Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 709 Second Ring Spell: Moon Goddess's Blessing
The situation has changed drastically!
Previously, Locke had been staying in the capital and had not collected any total magic pressure. So, apart from the wizards in the Golden Crown Mountain viewing area who kept an eye on him and some acquaintances who were paying attention to Locke, most wizards focused their attention on the other three contestants.

But no one expected that the situation was originally that Wizard Smith and the Emperor would join forces to fight for the championship and eliminate Edgar and Georgina.

Who knew that Locke had now taken over the entire world by himself, and was poised to wipe out the three of them and the emperor in an instant.

At this moment, the image on the Silent Throne showed Locke gathering a large amount of magical pressure.

The seven Sun Ring Wizard judges of the competition committee all sat up straight, involuntarily looking at what was happening in the silent plane projected on the Silent Throne.

The total amount of magical pressure gathered has long exceeded the level required to unleash a newly forged, extremely powerful spell.

What exactly is he planning to do?

At this moment, the Silent Witch, seated at the highest point of the viewing platform, uttered four words: "Kingdom Domain."

The truth wizard of the Green Steel City, seated to her right, responded in kind. "Ancient technology, how nostalgic. Seeing the Kingdom's Domain here again makes me think our Hand of the Jungle's [Second World Project] has great potential."

"This young man has a bright future."

At this moment, the wizards in the spectator area started discussing it. Most of them had no idea what it was. They had only heard about it from the Silent Witch and thought that since it came from a fourth-ring wizard, it must be something very powerful.

Because the Kingdom Realm is something that has been obsolete for a long time, it was no longer a major focus of the Wizarding Civilization after the Age of Stars.

But this very thing was the primary means for wizards to become second and third-ring wizards during the Age of Stars, and it was also one of the pillars that shaped the 300 million magical kingdoms of the Age of Stars.

Within the Silent Dimension, a vast amount of magical pressure, ley line power, magical tides, and the people's faith all flowed towards the Imperial Capital.

Centered on the capital city, a Dharma realm descended.

Once this Dharma Realm descended, it rapidly expanded, covering the entire Silent Plane at an extremely fast speed. In the blink of an eye, the entire world had been completely overturned.

The entire Silent Dimension is now covered by Locke's Kingdom!

In addition to the primary material plane, the Silent Plane also contains a world-level law realm.

This realm provides the Silent Plane with the same level of magical pressure as the Prime Material Plane.

This Dharma Realm shares the same geographical space as the primary material plane of the Silent Dimension, only their phases differ.

The material plane and this Dharma realm are both located on the same three-dimensional spatial coordinate system. However, the material plane is located on the three-dimensional space plus time dimension, while this Dharma realm is located on the three-dimensional space plus spiritual dimension.

This is precisely the essence of the Kingdom's domain.

The Kingdom Realm is a world established on a spiritual dimension, so there is no change of time there, only spiritual change.

This is my own approach, using spiritual retreats as leverage, spiritual networks as the foundation, and the Evolutionary Moon as the core.

The Moon of Evolution can reflect the past and present, while the Mind Network can connect the spiritual existence of this person in the past and future. The two are combined to create this by borrowing the total amount of magical pressure from the past and future of billions of beings in this world.

Once this Dharma Realm was created, the total amount of demonic pressure in this world immediately doubled. The world's will, like an earth dragon turning over, shattered the emperor's mental network, making it impossible to suppress the world's will of the silent plane.

At this moment, the world's consciousness completely favored him, and Locke felt that his every word and action seemed to be in harmony with this world.

This means that the world's trust in itself has reached a higher level, to the point that its words and actions, even though it did not intentionally conform to the world's will of the Silent Dimension, all conform to the preferences of the world's will of the Silent Dimension.

This is the essence of "doing whatever you want without overstepping the bounds"!
Locke did not use his own will to replace the will of this world, but at this moment, what he wanted to do was also what this world wanted to do.

Within the capital city, Locke took a step forward, and in an instant, he left the capital and entered the realm of Dharma.

The Dharma Realm is filled with green mountains and clear waters.

This place seems completely untouched by environmental pollution. Despite being the location of the capital, it doesn't feel like a massive industrial city or towering chimneys; instead, it's a primeval forest.

