Chapter 897
The Lesson of the Sea Queen
Chapter 897 The Lesson of the Sea Queen
Locke saw a message from the wizard Salonirus, indicating that the Academy of the Windbringer Sanctuary from the Land of Dragonfall would be coming to the Golden Grail Flying Magic Plant Competition in order to find excellent flying magic plants for large-scale production.
Locke paused for a moment, then quickly searched for information about the Holy Land of the Wind Hunters on the public free library of the Water Hyacinth system. Soon he found information about the academy in a virtual magic book.
Locke quickly scanned several publicly available free spellbooks, confirming the attributes of this Windbringer Sanctuary.
This large wizarding academy was formerly a top-tier shop alliance, so it retains many of the shop alliance's genes, which seems to be the current state of most wizarding academies in Dragonfall.
The Sanctuary of the Windbringers is a wizarding academy specializing in crafting flying magical items. Its main schools are Alchemy and Enchanting, as well as Wind Magic within the School of Evocation.
The Sanctuary of the Windbinders even operated the construction of some wizard airships and void warships, serving as the final assembly plant for the two great magical technologies and the production site for some key components.
But the Windseekers' Sanctuary has recently been investing more and more resources in in-world flying machines—that is, flying machines within a wizarding land.
Because when moving within a wizarding territory, it's generally impossible to use void warships or wizard airships; other flying devices would be used instead.
For example, when I travel, I either ride in a magic carriage, or I ride in a rainbow lark or a cloud whale.
Therefore, wizards generally need to use some flying vehicles within wizarding territory, which are more suitable for individuals or small groups when traveling.
The wizard Salonirus sent himself a second message.
'The tournament committee from the Golden Grail has brought over a chief wizard mentor from the Windbringer's Sanctuary in the Land of Dragonfall.'
"There's probably some kind of economic interest involved. The products of the Wind Chaser Holy Land generally lean towards alchemical machinery, with a few being bio-flying vehicles or energy-based flying vehicles, but they almost never involve flying magical plants. But this time it's different. The Wind Chaser Holy Land will come, select the award-winning entries, and after breeding them to gigantify, will engage in commercial cooperation."
Locke paused for a moment, then sent it to the wizard Salonirus.
"Thank you for reminding me in advance, Mr. Salonirus."
On the other side, the wizard Salonirus, whose neck was adorned with numerous gold rings, was pleased with Locke's attitude.
"It's just a small favor. Besides, your and my interests are aligned when it comes to the Holy Grail."
The wizard Salonerus made a bold promise to the Golden Grail Committee on behalf of Locke, guaranteeing it with his own reputation. This allowed the committee to provide him with five million magic stones in advance.
If his work fails to win the championship, the wizard Salonirus will not suffer any consequences, but it will indirectly diminish the value of his reputation in the future.
Credit is quite important in White Wizard society, since it can be exchanged for money.
Locke pondered, never expecting that the Golden Grail, which he thought was a sure thing, would encounter such a strange turn of events. The tournament committee had actually brought over people from the [Windbringer's Holy Land] Academy from the Land of Dragonfall.
This will inevitably force the original contestants to show their true abilities in a short period of time in order to win the competition.
Giant Plant Growth Technology...
It's a technology that allows magical plants to grow to a stable, enormous size while largely maintaining their original characteristics. It's relatively niche because its applications are quite limited.
It is mostly used in flying magical plants that can be carried by multiple people.
It seems that whoever wins the Golden Grail Flying Magic Plant Competition will have the opportunity to collaborate with the Wind Chaser Sanctuary and become a commercially available aircraft for multiple passengers.
Locke looked at the information he had retrieved.
The wizarding academy in Dragonfall Lands is more commercially oriented, so it is estimated that [Windbreaker Sanctuary] will cooperate with the winning wizard by forming a shop alliance with him and jointly producing this product. This has always been the style of this wizarding academy.
"The wizard Salonirus is right. The [Windbringer's Sanctuary] in the Land of Dragonfall rarely invests in flying magical plant products. I wonder how that competition committee managed to recruit the chief wizard mentor of the [Windbringer's Sanctuary]."
'It is suspected that there was collusion among the staff.'
'And why now, when the Tianjiang River is being ravaged by the Demon Winter?'
Locke shook his head slightly. "It seems that sending Barrett alone won't be enough."
"Cooperating with the Holy Land of the Wind is just icing on the cake for me, but I've been eyeing the championship of the Golden Grail for a long time. But with this sudden turn of events, if I don't send a clone over, I'm afraid I might not be able to secure first place."
