Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems

The die in Witch Medea's hand and the die in Wizard Smith's hand flew simultaneously into the air.

Wizard Smith had thrown a one, while Witch Medea had thrown a six.

Divination school magic, Identity Marker Curse.

By marking one's own spiritual identifier as a Second Circle wizard rather than a First Circle wizard, one could achieve a fair gamble against a Second Circle wizard in the instant of throwing the Demon Realm Dice.

Most critically, these were not any kind of world rarity from the New Sea Route. Their full name was the Demon Realm Dice, and they were the planar organ of the Twin Demon Realm.

In other words, how many points these dice showed was entirely up to the Twin Demon Realm's discretion. It could decide the outcome completely, or it could stay entirely uninvolved.

It all depended on whether the Twin Demon Realm was willing or not.

At this moment, Wizard Smith was still immersed in a beautiful fantasy of his resurgence, breaking into wild laughter. Inside the Meteor from Beyond the Heavens subspace, he was practically roaring with it.

He directly sent a message to Locke using a weather studies spell, the Thousand-Mile Tempest Curse, while his magic pressure was also climbing rapidly and appeared about to surge toward 12,000.

"Locke, the competition is not over yet. You and I will fight again!"

"Hahahahaha, I am back!"

The die before him transformed into a black hole-like spiral cavity. The interior walls of the cavity were lined with backward-growing teeth, and three mutually opposing world principles existed within it.

The three were different from each other inside and out.

The outer world principle rapidly mirrored that of the Silent Plane, the middle world principle imitated that of the wizard world, and the innermost world principle was the Twin Demon Realm's own.

Three mutually nested world structures formed an organ for devouring worlds that was extraordinarily rare even within the infinite void.

The Twin Siphon Organ.

Wizard Smith's wild laughter abruptly stopped. "This is... the Twin Demon Realm's Twin Siphon Organ? This is bad. I have been tricked. Medea, you have ruined me!"

"Locke, you won by dishonorable means!"

Wizard Smith roared with unwilling fury and turned to flee the space of the Meteor from Beyond the Heavens.

He had forgotten, first of all, that he had already placed all of his magic pressure and his Grand Magic as stakes directly into the die.

In hindsight, the nature of this act was essentially placing his own Grand Magic into the mouth of the Twin Demon Realm's Twin Siphon Organ.

Second, the Meteor from Beyond the Heavens was his Grand Magic, a part of his soul. Where exactly did he think he could run?

A tongue curled out from the black hole cavity, clearly manifesting a fourth world principle.

Wizard Smith was instantly coiled up by that tongue and swallowed down by the Twin Siphon Organ whole.

He was eaten.

The entire person.

From his magic pressure, to his concepts, to his Grand Magic.

At the same time, Witch Medea was also swallowed by the Twin Siphon Organ, which allowed her to dodge the attacks of the three Storm Tower sun ring weather studies wizards.

And at the same time, in the projection above the Silent Throne, after Wizard Smith had been eaten, his die let out a sneeze and spat Witch Medea back out.

At the same time, that die also spat out a World Stone from the Silent Plane, expelling it toward Witch Medea.

At this moment, the many wizard spectators beneath the Silent Throne watched this scene, and quite a few had their eyes widened in astonishment.

Complete silence fell across the entire hall for a moment, not a sound to be heard.

Then the first wizard led the way with a round of applause. "This competition has been absolutely magnificent. My 150,000 magic stones were well spent!"

That moon ring wizard began clapping, and all the wizards from his laboratory who had come along to watch also clapped together.

Following that, many white wizards, after a brief moment of astonishment, simply laughed and began to applaud.

Some of them genuinely felt the competition had been magnificent.

Others had been swindled in their cooperation with Storm Tower in the past. Storm Tower had a habit of unilaterally withdrawing services they had agreed to provide, with overbearing high-handedness. A fair number of wizards had been swindled by them.

At this moment, quite a few of those wizards seeing this scene nearly burst out laughing.

Furthermore, the Smith Family had many operations in the grey economy, and there were actually quite a few wizards present who held evidence of the Smith Family's black and grey market activities. They had simply never dared to submit it, given Storm Tower's power.

In the Storm Tower spectator section, the sun ring wizards of the Smith Family looked grim. "The Twin Demon Realm? Have they lost their minds? They cannot even identify who their enemies are."

"This is biting the hand that feeds them. We will immediately withdraw..."

Another Storm Tower sun ring wizard said quietly, "Choose your words carefully. We are in public, not in our private circle. But since it was done by the Twin Demon Realm, little Smith should not be in mortal danger."

"The Twin Demon Realm is not a black wizard faction that kills for sport. They are simply a group of thieves. Once they steal something, they need to fence it. The free market may be large, but it still cannot escape our Storm Tower's control. As long as they want to sell their stolen goods, we can buy Wizard Smith back."

