Chapter 600: Sparring with Sera! Endorsing His Own Tyrant-ized Magical Plant |
On the Spell Combat Tournament judging panel sat a group of Third Circle wizards and sun ring wizards, overseeing the competition rules for the four tiers of the Spell Combat Tournament.
At the same time, two-thirds of the Third Circle wizards were wizards from Cloud Marsh Wetland's Spell Combat Tournament League Committee.
The Golden Crown Mountain region's Sports Festival itself was where these League Committees selected excellent wizard fighters.
Moreover, quite a few local fighting clubs also participated in this competition.
Golden Crown Mountain's Sports Festival itself held very many political meanings. This was a method Golden Crown Mountain used to rule the surrounding regions.
At least in Cloud Marsh Wetland, so-called sports were another form of war.
Frequently initiating sports activities was equivalent to frequently waging war in the Golden Crown Mountain region.
The emergence of sports allowed much warfare to dissipate into nothingness. So the wizard who proposed the sports concept and framework and ultimately perfected it was already a high-circle wizard in the Star Domain Sea.
He deeply participated in the underlying design of wizard civilization society.
"The Second Circle stage..."
He mentioned the Second Circle stage seed contestants. "Your Second Circle stage wizard, in the future has intentions to participate in the Spell Combat Tournament's major league, right?"
Currently, this level of Spell Combat Tournament could only be considered minor league level.
The real Spell Combat Tournament would show true results in the major league.
"Wizard Fischer."
Also serving as a judge, Wizard Fischer laughed heartily, saying, "Our Golden Crown Mountain is naturally the strongest."
Before outsiders, Wizard Fischer didn't mention Golden Crown Mountain's internal disputes. Fundamentally, those were just internal disputes.
No matter what, Wizard Fischer couldn't bear to see anyone win first place over Golden Crown Mountain wizards at sports events held by Golden Crown Mountain.
The Council of Elders, Academic Committee, and Executive Patrol Group all couldn't accept such a thing.
As one of the seven top wizard academies, as a thousand-year prestigious school, Golden Crown Mountain naturally had its principles to uphold.
Wizard Fischer said, "Then what about First Circle?"
The League's Third Circle wizard smiled, "So far, most wizards have already fought six matches. But currently maintaining a six-match winning streak record among First Circle wizards, your Golden Crown Mountain actually has six people."
"Outside Golden Crown Mountain, there are only three undefeated."
"It's just a pity your Golden Crown Mountain wizards generally won't enter our Spell Combat Tournament league."
"Among the nine undefeated, only two wizards instantly defeated their opponents. One is your grandson, and another is that witch named Juliana."
A trace of a smile appeared on Wizard Fischer's face. At the same time, he looked at that Witch Juliana with gloomy eyes. 'I never noticed this witch before. Didn't expect her magic level to be this high.'
'That Feodor fellow played mind games with me.'
'Originally I arranged a star ring wizard in advance to give my grandson specialized practice, to familiarize him with all his opponents' magic systems and find their weaknesses. But who knew that old Feodor would pull this trick.'
Wizard Fischer swept across the competition venue. Besides this, within Senior Origin Academy, there was another wizard who made him slightly surprised, namely Locke Augustine.
'Seems to be from the Academic Committee? No previous impression, shouldn't be a trick played by those old folks from the Academic Committee. Probably a young wizard who just enrolled this year.'
'Didn't expect his magic pressure to reach 9999, and his magic level also seems quite high.'
"Grandson, you must be careful."
The League's Third Circle wizard was rather curious about the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow Locke used. "The Peach Bow Thorn Arrow spell is too old, right? I haven't seen wizards use this magic in many years. Hahaha... Maybe I've watched too many major league competitions. In the major league, very few wizards use magic with such high requirements for personal conditions."
"Hahaha..."
Wizard Fischer unhappily swept a glance at him. Peach Bow Thorn Arrow magic currently among the seven top academies, only Golden Crown Mountain still researched it.
"Classics are powerful. Our Golden Crown Mountain wizards naturally have sufficient talent and ability to use this kind of magic."
The League's Third Circle wizard quickly spread his hands, saying, "Old Fischer, you're too rigid. I just wanted to make a joke."
"I didn't mean to question your Golden Crown Mountain's academic level."
The competition proceeded for 24 hours. Only some competitions were arranged during the day, while some less popular competitions were arranged at night.
All Spell Combat Tournament matches were held during daylight, and there were live broadcasts. This was the most watched competition in this Cloud Arena, so naturally they had to pick the best time slot.
Locke went back and slept through the night, then opened Arthas's leaderboard and discovered his Tyrant Hummingbird Bromeliad Shoes had so far only sold 79 pairs.