Locke pondered for a moment. The Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow series of magical plants was related to his future plans, and he had to ensure a sure win in its first appearance.
Otherwise, it would lower the value of one's own Great Blue Leaf Dragon Sparrow.
The combat record itself is part of the value of this type of magical plant, so you need to maintain the combat record of the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow series magical plants.
Locke pondered, "My clone can't leave Mount Golden Crown for the time being. The potions class at Sea Queen's Throne and the application for the special grant project are about to begin... I can't leave Mount Golden Crown at this time."
"It will be another half month before I return to my original body."
"But the Holy Grail War is about to begin."
Locke pondered for a moment.
"It seems I must refine the clone potion as soon as possible and create a second clone. I now possess two ultimate magic spells, so I can have two clones."
The moon and golden trees faintly appeared behind him.
"Without using the clone potion, I can create another clone using the Ancient Tree Fruit clone magic. However, the clone created by the clone potion has the ability to share the damage suffered by either my main body or any of my clones. This ability is more attractive to me."
"The Doppelganger Potion is considered one of the more difficult potions to obtain."
"The clones created using it possess abilities that ordinary clone magic does not have."
"The Sea Queen's class is about to begin. I hope I can learn how to brew the clone potion."
……
Half a week later.
In the Crown Court, inside a magnificent wooden building, the Sea Queen looked at the sixteen students below and frowned slightly. In addition to the ten members of the accelerated improvement class that she had previously agreed upon with Wizard John, five more uninvited observers had joined the conversation.
This was arranged by the wizard John.
Neptune was quite unhappy with this opportunistic behavior, but she didn't say much.
After everyone was seated, she turned around and wrote "Doppelganger Potion" on the blackboard with magic chalk.
"The Doppelganger Potion is a classic potion that could change the history of potions."
As the Sea Queen walked into the classroom, she began to speak, and at the same time, everyone looked in astonishment at the Sea Queen who had been inside the classroom.
The Sea Queen's body, which had been left in the office, suddenly shattered and turned into countless golden lights and shadows. Then, those golden lights and shadows moved towards the Sea Queen who had just entered the classroom, and the two merged into one.
The Sea Queen said, "After taking the clone potion, if there is no major magic dominating it, a clone can be created for a short time, with a relatively independent consciousness, which can temporarily play the role of a clone, that is, to create a temporary clone spell."
“If one is under the control of immense magic, one can permanently create an avatar, and this avatar can share damage with the original body while being difficult to identify. But you are all potion masters, didn't any of you notice that the person in the classroom just now wasn't me?”
The Sea Queen glanced at the sixteen ordinary second-circle wizards, whose magical pressure varied, and shook her head slightly, saying with a hint of disappointment, "It seems there's no one."
A second-ring witch with a baby face—Locke remembered her name as Eve Roland—said in a rather weak tone, “But Your Majesty, you are the Throne Wizard. It’s normal that we can’t recognize that it’s your doppelganger, isn’t it? Am I… wrong?”
Several second-ring wizards around them nodded involuntarily.
Even the wizards who hadn't spoken out showed a look of agreement in their eyes.
Locke frowned. After entering the classroom, he felt a faint, strange sensation from the Sea Queen. So he activated his Innate Magic Eye to examine the Sea Queen, but his Innate Magic Eye couldn't detect that the Sea Queen was just an avatar.
They are exactly the same from any perspective.
This is quite rare even in clone magic. The difference between a clone and the original is usually quite significant; for example, the clone from the Ancient Tree Fruit is vastly different from the original.
However, the fact that the clone created using the clone potion is so special that even the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat's innate magic eye cannot distinguish it can only mean that the difference between this clone and the original is extremely small.
The difference was so small that even his own innate magic eye couldn't discern it.
Neptune raised her eyebrows, revealing obvious displeasure, and twirled the pen in her hand.
"When exploring the void, our enemies won't care whether you're a second-ring wizard or a third-ring wizard."
"As potion masters, your inability to see through the changes between things is your problem. Moreover, what happened just now was merely the effect of a clone potion. If you had just paid a little more attention to the details, you could have easily discerned that it wasn't my true form."
The witch Eve Rowland immediately rose and bowed to apologize.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I was foolish. I didn't mean it."
Neptune no longer dwells on this issue.
"The potion of doppelgangers involves the very important law of similarity in potion science, which states that if one object is similar to another, a special and mysterious connection can be formed between the two objects."
The Sea Queen took out a Double Cicada Spirit Macro. She ran her finger across the macro, and a tremendous power erupted from its center, splitting the macro into two.
