Chapter 605: Abyssal Devourer Body! |
Two days later, over these two days Locke had participated in eleven matches in total, and each time after showing off his Tyrant Hummingbird Bromeliad wizard shoes, he then used Peach Bow Thorn Arrow to achieve victory.
The remaining spare time was spent in Feathered Serpent Pavilion's potion room.
Two days later, Locke took out the synthesized potion and looked at the side effects. "These two days I've refined it over a hundred times. From among them, I selected two groups of potions for synthesis, but the entry for the first synthesized potion tells me that although the abyssification of the magical plant can succeed, it will make the user bloodthirsty and cause the user to gradually fuse with the magical plant."
Locke looked at a bottle of potion on the table, then looked at the experimental fast-growing Needle Thorn Split Fern beside the potion that he had purchased at Dragon Blood Market.
This was a specialized fern type. Its leaves were needle-shaped, mainly growing in arid deserts.
Locke had purchased it for 3,000 magic stones. After all, it was an experimental fast-growing magical plant. At this moment, this Needle Thorn Split Fern was presenting an eerie red color throughout.
Because he needed to experiment with the abyssification of Sea Gold Sand, Locke could only first tree-fernify this Needle Thorn Split Fern, then tyrannize it, then pour in the formula of the potion he had synthesized to abyssify it.
However, at this moment, as his palm approached, the Needle Thorn Split Fern immediately reacted. Each needle-shaped leaf moved closer to Locke's palm. The entire plant seemed to disintegrate in an instant, transforming into a terrifying fern plant thread that crawled toward Locke, wanting to combine with him.
The next moment, Locke used dragon might to suppress it.
The dragon might blocked the abyssified Needle Thorn Split Fern before him.
"A weak First Circle magical plant like the Needle Thorn Split Fern was actually strengthened by me three consecutive times to such a degree." Locke said, "But the knowledge the Supreme Beholder gave me does indeed have problems."
"Although it can be strengthened, it can only maintain a normal state for at most one day. Soon this magical plant will transform into an abyssal life form. This isn't a plant at all, but an abyssal life form. Moreover, if I establish a mana grafting connection with this plant, then... at the instant it transforms into an abyssal life form, I'll also become an abyssal life form."
"This is a trap. If I didn't have the Synthesis Cube, I could only see a normal magical plant at first. If I wasn't cautious, under the urgency of competition, I would use such a magical plant prematurely."
Locke said vigilantly, "I already have very powerful abyssal characteristics. At that instant, because of establishing a mana grafting relationship with this magical plant, I would definitely transform into an abyssal life form. Even if I found a way to stop myself from further transforming into an abyssal life form, I would still undergo first abyssification because the ratio between abyssal energy and my magical pressure exceeded 0.298."
Witch Yekaterina had warned him that once one abyssification occurred, the soul would undergo permanent mutation.
Unless a Third Circle master-level potion master took action, there would absolutely be no way to save him.
Locke immediately perceived the Supreme Beholder's sinister nature.
"I can't underestimate any demon archduke." Locke thought to himself, "In the future when there's nothing urgent, I should provoke these demon archdukes less. Every transaction with them is like dancing on a knife's edge, and the other party is a game player who continuously updates their methods."
"This time, I could rely on my golden finger to immediately discover the other party's calculation, but next time, if the other party finds a way to deceive me, that would be troublesome."
Locke frowned, perceiving the Supreme Beholder's malice.
Because if he became an abyssal life form because of the magical plant, that would be two different concepts from taking the abyssal werewolf transformation potion he had once configured for Warwick.
That chaotic transformation would only degrade his soul level during the process. Most likely after transformation, he would lose his reason and become an unknowing, unaware low-level slaughter demon.
Locke's expression changed slightly.
Last time, the Supreme Beholder had tried to turn his soul into an abyssal passage for the Beholder Dynasty because he took the Tyrant's Eye potion.
This old fellow was really too sinister.
Locke placed this potted magical plant and that bottle of failed potion into his astral ring for storage. "Honestly, I should buy a magic cabinet."
"If I had an ice magic cabinet, I could place these semi-finished products in the ice magic cabinet, freezing them for long-term and safe preservation. It's just that ice magic cabinets are already considered large equipment for individual breeders and potion masters. Without a million magic stones, they can't be purchased."
Ice magic cabinets were large storage equipment. Even the smallest specification ice magic cabinet was a magical crystallization of alchemists.
It was a masterpiece of the magical field. Storing a substance in a drawer of the magic cabinet, it could exist there forever.
After all, these experimental semi-finished products were also a kind of resource.
No use to his current self, but perhaps useful to his future self, or to his future descendants.
Locke looked at the second bottle of potion he had just taken out. This was a formula he had modified based on the entry for the first synthesized potion, then synthesized again.
He didn't know if this time he had bypassed the Supreme Beholder's calculation.
