Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 769 Knife and Whetstone

Realizing that his opponent had established an absolute advantage over him by relying on the relative height of his immense magic within the Root Realm, Locke immediately came up with a solution.

Using the second-circle spell, Alternate Generations, one can instantly transform attributes six times, stacking magical pressure. Then, at the moment of casting the spell, the magical pressure will multiply, so the magical pressure of one's ultimate spell will also show a very brief apparent multiplication.

Therefore, the relative level of one's ultimate magic within the root realm will also be enhanced.

Originally, my accumulation could only change the attribute of a magical plant five times through generational succession. However, after obtaining Banxia, ​​I can use the Evolution Moon to give other magical plants the attribute of summer. Therefore, I can use generational succession to change the attribute six times.

But Locke rejected this plan.

There was no need to hide it, since everyone present was a wizard of a much higher level than himself.

The problem is that, unless it's the very last moment, there's really no need for me to use my current ultimate move, the ultimate chain attack of the Evolution Moon, at this moment.

Lunar Cultivation Method + Generation Alternation + Plant Factors with Six Attribute Changes

This isn't the Silent Grail War, nor is it any special match; there's no need to go all out, and the opponent obviously isn't going all out either.

At this moment, the Moon of Evolution behind Locke suddenly disappeared, no longer directly empowering the Peach Arch Thorn Arrow. He only used the magic pressure of a second-ring wizard to support the Peach Arch Thorn Arrow.

Rose the witch was startled.

Locke did this because he clearly sensed her intentions.

The Root Realm only supports Great Magic. As long as the Second Ring spell used is not related to Great Magic, it is as if there is no Root Realm supporting it, and it is naturally not affected by the level of the Root Realm itself.

This is equivalent to comparing yourself to someone outside this system.

But there's still a problem with this.

The existence of the Root Realm is meaningful; it is something that was jointly constructed by high-ring wizards of textile science, life science, and alchemy, and is extremely beneficial to second-ring wizards.

Locke's decision to relinquish the dual enhancement of his spells by the Root Realm and Great Magic will essentially reduce him to the level of magical strength of an ordinary second-circle life form.

This is a serious weakening of its magical power.

Cloud Silk itself possesses the special ability to evade magical power.

Locke drew his bow and shot the arrow.

Rose the witch frowned.

"You've lost. The magical pressure of this Peach Blossom Thorn Arrow can't possibly get close to my Cloud Beard Cloth."

"and many more……"

The Peach-Arrow Thorn Arrow, which could barely maintain the power of a second-circle wizard's spell, drew an arc in mid-air, and then the spirit of the Cloud-Beard Silk, illuminated by the moonlight of the Evolution Moon, connected with the spirit of Locke's Peach-Arrow Thorn Arrow.

Although the Cloud Beard Cloth automatically retreats the moment it is attacked by magic, so that the magic attack can never hit the cloth.

But at this moment, the spirit of the peach-bow thorn arrow was closely connected with the spirit of the cloud-beard cloth, so the peach-bow thorn arrow kept chasing after the cloud-beard cloth.

This created a scene in the sky that resembled a perpetual motion machine.

The two sides remained deadlocked for a while.

The next moment, the spiritual connection between the cloud-like cloth and the peach-bow thorn arrow suddenly shortened under the illumination of the Moon of Evolution, and then the peach-bow thorn arrow struck the cloud-like cloth.

Locke nodded slightly upon seeing this.

In fact, even for me, achieving this was extremely difficult, since the instantaneous magic pressure output of my Peach Bow Thorn Arrow was indeed too low.

Even if one uses the Evolutionary Moon's ability to create spiritual connections between plants, failure is still possible.

That Cloud Beard's ability to automatically evade magical attacks... makes it very troublesome.

The Rose Witch's eyes flashed with surprise upon seeing this, but then she smiled.

At the same time, the witch Rose stretched out her right hand, and the cloud-bearded cloth, after being shot down, fell from the sky and landed in her hands.

The entire cloud-like cloth was engulfed in flames.

Rose the witch's right hand was protected by a permanent defensive force field shell, so nothing happened to her. With a dark face, she took out a bottle of semi-transparent potion from her astral ring, squeezed out a drop of spiritual liquid, and dripped it onto the cloud-bearded cloth. The flames wrapped around the cloud-bearded cloth were instantly extinguished.

