Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 858 Arrival in the Three Caves World!

Locke's clone went to the Golden Crown Library.

Because the grafted large-leaf dragonfly was still at least a week away from maturity, he asked Douglas and the witch Mason to help him take care of it.

He himself went to the library on Mount Golden Crown to begin looking up information on models of golden magic and botanical spells.

At Ackerman's recommendation, Locke took a bunch of reference materials and sat down at a table in the library.

There were seven other second-ring wizards in the reading area at this time.

They glanced up at Locke, then looked down at the documents in their hands again.

Some people were looking at the information with one hand and simulating the spell models in the information with the other.

Locke, sitting on a stool, swept his hand across the table, simulating a model of an apprentice-level gold magic spell. The gold dust on the table condensed into a golden finger.

"The difference between the spell model of pure gold magic and the spell model of botany is too great."

Locke looked at the basic spell text of the ten golden spells in the book.

"These are the basic structures of the ten most commonly used spell models in Golden Magic. Once I learn them, I should have no problem casting apprentice-level Golden Magic."

"For wizarding apprentices, they consider the basic building blocks of spell models to be those magical runes. Just as the basic building blocks of botanical spell models are twenty Ogan runes."

"The basic magic runes of gold magic are magic runes called the [Chryseth] gold runes, and there are only ten of them in total."

"The higher the ring number of an apprentice-level spell model, the more runes are used, thus creating a very complex spell model. A simple botanical trick model may only have a dozen or so magic runes, but a spell model that is close to a first-ring spell may contain nearly a hundred magic runes."

"But for a formal wizard, it should be recognized that both the Ogan runes and the Chryseth golden runes are appearances. Each of these runes corresponds to a basic spell model structure, that is, one rune corresponds to one spell model."

"The so-called magic runes that construct spell models are just high-ring wizards intentionally simplifying magic models. Otherwise, the cost, difficulty of learning, and resource investment for apprentices to cast spells would be at least ten times higher."

At this moment, Locke, as a second-circle archmage, was learning golden magic. He used the examples from other places to improve his own, drawing on a wide range of sources, and realized the essence of magical runes.

A magical rune is the result of a high-ring wizard simplifying the basic structure of a certain type of magic.

A single magical rune corresponds to a complex spell model structure!

In other words, as wizarding apprentices learn magical runes and combine them into relatively simple spell models, they are very proud of their small innovations in spell models and are fascinated by their achievements.

They, and even many first-ring wizards, failed to realize that the magical technology behind each magical rune they used far surpassed the crude spell models they themselves had created.

Locke sighed, "It's not even a simple spell model; it's been reduced to a magical rune."

"The spell models corresponding to these characters represent the general structure of spell models for a certain type of magic."

"By using these common structures, one can construct very complex and brilliant spell models."

"In other words, those spell models are the result of high-ring wizards summarizing the ways of the world."

What made Locke hesitate was that this level of skill clearly exceeded his understanding of third-ring wizards, or even fourth-ring wizards.

Take, for example, the golden script of Chryseth before us. It consists of only ten characters, yet it seems to contain the truth.

It seems that all the spell models of golden magic that I have come into contact with are inseparable from these ten characters.

Based on these ten characters, by arranging and combining them, and with some wizards coming up with new spell model structures, and adding other auxiliary magical characters, a complex spell model structure can be constructed.

Locke looked at the ten characters again and felt that each character was as vast as a universe.

With each glance, the structure of the spell model corresponding to these words became clearer, and I even realized that I had misunderstood them and needed to correct the erroneous details in my understanding.

In other words, wizards who have different understandings of these characters can unlock the more powerful forces hidden within them.

Is this the work of the Wizard of Truth?

Or a wizard of an even higher ring?
"This is a different kind of support."

Locke realized something.

"Without these high-ring wizards creating these systematic systems of magical runes, a wizard would have to figure out the magical world and explore the truth by summarizing the magical powers little by little and arranging the rules of specific magical powers on their own. They would be exploring the magic in that direction as slowly as a snail."

