Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 757 The Mystery of the Doppelganger and the Magical Plant, Pinellia

To create an Ancient Tree Fruit clone, simply use a second-ring Ancient Tree to hatch its fruit, and your clone will appear.

This clone is exactly the same as himself.

The clone before him was full of natural spirituality, as if it were his second body.

Locke used the wizard's spiritual vision and saw that behind this clone was a powerful natural spirituality, like a natural incarnation.

When Locke's main body is making a movement, his clone is making the same movement.

He raised his right hand, and his clone also raised his right hand. He lowered his right hand, but his clone did not. Instead, it gestured to Locke to let him go.

Good morning, Mr. Augustine.

Locke was not surprised and bowed to him in return, saying, "Mr. Augustine, hello there too."

Although he did not use the clone potion to create a clone with 10,000 magic pressure as originally planned, he achieved a similar effect by using the fruit of the Ancient Tree of Life in conjunction with the Ancient Tree Fruit Clone Technique.

The ancient tree fruit clone before me possesses a magic pressure of over ten thousand, and it also comes with the passive first-level spell [Nature's Words], giving it the ability to easily communicate with forests and grasslands.

The Ancient Tree of Life was not an ordinary second-ring magical plant.

Its fruit contains the creative power to brew life, making it very special. It can be said to be a special magical plant fruit with the potential to live.

Each fruit is a sliver of life essence. Using this fruit to create an avatar, and if one modifies the spell model, it is even possible to create a completely new living person.

At this moment, you are the one operating both the clone and the original body.

If a first-ring wizard were to do this, it would feel like they are operating two computers with one person.

But he himself is a second-circle wizard with immense magical power.

He used his physical soul to manipulate his physical body, and used immense magic to manipulate his clones, thus becoming one person operating two systems.

A clone created using the fruit of the Tree of Life will naturally have a calmer personality, speak less, and have a stronger natural connection with nature than their original self.

Therefore, when one's own consciousness manipulates this clone, his personality will undergo slight changes, which will affect him or others.

It will give you the illusion that there are two people.

But this is indeed an illusion.

Locke's main body and his clone cleared their eyes of confusion, and the two stopped greeting each other.

The reason he greeted himself just now was because he had fallen into the illusion that the clone in front of him was an independent entity.

However, he used advanced meditation techniques to enter a state of "no thought," allowing the spirituality of his two bodies to return to a blank spiritual state, freeing himself from all the personality changes and thought patterns caused by the body, and then he discovered... I am still me!
The "me" within the ancient tree fruit's clone is me, and the "me" within its original form is still me.

There is no difference between the two.

It's all me.

Locke's eyes cleared, and his true form spoke: "No wonder this kind of clone magic can't be taught to first-ring wizards. I'm afraid that if they see too much of it, they'll easily go insane."

"This mystery of the clone is too much like a mystery of the womb."

"If I get caught up in the mystery, I will mistake my clone for another person, and my original body will forget that memory."

Locke's Ancient Tree Fruit clone spoke up: "But what if someone doesn't notice the [Mystery of the Clone]?"

Locke himself said seriously, "That would be terrible. This person will split himself in two based on his own perception."

"Although it did not actually happen, it was only because I had not figured out the mystery of the clone that I mistakenly regarded my different personalities as different people. As a result, my true self fell asleep, and both bodies—whether the original or the clone—were controlled by the sleeping true self."

The ancient tree fruit clone uttered a few words: "This magic is dangerous."

The two exchanged a glance, and Locke, in his true form, nodded.

Of course, this danger only applies to first-ring wizards.

At this moment, Locke took out a magic box from his astral ring. This was a magic box given to him by the Silent Witch. He had never had time to open the magic box before to see what was inside.

Now, he took out a magic key, placed it inside, and then gently turned it.

The magic box opened immediately, and a second-ring magic plant lay quietly inside. It was about the size of an adult's forearm, with green leaves and purple stems. Its overall shape resembled a rapier, with three compound leaves at the very top, which were three leaflets.

The leaflets are oblong-lanceolate.

