Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 826 The Golden Route, Wizard Russell, and the Golden Bloodline

Golden Crown Mountain, Little Peach Mountain, Ghost Gate Pass, and the summit of Infinite Mountain.

Locke flipped his right hand over, and there floated a black Rubik's Cube the size of a fingernail in his palm. The cube was spinning, and with each turn, it stirred up a strange energy.

At this moment, on Infinite Mountain, there are still a large number of wizards entering the near-Earth orbit of the void or the void channel from here.

The skies above the wizarding world are filled with special flight paths built upon powerful golden magic, using spells from the Charms and Summoning schools. These paths can accelerate any flying device in the vast void.

After all, the Great Void is extremely vast, its scale far exceeding the imagination of those living in the plane. If one does not take the [course] and enters the Great Void using a void spacecraft, one can probably only wander around near the Earth orbit of the void.

Locke infused his immense magic into the Void Cube in his hand, which quickly transformed from black to emerald green. He picked up the cube, whispered a spell, and the cube began to transform, with magical sparks swirling around it.

Then, the Rubik's Cube changed from the size of a thumb to the size of a basketball, and from a normal Rubik's Cube shape to an octahedral Rubik's Cube shape. The Rubik's Cube then sped towards the void, rushed into the [channel], and disappeared into the channel.

Locke has just told it the coordinates of the void plane through a spell. The cube will enter the void, find the target, and extract a portion of the plane's power to return.

Locke glanced at the virtual clock on the water hyacinth system.

Beside him, a burly man dressed in a wizard's robe glanced at Locke and chuckled, "First time deploying the Void Cube?"

"Your Void Cube probably won't be back for at least a week. That's assuming there's a shipping lane to accelerate it. Without a shipping lane, it'll probably take hundreds of years for the cube to return."

“Long ago, before the ancient wizards established sea routes, they could only explore the void by sailing void warships. At that time, they could only explore within a range of 100,000 world scales away from the wizarding world. However, according to the definition of the modern magical era, this can only be considered near-ground exploration of the void, not true void exploration.”

Locke looked at him in surprise.

Is exploring the void on a scale of 100,000 worlds merely near-Earth exploration?
Data on anything becomes incredibly exaggerated once it reaches the level of void exploration, to the point that even wizards like themselves find it hard to believe.

Locke asked, "And you are?"

The burly wizard laughed heartily, “Surprised, aren’t you? When I first learned about this, I had the same expression as you. I couldn’t believe that the wisdom of our ancestors could reach such a level. In the past, wizards could only conduct near-ground exploration, yet they treated the process of near-ground exploration as true dimensional exploration.”

"This period of time lasted for a very long time. Until a genius suddenly stood up and told everyone that the endless void is so vast that if we explore it according to this scale, we will always be like frogs on the edge of a pond, only able to explore the land on the edge of the pond. He proposed the plan to build the Netway - the waterway."

"Then, we all entered the era of exploring the Great Void."

The burly wizard extended his hand to Locke, “Therefore, what we have achieved today is unimaginable to those ancient people. The so-called void exploration in many ancient magic books is nothing more than near-Earth orbit exploration in today’s world.”

“I am Jon Quixote.”

“She is a senior researcher at Mount Golden Crown, three years your senior. My teacher was also Catherine the Witch.”

Locke shook hands with him.

"Hello, Locke Augustine."

Jon Quite gave a hearty smile.

"I know, he's very famous."

"The champion of the Silent Grail. An absolute breeding genius."

"I've seen the first pair of second-ring pure magic plant wizard shoes you recently made. They're unprecedented."

Locke frowned and gave a wry smile.

"You flatter me. Wizard Jon Quess, my project couldn't even get a second-level district grant or a second-level grant."

"What's so unprecedented about that?"

Jon Quess chuckled dryly and said, “No, quite the opposite. I don’t think so. I believe that many truly brilliant plans cannot be systematized. This means that their value is not initially apparent. I have studied that great seafarer who was also a very famous traveling wizard.”