The original Erming Chan Linghong resembled a cicada with two bodies, but now it has become two separate cicadas, only attracting each other.
"You are all potion masters, so you must know the basic logic of potion science. Materials that are similar to each other, come into contact with each other, and interact with each other can become the contents of a potion recipe and determine the specific effect of the potion recipe. These are the three laws of potion recipes."
"These are the laws of similarity of potion ingredients, the laws of contact of potion ingredients, and the laws of action of potion ingredients." "These three laws, after simple transformations and conversions, often appear in other disciplines as well. You should be familiar with them."
"The Doppelganger Potion is a potion specifically used to prove the existence of the Law of Similarity. Although the Law of Similarity had been applied in various forms of magic before that, there has always been a lack of direct and reliable evidence to prove that magical substances can truly resonate with each other due to their similarity, or even have more complex effects."
"The Two-Cicada Spirit Macro is extracted from a magical creature called a cicada with two bodies and two heads. When it is cut open, one spirit macro can be turned into two spirit macros. Because the two are so similar, they still have a close connection even after being cut apart. Transforming this spirit macro into ritual work becomes the key to this magic potion."
"Therefore, the biggest challenge of the clone potion lies in severing the spiritual core."
“To sever the spiritual macro, one needs powerful spiritual awareness.”
The Sea Queen said, "As long as you can overcome this step and combine it with a certain level of mastery of magical fire in potion-making, you can easily refine a bottle of the purest clone potion. But my requirements are not just that."
The Sea Queen reached out and grabbed two Spirit Macros in her hand. Then, to everyone's astonishment, the two Spirit Macros that she had separated were forcibly put back together.
“Cut the two two-singing cicada spirit macros separately, and then, as I just demonstrated for you, combine the two cut two-singing cicada spirit macros in a staggered manner, that is, combine the left half of spirit macro one with the right half of spirit macro two to form a brand new spirit macro. In this way, the two two-singing cicada spirit macros will resonate with each other because of their similarity.”
“Translating such spiritual essence into ritualistic actions and incorporating these actions into the refining process will result in a flawless clone potion. Even the most skilled wizards at discerning their enemies will be unable to determine whether your clone is the original or the clone based on their perception.”
Neptune glanced at Locke unintentionally.
The Sea Queen said, "This is a special secret technique unique to me. I'm telling you this so you can use it to make the potion. Alright, I've given you the method. You can find the rest by reading the book yourself. Now you can try to refine the clone potion."
"The next lesson will focus on the needs of the person who first created the clone potion."
Neptune's lips curled into a mocking smile.
"After all, there are so many people here, and their needs are all different, so we can only teach the students who are progressing the fastest. When I teach students, I only teach the student who is progressing the fastest."
Her remarks elicited gasps from the wizards below.
A young second-circle wizard named Alex Walker, with a magic power of 14,000, quickly raised his hand and, after receiving a look of approval from the Sea Queen, stood up and said, "But Your Majesty, even the method for making ordinary clone potions that you taught us before is extremely difficult to achieve. Let alone the method for making special clone potions that you taught us."
"And you only taught us once... No one can do that."
Neptune sighed.
"If no one can do it, then I can just pick any topic to teach in the next class."
She sighed for the second time.
"The main difficulty with the clone potion lies in separating the two cicada spirits. Once this is overcome, and with decent control over magical flames, a clone potion can be concocted. And to separate the two cicada spirits, sufficient spiritual awareness is required."
"Of course, there is also a clever way that you can practice. Use one cicada spirit as a blade and strike the middle part of another cicada spirit. By taking advantage of the structural similarities between the two cicadas, the two will collide and automatically break into four pieces."
Wizard Alex Walker wore an expression as if he were listening to gibberish.
"But...Master Wangzuo...this..."
Sweat beaded on his forehead.
Extracting a portion of a spiritual macro from an object is difficult enough, but extracting the spiritual macro imprint is even more difficult. To make one portion of a spiritual macro collide with another portion of a spiritual macro, turning them into four equal portions of a spiritual macro, is essentially a way of altering the spiritual macro.
They're not even second-ring potion masters, how could they possibly do that?
Learn to run before you learn to walk?
Wizard Alex Walker quickly bowed to the Sea Queen and said, “Your Majesty, please forgive my bluntness, but perhaps your demands on us are too high. None of the people in this accelerated improvement class are second-circle potion masters. And what you are asking us to do has already exceeded the level of an average second-circle potion master.”
Neptune frowned. "Anyone may leave my class voluntarily."
Wizard Alex Walker was so frightened that he sat down.
