Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 721 Edgar, I'll make you admit defeat wholeheartedly!
Antoine said to Locke, "Locke, I don't know what happened either. Observe within this realm for a while, and the Preston Witch and I will help you think about it and discuss it with you."

Behind Locke appeared the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow, which used a first-circle botanical spell, Banana Wings, to fly over the Dharma Realm. In a very short time, it surveyed the Dharma Realm and encountered several Rain Mantises along the way.

These rain mantises are as white as rainwater, like transparent bubbles, with a pebble core inside their bodies.

They resemble a praying mantis in shape, are about the same height as a person, have four legs, and a pair of hooked legs.

These rain mantises move through the rain in a very unique way. Basically, it's as if the rain and they are one. They are not passing through the rain, but rather merging with it. Therefore, their movement is not continuous, but flashing and discontinuous.

In the blink of an eye, you can move from one point to another.

However, Locke's magical pressure was like a vast ocean pressing down, and the apprentice-level rain mantises disintegrated before they could even get close.

Only the three-headed Rain Mantis, with a magic pressure of about 1000 at the first level, manifested a [Magic Pressure Shell] similar to an [Elemental Shell] in its soul manifestation. It rushed in front of Locke, raised its mantis claws, and attacked Locke.

The tail of the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow behind Locke swung past. With the support of the immense magic at this moment and the absolute advantage of the magic pressure, even a single first-level spell caused a first-level magic plant to display incredible power.

The next moment, the three rain mantises were cut in half at the waist, and the cores of the three rain flower stones shattered in horror.

At this time, there were still hundreds of such first-ring level rain mantises in the Dharma realm. These rain mantises were creatures that were captured by the disc-shaped creatures, transformed into disc-shaped worlds, and transformed into life forms.

Although they are all ordinary first-level magical creatures with only basic elemental shells, their sheer number makes them a formidable force.

If Locke were at the first ring stage, the presence of the elemental shell would require him to use many spells to kill even one of these rain mantises. However, being at the second ring stage, he destroyed three in an instant.

However, there were at least a hundred such rain mantises within the Dharma Realm at this moment, and the Disc World was still being invested in, so Locke frowned.

For a second-ring wizard, a group of ten such creatures would be a piece of cake. After all, they are not first-ring wizards, but a group of life forms that are only at the first-ring stage due to their innate bloodline, and their strength is limited.

They act solely on instinct and limited wisdom.

But if there were a hundred of these creatures, that would be a bit of a problem.

If there are thousands of such creatures, then things get complicated.

What if there were thousands upon thousands of such creatures?
That was a small-scale interdimensional war. Locke, as a second-ring wizard, should have had some first-ring wizards and wizard apprentices as commanders in an interdimensional war according to the wizarding civilization. Now, as a commander without any troops, he was facing a battlefield-scale force, which naturally put him in trouble.

Meanwhile, the disc-shaped creatures continue to pour these creatures into this area, and the number is clearly astonishing. If we don't find out why the other party can still directly intervene in the Dharma Realm even when the Dharma Realm Gate is closed, then the other party will continue to pour in tens of thousands of first-ring level rain mantises, as well as countless apprentice level rain mantises.

Locke saw these rain mantises as fragile creatures to him, but as terrifying destroyers to the treants and ordinary trees within the Dharma Realm.

Destruction is happening everywhere.

Like pests in a vegetable garden.

Although I could crush the pests with one step, there were too many of them, and the Dharma realm was too vast. It would be difficult for me to completely eliminate them while walking through the vegetable garden.

The next moment, Locke traveled from the Dharma Realm back to the mortal world.

At this moment, the world was still shrouded in darkness, but in the uppermost sky, there were signs that Edgar was fighting Omega, and the entire sky was a blend of blue and green light.

Edgar's Perfect Tree Treant is projecting countless life-giving spears into the sky.

Locke, meanwhile, was flying on the ground, observing. "Although I still don't understand what happened, I do understand why the Silent Dimension was so easily invaded."

"At least it's one of the reasons why it's easy to hack."

"It's a matter of total biomass."

Under Locke's immense magic, the Preston Witch said to him, "Total biomass? This total biomass isn't too bad. The total biomass of the Silent Plane is enormous; among medium-sized planes, it has the largest number."

"It must be because they obtained the seeds of our civilization that their population is so large."

Antoine said, "The canopy that the Zorro wizard created in this world was very effective. It overcame the world's shortcomings and doubled the population."

