Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 720 An Alternative Use of the Moon Goddess's Blessing Spell!

At this moment, the Perfect Tree Treant, due to Edgar's resurrection, returned to the Tree of Life, resulting in relatively low energy dissipation and extremely high conversion efficiency.

A large amount of death spirituality that was originally unusable in the silent planes was transformed into leaves of the ancient tree of life through botanical principles that even Locke could not quite understand. Then, through the spell model of "Returning to Roots," the leaves were transformed into magical tides to nourish the planes.

Locke frowned. 'Transforming the leaves of the Ancient Tree of Life into magical tides through the process of returning to its roots is simple enough. But the preceding part, using the Ancient Tree of Life and the original second-circle spell model [Life Drain] to convert deathly spirituality into life energy—that part I truly can't understand.'

Edgar's research on the tree-people had reached an extremely refined level. This magic was imbued with his personal characteristics, and even if others wanted to imitate it, they would only achieve half the results with twice the effort.

In order to become a second-circle wizard, Locke consulted a large amount of botany and ecology. In the second-circle materials, there was indeed no mention of any spell that could convert the spiritual energy of death into life energy.

In other words, Edgar used some special method to achieve this extraordinary feat.

He uses botanical methods to transform it into necromantic energy, but this method seems to require him to actually die once and transform into a tree-man.

To be honest, it's quite risky.

At this moment, Edgar attacked the disc-shaped creature Omega again. The hand of the perfect treant covered Omega's body, on the strange blue halo.

He activated [All Things Return to the Tree] again.

The next moment, the massive avatar of Omega projected onto the Silent Dimension collapsed instantly, its energy forcibly transformed into death spirituality, which was then transformed into life energy.

Upon seeing this, Locke immediately recognized that Edgar had first used "Return to Roots" to transform Omega's power into death energy, and then transformed the death energy into life energy.

However, a significant amount of energy was lost during the several power conversions.

The conversion efficiency is approximately one-tenth.

Ten portions of dead spirituality can only be transformed into one magical tide, and even that magical tide cannot be said to be fully usable.

Because the observation period was too short, Locke had not yet fully discerned its secrets.

But this efficiency is actually quite amazing.

Because Edgar managed to transform the spirituality of death and life into one another, establishing a cycle; secondly, the present world of the Silent Dimension was indeed emptied by himself.

Every extra unit of energy must be paid to the world-class Dharma realm.

However, the Silent Plane still contains a large amount of death spirits that even this world cannot utilize. These death spirits have accumulated over the years and piled up in the plane. The Silent Plane simply cannot deal with these death spirits and has no truly effective mechanism.

Over time, these deathly spiritual entities, invisible to mortals, accumulate on the surface of the present world and remain in the earth's strata, thus forming a massive, unusable accumulation of energy.

Edgar's Perfect Tree, on the other hand, utilizes this part of the death spirituality that is completely ineffective for the Silent Dimension to construct a cycle of death spirituality.

In fact, the Shadow Fern is also a cycle of death and spirituality, but compared to the return of all things to the tree, the Shadow Fern is simply too rudimentary.

Moreover, the Shadow Fern can only utilize the death spirituality of humans who have just died, while the Perfect Tree can utilize the death spirituality accumulated in this Silent Plane from the very beginning of its formation through various creatures, plants, and other forms.

Furthermore, the "Return to Roots" effect is used to create a magical tide that feeds back to the plane.

It is not about creating a so-called afterlife of plants, or a rudimentary version of the Emerald Dream, but about creating a second-ring magical plant that can stand tall and upright in the present world, forming a unique ecosystem in the present world.

It is also a very powerful magic.

“Ecology?” Locke looked at Edgar, and they exchanged a glance. “It seems this guy shares the same understanding of ultimate magic as me and Golden Crown Mountain.”

The wizard Edgar stretched out his palm in Locke's direction, and instantly the treants of the Perfect Tree stretched out their giant hands toward Locke.

