Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 740 The End of the Soul Decay Period!

As Locke descended from the sky and landed on the Dragon Mountain Range of the Atlas Mountains, his magical pressure also increased. The period of soul decline caused by the soul limit between the first and second rings had already disappeared when he successfully became a second ring and gained a new soul level and potential.

At this moment, the powerful energy of the Dragon Devouring Species made his soul incredibly active, and his soul power suddenly increased, even surpassing the demonic pressure.

Although soul power and demonic pressure are directly proportional, they are not entirely one-to-one.

At this moment, the Dragon Devourer has temporarily doubled Locke's soul power. His soul essence has already been enhanced, so naturally his soul power can double and his combat strength will soar.

The scales of the Shepherd Dragon resembled radiant flames, and the resulting dragon calamity caused countless dragons to rise from the Dragon Mountain Range, launching attacks on all beings outside the dragon race in the surrounding area.

A series of dragon sounds appeared in Locke's ears.

Locke saw the witch Esther take out a second-circle enchanted plant, the Star-Attracting Rose, from her astral ring. The red rose petals had many illusory gravitational filaments that drooped down, and starlight scattered below these dazzling gravitational filaments.

The imaginary roots of the Starry Rose seem completely different from those of the Time Shadow Fern. Its imaginary roots appear to be more advanced and have a main root, rather than shallow and sparse roots without a distinction between main and secondary roots.

The Star-Attracting Rose, like a pagoda, hovered over Esther's head, carrying her into the horde of dragons. At the same time, the rose emitted a stellar gravitational pull, transforming into an invisible barrier that blocked the attacks launched by countless dragons against her.

At this moment, countless flying dragons were everywhere, both in the sky and on the ground, making the whole world seem as if it were made up of flying dragons.

The dragon was unable to stop and was pushed by its companions to crash into the Star-Attracting Rose. The star's gravity acted on it, and the dragon was instantly blasted into pieces.

Meanwhile, the dragon behind it was forced to crash directly into the Star-Guiding Rose.

At this moment, the group of dragons also interfered with the Sith wizard and Celtic wizard who were responsible for intercepting Esther, as well as several other wizards.

When Locke saw this, his dragon eyes suddenly shrank, because he had seen this scene before.

I once saw in the Curse of History Replay that the Land of Six Towers was attacked by countless dragons in the ancient past, and that the Land of Six Towers even had a large number of second-circle wizards at that time.

The six white towers of the Land of Six Towers are a crucial barrier against the hordes of dragons.

So, during that period of time, did the Dragon Disaster directly impact the Land of Six Towers?
But why the land of the six towers? Or is it that the Dragon Plague once attacked all the wizarding lands?
Or perhaps the six white towers of the Land of Six Towers served other purposes besides being a barrier?
At this moment, Locke heard one dragon roar after another. Suddenly, a powerful, loud, and terrifying dragon roar exploded in his ears, causing his dragon eardrums to bleed.

'What's going on? This natural barrier is truly strange; no wonder it can block out various wizarding lands. Even though I transformed into a two-ringed dragon using a world artifact, I suddenly heard a dragon's roar in my ear just now.'

That seemed to be a warning, telling me to get out of the chasm as soon as possible, or something terrible would happen.

It seemed to be very politely reminding me that even though we're all dragons, I can't truly belong in this insurmountable barrier.

Locke twisted the dragon's head and looked into the depths of the insurmountable barrier.

Previously, he could only sit in the wizard airship and look at the outer edge of the chasm region, but now he is a second-ring being who can directly see the flow of dimensional power with the naked eye.

Locke saw that these insurmountable lands were filled with alien dimensional powers different from those in the Wizarding World.

Moreover, this place is different from the second sky.

These alien dimensional forces are interconnected, and also connected to all the dragons on the Dragon Mountain Range, together forming dozens of bizarre dimensional forces in a life-like state.

In other words, for life forms below the second ring, when they arrived at the Dragon Mountain Range, all they could see were flocks of flying dragons covering the entire mountainside.

However, for those in the second ring, they could see bizarre life forms suspended upside down in the sky, composed of dimensional power. These life forms resembled dragons but were not dragons.