"A population of 10 billion... In a medium-sized world, this number is quite rare. Locke, the total number of beings in the Silent Dimension is considerable; this dimension is extremely powerful."

Locke looked down at the earth. "The total biomass is large, but that's not what I'm talking about. You can't just look at the total amount of data without looking at its composition."

Antoine walked on the surface of the Moon of Evolution, looking down at the ground from the sky, and suddenly realized. "Wait, you mean plants... This world basically has no concept of the wild anymore, the industrialization of cities is extremely high. Since this world has no plants and no wild animals, the so-called biomass refers to the spirituality of these billions of humans."

Locke said, “Yes. The spiritual composition of the total biomass in this world is too homogeneous. Homogeneity easily leads to problems. So although the total biomass is large, it is still easy for disc-shaped creatures to invade. Have you noticed? The blue light of Omega Ω can parasitize the retina of human pupils, but it cannot parasitize plants.”

"Or rather, I believe it cannot parasitize beings with less than a certain degree of self-will. If the plants of the Silent Plane had more spirituality, the invasion of the disc-shaped creatures would be more difficult. Now, thanks to Edgar and I's plant magic that has transformed this world, there are already some plants in the present world, but it's still not enough."

Locke said, "That's why I don't believe Omega can truly assimilate others and make the beings of this plane become one with it. The disc-shaped creatures' ecological invasion capabilities don't include this ability. But it is indeed showing this ability now."

"Moreover, it also has the ability to invade the Dharma Realm. Where exactly is the problem?"

Locke wanted to use his super-intuitive abilities to pinpoint the problem, but this damned ability was too unstable. When he tried to use it and focused his energy, he felt his mind was completely blank.

Antoine looked thoughtful. “What you say makes sense. If the other side only possesses the ability to mislead higher intelligent life forms, then it means it doesn’t actually have the ability to assimilate the life forms in this world. It’s just deceiving us.”

The Preston Witch said to Locke, "Locke, the dragon race's supernatural abilities are something that is triggered on its own; we don't have the ability to actively trigger them. Moreover, supernatural abilities are extremely susceptible to the influence of various highly spiritual beings."

"The Omega itself is too close to us. It's a sun ring-level device."

"The spirituality at the solar ring level has undergone a fundamental change. The spiritual gravity alone is enough to interfere with your supernatural abilities. Moreover, compared to wizards, disc-shaped creatures have the advantage of an excessively large amount of magical pressure."

Disc creatures are essentially a very unique type of creature that can travel freely in the endless void.

Basically, it can be called a Void Swarm.

Their total magical pressure is basically at the dimensional level.

While the wizards' ultimate magic is unique and powerful, wizards were originally individual beings, and even with their ultimate magic, they could not compete with the total magical pressure of a plane.

Locke said, "If the number of plants in this world accounts for one-third of the total biomass, Omega will not be able to invade this world so easily."

Locke noticed this and suddenly stopped in his tracks.

The dozen or so apprentice-level rain mantises and the waterfall giant that were close to him were crushed by the magical pressure released from Locke before they could even get close.

Locke emitted a purple magical light due to the excessive release of magical pressure.

That light represents the gathering of magical pressure to a certain degree, causing a special reaction. There are countless articles in the wizarding world that study this light.

A large number of second-ring wizards have conducted related research on this.

Antoine asked with concern, "Locke, what's wrong? Why did you suddenly stop?"

Locke said, “The temporary plan has changed. In any case, that Dharma Realm is the one I intend to take with me, and those Rain Mantises are wreaking havoc within it, destroying my assets. I must stop them, and the contingency plan I left behind before the competition can now be used.”

"When this backup plan can be activated and when it can be used is not up to me, but up to the people of the Twin Demon Realms."

On the Moon of Evolution, Antoine stood on the smooth rock surface of the Moon of Evolution, next to the Golden Relic Branch, and asked in astonishment, "A backup plan? You left a backup plan before the match?"

Antoine never expected that Locke still had a trump card up his sleeve.

At this moment, the magical pressure emanating from Locke surged.

The heaven and earth shook.

The entire Silent Plane seemed to tremble before this demonic pressure.

The Silent Plane is only a medium-sized plane, while Locke's magic pressure is already at 16,000, which is far too high for the Silent Plane.

Within the magical realm, as Georgina faced the siege, she looked at Locke in astonishment. "You opened the gates to the magical realm? That makes sense; at this point, there's no need to close them. But why is Locke raising his magical pressure to its limit at this moment? What does he intend to do?"

