Chapter 900
: The Sky Piercing the Ancient Sites of Meili!
Chapter 900: The Sky Piercing the Ancient Sites of Meili!
27 days later, at the boundary between day and night, the Meili Ancient Site.
Because of the Starfield Sea's ascension plan, the travel time between various wizarding lands has been reduced from one month to 27 days.
This indicates that the distance between the various wizarding territories is gradually decreasing.
The wizard's airship descended from its docking point, and a series of suspended ladders descended, arranged in an orderly fashion to provide steps for landing.
Locke stepped down the steps, a star ring on his finger.
The golden light overhead made Locke's eyes momentarily uncomfortable. When he looked up, he saw that in the sky where light and darkness met, besides the sun, there was a golden palace above the clouds.
It was the dazzling light emanating from those palaces that bathed the entire area where light and darkness met in a golden glow.
Locke's pupils contracted slightly, because for some reason he felt that the palace in the sky, which he had never been to before, seemed strangely familiar.
That should be one of the five major historical sites at the border between the Ming and Hui regions – the Jincheng Ancient Site.
But I shouldn't have ever been to that place.
The Golden City Ruins are one of the five major ruins at the boundary between the Dark and the Light. Legend has it that Golden City was once the area with the highest concentration of magic in the Eastern Boundary, and only third-ring wizards were qualified to live there, while only sun-ring wizards could go up there.
In the past, Golden City was considered one of the most powerful regions in the magical world.
But now Golden City has long since fallen into ruin, and only formal wizards are qualified to enter it. The number of ordinary second-ring wizards within it is unknown, and crystallized wizards seem to have a relatively high status in Golden City.
However, the Golden Cup match is held at the Meri Ruins, not in the Golden City.
For most wizards in the border region between darkness and light, Golden City was more like a background hanging in the sky, something they could only look at but never reach.
At this moment, in addition to the Jincheng Ruins, there were also numerous architectural ruins of varying sizes in the sky.
Legend has it that when Jincheng was at its largest, half of the buildings in the entire border area between Huiming and Huicheng were in the sky. Now, of the five ancient sites, although four of them have fallen to the ground, most of them fell from the sky.
At its peak, the border between darkness and light was shrouded in golden light, and golden magic permeated the air as if it were everywhere. Even the breath of a livestock might contain powerful golden magic.
Therefore, the wind formed from the golden magic can easily lift up the city and the earth.
The area where darkness and light meet used to have a name: the "Sky City Cluster".
Locke stepped off the wizard's airship and discovered a small market belonging to the Golden Dynasty next to the dock, which was quite crowded.
Among the wizards who came down from the same airship, there seemed to be some spectators who came for the Golden Cup, wizard managers from the Shop Alliance, or contestants.
A wizard manager from the shop alliance seemed to be communicating with the contestants on the wizard airship. It was unclear whether the other party hadn't investigated his identity or hadn't expected him to personally send an avatar to participate in the competition, so the wizard manager didn't bother him.
However, the wizard manager of the shop alliance that represented the unknown small flying machine was pestering a contestant from the [Black Iron Mountain Wild Wizard Land], wanting to discuss business related to flying magical plants with him.
Locke noticed that the wizard manager seemed to be using a persistent and aggressive approach towards the wizard who clearly had no intention of cooperating.
"Wait, sir, please wait a moment. If you'd like a better deal, we can discuss it..."
This small market seemed to be lined with many wizard merchants, selling everything from magical artifacts to specialty golden magical plants, as well as various special magical items from the border between the obscure and the clear.
There are all kinds of varieties, and everything you could want.
Locke stood in front of the shop filled with jars. The stall owner was an ordinary second-circle wizard whose eyes lit up when Locke approached.
"Would you like some ashes, sir?"
"Would you like the spirit ashes of the Greybone Deer King, or a portion of the spirit ashes of the Ancient Troll Projectile from the Troll world?"
Locke asked in confusion, "Spirit Ash, what is that? I've never heard of it?"
The smile on the second-circle wizard stall owner's face visibly faded, but since any second-circle wizard was a potential big customer, he still tried his best to explain: "Spirit Ash is a recent research result from the Southern Wizarding Capital, but we also have it in the border area between the Dark and the Bright."
"It's made by strengthening the ashes with golden magic, allowing the residual spirituality of the soul to remain within them, turning them into spirit ash. Spirit ash is divided into white spirit ash and black spirit ash. Black spirit ash imprisons the souls of others within its ash, while white spirit ash, which is what I sell, is simply the spirituality left behind after those souls depart. Black spirit ash is banned by the White Wizard Association and can only be purchased on the black market in the Southern Wizard Capital."