At this moment, the atmosphere at the square table relaxed again.

His senior brothers led the applause, and a few wizards also gracefully tapped Locke's plate with their cutlery, expressing their appreciation as elders and high-ring wizards.

Catherine the Witch gave Locke a satisfied look.

"Well done, Locke."

Catherine the Witch looked at Rose the Witch.

"You're good too."

"Cloudbeard Cloth is excellent and may have many applications in the future. The value of a magic weaver lies not in combat, but in production and manufacturing."

Rose's expression softened slightly. She looked at the Red Dragon Witch in surprise, not expecting the legendary tyrannical Red Dragon Witch to speak to her so gently. This surprised her and warmed her heart.

Rose the Witch bowed to Catherine the Witch and said, "Thank you for your guidance, Your Majesty the Red Dragon Throne."

She looked up at Locke, snorted coldly, put away the Cloud Beard Cloth, and turned to walk behind the Rose Witch.

The Rose Witch then looked at Locke and handed him the seal.

“A bet is a bet. Locke, the spirit key to this Crimson Vampire Stone is yours.”

She placed the seal in mid-air, and it remained suspended there. Then, she gently touched the seal with her finger, and it flew towards Locke.

The Rose Witch smiled and said, "The wizard who made this copy of Ling Hong put in a lot of effort, so I hope you can make good use of it. You'd better not use it as a one-time use item for potions, because that will only allow you to use it once. If you can copy it every day, I think it will greatly benefit your potion-making skills."

"Chief of the Demon Hunter Division, am I right?"

The head of the Demon Hunters was a fat wizard who, as a potions master, laughed heartily.

"Although the Rose Throne is not a Potions Wizard, they have insightful opinions on our Potions. Yes, absolutely. After all, Potions is a discipline that can be rapidly improved with resources."

"This is very different from the flower language you use to pursue fate."

“Your understanding of flower language is truly difficult to learn; if a student can’t learn it, then they simply can’t learn it.”

The Rose Witch was extremely pleased with this. She looked at the Catherine Witch and said, "Catherine Witch, I'm still very busy. Since I've achieved my purpose this time, there's no need for me to stay any longer."

The witch Catherine smiled and said, "Take care, and don't bother seeing me out."

The Rose Witch's five students all showed anger, but the Rose Witch used a calm look to signal them to calm down.

At the same time, the Rose Witch glanced at the Catherine Witch and said, "There's plenty of time, Katya. Your dispute with me is like a game of Go. You make a move, I make a move, and no one knows the final outcome, don't you think?"

Catherine the Witch remained silent.

At that moment, the Rose Witch glanced at Locke.

"However, your student did quite well this time. He remained calm, discovered the true nature of the [Lotus Root Spell], and came up with a risky way to break it."

"Locke Augustine, welcome to the world of the Second Ring Road."

"Let's go, Rose."

As the Rose Witch departed, white rose petals began to fall again from the sky, like snowflakes drifting in the wind.

Locke seemed to see countless different textile patterns intertwined in this 'snowstorm'.

Locke exhaled a breath of stale air.

Finally left.

The Rose Witch is too intimidating.

She looks like a very approachable wizard, but she isn't at all!

Her methods were too mysterious, and her purpose was even more unpredictable.

However, despite this, he had indeed just beaten her granddaughter.

The witch Catherine gave Locke an approving look, then turned back to continue talking with the other high-ring wizards.

Because the Rose Witches left on their own initiative, the banquet returned to its previous relaxed state. Many high-ring wizards were still impressed by Locke and discussed him for a while.

As Locke turned around, he saw the wizard Trajan praising him, "Junior brother, you really showed your prowess this time. I thought you would fall for the trap, but you saw through the insidious nature of that 'tethered lotus root' curse on your own."

Locke said, "I was lucky. I almost didn't realize it."

Senior Brother Georta said, "Those wizards of the Rose Council are all so insidious. I've suffered a lot at their hands before."

Zoira the Witch said, "Well... I'm alright. I have a few friends in the Rose Council. Of course, I'm definitely at odds with the Rose Witches' faction. Because they are enemies of the teacher."

