Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 725 Generational Alternation and the Fallen Rain World Plant Essence, and Horizontal Gene Transfer!
At this moment, many wizards in the Golden Crown Mountain audience area stood up from their seats, each showing an expression that was not as surprised as those from other wizarding academies.

It actually completed the evolution.

Without using any known two-ring cultivation method or the five major cultivation methods, but using a special cultivation method, a single Lygodium japonicum plant was cultivated into a two-ring Lygodium japonicum plant in such a short period of time!
Even if it looks like a wild magical plant!
The wizard Fisher remained unusually silent. He was somewhat suspicious that Locke was not someone Catherine the witch had brought back from outside. Otherwise, what a coincidence it would be to invite such a wizard back from outside?

Perhaps, as early as ten years ago, the witch Catherine was cultivating him outside and meticulously luring him back to Yunze Wetland!
This is not impossible.

The Senate has done this before.

The wizards on the academic committee, while surprised, all applauded Locke.

Becoming a second-circle wizard is the first step into the wizarding world, allowing one to see a glimpse of its true nature.

Today, they have gained another companion on their journey to explore the truth.

Jinmian Mountain has gained another excellent breeder!

All the wizarding factions in the Golden Crown Mountain region had different thoughts upon witnessing this scene.

The wizards of the Demon Pivot felt more envy and jealousy, feeling that the addition of another excellent breeder to Golden Crown Mountain was a blow to them.

The wizards at Kungudin Academy simply appreciate the art, while the wizards at Everlasting Radiance Hall and Sandbar Tower are quite different.

Meanwhile, a second-ring academy dean from the Seven-Colored Nursery looked up at the scene, his eyes gleaming. "It looks like a very powerful private breeding method."

"It would be wonderful if we could invite this outstanding breeding expert to give a lecture in the Red Garden of our Seven Colors Nursery and open a course like this."

The Seven-Colored Nursery was cultivated by Mount Golden Crown specifically to enhance the influence of wizarding academies like Kungudin Academy and Nexus City within the Mount Golden Crown region. It has a de facto alliance with Mount Golden Crown and naturally receives many of its favors.

At this moment, the headmaster of the second-circle wizarding academy dared to dream that he might be able to invite Locke to the Seven Colored Nursery, where Locke was located, to give a special open class, thereby enhancing the prestige of the Seven Colored Nursery and the Red Garden.

The Seven-Colored Nursery has a total of seven gardens, among which the Red Garden is the most powerful and also the one that most advocates an alliance with Golden Crown Mountain.

Meanwhile, the wizard agents representing the two shops, Melochy and Solas, all looked grim, as if they had lost their parents.

Things are going in the direction they least want to see.

What both families found most unacceptable was that Locke, representing Mount Golden Crown, won the Silent Holy Grail Tournament.

They could almost foresee how their store alliance's stock price would plummet tomorrow.

If Locke wins the Silent Grail Championship, his Augustus Wizard Shoes will become a champion brand. The most troublesome thing is that things will change once he becomes a second-ring wizard.

Several people looked at each other.

Capitalists usually appear to be polite and civilized gentlemen, but when faced with something that could cause them to lose a lot of money, the wizard agents of these shop alliances, and even some wizard shareholders, have a fierce glint in their eyes.

Capital will stop at nothing to increase its own value.

It may even seize the wizard's subjectivity.

Inflating assets for the sake of inflating them, completely detaching themselves from people.

At this moment, the atmosphere between the wizard agents and wizard shareholders had become extremely strange.

On the other side, in the audience section of Mithril Law Firm, Hussein was sitting in his seat, holding the case files, working and watching the game at the same time.

His senior partner, standing beside him, smiled and said to Hussein, "You said before that this was your friend, that's good, young Hussein. You should cherish this kind of quality friend."

"I think he's in a lot of trouble."

The senior partner at Mithril Law Firm looked at Solas and Melochy's group with a smile in his eyes.

"Those of us in this line of work can't be slow to react; we have to be proactive in identifying conflicts between people. We even have to be aware of them before they occur."

