Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 860 The Saint's Incarnation's Beach Landing Operation!

Three vaporization wizards from the Illusion School, under Locke's command, stood on the projection platform of the Vanguard Explorers. Their wizarding robes then swirled, resonating with their respective permanent defensive fields.

At the same time, their bodies began to blur, and they split apart like writhing phantoms, from one person to two, then from two to four, then from four to eight, and then from eight to sixteen.

This is a model of a first-level illusion spell: [Phantom Clone]!
The characteristic of this spell model is that each of its clones has very low precision and is easily identified by wizards, but the advantage is that there will be a large number of clones, which is specifically designed to deal with non-wizard enemies.

When Locke recruited the three, he required them to learn this first-circle illusion magic model, because it is very useful when exploring different planes.

Since all three of them are members of the medium-sized wizarding organization [Mind Corridor] in the Golden Crown Mountain region, they all chose the [Mind Corridor]'s standard permanent defensive force field [Reverse Thinking Barrier].

The effect of this permanent defensive force field is to provide a certain level of basic force protection. Its main defensive power is that when an intelligent life form wants to attack you, its thought process will be forcibly reversed by the permanent defensive force field, and the attack command will be stopped.

In other words, it means that the wizard under this permanent defensive field cannot be selected.

It's a special magical inheritance from the [Mind Corridor], a rather unique type of magic.

Locke said to the three of them, "It's ready. Now let's enter the Three Cave Dimensions."

The three's permanent defensive force field was immediately strengthened after resonating with the wizard's robe. At the same time, they put on wizard masks to filter the plane principles, allowing the plane principles they breathed in to be transformed into the plane principles of the wizarding world.

Next, they activated the Black Hummingbird Wizard Shoes and jumped directly down from above the Void Exploration.

The three people fell into the present world of the Three Caves World and turned into 48 shooting stars. In an instant, the fire giant's fire arrows shot towards the 48 shooting stars that the three of them had turned into.

The entire world was shaken by the wrath of the fire giant, causing the laws of fire to tremble. His wrath manifested in the world, and the temperature began to rise rapidly.

On earth, thousands of mortal cities and states, suffering from the unbearable heat, prayed to the gods on the mountain.

A flaming arrow struck a meteor, and instantly the entire world's fire power surged towards the phantom clone. The fire giant was the fire god of this world, so each of his attacks was equivalent to the entire world's flames gathering energy to attack a single being.

That's why he's so powerful.

Even a phantom clone of a vapor wizard from the Illusion School could not withstand the immense pressure of such a world.

In just a moment, the phantom clone shattered.

But Locke knew this from the beginning, which is why he sent three vapor wizards from the Illusion School to descend first and use illusions to create clones, deceiving the 'gods' of this world.

At this moment, phantom clones were also attacked by the sky domain, with bolts of lightning and the power of light falling one after another.

48 meteors were quickly destroyed.

In the end, only 7 meteors successfully fell to the ground.

Fortunately, thanks to the permanent defensive force field, none of the three were hit before successfully landing.

Locke observed all this, his brow furrowing slightly. 'The Law of Light, the Law of Lightning, the Law of the Vast Sky—the God-King possesses the most comprehensive set of world laws.'

'But he clearly pleaded with me for help, yet now he's unleashing his domain to attack my people. Why? Is he being controlled by the being behind that eye? That being behind the eye concealed its true form the moment it saw me.'

However, since his potion-making skills were already very close to those of a second-circle potion master, he immediately realized that the other party was hiding their true nature.

After all, as a potion master, one must possess the ability to observe the hidden true nature of all things. How could one allow an unknown being to successfully deceive and trick one in front of them?

'If that God-King attained godhood through the power of the World Tree's leaves, then he shouldn't be classified as any of the false gods in the wizarding world, nor as a true astral god. They should be considered nature gods directly authorized by the World Tree.'

'But does such a thing exist? I don't know. Because of the decline of the World Tree lineage, the wizarding world may not have touched its power for a very long time. So, this could very well be the first encounter between wizards and the nature gods?'

Locke instantly realized that the giant gods here might be considered his fellow countrymen in another sense.

After all, the foundation of his power was also the leaves of the World Tree.

The problem is that during my recent encounter with them, I did not discover that they were nature guardians or possessed similar characteristics of power. The fire giant's attack methods were primitive and contrary to nature, completely following the path of replacing the world with one's own mind.

Therefore, Locke couldn't immediately determine whether these giants were friend or foe, but they were most likely enemies.

