Chapter 603: The Blueprint Magic for Grand Magic |
A full moon hung high in the sky.
The moon commanded the tides, ordering all plants in the world. The full moon's gravitational pull altered the growth cycle of magical plants. When Witch Camilla's thirty man-eating flowers approached within ten meters of Locke, their magical pressure had already expanded to nearly the limit of First Circle magical plants.
When they approached within five meters of Locke, Camilla's lips curved upward. Although she didn't know what was happening, she felt she was about to win.
But at this moment, those magical plants that had already reached the magical pressure limit of First Circle magical plants suddenly began withering rapidly one by one.
Witch Camilla was stunned.
The Man-Eating Flower Jungle around her body continuously made thunderous collapsing sounds. Witch Camilla frowned. "What kind of magic is this? I've never seen it before. Tidal Growth?"
"How could the moon's gravitational influence on magical plant growth cycles be so great!"
The wizards below the stage saw this scene and were all stunned.
A Second Circle breeder suddenly spoke, "This is a spell model that has never appeared before. Look at the spell model of the magic cast by Wizard Augustine. Although it's difficult to see all of it, by careful observation, you can see part of it has completely unknown spell model characteristics."
"The characteristics of this spell have indeed reached the level of being blueprint magic for Grand Magic."
At this time, on the stage, Witch Camilla fell into panic. She saw each magical plant in the Man-Eating Flower Jungle undergo rapid decay.
"It's... magical pressure continuously rising, insufficient magical energy, causing rapid exhaustion of the magical plants."
The difference between First Circle magical plants and Second Circle magical plants lay in virtual roots.
Without virtual roots, when a First Circle magical plant's magical pressure rose to a certain degree, not only could it not increase further, but there also wasn't enough energy to supply them to continuously maintain high regular magical pressure.
Under Locke's acceleration, the Man-Eating Flower Jungle not only experienced a moment of brilliance, but was actually beginning to transform toward Second Circle stage magical pressure.
That is, these magical plants were being forcibly evolved toward the Second Circle stage by Locke using Full Moon Growth. As a result, unable to adapt to the evolution, they all instantly fell into death.
Otherwise, if the original Full Moon Growth could only accelerate plants to reach abnormal peaks, then these plants should still have had time to launch attacks on Locke before reaching their peak.
It was just that Locke, in this competition, once again thought of a new concept and enhanced Full Moon Growth, amplifying the influence of the magical moon he summoned on the magical plants.
A bottle of Type 2 Tyrant Element pure substance appeared in Locke's hand. When observing those wizards fighting, he suddenly thought that he could use the Full Moon Growth spell model as a carrier, combining it with Type 2 Tyrant Element to forcibly tyrannize all magical plants.
Just now, Witch Camilla's thirty magical plants, under the enhancement of her combination botanical magic "Man-Eating Flower Jungle," had already individually reached the First Circle magical pressure limit.
Therefore, when Locke forcibly tyrannized them, these magical plants were all forced to develop toward the Second Circle stage.
Thus, relying on this bug, Locke almost instantly completely resolved this troublesome Man-Eating Flower Jungle.
Even though the Man-Eating Flower Jungle seemed to be immune to certain specific damage and couldn't be eliminated with ordinary magic.
Camilla stepped on the man-eating flower corpses shattered all over the ground, her heart falling into panic. She hurriedly used the magical necklace on her chest to summon three flame shields in front of herself.
"Each man-eating flower costs 15,000, thirty plants means 450,000... The fortune I spent so long accumulating disappeared all at once."
Camilla looked at the moon Locke had summoned, fear flashing in her eyes. "What exactly is the mechanism by which that moon damages my Man-Eating Flower Jungle? It seems to be some kind of mechanism that first grants, then takes back?"
"Is the moon still there?"
"Could it be a continuous environmental magic?"
Sweat dripped down Witch Camilla's forehead. "How could such a thing exist? If there's such a thing on the competition stage, can I still summon magical plants?"