The trifoliate compound leaf has a small flower bud in front of it, which is a typical spathe structure of Araceae plants, also known as the energy-locking spathe.

The spathe is one of the most typical characteristics of plants in the Araceae family. Its shape is similar to a flower coat. It is usually a leaf that is bent into a 'roof' and a small flower (spistil) in the middle that looks like a corn cob.

The flower is enclosed within specialized leaves.

Like an incense stick inserted in a temple, it is called the Buddha Flame Bud.

At this moment, there is a bud at the top of this magical plant, and inside the bud, which is the flower of this magical plant, it emits a magical glow like summer, which is exceptionally beautiful, like the summer sunset or the setting sun.

Its purple stem is as hard as steel, and it has sparse imaginary roots that penetrate into the spiritual sea and cover its surface.

Locke's clone of the Ancient Tree Fruit glanced at it and immediately exclaimed, "It's very powerful!"

Locke nodded. "This is Banxia."

“I have seen the second-ring magical plant atlas. Among ordinary second-ring magical plants, there are relatively few that can be compared with the Black Demon God and the Red Demon God, and this Pinellia ternata is one of them.”

"Half-summer even has the potential to absorb a large amount of energy and resources, causing its imaginary root to evolve into a more advanced imaginary root, and even become a star-ring level magical plant."

Pinellia ternata is a magical plant belonging to the Araceae family.

During the ordinary second ring road phase, it possesses a powerful summer magic, which partially affects the weather in the area, causing the surrounding area to remain in a state of constant heat.

Locke looked at its top, where the flaming bud atop the rapier-shaped magical plant resembled a burning lamp, emanating the magic of summer.

Just by opening the magic box, I felt the temperature around me rise by several degrees Celsius, and all the energy around me was rising, including my own magical pressure and spirituality, which were involuntarily rising.

Xia Lord Yan ascends.

The magic of summer makes everything hot and upward, hence the name "flaming upward".

Locke's throat itched from the summer's magic, so he coughed. The magic power rising within him was ultimately aimed at his throat.

If it were an ordinary wizard, the energy would likely have surged back to their throat, causing them to lose their ability to speak.

If it were a wizard apprentice, they could very well be overwhelmed by the abnormal summer magic power within the Flame Bud of the Half-Summer plant, causing a surge of magical pressure that would blast their head apart. Locke immediately realized the characteristics of this powerful magical plant.

"This is a magical plant that can dominate the summer."

"It can make the other person lose their voice, or make all their energy rush upwards... This is very likely a magical plant that the Silent Witch once used. Of course, she would have no reason to give me a magical plant that she used, so it is very likely a type of magical plant that she used to like."

After all, Banxia possesses the ability to instantly damage an enemy, destroying their throat.

In this way, that person will become mute.

The ancient tree fruit clone said, "The Silent Witch gave it to us, probably because of the properties of Pinellia."

Locke's true form said, "That's right. Banxia has the [Convergent Evolution] characteristic, which forces the surrounding magical plants to undergo convergent evolution, similar to the Tyrant Pineapple and the Rafflesia, except that Banxia is a second-ring level magical plant."

"She gave me Pinellia. If I can extract from Pinellia that can cause the magical plants around it to undergo convergent evolution, then I can use this special component, just like I used Tyrant Element No. 2, to make all the ecological communities under my Moon of Evolution possess the magic of summer through the Moon Cultivation Method."

"I am indeed very interested in the magical plants of summer."

"The Silent Witch is indeed generous, she actually gave me this kind of magical plant. I remember seeing it in the botanical catalog in the library a few days ago. Pinellia ternata, a second-ring magical plant, is a relatively rare magical plant. It has special growth conditions and is not a common second-ring magical plant."

Locke pondered, "All my Sea Gold Sand is no longer suitable as my main weapon, even the second-ring Sea Gold Sand. That's just wild second-ring magical plant level, how can it compare to Banxia, ​​a magical plant that has been carefully designed by second-ring wizards for thousands of years?"