"Quinjoll University believes that ultimate magic is a source of magic, meaning that the understanding of ultimate magic is basically limited to the source of magic or magical items. Indeed, ultimate magic exhibits a variety of characteristics that conform to magic; it is neither a simple spell model nor a simple magical item."

“There are nested spell models within spell models, like a complete skill tree. Therefore, my understanding of ultimate magic is that ultimate magic is a skill tree ecosystem.”

Edgar then summoned Quinnjoll's two helpers and swiftly commanded them to enter his perfect treant and share in their immense blessings.

The two witches looked at each other, and faced with Edgar's capriciousness, they could only shrug. After all, they were still in the competition, so they didn't say much and went straight into the treant.

At this moment, Edgar quickly constructed a second-circle spell with a large amount of magic runes on his perfect tree-man, and at the same time cast the great magic "All Things Return to the Tree" on Locke.

The giant hand of the perfect treant reached out to grab Locke, and at the same time, countless green leaves appeared, fluttering around the center of the hand, while a green magical source appeared in its palm.

The magical pressure emanating from Locke's body erupted with magical sparks, and streams of energy flowed towards the natural vortex.

All things return to the tree!

Because this magic can also plunder Locke's natural energy!
As a botanical wizard, Locke's entire body is imbued with natural magic.

Edgar's eyes were filled with confidence. "Locke, now is the time for me to unleash my full power. This is the beginning of the battle between us."

"Um?"

Edgar looked at Locke and used the first-circle spell, Eye of the Grass. A magical plant, resembling a monocle, immediately sprouted from his left eye, circling around it to form a magical eye.

In his eyes, Locke seemed to have transformed into nature itself, with boundless natural primal force pouring into his body. The Tree of All Things absorbed so much energy that it could not absorb it all.

"This is..." Edgar quickly realized that Locke was using the Permanent Defense Force Field - Oak Armor, which established some kind of connection with the ground beneath his feet, resulting in an inexhaustible supply of natural energy.

At the same time, a full moon appeared in the sky behind Locke. The full moon seemed to crash into the earth as it fell from the sky, knocking the tree man's arm apart.

It interrupted the "All Things Return to the Tree - Great Magic".

At the same time, Edgar instantly added a huge magic rune to the second-circle spell model, which was [Life Pierce]!
Second-circle wizards' spell system is built around their ultimate spells, not just for tactical reasons, but because ultimate spells inherently reflect their area of ​​expertise.

For example, the perfect ancient tree spirit in front of us is the result of Edgar's research on ancient tree spirits as a specialized direction.

The first second-circle spell he added to his Great Magic was the second-circle spell Life Pierce.

Life Piercing Strike is an upgraded version of the first-circle botanical spell, Life Spear. Its effect is to pluck a branch from the Tree of Life, transform it into a spear, and throw it at the enemy. In an instant, a torrent of life energy descends, piercing through the enemy.

At this moment, after being bestowed with extremely powerful magic runes, Life Piercing Strike's attack scale increased.

Next, with the help of his two assistants, Edgar quickly linked Life Piercing Slash with All Things Return to the Tree.

At this moment, a life spear, carrying the energy of life-piercing slaughter, rushed towards Locke. However, the moment it approached Locke, the life spear began to frantically absorb Locke's energy, thus strengthening the spear that was transformed from the branches of the ancient tree of life.

The once bare branches of the Spear of Life grew rapidly, eventually taking the shape of a tree, and hurtled towards Locke.

'As expected of Edgar.' Locke sensed the immense power of the opponent's magic, while the life spear hovered about an inch in front of his pupils.

Edgar frowned. "Could it be..."

The full moon behind Locke rolled forward once, and the blue-silver gradient moon planted with golden branches on the Moon of Evolution released a faint peach fragrance. The peach fragrance turned into mist and enveloped the life spear that had turned into a tree.

The next moment, a spell model appeared on the Spear of Life.

Second Ring Botanical Magic: Moon Goddess Blessing Spell!