"Only..."

Only the Smith Family had always been the ones to traffic others. They had never imagined that one day, in full public view, the Twin Demon Realm's people would traffic their own Smith Family.

The traffickers had been trafficked.

The competition committee of the Silent Chalice and the seven sun ring wizard judges exchanged a glance.

"I knew that could not possibly be a world rarity. Although the details are unknown, from the very root this situation never felt right. Storm Tower would not be very likely to invest a world rarity in this competition, although we would certainly be happy to see that happen."

"A world rarity would generate enormous buzz and bring a great deal of attention to our competition. That is far better for promotion than the moon ring wizard minstrel we hired a few days ago to put on a concert for our competition."

"Should we intervene? After all, this happened during our competition."

"Intervene? The relationship between Storm Tower and the Twin Demon Realm, what wizard who has been Second Circle for over ten years does not know about it? What does it have to do with us?"

One of the sun ring wizard judges called over a First Circle crystallization stage staff member and said to him calmly, "Wizard Smith has now left the competition, but his competition rights have also been stolen by the Twin Demon Realm and transferred to that witch. That witch was previously only an ordinary witch at the limit magic pressure of the First Circle. So our competition committee has no particular objection to her participating."

"Go and ask Storm Tower whether they wish to cancel her competition rights and force her to withdraw from the competition."

"As for what should be done with this person after she comes out, that is no concern of our competition committee."

In the Storm Tower spectator section, the Smith Family's side quickly received the inquiry from the Silent Chalice competition committee.

Some of Storm Tower's academic faction wizards immediately said to the First Circle crystallization stage competition committee staff member, "Immediately have that witch withdraw from the competition. We want to bring her back to Storm Tower for interrogation."

The Smith Family's sun ring wizard's expression shifted slightly. He asked the staff member, "If we cancel that witch's qualification, will it be possible for a second Storm Tower wizard to join the competition as a competitor?"

The First Circle crystallization stage wizard gave a respectful bow, and a trace of awkwardness crossed his face. "My lord, the Silent Chalice has never had a precedent like this. Furthermore, Lord Wizard Smith of Storm Tower was primarily removed because of his own choices, and was... trafficked away by the Twin Demon Realm."

"So this does not count as outside interference."

The Smith Family's sun ring wizard said coldly, "Then have your competition committee hold a meeting and discuss whether someone in this situation should be allowed to send another wizard into the competition."

"Regardless, there was involvement by a third-party force here. It would simply be inappropriate to let our Storm Tower just withdraw from the competition like this."

The First Circle crystallization stage staff member gave another respectful bow. "My lord, the Silent Chalice cannot be paused. There is truly not enough time for a vote through a committee meeting."

"So if Storm Tower resolves to cancel that witch's participation rights, you will simply have to accept this competition's ranking."

The two Smith Family sun ring wizards fell into thought.

On the other side, one of Storm Tower's academic faction moon ring wizards spoke up directly, "Then cancel her right to compete."

"She is only a black wizard. We want her immediately arrested and sent to the wizard prison."

The two Smith Family sun ring wizards' expressions shifted.

According to the general principles of their internal factional disputes, whatever the academic faction wizards supported, they had to oppose.

Furthermore, this competition had a Smith Family wizard competing in it, which meant it was a project under the hands of their family faction's wizards.

So if this competition's ranking turned out poorly, it would be their family faction's wizards who lost face.

After discussion, the two sun ring wizards finally said to the staff member, "We will not cancel her competition rights."

"Let her stand as Storm Tower's competitor. Only, will this be accepted by the Silent Chalice?"

The staff member gave another respectful bow, his expression showing a trace of awkwardness. "The Twin Demon Realm's Twin Siphon Organ stole Wizard Smith's competition rights."

"In material terms, this constitutes the acknowledgment of Silent Chalice competition qualification. Therefore, as the Silent Chalice currently judges it, that witch is Wizard Smith himself. Her performance in the Silent Plane can also determine Storm Tower's competition ranking."

The two Smith Family sun ring wizards gave nods, reluctantly accepting this bizarre situation.

Both wizards wore somewhat peculiar expressions.

Damn little Smith.

In the entire history of the Silent Chalice, he was the first person to get his own competition rights lost.

In the entire history of the Smith Family, he was also the first person to have been bundled up and trafficked on the spot in full public view.

It would probably take the black market to buy him back.

When all was said and done, it was because he was too foolish, having been run circles around by a little witch who had not even reached the Second Circle.

The key thing was that no one had anticipated beforehand that a high-ranking descendant of one of the Cloud Marsh Wetlands' top wizard universities would actually believe the lies of a small black witch from a remote region, and that he would be conned by her purely through deception.

