Chapter 929
The Significance of Falling into the Abyss and Atavism
Chapter 929 The Significance of Falling into the Abyss and Atavism
Locke asked Douglas and the Mason Witch to fetch him paper and pen, and began to do calculations on them.
A day later, Locke designed a complex variation of the Golden Spell using thirty sheets of draft paper. Mason Witch and Douglas exchanged a glance, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes.
Without using the Queen's Chessboard to assist in deduction, can we directly make large-scale changes to the spell models?
Mason Witch exclaimed, "Is this the power of a second-circle Archmage?"
Douglas said, "No, I don't think even a typical second-circle wizard could do that."
"This is because the young leader is so capable."
Mason the Witch asked, puzzled, "But wouldn't it be faster and better to modify spell models using the Queen's Chessboard? When I worked with those second-circle wizards, I saw them all doing it using the Queen's Chessboard."
Locke suddenly turned to her and said, “Using the Queen’s Chessboard to deduce spell models may seem to speed things up and provide assistance, but in reality, compared to a spell model that a wizard has adjusted from start to finish, there will be imperceptible deterioration in the spell model.”
Mason Witch looked puzzled.
Douglas, however, seemed to have thought of something and nodded in agreement.
Locke said, "The Queen's Chessboard is just a choice made by wizards out of desperation. However, there is no need to use the Queen's Chessboard to assist in the deduction of spell models that can be modified quickly."
“Spell models derived from the Queen's Chessboard will lack detail.”
"The scariest thing is that it's hard to detect."
Locke inserted the Golden Spell into his Atavism Evolution, and then an Evolutionary Moon appeared behind him. From this moon shot out two enchanted blades, one silver and one gold. The two enchanted blades swirled around a green foxtail grass in front of him, beginning to modify its plant factors and summon the potential hidden within this magical plant.
The green foxtail grass grew wildly, releasing a golden glow.
It was like the radiance of the sun.
Locke was jolted awake.
"As expected. Just this level of golden spell integration into my atavism magic is enough to enhance the positioning accuracy of my atavism."
"only……"
After the green foxtail grass transformed into golden foxtail grass, it did not become the golden wheat that looks like a golden whip in Locke's hand. Instead, the golden foxtail grass's spike-like flowers swelled up and drooped downwards like lanterns.
Immediately afterwards, this flower cluster, like a bright lamp, emitted a faint glow. Because this mutated foxtail grass absorbed the surrounding light, everything around was dark, and only this golden flower cluster, which looked like a lantern, emitted a faint glow.
Many magical powers that were originally hidden in the air were forced to reveal themselves under the influence of this light.
The magical power that had previously existed only faintly in the air now appeared incredibly conspicuous.
All things are dark, and all things are light.
This magical plant acted like a candle, illuminating things that were originally hidden in the 'darkness'.
Because Locke did not inject the Zero Potion into this magical plant this time, he was unable to stabilize its form. So when Locke canceled the Atavism Evolution spell, the magical plant tore open like a ripped garment, its golden exterior shattered, and the green foxtail grass magical plant inside was exposed.
Douglas looked at the green foxtail grass in front of Locke and was surprised.
'This time, surprisingly, no magical plants were damaged. The little boss's magic was incredibly powerful.'
Locke had just recorded this scene using the True Sight Crystal Ball. He said to Douglas, "Organize the scene you just recorded, create images using the Illusion School's spell models, and incorporate them into my article."
"If you don't know how, you can ask the other wizards in Group 2 for help, find a wizard who knows illusion magic."
Douglas immediately took the True Sight Crystal Ball and nodded, saying, "Okay, little boss."
He turned and left to find someone to help him.
Images created from spell models of the Illusion School can be very helpful, allowing wizards to showcase their experimental results within the text.
Locke, however, fell into deep thought.
'After enhancing the atavism with the initial Golden Spell, it surprisingly exhibited even higher positioning accuracy and produced a key plant factor for Golden Wheat.'
'But... I've never even seen the magical plant traits produced by this plant factor before.'
He had seen Golden Wheat before.
By reading the negative energy particle field of the special necromancy hidden within the golden foxtail grass, a historical reenactment was created. Then, by entering it, one could personally witness the boundary between darkness and light, where fields of golden wheat grew. At that time, the boundary between darkness and light was possibly the most powerful wizarding land in the wizarding world.
The Golden Wheat I saw at that time did not exhibit the magical plant characteristics of the Lantern Golden Wheat I had just seen.
Locke guessed that it was most likely a special magical plant factor whose expression had been suppressed during the Golden Wheat period due to other key plant factors in Golden Wheat.
When it regressed to its ancestral form, it suddenly expressed itself.
This led to the emergence of a power that the original version of Golden Wheat did not possess.
This is because the precision of one's atavistic evolution has increased, and it happened unintentionally.
Locke pondered, "What exactly is the meaning of atavism?"
Locke, with his hands behind his back, looked up and began to think: "Emerging evolution is a large-scale adaptive evolution that occurs with the help of dimensional information, while atavism is an evolution towards the past."
"The Prosperity of Spring utilizes the eternal spring and maximizes the life energy of the magical plants, thus creating a special effect that temporarily replicates the magical plants."
Locke pondered, "Then what exactly is the prosperity of summer? Spring is the season of burgeoning energy, and this burgeoning energy leads to replication. Summer, on the other hand, is the season of rising energy; what then is the prosperity of summer?"