Locke looked at its entry. "Abyssal Devourer Body potion, level 8 synthesized item. The potion master who configured this potion keenly discovered that abyssal energy mutates all life forms into life creatures. Unreasonable use of abyssal energy will only turn magical plants into a kind of low-level demon."
"Therefore, this potion master modified the formula, reducing abyssal energy from a primary position to a kind of energy supply method..."
"This potion can allow magical plants to possess a new magical plant organ, the Abyssal Devourer Body. Magical plant chloroplasts can convert light energy from the Prime Material into life energy. Magical plant magic bubbles can convert elemental energy into life energy. Magical plants themselves possess various plant organs that absorb and convert energy, and this tube of potion can add an Abyssal Devourer Body to a magical plant."
"The devourer body can absorb abyssal energy and convert it into life energy with abyssal characteristics."
"It's not the abyss mutating the magical plant, but the magical plant adapting to the abyss. This is life's victory!"
"Plant transformation requirements: the plant itself must have a total magical pressure of 6000 or above."
"Warning: Abyssal energy is absolutely not safe, harmless clean energy. Even with this treatment, this magical plant still has some hidden dangers. The most direct hidden dangers are two points. First, if this magical plant contacts abyssal energy for a long time, if the wizard using this magical plant doesn't have high abyssal energy resistance, they will still be affected by it."
"Second, this magical plant consumes even more magical pressure."
"But aside from this, this potion truly has no direct side effects. This is a successful abyssal potion."
A trace of joy appeared on Locke's face, then his expression quickly returned to calm.
He didn't immediately inject his two commonly used Tyrant Sea Gold Sands, but first injected an ordinary Sea Gold Sand.
In his astral ring, for backup purposes, he had placed an ordinary Sea Gold Sand, a Shining Sea Gold Sand, and two Tyrant Sea Gold Sands.
These were all weapons he had prepared for himself as backup, also some possessions left from previous times cultivating magical plants.
At this time, that ordinary Sea Gold Sand immediately began rapidly absorbing surrounding energy.
At the same time, at the edge of the wizard world, a beholder as large as a small plane floated in the endless void, staring at countless void invisible energies, using that exaggeratedly enormous plane-level magical pressure shell to stay at the edge of the wizard world.
For an existence of its size, organisms of human size were basically like microorganisms, requiring special power to see.
In the Supreme Beholder's usual field of vision, what it saw were individual planes in the void, like seeing light spheres about the same size as itself or much larger.
Of course, the wizard world was special.
The wizard world's area was extremely exaggerated. At this moment, overlooking the azure blue wizard world plane, the Supreme Beholder also only felt like a drop in the ocean, and like a human lowering their head to look at an Earth-sized planet.
The Supreme Beholder had eighteen eyeballs. At this moment, those overlapping eyeballs stared at a certain position in the wizard world, searching.
The most terrifying thing about the wizard world was that from the outside, it looked like a very peaceful world. The world consciousness was somehow very inactive, almost never coming out to be active, as if it had been sleeping all along.
Any plane-level existence approaching would not receive any attack from the wizard world, as if it were a hospitable guest. But as long as you were observed by wizards of the Nightmare Legion, it would be hard to say what would happen next.
The Supreme Beholder's eighteen eyeballs were continuously searching for something. It had been waiting here for two days, waiting to watch a good show.
But soon, the Supreme Beholder's eighteen eyeballs all revealed frustration. "Actually saw through it."
"That bold wizard, I thought was just a reckless fool with courage but no wisdom. Didn't expect he could see through my scheme. Could it be he didn't use the knowledge I gave him?"
"Generally speaking, First Circle wizards find it difficult to refuse and resist the so-called 'correct' knowledge given to them by authorities and the powerful. Looks like he's walking on the path to becoming Second Circle..."
The Supreme Beholder felt indifferent. "This is also good."
"Perhaps this is better. Let me see how far you can go!"
That wizard had the essential power of beholders. If he became Second Circle, then rounding down, the beholder race would have one more Second Circle level existence.
You must know that Second Circle wizards, in the void, could be called demon god level existences!
The Supreme Beholder was about to leave. Although it possessed sun ring wizard level magical pressure and could easily crush those Second Circle wizards.
But if discovered by even higher-level wizards, then not only would it not get to see the show, but it might also need to pay something to leave.
A chaotic light appeared behind it.
A silver-cast werewolf appeared beside it. That was the Abyssal Werewolf King, the demon archduke of the abyssal werewolf race, also a sun ring level existence.
The silver-cast magic eye on the Abyssal Werewolf King's forehead appeared. Abyssified wisdom light swept over the Supreme Beholder.
"Beholder King, why are you so close to the Nightmare Legion's home base?"
"Did you sense the call of the abyssal war and come?"