The tree-man that was formed from the spear of life let out a roar that seemed to come from the depths of life itself, and its wisdom was enlightened.

The trees awaken from ignorance, all things rouse from chaos, and the moonlight of the moon of evolution enters this long darkness.

The full moon appeared in the long, dark sky of ignorance, and then the treant awoke.

"Who... woke me up?"

The Spear of Life transformed into a Treant. The tree, imbued with the energy of the first-circle spell Spear of Life, the second-circle spell Life Pierce, and Edgar's ultimate magic, Return of All Things to the Tree, was transformed into a Treant under Locke's guidance.

At this moment, the tree-man was so powerful, with the canopy as its face, the roots as its legs, and the branches as its hands.

And in an instant, because it transformed into a living being and became part of Locke's ecosystem due to the Moon Goddess's blessing spell, it did not establish any magical grafting relationship or other relationship with Edgar, and thus instantly broke free from his control.

The Tree-Man with the Spear of Life bowed slightly to Locke, then swung his weapon at Edgar. "Are you the enemy of my lord?"

"The majesty of the Lord of the Forest is not to be profaned."

The next moment, the treant landed on the ground like a ferocious beast and charged towards Edgar's saintly avatar.

Edgar never expected that Locke could use the Moon Goddess Blessing Spell in this way.

The Moon Goddess Blessing Spell is simply a specialized version of the Wisdom Inspiration type of spell, a second-circle spell disassembled from the third-circle spell [Ancient Inspiration].

It was only used to enlighten the tree people.

The botanical wizard used this magic to enlighten the tree spirit, thus gaining its loyalty.

However, because breeding science and botany have developed so far apart, this magic has actually been marginalized for a long time.

Because the magic of casually creating a treant is no longer popular. Nowadays, treants are cultivated through a high-end, refined approach, requiring a large amount of magical resources to carefully nurture each one.

The practice of casually cultivating tree people was eliminated long ago.

But Edgar never expected that Locke would take the Moon Goddess Blessing spell, originally intended to enlighten the tree people, and use this support-oriented magic to forcibly enlighten the life spear he had created by stacking several spell models, and take away his control.

It can only be said that the combination of the Moon Goddess's Blessing Spell and the Moon of Evolution has created a unique and extraordinary magical path.

Before Edgar could even react, the treant had already reached him. The treant, imbued with the power of a life spear, a life-piercing strike, and its own immense magical energy, delivered a powerful punch to Edgar's face.

"Grass~"

Edgar's permanent defensive force field was torn apart in an instant, and he was sent flying backward.

Edgar's saintly avatar had just gotten up from the ground when he saw the tree-man leap into the air, pressing down on him like a Titan.

"Wow, that's amazing. Wait, I almost forgot, this is my own magic. Locke, your Moon of Evolution can directly transform an enemy's plant magic into a tree-man, that's too insidious."

Edgar quickly withdrew his ultimate magic from the tree-man and simultaneously added a second ultimate magic rune spell, [Life Spear Array], to his ultimate magic!
One after another, life spears detached from the crown of the Tree of Life as if they were free, transforming into a spear array that attacked the Tree of Life.

In an instant, the tree-man was destroyed by the massive barrage of guns.

Each of these spears within the spear formation is a powerful botanical attack spell, imbued with immense magical power!

At the same time, the Perfect Tree Treant used the "All Things Return to the Tree" technique to gather the total amount of magical pressure, and then turned its gun towards Locke like a cannon.

Locke looked surprised and was about to unleash a powerful spell, Evolution Moon, when Edgar seemed to realize something and immediately canceled his spell.

Edgar looked at Locke, sweat beading on his forehead.

'This guy, he's clearly a genius botanical wizard and breeder, yet all his magic is just god-tier magic in civil war.'

'I almost forgot. His Evolution Moon can force the evolution of my magical plants; my Time Fern died from his forced evolution before.'

'If he uses the Moon of Evolution to enhance the Moon Goddess's Blessing Spell, and employs the Peach Blossom Thorn Arrow to increase his instantaneous magical pressure output, he could transform all the Life Spears I'm using into treants.'

