ebookpocket.com Chapter 445: Three Magic Rings and Inspiration
Chapter 445: Three Magic Rings and Inspiration
The Shadow Eye Grass's ability to transfer spells was obtained through watering with Mammon's demon blood. Essentially, Shadow Eye Grass was an abyssal series magical plant.Precisely because of this, Locke could transfer spells through vision at medium to long distances. Abyssal energy itself possessed characteristics of long-distance transmission.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many planes invaded by abyssal energy, resulting in abyssal ecological communities.
Even the wizard world itself had large numbers of such abyssal ecological communities. For example, the southeastern quadrant had also experienced an abyssal magical plant catastrophe.
Locke confirmed the black wizard's location through the eye grass. He crossed the street, walked above the sewers, and used Sea Gold Sand to gather golden sand spore powder, pulling the black wizard, who had been knocked unconscious by geomagnetic force and lost all capability, out from below the sewers.
He took the four rings from his fingers, which were an astral ring and three defensive magical artifacts.
Locke glanced at these three defensive magical artifacts and discovered that the details of the three rings were engraved with their origin. They actually came from the hands of a Second Circle wizard from Dragon Fall Land.
Because there was this Second Circle wizard's signature on them, along with his wizard rank, a small "2," and an indication that these were works from his First Circle stage period.
"Zosimus Caenrich."
"It seems Dragon Fall Land specifically produces famous alchemists." Locke used his psychic power to impact the three magical artifacts, temporarily clearing the soul imprints left on their surfaces, and sealed the three magical artifacts. After returning, he could imprint his own mental mark on these three magical artifacts, making them his own.
Speaking of which, this was still the first time he had obtained defensive magical artifacts.
From the exchange just now, these three defensive magical artifacts combined could withstand his full-force strike without using abyssal energy or the Fierce Beast panel. They were indeed pretty good treasures.
At the same time, Locke quickly searched the things on the opponent's body and made no other discoveries, only finding a letter. Additionally, what surprised Locke slightly was that this black wizard's astral ring was only the minimum specification astral ring. The internal space was only as large as a room, and inside it was completely empty.
Aside from some Transmutation School spell-casting materials, some instruments and potions useless to himself, only a silver dagger magical artifact looked decent.
Locke similarly cleared the soul imprint within it and placed it in his own astral ring.
Wizard Sphendis hurriedly arrived. Seeing that Locke had caught that black wizard, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He said to Locke, "I will hand my student Barnaby and several other students over to the Plutarch family and explain everything here."
"This time... I was indeed presumptuous. Perhaps I was also used by some people with ulterior motives."
Barnaby's face was deathly pale, but he had been sealed up by Wizard Sphendis using the universal bloodline spell Blood Rope and couldn't move.
After Wizard Sphendis apologized to Locke with a bow, he hurriedly left with Barnaby, heading to the White Dragon Tower's law enforcement department. The one in charge of the law enforcement department was precisely a First Circle crystallization stage wizard of the Plutarch family.
Clearly, Wizard Sphendis was making a clean break from Barnaby, who had obvious connections to black wizards. This situation had already reached the point where he would rather offend the Cooper family than clearly separate responsibilities with Barnaby.
And Locke looked at the black wizard in his hand. At this time, this black wizard had been hit by geomagnetic force.
The geomagnetic force fired by the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat's natural magic eye had the effect of disrupting people's consciousness magnetic field. At this time, the black wizard in his hand had clearly been beaten by him until his consciousness magnetic field was scattered. At least within these few weeks, without external help, he would be completely unconscious.
Locke was thinking about how to handle him, whether to kill him, interrogate him first, use him as flower fertilizer, or as experimental material, when suddenly the letter taken from the black wizard automatically floated into midair.
Lines of text appeared on it:
[I am the person in charge in the Land of Six Towers for the large black wizard organization Ladybug Raiders. Hello, this Wizard Jax belongs to one of our Ladybug Raiders' assets.]
[We Ladybug Raiders specialize in stealing laboratory data for others. Whether peripheral data or internal data, we can steal it. As long as you're willing to pay heavily, we can completely steal the experimental data you want and publish the paper one step ahead before the original project team publishes their paper.]
[Appropriating their achievements for yourself.]
[We Ladybug Raiders specifically serve the vast number of wizards suffering from lack of papers.]
Locke raised an eyebrow. The wizard behind this letter actually called this a service.