"It looks like your friend is going to be embroiled in legal trouble for a while now. Or maybe even worse."

Hussein laughed and said, "Ever since the first day I met Locke, I've felt that he's always been caught in a vortex of trouble."

Meanwhile, Hoo Brooks, a wizard from Quinjoll University, narrowed his eyes and smiled, saying to his friend, Master Milady from Cassilos University of the Arts, "I told you that kid was amazing. I said he would become a second-ring wizard before, and now I say he will become a sun-ring wizard."

"So confident?" asked Milady, a master at the Casiros Art University.

“A Sun Ring Wizard is different. They need to forge a great magic four times. They can call themselves a great wizard in the Cloud Marsh Wetlands.”

"Don't make any definitive statements, leave some room for maneuver. Prophet brother, it's time to retract your magic. The market is harder to predict than a girlfriend. Leave some room for maneuver, and keep up your cool factor, so that our accuracy rate can stay high."

Master Hao smiled dismissively. "This is not a prophecy. He has already taken the first step that distinguishes ordinary wizards from those of the Sun Ring Wizard: to have his own unique style."

"As expected of a student nurtured by that throne, he already possessed the potential to become a Sun Ring Wizard when he first became a Second Ring Wizard. Second Ring Wizards exhibit a strong [systematic tendency], but in this world, there are many wizards with other people's systems, but very few wizards with their own systems."

Milady the wizard remained silent, but a third-ring witch from Cassilos University of the Arts standing beside them suddenly spoke up: "I think it's much harder to inherit someone else's system than to create your own. Inheriting someone else's system requires a lot more research into high-ring wizards, while your own system... even a first-ring wizard can try."

"What this world truly lacks are wizards who can properly pass on the system. Most wizards chatter away like larks, always talking about creating their own things, but in the end, they haven't even preserved the systems created by the great wizards of the past."

The black and white witch spoke up, "I think this wizard has also fallen into this trap."

Wizard Hao countered, "On the contrary, the issue is quite complex. Under a system of equal quality, creating a new system is certainly more difficult than inheriting one. But ultimately, most wizards' so-called creation of a system is just the creation of one or two minor spells, which may have already been done by others."

“Creating a system and having your own style is not as good as a wizard who honestly learns other people’s magic system.”

"Only by undergoing professional academic training can one truly possess the ability to create one's own system... This is precisely the significance of the existence of our seven top-tier universities in Yunze Wetland."

The third-ring witch, with half black and half white hair, retorted, "Second-ring wizards are only just beginning to experience the true cruelty of the wizarding world; how can they possibly create their own systems?"

"Even a Sun Ring Wizard only needs to improve upon the existing system, which is enough. In the end, it's impossible to truly have your own system throughout the entire Second Ring stage. You know what I mean."

“Master Hao, I have a different opinion from yours.”

"That was just a wizard with some magical knowledge and a talent for breeding, but to say that he would definitely become a Sun Ring is not certain. There are too many unexpected things in this world."

Wizard Hao smiled and looked at the black and white witches of Cassilos University of the Arts. Cassilos University of the Arts has always been known for its mavericks, and the witches in this college are all argumentative.

Therefore, he had no intention of continuing the argument.

Moreover, the Black and White Witches are always arrogant and difficult to persuade.

If she could be persuaded by him, she wouldn't be an artist.

Wizard Hao looked at Wizard Milady and whispered, "Let's make a bet. I still believe that child will become a Sun Ring Wizard within ten years."

"How about we make a bet on a three-ring magic weapon?"

Milady's eyes lit up. "Alright. But I also have high hopes for that child."

The black and white witch immediately started arguing, though she was just arguing for the sake of arguing.

Furthermore, it is indeed not easy for a wizard to become a Sun Ring, as there are too many unexpected events that can interrupt the process.

A Sun Ring Wizard represents a special achievement, the final step towards becoming a Third Ring Wizard.

Every wizard who can become a Sun Ring Wizard in Yunze Wetland is not an ordinary wizard.