Lush and verdant, bursting with life.

There are only plants here, no animals, because this is the realm of plants, and every tree here is the embodiment of the spirit and soul of a plant.

Locke added ritual magic to the spell that summoned this magical realm, which is one of the reasons why the magical realm was able to succeed.

He borrowed the power of the Emerald Dream, just as the wizard Edgar created the Land of All Spirits, from which he borrowed a large amount of plant essences and combined them with the Kingdom's domain, thus creating a realm with such vast life energy.

The scale of this realm is beyond what an ordinary second-ring wizard could create; its completion is truly due to too many coincidences.

The emperor's gullibility and dependence, his actions of holding the world hostage, and his psychological network's suppression of the world's will—all these factors contributed to the world's will choosing itself in order to escape its predicament.

Similarly, during the Silent Grail War, the other three great spells greatly aided him.

Most importantly, he leveraged his spiritual association a hundredfold to borrow money from the emperor.

'Once this Dharma realm descends, the world's will will naturally be able to break free from the binding and suppression of the mental network,' Locke pondered. 'First of all, I've already emptied the mental network.'

"Secondly, the original principle of the Mind Network binding the world's will was to use the oversight system to unify all the mortals and those chosen ones of that world with the Empire."

"In this way, all the talents in the world are incorporated into a mental network, indirectly binding the world together."

“But after I brought this world-class realm to the world, everything changed. The empire only ruled half of this world, and the oversight system could not penetrate this realm. By expanding the world map, I transformed the emperor's empire from a unified empire into a separatist force.”

“A separatist force can naturally not bind the will of the world.”

A full moon appeared behind Locke, falling from a great height as if crashing down to the earth, eventually hanging in mid-air behind him, illuminating the entire kingdom.

The kingdom's territory was borrowed from the emperor, so he has no control over it.

This belongs to this world.

It is essentially a public land.

This is why the world's will supports him; otherwise, he would just be a second emperor.

However, this is not important.

Because of its own Moon of Evolution, it can fully utilize this Dharma Realm.

Moreover, at this very moment, he has the advantage of timing and location. The Moon of Evolution has directly entered the Dharma Realm, and he can control it with his immense magic.

Most importantly, you have combo moves.

I still have a backup plan!

Meanwhile, in the Prime Material Plane, the Emperor was consumed by immense rage and the madness of betrayal.

He roared, "Duke Schiller, you can forget about it!"

At the same time, the highest executive council in the capital suddenly issued a decree—Duke Schiller had colluded with the rebel army and intended to rebel; all of Duke Schiller's property was confiscated and all his titles and positions were stripped from him.

Within the Dharma Realm, a hint of surprise flashed in Locke's eyes, because the fact that the other party could act so quickly meant that the emperor had long been prepared to declare him a traitor. With just a simple order, the entire process could be completed, and he could announce to the world that he was a traitor.

The emperor, a native after all, was still an emperor; indeed, once the cunning rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked.

only……

Locke shook his head and said, "It's no use."

“I have never held any position in the spiritual society. You have stripped me of all my titles and positions in this world, and you can no longer stop me from summoning the Dharma realm.”

"This is the inevitable trend, and it cannot be changed. Emperor, don't you understand?"

At this moment, in the Prime Material Plane, the wizard Edgar suddenly attacked the emperor. With a flick of his left hand, the projection of the Time-Shadow Fern appeared in his hand, while countless ghost vines stretched out from the Land of Spirits, trying to pull the emperor and his imperial palace into the Land of Spirits.

Edgar's thinking was clear. 'That Locke fellow is indeed not to be underestimated, but the Emperor is so weak right now. If I absorb the total amount of magical pressure from his side, it will be a supplement for me.'

'Although we can no longer gain the upper hand over Locke, it's still better than doing nothing.'

He wasn't the only one with this idea.

At this point, Wizard Smith no longer cared about killing the witch Georgina.

Although Georgina the Witch is not in good condition, she can still put up a fight. In the clash between two great magics, the outcome will not be decided so quickly.

But the emperor, currently weakened, is undoubtedly a highly sought-after prize.

Therefore, Wizard Smith immediately forgot about his alliance with the Emperor and instead wanted to take over the Emperor's power.