The Supreme Beholder looked at one of the strategists in the abyssal war, the Abyssal Werewolf King. Immediately all eighteen eyes became very cold. "Werewolf King, are you talking about that sufficiently foolish war?"
"I won't participate because of such a boring matter. Your war with the Nightmare Legion, I have no interest in participating."
"I have no interest in matters without an endpoint."
The Abyssal Werewolf King snorted coldly. "Things won't be without an endpoint."
"Every war will eventually have an end. I've already laid traps near the Abyssal River. The wizards of the Three Marsh Lands will compete to go..." The Abyssal Werewolf King stopped his behavior of sharing information.
"If you're not here for the abyssal war, then leave quickly. The Nightmare Legion has placed quite a few void warships and satellites made by weather mages in near-earth void orbit."
"Don't interfere with our war plans."
The Supreme Beholder gradually concealed its form.
And the Abyssal Werewolf King with hands behind his back looked toward the wizard world on the ground, looking toward where Cloud Lake was located.
Cloud Lake was both a natural geological-level magical power source and an endless void cosmic signal transmitter.
The abyss relied on identifying the magical pressure radiation released by Cloud Lake into the endless void to find and confirm the wizard world's location.
And they had been fighting with the wizards of the Three Marsh Lands for who knows how many years.
The next moment, from the Cloud Lake direction of the wizard world, it turned over. At the same time, a magical energy radiation pillar connecting heaven and earth and penetrating the endless void came toward the Abyssal Werewolf King.
In this disaster-level magical release phenomenon, even the Abyssal Werewolf King couldn't help but feel somewhat panicked.
"What powerful force!"
"Seventy-two Demon God Lords, since you created me, I will definitely seize Cloud Lake for you! Seize such a powerful energy source!"
The Abyssal Werewolf King turned around and bowed to the highest First Demon God King.
The First Demon God King controlled 999 planes, was the new favorite of abyssal will, was the ultimate combination of wizard power system and abyssal power system.
In fact, only their demon god lineage's abyssal power could maintain such a small humanoid state for their main body.
Most demon archdukes and abyssal princes had bodies larger than the planes they wanted to invade, fundamentally unable to enter them.
It wasn't a question of whether they could, but rather that once they entered, that plane would collapse.
Their enormous size instead restricted them.
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Three Marsh Lands, Cloud Marsh Wetland, Golden Crown Mountain region.
Inside Feathered Serpent Pavilion, Locke saw his ordinary Sea Gold Sand complete abyssification. The originally golden-green spiral ladder turned purple-green.
At the same time, the edge positions were inlaid with golden borders.
Locke directly activated the time acceleration magic cabinet equipment in the potion room. This could make one day pass for magical plants inside while only one hour passed outside through massive gravity amplification.
It was medium to large equipment in the potion studies field. One unit required five million level magic stones, and using it was also quite complex. It was just that Feathered Serpent Pavilion's potion masters could let him rent such top equipment.
An hour later, Locke held a wrench and twisted open a rusty iron lid. Immediately a cloud of gas came out from inside. Locke checked that magical plant and placed it in a differential magic mirror, observing its leaf tissue and discovering purple rod-shaped purple Abyssal Devourer Bodies inside the leaf blades.
Locke placed a portion of abyssal magic water he had purchased at the plant's root. Immediately that plant could absorb this abyssal magic water clean.
Originally that was a highly toxic liquid for magical plants.
"Success. Next, I just need to abyssify the Tyrant Sea Gold Sand too."
At this time, the sky had already turned white. Locke first went to the competition venue to fight the first match.
Cloud Arena.
Arena No. 5, the opponent was a breeder from Magic Pivot City. This middle-aged wizard at the First Circle crystallization stage was eager to try.
The next moment, Locke summoned a magical moon. Under this moon, all of the opponent's magical plants self-destructed.
At the same time, Locke used Peach Bow Thorn Arrow, shooting him off the stage with one arrow.
Locke turned and left cleanly and efficiently, leaving behind a crowd of amazed wizards, and the Third Circle wizard judge from Magic Pivot City in the judges' seats whose expression didn't look good.
Wizard Roosevelt looked at this Third Circle wizard and mocked, "Looks like there's still a very large gap in the level between Magic Pivot City and Golden Crown Mountain's young First Circle wizards. However, this way there's more room for improvement."
The Third Circle wizard from Magic Pivot City snorted coldly, and at the same time he frowned.
"The gap between Magic Pivot City and Golden Crown Mountain, instead of decreasing, is actually increasing."
"Is the academic position competition war this difficult to fight?"
A hundred years ago, Magic Pivot City had already launched an academic position competition war against Golden Crown Mountain, but looking at recent years, Magic Pivot City's upward momentum seemed to be getting weaker and weaker, while Golden Crown Mountain instead had abundant talent.