The fifteen second-ring wizards looked at each other in bewilderment. They each took out their prepared two-cicada spirits and sat there dumbfounded, staring at the spirits in front of them.
How do I do this?
The heads of these second-circle wizards had all stopped turning.
Locke looked at the rubbing of the Two Cicada Spirit in his hand. He knew that this required improving his spiritual awareness. Without sufficient spiritual awareness, even with this trick, it would be difficult to achieve the desired result.
He used a Linghong quill pen on the spot to draw two Linghong quills based on the image of the rubbing.
Then, Locke looked at the two spirit macros. He enveloped one of the spirit macros with his magic power and then manipulated it to crash directly into it.
The next moment, the two Linghong collided.
Locke felt as if a spirit macro was about to be cut into four equal parts, just as it was about to be cut into four equal parts, he suddenly felt dizzy, and the spirit macro tilted slightly.
The two Linghong missiles collided.
It shattered at the same time.
It turned into upward-pointing particles of light and disappeared into the air.
A wizard next to him looked over.
Locke, however, was unimpressed and immediately used the Linghong pen to make two more Linghong prints on the Linghong paper.
He wasn't embarrassed at all.
After all, for an experimental discipline like potion-making, having resources and materials is, in a sense, a kind of talent.
If you have the opportunity to experiment a few more times, that can be considered a kind of 'talent'.
However, this Linghong rubbing is a rubbing, and it's secondhand, so it probably won't be used much more often. I still need to be careful.
Each stroke consumes the spiritual energy stored within it.
Once the ink is used up, the rubbing will break.
A shaman from the Root Crown Court beside him muttered to himself.
"This is too difficult. His Majesty's demands are even more insane than the demands I usually place on my students. My students always say that I am strict and harsh, but now it seems that I have been too lenient."
The wizard looked at Locke and whispered, "Brother, don't you think? Even if we're incredibly demanding of our students, it's never this extreme. What's the difference between this and telling us 1+1 is greater than 2 and then expecting us to do multiplication and division? Shouldn't we be teaching us how to improve our spiritual awareness first? Start with the basic theoretical knowledge..."
Locke asked him in a low voice, "Do you usually start teaching students from the basic theoretical knowledge?"
The second-ring wizard with the Root Crown immediately reacted instinctively: "Where would we find the time to give them so much time? We must make them do it first."
"Cough cough cough..."
The second-circle wizard coughed and said awkwardly, "Let me think about what to do."
The group, including Locke, stared at Ling Hong for a long time.
Eve Roland, the witch, couldn't help but stand up again and say, "Your Majesty, this is too difficult. How can this be done? None of the sixteen second-circle wizards present have even started. Are these sixteen second-circle wizards all idiots?"
"Lord Throne..."
The Sea Queen wasn't annoyed. She simply stepped down from the podium and walked among the crowd, saying, "What if I told you that the clone potion was originally the creation of a crystallizing wizard?"
The crowd erupted in uproar.
Eve Rowland's pupils suddenly contracted, and after a brief moment of shock, she immediately shook her head.
"That's impossible. Ling Hongxue is a realm that only second-ring wizards can access. What difference is there between a mere first-ring wizard and a child in front of us second-ring wizards?"
"Just a child. How could the clone potion be the work of a crystallization wizard?"
Eve Rowland the Witch could not accept this outcome at all.
The Sea Queen calmly replied, "So we're back to my original point. Potions is a subject that only gifted wizards can learn."
"That crystallization wizard was named [Adrian Franklin]. This part of history is too ancient, and most books no longer record it, so it's normal that you don't know about it. Franklin had a special pair of eyes from a young age, and his soul was very unique, so he could see directly with his naked eyes... Spirit Hong."
“There are other things as well. In return, he doesn’t have normal human vision. He has lived in the world of Linghong since he was a child.”
The witch Eve Roland shook her head slightly, clearly unable to imagine what it would be like for someone to grow up in Linghong's world. Was it a misfortune or a blessing? It was impossible to know.
Neptune said, "Although the wizard Adrian Franklin later joined the Abyss and became one of the higher-ranking demons."
"But before he joined them, he was indeed an excellent potion master. The clone potion was his invention during the crystallization stage, and of course, its normal difficulty is at the second level. But it cannot be denied that for a talented person, the clone potion should not be a difficult problem."
That concludes today's lesson. You can contact me privately to submit your work.
"I will announce before the next class who was the first to make this potion."
With a wave of her hand, the Queen of the Sea wiped away all the writing on the blackboard.
(End of this chapter)