At this moment, Georgina the witch's expression also changed slightly.

In fact, if Wizard Smith had attacked her just now, she would have been eliminated immediately, because unlike other people's ultimate magic, her ultimate magic relies on the combination of her alchemical spinning machine with the spirituality of a large number of mortals in this world to form an ultimate magic.

Essentially, her immense magic encompassed a large number of mortals.

But now a problem arises: Locke has borrowed all the spirituality of all mortals under the Imperial system at once, and with the help of the world, has directly created a world-class Dharma realm for the world.

In other words, all the excess spiritual energy of these mortals in the future will be invested into that Dharma realm.

Locke's borrowing this time was not only based on the reflection of the Evolution Moon in the past and present. Moonlight can appear at any time of day. As long as the moonlight can appear there, a moon can be forcibly hung there.

It's not just about leveraging the mental network itself to its fullest potential; it can connect a person's past and future spirituality.

It also depends on the world's recognition that Locke borrowed money from the world's past and future.

The combination of these three factors, along with the approval of the spiritual society and the emperor, made this feat possible.

Therefore, the Destiny Loom immediately became a losing business, because every bit of spiritual energy the Destiny Loom earned by untying the knots of destiny had to be directly paid to Locke's Dharma Realm.

Therefore, Locke's blow to Georgina far exceeded that to the other two, and was almost equal to the blow to the Emperor.

Locke's act of borrowing money severed the very foundation of her great magic.

Fortunately, she had pretended to be calm, which prevented Wizard Smith from seeing through her act; otherwise, he might have attacked her first.

Georgina's expression changed slightly. This time, she represented the New Textiles Department of Boniface University in the Silent Grail War. If she were eliminated with the lowest score, she would be a sinner against the university and the New Textiles Department.

Their new textile science hasn't even begun before they're already facing a huge blow.

can not be like this.

Then there is only one way left.

And this method... Georgina became angrier the more she thought about it, feeling that Locke had done it on purpose.

"The current spiritual reserves and future growth of this world have all been borrowed by Locke. All future energy growth in this world should be prioritized to fill Locke's Dharma realm."

Georgina said, "Therefore, if my Destiny's Weaving Machine is to remain in the present world of the Silent Dimension, I will undoubtedly be defeated. Even if no one targets me, I will be eliminated from this world due to the collapse of the Great Magic."

"My only chance of survival is to enter the Dharma Realm that Locke summoned. Currently, all the power in this world is in the Dharma Realm. Only by actively joining the Dharma Realm with my Destiny Loom and becoming a part of it can I possibly regain energy by weaving my destiny and straightening my spirituality."

“But in doing so, I would be indirectly controlled by Locke.”

Georgina the witch gritted her teeth. "Damn Locke, it's hard to say this wasn't intentional. Skinning, dismembering, and dismembering, so clean and efficient, even a rival will be exploited to the extreme. Such a mindset... those dark wizards are nothing compared to you."

"However, this is indeed the way we White Wizards do things, and our actions still conform to the eight virtues of White Wizards."

Georgina the witch was worried that Wizard Smith would come to his senses, so she could only chant a spell to forcibly open the gate to the realm of magic, and then step out, taking the spinning wheel of fate into the realm of magic.

At the same time, Edgar was about to pull the terrified emperor into the Land of Souls when he suddenly realized something and felt a chill run down his spine.

"Locke, you are so cunning. I almost fell into your trap again. This emperor is the bait you released. Whoever takes it will die instantly."

"Do you intend to end this match now, fighting four second-ring level beings in one go and achieving victory?"

Edgar immediately realized what was happening, chanted a spell, and stopped the magical vines that were spreading from the Land of Spirits.

The next moment, the magical vines were torn apart by a shower of meteors.

Meteor showers fell to the earth, casting streaks of starlight.

Second Ring Spell: Starlight Projection!

Wizard Smith's ten starlight projections surrounded Edgar, preventing him from vying with himself for the throne.

Meanwhile, Wizard Smith used a starlight projection to grab the Emperor's arm, intending to take him to the extraterrestrial meteoroid demiplane cluster in the sky.