A hundred years ago, Magic Pivot City had placed most of its attention on applications, hoping to overtake on curves as a shortcut. Now it seemed that abandoning greater resource investment in basic research back then was definitely suicidal behavior.
After finishing the first match, Locke immediately returned to Feathered Serpent Pavilion, needing to get his Abyssal Tyrant Sea Gold Sand done before the second match of the fifth day.
Currently, those remaining were basically experts. It wasn't every time that he would encounter breeders completely countered by his current self.
Next time, if he encountered an expert like Witch Sera from last time, he would be in trouble.
Feathered Serpent Pavilion, inside the potion room, Locke took out a Tree Fern Sea Gold Sand from the time magic cabinet. This Sea Gold Sand was covered with Tyrant patterns, and at the same time, because the leaf blades contained Abyssal Devourer Bodies, it had turned into a purple-green tower with golden borders (spore gold powder) inlaid around it.
Overall, it looked mysterious and majestic.
Full of terrifying suppressive force.
This magical plant's magical pressure had also reached an incredible height.
Locke completed a mana grafting relationship with it, and also incorporated it into his distributed psionic network.
"This is my first Abyssal Devourer Body magical plant!"
"This is completely my own creation!"
Looking at this magical plant, Locke always felt his thinking leaping. He looked at this world's first unique Sea Gold Sand completely produced by his own thinking, filled with a sense of pride.
But at the same time, Locke could perceive that there was a path ahead.
That path led straight to Second Circle.
"Constructing Grand Magic means continuously innovating within the original knowledge system, understanding basic knowledge, then through exploring phenomena within this basic knowledge, extracting knowledge that belongs uniquely to me."
Locke comprehended from advanced meditation method and Witch Yekaterina's teachings, "Not coming from materials in books, not obtaining achievements from others' inspiration, but my own ideas, my own inspiration."
"But still lacking a bit."
"Currently still not enough. Where's the problem?" Locke fell into contemplation, thinking about why this still couldn't construct Grand Magic.
A magical moon appeared in Locke's left hand, a powerful Abyssal Devourer Body Sea Gold Sand appeared in his right hand.
"Although I haven't completely figured it out yet, the path before me now is to continue reading literature, solidifying my foundation, then finding new ideas from within, then exploring, then writing this knowledge into books for others to read."
"Second Circle wizards are the writers of textbooks!"
"Second Circle wizards must truly go to the unknown ahead, explore the world, then turn back and bring this knowledge back to the wizard world." Locke muttered to himself.
Locke recalled various things and finally discovered where Grand Wizard Sulla went wrong. "The sharing of knowledge is most special. If I share it and discuss it with people, refining it like an axe, I might instead gain more knowledge."
"Sharing material might plunge oneself into poverty. Sharing knowledge will make oneself wiser."
"Wizard civilization shares civilization and wisdom with the endless void. At the same time, the various major planes of the endless void provide resources as a transaction. This was originally a positive cycle, and for us wizards, it's also very profitable."
Locke said, "But some wizards are still not satisfied, still need to extract more, still want to take shortcuts."
Locke realized that if Grand Wizard Sulla had slowly helped the mage plane improve its power system back then, most likely there wouldn't have been hostility with the mage plane's world will, falling into calculations.
This transaction could originally have been a win-win.
But those eager for quick success and instant benefits didn't want a win-win, but wanted to definitely win.
Thus, it became a lose-lose.
Of course, Grand Wizard Sulla being limited by his own knowledge, so his lifespan reached its limit, was also a very important reason.
Locke said, "However, my win-win idea may not really work. I haven't practiced it yet."
Locke picked up the Sea Gold Sand. He sensed that the Wish Lingzhi had sent him a notification and immediately frowned.
He saw that the Spell Combat Tournament judges had sent him a message. His next opponent was actually his colleague—
Golden Crown Mountain senior Origin Academy researcher, Longevity Peach Garden assistant professor, Esther Preston.
Longevity Peach Garden was also a garden where Witch Yekaterina served as chief wizard mentor.
Esther Preston was her student. Locke further checked this person's information and was surprised to discover that this person was most likely the Academic Committee's Third Generation participating in this Spell Combat Tournament.
Locke said, "Bloodline School wizard, magical pressure 9999, possesses true dragon-level bloodline... This person is definitely from the secret society and Academic Committee."
Locke became alert.
At the same time, beside Arena No. 1, Esther Preston wearing a form-fitting graceful wizard robe frowned slightly, her long hair dancing in the wind.
She brushed aside her hair. "Troublesome, it's actually an internal war."
"Whether that kid or I lose, we'll both lose three points. However, my probability of seizing the championship and getting the Plane Conquest Competition participation qualification is still higher."
Esther Preston was a native Golden Crown Mountain wizard. "So, I'd better win this match."
"This way, his psychological pressure can be reduced a lot."