Chapter 598: November First, Sports Festival! |
November first.
Many void warships appeared in the sky above Golden Crown Mountain. Those void warships entered in single file, one after another in an endless stream. Web paths repeatedly manifested in the sky above Golden Crown Mountain. Those web paths were composed of the Three Marsh Lands' [Canal Waterways].
Like a heavenly river suspended above Golden Crown Mountain.
And the wizards of Golden Crown Mountain, before this day, had ordered Golden Crown Mountain's Weather Mage Academy and Builder Academy to work together to construct continuous cloud palaces in the sky as competition venues.
There were a total of one hundred eight competition venues. Each competition venue was extremely vast, built on clouds, with carved beams and painted rafters, practical while also maintaining beauty.
Security work was also well done. Demon hunter troops dispatched by the White Wizard Association's Demon Hunter Deployment Division patrolled at the foot of Golden Crown Mountain. Whenever black wizards were discovered causing destruction, they would immediately pursue and kill them.
The Executive Patrol Group's Security Department wizards of Golden Crown Mountain also each held wizard swords in their left hands and terrifying staffs as tall as a person in their right hands, standing around the major building sites, conducting patrols.
Golden Crown Mountain's clouds were the most natural things that could be sculpted into various functional buildings. At this moment, white clouds and rainbows transformed into stairs and flying vessels, serving as docking sites for the major void warships and various tools for those passengers to disembark.
The scene was extremely grand.
Witch Mason, Wizard Barrett, and Witch Freya whispered among themselves, marveling at Sports Festival's grand scale.
To hold this sports meet, Golden Crown Mountain had undertaken massive construction in the sky. The scale was truly astonishing.
Wizards from various wizard organizations in the Golden Crown Mountain region gradually entered, filling the Cloud Arena's seats.
Tremendous magic pressure gathered together.
Locke didn't purchase magic garments to protect himself. As a wizard, he wasn't that fragile. His own permanent defensive field was sufficient to protect himself in this terrifying high-concentration magic pressure.
The Cloud Arena was very noisy.
Because this was a grand event for wizards from one-tenth of Cloud Marsh Wetland's land, quite a few wizards met and exchanged pleasantries with their old friends, mutually discussing their recent research content.
There were also quite a few wizards with grudges, who either pretended not to see each other. Anyway, the Cloud Arena was as large as a city, so not seeing someone was still quite simple.
Even those who started arguing would temporarily stop quarreling at the reminders of Golden Crown Mountain's Security Department wizards.
If they actually fought, they would be invited out of the Cloud Arena by Security Department wizards.
Locke surveyed this noisy arena, "So these are the vast majority of powerful wizards from one-tenth of Cloud Marsh Wetland's Golden Crown Mountain region?"
"The number is truly too many. At least seventy or eighty thousand."
"There should be many wizard apprentices and weak First Circle wizards who didn't come, or relatively solitary wizards, as well as some with other pressing matters or no interest in coming... But even so, the wizards here should be about half of the formal wizards within the Golden Crown Mountain region."
Locke indeed felt that everywhere here were high-circle wizards. He even discovered some First Circle and Second Circle wizards looking at him, pointing at his back while talking.
Locke wisely didn't casually leave the Golden Crown Mountain Origin Academy seating area.
Those wizards were very likely people who speculated on stocks related to Tyrant-ization breeding studies and lost money, or related industry practitioners.
He'd better not irritate others when their stocks were plummeting. Moreover, if his Tyrant Hummingbird Bromeliad Shoes sold even slightly well, their stocks would probably plummet again.
Locke heard people around him discussing and immediately looked toward the Cloud Arena's center. He saw a peach tree seedling appear in the center. That peach tree seedling rapidly grew, transforming in an extremely short time from a seedling into a lushly verdant ancient longevity peach magical plant with gnarled branches.
That seemed to be a Third Circle magical plant with extremely terrifying magic pressure. Behind it was a great bright fire wheel, like a fire god descending to the world.
As streams of fire essence flowed into the longevity peach tree's branches, peaches rapidly grew in an extremely short time. Then, amid quite a few wizards' exclamations, the ripened flat peaches randomly flew toward the various audience sections.