"But with the support of these magical runes, we newcomers can stand on the backs of our predecessors. No wonder people in the wizarding world can easily achieve greater things than people in other worlds."

Are there no intelligent people in other worlds?
No.

Rather, it is the wise people of the wizarding world who are supporting all those who come after them.

As an ordinary mortal with average talent, the moment I entered the wizarding world, I began to study the essence of textbooks written by fourth-ring wizards, or even higher-ring wizards.

Previously, I had only seen the powerful things created by first-ring and second-ring wizards because of my lack of knowledge, and I thought that was the powerful force of magic.

Now that he was a second-circle wizard, he realized that the most powerful and truthful thing was precisely the content of the first textbook he had encountered during his apprenticeship.

Everyone desires the magical legacy of a high-ring wizard, but judging from this, who in the wizarding world isn't seeking the inheritance of a high-ring wizard?
Locke said, "If this were another world, I'm afraid the effort and time I would have to put in to achieve two breakthroughs would far exceed what I'm doing now."

"The Enlightenment... After that era, everything changed, making no one in the wizarding world dare to claim supremacy again, and establishing the existence of the White Wizarding Association. I wonder how magnificent that era must have been."

Locke composed himself and began to seriously read the magic books and articles related to various golden magic spell models.

Although the foundation is this [Chryseth] Golden Text.

However, the structure of the first and second ring spell models is still very vast, and the Golden Text of Chryseth is only the foundation.

In the first stage, many wizards add a lot of auxiliary magical texts to construct special spell models.

At the second level, a second-level Archmage will use basic and auxiliary magical runes to construct spell models.

At the same time, based on their unique understanding of magical power in a certain direction, they can add their own unique spell model structure.

This is why second-circle magic is highly original.

This is also why the influence of academic lineage becomes more pronounced in individuals during the second stage.

Because different schools of thought will inevitably have different original spell model structures.

Locke pondered, "I can gradually learn about gold magic. To design a second pair of second-circle wizard shoes, I can first learn the [Chryseth] gold script." "There's no need to truly start from scratch. That would take five to ten years to achieve anything. However, I only need to leverage the unique characteristics of my dragon bloodline, along with the partial spell model of [Safirot's Grip] that I've seen, to adjust and modify it, and I can create the corresponding gold magic suitable for my wizard shoes."

Essentially, he was plagiarizing.

Because the [Safirot's Grip] has been lost, but it is an extremely powerful spell, and I only remembered a part of it, and reproducing it is enough to enhance my wizard shoes.

"We should thank the Golden Dragon Clan for their magic; they never concealed the models of their spells."

"It's actually an open-source architecture."

"The basic magical runes used in this [Safirot's Grip] are the [Chryseth] Golden Runes, along with three auxiliary magical runes. However, there are general scholars in this era, and Wizard Ackerman helped me identify the types of those three auxiliary magical runes in less than five minutes."

"Then I just need to learn these four magical scripts first."

Knowing something doesn't mean you've learned it.

Of course, since it's a matter of copying and modifying, rather than developing from scratch, it would be much easier to develop a rudimentary version of [Sephiroth's Grip].

But it will still take time.

Locke read through the Chryseth Golden Script spellbook and said, "Indeed, it will be very easy for me to learn. Golden magic has a characteristic that those with certain bloodlines will find it only a fraction of the difficulty of learning it for ordinary wizards."

"The higher the level of a wizard's specific golden bloodline, the easier it is for them to learn golden magic. I don't know what the level of the World-Destroying Dragon's bloodline is, but when I read the [Chryseth] golden script..."

Locke said, "I have a strange feeling that I have a photographic memory."

"My clone is studying here, Mason and the others are in the lab, and my main body can now officially enter the three-dimensional space and begin its exploration."

……

In the Three-Hole Plane, the spindle-shaped pioneering explorers rotated outside the planar crystal wall system. They spent more than half a month traversing the destroyed planar meteorite cluster, leaving the location of the Void Beast, and finally finding the Three-Hole Plane.