The letter continued: [We detected that Wizard Jax has lost mobility and discovered he has fallen into unconsciousness. If you choose to send him to wizard prison, you won't gain any benefits. Using him as experimental material also has little significance. Our organization's wizards have left many contingencies on their bodies. Even if caught, they won't reveal anything about us. Their bodies will self-destruct to reduce the torture they suffer.]
[So, I want to make a transaction with you.]
Locke raised an eyebrow. No wonder this Transmutation School Wizard Jax, when executing his mission, had almost nothing in his astral ring, only putting in some necessities.
So it was because after Ladybug Raiders were caught, the organization behind them would try to negotiate with people?
[The transaction content is as follows: If you can agree to let this wizard go, we will provide you with a set of checks from a fairy family bank. After we confirm the person is released, you can retrieve the checks, a total of five magic crystal cards.]
[At the same time, the Three Elemental Shield magic rings from Master Caenrich that you obtained need a special magic lock password entered. Otherwise, even if you imprint a soul mark, you cannot use them. The Abjuration School's mystical lock will forever envelop these three rings.]
[Making them useless scrap metal.]
[Additionally, the Shadow Thorn Dagger in your hand is the same. The Three Elemental Shield can stack elemental shields. Three elemental shields stacked together form multiple magic shields like a golem, briefly stacking defense to a degree equivalent to a wizard's permanent defensive field. The effect is quite good. May I ask if you want to make this transaction with us?]
Locke thought for a moment. Three Elemental Shield?
Stacking shields?
He suddenly thought of the Chain Magic Vine project he was working on and immediately thought, 'Right, I've been going in the wrong direction all along. I don't need to accumulate wizard permanent defensive fields together like magical pressure. I only need to layer and stack wizard permanent defensive fields.'
'That would work.'
Locke suddenly felt awakened, realizing, 'The original permanent defensive field spell models are very complex. Different permanent defensive fields stacking cannot fuse like energy and magical pressure, but will instead conflict with each other and become weaker.'
'So, it's not permanent defensive fields fusing with each other, but layering and stacking them, just like those three Elemental Shield rings just now, putting three elemental shields on one wizard simultaneously.'
'A wizard is like wearing three different pieces of clothing, and my Chain Magic Vine can also achieve this. Currently, it can already stack magical pressure and can parasitize on permanent defensive fields, absorbing a certain permanent defensive field through the magical plant and displaying it on the leaves.'
'Then next, what I need to do is not the incredibly difficult permanent defensive field fusion, but fusing permanent defensive fields separately into different Chain Magic Vine leaves, then stacking those leaves together. This way, at the First Circle stage, different wizards' permanent defensive fields can be stacked in both strength and quantity, making this a foreseeable reality.'
Locke suddenly understood.
He had been thinking too hard before, but actually, it didn't need to be that difficult, and the same effect could be achieved.
Sometimes, inspiration came just like this.
In the long experimental process, through daily accumulation, suddenly one day the accumulated knowledge burst forth, and ideas immediately emerged, becoming instantly clear.
Following this line of thought, making the magical plant in his project application would be completely not difficult.
Within the remaining eleven months, creating it would no longer be a fantasy.
Locke immediately took advantage of having inspiration to adjust his thinking, modified formulas, and took out paper and pen to record these insights.
The letter floating in midair waited for quite a while, then wrote: [So, has the transaction failed?]
Locke took out a magic quill and quickly wrote a line of elegant text on it: [No, the transaction is acceptable.]
[But I need to add one more transaction condition. Tell me who hired you to steal my experimental data.]
This person was too despicable.
However, he was also truly curious about who was so bored.
The letter had no response for a long time, then suddenly a line appeared on the letter: [This is a difficult transaction. Protecting client privacy is also something we Ladybug Raiders do. But we are black wizards, so we don't need to be that rule-abiding. I can only tell you the other party is from the Spiral Basin. This is the limit.]
[If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do. Moreover, I can activate the Abjuration School magic on this wizard's body.]
Locke saw black patterns appearing on the black wizard's body.
Locke immediately recognized this was Abjuration School magic, Subspace Seal.
This was a magic that could only be used by sacrificing one's own life to a special zone in the void, the subspace zone. This person and the objects around him would all be sealed in the special zone of the void, the subspace ring.
This was a typical Abjuration School sealing magic sub-direction, and moreover, it was a relatively obscure and niche exile magic in sealing studies.
