Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 730 The Curse of the Fiery Tree and Silver Flowers

The Silent Dimension.

The leaden-gray clouds fell like rotting cotton wool, and the last ray of sunlight was swallowed up by the torrential rain. The sounds of cities being destroyed by the rain could be heard everywhere.

Even the canopy of the mental network is swaying in the wind and rain at this moment.

Factories, furnaces, and industrial cities are being destroyed.

In the apocalypse, everything that the civilization of the Silent Dimension possessed seemed so fragile and vulnerable. When the world was destroyed, even those cities would be easily swept away like duckweed.

But the strangest thing is that eerie blue lights appeared on the retinas of the people in these cities. Faced with the apocalypse, most of them did not run away, but instead accepted it.

The few people who were not infected by the disc-shaped creatures were mostly children and teenagers. These teenagers looked at the people who had stopped resisting in horror, but they did not know what to do.

It was raining heavily all around.

The cold rain continued to fall, just like the torrential rain that had never stopped for 100,000 years.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the silent plane.

In the pouring rain, Edgar's saintly avatar approached Locke and spoke directly: "It's come to an end. Locke, aren't you curious why this plane is destined to be destroyed? Why was that disc-shaped creature able to arrive so quickly?"

Why couldn't the Silent Witch save this plane a thousand years ago?

The wizard Edgar spoke up, "I have a suggestion, though I'm not sure if I should. Let's cooperate."

Locke said, "Okay."

Wizard Edgar was taken aback. "You agreed so easily?"

Even the wizard Edgar thought that there was little hope of getting Locke to agree to cooperate, and that it would even require some persuasion, but he did not expect Locke to agree so readily.

Locke looked at Edgar and said, "I want to know why Omega can interfere with my Dharma realm."

Edgar paused for a moment, then said, “Then use your Evolution Moon to illuminate my Perfect Tree. If you do that, my Perfect Tree will become the ecosystem of your Evolution Moon.”

The wizard Edgar spoke in a deep voice: "Before I approached you, I wanted to exchange a piece of information with you to get your agreement to make a deal with me. Equivalent exchange is the principle of our wizards' transactions."

"But I didn't expect you to agree so easily."

Edgar began, “When I saw your Evolution Moon, I was thinking about it. Your Evolution Moon is an extremely powerful spell for botany. The spells you added to it, such as the Moon Goddess Blessing and the Cycle of Generations, are old-fashioned spell models in botany, but they have given this extremely powerful spell a new life and given them new value.”

"So, what would happen if your Moon of Evolution shone on an enormous magical plant?"

"Furthermore, I have an idea for the evolution of the Tree of Life, which I have been unable to realize. But after seeing your Moon of Evolution, I feel that there is a way to make it happen."

"Therefore, I will help you perfect your Moon of Evolution!"

Edgar handed Locke a spell model. "This is the spell I designed, 'Fire Tree and Silver Flowers Spell'!"

Locke quickly flipped through the magic book he had given himself and immediately understood what it was.

This is clearly part of the "All Things Return to the Tree" spell, the essence of which is to give a magical plant a special fire attribute.

Edgar developed this magic probably to give his Tree of Life fire attributes. Locke deduced from Edgar's thinking that he seemed to want the spell model of "All Things Return to the Tree" to have a furnace to process the energy of all things that return to the tree.

In this way, the Tree of Perfection is no longer a filter for the spirituality of death.

This could even give the Tree of Perfection more ability to deal with death energy, or even create a preliminary destination for it.

'If the Tree of Perfection possesses fire attributes, following this line of thought would create a deathly spiritual filter, and if it continues to develop, if it reaches the solar cycle stage, the Tree of Perfection might even... constitute a complete cycle.'

'Then the Tree of All Things can be said to be truly perfect.'

Locke saw through Edgar's line of thinking. If his own Evolutionary Moon was developing towards the evolution of plants, then Edgar's "All Things Return to the Tree" was developing towards the cycle of plants.

The two of them can be said to have embarked on different parts of botany during the second stage.