Above the Silent Plane, the wizard Edgar looked down at the earth, a look of confusion on his face.

Locke, what are you doing? You're pushing your magical pressure to its limit. You didn't do this even when you used powerful magic before.

On the other side, Omega looked down at Locke. "These two wizards are so troublesome, damn it. At this moment, my main body has completely locked this plane using void gravity."

"Once my true form has completely devoured this plane and descends directly, I will utterly kill these few minor second-ring wizards. How dare a mere handful of little wizards offend me repeatedly?"

The disc-shaped creature Omega is an entity that exists in the endless void and is referred to as an Outer God by multiple worlds.

It uses a more common name in the endless void, not from its home wizarding world, but its academic name: Disc Creature.

Instead, it was—the Fallen Water God Omega! At this moment, in the Silent Dimension, Locke voluntarily withdrew from the state of "Doing as He Pleases Without Overstepping the Limits".

While using this state can enhance one's intelligence and other overall qualities, there is a drawback to entering this state: one's spirituality is too closely aligned with this plane, making many things inconvenient.

Especially things that are unrelated to the Silent Dimension.

At that moment, Locke did something else: he transformed the mental network into a chessboard and then threw it out.

The Duke of Westminster immediately realized that Locke had voluntarily withdrawn from the mind network!

He stood in the Imperial Hall, staring at Locke in astonishment. "How could anyone possibly give up the throne willingly?"

"Don't you want to be emperor?"

At this moment, in the sky of the Silent Dimension, Locke smiled. "I only used the Mind Network to properly study and research the ultimate magic of this world in a state of 'doing whatever I want without overstepping the bounds.' At the same time, I also wanted to find out about the emperor of this world and what was happening within the Mind Network."

The spiritual school of thought was something I had never encountered before.

This thing can't be brought out of the Silent Dimension, so it's not very useful to me to have it. On the contrary, I have to devote a lot of energy to maintaining the mental network.

Holding this thing only lowers your combat effectiveness.

Locke said, "I am a wizard, not an emperor. What do I have to be an emperor for? Grand Duke, I never intended to take over this mind network from the very beginning."

"Moreover, I want to return it to its rightful owner..."

"Zoro, I've helped you realize your original idea."

Locke stood with his hands behind his back, looking coldly in the direction of the Duke of Westminster. "Emperor, you are ultimately just an emperor, and only an emperor. So, you still haven't told me the truth."

“Since the wizard Zorro elevated you to the title of Grand Duke of Westminster before his death, it’s impossible that he didn’t make arrangements for his mental network. But you never mentioned his arrangements for the mental network, for this world, or for your successor. I know you’ve been hiding something from me.”

“You think that if you don’t tell me, I won’t know? But you’ve forgotten that I’m in a state of ‘doing whatever I want without overstepping the bounds’ in this world, and I also have the incarnation of a saint. The things you told me about Zoro’s deeds are enough for me to guess his true arrangements before his death.”

At that moment, Locke pointed at the mental network that had floated into the air.

The Duke of Westminster's lips trembled.

No.

He knows it all.

He knew about Zoro's arrangements.

How did he know?

If he knew, then what would he be?
Do not!
At this moment, the moonlight of the Evolutionary Moon descended, and Locke used the moonlight from the Moon Magic Mirror to connect the spirituality of most of the beings in this world with the Emperor chess piece.

At the same time, it was as if he had activated a hidden move that was originally left on the chessboard. The emperor piece was directly activated and began to continuously merge with those spiritualities.

Locke transmitted his voice to the world: "I solemnly inform you all that I am conveying the last wish of the wizard Zorro before his death. He wanted all of you to be your own masters. I do not know whether this is right or wrong, but out of respect for the wizard ancestor, I will fulfill his promise to make arrangements for his great magic."

In an instant, all the billions of beings in the entire Silent Plane, regardless of gender or age, had their spirituality connected to that Emperor chess piece.

The Duke of Westminster, witnessing this scene, was filled with rage and cried out, "No!"

He was plunged into despair.

Simply because he too was connected to that chess piece spiritually.

He reconnected his spirit with the Emperor's chess piece, but what good was it? At that moment, all the native inhabitants of the Silent Plane were already connected to that chess piece.

At that moment, the Duke of Westminster seemed to see that afternoon again, that study, where Zoro Rick was fiddling with the chessboard in his study. He suddenly looked up at the Duke of Westminster.

