Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 296 The Golden Wizard Appears! The Golden Dragon!

Griel wandered through the Golden City, taking in its splendor. The Golden City contained even more materials and magical resources. Scrolls of the Golden School could be picked up everywhere on the ground, along with various staffs and magical treasures.

Grel casually picked up a slender crystal staff from the ground and immediately sensed the crystal magic contained within it. Unfortunately, it was just a staff used by ordinary first-circle wizards and was not worthy of his current magical pressure.

As Griel channeled his golden magic into the wand, it began to crack.

At the same time, Grel's gaze turned to the heart of the Golden City, to the palace beneath the Golden Tree, where he immediately saw a golden magic mirror hanging above it.

Griel exclaimed excitedly, "Yes, that's the treasure from our ancestors' legend, the Golden Magic Mirror. It's a treasure of second-circle wizards, containing a powerful mirror spirit. By exchanging gold with the mirror spirit, you can continuously acquire many treasures."

"It was only after obtaining that treasure that my ancestor became the great wizard—the Golden Wizard."

"I never expected this treasure to be here."

However, Griel still looked around the interior of the Golden City with suspicion. He saw that the golden streets inside the Golden City had been damaged, and many golden giants had fallen directly on the streets. Their souls were nowhere to be found, but their bodies had withered on the ground.

According to the wizarding tradition he received, the Golden City should be a thriving place where a large number of beings from the cycle of reincarnation live.

But why does the Golden City seem to have become a desolate city at this moment?

Where have all the creatures in the Golden City gone?

The next moment, the golden tree's light vanished, and Grel was suddenly rendered blind. "What happened?"

His first instinct was to search for his five beautiful wives in the darkness.

When he found it, he was furious. "Damn it, I need to get to the Golden Tree first. Something's weird here. These are all my things; I can't let anything go wrong at this time."

"If a problem arises now, how will I repay the debt to the Pure White Wizard?"

"cut."

Unbeknownst to him, the tragic deaths of the creatures within the Golden City were due to the arcane swarm's depletion of the Golden Minor Plane. In order to maintain its existence, the Mandala system of the Golden Minor Plane had no choice but to forcibly drain the high-level creatures from the Golden City.

After all, these creatures are essentially beneficiaries of this mandala system.

The Golden Wizards allowed them to exist temporarily, their sole purpose being to demonstrate the superiority of the Mandala system.

Now that the Golden Minor Dimensions themselves are damaged, they naturally cannot maintain enough magical power to sustain the existence of the privileged classes within these Golden Minor Dimensions.

……

On the other side, along the Golden Road, Su Nan hunted down almost all the golden creatures along the road, and at the same time, the entire Golden Road finally collapsed.

The gold bricks that made up the Golden Road shattered one by one, and then Su Nan and the others appeared at the gate of the Golden City.

This means they have successfully passed the trials of the Golden Road, even though Su Nan messed up the entire Golden Road.

However, after the Golden Road collapsed, the Golden Tree once again shone, though the light was somewhat weak.

At the main gate, two golden giants lay on the ground, their flesh and blood almost completely gone, forming two enormous dried corpses.

Along the edge of the Golden City's walls lay a large number of fallen golden-winged people. They were originally beneficiaries of the Golden Reincarnation System, but now even their corpses looked as if they had been drained dry.

They all collapsed helplessly on the city wall.

A large swarm of arcane insects appeared behind Su Nan, and the swarm arrived at the gates of the Golden City at the moment the Golden Road collapsed.

Su Nan looked up at the proverb at the entrance of the Golden City: "All the wealth of the world belongs to one city, a glorious city, and in the center of this glorious city, a glorious king will be born."

"The entire world's resources are concentrated in the body of one wizard."

"That wizard will bear the fate of the entire world on his shoulders!"

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. This was clearly something the Golden Wizard had indeed done before, but for some reason, he had failed.

Su Nan and the others entered the Golden City, only to find that its magnificent interior had been destroyed, with traces of battle everywhere, indicating a war that had taken place not long ago.

Su Nan walked to the side of a leader of a golden-winged man. He struggled to raise his head and looked at Su Nan and the others. His pupils shrank instantly.

"We were also exploited."

"The God of Gold has also reaped us, the immortal golden nobles... It's terrifying, our world... In an instant, it was all reduced to nothing."

"The moral system, belief system, and values ​​that we have built up here over thousands of years have all vanished in just the last five hours."

"God of Gold...you have deceived us all..."

He struggled to get up, his eyes glazed over as he stared at the crumbling golden city walls.

Mary asked, puzzled, "What's wrong with him?"

"This winged leader... his magical power is several times stronger than mine, almost catching up to yours. Is such a being so easily killed?"

Su Nan said, "It must be that we disrupted the energy cycle of this plane, so the Golden Minor Plane took the initiative to harvest the nobles in this Golden City."

"The nobles in the Golden City wanted to rebel, so many buildings here are damaged and collapsed."

"But in the end they still failed."

Su Nan said, "These people are all deeply involved in the Golden Wizard's Golden Reincarnation System. They are beneficiaries of the system, so they cannot resist the Golden Reincarnation."

"No matter how powerful they are."