'The problem likely lies with the entity behind those eyes.'

Locke concluded, "To understand the specifics, we'll need to find a way to enter this world."

'My other half should also exist in this world.'

'I must enter the world and make contact with my other half. The moment my true self or avatar sees my other half, I can reclaim this clone.'

'Then I can construct a second Great Magic.'

'Because I will possess a dual soul. From a second-circle wizard's perspective, the soul is merely the outermost shell, corresponding to the level of the body.'

At that moment, the seven meteors that fell to the ground split into seven different directions and darted around the earth, while the fire giant shot an arrow in one direction and charged toward a target.

Three more giants descended from the crater: a mountain giant, a water giant, and a wind giant.

The purpose of these three giant kings descending the mountain was to hunt down the seven falling meteors.

With each step the mountain giant takes, she forces the world to conform to her, and with each step she takes, a mountain rises from the ground. Her magical pressure is around 12000.

Locke glanced at her. Logically speaking, the Mountain Law of the Three Cave Planes should be very powerful because of the craters.

But her magic pressure was only 12000.

This only shows that, unlike the fire giants, the mountain giants cannot fully control the laws of mountains.

Locke understood after a moment's thought: the crater is the foundation of the three cave planes. If she could fully master it, its magical pressure could very well reach the level of a star ring, or even a lunar ring.

Because the crater, the earth, the primordial lotus leaf, the great river, and the three caves are all fundamental structures of this world.

If something can be controlled by a single being, it means that the entire world has completely fallen into the hands of that individual.

Clearly, these giants cannot do that.

Even if they could do it, the entity behind them wouldn't dare to do it. After all, if such a thing happened, it would be hard to say whether the entity behind them could still control such a powerful giant.

If this situation were to actually occur, then even a giant of this caliber could pose a challenge to oneself simply by virtue of their total magical pressure.

At this moment, the seven phantoms that landed had been eliminated, leaving only three. Those three were moving rapidly in the present world of the three cave planes and had not yet been caught by any giants.

No matter how they used illusions, the giants could still track them down.

The three vaporization wizards from the [Mind Corridor] quickly contacted Locke through the Ganoderma lucidum magical plant.

"Lord Augustine, what should we do now? Why were our exquisite illusions so easily seen through by those natives?"

Locke replied through the Ganoderma lucidum plant: "It's not that they saw through your illusion. Rather, these giants possess the power to directly control specific world principles of this world. The principles of wind, mountains, and earth—everything you step on corresponds to a world principle, and these world principles may very well have already been mastered by these giants."

"Therefore, they can locate you without needing to see through your illusions. However, your permanent defensive field still works against them."

“If you are second-circle wizards, you can create real illusions and step on them to avoid direct contact with this world. That should be a way to deceive these natives.”

Locke said, “According to my plan, plant the red holly I gave you in the ground.”

"Then, you immediately chose to seal yourselves in."

At this moment, the three gasification wizards quickly bent down and planted the broken branch of the red holly in the ground. One of them chose to plant it in front of a city-state, one chose to plant it in a valley, and one chose to plant it on a flat area.

At this moment, the fire giant had caught up with one of the young gasification wizards, and he drew his battle axe and slashed at the 'tiny' outsider.

"The highest god said that the beings that descend into our world are the so-called demon gods. I thought they would be so powerful, but I didn't expect them to be only this level."

The fire giant laughed loudly, raised his flaming axe, and swung it at the young vapor wizard. The fire element of the entire world surged with his excitement.

He had assumed that the young vaporization wizard would die instantly with a single blow of the axe.

The fire giant let out a soft "Eh," and his attack, which was originally aimed at the wizard, inexplicably deflected and struck the wizard's side instead.

A hint of doubt flashed in the fire giant's eyes.

"What's going on? You insignificant mortal?"

He quickly swung his flaming battle axe, hacking repeatedly at the wizard.

Because of the [Reverse Thinking Barrier], his attacks against this wizard will be logically deflected, thus making them impossible to target.

The Fire Law of a world is indeed immense; if it were successfully applied to a first-ring wizard, it would instantly kill them without a trace.

But here's the problem.

Because the Fire Giant actually influenced the world's will with his own personal will, it was because he wanted to attack the wizard in front of him that the world's principles attacked the wizard.

When his personal will was deflected by the [Barrier of Reversal], the principle of fire could not be locked onto that wizard.

It's unimaginable that a second-circle wizard would be unable to hit a first-circle vapor wizard.

