Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems

Chapter 613: Wizard Factory

As the Tyrant Fern Spear fell all the way toward the deepest part of the Kungoding Star Fort, Wizard Mike could only continuously adjust the spell model of Wall Creation, adjusting the star fort's internal structure and reorganizing the walls created by various builder spells to prevent the Tyrant Fern Spear from continuing to fall toward the Kungoding Star Fort's core."What spell is this? I've never seen him use it in previous matches!" Wizard Mike had originally thought he had withstood Locke's most powerful spell attack. His heart had just relaxed when, in the next moment, Locke delivered such a powerful spell.

The speed was so fast that it caught him completely off guard.

The strength of builders lay in their meticulous design of buildings, in their strategic value and team contributions when coordinating with teammate wizards on the battlefield, in their functional roles. But in responding to this kind of sudden situation, Wizard Mike was somewhat caught off guard.

Fortunately, the Kungoding Star Fort spell was very powerful.

Participating in this kind of competition, Wizard Mike had actually taken a shortcut. His permanent defensive field could only protect himself and didn't greatly enhance the star fort.

As a builder, most of his combat power rested on this building. Therefore, participating in this kind of competition, as long as he overcame the builder's weaknesses of slow casting speed, poor individual combat ability, and insufficient burst power, everything else was an advantage.

Wizard Mike could only hurriedly chant spells, using the star fort's final defensive magic fortification that he had designed long ago, [Rotating Maze].

Immediately, the core control room where he was located began transferring underground within the star fort. At the same time, several decoy target rooms in the maze were moved upward by him, attempting to deceive Locke while also using these rooms to provide some defensive capability.

The walls of each of these rooms were made of earth elemental walls created by the First Circle builder spell model [Rock Wall]. Even if placed in an earth elemental plane, they wouldn't be crushed by the earth elemental plane's super gravity. They were earth elemental walls condensed from high magic power.

They possessed abnormal hardness.

'Bang!~'

The first room shattered under the Tyrant Fern Spear's attack. The second, third, fourth, fifth...

At the last decoy target room, which was above his ceiling, separated by only one wall, in a hollow layer position, the Tyrant Fern Spear stopped.

Right above his head...

Wizard Mike immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Because of the [Rotating Maze]'s existence, Locke might not be able to lock onto his position.

And once Locke directly entered the star fort's underground fortifications, he would enter the rotating maze. At the same time, he could use earthquake spells and other construction magic. These powerful earth elemental magics were sufficient to make Locke suffer greatly.

As long as Locke entered, it would change from aerial combat, which he was least good at, to underground combat, which he excelled at most.

Just as Mike breathed a sigh of relief, Locke decisively summoned Peach Bow Thorn Arrow and shot one arrow toward the large crater created by the Tyrant Fern Spear.

A Great Sun Arrow fell.

In just an instant, as if the sun was setting, it delivered the final blow to this Kungoding Star Fort.

At the judges' seats, the Third Circle wizard from Kungoding Academy sighed slightly. Just moments ago, he had hoped Locke would enter the builder's star fort, and then Mike would have won.

Wizard Mike could have directly secured his third-place points.

But unfortunately, in a single thought, Locke didn't foolishly go down. Instead, he used Peach Bow Thorn Arrow, shooting this final decisive arrow from the sky.

Wizard Roosevelt and other wizards from Golden Crown Mountain nodded.

Witch Yekaterina looked at this arrow with satisfaction, not because of the victory or defeat, which was inconsequential, but because Locke's Peach Bow Thorn Arrow magic had now reached a very refined level.

It was clear he was studying very seriously.

Moreover, his talent in this area was quite good.

If things went according to her plan, Locke could use Peach Bow Thorn Arrow as the core, combined with some ecological magic systems, to complete a Grand Magic similar to hers, Beast Tide Ecology.

Her Beast Tide Ecology itself was developed with Peach Bow Thorn Arrow magic as its core.

However, Witch Yekaterina wasn't certain whether Locke would take this path, although all along the way, Locke's choices had been extremely similar to hers.