Wizard Smith burst into laughter. "If you can't compete for first place, second place will do. You're all too ambitious, your appetites are too big, which actually reduces efficiency."

"Let me be more realistic. Since there's no hope of winning the championship now, let's just take this emperor's pill and get second place, that wouldn't be bad either!"

Edgar the Wizard's eyes flickered. 'That idiot Smith. Should I remind him? Normally, I wouldn't bother reminding such a weakling.'

'But right now, if I want to compete for the championship, I need someone to challenge Locke, who is currently the most powerful opponent.'

Thinking of this, Wizard Edgar immediately said to Wizard Smith, "Smith, don't touch the Emperor."

Wizard Smith narrowed his eyes. "What? You want to compete with me? Too late. Right now, if I consume the Emperor's total magical pressure and his mental network, I will become the contestant with the second highest total magical pressure."

"Hahahaha... High capital, win. An age-old truth. I..."

The wizard Edgar said speechlessly, "Don't laugh so loudly. It's one thing for Locke to laugh so loudly, but why are you laughing so loudly? The emperor doesn't have any magic pressure left; Locke has borrowed all of his stuff."

"It's not just that it's been completely taken over now, it's been taken over in the future too. I ask you, if you swallowed the emperor's mental network, wouldn't you be considered to have inherited the assets of his mental network? So, who will pay for the money that should be given to the Dharma Realm in the future?"

Wizard Smith's expression froze instantly. His starlight avatar looked at the Emperor in his hand with horror, as if he were seeing a terrifying being. "If I devour the Mind Network, then in the future, the one paying the total amount of magical pressure to the Dharma Realm will be my celestial meteor."

"Locke deliberately threw the emperor out there, plotting to make me swallow him up, so that my meteor would completely become the sucker?"

"My meteor from outer space will be completely drained and emptied by his Dharma Realm, becoming his laborer. How vicious, so vicious."

"Insidious...so insidious...this person is indeed a thousand times, a hundred times more vicious than me."

"I was lucky that I wasn't deceived by his kind appearance back then. If I had let him see my physical condition back then, I'm afraid I would have suffered even more and deeper schemes today."

Wizard Smith looked at the Emperor with a terrified expression and threw him aside as if he were some kind of monster.

The emperor, now hidden beneath his armor, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he didn't fully understand why these people from the other world were so eager to attack him at first, and then avoided him like the plague.

But the emperor knew that, at least for the time being, he seemed to be out of danger.

At this moment, the Moon of Evolution appeared in the Dharma Realm, and the Prime Material Plane of the Silent Plane was also adorned with the Moon of Evolution.

To announce the existence of the Moon of Evolution to the world.

In the present world, the gray sky, filled with black smoke, has long been devoid of the sun and moon.

Every day, for an hour or two, the sun pierces through the thick clouds, letting down a few rays of light that have changed color, while the people of the capital city of this world have not seen the moon with their own eyes for a long time.

At this moment, the Moon of Evolution fell from the sky, like a chess piece that someone picked up and threw fiercely into the sky.

In an instant, the thick fog in the gray sky was shaken away, and the people of the capital, as well as people in many other major cities around the world, looked up and finally saw the moon.

Beside that full moon lay a dark sun, lying quietly.

Because of the cooperation of the Silent Plane, the spirituality of the sun in this world changes along with the dragon bloodline within Locke's body, cooperating with Locke to use the dual circulation of sun and moon to summon the Dharma Realm.

In the present world, as moonlight swept over the plants, their veins and petals shimmered with a magical glow that shifted from silver to blue. All these plants and magical plants were incorporated into the ecosystem of the Evolutionary Moon.

Within the Dharma Realm, forests were enveloped by the light of their own Moon of Evolution, the entire forest radiating a magical glow that gradient from silver to blue, a scene that seemed destined to become an unchanging eternity.

Locke's immense magic merged with the kingdom's domain, and at that moment, his assets and capital all multiplied.

Locke directly pulled Antoine and the Preston Witch, who were located in the world's crystal wall system, into this magical realm.

At this moment, Antoine and the Preston Witch were looking at Locke with complicated expressions, while Antoine seemed unaffected.

But the Preston Witch's gaze toward Locke held a mixture of awe and caution.