Each of them had three pairs of dragon wings and multiple deformed heads resembling dragon heads. Their eyes glowed red, and they hung upside down in the sky, like alien demon gods. Their gazes were fixed on the earth, and they looked at all those who had entered the Heavenly Barrier with malicious eyes. At the same time, they looked into the distance and looked at the Cloud Marsh Wetland Wizard Land with malicious eyes.

A question popped into Locke's mind. 'What...what are these things? Why are there so many strange powers in the wizarding world? If it was something that devoured other worlds without digesting them—that was my previous guess—that doesn't seem right now.'

'The power of the second sky and this chasm-like land is actually...'

In Locke's eyes, the dimensional power of the Heavenly Barrier Land and the dimensional power of the Wizard Land were circulating and transforming with each other in the ley lines, in the sky, and even in the air currents.

This shows that these dimensional powers and world principles are still part of the wizarding world.

That would be strange.

What exactly are these things that don't exist in other worlds, and how were they formed?
"This private, secret mission I took on for Professor Catherine can be considered a personal service I provided to her outside of my work at the academy."

Locke pondered, "But it's not a loss. Through this world's wonder, I can transform into a dragon, and temporarily as a true dragon, I've discovered that the Dragon Mountains, as an insurmountable barrier, aren't primarily about the dragon race itself. It seems that even foreign dragons cannot integrate into this formidable land."

'This insurmountable barrier is entirely self-contained. The energy conversion between the two planes... seems to hold a great secret. Never mind, it was just a warning anyway; I can stay here until Esther the Witch successfully escapes.'

Locke thought of this, and at the same time he saw seven vetiver spikes piercing towards his dragon wings.

This is... the magical pressure of a Celtic wizard.

The Celtic wizard appeared before him, unlike the flamboyant figure who had appeared before him before, and unlike the one who had maintained a good relationship with him later. At this moment, the Celtic wizard's face was cold, his eyes were indifferent, and his attacks were ruthless.

It was exactly the attitude of a wizard when facing a strange dragon.

The Celtic wizard swept his cold gaze at Locke, intending to use the second-circle botanical spell Model [Seven-Stage Grass Nails] to finish him off.

The Celtic wizard thought, 'It's this unruly dragon before me that caused the strange movements of the dragons in Dragon Mountain Range, triggering the dragon calamity. If I can eliminate it, I can avert the calamity.'

'If the dragon calamity awakens the dragons deeper within the Dragon Mountains, or even attracts more powerful dragons, that would be disastrous; it would never end.'

That's the crux of the Dragon Plague.

The Celtic wizard said to the other second-circle wizards of Mount Golden Crown, "You go after Esther, I'll kill this stupid dragon. You must not let her leave the Mount Golden Crown region."

The Sith wizard was already aboard a mahogany tree boat, regarding the dragon horde as the ocean, and the mahogany tree boat was flying above the sea of ​​dragons. No matter what, the dragons could not capsize the boat.

Because the dragons are like the ocean, when the sea level rises, the boats also rise; when the sea level falls, the boats also fall.

The magic of the Sun Ring Wizard had reached such a profound level that Locke, upon seeing it, was momentarily astonished and immediately realized he couldn't understand it. Mahogany is a large evergreen tree of the Meliaceae family. This magical plant is inherently suitable for making materials for void warships. In the early days of void warships, when they were still in a relatively primitive stage, people liked to use the natural wood of these magical plants to build large wooden ships and sailing ships.

Locke had seen related popular science articles before, but he never imagined that mahogany could be used so exquisitely by a Sun Ring Wizard.

No matter how many of those dragons piled up, they couldn't get close to the wooden boat.

Individuals approaching the boat from the swarm of flying dragons could only helplessly be crushed to death by the dragons behind them.

The Sith wizard's eyes were cold, as if he could not forgive Esther's betrayal.

He used the Peach Arch Thorn Arrow model, and a jujube-shaped arrow flew out, suddenly disappeared in mid-air, and then reappeared, already hitting the magical plant above Esther's head.

He shot it down with one arrow.

The star-studded rose instantly transformed into blooming and withering, decaying in the blink of an eye.

Their methods are astonishing; in the eyes of ordinary second-ring wizards, the methods of a Sun Ring Wizard are already miraculous.

Many second-ring wizards present could not understand why the jujube tree would suddenly disappear after he shot an arrow, and then reappear above Esther's head.

Putting aside the difference in stats, the method of this magical attack is also incomprehensible.

