Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems

In this person's pupils, Locke saw a familiar blue ring, only the shape of the blue light was different from the perfect blue ring of the disc creature Gromdal. This blue light ring was incomplete.

It resembled the shape of Ω.

In the middle-aged man's eyes, a blue radiance suddenly erupted with full intensity, that beam of blue light seeming to transform into something eternal.

'Above humans, there exists a deeper truth.'

'You and I come from the same place. We have followed the breath of the wizard world to arrive here. Express your submission to me. I am the wizard world!'

'Above wizards, there exists an even deeper truth!'

In the spectator seats beside the Silent Throne, occupied by the three Fourth Circle wizards, the Truth Wizard, the Silent Witch, showed not a single change of expression. She seemed completely unsurprised by the appearance of this disc creature revealed in the competition.

The star realm projection avatar of the Truth Wizard from Green Steel City gave a snide laugh. "Every time I see the disc creatures, I find them quite adorable."

At the same time, quite a few wizard spectators, now that the Silent Throne had lifted its secret seal, came to their realizations.

"In many previous Silent Chalice competitions, the competitors were busy fighting while the disc creature was accumulating strength beside them. By the time the competitors discovered it, it had already become very powerful and the situation was beyond recovery. So in several past Silent Chalice competitions, the result was that the disc creature swallowed everything, including the competitors themselves, completely. That is why every time, we do not even know what the disc creature is called. It seems to be an existence that has never had any interaction with the wizard world."

"It should be the kind of disc creature that wanders the infinite void seeking things related to the wizard world, rather than the kind that seeks to return to the wizard world. These disc creatures will follow and track anything related to the wizard world. Its appearance in that world right now is very likely because of the civilization seed sent there during the Age of Enlightenment."

"That is not necessarily the case. It could not have directly detected the location of the civilization seed. Something in that plane must have called to it before it could discover this plane."

"Previously, because of the Silent Witch of Truth's magic, we were not aware that there would be a disc creature in this competition."

"The abilities of disc creatures are somewhat complex, but broadly speaking, the more a world declines, the more deaths there are, and the more powerful the negative energy, the more powerful the disc creature becomes. Generally speaking, by the time the disc creature appears on the stage, several competitors have been fighting for so long that the world is already in ruins, which is why the disc creature at that point can easily invade the Silent Plane and become exceptionally powerful, far above an ordinary Second Circle wizard."

"Especially this disc creature. Its true body appears to be at least at the moon ring level. For an ordinary Second Circle wizard, it is like a colossus. The gap between the two is at least the gap between intermediate divine power and minor divine power."

"However, this time the Silent Chalice plane's mortal world seems to be considerably more intact than the mortal world of the last Silent Chalice plane. Furthermore, the total magic pressure of this Silent Chalice plane's world has successfully doubled! So this time, after the disc creature appeared, it has not formed the kind of unstoppable situation it has in the past."

In the Kungudin Academy spectator section, Wizard Mac looked up at the disc creature appearing in the pupils of an ordinary person in the Silent Chalice plane, astonished. "This is the first time I have ever seen a disc creature, those beings formed from extreme ecological fragments discarded by the wizard world. So that is what a disc creature looks like?"

"It appeared directly on a commoner's retina. This... method is truly bizarre. That eerie radiance feels like it seeps through everything, seeming to carry enormous destructive power."

Wizard Mac felt deeply unsettled. Just seeing that blue light made his scalp prickle, as though all the magical power throughout his body, under the illumination of that radiance, was becoming extreme. The degree of energy dissipation would increase out of nowhere.

Disc creatures originated from the wizard world and were themselves a form of extreme natural ecology that had been discarded by the wizard world.

Because the wizard world had once suffered a great disaster, and for a long stretch of time after that disaster, nature had become extreme and hostile to life. Disc creatures were therefore a form of extreme ecology.

Wherever this extreme ecology appeared, it would invade and erode that place.

Whether a disc creature was powerful or not was positively correlated with two things. First, the degree of power of its true body. Second, what the current state of the world it was in was like.

At this moment, because the Silent Chalice plane had essentially been strengthened, the disc creature Locke encountered was not the kind of despairingly powerful existence that had appeared in past Silent Chalice competitions.

Even so, Locke could feel that under this blue light's illumination, the dissipation rate of his magical power was continuously increasing.

All his magical power seemed as though it had lost his control, and even his spell models were unable to be controlled because of the rising dissipation rate.

'This disc creature seems more troublesome than the one I encountered before,' Locke furrowed his brow.

Gromdal was a grassland covered by inorganic matter, but even it had not been this aggressively powerful. For some unknown reason, the disc creature before him seemed to possess an unusual degree of influence over everything in the Silent Plane.

Locke summoned a Golden Eye Grass and placed it in front of him, blocking the eerie blue light from coming near.

In that sea of eerie blue light, a glimmer of golden radiance stood immovably steady, like a pillar holding the sea in place.