Antoine said, "Locke, well done. You truly live up to the reputation of a researcher from Golden Crown Mountain. You have demonstrated the academic excellence of Golden Crown Mountain."

Locke, with his hands behind his back, smiled and said, "It's alright."

At this moment, under the moonlight of the Evolutionary Moon, all the trees in the Dharma Realm were enlightened by Locke's moonlight. Under the moonlight of the Evolutionary Moon, these trees, most of which were ordinary trees, gained wisdom and transformed into tree people.

The first major rune second-circle botanical spell Locke added was the second-circle spell Moon Goddess's Blessing.

This is a spell that the witch Catherine taught herself.

At this moment, with the help of two first-ring crystallization wizards, he was able to quickly add a great deal of magic runes to this spell model.

The Moon Goddess's Blessing Spell can grant a forest of trees an effect equivalent to a first-level Botanical Magic spell, Tree Spirit Enlightenment.

Unlike the first stage, this spell can only be used one-on-one in the early stages, and even in the first crystallization stage, it can only be used one-on-many.

The Moon Goddess's blessing can bestow the power of treants upon an entire forest.

When Locke added the Great Magic Rune and combined it with the Moon of Evolution, the effect of this magic became to transform at least one-third of the forest area in this magic realm into treant initiations.

This is much faster than the original method of honestly planting plants, searching for plants in forest reserves, and cultivating tree people to accumulate biomass!

At this time, the entire Dharma realm was filled with his own tree beings.

The existence of these treants further reduces the energy dissipation of their massive magical ecosystem, further increases the instantaneous magical pressure output multiplication rate, and improves eight other indicators such as energy compatibility and energy stability.

The existence of individual treants can greatly enhance all the basic aspects of magic.

This is also why Wizard Smith insisted on the Star Prayer.

The existence of intelligent life can elevate the status of a world plane, and naturally also enhance the various basic manifestations of great magic.

Therefore, Locke not only needed ordinary ecological communities, but also tree-human ecological communities based on intelligent life.

'With the Treefolk community, I can also solve the problem of my forest sanctuary being unguarded and where animals and insects have been kept at bay.'

'For me, at the first stage of the wizarding path, this was a difficult choice. But unexpectedly, for me, a second-stage wizard, it was a problem that could be solved with a snap of my fingers.'

Locke stood with his hands behind his back. "Although I have something I want to do, I think the competition is more important. If we can win now, we should win now. I give you both my utmost blessing and hope that you will help me with all your might right now to drive the other contestants out of this plane."

Antoine nodded. "Of course."

"Locke, someone has entered the Dharma Realm."

Locke glanced at Georgina the Witch. "This one will be the last to act. Her Destiny Spinning Machine has willingly submitted to my Dharma Realm, and can maintain it for me. The Dharma Realm itself and reality are in phase disturbance."

"If fate is at work, we can reduce disturbances and thus minimize losses."

As Locke spoke, it was as if the world itself was speaking.

It was clearly his idea, yet he put it into practice; the world thinks the same way.

"I gave her only choice: to take on this responsibility for me and reduce the phase disturbances in the Dharma realm. This is the only way for her great magic to be preserved."

At this moment, not only was the heavens and earth helping him, but his thoughts and ideas also aligned with the thoughts and ideas of this world. Naturally, he anticipated the enemy's moves and completely outmaneuvered the witch Georgina.

Antoine's eyes flickered; this side of Locke both terrified and excited him.

He wasn't the main character in this competition, so he would only listen to Locke and wouldn't do anything unnecessary.

The Preston witch lowered her eyes to Locke, and the usually proud and willful witch subconsciously obeyed Locke's orders at this moment.

Locke stepped forward, and in an instant, he teleported to another part of the Dharma Realm. Then he took another step forward.

He suddenly stepped out of the Dharma realm and into the present world.

They appeared before the Emperor, Smith, and Edgar.

The moment Wizard Smith saw him, his eyes blazed with fury. "Beast!"

The emperor, upon seeing him, also felt betrayed. "A great villain disguised as a loyal minister!"

The wizard Edgar looked at Locke, his eyes flashing, as he guessed one of Locke's backup plans.

But if that's the case, then it might not be so bad for him.

(End of this chapter)