Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 801 The Move in Takamagahara

The wizard Jugglus was filled with guilt. He looked at Locke and said, "Locke, aren't you going to stay and study this with us?"

“We can work together. I’ve wanted to work with a genius like you for a long time.”

Locke waved his hand.

"Do not."

“It’s not that I’m refusing, but I really can’t handle the project anymore. I’ll leave this to you, Wizard Jugglus.”

The wizard Jugglus felt guilty for having previously doubted Locke.

“Yes, Wizard Locke.”

Locke glanced at him, then flew out of the Forbidden Forest using the Magical Dragon Rose. The Forbidden Forest was full of mystery, so he didn't need to worry about his safety. On the contrary, it was Wizard Jugglus who needed to worry about his own safety.

He quickly headed towards the wizard's airship in the southeast corner of the region, preparing to return to Mount Golden Crown.

He needed to buy two tickets because, besides himself, the witch Stephania was also with him.

A wizard apprentice without an identity is not considered a person, so he could easily put a dark wizard apprentice into a demiplane and put him on an airship, but a crystallized witch could not.

At this moment, aboard the wizard's airship, Locke looked at the witch Stephania expressionlessly and said, "Master, I hope you don't try anything funny. Otherwise, don't blame me for turning against you."

“You’ve been unwilling to tell me the core spell model of the Ghostly Holy Cult all this time, but I think that after you went to Yunze Wetland and Jinmian Mountain, you might have different ideas.”

Stephania the witch bowed to Locke, her heart filled with immense fear.

“How could I dare to make any further moves in front of you, the great wizard? But if I were to hand over those core spell models to you, I would be betraying the Pale Pilgrimage. I would never be able to go back.”

“I will lose my backer. And if I tell you the secret, you will kill me in a heartbeat.”

“Great Wizard of the Eyes, I want to make a deal with you. If you are willing to give me an identity from the White Wizarding Organization, I will agree to hand over the core spell model to you.”

Locke refused to accept the deal at all.

"You are not qualified to do business with me."

Because I've been too busy lately, my main body is still working hard to study the situation at the Netherworld Ancient Tree, and I haven't yet entered the stage of invoking the properties of the River Styx, so I haven't been in a hurry to ask her about the core spell model of the Ghostly Holy Cult.

But as a potion master, I have all the means to achieve what I set out to do if I so choose.

With a little research, you can create a combination potion that works even on crystallized witches.

Locke took her into the wizard airship, where he encountered the witch Zoe again.

Zoe the Witch glanced uneasily at Stephania the Witch, who was being controlled by Locke. 'The Great Bewitching Wizard, after all these months, has he started trafficking people?'

Is the Eye Demon Archmage a white wizard or a black wizard?

'That's scary, I'd better stay away from him.'

Locke glanced at the witch Zoe in surprise. 'This girl's magical pressure is increasing rapidly; she's almost at the crystallization stage. And I've encountered her twice.'

'Is this a coincidence? Or is she following me? She shouldn't have the guts; it's just a coincidence then.'

'Something's wrong.'

Locke's tiger eyes opened, looking down at her.

Zoe the Witch was too frightened to move, fearing that Locke might suddenly attack.

Although this is a wizard airship, she couldn't be sure if Locke was ruthless enough to publicly disregard the laws of the white wizarding society.

A bead of sweat rolled down Zoe's forehead.

After careful examination, Locke finally caught a glimpse of Zoe's soul, which seemed to be entwined with some special dimensional power.

'This girl is suspicious. There's a special dimensional power around her, seemingly deliberately attracting calamity for her.'

Was it really a coincidence that she ran into me twice?

'It's the special dimensional power entwined around her soul that's constantly provoking me. Behind this person is the High Heaven Plains, the High Ring Wizard of the Purple Exile Path. She's that High Ring Wizard's daughter. Either her soul has been tampered with by the High Ring Wizard, either to protect her, or... some kind of restriction?'

'I was careless. I'm afraid that all three of my meetings with her were guided by that special force.'

Locke felt a cold sweat run down his back.

He never imagined that his encounter with the Witch Zoe during the first ring stage was likely influenced by a high-ring wizard.

Fortunately, I didn't discover Zoe's true identity back then, and I didn't recognize that she was a fake holy priestess.

'If only I had recognized him back then.'