This was similar to the First Circle magic Forced Exile developed by the Purple Exile Path that he had encountered on the wizard airship before, belonging to the same type of magic. But because activating it required sacrificing the life of a First Circle wizard, its effects were even more astonishing.
Locke thought for a moment and discovered that the opponent was indeed worthy of being a black wizard, actually able to inscribe such magic on a liquefaction stage wizard.
'I'm afraid this Ladybug Raider is also using these methods to threaten these black wizards to work for them,' Locke immediately thought. 'Otherwise, with these black wizards' abilities, what couldn't they do? Why must they do this kind of dirty and tiring work of stealing laboratory materials for others? I'm afraid these sealing magics were imprinted on them during their apprentice stage.'
'Even after becoming formal wizards, they would still be exploited by even higher-level black wizards.'
Truly worthy of being black wizards.
Students in the Land of Six Towers, as long as they became First Circle wizards, at least had the qualification to slack off.
As long as you had no dreams, you could live very happily in the Land of Six Towers. Be a teaching assistant, act like a fox assuming the tiger's might in front of third-class wizard apprentice students, being bossy all day long, and you could still become someone superior in the eyes of third-class wizard apprentice students.
But for their black wizards, once they entered an organization, it was as deep as the sea.
A genius like Hussein had to make such great efforts and take such enormous risks to break free from being a black wizard.
Locke wrote on the letter: [Fine. But I'm only letting him go. I'm not responsible for helping him get back.]
A line immediately appeared on the letter, precisely a string of check numbers from the fairy bank, along with the unlock passwords for four magical artifacts.
At the same time, another line was left: [Of course, as long as the famous Eye Demon Wizard doesn't obstruct, we have ways to get him back. We don't need anyone's help.]
[If the Eye Demon Wizard wants our services, just recite this incantation... then add a sentence at the end, 'Swiftly bring true knowledge to my hand,' and you can contact the divination system developed by us Ladybug Raiders. However, our divination system covers a somewhat large area, and it can't be discovered by people, so the signal will be a bit poor. If there's no response the first time, you can try several more times. Sometimes you might need to try for several days.]
[Whatever data the Eye Demon Wizard wants, we can steal it for you, as long as you pay. Do you want the development progress of the Ancient Life Tree from the current Cloud Marsh Cup first place from the Sunshade Peninsula, or the development progress of that witch from second place in the Cloud Marsh Wetland?]
Locke directly waved his hand. Immediately, that letter automatically burned under the effect of primordial fire. "Not interested. What's the point of knowing others' progress?"
"Doing my own work well is the only thing I can do."
primordial fire burned everything. Even the letter burned. The bloodline power hidden within it immediately seeped out bit by bit, dispersing into the air.
At the same time, Locke saw a new sealing magic circle appear on the chest of the black wizard beside him. That was also a space exile type sealing magic. Three concentric circles appeared on his chest. In the middle of the concentric circles were several black ink marks. Drops of black ink flew out from the patterns on his chest, then gathered together, becoming an ink ball.
Then, the sealing magic circle constructed for about ten minutes.
Suddenly in an instant, the black ink ball grew larger, enveloping that black wizard within it, then rapidly shrank.
That black wizard had already disappeared without a trace. His ink ball also infinitely shrank, then disappeared in midair.
"This is... seems to be dimensional exile magic, a magic used to exile certain wizards to designated demi-planes..."
"This was originally a sealing magic. They actually use this kind of magic to retreat? No wonder they need me not to obstruct. Just constructing the magic circle took ten minutes."
"I don't know if he originally planned to use this magic to leave the White Dragon Tower. No wait, this magic can indeed teleport to a designated demi-plane, then come out from inside the demi-plane, return to the Land of Six Towers, and then find a way to leave the Land of Six Towers. But during the exile process, there's damage to both mana and body."
"Even for Ladybug Raiders, this should be an infrequently used retreat method."
Locke entered the passwords into the four magical artifacts. Immediately, the four magical artifacts were activated, and the soul imprints inside were completely cleared.
Locke was able to smoothly leave his soul imprint in the four magical artifacts. "What they said was actually true."
Locke opened the gray stone tablet, clicked to enter the small group, and left a line of text on it: 'Recently caught a black wizard from Ladybug Raiders. He said someone hired them to steal my data. After I caught him, he said the person who hired them was from the Spiral Basin.'