But at this moment, the fire giant was like a child holding a gun. He hadn't really learned how to use the gun yet, so he was just waving it around randomly.

Even so, the vaporized wizard in the thought corridor was filled with immense fear, for under the impact of the enormous magical pressure, he was like a small boat tossed about in a storm.

The magical pressure emanating from the fire giant was simply too immense.

Each strike was like the entire world's fire crashing into him. Although he dodged the attacks, if he were to be caught in the aftershocks even once, he would be instantly pulverized.

Therefore, after receiving Locke's instructions, the wizard took out a stone from his astral ring, and in an instant, his soul and body were sealed inside the stone.

The stone fell to the ground.

The massive magic array shot into the sky, then automatically retracted back towards the stones on the ground.

This is a sealing magic from the First Ring Protection School—the [Sealing Stone].

Locke also wanted the Protective School wizard to cast an exile spell, but unfortunately he couldn't, and the pre-cast animation for exile spells was too long, so it might not really be a better choice.

The Sealing Stone can seal a person inside, and the strength of the Sealing Stone itself is equal to the strength of the seal. Therefore, the Sealing Stone itself is a crystallized magical artifact, which is exceptionally hard.

Even if the entire world's Fire Principle were to strike, it would remain completely unharmed.

Those are magical artifacts that wizards use to seal powerful enemies, and they are difficult to destroy by brute force.

The other two vaporization wizards in the Mind Corridor had no choice but to activate the [Sealing Stone] one by one to seal themselves, their souls and bodies completely sealed within the stone.

At the same time, the three broken branches of red holly that they had previously planted in the ground immediately activated [Accelerated Growth]. In a short time, these three magical plants, which did not require much resources, grew rapidly under the blessing of the magic power Locke left on the branches, quickly taking root, sprouting, and growing into a fast-growing version of a towering tree.

With the power of a second-ring wizard, it is an easy task to quickly cultivate a first-ring magical plant that grows rapidly, even without suitable resources.

The fire giant, wielding a flaming battle axe, turned and looked at the tree with a puzzled expression.

In that instant, the supreme deity, unusually, directly entered his mind and commanded him, 'Quickly cut down that tree!'

'quick!'

On the crater, the female giant among the eleven giants—the forest giant—suddenly stood up in her palace, her private palace collapsing madly, her divine power waning.

In a very short time, her beautiful clothes became worn and tattered, and the mortals in her palace who were blessed with eternal life turned white-haired and aged in a very short time.

Those mortal lovers reached out their hands to her.

"God, what have we done wrong? Are you going to abandon us and not want our eternal companionship?"

Those kings and heroes who once dominated the mortal world now felt the end of their lives once again; death had come upon them.

But they could not wait for the forest giants' response.

As the forest giant's divine power was waning, she herself transformed from a young girl into a woman, and then into a frail old woman.

The forest giantess looked down the mountain in horror. She could sense that, in an instant, some kind of power had entered this world, shattering her title as the greatest source of her divine power—the incarnation of the forest, the unique being of plants.

This resulted in her being the first of the twelve giant gods to be affected.

The forest giantess cried out in terror, "No! I don't want to become a mortal again! God-King, God-Supreme, please help me!"

"The Law of the Forest... no longer responds to me. Supreme God, if I die, my power will return to the God-King! You must help me."

The next moment, a new world law descended, which was the [Law of Grass], which was weaker than the Law of Forest. The female giant who obtained the Law of Grass instantly gained the identity of the Lord of Grass in this world. Therefore, although her magic pressure dropped from 12000 to 10000, she still maintained her existence.

The Grass Giantess gazed with a mixture of surprise and uncertainty at the location below the crater.

On the other side, on the land of the Three Holes World, a full moon appeared behind the three red holly bushes. It was a ray of moonlight that Locke had stored in the three branches. When the three plants officially grew in this world, their own moon of evolution was also hung in this world.

There was no Sun or Moon Giant among the twelve giants.

It seems that the sun and moon are also fundamental structures of this world and were not controlled by those giants.

The moment his own Moon of Evolution appeared in this world, Locke immediately used the Moon Goddess Blessing Spell to transform the three fast-growing Red Holly plants into first-class wizard apprentice-level tree people.

Because they used fast-growing plants, not true red holly.

Next, Locke attempted to draw upon the power of his Forest Sanctuary, using these three tree-men as a foundation, and then directly descend his saintly avatar here!
However, a divine light suddenly descended from the upper plane above the crater. The light, with its terrifying power, was like an arrow that struck a Red Earth Holly Treeman and destroyed it.