A Second Circle wizard with decent luck caught a flat peach and laughed heartily. "This year, my luck is really good. This is the first program that must appear at every Golden Crown Mountain Sports Festival, the Reborn Longevity Peach Tree! November's specialty Longevity Star Old Peach. I heard that consuming one can increase lifespan by one year, increasing the soul lifespan limit by one year."
As soon as these words were spoken, quite a few wizards who had just advanced to formal wizards showed shocked expressions.
"It actually increases the soul lifespan limit! That's a divine object that can increase true lifespan. This kind of thing, Golden Crown Mountain just casually gives to others?"
"It's practically for anyone who sees it. Is this Golden Crown Mountain?"
In an instant, quite a few wizards felt the boldness of the Golden Crown Mountain region, the wizard academy overlord among the ten major regions.
The strength of Cloud Marsh Wetland's top academy.
They couldn't help but feel awe.
These were all Golden Crown Mountain's soft power. On some future day, they might bring Golden Crown Mountain some benefits. For wizards from Golden Crown Mountain, this brought prestige.
At that moment, longevity star old peaches flew toward today's lucky ones.
Locke saw a longevity star old peach flying toward him and was stunned. Just as he was about to receive it, he discovered that old peach suddenly turned a corner and fell into Witch Mason's hands beside him.
Locke was stunned, then smiled.
Just now he had also seen quite a few wizards use all sorts of methods trying to forcibly intercept old peaches. As a result, those old peaches seemed to ignore any magic, directly passing through and even passing through quite a few wizards' bodies and even their permanent defensive fields, then falling into the hands of those chosen by the old peaches.
Witch Mason said joyfully, "My luck is really good. I actually obtained an old peach."
"Ah, I need to be careful. This old peach seems extremely expensive, a rare magic peach that can increase true lifespan."
Witch Mason carefully surveyed her surroundings, guarding against robbery.
Locke comforted her, "I've read about this kind of peach in books. One of Golden Crown Mountain's Twelve Peaches, ranked even above Water Jade Peach and White Dew Peach."
"But if the academy leadership dares to hand out this kind of thing, they won't fear causing riots. Old peaches have many special properties. For example, they'll only choose one master, cannot be touched by anyone except this master. Even if all methods are exhausted to consume it, it won't have any effect on anyone other than the master."
Locke extended his palm and directly passed through the old peach, touching Witch Mason's left palm.
Witch Mason said, "Locke, you really do love reading."
"I didn't expect this old peach to be so magical. It's just like a soul artifact that only you can use, and is completely useless to anyone else. This way I don't need to worry about attracting trouble because of the old peach."
Quite a few wizards from Origin Academy looked at Witch Mason enviously.
Just now, only one old peach fell in their direction, so in all of Origin Academy, only Witch Mason alone obtained an old peach.
The key was this thing completely couldn't be blocked by magic. Even if they managed to snatch it, for them it would be just like an ordinary peach.
So, they could only express envy to Witch Mason.
Quite a few people congratulated Witch Mason.
The Reborn Longevity Peach, at the instant it grew to its peak, suddenly disappeared. At the same time, a large drum descended from the sky.
Then a Force Energy School wizard jumped on top. Immediately, the entire Cloud Arena was enveloped in force energy fluctuations.
A sun ring wizard host's voice appeared in the Cloud Arena, "Everyone, those longevity star old peaches just now were greeting gifts our Golden Crown Mountain prepared for guests who came from afar to participate in the competition."
"And guests who weren't lucky enough to obtain old peaches don't need to regret it, because next is a song our Golden Crown Mountain's Force Energy School academy [Elm Grove] brings everyone, the Fluctuation Song."
As ten Force Energy School Second Circle wizards leaped on that drum, each sound seemed like some kind of lightning shocking people's hearts, piercing through their permanent defensive fields, falling upon their spirituality, causing their spirituality to become some form of fluctuation.
Locke looked at his right hand, wrapped in black fluctuations, and heard quite a few exclamations from Force Energy School wizards from other wizard academies.
A Force Energy School Second Circle wizard with [Iron Legion] on his chest said in shock, "Force Energy School's fluctuation magic can actually be used this way. Such methods are like their Illusion School bards' methods. No, completely different..."
"Among the 364 nations our Iron Legion manages, not one wizard possesses such creativity!"