A Sun Ring Wizard is like the sun in the endless void; once you become a Sun Ring Wizard, your status will rise to another level.

So, she was naturally willing to make the bet. "Then I'll bet with you, Prophet Hao. I'll bet on a third-ring magic artifact."

"I bet he won't become a Sun Ring Wizard within ten years."

The surrounding wizards couldn't help but glance over, especially some of the Sun Ring wizards, who raised their eyebrows and showed expressions of incomprehension.

Is becoming a unicorn ring really that simple?

A ten-year bet?
Would it be more appropriate to use thirty years or fifty years?

However, since the bet was made by two third-ring wizards, although the other sun-ring wizards were somewhat dissatisfied, none of them dared to say anything.

Many level-one breeders were whispering among themselves, discussing how Locke managed to evolve a magical plant into a level-two magical plant in such a short time.

His cultivation method seems to be related to a magic potion.

But after discussing it for a long time, they still couldn't reach a conclusion, so they had no choice but to look at Locke's past writings.

One of the tower masters of the Tower of Transformation, a Sun Ring Wizard, scanned all of Locke's articles downloaded from the Water Hyacinth System and shook his head slightly. "The number of articles published by this breeder is astonishing, a whopping sixteen in one section."

"But he hasn't really mentioned how he quickly evolved the magical plants. I guess he hasn't had time to publish an article yet; this might be his most recent achievement."

A group of Sun Ring Wizards were somewhat disappointed.

After all, this breeding method is not important in other aspects, and the breeding effect is not very good. For a true second-level breeder, it is just a useless thing. But its greatest use is efficiency!
Evolving a second-ring magical plant within an hour is incredibly efficient, regardless of the cost, and is enough to attract them.

It's a pity that Locke hasn't released it yet; it will probably take some time before he announces the method.

Even if they wanted to reverse engineer it, they had no information at the moment, and these wizards were clueless.

After all, Locke's Moon Cultivation Method was developed through multiple stages of discovery and research, with the most important milestone being the Dune Plane to which the witch Catherine arranged for him to go.

Locke even suspected that the witch Catherine might have known about the existence of the Dune people all along. There was also a stage involved: the Zero Potion.

Both of these stages are rare and precious.

Even ordinary wizards, including those with a solar ring, would find it difficult to meet these two conditions.

In the audience area of ​​the Rose Council, the witch Lana smiled and said to the witch Nina, "See? I told you this kid was pretty good."

"Now you know?"

Nina the Witch laughed and said, "I should be the one saying that. I was one of the judges for his first-class grant defense at the Institute of True Knowledge back then."

……

In the silent plane, Locke looked at the sea sage in his hand, and saw that there were many sapphire-like spores around the sea sage.

At the same time, he grasped the magical plant shaped like a spiral staircase of ice crystal crown, then turned and swung it towards the swarm of rain mantises in the sky in the distance. At the same time, two emerald green rings appeared on his right hand—Second Ring Botany Spell: One Tree Cannot Support It!

This is a second-circle spell from the Aura Ecological Spellbook. Back then, recommended by the witch Catherine, he read the Aura Ecological Spellbook countless times. Even though he hadn't constructed this second-circle spell during the first-circle stage, he now had the ability to quickly use this spell, which he had memorized thoroughly from his previous study of ecological spells.

Locke chanted the incantation, "The Lone Tree Cannot Support the Tree," a spell from the Aura Ecological Spells used to control universal second-circle magical plants.

It is also common in other spell systems of second-circle botany, and each one is a classic botanical spell when taken out on its own.

This spell is similar to the "All Plants Are Soldiers" spell used during the apprentice stage; it possesses the power to control universal second-ring magical plants and can control any second-ring magical plant.

At this moment, under Locke's use of the general botanical spell, the second-ring sea gold sand in Locke's hand quickly rolled inward, transforming into a spiral spear. Around the spiral spear hung ice crystal droplets that looked like icy blue gems, which were actually spores floating around.

Then, Locke swung his hand forward.

In an instant, countless ice crystal droplets and gems shot forward.

