Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 270 Entering the Garden of Eternal Twilight
The next day, early in the morning, Locke tidied himself up a bit and then hired a carriage to go to the entrance of the Wizard's Secret Realm in the Everlasting Garden.

This is a ruin located deep in the forest. Because it is deep in the forest, it is full of dangerous magical plants, and ordinary wizard apprentices cannot even get close to it.

Dressed in a black wizard's robe, the seemingly introverted first-class wizard apprentice, Zoena, looked at Locke and said, "Senior... is this the entrance to the secret realm? But there's no one here..."

Locke frowned slightly. He looked around and saw only the remaining foundations of an ancient building and some broken walls. There were some magical characters engraved on the walls, but they had become incomplete and fragmented over the years.

"Are you here to enter the Garden of Eternal Twilight? Show me your application forms." From behind a wall amidst the ruins, a tall, thin wizard in tattered black robes emerged, wielding a massive scythe, like a guardian of the place.

Locke sensed magical pressure from him equivalent to that of a first-class wizard apprentice, but strangely, the other party's magical pressure fluctuated wildly. Sometimes it was so high that it seemed to be extremely close to that of a first-level wizard, and other times it was only at the level of someone who had just become a first-class wizard apprentice.

Sometimes, the demonic pressure can even break through the limits and reach an unknown realm, which seems very strange.

Moreover, the other party was filled with a dense aura of death, and did not seem to be a living person.

The guardian wizard took the application forms from Locke and Zoina, and after confirming the academy's magic seal on them, he chuckled gloatingly, "Confirmed, it is indeed the academy's magic seal."

"I wish you both the best of luck."

"Eternal Twilight Garden...Welcome, both of you."

The guardian wizard held up the two application forms in his hands and overlapped them with both hands. Instantly, the magical seals on the two application forms overlapped to form a complete seal.

The magic seal projected a magical image in mid-air, and at the same time, the ruins began to change drastically.

First, a mist rose from the ruins, and tiny lantern-like patterns covered the ground, faintly glowing with a crystalline light.

Each lantern flower resembles a lantern held in someone's hand, and the light emanating from these lantern flowers shines intensely, like a streetlamp in the dark night.

The guardian wizard chuckled. "The two students of Lilith's Hut will surely have unforgettable memories here."

"Don't worry too much, you will be automatically transported to the Wizarding Realm after you die."

"You will not die in the Wizarding Realm, but you will experience the concept of death and bear its punishment. If your mental fortitude is insufficient, cherish this only chance to turn back and leave immediately."

Locke frowned and immediately asked, "What if I don't die inside? Is there any way to leave this wizarding realm, Everlasting Gardens, besides dying?"

The guardian wizard looked at Locke and said indifferently, "You don't need to consider this issue."

"Because that's not possible."

After waiting for a moment, the guardian wizard said, "Since no one is leaving at this moment, please enter the memory echo of the first-ring wizard Foucault."

"I wish you both the best of luck once again."

The next moment, the Watcher Wizard vanished, and a magical mist enveloped Locke and Zoina.

When the magical mist dissipated, the original ruins had transformed into a magnificent manor. In front of this elegant manor in the darkness stood marble statues of various shapes, races, and identities.

A full moon, a manor, statues of soldiers, and lantern grass covering the ground; a gentle breeze blows, and countless magical fireflies dance in the air.

Zoina's eyes widened. "Senior, where is this?"

Locke then realized that the Wizarding Realm of Eternal Twilight Garden was actually built upon the echo of a formal wizard.

Echoes are a product of the death of a formal wizard.

It seems that this wizarding secret realm is actually the result of Lilith's Hut's modification, even solidification and control of the aftermath of a Transfiguration wizard's death, which transformed it into the wizarding secret realm it is now for wizarding apprentices to practice in.

According to the previous guardian, this means that he and Zoina are currently in the memories of a deceased first-ring wizard.

No wonder Professor Harlan Vera said that entering the Wizarding Realm would allow one to learn what a permanent defensive field is; so that's what it meant.

The Wizard's Realm, indeed a special place!
Locke looked at the manor, which was filled with marble statues, both inside and out. These statues were soldiers, some human soldiers, some dwarf miners, and some elven wizards, but they all had the same face.

It's as if these statues are all of the same person, but with different identities.

Locke saw an inscription on the base of an elven statue: 'We each have many identities, but there is no absolute, innate identity, only an initial state before it is transformed by magic—Foucault.'

Locke sensed from the other person's words that this was their magical philosophy. He said to Zoina, who was filled with doubt and unease, "This should be the memory of a first-circle wizard from the Transfiguration school."

"Judging from the words on the base of that statue, the other party is most likely a wizard of the Transfiguration school."

Zoina's mouth dropped open slightly. "Huh? Senior, this is actually the memory of a first-ring wizard?"

"Then this place must be very dangerous."

The next moment, a huge marble statue of a minotaur warrior suddenly appeared behind Zoena, wielding his marble axe, and swung it down towards her head.

Locke caught her and immediately used the Great Blue Owl Banana, employing the plant mimicry technique: Raptor, flying into the air and dodging the giant axe attack from the marble statue soldier.

The instant they were airborne, three marble statue arrows struck them mercilessly in their original positions with a 'clang' sound.

In an instant, all the marble in the entire manor seemed to be given some kind of life. They came alive, and the energy of the transformation flowed through them. An army of marble statues appeared here.

A surge of magical energy was released from the center of the manor, its malevolence accompanied by magical pressure, piercing through Locke and Zoina.

'Dark wizards, how dare you stand before me!'

'I will kill you all!'

(End of this chapter)