At this moment, the two Smith Family sun ring wizards had already pulled up the shop alliance commerce interface on the Cloud Marsh Wetlands' water hyacinth network and were searching for magical rings similar to truth-detecting rings.

These needed to be distributed to the younger generation.

Only, both of them immediately thought, what if the black wizards were carrying magical artifacts that interfered with truth-detecting rings?

So they would also need a set of magical artifacts that could detect whether the other party was carrying special magical artifacts...

No, wait...

The Smith Family sun ring wizards felt vexed and irritated.

Following this line of thinking would get too complicated, with no end in sight.

When it all came down to it, the fundamental problem was insufficient wisdom.

If the Smith Family's descendants lacked the wisdom themselves, how many magical artifacts and how many people's assistance would it take to prevent them from being deceived?

Once they realized the costs would be enormous, both sun ring wizards immediately abandoned this pointless exercise.

...

In the Silent Plane, Witch Medea held the World Stone in her hands and was shaking with excitement. She looked at the World Stone in her grasp, then threw it into the foundational spell of her own Grand Magic.

Very quickly, she broke through to the Second Circle.

A voice appeared in her ear. "Medea, our cooperation has been very pleasant. The black wizards of Spiral Basin who are the finest black wizards of the eastern border region are truly exceptional. Spiral Basin-trained black wizards really are all elite."

"You did very well. You even exceeded my expectations."

"When you first came to me wanting to cooperate and help me kidnap a high-ranking descendant of Storm Tower, the reason I agreed to cooperate with you at the time was only because you had guessed the true relationship between Storm Tower and our Twin Demon Realm. As a reward, I decided to give you a try."

"I never expected you to actually pull it off. Then this little Smith, I will take him away."

"As the reward I am giving you, this virtual World Stone is yours to keep. Just a friendly reminder though: this is not a real World Stone."

Witch Medea's mouth carried a trace of a bitter smile. "Thank you, Lord Fire Saint."

She knew she had been cast off by the Twin Demon Realm's Fire Saint wizard now.

She had kidnapped a high-ranking descendant of Storm Tower in full public view, and even this renowned Fire Saint wizard of the Twin Demon Realm did not want to get involved in her affairs.

Of course it was not out of fear.

It was because her value was not high enough, and so the Fire Saint wizard found involvement too troublesome.

The Fire Saint wizard's voice suddenly appeared in her ear again. "Oh, right. If you manage to survive and take a real World Stone out of this competition with you, you can come find me."

"I can give you a decent future."

The Fire Saint wizard's voice carried a tone of amusement. "To be honest, I actually quite admire your character. If you had not repeatedly refused to truly join our demon realm, I would not be averse to helping you."

The Fire Saint wizard's voice vanished completely.

Witch Medea settled her mind. She had finally obtained this World Stone from the Silent Chalice and constructed her own Grand Magic.

Of course, the Grand Magic had only been successfully constructed at this point, making her a Second Circle wizard. There was as yet no way for it to descend into the current world of the Silent Plane.

This meant she had hitched a ride on the top-tier benefits within the Cloud Marsh Wetlands that had originally been reserved only for researchers from the seven premier universities of the Cloud Marsh Wetlands.

She had obtained one opportunity to simulate the construction of a Grand Magic.

Next, she had to find the real World Stone within this world and then find a way to get herself out.

Witch Medea steadied her mind.

Although at this moment she was surrounded by enemies on all sides, every one of them capable of crushing her to death hundreds of times over with a single finger.

In the face of these enemies she was nothing but an ant, but precisely because she was an ant, she had room to maneuver from her very insignificance.

She was just an ordinary witch of ordinary background, ordinary talent, terrible luck, and an aversion to hard work. Everything she had achieved had been through sheer relentless effort.

In the Land of Six Towers, she had relied on taking risks to catch the great wizard Sulla's attention, had risked being used as a tool by the great wizard Sulla, had offended every family wizard in the Land of Six Towers, and had ultimately ended up being made into a scapegoat by the great wizard Sulla before barely managing to escape from the Land of Six Towers.

In Spiral Basin, she had also made plenty of enemies through the same way of doing things.

And now she was once again walking a tightrope.

She was different from gifted prodigies like Wizard Smith. She had no margin for error.

Every step she took was on the edge of a blade, and she never knew whether tomorrow would come.

At this moment, inside the world-scale realm, Witch Georgina was wearing the Wandering Judge's Robe of Judgment. A look of delighted surprise appeared in the blue pupils beneath her wooden mask.

"Something like this actually happened!"

"My understanding of divination school magic and new textile studies magic is still not deep enough. My research and understanding of the world principles that make up the fate web are still only at the surface level. That is why I incorrectly believed that misfortune had an upper limit, because the greatest misfortune a person could experience was death."