In an instant, all the rain mantises that stood in his way were torn to pieces.

'What is this?' Locke looked at the Golden Fern Spear in his hand. After the Sea Gold Sand became a second-ring magical plant, it seemed that the vascular bundles, as the plant's material transport system, underwent a special evolution, producing a very efficient central bundle energy-locking structure.

Furthermore, the leaves of the sea lynx have developed many stomata, which continuously absorb moisture from the air, creating a kind of "vortex" that can transform water vapor. By increasing water vapor, the external energy required for the combination and transformation of various special energy substances is reduced.

In other words, by using water vapor as a threshold to lower the energy reaction, the ability to convert water vapor into energy is indirectly obtained.

Because the evolution of this magical plant was caused by the reverse flow of dimensional information from the Fallen Rain Realm of the Disc Creatures, this Sea Gold Sand plant seemed to have naturally adapted to the 100,000 years of heavy rain. Not only did its combat power not decrease in the heavy rain, but its combat power became exceptionally strong.

Although it is just a wild plant without any design, in this... the home ground of the disc-shaped creature Omega, its combat power has been forcibly enhanced, giving it a very strong fighting ability!

The magical plants cultivated using the Lunar Cultivation Method in the Leap Evolution Mode possess inherent adaptive combat characteristics.

What we need is not the strongest ability, but the ability to adapt to the environment!
At this moment, the raindrops transformed into a sky full of bullets, streaking across the sky. The astonishing water elemental conduction ability, water elemental magic conversion power, and water elemental magic absorption rate caused this second-circle botanical magic to be unable to withstand the force alone. After fully utilizing its original power, it produced a rain of bullets that covered one-third of the sky in the present world.

One after another, the rain pebbles inside the bodies of the rain mantises were pierced by raindrop bullets.

Fierce!

This is all because, under the influence of the Fallen Rain Realm, his Second Ring Sea Gold Sand possesses three key plant factors within the Rain Realm plant essence group—

Whirlpool plant factor,
Superhydrophobic water-bundle tubes

Porous water film on the blade.

This set of Fallen Rain Realm plant essences granted this Second Ring Sea Gold Sand plant a powerful ability to manipulate water flow.

Many wizard spectators who witnessed this scene immediately recognized the various second-level plant factor characteristics of the sea ginseng in Locke's hand.

This indicates that the magical plant in Locke's possession underwent a [horizontal gene transfer], also known as [non-vertical inheritance]. This refers to the process by which the magical plant acquires special plant essence from other species or sources through non-reproductive means.

Locke's Moon Cultivation Method utilizes a large amount of dimensional information and power to accelerate the evolution of magical plants in a very short period of time. In essence, it is an atypical form of horizontal gene transfer.

This is something Locke, as the founder of the Moon Cultivation Method, only understood after becoming a second-circle wizard.

In the early stages of plant evolution, plants already relied on the essence of many foreign species, such as bacteria and fungi. The reverse flow of information from another dimension is essentially just using the evolutionary power of another dimension to shorten this process.

This is also because the magical plants cultivated using the Moon Cultivation Method are essentially playing with very few new concepts or structures, but rather evolving into classic structures.

In particular, the second-ring magical plant traits produced by utilizing the Fallen Rain Realm are basically classic second-ring magical plant traits.

Therefore, the wizards in the audience all looked quite familiar.

Even so, these classic second-ring magical plant traits, when combined, do indeed constitute a completely new set of plant essences.

Therefore, this is not a major problem; it is simply the mechanism of the Moon Cultivation Method that determines the evolutionary direction of the cultivated magical plants.

The essence of the Lunar Cultivation Method is probably that it utilizes the instinct of plants to steal the essence of other things.

Locke needed to study this point more carefully.

Locke's attack temporarily wiped out the Rain Mantises and Waterfall Golems in the mortal realm. At the same time, the Treant population in the magic realm launched a counterattack. After evolving into Apprentice-level Treants, the Treants' strength greatly increased, and they adapted to the Rain Realm's climate.