"These spirit ashes aren't just useful for necromancy. Look, you can buy a jar of spirit ash from me, and then buy a magic orb."
The second-ring wizard stall owner took out a bead about the size of a basketball.
"By shining the Spirit Ashes on the Magic Orb, you can summon the powerful spirit of that deceased warrior to fight for you. How about it, are you interested? One Magic Orb only costs 500,000 Magic Stones, and the Spirit Ashes of a second-ring creature like the Graybone Deer King also only cost 500,000 Magic Stones."
"Although they are all one-time use items, for just one million magic stones, plus the magic power of a second-ring wizard, you can summon a powerful second-ring creature to fight for you. It's definitely worth it."
Locke waved his hand, somewhat speechless.
"no need."
I possess archaeology magic, and although I can't summon second-circle beings right now because I haven't obtained the Black and White Codex, I don't really need such a thing.
The stall owner seemed to want to hold out a little longer, so he kept telling Locke about the benefits of spirit ash, and even suggested that Locke use spirit ash as fertilizer.
The second-circle wizard stall owner said, "This is also a research experiment. Think about it, no one has ever used spirit ash as fertilizer before. If you buy it, even if you don't use it, you can still use it for this cutting-edge research, which is great..."
Locke asked, "Won't the negative energy particle field of the spirit ash affect the growth of the magical plants?"
The second-ring wizard stall owner was speechless.
"this……"
He was so engrossed in making offhand remarks that he forgot to ensure his words were logically sound.
Locke smiled at him, then turned and left.
Locke contacted Barrett through the Ganoderma lucidum plant and learned that Barrett was transporting the plant to the competition venue on the other side of the Merri Ruins via a magic carriage caravan.
They are crossing vast wilderness.
There seemed to be few mortals in the wilderness where darkness and light met.
This has historical reasons. On the one hand, as the former land of leading wizards, there are indeed relatively few ordinary people here, while the number of wizards, especially apprentice wizards, is unusually large.
On the other hand, the decline of the border area between darkness and light back then has not completely disappeared to this day, and there seem to be many dangerous things still remaining in the wild.
Barrett, a wizard, sent a message to Locke from a carriage traversing a nameless wilderness: "I'm traveling with a few wizards from the Spiral Basin. They told me they were also going to participate in the Golden Cup. Since it's safer to travel together, I joined their group."
"Team leader, the border area between the dark and light is completely different from our Yunze Wetland. The wilderness here is far too dangerous."
"I have never seen a group of apprentice-level magical creatures that dare to attack a crystallization wizard in the wild, but I have encountered one here."
"The magical creatures and beasts here all seem to retain a trace of golden magic. They are difficult to kill, with strong defense and vitality, making them extremely difficult to kill. Even with only one breath left, they possess very strong offensive capabilities."
Barrett was sitting in the carriage when suddenly the carriage wheel seemed to be hit by something, and there was a sound of the carriage shaft breaking. The carriage stopped abruptly.
"Hmm? Team leader, my magic carriage seems to be broken."
"I need to get out of the car to check it out."
Meanwhile, Locke realized something was wrong.
"Barrett, tell me your coordinates."
The wizard Barrett was stunned for a moment, then sent the coordinates to Locke. He then got off the carriage and saw that his first-class wizard apprentice coachman was lying on the ground with blood all over his throat.
Meanwhile, a wizard from the Spiral Basin, who was traveling alone, appeared to be facing away from him, clutching his abdomen and bleeding profusely.
"Help me... help me..."
Wizard Barrett immediately stepped forward. "What happened? Everything was fine just now!"
"and many more……"
Barrett's face immediately turned serious.
He realized that all professional wizards possess a permanent defensive force field, meaning that even if attacked by magical creatures in the wild, they would either die or emerge unscathed.
It must be quite rare to be injured like this and have your back turned to someone, right?
At that moment, the wizard suddenly turned around, revealing his face, which he had no face at all.
What was originally just a tail that looked like a wizard's tail, when it turned around, revealed the black scales of a snake's tail.
At the same time, the wizard Barrett heard a scream behind him.
He looked back and saw that, for some reason, the surroundings had suddenly turned from day to night, and in the night, only the magical carriages were emitting magical light.
At this moment, the apprentices on the magic carriage, as well as the official wizards responsible for protecting the group, were all dead.
The wizards of Spiral Basin who had come with him had barely survived a battle with a snake's tail. However, one of the official wizards of Spiral Basin was struck to the ground by the snake's tail, and his lower body was crushed.
He himself was also slapped away by the snake's tail.