But at this moment, the two decided to cooperate.

Edgar said, "Although the Fire Tree Silver Flower Spell has been successfully developed, it cannot truly give my Ancient Tree of Life the attribute of fire. It can only temporarily attach the power of fire to my Ancient Tree of Life, with the two temporarily merging to create the illusion that the Ancient Tree of Life has permanently acquired the attribute of fire. But after seeing your Evolution Moon, I believe that this magic can be completed through the Evolution Moon."

"This is my gut feeling. You see, can you do it? Locke."

Locke nodded slightly. He quickly flipped through the Fire Tree and Silver Flower Spell and learned that it was the same spell that permanently enchanted the Ancient Tree of Life.

The botany and breeding processes at the entire first stage are not capable of forcibly and permanently increasing the attributes of a magical plant.

But this becomes possible in the second ring road phase.

But usually it's just an enchantment, which is to give a magical plant another attribute, either permanently or temporarily, through botanical magic.

Unfortunately, what Edgar needed wasn't just a simple enchantment of a magical plant with an attribute, nor was a permanent one.

What he needs is for the Tree of Life to truly generate fire attributes.

That would require changes at the level of plant essence.

Edgar's overall research approach was clearly completely wrong; in the field of evolution, he certainly didn't go as far as I have.

After he went in the wrong direction, all the research he continued to do was completely counterproductive.

It's like being at a fork in the road and taking the wrong path. No matter how hard you try or how fast you accelerate, you'll only go further and further down the wrong road.

Locke pondered for a moment, but using only the Moon Cultivation Method, the [Fiery Tree and Silver Flowers] technique could indeed be used to complete the transformation of a magical plant at the plant essence level.

Because the Moon Cultivation Method allows dimensional information to flow back into the magical plant, absorbing external information, and once the Fire Tree Silver Flower is associated with the Moon of Evolution, the enchanted information created by the Fire Tree Silver Flower can be enchanted and then transferred into a magical plant.

Locke even considered more possibilities, because the [Fire Tree and Silver Flowers] spell was like an enchanted blade, and the Moon's Cultivation Law could force plants to expose their plant essence and absorb all information from their surroundings—information from the surrounding planes, or information from the enchanted blade itself.

One can use the Fire Tree Silver Flower as a medium to infuse other plant attributes into the magical plant, thus giving the magical plant multiple attributes.

Of course, we can only study this in detail after the competition.

If the Moon Cultivation Method can force the plant essence to expand externally, then the Fire Tree Silver Flower Spell is like a tool that allows one to add the necessary information when using the Moon Cultivation Method.

Even... cutting out information you don't need.

Locke looked up at Edgar, whose idea had saved him ten to twenty years of research and significantly advanced his magical abilities.

In fact, if it weren't for Edgar, he wouldn't have even realized that he could optimize the Moon Cultivation Method by using enchanting spells from botany, and that he could use the enchanted sword [Fire Tree Silver Flower] to construct the dimensional information he needed and didn't need.

Locke was deeply moved. Edgar truly lived up to his reputation as the wizard he knew with the greatest talent in breeding.

After discussing it with him for a while, my ideas about the Moon of Evolution became more refined.

Locke said, "Edgar, your great magic lacks the necromancy component. To complete your idea of ​​the Tree of Reincarnation, you need a great deal of necromancy knowledge."

Edgar nodded and said, “I know. But there is a serious conflict between the School of Life and the School of Spirituality. If I were to learn necromancy, I would only end up looking like a monster.”

"I want to replace the magic of the spiritual school with the plant cycle part of the life science botany."

Locke said, "It's possible, but it's a bit of a stretch. Do you know anything about archaeology?"

Locke gave a brief explanation of archaeology, and Edgar's eyes grew brighter as he listened.

Locke said, "Archaeology can also fill this gap in your knowledge. If you can acquire first-level archaeology magic, then your idea of ​​a great magic can probably be realized."

"Let's make a trade. I have a copy of a level one archaeology knowledge here. Consider it my exchange for your Fire Tree Silver Flower Spell."