"But Wizard Smith gave me a living lesson in how wrong I was. It turns out the greatest misfortune a person can experience is not death, but having everything they own won away by someone else, and then being trafficked on top of it!"

"Only, this means I can now receive the fortune corresponding to the misfortune of a Second Circle wizard being trafficked."

A surge of powerful spiritual energy flowed into her Fate Loom. The corners of Witch Georgina's eyes crinkled with a smile. "Wizard Smith, thank you."

"It is thanks to you that I have gained insight into the boundless frontier of new textile studies and into the shallowness of my own understanding. You truly are... someone who sacrificed yourself for others."

"At this moment, it is because of your misfortune that I have received this fortune."

Witch Georgina thought, "Only, even after obtaining this fortune, it is still not enough to support me in a fight against Locke."

"Locke has entered the permission space within the mind network. It will likely take him some time to come back out. I can use this time to drape the Prisoner of Fate Cloak on Edgar, apply the same method, eliminate him from this competition, and receive the misfortune corresponding to eliminating him."

"If I can do that, I may obtain enough magic pressure to threaten Locke."

Witch Georgina used this energy as her support and directly summoned the second First Circle crystallization stage new textile studies wizard from their Bonifacius University.

That wizard looked toward Witch Georgina and said, "I watched everything that happened from above. Let us seize the opportunity and quickly go to the mortal world to kill Edgar."

Witch Georgina said, "Agreed."

At the same time, in the mortal world, Edgar looked up at the Meteor from Beyond the Heavens, the Star God Realm, which had suddenly vanished from the mortal world. His expression was peculiar.

Seriously.

He had just modified the spell model of his follow-up move, figured out a method to take the other person down with him, and now Wizard Smith had been trafficked away by black wizards?

Wizard Edgar blinked. "Although I knew long ago that he was a weak person, this is simply too weak."

"This..."

Wizard Edgar looked down and found a Prisoner of Fate Cloak draped across his own body.

He raised his head and looked at Witch Georgina, who was wearing the Wandering Judge's Robe of Judgment. His expression was peculiar.

In the next instant, Witch Georgina spoke, "Edgar, at this moment I am at full strength and you are in a weakened state after being beaten down by Locke. So I am sorry."

"Please take your exit."

In the next instant, Witch Georgina activated the Fate Loom at full power. In an instant, the triple weaving method transformed into three needle-and-thread forms, and when those three magical needles made contact with Wizard Edgar's permanent defensive force field and the magic pressure structure on the surface of his soul, rather than producing fierce magical resistance, they passed through as though threading through tofu.

Very quickly, Wizard Edgar, from head to toe, his entire soul, was completely penetrated by Witch Georgina's Fate Loom.

The Fate Loom possessed the ability to conduct large-scale searches of an opponent's magic pressure flow and magical weaknesses within its internal existence spirituality network, and to launch targeted attacks based on those findings.

In other words, the Fate Loom could attack based on the weaknesses in an opponent's magical flow and magic pressure structure.

This was why the passive power of Wizard Smith's Meteor from Beyond the Heavens had previously been unable to get close to Witch Georgina.

Because all of that magical power, when approaching her, had been targeted based on their magical weaknesses and caused to collapse on their own.

And at this moment, Wizard Edgar faced the same situation.

Wizard Edgar died directly.

The moment he died, the fortune corresponding to the misfortune of his death immediately flowed back into Witch Georgina's Fate Loom.

As though afraid that Locke would take advantage of this moment to make a move, Witch Georgina immediately turned and fled into the realm.

After she entered the realm, she discovered that this realm had an area equivalent to the entire Silent Plane's mortal world.

Which meant that an un-forged Second Circle Grand Magic had absolutely no way of completely controlling that world-scale realm.

So she found a spot in the deepest reaches of the realm, placed her Grand Magic there, and went into hiding. Even if Locke wanted to find her, it would take him a while.

Before entering the realm, she glanced in the direction of that black witch. "If that black witch puts on my Prisoner of Fate Cloak and gets killed by someone, I can harvest another batch of corresponding fortune."

"Only the Fate Loom just made a full-power attack and my magic pressure is now completely empty. Before it recovers, I will first observe the state of that witch before deciding what to do."

For a wizard, information was power.

And regarding that witch, she still knew nothing.

At the same time, Locke still had no idea that because Wizard Smith had self-destructed through his own doing, the fine situation Locke had constructed had changed.

Through his own act of being trafficked, Wizard Smith had allowed Witch Medea to join the competition as a participant, had revived Witch Georgina's Grand Magic whose cash flow had been completely cut off, and had even given Edgar a helping hand.

Everyone was winning. Only Smith himself had lost.

At this moment, inside the permission space of the mind network, Locke had finally gotten the emperor to open his mouth and acknowledge who exactly had built this mind network and why that person had disappeared.

Antoine was listening and growing furious to the extreme.