Heidegger's second senior brother said in a low voice, "Even if I don't consider them enemies, there's nothing I can do. The projects we're working on are closely related to our teacher's projects, and we naturally clash with the direct lineage of their academic lineage. Unless we take the initiative to back down and sacrifice our own future, I really can't think of a way to avoid conflict with them."

Heidegger, the second senior brother, looked at Locke and said, "You need to be careful, junior brother. The Rose Witch is proud of her status and would never do anything to embarrass her in public. But I don't think that Rose Witch is a good person. You won this time, and I doubt she'll be satisfied."

Locke bowed to his second senior brother Heidegger and said, "It's alright, senior brother. If I can beat her the first time, I can beat her the second time."

Heidegger paused for a moment, then patted him on the shoulder. "Good, that's ambitious."

The witch Zoira said, "The struggle for lineage is almost unavoidable for second-ring wizards. First-ring wizards, on the other hand, rarely encounter this situation because of their lower value."

"For a second-circle wizard, it's either join a group or remain independent. But whatever choice they make, they will always have to pay a price..."

Locke nodded in deep agreement.

Going it alone can indeed avoid these conflicts, but it also means losing access to many resources.

Locke looked at the strange seal in his hand.

“I know that Crimson Vampire Stone is a second-level potion ingredient, mainly used to make Crimson Potions.”

"Those who take the Crimson Potion can establish a contract or curse connection based on blood ties, which is a special kind of blood curse. With just one bottle of the Crimson Potion, one can create a bloodline that obeys them, and their descendants will find it extremely difficult to resist."

“I’ve seen this potion at the free library, but it’s a forbidden potion, and the White Wizarding Association prohibits its production.”

The main reason is that this kind of magic potion, in the distant past, before the Enlightenment, was used by wizarding despots to enslave mortal families with wizarding talents.

The recipe for this potion was almost destroyed during the Enlightenment, but it was preserved for the sake of knowledge preservation.

Locke looked at the Crimson Vampire Stone Spirit in his hand and asked curiously, "I know what a Crimson Vampire Stone is, but what is this Crimson Vampire Stone Spirit? What is the connection between the two?"

The witch Catherine glanced at the [Crimson Vampire Stone Spirit], frowned, and seemed to be thinking about something.

……

At the foot of Mount Golden Crown, Rose, standing beside the Rose Witch, asked curiously, "Grandma, I'm truly unwilling to lose to that young, calloused commoner. Why won't you let me use the Lotus Root Spell more deeply?"

“I could have used the Lotus Root Spell to reconnect his Peach Bow and Thorn Arrow back to the Botanical Root Realm.”

As the Rose Witch walked, she said, "Rose, why are you in such a hurry? The 'Lotus Threads' spell is the core of your ultimate magic, the Water Cannon Spinning Machine. If you want to use it at full power, you'll need to expose too much of your true abilities in a non-competitive setting."

"Secondly, and most importantly, your 'spell of lingering attachment' may not work."

Rose the witch paused, taken aback. "Why?"

The Rose Witch said, "His great magic can also connect the spirituality between plants, so it might disrupt the effect of your 'Severed Threads' spell. Therefore, I told you not to be reckless. Besides, I have already achieved my goal."

"My purpose this time was simply to let you fight that Augustine wizard, so that the high-level wizards of Yunze Wetlands could see the potential of our textile science. Everything else was just a side purpose. And they saw it. They can't be unaware that textile science's great magic is inherently at a disadvantage in frontline conflicts."

"They would not fail to see that your Cloud Beard Cloth is of excellent quality, nor would they fail to see that your Cloud Beard Cloth was almost completely undamaged by the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow attack."

"They saw all of this. That's enough."

The Rose Witch smiled. "If you were to actually win against someone else at another celebration, I would be the one with the headache."

"There's a right time to challenge someone. Now is not the time."

Rose the witch nodded and said, "That kid only managed to break one of my spells by luck. If we had continued fighting, he... Of course, this Cloud Beard Cloth of mine has even better uses."

The Rose Witch glanced at the Rose Witch and laughed, "I'm giving you Locke Augustine as your whetstone. With your talent, you'll definitely make good use of this whetstone and sharpen your blade to an unparalleled edge."

Rose the Witch bowed and said, "Thank you, Great-Grandma."

(End of this chapter)