As the Great Sun Arrow fell, the entire star fort completely shattered, splitting into three pieces, then falling from five thousand meters altitude.

Although Wizard Mike barely recovered from the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow by relying on his magic robe, he discovered that his magic had lost control just now, causing the entire defensive fortification to completely fall apart.

At that moment, the First Circle wizards standing in the Cloud Arena looked up at the city broken into three pieces falling from the sky. The expressions on their faces were all terrified.

Many inexperienced First Circle wizards, seeing this scene, thought they would be crushed by the buildings falling from the sky.

However, this didn't happen.

When the buildings approached within a thousand meters of the Cloud Arena, the entire structure disappeared. Locke and Wizard Mike were teleported near Arena No. 1.

Locke stood on Arena No. 1, while Wizard Mike sat beside Arena No. 1, still shaken.

Wizard Mike wiped the sweat from his forehead, exhaled a breath of stale air, then sat on the ground and said to Locke on the arena, "I lost. Since entering the competition, you're the first wizard to make me lose."

"It seems Golden Crown Mountain is indeed not that simple. Our Kungoding Academy just moved from the Nine Origin Mountains and indeed still needs more settling and accumulation. To challenge Golden Crown Mountain so hastily now is indeed very difficult."

Wizard Mike stood up and drank a potion. The magic pressure on his body that had declined began to recover. He gave Locke a thumbs up, "Locke, I admit your hardness is indeed above mine!"

"You won."

Locke exhaled a breath of stale air.

This time, aside from not using the porcelain moon, he had also tried his best.

Locke said, "Wizard Mike, your star fort defensive fortifications are indeed difficult to break through."

Wizard Mike waved at Locke, then turned and left.

Locke jumped down from the arena. At that moment, Wizard Antoine snorted coldly, "It seems I've indeed saved a lot of time."

He turned and walked away.

Witch Juliana also looked at Locke with a wary gaze. She had only lost to Antoine once, and tomorrow would be her final battle with Antoine, her only chance to win the championship.

Witch Camilla from Magic Pivot City looked at Locke with some lingering fear. She had always been resentful that Locke had defeated her using only Full Moon Growth.

Now it seemed that if Locke hadn't used Full Moon Growth, she would have... lost even more miserably, and more spectacularly.

For the rest of the afternoon, Locke quickly finished the remaining two matches. The opponents weren't powerful, so he completely solved the problems using only Peach Bow Thorn Arrow.

In this final match, Locke cleanly used just two Peach Bow Thorn Arrows to defeat a male wizard from the small-to-medium organization [White Elephant Group].

That wizard, who looked quite short, stood beside the arena, watching Locke, who was once again endorsing his products with brilliant radiance. Just before Locke was about to leave, he asked in a low voice, "Locke Augustine, have you been to those wizard factories of the shop alliances in Cloud Marsh Wetland?"

Locke turned to look at him strangely, "I haven't."

He was indeed usually very busy, especially since the competition for various levels of funding project applications at the Origin Academy was extremely fierce.

If he wasn't careful, he would be squeezed out by others. He hadn't slept according to the standard sleep time mentioned in books for a long time.

This short wizard said in a low voice, "No, of course you haven't. How could favored children of heaven like you ever glance at wizard factories?"

"You have no idea of the pain suffered by wizards without sufficient talent."

"You don't know the pain of failures."

"You people of noble birth never know our pain!"

"Those apprentices who can't become official wizards, those ordinary official wizards without ability, who don't want to give up magic, who don't want to return to the mortal world, they can only go to magic factories. They suffer systematic exploitation there. Their lifespans even decrease there."

"And you are all beneficiaries!"

"Enjoyers of this sinful system!"

Locke looked at him questioningly, "Doesn't the Ethics and Morality Review Committee strictly prohibit such things from happening?"

The short wizard sneered, "On the surface it's not allowed, but how many exist in secret?"

"The greed of white wizards is endless. Because you're all chasing money. We're different."

Locke looked at him strangely, then turned and left.

At that moment, Locke noticed that demon hunters had been secretly watching this wizard nearby all along.