Of course, the difference between the two-ring magical plants is just too great.

Because the second ring level is essentially a level that can infinitely increase power, this level is the upper limit for most civilizations in the Endless Void.

In the descriptions of those civilizations, some even describe a system divided into dozens of levels.

However, many of them have gone astray, futilely creating new levels within this system.

Sun Ring Wizards are the closest level of wizards to the Third Ring within the wizarding system. So, even though they are both Second Ring Wizards, the difference between an ordinary Second Ring Wizard and a Sun Ring Wizard is like the difference between an ordinary person and a world boxing champion, a world-class special forces soldier, or a world-class scientist.

The difference is simply too great.

The difference between the magical plants in the second ring is so great that there are four levels of imaginary roots alone: ​​low-grade imaginary roots, medium-grade imaginary roots, high-grade imaginary roots, and perfect imaginary roots.

The imaginary root of external origin obtained from the Time Shadow Fern in Locke's possession is a low-grade imaginary root. Its typical characteristic is that imaginary roots of this period are shallow roots, sparse roots, and have no main root.

All the roots were almost the same size and resembled a beard.

At this moment, Locke was also unsure of the quality of the imaginary roots on the magical plants used in Esther's fight with the Sith wizard.

'Oh no, Esther's been knocked down. Wait, I have to take care of myself first!'

Locke flapped his dragon wings and flew backward.

The Celtic wizard was just an ordinary second-circle wizard, almost eliminated by the Golden Crown Mountain. If it weren't for the witch Catherine, he would have been expelled long ago.

Therefore, he can understand the magic he currently possesses, and even the parts he doesn't understand can be quickly grasped, allowing him to devise a solution within a short time.

Therefore, when faced with the Celtic wizard's "Seven-Segment Grass Nails of Stasis," after two half-meter-long vetiver grass nails were driven into Locke's chest, he kept dodging backwards while using his dragon claws to fight against the five vetiver grass nails.

As the dragon claws flew, Locke constantly avoided the opponent's strongest magical pressure, while attacking the obvious weak points of the opponent's spell model and the places where the magical pressure was not flowing smoothly.

This caused the Celtic leader to fail to quickly use the Seven-Segment Grass Nails to fix Locke's body and lock his power, as he had anticipated.

The Celtic team leader was slightly startled.

'Strange, it's just a dragon that's destined to be a second-ring creature from birth. These second-ring creatures, which become so through ancestral bloodlines, are very easy to deal with. I should have subdued it with a single spell.'

'But it didn't work? This dragon is more troublesome than I thought.'

At this moment, a vetiver nail in Locke's chest gradually detached from his body and then fell off his chest like an iron nail.

Locke looked down at his chest.

The freezing of the seven grass nails is very likely related to the blueprint magic of the Celtic leader's ultimate magic. Of course, the opponent did not use ultimate magic at all just now.

The Seven-Segment Grass Nail Freeze is just an ordinary second-level spell.

This spell turns vetiver into iron nails that drive into one's body, simultaneously freezing one's blood, spirit, and magic, making one feel as if under a spell, immobilized in place.

Of course, this requires seven Stasis Grass Nails to be driven into one's body simultaneously.

Just now, the Celtic leader could only let two Stasis Grass Nails hit him, and as time passed, he even forced out another Stasis Grass Nail.

This shows that in the eyes of the Celtic leader, dealing with a dragon with a similar magical pressure to himself was not a serious matter, so he simply cast a spell casually.

Locke pondered, 'I didn't expect that the usually unreliable Celtic leader would have a magic pressure of around 18,000.'

'Moreover, both their spell models and their understanding of magic are exceptional, and their control over combat is just right. Mount Golden Crown is a gathering place for monsters.'

'But now, I am finally qualified to stand on the same level as the Celtic team leader and fight him.'

Locke flapped his dragon wings and flew backward, but perhaps because he was a new dragon, Locke was somewhat clumsy in flying with his dragon wings and moving his dragon body. He actually collided with the flock of flying dragons behind him and almost fell directly from mid-air.

The Celtic leader paused for a moment, then immediately manipulated the seven-segment grass nails to attack Locke.

"I was overthinking things. I thought this dragon would be incredibly powerful, but it turns out it's just a silly dragon."

"He's uncoordinated."

(End of this chapter)