'I fought with her, not knowing what would happen. Later, when I became a second-circle wizard, I didn't kill her, otherwise, I don't know what would have happened.'

Locke thought to himself, 'I was too careless.'

If I hadn't encountered her three times in a row, I wouldn't have realized it at all; this is completely abnormal.

At this moment, he used the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline to enhance his eyesight, and only then did he see the strangeness about her.

The wizarding world is still full of danger for me now.

I will definitely be more careful in the future.

Locke glanced at the witch Zoe and smiled at her, "Your magical pressure is rising very quickly. Don't worry, I don't care about your little adventure."

Inside the library, a passing wizard gave them a strange look, then quickly left without causing any trouble.

Zoe the Witch breathed a sigh of relief. "Great Wizard of the Bewitching Eyes, who is this witch beside you?"

Locke laughed and said, "The female leader of the Ghostly Holy Cult in the Southeast Corner Region. I just destroyed a cult and am now inviting this leader to be a guest at my Golden Crown Mountain."

Why should Zoe the Witch be surprised?

"Isn't this normal?"

Zoe Witch's hair stood on end.

This guy is inhuman.

They destroyed a sect and turned its wizard leader into their slave.

It was truly brutal.

The witch Zoe immediately made a decision in her heart: she would avoid Locke whenever she saw him in the future, and she vowed that this was the last time she would ever meet him.

From now on, wherever Locke is in a wizarding land, she will leave all routes leading to that wizarding land.

No, Yunze Wetland seems to be a key route.

Then she will go to the route between the Raize Lowlands and the Rain Marshland!

In short, she wanted to avoid meeting Locke again.

Locke watched Zoe the Witch's retreating figure with cold eyes.

Stephania the witch glanced shrewdly at Locke.

"Great Wizard of the Eyes, do you dislike that liquefaction witch? Do you have an old grudge against her?" "I will kill her for you. I am willing to serve you."

Locke gave her a cold look.

madness.

damn it.

If I'm not mistaken, the special dimensional power within Zoe's soul must be helping her attract enemies who can kill her.

I only caught a glimpse of it, but I can confirm that the power of that plane has roughly the same effect.

'But she's not dead. Who's dead?'

'She must be able to plunder something from those who want to kill her, which is why her magical pressure has been rising so rapidly lately?'

'If that's her constitution, then becoming a dark wizard would indeed be a better path for her. The more they hunt her down, the faster her magical pressure increases.'

I almost fell into a trap twice.

Locke was drenched in cold sweat.

'I knew this was strange. The daughter of a high-ranking white wizard was wandering around the airship's flight path, and no one had come to arrest her.'

'What is she looking for, or is she trying to catch something?'

'Oh well, if I see her again in the future, I'll just pretend I didn't.'

'Once you get involved with this thing, you might not be able to get rid of it.'

……

Jinmian Mountain, Xiaotao Mountain, 'Gate of Hell'.

Locke, along with Trajan, a wizard, and one of Trajan's students, a crystallizing witch, walk through the dark gates of hell.

The 'Gate of Hell' is filled with eerie demonic energy. Because of the many wars waged with the Twin Demon Realms, this place is like a ghostly realm, with exposed, strange rocks everywhere.

Trajan said to his student, "Valerie Quinn, you should thank my junior brother, otherwise you wouldn't have had the chance to join me on the mission of exploring the near-Earth of the Void."

Valerie Quinn bowed to Locke and said, "Uncle-Master, greetings. I am Valerie Quinn, a botanical wizard."

Locke nodded slightly to him.

Valerie Quinn also appears to be a student at Mount Golden Crown, currently teaching there as an assistant wizarding mentor who hasn't yet signed a formal chair wizarding contract.

There are no teaching positions offered by the White Wizard Association, only a position with benefits and compensation.

This type of job can be terminated by Jinmianshan at any time without any reason, and there is absolutely no job security.

Valerie Quinn curiously glanced up at Locke.

She was filled with curiosity about this second-ring wizard uncle.

The other person was so young, yet already a second-circle wizard, and a generation older than her.

Locke nodded coldly to her, then looked at the wizard Trajan and said, "Senior brother, let's go."

Trajan the Wizard laughed and said, "Let's go, let's enter the near-Earth void orbit. They use small void vehicles, and there's a rental shop over there. The three of us can rent one."