Locke snapped his fingers, and the legendary history book appeared, summoning the archaeological information—a ball of light—and exchanging it with Edgar.

Locke quickly read through the Fire Tree and Silver Flower Spell and, with the help of Antoine and the Preston Witch, completed it.

Then, the Moon of Evolution shone upon the Perfect Tree. Since this time there was no need to evolve the first-ring magic plant into a second-ring magic plant, Locke only needed to draw back 10% of the Zero Magic Potion from his group of treants and inject it into the Perfect Tree.

As the moonlight of the Evolutionary Month flows, the Perfect Tree automatically enters a state of releasing plant essence and absorbing information from external planes.

At this moment, a huge uproar erupted among the audience below the Silent Throne.

The Silent Grail has been held for over two hundred years, but no contestant has ever cooperated at the last moment.

The wizards of Yunze Wetland are extremely competitive, and each of them even wishes they had forty-eight hours in a day.

Performance is the highest metric in this wizarding land.

Therefore, in all the many editions of the Silent Grail War, none of the participants who have reached this level have ever chosen to cooperate; they have always tried every means to achieve victory as quickly as possible!
This year also marks the first time that two contestants have chosen to collaborate!
The wizards from this wizarding land are all accustomed to involution; when they participate in competitions, they place even greater emphasis on efficiency.

Therefore, no wizard has ever chosen to cooperate during the apocalypse of the Silent Dimension.

But unfortunately, neither Locke nor Edgar were native wizards of Yunze Wetlands!

This year's Silent Grail has two contestants who are not native wizards, which is unusual in itself.

Moreover, they fought until the very end.

For Edgar and Locke, wizards who rose through the ranks from the lower wizarding lands, the competition was important, but the most important thing was the meaning behind it.

But this is precisely what the wizards of Yunze Wetland cannot understand, which is why their reaction is so strong.

Chad and Rush were both participants in the previous competition and were native wizards of Yunze Wetland. Therefore, neither of them could understand why Locke and Edgar would cooperate at this time, or what the basis of their cooperation was!
There was a lot of discussion on the field.

The seven judges, all of whom were Sun Ring Wizards, exchanged glances, each seeing surprise in the other's eyes.

Even they didn't expect things to turn out this way.

"How many times has the Silent Grail been held? I've never seen the participants cooperate at the last minute. Have they forgotten that this is a competition? The end of the world may not have been their concern."

"These two are incredibly competitive. In my estimation, they genuinely want to solve the problem of the apocalypse. It's hard to believe, but that's the biggest basis for their cooperation. Otherwise, there's no reason for them to cooperate at this time."

"This...this trait is indeed something that the native wizards of Yunze Wetland rarely possess. It's truly surprising."

"That's why Yunze Wetland needs to absorb talented people from outside the shaman community to inject fresh blood into our Yunze Wetland."

Within the Silent Dimension, the Perfect Tree was enveloped in moonlight. Under the Moon of Evolution, it received a wealth of information about the Fallen Rain Realm. As it was a second-ring level magical plant, it was not incapable of withstanding the pressure.

At the same time, flames gradually appeared on the branches and leaves of the Tree of Perfection.

It possesses fire attributes.

One set of Rain Realm Plant Essence and one set of Flame Plant Essence were incorporated into the Perfect Tree's Plant Essence Sequence by Locke.

This caused moon and flame patterns to appear on the Perfect Tree.

The Tree of Perfection seemed to transform into a fiery tree, releasing dazzling light in mid-air, like a tree in flames radiating the brilliance of the sun.

Having adapted to the Rain Realm environment, the Perfect Tree directly activated the "All Things Return to the Tree" technique. In an instant, all the water in the Silent Dimension flew towards the Perfect Tree.

Edgar saw this and grinned.

"Hahahaha... Locke, I'll admit you won this time. Your Evolution Moon, as a great botanical spell, is truly amazing."

"It actually allows my Perfect Tree to possess both water and fire attributes!"

(End of this chapter)