colonization, and some of them cannot even be called colonization, but are collectively referred to as colonization because of historical inertia.

But Wizard Smith did use a very old, but classic, method.

Partnering with a world-class noble family, whose members and business tycoons are most likely to collaborate with outsider wizards for some kind of benefit, is a good option.

The seven sun-ring wizards whispered among themselves.

"The Celestial Meteor needs a Star Prayer to help the wizard summon a comet plane from the astral plane. Once the comet plane is summoned, it will benefit the world, and the resulting cluster of comet planes will become a reservoir for the total magical pressure of his Celestial Meteor."

"There are specific methods for finding more Star Prayers and which comet planes to bring in. Therefore, the variables of extraterrestrial meteors are extremely large. Once those 108 comet planes are brought in, the type of comet planes they form will determine the final characteristics of this great magic."

"However, no matter what, in the end, there will be a cluster of 108 comet planes that will turn into a meteor shower and travel around the sky of that world. The meteor shower composed of 108 meteors will serve as the source of his magic. Of course, 108 is just the minimum number, and this number can actually be increased."

"But before that, his 'Meteor from Outer Space' was just an empty shell, so it naturally wouldn't increase his magical pressure much."

The seven Sun Ring Wizards discussed, "The greatest strength of this magic is that it can use the common resource of humanity to draw a comet plane from the astral plane that contains the power of a specific stellar plane."

"The second major advantage is that the types of stars contained within the comet plane it summons can determine the characteristics of this ultimate magic. This makes this ultimate magic a combinatorial magic, which can be adjusted over time to obtain the desired characteristics." "Moreover, this magic can also command servant races. Those servant races are bound to the comet plane and are part of the comet's power. Similarly, the natives of that world can be captured by the power of extraterrestrial meteors and turned into servant races."

Although these servant races are of little significance to wizards, they are only of significance as part of the total mana storage pool.

However, this is actually significant in a competition to determine the size of a magical construct.

Because during this competition, wizards cannot use any magic other than ultimate magic to attack other wizards.

That leaves only two choices.

The first option is to unleash your immense magic on someone else.

The Great Magic is both the source of magic and a spell itself; it is the most powerful spell of a second-circle wizard.

However, this method is too risky; it's a head-on collision, a fight to the death, with no room for compromise—you either win or you lose.

Moreover, it's easy to misjudge the timing and fall into someone else's trap.

Like all-in poker.

The second option is to use one's own ultimate magic to empower his servant race, allowing his servant race to destroy the foundation of the other's ultimate magic, thereby dismantling the other's ultimate magic and reducing the other's total asset value.

In any case, a major magic is a reservoir of total magical pressure, a source of magic. A collision between two major systems is too dangerous and intense, and could easily lead to total defeat. So, we can let the participants from different major magic systems compete first.

That way, even if you lose for a while, you won't lose the whole game.

Of course, just as the familiar race is unique to the great magic of bloodline wizards, the servant race is unique to the great magic of meteor wizards.

Other great spells may not necessarily have servant races or minion races, but they will definitely have other lower-level individuals.

Because the essence of ultimate magic is to use a magic spell to establish an energy cycle (which can be of various types) in a world, thereby becoming the source of magic.

Therefore, there must be many individuals in this energy cycle; otherwise, it wouldn't be called an energy cycle.

Essentially, because of Great Magic, wizards are transformed from individuals into phenomena, so Great Magic cannot be small in scale, nor can it be just an individual act.

Therefore, all great magic can definitely be divided into many individual forms.

This is especially true for newly established major spells.

Essentially, this also illustrates the high degree of separation between wizards and the source of their magic.

Furthermore, at this stage, the most powerful magic can be used to eliminate wizards through special means, transforming them into a universal source of magic that anyone can use.

Therefore, these individuals are beings capable of competing with each other among the most powerful magics.

One judge said, "Let's look at the strategies of the other contestants."

At this moment, images of the other contestants appeared on the Silent Throne, and the audience immediately looked over, eagerly studying and referencing the immense magical modeling experience of these individuals.

In the Silent Dimension, on a train, the witch Georgina raised her right hand and said to the girl, "Don't call me Goddess, or Goddess Sister. I am not a god, I am a human."

You can just call me sister.

The priestess paused, a thoughtful expression on her face. "But a god is a god."

The believers behind her felt their faith was about to collapse.

Georgina the Witch's attitude, however, pleased the Gunslinger. He sheathed his weapon and said in a deep voice, "Lady Georgina, this is the name you told me. So, you are from another world, someone with great power?"

"So, what can you bring to our world? Why should I listen to you?"

Georgina the Witch looked at him earnestly and said, "Fairness, I can bring fairness, warmth, and wealth to your world. All that ordinary people want."