Tyrant Hummingbird Bromeliad Shoes sold for 20,000 magic stones per pair, or 10,000 magic stones per shoe.
After all, the Giant Hummingbird Bromeliad itself wasn't a magical plant with particularly high magic pressure.
And Tyrant Hummingbird Bromeliad only underwent Tyrant-ization enhancement based on its original foundation.
Moreover, this pricing was relatively appropriate. Otherwise if it was more expensive, no wizards would consider purchasing it at all.
Seeing this scene, Locke immediately raised his eyebrows. "Yesterday only had 1.58 million magic stones in sales, only just entering the segmented sales ranking list."
"Witch Scarlett might be very satisfied, but I'm not satisfied."
Last time, his Hydra magical plant's total transaction amount reached the ten-million level.
For one pair of Tyrant Hummingbird Bromeliad Shoes, he could only earn four thousand magic stones.
According to this sales profit, although after seven days, he could probably earn over two million magic stones.
This already met his minimum expectations and Witch Scarlett's expectations.
But he believed these wizard shoes could sell even better.
He could also take advantage of this to establish his own wizard shoe brand.
Advancing to Second Circle required massive resources. If he didn't have those resources, he could only be like other wizards, consuming his own time to accumulate resources.
Of course, earning four thousand magic stones per pair of wizard shoes.
This was naturally already huge profit.
Thanks to Arthas's production bases in various colonial worlds, even after splitting the pure profit after deducting operating costs with Arthas, he could still earn sufficient money.
If he produced a pair of Tyrant Hummingbird Bromeliad Shoes himself, then just the cost alone would account for about half. Add operating costs, and he could only earn one or two thousand magic stones.
Locke thought for a moment, saying, "I need to change my approach. The Spell Combat Tournament naturally attracts everyone's attention. I need to endorse my own product."
Locke thought for a moment.
He directly took out from his astral ring a sample pair of Tyrant Hummingbird Bromeliad Shoes originally kept as a reference, then put them on his feet.
These were metallic blue-green gradient luster shoes full of dreamlike feeling. The soles had the Tyrant Hummingbird Bromeliad's plant-mimicked hummingbird chest muscle tendon structure, which could continuously produce rebound force against the ground, generating a reaction force from thin air at his soles.
At the same time, the surface was covered with bromeliad root vein patterns. Large amounts of multi-layered air bromeliad composite structure provided powerful shock absorption function.
Locke, wearing these shoes and stepping on the ground, felt like stepping on clouds.
Locke summoned his cloud whale, then mounted it and headed to the Cloud Arena in the sky above.
After watching the competition with Witch Mason and others for a while, he went to the Spell Combat Tournament's Flat Peach Arena to participate in today's first round of competition.
The referee wizard announced, "Golden Crown Mountain Origin Academy, Locke Augustine, versus Golden Crown Mountain Origin Academy Sera Rich."
On the arena, Locke was stunned. He hadn't expected to encounter his own colleague on the second day.
At that moment, he saw in the competition venue, among the project group of Kraft Roosevelt, one of Origin Academy's five Third Circle wizards, quite a few wizards blessing that witch wearing black wizard robes.
The Spell Combat Tournament judging panel, quite a few judges also showed surprised expressions.
On the judging platform.
Serving as a judge, Golden Crown Mountain's senior wizard mentor, bloodline wizard Kraft Roosevelt, at this moment showed a displeased expression. "How did they match two contestants maintaining winning streaks on the second day, and both are our Golden Crown Mountain's young First Circle wizards?"
This Spell Combat Tournament's current person in charge, a Third Circle wizard, opened his mouth to explain, "The competition results were decided through drawing lots. To prevent wizards from influencing the results, we even asked Divination School wizards to use specialized magic to make the drawing results truly random."
"Anyway, losing one match won't eliminate anyone. As long as they maintain relatively high points, there won't be any impact."
"Competition uncertainty is also our Spell Combat Tournament's longstanding tradition."
Wizard Kraft's expression was displeased. "Hmph."
Because Witch Sera was his collaborative First Circle wizard.
He of course hoped his wizard student's ranking would be as high as possible, best to obtain qualification for the Plane Conquest Competition, obtain one of their Golden Crown Mountain's highest honors, representing the school to participate in competitions between the five major powers.
At this moment, seeing Witch Sera encounter a formidable enemy early while others were still crushing weak opponents, he was naturally displeased.
On Arena No. 1, as today's most eye-catching match, their competition was naturally arranged on the highest-traffic Arena No. 1.
Witch Sera walked onto the Flat Peach Cloud arena.
After the referee announced the start, she didn't immediately choose to attack, but looked at Locke, saying, "Didn't expect our Golden Crown Mountain wizards to face off this quickly."
"Wizard Augustine, I ask you, have you had deep contact with black wizards?"