Locke recited a spell. First Circle botanical magic, Photosynthesis.

The Golden Eye Grass absorbed the disc creature's eerie blue light and reflected it back directly, forcing the eerie blue light ring Ω to retreat half a step.

Under the enhancement of the Grand Magic, Moon of Evolution, his First Circle spell photosynthesis had also been considerably strengthened.

Grand Duke Westminster looked at Locke with puzzlement. "Your Majesty, why are you not using your true power?"

What he probably meant was that Locke had deliberately refrained from using the Moon of Evolution and had instead used a Grand Magic-enhanced ordinary First Circle defensive botanical magic.

He had deliberately avoided using his Grand Magic against this eerie blue light.

Locke thought, "This thing's degree of influence over the Silent Plane seems to exceed the capabilities of a disc creature. Before I clarify this point, it is better to avoid using the Grand Magic directly against it."

"Actually, the best time to deal with it would have been right at the start of the game. That should have been when it was at its weakest."

"Trying to deal with it now is already too late."

Of course, he could not be too hard on himself.

Because when they all first entered this plane, everyone had been suppressed by the emperor, and each of them had been at risk of being driven out of this plane by the emperor directly.

By the time they finally brought their Grand Magics down and could no longer be threatened by the emperor, everyone had already entered the phase of fighting each other, and each competitor was at risk of being eliminated.

For example, Wizard Smith had already been eliminated now.

So at that time, none of them had had time to concern themselves with any disc creature.

Could it be that the disc creature was what caused this world to be destined to perish?

Locke fell into deep thought.

Disc creatures did indeed have the capability to destroy a world.

That was logically consistent.

Only, would the Silent Witch be incapable of dealing with a disc creature's invasion?

Regardless of the answers, at least he had finally found the reason why the people of this world could not leave their light sources at night.

At this moment, the blue light ring seemed to be deliberately provoking him, continuing to appear before Locke and sneering, 'You have no way to eliminate me.'

'I am a truth higher than wizards.'

'You cannot eliminate me.'

At this moment, Grand Duke Westminster suddenly made a move. A surge of psi-force struck out and shattered that blue light.

"Provoking Your Majesty deserves death."

In the next instant, the middle-aged man in the cell also collapsed and died.

As the possessed person died, the blue light disappeared.

Only very quickly, another blue light ring appeared once again in the prison.

'You cannot kill me.'

Grand Duke Westminster flew into a rage. "Provoking Your Majesty deserves death. All of you die!"

He killed his way through them with psi-force one by one. Whatever monster-prisoner had blue light appear within their retinas, he would use psi-force to snap their neck.

Yet the blue light rings continued to appear one after another without end.

'As long as a person's retina carries my existence, they will be assimilated by me.'

'Guess how many people I have assimilated at this moment?'

'You cannot kill me.'

'I am an existence destined to be victorious. It is only a matter of time before I win this world!'

Grand Duke Westminster's eyes were bloodshot as he kept twisting the prisoners' necks with psi-force continuously.

At this moment, he suddenly discovered that Locke was actually moving against him. "Your Majesty, I am a loyal subject. I am upholding Your Majesty's dignity. Why is Your Majesty moving against me?"

Locke said, "Grand Duke, at this point all the monster-prisoners in this tower have already been killed by you."

Grand Duke Westminster stared wide-eyed. "Impossible. If they were all killed, then what is this blue light ring appearing before Your Majesty, and what is this lively prisoner here?"

"Wait..."

The grand duke immediately understood.

At this moment, all the illusions before his eyes vanished. There were no more prisoners, no more blue light rings. The person standing before him was none other than Locke.

Which meant that just now he had mistaken Locke for a prisoner and had been about to move against Locke.

But there were no prisoners left here, so why was he still seeing illusions?

"Your Majesty, I acted without intent." Grand Duke Westminster immediately dropped to one knee before Locke.

Locke looked toward the grand duke and fell into thought.

The disc creature had just demonstrated to him an ability that violated the principles of soul studies.

Assimilating souls?

That was impossible.

It violated the fundamental principles of soul studies.

The mind could be guided, thoughts could be enchanted, intentions could influence, but souls could not be assimilated.

Beyond that, the other party had also been able to manipulate a Second Circle existence whose power system was oriented toward the psychic school using mental power.

That was far too bizarre.

So since all of this was inconceivable, the other party must certainly be playing tricks. The other party was simply lying.

Precisely because of this, before understanding why the other party possessed these abilities, it was best not to use his Grand Magic in its presence.

Locke thought, "In all likelihood, the second half of the Grand Magic modeling competition, as per the usual pattern, would have all the competitors united against this now-developed disc creature as their common enemy."

"But I do not believe a single word it has said. A disc creature cannot possibly have the ability to assimilate others."

"Just why exactly can this disc creature simultaneously influence both me and the emperor in my presence?"

Locke glanced at the Golden Eye Grass standing before him.