Because he didn't get too close and managed to dodge in time, he wasn't completely hit. However, three of the bamboo swords in his permanent defensive force field, the Bamboo Sea Sword Formation, were shattered. The remaining two bamboo swords automatically sensed the danger and transformed into sharp swords that pierced forward, injuring the snake's tail.
This forced the snake's tail to retreat.
The wizard Barrett stood up from the ground, feeling that he might have broken his ribs.
At that moment, the food in his stomach seemed to be churning violently. The wizard Barrett took half a step forward and immediately felt a terrifying magical pressure pressing down on his body.
No...that's not right.
This is... at the Second Ring Road level!
At this moment, the two wizards from the spiral basins also turned to look at the remaining survivor, wizard Barrett.
They looked at Wizard Barrett in horror and said, "A second-circle magical creature suddenly attacked our convoy! Good heavens, in the wilderness at the border of light and darkness, we've only just left the city and we've already been attacked by a second-circle magical creature!"
"What do we do now? We have three crystallization wizards now. If we unite and think of a way together, we can at least find a way to survive."
The first wizard from Spiral Basin, clutching the magic box to his chest, said nervously, "This is something Lord Yennefer asked me to escort. If I fail to deliver it, I'm doomed."
Another wizard from Spiral Basin glanced at him; the magic box in his hand was the work of the chief wizarding mentor of Neher University in Spiral Basin.
This time, three second-ring breeders from Neher University entrusted us with escorting their creations over.
Because joint escort would be safer, they were asked to travel together.
I never expected to encounter something like this here.
Barrett the Wizard spoke up: “Although I don’t know why that second-ring creature attacked our convoy, I don’t think wild magical creatures would target something too hard to eat. The three of us stood together, each in a permanent defensive field, and attacked the creature’s tail. We charged towards the edge of the night.”
“I think if we show that we’re not easy to deal with, maybe it will eat other people’s corpses…whether it’s a carnivore or a magical object eater, it might spare us.”
The other two wizards from the Spiral Basin naturally did not object.
The three of them finally managed to get together despite the harassing attacks from the snake's tail, and all of them had sustained some injuries.
If an ordinary first-ring being were to encounter an attack, or even a trap, by such a second-ring magical creature, they would likely die instantly, without any chance of resistance.
The fact that first-ring wizards possess a permanent defensive force field gives them the means to maneuver tactically and retaliate.
A wizard from the Spiral Basin clutched the box Yennefer had given him, then looked up in horror at the night sky, where there were even some stars.
"Could it be that this second-ring magical creature possesses the ability to move through space, or that it can manipulate time?"
"You can't possibly control the night, can you?"
The nights in the wizarding world are unlike any other nights in any other world.
Another wizard from the Spiral Basin said, "It's possible he's manipulating space. We might be transported to another world through a dimensional portal. In other words, even if we break out now, we'll be in another world."
A sense of despair emerged among the three.
No one would have imagined that simply escorting a competition entry for their high-ringed wizards at Wizarding University and stopping briefly in the wilderness at the boundary between light and darkness would lead to such a terrifying attack by magical creatures.
At this point, the three of them had no choice but to bite the bullet and rush out.
But the next moment, the three of them saw two snake tails that looked like those of wizards attacking them from the front and back.
The other side was clearly targeting them.
Therefore, there is no possibility of changing the target, or of finding the target too difficult to switch targets.
The sinister and malicious aura emanating from a second-ring magical creature charged toward the three of them.
Barrett the wizard, clutching the magic box containing the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow, gritted his teeth, "Team Leader..."
He discovered a problem: he could no longer contact the outside world through the water hyacinth system.
Secondly, his magic was rapidly fading.
what happened?
The wizard Barrett saw that his permanent defensive field had a hole in it because of his declining magic.
The permanent defensive fields of the other two also began to break down as their magic power rapidly dissipated.
……
At the Merri Ruins, the Golden Cup competition committee invited the wizards seated in a UFO-like aircraft to disembark. This team consisted of one Sun Ring Wizard, three Moon Ring Wizards, and four Star Ring Wizards. They came from the Land of Dragonfall and were wizards from the Holy Land of the Windbringers. They wore a silver badge with a pair of swan wings on their chests.
The staff of the Golden Cup competition committee beamed with joy upon seeing these wizard representatives.
The land between darkness and light has long been in decline, while the land of dragon's fall is a wizarding land that has recently risen to prominence and is becoming increasingly powerful. The Golden Cup, as the face of the land between darkness and light, is not only famous but also ancient, having been held for more than three hundred sessions.