Locke glanced at her, saying, "Previously I came from the southeastern quadrant. I've fought black wizards many times."
Witch Sera nodded seriously. "I see."
"Then be careful, Locke."
"Next, the magic I'm going to use is the prototype I've confirmed for my future Grand Magic."
"This match, I will win."
Under Witch Sera's feet appeared a phoenix phantom. Immediately, that phoenix phantom attracted large amounts of surrounding fire elemental energy.
The firebird reflection's eyes suddenly showed a dazzling red light.
As if it came from another world.
That shadow actually flew up from the ground, transforming into a firebird floating in midair.
The phoenix seemed to come alive from Witch Sera's body.
Locke looked at this scene in surprise. Around them, quite a few wizards watching the battle, seeing this scene, were all shocked.
Some bloodline wizards from other wizard organizations said in low voices, "Am I seeing wrong? Why can a bloodline wizard make part of the bloodline power in their body revive and appear in physical form in the arena?"
"That bloodline witch from Golden Crown Mountain, isn't she a bit too outrageous?"
A Second Circle bloodline wizard from Transmutation Tower suddenly spoke amid everyone's exclamations. "The bloodline activation degree is high! She used a spell model to stimulate her own bloodline's activation degree to the extreme, then entrusted the bloodline power to her own shadow, as if reviving the phoenix."
"However, the phoenix is a star ring level magical creature, so it definitely can't be completely revived. This magic... indeed has the qualifications to serve as a blueprint for Grand Magic."
"Haven't you heard of the nickname Golden Crown Mountain's Female Death God? She's that Witch Sera, right? The number of black wizard lives on her hands is countless."
Transmutation Tower was also a wizard organization in the Golden Crown Mountain region, even a medium-to-large wizard organization.
At this moment, another Second Circle wizard from Transmutation Tower walked over and, ignoring everyone, began discussing with that Second Circle wizard in low voices. "Golden Crown Mountain's bloodline technology has made great progress. This magic was first proposed ten years ago at Wizard Roosevelt's academic exchange meeting."
"But didn't expect that in just ten years, they'd perfect this technology, even allowing First Circle wizards to use it. With this [Bloodline Activation] technology, that Witch Sera's win rate is very high."
That Second Circle wizard from Transmutation Tower nodded affirmatively. "Yes, Peach Bow Thorn Arrow magic's single attack power is indeed very high. But Bloodline Activation technology's greatest advantage lies in being able to use the wizard's own latent bloodline power in battle to create their own combat partner."
"Two bodies, one heart. The main body and shadow fight simultaneously, mutually partnered, like a loyal wingman. That plant study wizard can only attack one enemy in an instant. At this time, using the phoenix clone can take the opportunity to attack him."
"Moreover, if I'm not mistaken, that Witch Sera fundamentally doesn't care about the competition's victory or defeat."
Another Second Circle wizard was stunned. "What do you mean?"
That Transmutation Tower's Second Circle bloodline wizard said in a low voice, "Just look at her eyes and you'll know. She's the most orthodox bloodline wizard. Look at her eyes full of killing desire. That's the typical situation of magical creature bestiality lurking within wizard rationality."
"She's enjoying the battle."
"Killing black wizards is for battle, fighting in the Spell Combat Tournament is for battle. No matter what, she's always in battle. Such a terrifying wizard. She's simply a white wizard born specifically for battle. She's very suitable to become a wizard fighter, making a living fighting in the major league."
"Moreover, didn't you see? She's constantly honing this magic of hers, adding to this magic. She's already found her path and is working hard to construct Grand Magic. Each of her battles is perfecting her attack magic."
"Look, that plant study wizard is about to use Peach Bow Thorn Arrow again. He summoned the peach bow. Wait... he dodged? Why didn't he launch an attack?"
At this time, on the arena, using the Tyrant Hummingbird Bromeliad Shoes' reaction force against the ground, Locke jumped three feet high, directly dodging Witch Sera's main body and phoenix clone's chain attack.
Witch Sera looked at Locke in shock. "Based on your previous fighting style, I thought you were the charging and striking type of wizard. Never thought you'd dodge."
Locke smiled, "People can't fix themselves to one fighting style."
Moreover, he wanted to display his Tyrant-ization magical plant technology on the battlefield as much as possible!
So naturally he had to dodge a bit.
Locke kicked with both feet, deploying the Tyrant Domain. At the same time, he chanted an incantation, using the universal First Circle plant study magic [Grass and Wood Boots] enchanted on the wizard shoes.
Immediately, under the Tyrant Domain, in the convergent evolution mechanism, a power suppressing non-wind elemental magic descended.
Witch Sera's expression changed slightly. Under the Tyrant Domain, even the phoenix clone's flames had to weaken by half out of thin air.
Such domineering magic!