"Is this Golden Crown Mountain's level?"
Witch Camilla looked back at the competition venue, toward the seating area of her family and the Magic Pivot City wizards. At this moment, the Magic Pivot City wizards were cheering her on.
The battle details on Arena No. 1 were also magnified by the Cloud Arena through cloud projection, allowing more spectators to see them.
Seeing that Locke didn't continue attacking, Witch Camilla breathed a sigh of relief. She tentatively took out two magical plants from her astral ring, one was a wizard apprentice first-class level Five-Star Grass, and one was a First Circle level Meteor Flower.
As soon as the two plants were taken out, their magical pressure began rapidly rising again. Then the two plants quickly grew larger and thicker. Immediately after, in the next moment, both plants withered rapidly.
Witch Camilla tested it out. "It's not a specific level magical plant lockdown, but a ban on all magical plants."
"As long as magical plants are taken out, they'll be enhanced."
"Once enhanced, if the magical plant nutrition can't keep up, they'll immediately die. Even if I supplement apprentice-level magical plants with advanced nutrient solution, some kind of pattern will appear, it's Tyrant patterns, poisoning them to death."
For a moment, Witch Camilla looked at Locke with heart-pounding fear.
Although all of Locke's previous magic was powerful, it hadn't yet reached a level where Magic Pivot City wizards felt it was unsolvable.
Peach Bow Thorn Arrow was very classic, very ancient, and very powerful, but its harsh usage conditions, plus the medium-risk magical backlash, were enough to deter most wizards.
Not to mention, their Magic Pivot City's Man-Eating Flower Jungle had a special restriction that only iron weapons could kill these magical plants.
And wizards rarely used iron weapons.
Therefore, as long as wizards who didn't know the details of this magic encountered it, nine times out of ten, they would suffer a great loss.
Originally, Witch Camilla had prepared to use this method to trouble Locke. Who knew that before she could even set up the difficult problem, Locke had summoned a moon and destroyed this difficult problem.
Witch Camilla retreated half a step, pulling away from Locke, then cautiously took out a mushroom from her astral ring. In the next moment, that mushroom magical plant died from tyrannization.
Without using the Queen's Chessboard and birch tree cells to create cell combinations for tyrannization, generally speaking, it would only poison plants to death.
Witch Camilla's heart ached terribly.
She had just lost another 20,000 magic stones.
She looked at Locke and sighed, directly raising her right hand to the referee wizard. "I surrender."
"Referee, fighting him, I'm really losing too much money."
"In just this short time, I've lost nearly 500,000 magic stones."
The referee wizard immediately said, "Locke Augustine wins, gains 1 point."
Witch Camilla sighed. She looked back at Locke, a flash of fear in her eyes.
Even if she fought Locke head-on and lost, she wouldn't feel such fear.
This fear came from the unknown.
It also came from fear of that moon.
Witch Camilla performed a dueling salute to Locke. "Wizard Augustine, that magic is the blueprint magic for your Grand Magic, right?"
"Worthy of being blueprint magic for Grand Magic. I'm completely convinced of my loss."
"After all, you Golden Crown Mountain First Circle wizards are still somewhat more brilliant than us Magic Pivot City First Circle wizards. My Man-Eating Flower Jungle, if it encountered others, probably wouldn't be easy to defeat. In front of you, it's like a mediocre clown."
Witch Camilla said, "Previously, I shouldn't have played petty tricks. I apologize to you."
Locke nodded at her. "Alright."
Witch Camilla painfully collected those magical plant corpses back into her astral ring.
Then she turned and jumped off the stage.
At the same time, Locke looked at the moon above him. At this moment, the full moon had turned slightly red, seemingly because he had mixed Type 2 Tyrant Element into it.
"Blueprint magic for Grand Magic?"
"Although I didn't intend it, Full Moon Growth has indeed shown this trend. The stage competition isn't just a competition, it's also a learning opportunity." Locke retracted the moon and slowly walked down the stage.