"A great wizard of a groundbreaking school of spellcasting."

"When he first proposed the Web and the Sea, those projects were far less important and valuable in the eyes of other wizards than the works of other geniuses of that time. This is because the earliest Web and Sea did not utilize any particularly profound basic knowledge."

Locke knew that the reason his second-circle wizard shoes couldn't secure grants or publish in high-quality journals was due to insufficient basic research.

If we were to extract the basic research portion, it would probably only be enough to publish a few articles in the third and fourth tiers of the second ring road.

Jon Quess the Wizard said, “But the point is that you think what others can’t think and do what others can’t do. The second-circle pure magical plant wizard shoes that can be mass-produced are something that no breeder has ever done before. Even if there were second-circle level pure magical plant wizard shoes before, no one had ever really mass-produced them.”

Jon Quess said, "Loch Augustine, I admire your idea. I see in you a power that can move the times, though it is still weak at present."

"But that's one possibility."

Locke looked at Jon Quite strangely.

He discovered that Jon Quess seemed to genuinely admire him, and the way he looked at him was almost radiant.

what's the situation?
Unexpectedly, among the seven second-circle wizards of the House of Truth who are most likely to compete with him for the top-tier funding project next year, there is one of his admirers.
Jon Quixote said, "Oh, right. Let me introduce myself. I'm a researcher in Group 1, and our research mainly revolves around waterway breeding."

"Even on these illusory shipping routes, some magical plants are still planted by humans, while others are wild magical plants that grow automatically."

"Our group's research focuses on the impact of these magical plants growing along the shipping lanes. Some are positive, but undeniably, some magical plants have negative effects."

Locke nodded. No wonder he knew so much about the history of the waterway; this was the research topic of Group 1.

Locke recalled the research content of Groups 1, 2, 3 and 6, and found that the four were completely unrelated.

I really don't know what Catherine the Great's ten-person plan was researching.

But in short, the combined research of these six groups should constitute Catherine the Witch's Ten-Person Plan. Locke looked up at the waterway: "How can magical plants still grow on that illusory existence in the void?"

Jon Quixote laughed and said, "That's exactly what I think is the magic of the magical plant."

"However, the waterway is not some kind of illusion. The foundation of the waterway is golden magic. Golden magic has the characteristic of unchanging gold, so it is most appropriate to use golden magic to create the waterway. That's why the waterway in the void has a history of tens of thousands of years, but it can still be used after being repaired."

Jon Quixote said to Locke, “Wizard Locke, I admire the wizard shoes you made. Before you made the second-circle pure magic plant wizard shoes, I could only buy expensive blue belt wizard shoes and Solas barefoot wizard shoes, but after you, I have more options.”

"I have high hopes for you and your second-ring wizard shoes. Perhaps if you continue, you'll reap unexpected rewards."

Locke smiled at him and said, "Thank you."

Jon Quess said, "I hope you can produce more wizard shoes. A good pair of wizard shoes is really important for Voidwalkers."

He stood up and said, "Alright, I have to get back to work. Good luck, Wizard Locke."

"I'll wait for your second, even better pair of pure magic plant wizard shoes. For now, I'm a loyal user of your Augustus wizard shoes."

Locke greeted him and then left the 'Gates of Hell' and the Infinite Mountain.

Locke sat on the rainbow sparrow, "I never expected that a senior researcher from the Institute of Truth would be so impressed with me and so friendly with me because he admired the wizard shoes I made."

“Jon Quixote, he seems like a rather easy person to get along with.”

The wizard Jugglus Juggler, Jon Quess, Brandy, and that wizard Droma, and it seems there are three other competitors of his own.

However, based on the information I have read, my biggest competitors next year, in the first tier, are Brandy Wizard and Droma Wizard. Both of them are wizards who are about to leave the station. They have accumulated the most experience, have been second-circle wizards the longest, and are the two who are most willing to devote all their resources to applying for the special funding project next year.