A loom appeared behind her, and it was working. Because the Saint Incarnation could not carry the Astral Ring, she could only use her own magical pressure as raw material for weaving, and used the magical model of the Fate Loom that she had built to begin weaving magical clothes.

Soon, one hundred magical garments were completed.

Georgina the witch reduced her magic pressure from 12000 to 11990 because she converted her magic pressure into weaving magical garments.

Georgina the Witch will appear inside the carriage, presenting the cult members and the Gunslinger with gossamer-thin magical garments. "Wear these clothes; they will protect you."

"Those who wear them are like wearing weightless armor, which can withstand attacks, increase physical strength, and enhance bodily functions."

"I have modified the style of these clothes to suit the style of clothes in your world."

Georgina the Witch said, "I am now transforming the order into the Georgina Charity Society. From today onward, our Georgina Charity Society will distribute these magical garments widely to all the poor who cannot afford clothes or housing. With these clothes, they will no longer fear the cold, nor the freezing blizzards and rainy days..."

"This is the conscience of our magic weaver."

Gunslinger was completely bewildered. How could the deity summoned by the saintess claim to be human, not a god, and then offer them clothes?

What's happening here?
The young priestess jumped up joyfully. "Great! Thank you, sister..."

"Sister, will you lead me to the truth and overthrow the emperor's tyranny?"

Georgina the witch hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth anyway, after all, she didn't like to lie. "My most important goal right now isn't this, but to get more poor people into the magic robes I'm distributing for free and to get them to join my charity."

"Isn't it better to help these indigenous people live better lives than to search for the truth?"

The young priestess seemed not to hear these words, but said joyfully, "Sister, you've finally come. I've been talking to you in my dreams for six years. I admire you so much. You told me that the emperor is not a benevolent person at all, but just a paper tiger."

Beneath the Silent Throne, the spectators and judges on the viewing platform were all completely bewildered.

Because Georgina did something that seemed bizarre to everyone—she used her own magic to make magical clothes and then gave them to the natives of that world. Instead of trying to win over the elites of that world, the nobles and businessmen, she tried to win over the common people.
This is incredibly inefficient.

Although some wizards would use trade as a means to first do business with the lower classes in the colonized world, making that society heavily dependent on wizarding civilization.

But this is a form of commercial colonization.

However, this is a silent Holy Grail War, so there's no time to use such a gentle and slow method to gradually build up the maximum magic and increase the total magic pressure of the maximum magic.

Moreover, Georgina the Witch wasn't just engaging in commercial transactions; she actually sacrificed her magical pressure to create magical garments for the natives of that world.

The seven Sun Ring Wizards on the judging panel were dumbfounded.

The Silent Grail War is not useful because it is a famous tournament, but because it is a tournament of extremely high quality from which many wizards can learn.

That's why they were able to attract commercial sponsorships.

In such a commercialized market as Yunze Wetland, if a competition has no commercial value, even if you bring in a lot of big names to endorse it, it will still be a losing proposition.

Therefore, the higher the modeling quality of the ultimate magic in the game, the better.

In principle, the modeling of the ultimate magic of wizards who can participate in such competitions cannot be rubbish; it is worthy of everyone's reference and study, and should be set as a model.

But the immense magic that Georgina the Witch brought out at this moment, which had never been recorded before, was somewhat incomprehensible.

One of the Sun Ring Wizards pondered, "It's not like there's no way to see a good point. Hmm... being able to transform magical pressure resources into a special textile material called thread, actually requires a deep understanding of textile science to achieve this."

"Moreover, look at how fast she weaves the magical garment. It shows that her basic knowledge of textiles is extremely solid. No wonder Bonifacius University chose her to participate in the competition."

Another judge from the Sun Ring Wizard panel twitched at the corner of his mouth. "Let's wait and see; I don't understand it yet."

"She can't really be sacrificing her own magical pressure to benefit the ordinary people of the colonized world. That would be laughable. Besides, trying to win over the ordinary people? It's not impossible, but that's a long-term approach. The competition is so fierce; if you're even a step behind, you could be kicked out of that plane. Instead of trying to win over the nobles, she's running some kind of charity organization..."

The third-ranked Sun Ring Wizard judge said, "Look at the audience over at Bonifacius University. Those second- and third-ring wizards are still completely unfazed. This shows that they expected this situation."

"Perhaps the magic weavers wanted to showcase the characteristics of their textile science, which is why they created such a controversial and powerful magic."

"Keep watching, there must be a backup plan."

A solar-circle magic weaver from Bonifacius University, listening to the murmurs of dissent among the wizards around him, curled the corners of his lips into a smile. "This is the answer sheet we magic weavers have specially submitted for this competition!"

Meanwhile, in the Silent Dimension, Locke and the wizard Edgar were also beginning their own operations.

(End of this chapter)