'In that instant, all my botanical magic crumbled... I.'

Edgar felt a chill run down his spine. Fortunately, he had calculated in advance that Locke's Great Magic Evolution Moon was itself an evolutionary light that could carry various kinds of magic.

Otherwise, he might have been used by Locke to gain a group of exceptionally powerful tree people.

Instead of the group of ordinary tree beings that Locke enlightened in the Dharma realm.

Those ordinary tree-men don't even have the combat power to join the battlefield and become fighting units.

After all, magic is constantly evolving, and even ordinary treants created at will cannot withstand the rampant magical pressure on the battlefield.

Not to mention other things.

In the audience below the Silent Throne, many wizard spectators were thoroughly enjoying the spectacle.

The exchange between Locke and Edgar just now fully demonstrated their botanical expertise and style.

Their back-and-forth exchanges, seemingly just a magical duel, were actually quite characteristic of a second-ring wizard's fighting style.

That was essentially a battle between two people's magical systems.

Second-circle wizards possess their own spell repositories, within which there exists a strict logical relationship, thus forming their spell styles.

Unlike the less developed and less established magical style of the first-circle wizards, the magical style of the second-circle wizards represents their academic system and philosophy.

Therefore, in the second stage, mentorship is far more important than in the first stage, and this will even be reflected in their spell system.

The exchange between Locke and Edgar just now has already revealed the differences and similarities between their understanding of botanical magic.

The abilities of the Evolutionary Moon's Evolutionary Magic Plant and the All Things Return to the Tree's ability to transform deathly spirituality into life energy, allowing it to become a magical turret, are all impressive.

At this moment, in the silent dimension.

Wizard Edgar looked at Locke. 'Right now, both our magic pressure and his are at 16000.'

'For every 3,000 mana points gained, a second-ring wizard gains one Great Magic Rune.' 'I have three Great Magic Runes, while he has four—no, five.'

The dark side of the moon naturally gave Locke's Great Magic an extra Great Magic Rune, and Edgar quickly realized that the legendary history books of the archaeological wizards would also give Locke the advantage of having an extra Great Magic Rune.

However, since both of them had just become second-circle wizards, their spell tables were incomplete at the moment.

Edgar has only completed two second-circle spells for himself so far, and even so, he is still considered extremely skilled.

After all, these were second-circle spells that he had already learned in the first-circle stage, but was unable to cast.

After all, he also had to learn the spell model of the Shadow Fern.

Edgar pondered, "Upon closer reflection, continuing to fight is my weakness."

"The only thing we can do is to find a way to construct a third extremely powerful magic rune."

Edgar assessed the situation and concluded that although Locke possessed five extremely powerful magic runes, his spell array was likely incomplete.

Two of them are fixed: the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow solidified from the dark side of the moon, and the spell solidified from the legendary history book, which seems to be an archaeological "historical reenactment".

As Edgar was pondering this, the sky over the Silent Dimension suddenly sank.

A heavy rain fell.

The blue Ω ring of the disc-shaped creature Omega reappeared in the sky above the plane.

Then, Locke and Edgar both saw a vision.

It refers to a rain that lasted for 100,000 years in a certain region of the wizarding world.

It was a long, heavy rain.

It lasted for a full 100,000 years.

The relentless, torrential rain submerged the world, as if a flood had fallen from the sky.

There is no hope for anything.

In this long period of despair, nature turned into an extreme state, and this part of the region was later abandoned by the wizarding world.

A flood that lasted for 100,000 years—that's the essence of the disc-shaped organism, Omega!

The disc-shaped creature Omega has officially begun preparations to descend upon this plane.

It is outside the void, locked onto this plane, and begins preparing to descend.

Although at this moment, due to Edgar and Locke, its stake in the Silent Dimension has been diluted to an extremely serious degree, it still has to risk descending for some reason.

Even if this greatly reduces the success rate of its arrival and causes significant damage to its main body.