Then, it took another week to enter the near-Earth orbit of the Three-Dimensional Plane.

Because Locke was a novice, with the help of the old pirate Henry, it took him more than a week to finally enter the near-Earth orbit of the three-planet space that was closest to the real world.

The old pirate Henry said to Locke, "That's good. This way we don't have to worry about being thrown out by the plane's gravity, or being pulled into the real world by the plane's gravity and crashing directly onto the real world of the three-hole plane."

"Captain, you learn really fast!"

Locke said, "It's alright."

This is mainly due to his ancient biological bloodline, which gives him high insight, as well as his long-standing talent—precise control over magic power.

Locke looked at the Three Hole Plane, whose surface was rippling with blue waves, and whose great river was tinged with green.

According to information previously obtained by the Void Cube, the reason why the great river in this world is green is because many seeds of the lotus flower that supports the crater and the earth float in the river.

This causes the river to appear greenish.

At the same time, the plane principles of this world do not conflict with those of the Wizarding World.

Deviations in the principles of the relevant planes can affect the power of spell models.

However, on their way here, they had already made minor adjustments to their spell models based on the findings of the Void Cube, so they would not be significantly affected upon entering this world.

Locke said, "According to the information obtained by the Void Cube, in this world, the water magic of the Evocation School will be enhanced, while the magic of the Mind School will be collectively rendered ineffective. The world is composed of the elements of wind, water, fire, earth, and ether."

The old pirate Henry peered intently through the observation window and exclaimed in surprise, "The characteristic of a medium-sized plane is that many demi-planes are generated within the world's crystal wall system. If the civilization of this world develops to a certain level, it will explore the outside world. They may very well remain focused on exploring the crystal wall system and mistake those demi-planes within it for new worlds."

"They have a mistaken perception of the size of their world and their place in the endless void."

“Treat those demiplanes as other worlds.”

"Small-scale planes cannot give rise to half-planes. Half-planes in small and medium-sized planes are not systematic. But this plane in front of us... its crystal wall system has not only given rise to half-planes, but also one, two... two and a half upper-level planes!"

"The ability to generate systematic upper-level planes is a characteristic of medium-to-large-scale planes."

"This plane is actually very close to a medium-to-large-scale plane. My God, it's almost one step away from becoming a medium-to-large-scale plane. Why did it suddenly stop?"

"It's already on the verge of advancing to a medium-sized plane. Why is it still stuck at this level for so long?"

“Under normal circumstances, even if the world fails to advance, it will still leave behind the characteristics of failure... rather than staying at this stage for a long time and doing nothing.”

The old pirate Henry pointed to the world ahead, where within the crystal wall system, one upper plane was located at the top of the crater, and another upper plane existed underground.

Half of the upper plane is located in the ocean.

Locke said, “Second-circle wizards cannot enter this world yet. Everyone, we need to send some people into this world first. I need you to bring my treant avatar into it and plant the first tree seed on the land of this world.”

"Gentlemen, there are beings at the second level in this world. Therefore, it poses a great danger to formal wizards. Who among you will enter first?"

Some wizards volunteered their services.

Ultimately, Locke selected three wizards at the vaporization stage.

Because their entry causes minimal disturbance and minimizes the world's rejection.

At the same time, Locke sensed a divine force approaching from afar, attacking the exploration vanguard.

"Hmm?" Locke turned around and saw the fire giant in the mortal world drawing his bow and arrow, trying to shoot them with a flaming arrow.

But Locke simply manipulated his wand, raising the Explorer to the height of a void orbit, and dodged the attack.

The giant could only see his attack as he fell to the ground.

The old pirate laughed heartily, "These natives..."

"Without extraterrestrial civilizations, it would be very difficult for the natives of this world to launch their attacks into near-Earth orbit. Their power is confined within the crystal wall system."

Hussein said, "It's hard to say whether they are natives. I feel that they are not native to this world at all. They are more like parasites in this world, bringing the development of the entire world to a standstill."

(End of this chapter)