"In this competition, my understanding of attack magic is rapidly deepening. I'm even being forced to think about what my Grand Magic should be like, because I have to increase my magical pressure, my stats, and the efficiency of my spell model's magical pressure conversion to damage."
"I have to think about what kind of energy cycle I should construct if I need to build Grand Magic in the future, combining it with that colonial world, interfering with... all the plants in that colonial world."
Locke looked at the magical moon in his hand. "This is the early result of my thinking. This competition is like a pill furnace. The battles and events are the flames within, and we wizards are the materials to be refined."
"I see. Training through competition, this is the meaning of this competition."
At the same time, in the spectator seats on the Magic Pivot City side, the faces of many Magic Pivot City wizards showed deflation.
If Witch Camilla, an excellent young First Circle witch of their Magic Pivot City generation, had lost this competition after an arduous battle, they wouldn't have been so deflated.
Who knew Witch Camilla could be crushed so thoroughly.
In the judges' seats, the Third Circle wizard from Magic Pivot City, as the most powerful wizard academy below Golden Crown Mountain in the Golden Crown Mountain region, had an iron-blue expression watching this competition. Wizard Roosevelt pretended to kindly console him, "Old Klin, don't be too sad."
"Sigh, it's also that girl's bad luck. That spell from that researcher of our Golden Crown Mountain is already sufficient to be blueprint magic for Grand Magic, with considerable power. Most critically... her observation ability is really limited."
Wizard Roosevelt said, "That kid consumed at least two-thirds of his magical pressure. That magic consumes much more mana than both she and that kid himself thought."
"Actually, if that little girl had just waited a bit longer, she could have found a way to break the deadlock."
Grand Tournament Chairman Franklin laughed, "Watching young people fight is really interesting."
At this time, just as Locke stepped down from the competition venue, he felt his magical power become hollow.
After resting a bit, he finally recovered.
Full Moon Growth consumed much more mana than he thought.
If this flaw wasn't resolved, there was no point talking about constructing blueprint magic for Grand Magic.
In the judges' seats, Magic Pivot City's Third Circle wizard Klin Wizard snorted coldly. "So what if that kid is forced to cancel that blueprint magic? Camilla's Man-Eating Flower Jungle has already been broken, and she doesn't have any follow-up moves."
"That was originally a difficult problem we at Magic Pivot City prepared to pose here for your Golden Crown Mountain... Forget it, it's embarrassing to even talk about it. Never mind."
Wizard Roosevelt held back his laughter, not laughing out loud, forcibly remaining serious. "Isn't there still a chance? This difficult problem is useless against our Golden Crown Mountain wizards, but for wizards from other wizard academies, it should still be an unsolvable difficult problem, right?"
Because Locke had unintentionally cracked one of Magic Pivot City's ultimate moves, even Wizard Fischer noticed Locke and nodded slightly. "Lady Throne's First Circle wizard indeed possesses an extremely high standard."
"Although not as excellent as my grandson, he's also quite good. My grandson has already defeated Witch Juliana from your Executive Patrol Group."
Wizard Fischer's lips curved upward. "Wizard Roosevelt, I think this year's wizard representing Golden Crown Mountain in the Plane Conquest Competition will probably be from our Council of Elders."
"I also wonder when that Third Generation from the Academic Committee will clash with my grandson. That would be good too, to quickly get a result and avoid hurting the harmony among our own people."
Wizard Kraft Roosevelt's expression changed slightly. "Just after stabilizing the situation, we're going to decide a winner among our own people?"
Wizard Fischer chuckled, "First, it's just a competition that doesn't hurt harmony. In competitions, there are always winners and losers."
"Second, my philosophy is that having the right to internal conflict is a privilege of top wizard academies."
The next moment, Wizard Fischer's expression changed.
Because the competition on Arena No. 5 once again decided a victor. That construction mage from Kungoding Academy once again defeated a researcher from Golden Crown Mountain's Origin Academy, sending this chair professor research fellow flying off the stage.