But it took them a lot of effort to invite these wizard representatives from the Holy Land of the Windbringers.
A Sun Ring Wizard Director from the Golden Cup Competition Committee greeted Quinn Bruce of the Windwalker Sanctuary with a beaming smile: “Mr. Bruce, it is a pleasure to have you here. Flying experts like you are respected everywhere, and I believe the wizards participating in the competition will feel honored by your presence.”
"I hope you can find a sufficiently excellent product in the competition."
As the object of everyone's requests, the wizard Bruce naturally wore a cold expression, as if he were depressed. He nodded slightly, which was enough to save face.
So the delegation from the Holy Land of Wind was invited to the rest area prepared for them by the Golden Cup tournament committee working group.
Wizard Bruce whispered to a secretary beside him, "Alas, because the Starfield Sea has been aggressive lately, taking away a lot of our resources, the Dragonfall Land wants to unite with the Border of Darkness and Light. In order to gain some prestige, they want us to cooperate with the Wind Academy and the Golden Cup Flying Magic Plant Competition."
"Otherwise, why would I give up so many promising alchemical machines that could be developed and come here to seek some flying magical plants?"
"Isn't this a joke? The ideas of the high-ring wizards above are really wildly imaginative. Maybe I'm just a low-ring wizard and can't understand them. But sometimes I think that's probably their level. They just like to give orders randomly."
His Moon Ring secretary witch coughed and said, "Lord Bruce, we just need to maintain appearances. High Ring wizards have their own ideas, but we have our own ideas too."
"We don't know what they want to do, but they may not know exactly what we want to do either. If there are no good entries in the Golden Cup Flying Magic Plant Competition, then you can just find a third-rate developer, find some shops to promote it, go through the formalities, and make sure it passes the higher-ups."
Wizard Bruce nodded. "I think so too."
At this moment, the Sun Ring Wizard Director of the Golden Grail Tournament Committee, who was in charge of leading the way, had a complicated expression; he had overheard some of what was happening.
But at this moment, all I can do is pretend I didn't hear it.
Now it's their turn to ask others for help.
At that moment, a fiery cloud suddenly appeared above the entire Meili Ancient Ruins, and the magical pressure, as active as flames, continued to rise, eventually reaching the second-ring limit of 19,999 magical pressure.
The terrifying demonic pressure slightly changed the sky to gold and red, and even the golden city ruins in the sky seemed to be surrounded by leaping flames.
Bruce the wizard was stunned for a moment, and the others were stunned as well.
They all looked up toward the source of the demonic pressure emanating from the sky.
Which second-circle wizard actually released his full magical pressure above the Merry Ruins?
At this moment, in the sky, Locke summoned his own Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow. Using the Magical Dragon Rose to fly there would be too slow and he probably wouldn't be able to catch up, so he used the second Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow that he had cultivated.
That is, the magical plant that is placed on your side, serving as the mother plant.
A sharp cry rang out beside him, and then, the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow behind Locke burst into flames like a firebird, propelling him rapidly toward a direction outside the Merri Ruins.
Like a flame streaking across the sky, or a phoenix pouncing on its enemy.
The magical plant behind Locke rapidly increased its speed in a short period of time, increasing slightly every half breath.
In just a moment, he had already approached the wilderness, and even before he got close, its immense and scorching magical pressure had already arrived.
The demonic pressure pressed down on the second-ring creature hidden underground in the wilderness.
Locke's voice came rushing in through the scorching magical winds.
"you dare!"
At this moment, the wizard representatives from the Holy Land of the Windbringers all looked at the firebird streaking across the sky in astonishment. One of the wizard representatives suddenly spoke up: "The magic pressure conversion flight rate of that magical plant seems to be above 11, most likely 11.1."
The Moon Ring Witch's secretary, who was standing next to Bruce the Wizard, nodded.
"That's true. And the explosive power of that magical plant was truly impressive. I've almost never seen a flying machine with such explosive force."
The Moon Ring Witch's secretary looked up and saw the light in Bruce the Wizard's eyes.
As a aircraft manufacturer, Bruce the Wizard has an incredibly accurate intuition for any magical flying objects.
"What is that? I want to turn it into a large flying machine."
"What is that?"
"Quickly, go in that direction and talk to that wizard."
At this moment, after a brief moment of surprise, someone from the Golden Grail team suddenly whispered, "Lord Bruce, you don't need to look for it. It seems that the work has already entered our Golden Grail Flying Magical Plant Competition. According to the entry information, if I'm not mistaken, it's very likely the Flying Magical Plant sent from Mount Golden Crown: the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow."
(End of this chapter)