At this moment, the Silent Plane was filled with mortals who were bewitched by the blue halo of Omega's light from the disc-shaped creatures.

Locke sensed a sense of urgency from the disc-shaped creature's attitude.

What is it so eager for?

Meanwhile, amidst these heavy rains, the seeds of the minions captured by the disc-shaped creatures during their conquest of other worlds flew out.

Rain Mantis, Waterfall Golem...

"Conquer them all!"

The disc-shaped creature Omega's voice carried a madness and a sense of erosion. "Destroy everything here, invade."

"My great, never-ending rain is about to fall. My race of servants will launch attacks on you from afar... As I possess the mortals of this plane at a faster pace, I and my servants will grow stronger every moment. The weaker the plane, the stronger I become. The more mortals accept my parasitism, the stronger I become."

Countless rain mantises appeared in the sky, and the monsters seemed to fall like raindrops, endlessly. It was unknown how many worlds this disc-shaped creature had conquered to obtain its familiar race.

At this moment, Locke finally understood the problem that the Silent Witch had once faced.

These countless apprentice-level mantises, and even special water elemental creatures of the first ring level, are all life forms within the world that have been captured and assimilated by the disc-shaped creature, Omega.

The quantity is endless.

Although they are weak to second-circle wizards, for ordinary second-circle wizards, this is an unequal, legion-level war.

This is not a legion-level war that a second-circle wizard would have to deal with.

It is a war that should be fought by wizarding academies.

The moment Omega spread rapidly throughout the world, from a wizard's perspective, the two sides were already in a state of unequal war.

At this moment, what Locke found strange was that, for some reason, this disc-shaped creature was able to bypass him and plunge into his Dharma Realm, pouring into the rain-like monster army.

'Was the first half of the Silent Holy Grail Tournament a battle between participants, and the second half a competition for survival?'

Even if you can't solve this final problem, it doesn't matter. As long as you can last longer than the other contestants, you'll win.

Locke instantly realized that the match had entered the decisive stage.

Within the realm of magic, the witch Georgina became serious.

“I see. This is indeed a very good way to demonstrate the immense magical power of my new textile science.”

"Let's end the game by seeing who can last the longest."

In the realm of Dharma, Medea, the witch who was just going through the motions and had no intention of working for the Storm Tower, stared wide-eyed in astonishment.

"What? They actually want an ordinary wizard like me to fight the minions of the disc creatures?"

"This is simply an endless batch."

She blinked and gave a wry smile.

"It's tough. I can manage to fish in troubled waters, but if it's a real fight, with my skill level, I definitely can't survive for long in this endless, relentless attack."

"However, there's always a way out. I've found a way to escape from here."

……

In the present world, Locke and Edgar exchanged a glance.

Edgar suddenly spoke up: "Locke, you and I just exchanged blows, and you found that there's no clear winner between us for now, right?"

Locke laughed and said, "It's just that I can't kill you right away, not because I can't tell the difference. There is a difference."

Edgar's brow twitched, but he said calmly, "I have a suggestion. Neither of us should be the kind of wizards who want to win by stalling for time, just getting by, and seeing who can last the longest in this endless rain, right?"

"I have a suggestion. How about we call a truce for now? I need to deal with that disc-shaped creature."

Locke looked up at the sky and saw that outside the Silent Plane, there was a colossal creature that was even larger than the Silent Plane itself.

In the distance, it could be vaguely seen that it resembled a giant jellyfish.

It is approaching the Silent Dimension.

That is Omega, which is currently challenging the crystal wall system of the Silent Plane.

Locke said, "Omega's true form possesses at least the magical pressure of the Sun Ring level. There is an insurmountable gap in magical pressure between us, like heaven and earth."

Edgar said, "I know that there is a huge gap between our strength and itss, so in terms of the format, it is not even an opponent we have to defeat. With the apocalypse coming, this thing can just be used as a backdrop. We only need a few players to decide the winner and loser to end this competition."

"But I have obsessive-compulsive disorder."