"Richard, tell me, what would the world be like if everyone were their own master and lord?"

"Based on all my knowledge, a society cannot exist without a leader. To create a canopy, there needs to be someone in charge to maintain it. The magic recorded on the seed of civilization also needs a system of ruler and subject to maintain it."

"I believe there must be someone in this world who can come up with a better solution than me, such as a better plan than my Sky Canopy Project. Perhaps they can easily solve the problem of the sky in this world. There must also be someone who can devise a mental network—a form of ultimate magic—that transcends the monarchical system. But I can't. This is the limit of my abilities..."

Zuo Luo picked up an emperor chess piece. "So I can't think of a structure other than monarch and subject. I don't think there's a more stable society than this one. So there will be emperors, grand dukes, and grand barons, but... what if we don't have a figurehead republic, but instead make everyone an emperor?"

"So, this system still works."

"My ultimate magic can still be performed."

"But everyone is their own master."

The boy, then called Rick, widened his eyes and looked at Zoro, saying, "Your Majesty, please stop. What are you saying? What you're saying is terrifying. I don't understand at all. And... I saw many people, and they were very bad."

"If they're left unchecked, they'll definitely bully the weak. They have no real power; if they did, they'd become even worse and bully even more people. Would that kind of world really be any better?"

It was Rick, the Grand Duke of Westminster, who tried to persuade his overly idealistic brother.

"Brother, although you are very powerful, but..."

"In short, it would be great if everyone could manage themselves. But it's precisely because that's impossible that emperors and kings are needed. Only with their existence can the world be managed. It's like a person can't be without a head..."

Zoro Rick, leaning on his desk, looked at Rick and suddenly laughed, "Rick, don't you believe everyone wants to be better? Don't you believe them?"

"But I believe that if we don't give them a chance to make mistakes, they won't even have a chance to become better. This world has given kings and emperors thousands of years, but I'm still not satisfied with it, so I think we should give everyone in this world a chance. As for what the future holds, I don't know."

Zoro Rick's eyes shone. "I'm an idealist, never practical. I'm sorry, Rick, I can't listen to you."

Rick said, "Your Majesty, you have read too much of the inscription on that stone. But the so-called Great World of the Other Shore recorded on that stone may not be true."

At this moment, the scene before the Duke of Westminster overlapped with the scene from that afternoon.

Then, the emperor's position in the mental network was completely integrated with the spirituality of all the natives of this world.

At the same time, a beam of spiritual light rose from the chessboard, and that white beam of spiritual light fell directly into Locke's hand.

A voice from Zoro reached Locke's ear. 'Rick, I knew you would keep my last wish. This is my gift to you.'

'I've modified the response protocol of the Mind Network; the Emperor's piece is no longer exclusive, but rather a protocol-based entity.'

"But I'm worried about the consequences of my actions. I really want to give them a chance, but I also know that things might not go as I intend. The world will be chaotic in the future, and you will become very dangerous. I'm worried about you, Rick."

"So, this is the last thing I'm giving you, a gift to repay you for keeping your promise. It's a light in my heart, a hope within me, that will guide you in crucial moments."

This was a ray of hope left behind by a powerful Star Ring Wizard. Locke's eyes flashed with surprise; he hadn't expected to have such an unexpected gain.

He was simply eager to break free from the mental network, reclaim his attention, focus it on his ultimate magic, Evolution Moon, and make use of that last trump card.

I also helped Zuo Luo fulfill his last wish.

Locke sighed, "Zoro, you trusted that Emperor Rick too much."

"Alright, now I can focus. Twin Demon Realms, I want to thank you for giving me such a powerful trump card."

At that moment, Locke suddenly put his right hand behind his back and stretched out his left hand towards the sky.

Suddenly, a hand appeared in the heavens of both the mortal realm and the Dharma realm. That hand grasped the moon in the sky, and then, as if picking up a porcelain bowl, took the moon down from the sky.

Locke laughed, "Edgar, very well. Since you've worked so hard, I'll show you how I won this match. Edgar, have you forgotten? I'm a breeder and a potion master."

“And from the very beginning of this match, I have never used any of the magic associated with these two identities.”

"Because I've been waiting for this moment."

“Edgar, I’ll make you admit defeat fair and square. I’ll show you the true power of my ultimate magic, Evolution Moon.”

Locke smiled as he pinched the moon.

　I updated 14,000 words today, so I've made up for missing one chapter. I still owe two more chapters.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)