"Some plant hunters will buy a small drone directly, but my advice is to rent it, because a small drone will need to be repaired if it is left there."

"Repairing it will cost money."

“If you buy a small flying vehicle, you have to use it frequently. If you don’t use it for a month, you have to pay an extra month’s maintenance fee. Moreover, according to wizarding law, this thing cannot be parked in the wizarding world’s present world or in any of our various demi-dimensional devices.”

"Therefore, we need to rent a dedicated parking space."

"Therefore, my experience is that renting is worse than buying."

Trajan the Wizard said, "There are special rental shops inside the Gates of Hell that can meet our needs. It's not expensive, only 100,000 magic stones per trip."

Locke was somewhat surprised. "So cheap?"

Brother Trajan laughed and said, "It's not cheap. How could those cunning merchants give us a discount? First of all, even a first-ring wizard might rent this, and for them, 50,000 magic stones at a time would be a tough price to pay."

"Secondly, because of its special manufacturing principle, this thing is more likely to break down if left unused. So it needs to be taken out for a spin from time to time, which is how those small aircraft rented by rental companies came about. Essentially, we are the grooms who specialize in taking these aircraft out for a spin."

"One hundred thousand magic stones are enough to cover fuel and maintenance costs. Moreover, the small aircraft has a special function: it will activate a magic circle the moment it is attacked, forcing it to fly back to the wizard's land."

"Because there is no spatial structure in the void, I can directly use spatial teleportation to return to the wizarding world."

"Therefore, these small aircraft are extremely difficult to damage. Don't worry, they won't do anything that would lose money. There's no need to think for those vampires; they've priced it too low."

Trajan's Way of the Wizard.

Locke gave a half bow and said, "What you say is true, Senior Brother."

Trajan the wizard turned back to look at Locke in surprise.

"The Eye Demon Wizard has been wreaking havoc in the southeastern region, and word has already reached the Cloud Marsh Wetlands. Eye Demon Wizard, there's no need for you to play the polite game with me here."

"There's no need for us to be so distant. Hahaha..."

Trajan the Wizard said to the astonished Locke, "Normally, news of what happened in the Southeast Corner would not have reached the Cloud Marsh Wetlands, but you went too far. The Pale Pilgrimage seems to have learned about what happened in the Southeast Corner through some means and spread your name far and wide. Tsk tsk, you wiped out an entire sect all by yourself."

"Your reputation for ruthlessness far surpasses that of a typical second-ring white wizard. I've heard that even the head of the Demon Hunter Division is interested in recruiting you into the division."

Locke coughed.

I didn't expect the Pale Pilgrimage to be so stingy, they actually posted their own story online.

Valerie Quinn, the witch standing to the side, listened to the conversation between her teacher and Locke, her heart filled with shock. She never expected that the seemingly ordinary young man and the gentle-looking witch in front of her was such a ruthless person.

Destroying another sect is truly ruthless.

Can this be killed?

Even a second-ring wizard shouldn't be this efficient at killing a first-ring wizard, right?
How is this done?
A first-ring wizard has a permanent defensive field.

Locke said, "Those pale pilgrimage black wizards have the nerve to talk nonsense. They clearly left a backup plan in the magic of the Ghost Cult. I just accidentally activated the backup plan they left behind. Who knew that the entire cult would be wiped out."

Trajan shook his head slightly and smiled, "I only care about the result, not the process."

The three entered the market in the center of the 'Gate of Hell'. The shops in the 'Gate of Hell' market were mostly for renting out vehicles.

Locke and Trajan entered the largest shop, a shop called 'Demon Peach'.

Soon, they rented a magical plant called "Zhou Tao," which seemed to be a small void flying vehicle created based on a Star Ring-level magical plant, combined with alchemy and enchanting techniques.

It looks like a canoe made from a tree whose heart has been hollowed out.

Trajan patted the boat.

"Sturdy enough. The Zhoutao flying vehicle is still the most reliable. Look at this imaginary root, this is the imaginary root of the Star Ring Demon Plant. Unlike ordinary imaginary roots, it has a main root. Ordinary imaginary roots are just a bunch of fine, whisker-like roots. This one has a thick main root, surrounded by fibrous roots."

(End of this chapter)