“If I don’t resolve the problem I’m facing, my obsessive-compulsive disorder will flare up. So, I don’t want to fight you right now. I need to go and solve that problem.”

Edgar looked at the approaching shadow in the sky, a shadow larger than a plane itself, and his eyes gleamed with anticipation.

"Why was this disc-shaped creature able to descend? Why was it able to parasitize the humans in this world so quickly? Why was it able to directly enter your Dharma Realm and erode your Dharma Realm?"

"It would be a real shame if we didn't figure these things out."

Locke also fell into thought.

For me, I could have simply targeted Edgar, then stormed into the Dharma Realm, found the remaining two, and won the match.

Of course, what Edgar said was also what he was thinking about.

The Dharmadhatu is extremely important to me because it is not just an ordinary kingdom or realm.

My ultimate magic is the magic of the Life School, an imitation of the lunar plane. The closer I get to the real moon, the lower the energy dissipation and the more perfect the ultimate magic becomes.

The Dharma Realm and the Moon Plane are intertwined; only with the addition of the Dharma Realm can the Moon of Evolution become powerful.

But now, that disc-shaped creature is using a method that I cannot understand, arbitrarily invading my Dharma Realm when I closed the gates of my Dharma Realm.

This made Locke feel threatened.

This is equivalent to the existence of a huge hidden door within one's own immense magic, a door that one cannot comprehend.

By now, many wizards throughout the Yunze Wetland have witnessed this, yet I still cannot understand what exactly happened.

This was something Locke could not tolerate.

Locke made a judgment in his mind that, at this moment, the most important thing for him was to solve the problem of the Dark Gate of the Dharma Realm.

The championship of this competition is not even as important as this.

The importance of knowledge far outweighs that of a mere championship.

If the Moon of Evolution has serious flaws, then this situation would be a major problem for me!
Locke gestured for Edgar to leave, watching as the saintly avatar quickly departed.

His perfect tree-man stands in the world like a green sun, and of course, cannot leave or move.

Below the Silent Throne, many wizard spectators were stunned by what they saw.

Because they rarely see wizards suddenly stop attacking their rivals to explore knowledge.

Edgar's obsessive-compulsive disorder stemmed from his belief that the strong always prevail. He couldn't stand the arrival of a disc-shaped creature that wanted to destroy the plane before his eyes.

Even if this plane has long been destroyed.

As for Locke, he had to observe this situation and find out why the disc-shaped creatures bypassed his own Dharma Realm gates and entered his own Dharma Realm.

However, their choices differed from those of the more traditional shamans in Yunze Wetland.

On the contrary, Georgina's relatively pragmatic attitude is a common choice among the local wizards of Yunze Wetland.

The wizards of Yunze Wetland are all extremely busy, their feet barely touching the ground every day. Now that the competition is nearing its end, they naturally prioritize winning and losing.

However, Locke and Edgar were quite different.

The wizards at Quinnjoll University were stunned. They all looked at the Moon Ring Witch, who shrugged.

The wizards of Golden Crown Mountain blinked and exchanged wry smiles.

At this point, only these two would disregard the outcome of the match and move around, unnecessarily increasing the unpredictability of the game.

Locke clearly had the upper hand at this moment, and he only needed to play steadily to win the championship.

The sage Fischer of the Senate was puzzled. "How can one disregard the interests of the Academy and act solely based on one's own whims on such an important occasion?"

One of the Sun Ring Wizards on the Academic Committee said, "Lord Fisher, rest assured, Locke should know what he's doing."

"Besides, you have a third-circle wizard reincarnated from your Senate participating as a supporter this time, which should be able to help him."

Wizard Fisher complained, "Your Majesty, you're not putting any effort into this at all."

……

In the Silent Dimension, Locke flew through the Dharma Realm with a grim expression. "The disc-shaped creatures completely ignored the Dharma Realm's laws and invaded this place. How did they manage that? Strange..."

"Antoine, what do you think?"

(End of this chapter)