Of the remaining few, the most threatening is this wizard, Jon Quess.

Locke had seen his resume before; he was also a breeding genius with many outstanding breeding projects. He had originally thought he would be a formidable rival, or at least harbor some kind of hostility towards him.

But to my surprise, after our unexpected meeting at Xiaotao Mountain, the other person actually had a very good impression of me.

Locke pondered, "I remember there was another breeder named Zeno, who was also a strong competitor. According to the information my senior gave me, this breeder Zeno had studied the teacher's Light Element Reverse Infusion Mutation Breeding Method."

I had previously heard from the second-ring wizard teacher at Golden Crown Mountain that the Rainbow Co-frequency Breeding Method was the key to Catherine the Witch becoming the Throne Wizard, while the Light Element Inflow Mutation Breeding Method was a prerequisite for the Rainbow Co-frequency Breeding Method in the third-ring stage.

In other words, the witch Catherine was intentionally teaching this ordinary researcher from the Institute of Truth, a second-circle wizard named Zeno, the Rainbow Synchronization Breeding Method.

I've never met this person before, so I don't know what his personality is like.

Locke frowned as he recalled the brandy and the witch Droma from before, because his impression of these competitors wasn't very good.

But to his surprise, the wizard Jon Quess was different from what he had imagined.

After launching the Void Cube, he first went to the library to look up the breeders in the Golden Dynasty at the border of darkness and light who were researching golden foxtail grass and green foxtail grass.

Soon, with the help of the Ackerman troll wizard, he found that person—the Third Ring Throne, Russell the wizard.

This wizard, Russell, is the throne wizard of the Golden Dynasty, holding a pivotal position and being a direct descendant of the royal family.

The troll wizard Ackerman said to Locke, "You want to write to him and inquire about his research? This Russell wizard is not easy to deal with."

The Ackerman troll wizard looked troubled.

“I had heard before that he was known in the Golden Dynasty for discriminating against wizards who did not have Golden Dynasty blood. He was also known for his volatile temper and was a very famous racist.”

"I reckon he won't answer you if you ask him."

Locke looked at one of his books on golden foxtail grass with a strange expression. "But in his published magic book, he thanked a whole bunch of his students. He wrote the names of the students who worked for him on the title page of the magic book."

The Ackerman troll wizard said, "Take a closer look. Those are all wizards with the bloodline of the Golden Dynasty, known as the Golden Nobles."

“If he didn’t have the bloodline of the Golden Dynasty, you’d see how he would act.”

"Oh, right. You might not know what the Golden Bloodline is. It's not the bloodline of a great wizard, but a bloodline that is born with powerful golden magic. All of these can be called the Golden Bloodline, and in the borderlands of light and darkness, they will be granted a noble title."

"There is a strong worship of gold magic in the border area between the light and the dark, who believe that only gold magic can bring a future to the wizarding world."

Locke, without looking up from the title page, asked, "I have a question: what is the Golden Dragon's status in the border region between darkness and light?"

The Ackerman troll wizard paused for a moment. “Golden Dragon? Ah, you didn’t know? The Golden Dragon held a special position in the border region between light and darkness. It was once the symbol of the Golden Dynasty, but it is now extinct.”

“That is the bloodline of the dukes of the Golden Dynasty.”

"The ducal bloodline of the Golden Dynasty is considered to be a guest of the Golden Dynasty, meaning that the Golden Dragon Clan was once a distinguished guest of the Golden Dynasty in the border area between darkness and light. Similarly, the Golden Griffin is also a member of this lineage."

Locke nodded slightly.

He pointed to the title page and said, "I didn't expect to see the name of an old acquaintance. This wizard Russell has a student named Alaric, whom I met during the Cloud Cup. He even invited me to visit the border between darkness and light back then."

"Perhaps I can use him to contact that wizard Russell."

Wizard Ackerman blinked.

"You're quite adept at finding opportunities. You can even do this? You can give it a try."

(End of this chapter)