This interrupted the ritual in which Locke descended as the incarnation of the saint.

Locke was not surprised by this; he was just giving it a try.

There are four ways to descend as a saintly incarnation: the world itself, a large number of mortals in the world, or the gods of the world summoning oneself, or one can transmit a massive amount of energy to forcibly summon oneself.

For example, through the Forest Sanctuary.

However, regardless of the circumstances, I have not yet gained the approval of the world's will, so this process is easily interrupted.

On the vanguard, the seven wizards, along with Hussein and old Henry, were also focused on observing the outcome of this first landing operation.

Old Henry said, "Locke, think of something. You only have two tree men left."

Hussein said, "There's no other way. It's already quite good that we can cast spells across worlds and quickly enlighten the three tree people. There's a crystal wall system blocking us, and there's no dimensional portal for our power to enter."

At that moment, on the earth, as Locke's Moon of Evolution descended, the full moon appeared behind the Fire Giant.

At that moment, although the Fire Giant had its back to the Moon of Evolution, it sensed the terrifying magical pressure of over 19600 emanating from Locke after he activated the Beast Panel.

And there was the aura of that ferocious beast.

His pupils suddenly shrank, as if he had sensed a natural enemy behind him. For the first time, he felt what terrifying power was.

An overwhelming sense of fear arose within his fearless heart.

He cannot allow that...demon god to descend upon this world.

Otherwise they would perish.

Therefore, he had to cut down that tree.

We absolutely cannot let the demon god descend!
Fortunately, the demon god's power was too immense, making it impossible for him to easily enter this world.

The fire giant, filled with fear and unease, raised his flaming battle axe, ready to chop down the treant whose strength was laughably weak.

However, the treant spread its branches, and the power of the Mist appeared between its fingers. It actually managed to temporarily resist the full force of the fire giant's attack with the magic pressure of a first-class apprentice.

The treant clone spoke, "Archmod, the fire giant."

"Your world shouldn't be like this. Your God-King seems to be in trouble. Tell me, what exactly happened here?"

Upon hearing this, the fire giant seemed even more terrified. His pupils suddenly shrank, and he raised his giant flaming axe to launch a fierce attack on Locke.

"Demon God, I will absolutely not allow you to descend into this world."

The enormous flaming axe swung towards the treant's avatar.

The entire world's fire element converged and hurled itself at the red holly.

At this point, the treant, who only possessed the magic pressure level of an apprentice, simply could not withstand it.

But at that moment, Hussein suddenly pressed his palm on Locke's shoulder and then chanted a spell.

He wanted to curse Locke, whose bloodline was connected to the plant essence of the tree-man, since the tree-man was originally enlightened by Locke.

Therefore, he can indirectly curse the Treant by cursing Locke's bloodline from outside the world.

The blood curse he cast was a second-circle level spell called [Higher Treant Conversion Curse].

In an instant, the tree-man was forcibly demonized, and the entire tree became eerie. However, the tree-man was directly enhanced into a demonized tree spirit in the liquefaction stage.

Hussein directly usurped control of the Tree People.

Locke glanced at Hussein speechlessly.

"Higher tree spirit transformation curse? Isn't that magic specifically designed for botany? Unless there's a specific enemy, you shouldn't need to learn such an obscure curse spell..."

Hussein coughed.

"I have a habit of crisis management. It's not directed at anyone in particular. People should always consider relying on themselves at all times. Besides, haven't I already helped you?"

"Your Moon Goddess Blessing Spell, combined with my High Treant Transformation Curse, can strengthen that treant to the point where it can resist the power of that fire giant."

Old Henry shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's difficult. Look, all the giants have come down from the mountain."

"They don't give us a chance to unleash our power at all."

Locke looked at the two and said, "It's alright. The three tree people were just a smokescreen."

Locke looked at the three-hole world.

'The moment I unleashed my power, it seemed I seized control of the world's principles. Perhaps it's the principles of the forest. Are the world's principles in this world open? Who can establish a response with them, given the right conditions?'

'If that's the case, then there's a fifth way to summon my Saintly Incarnation: by using the power of the Forest's Law to descend upon it. It's a pity the giantess didn't die; it seems she was saved by that so-called supreme god.'

'If that so-called supreme god hadn't come to my rescue, I could have used the Forest Law's response to me just now to directly unleash my Saintly avatar. Then I could have immediately launched a full-scale attack on them.'

(End of this chapter)