Another sun ring wizard from [Glaguer Cult] of the Force Energy School, with a full head of white hair, was working hard to record these force energy fluctuation changes. "This special device that interferes with other wizards' spirituality through sound waves, forcing other wizards' spirituality to become fluctuation energy, is really too interesting."
"Although for now I can't see what use it would have in actual combat, it can display Golden Crown Mountain's peak position in the force energy field."
"Golden Crown Mountain truly deserves to be the holy land in Force Energy School wizards' hearts."
"Unfortunately, fluctuation studies rarely offer public courses to outsiders. Otherwise I would want to become a student again, enter Golden Crown Mountain's classroom, and listen to the voice of truth once more."
Locke looked toward that sun ring wizard, slightly surprised in his heart. He wasn't a Force Energy School wizard and didn't know how formidable that device was.
However, was it that formidable?
That was a sun ring wizard.
After seeing this, he actually wanted to enter Golden Crown Mountain again as a student.
Locke instantly realized this arts display stage before the sports competition wasn't just purely doing activities.
It was also Golden Crown Mountain's demonstration of force.
In this arts display stage, displaying a portion of Golden Crown Mountain's superb research to shock these tens of thousands of wizards in the Golden Crown Mountain region!
As the large drum withdrew, Locke saw his spirituality finally return to normal, changing from black fluctuations back to normal spirituality.
But the next moment, he felt the bloodline in his body boiling.
What was happening?
Locke looked in shock toward the Cloud Arena's center. He saw a spatial rift appear. Behind the spatial rift was a magma world.
Large amounts of golden magma flow poured out from that magma world.
It was precisely that magma flow that caused his own bloodline to riot.
Golden Crown Mountain's sun ring wizard said excitedly, "This is our Golden Crown Mountain's Bloodline Sacred Pool, jointly created by Throne Yekaterina and Third Circle wizard Solzhenitsyn. In this bloodline sacred pool, all bloodlines on a wizard's body can be washed away! It can also harmonize bloodlines on their body, and can even wash away specific bloodlines on their body, or even part of the bloodline factors in specific bloodline essence!"
"In the future, as our experiments in colonial worlds gradually complete, we'll consider prioritizing opening to specific Golden Crown Mountain wizards, then gradually opening to all of Golden Crown Mountain, and gradually opening to other wizard organizations."
Quite a few bloodline wizards who came to participate in the activities all exclaimed in admiration.
A moon ring Second Circle wizard from the medium wizard organization Blood Hand Tower shook his head, "Our academy is still at the stage of chasing Golden Crown Mountain's bloodline studies, while Golden Crown Mountain has already established new rules for bloodline studies."
"We really can't catch up. Wash away specific bloodlines on the body? Wash away specific bloodline factors? As everyone knows, a major reason why bloodline wizards easily experience bodily mutations they cannot control lies in the difficulty of removing certain magic creature bloodline essence deeply combined with themselves."
"This causes bloodline wizards to often only use all methods to expel part of the bloodline essence from their bodies, but residue remains inside. When they later transplant too much magic creature bloodline essence into their bodies, this residue may become fatal harm."
"Only we bloodline wizards transplant hundreds of types of bloodline essence into our own bodies. But with this bloodline sacred pool... This significance is too great for Second Circle stage bloodline wizards!"
Quite a few bloodline wizards were whispering to each other and expressing heartfelt admiration.
Next, Golden Crown Mountain successively presented quite a few more projects as viewing activities. Some things, Locke didn't even understand.
He only saw quite a few Second Circle wizards and Third Circle wizards expressing shocked admiration.
When the fifteenth program ended.
The Academic Committee faction's dean from Golden Crown Mountain, one of Golden Crown Mountain's three deans, Fourth Circle Wizard Gaia Meek, stood smiling in the Cloud Arena's center.
"Everyone, the ceremony ends. The competition officially begins."
"Welcome to all who came from afar to compete at our Golden Crown Mountain. Because there are hundreds of various competitions, multiple competitions will proceed simultaneously. For example, our signature competition the Spell Combat Tournament, because it has many rounds, will begin competing from the first day."
"Once again, I wish everyone a good time."
Gaia Meek, as if having completed her task, quickly turned and left, leaving behind a huge peach tree firework.