Locke placed the magical plant in his hand, and a special magical power flowed from it, seemingly the magical pressure of the Silent Witch. This allowed him to complete the magical grafting of the plant with magic effortlessly.

Then, he used [A Lone Tree Cannot Support It], raised the rapier-like demonic plant, Pinellia, and thrust it forward. A blazing fire, wrapped in summer energy, passed through the air and fell straight ahead.

A rock in the demiplane ahead was pierced directly by the flame.

Then, the entire rock was enveloped in the summer flames, and in the rising flames, the rock was scorched and shattered, turning into several pieces of stone that were steamed upwards by the heat of the flames.

After hovering in the air for a while, the stone finally landed on the ground.

Locke looked at the Pinellia ternata in his hand, a thoughtful expression on his face. "It's just a general-purpose spell, yet it's already so powerful. If I could learn the second-circle spell 'Scorching Summer Thorn,' which is specifically for Pinellia ternata, wouldn't it be even more powerful?"

"Generational alternation can also be used on Banxia to further amplify its instantaneous magic pressure multiplication rate."

Locke made up his mind to learn about the Summer's Sting spell soon, but he didn't know if the free version of the spellbook was available, since it was a relatively new spell model and it was probably not.

He glanced at the Forest Sanctuary. After becoming a second-circle wizard, he needed to stabilize his current magic pressure and increase his second-circle spell pool to increase his magic accumulation.

Moreover, as he and the Ancient Tree of Life become second-ring level beings, the area of ​​the Forest Sanctuary can be increased, and the level of the magical plants within it can also be enhanced.

This demiplane is actually relatively small.

Something needs to be added.

Perhaps we could approach the Victorian witch and find a way to increase the area of ​​this demiplane.

only……

These all cost money.

Locke felt a headache coming on just thinking about all the expenses.

Locke said, "Let's further develop the Wizard Shoes and make more money. We should press our advantage and sell as many pairs of Wizard Shoes as possible while the hype surrounding the Silent Grail is still going strong."

Unfortunately, I haven't done enough research on the second-ring wizard shoes.

There is a major problem that has not been solved, namely the cost of grafting imaginary roots, so we have not dared to take action for the time being.

But releasing a few more first-ring wizard shoes would be enough.

He also needs to find a plane to activate the heart-shaped spell on his forehead, and then use this opportunity to test the test ring that Catherine the Witch gave him.

This is not urgent.

The coordinates of that plane that I can win using the Silent Grail Plane.

Moreover, conquering planes is extremely expensive.

I need to prepare myself again.

Counterintuitively, conquering other planes may not be a profitable endeavor in the short term, since the act of conquest itself requires a great deal of resources and money.

Therefore, many second-circle wizards go bankrupt because they engage in too many planar conquest activities at the same time.

Whether it's war, exploring the void, or crossing world barriers, it all costs money!

Locke blinked his right eye, left his demiplane, and returned to his dormitory. He frowned as he looked at the unstable magical pressure of the clover on his left hand.

"Why is Teacher Sophia's magical pressure so unstable?"

"Things have stabilized a bit in the last few days."

"We should still ask. At least we need to know how the teacher is doing."

"I don't know what happened to her."

Locke used the second communication spell on the clover, and soon he was able to contact a wizard wearing a clover ring in a distant starfield.

Locke spoke up, "Teacher, I've observed from the changes in the ring's magical pressure that your condition is very unstable. Could you please tell me what's wrong? I'm currently a second-circle wizard; is there anything I can do to help you?"

After all, he was my first teacher in the wizarding world.

No sound came back from the other side of the ring.

Locke frowned.

Just as he was about to speak, a voice that was not Sophia the Witch at all appeared on the communication magic channel.

Are you Locke Augustine?

Locke frowned.

The voice on the other end continued, "I am Sophia's senior brother in the laboratory. Sophia told me that if you contact her, I should help her connect to your communication magic."

"Don't worry. Sophia is fine now. But she is indeed at a very crucial moment for her future."

"She went to take the big exam."

(End of this chapter)