That researcher was actually a senior researcher from Golden Crown Mountain's Origin Academy, Wizard Nelson, also a senior research fellow from the Origin Academy under their Council of Elders.
He studied magic from the Evocation School.
He was an alternative choice left by their Council of Elders under the premise that the Third Generations didn't seize participation slots.
At this moment, he was actually defeated by a construction mage from Kungoding who laid bricks.
That construction mage straightened his waist, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his right hand, and laughed heartily. "Brother, your rigidity still isn't enough."
Wizard Nelson climbed up from the ground, touched his bald head, and said, "Mm, you're right. I indeed still need to improve."
Wizard Nelson exhaled a breath of turbid air. "Fighting you was really too difficult. I felt I couldn't even get close to your vicinity. Finally managing to approach you, I discovered you're even better at close combat magic than me."
"A construction mage competing with us evokers in close combat magic... and winning, truly impressive."
"But I'll definitely beat you next time."
In the judges' seats, Wizard Fischer's expression changed. He looked toward Grand Tournament Chairman Wizard Franklin and said, "This young First Circle wizard from Kungoding has a problem. I believe his combat power is abnormal."
"Wizard Nelson is the second strongest evoker of our Golden Crown Mountain's younger generation."
"This is an undercover agent from the Twin Demon Realm, right?"
In the judges' seats, a Third Circle wizard from Kungoding immediately spoke out. "Your Golden Crown Mountain indeed has great power, but our Kungoding Academy isn't without judges here either."
"That wizard is our Kungoding's most excellent construction mage. Defeating your Golden Crown Mountain's most excellent evoker, isn't this a very logical thing!"
Seeing the two bickering, another Golden Crown Mountain judge, Wizard Roosevelt, frowned.
Anyone could win in a normal competition, the Council of Elders, the Executive Patrol Group, the Academic Committee, and even contestants from Land Ruin Bridge.
But they absolutely couldn't let Magic Pivot City and Kungoding, these two wizard organizations eyeing Golden Crown Mountain's position, win.
If it were other niche sports competitions, losing was just losing.
No big deal.
But the Spell Combat Tournament, this kind of hottest sports competition in Cloud Marsh Wetland, was another matter entirely.
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Locke didn't choose to go home to sleep, but continued watching competitions all night, thinking about how he could continue developing his attack magic from his existing power.
The Spell Combat Tournament had no matches at night, so he went to watch other competitions, such as the Phantom Mirror Maze 30,000-Meter Life-and-Death Speed Race, or the First Circle level Potion Relay Race.
That night, Locke watched wizards from various wizard organizations continuously drinking various potions in the Potion Relay Race.
Among them were poisons, potions that changed body states, and potions that forcibly transformed the body.
Watching the effects of these potions, Locke suddenly had a thought, could I put Type 2 Tyrant Element into Full Moon Growth and use the moon's gravitational pull to spread Type 2 Tyrant Element? Could I also put potions into it?
However, Full Moon Growth's excessive mana consumption was still a difficult problem that needed solving.
Moreover, potions were different from Type 2 Tyrant Element. Potions involved more natural magical structure components, making it difficult to take effect through this method, and would also conflict with botanical magic spell models.
Locke organized his thoughts. He needed further thinking to figure out how to further enhance his magic.
Currently, for enhancing his attack magic in a short time, the best development direction was still to focus on the spell model "Full Moon Growth" he obtained from the pattern on a void behemoth's feather, which was more realistic.
Watching potion studies, Locke suddenly thought, "No, wait. It seems I can also use potions to enhance my Sea Gold Sand. My research on Sea Gold Sand is already very deep. Although my research on bromeliad magical plants is deep, it's basically all fundamental research."
"Using potions to enhance... Tyrant Sea Gold Sand..."
Locke fell into contemplation. He saw Gregor and Williams seemed to be walking toward him, but without greeting them, he directly summoned a cloud whale, climbed the clouds and departed, heading for Feathered Serpent Pavilion.