Locke noticed that Medea's magical pressure suddenly disappeared from the mortal and magical realms of the Silent Dimension. It seemed that she had used the remnants of the extraterrestrial meteor left by the wizard Smith on the crystal wall system in the mortal realm, and transformed them into a simple and unsafe void flying machine. Then she sat in the flying machine and plunged into the Fallen Rain Realm of the disc-shaped creature Omega.

Originally, her actions would have certainly led to her death.

Because once she leaves this world, the virtual world stone within her body will disappear, and she will fall out of the second-ring wizard class. A first-ring wizard is very vulnerable in the void.

However, because Omega's dimensional gravity has locked onto the Silent Dimension, constantly drawing everything from the Silent Dimension toward it, this makes it possible for her to travel to the Disc Dimension.

Locke understood her thoughts in an instant.

At this moment, despite all her efforts, she only managed to obtain a second-circle wizard experience card and construct a large-scale magical model. However, she judged that she could not gain anything more here, so she had to find a way out.

At this moment, outside the Silent Dimension, they were already being watched closely by the people of the Storm Tower.

She had nowhere to escape, neither in heaven nor on earth.

Therefore, her only escape route was to leave the Silent Dimension, enter the Void, and enter the world of the Disc Creatures.

The disc creatures possess the characteristic of unifying all timelines, so as long as she enters a disc creature, she can leave its body, enter the void, and return to other parts of the Wizarding World.

Of course, this is just an easy way of saying it; in reality, every step is a path fraught with peril.

For example, that disc world is a world where there is no chance of survival.

Despite her immense sacrifices and numerous risks, she still failed to achieve what she desired: to become a true second-circle wizard.

But this is not surprising.

For many formal wizards, the breakthrough from a first-ring wizard to a second-ring wizard is like an insurmountable chasm.

Medea's gains from this trip were significant enough for an ordinary, formal wizard; it was an opportunity to construct a model for a massive form of magic.

As long as we don't consider who she offended.

At this moment, Omega roared angrily in the sky, seemingly extremely dissatisfied with Locke's act of intercepting his dimensional information, infusing it into his own magical plant, and evolving it into a second-ring magical plant.

Instantly, countless torrential rains transformed into waterspouts and attacked Locke.

Water tornadoes pierced towards Locke.

That was Omega in his true form, as a fallen water god, making his move.

This shows that its power has risen to a new level after this period of time.

At that moment, Locke swung his Ice Blue Fern Spear, and in an instant, all the water tornadoes were broken by the Sea Gold Sand in his hand.

This is the power of the sea ginseng itself; I merely used the general botanical attack magic "A Single Tree Cannot Support It" to control it.

This sea lily, having gained numerous advantages in the rain-affected environment, and its mastery of rainwater manipulation, subtly counters the power of Omega.

As a solar-level creature, Omega's true power cannot be unleashed, nor can it display all its characteristics, as its actual body is far beyond the world.
Locke said, "Let's call this magical plant 'Manipulating Arrows - Sea Gold Sand'."

"Meanwhile, Omega, I've finally figured out your tricks. This match should end now."

At this moment, pieces of cloth appeared around Locke, falling around him, rolling on the ground, and spreading out in a scattered circle.

Clearly, it was Georgina the Witch who was using powerful magic against herself.

Locke raised the Manipulating Arrow - Sea Sand and used the second second-circle magic under the Aura Ecological Spell System - Generation Alternation!
Meanwhile, with the help of Antoine and Preston, he quickly added the Great Magic Rune to this Great Magic.

This is also the second second-circle spell that I have chosen for my own Evolution Moon, to be incorporated into it as part of the forging process!
Like the saying "One tree cannot support another," the generational change is a classic spell and a key second-circle spell in the Aura Ecological Spell system.

Georgina the witch's voice came into Locke's ear. "Locke, this is the spell I've been preparing for you for a long time."

Locke's fern spear trembled, continuously scattering spores into the air.

These spores rapidly transform into gametophytes in the moisture-filled air.

(End of this chapter)