Su Nan picked up an ice crystal wand from the ground. "This place looks like it might have a lot of magical resources. Come to think of it, I don't actually have a wand that I'm comfortable with yet."

Su Nan swung it, and under the infusion of magical pressure, the staff creaked and groaned, seemingly unable to bear the weight.

They continued deeper into the Golden City, where they found statues of golden wizards, each 1.2 meters tall, everywhere. The city's streets and alleys were littered with the corpses of golden giants, golden winged beings, and golden elves.

Meanwhile, the deeper they went, the more Su Nan noticed that the statues of the Golden Wizard had changed. At first, the statues of the Golden Wizard were clearly human, but later their left hands began to turn into dragon claws, and then their bodies developed the structures of dragon eyes, dragon ears, and a dragon tail.

They walked to the edge of the city and arrived at the very heart of the golden city, in front of the palace under the golden tree. There was also a statue in the open space in front of the palace.

That statue was a completely golden dragon!

In front of the statue, Grel, along with his wizard apprentices and his five wives, stood before it.

He looked up at the statue, his eyes filled with fervor.

He realized that Su Nan and the others had arrived, and his expression darkened for a moment before he said to them, "Unfamiliar wizards, have you also come to this great city created by my ancestors?"

"See that? This is the final statue of my ancestor. My ancestor, in order to become a second-circle wizard, began to transform his soul and body by drawing upon the bloodlines of powerful creatures. In the end, he succeeded, and he became a golden dragon."

Mary glanced at him, then at the golden dragon statue. "That's impossible. Even the weakest adult dragon is at least a third-ring wizard."

"Even if a Gold Wizard becomes a Second Ring Wizard, he can never become a true dragon!"

Grel looked at Mary. "Heh, you're quite good-looking. Have you ever thought about becoming my wife? Perfect, I've always wanted a first-circle wizard wife, so that I could be worthy of a genius like me who became a first-circle wizard at the age of thirty."

"The image of this golden dragon statue is indeed that of my ancestor."

Mary looked at him coldly.

Grel looked at Su Nan, his eyes darkening once more. "As for you, this is my ancestral land, a place with owners. Are all wizards these days so disrespectful?"

Everything here is mine.

"Get out of here."

Grel began chanting an incantation, and powerful golden magic converged upon him. He knew that Su Nan and the others must have possessed extraordinary abilities to leave the Golden Path. But it was precisely because of this that he harbored such murderous intent; this was his ancestors' property, and he would not allow other wizards to lay a finger on it.

As he chanted the incantation, he walked to the golden dragon, placed his left hand on it, and simultaneously summoned three hundred golden flying swords towards Su Nan. But at that very moment, the golden dragon statue suddenly moved, its claw plunging into Griel's chest.

Su Nan's eyes narrowed instantly.

Huang Jinlong said, "My descendants, why must descendants inherit from their ancestors, instead of ancestors inheriting from their descendants?"

"Since you are my descendant, why not hand over your body to me? What good luck! I never expected that at such a crucial moment, a descendant would willingly come to my door. The contingency plan I casually set up back then has actually come in handy."

Golden Dragon turned to Su Nan and said, "You wizard over there, the damage you've done to my world is too severe. So severe that I must bind your soul as compensation!"

"Roar~"

A massive surge of golden magical energy converged towards Su Nan and the others. Mary looked at Su Nan with a grave expression. "Su Nan, this magical pressure... it feels like it's from another dimension. Is that a second-circle wizard?"

Meanwhile, in her initial shock and horror, Grell began to wail. "Ancestors, ancestors, don't kill me! I am the most talented of your descendants!"

"Don't kill me..."

"How are you still alive? Ugh..."

Grel spat out a mouthful of blood, while the golden dragon burst into laughter. "The most talented among my descendants? Bah, you're shameless."

Grel panicked. "I became a first-circle wizard before I was even thirty! I might even become a second-circle wizard someday! Ancestor, please don't kill me! Once I become a second-circle wizard, I'll help you become one too! I have talent, I have talent you don't have, I have…"

The golden dragon swept his cold dragon eyes over him, while impatiently slapping the ground with its tail. "This is ridiculous. My mediocre descendant."

"That's not talent."

"That's called my wisdom. It's because I secretly cast a curse on my entire bloodline, causing all the luck to concentrate on one person."

"My descendant, the reason you have grown to this level is not because of anything else, but because I used a curse to wipe out my entire bloodline family and gathered their luck into yours. So the first step is to make my family bloodline large enough that I believe it is sufficient to become a first-circle wizard before this curse will be activated."

"And so, this is the result you got."

"Originally, I really wanted to do something for my successor, to train a capable junior to help me. But my successor, you came too late. So late that I had already lost control of my magic, failed to break through to the second ring, and ended up in this wretched state."

"I arrived late and discovered that using the mandala system to harvest the luck of all living beings and gather it on myself would have serious side effects."

The golden dragon stared greedily at Griel. "Quickly, offer your body to your ancestors."

"With your body, I can start over. You are covered in my magic, and you have learned my magic yourself. Our bloodlines are also so close. You are practically another version of me."

"I might not even need to adapt to using your body."

(End of this chapter)