"Putting all that aside, to increase the chances of my application for special funding being approved, I need to add some special meaning to the atavism, preferably something that can help with botany."
After all, it's easy to imagine how those notebooks submitted this time would boast about the significance of their technology within the field of magical plant crystallization. But magical plant crystallization doesn't need their hype anymore; many wizards believe that this technological development path will completely replace traditional magical plant cultivation techniques in the future.
To be honest, Locke was starting to doubt his own common sense when he saw how confidently they spoke.
Many wizards would likely have similar perceptions.
Locke pondered, "Even if the original version of Golden Wheat was 'eliminated' during its evolution, it may not have truly been eliminated now. Just like that mutated foxtail grass just now, it actually possessed power that the original Golden Wheat didn't have. It's clear that some so-called eliminated plant factors were simply out of step with the times at the time, and cannot be simply equated to being out of step with the times now."
"Evolution can easily become a linear progression forward. The more advanced something is, the harder it is to go back. Evolution can lead to dead ends."
Locke seemed to see an ever-forward evolutionary path before his eyes, with evolution narrowing the path, while prosperity appeared at each node of the evolutionary path, causing each node to continuously replicate and increase in number.
Prosperity and evolution can only create the future when they are combined!
"By the way, evolution can make mistakes. Once it gets into a dead end, there's no going back. That's why we need atavism. The significance of atavism is to give plant factors that have been unintentionally lost in the process of evolution a chance to reappear."
"The significance of atavism for botany lies in finding plant factors that can adapt to the current environment from the valuable pool of plant factors that have been evolved away in the past. This is indeed very meaningful to me."
"This is even a research direction."
For an archaeological wizard, doing this is a very advantageous task.
Locke incorporated these ideas into his application for special grant—
"Atavism gives magical plants that have reached a dead end a chance to start over. There are many aspects of this technology that can be explored in depth."
Locke exhaled a breath of stale air.
"In this way, my research should be able to compete with the papers on the magical plant crystallization technology route in terms of its research significance, so I don't need to worry about falling behind others in this area." "Besides, I have another guess, although it only came to my mind recently, but I really need to verify it. It might help me when writing my application."
The Moon of Evolution appeared behind Locke again, and he used Reversion Evolution again, forcing the magical plant in front of him to revert to the direction of the Lantern Golden Wheat from before.
Immediately afterwards, the special necromancy within this magical plant suddenly manifested.
Locke was waiting for this. He quickly seized the moment when the faint necromancy appeared, placed his palm on it, and an extremely complex spell model appeared in his palm. It was shaped like many clocks superimposed on a large clock.
Locke stepped back, and immediately the countless hour clocks on the spell model began to turn backward.
With the blessing of his twenty historical spiritual powers, unlike last time, Locke was able to capture these negative energy particle fields in an instant and began to interpret them.
Locke quickly succeeded in using the history replay feature.
"Borrow a piece of land from the past."
Locke was engulfed by the magical brilliance of the reenactment of history. When he opened his eyes again, he saw hundreds of pale giants in the distance, supporting hundreds of palaces.
"The so-called Pale Giants, their predecessors were probably high-level divine guards created by the Titans, right? They're in the same league as that Sky God-King. No, the Sky God-King was only half-formed..."
Locke glanced at the sheer number of giants and was secretly alarmed.
At this moment, Locke indeed saw the group of golden dragons behind him who were discussing the current situation intensely, and he also saw a mutated dragon hidden among them.
Upon seeing Locke, the mutated dragon immediately grinned maliciously.
"Such pure golden dragon bloodline. If I were to eat you, how much would my bloodline power increase?"
"I'm going to eat you."
The annular-class aberrant dragon immediately began chanting a spell.
Sephiroth's Grip!
But at that moment, Locke and he chanted spells simultaneously, their chants coming in rapid succession, one strong and one weak, one superior and one inferior. The mutated dragon suddenly stopped in confusion, looking at Locke strangely, because Locke had chanted the same spell almost at the same time as him, and had successfully disrupted his spell with a spell.
It seems simple to do this, but it is actually very difficult.
Locke looked at the dragon; this was a later form of extraordinary spellcasting—a simultaneous counter-spell.
There are two difficulties.
First, you must be completely synchronized with the other party, without the slightest misstep.
Secondly, one must have an amazing understanding of this magic.
In addition to satisfying these two conditions, there must also be a premise that the gap between the two parties is not large for it to be effective.
However, this so-called small difference refers to the difference between wizards with great magic. The Sun Ring Wizard's great magic has been forged four times, which is vastly different from his own, which has only been forged once.
But the problem is...
The mutated dragon before him, possessing magical pressure of the Sun Ring level, truly only possessed magical pressure of the Sun Ring level.
He did not complete the great magic of four forgings.
Strictly speaking, he is only at the Sun Ring level in terms of magical pressure. A Sun Ring level wizard refers to a second-ring wizard who has completed four forging of great magic and possesses Sun Ring level magical pressure!
The mutated dragon before him wasn't even a wizard.
Locke wasn't even sure where the dragon language magic he used came from.
Therefore, in terms of magical level, the actual gap between him and me as a wizard is not that big.
The mutated dragon looked at Locke in surprise.
"How is that possible? What kind of evil trick did you use? Your incantation mixed with mine, how did that disrupt my magic and make my Sephiroth's Grip fail?"
Locke did not answer it.
This is a spellcasting technique from later generations.
This item is available in the second free zone of the Golden Crown Mountain Library, but not in the first free zone. Antoine used this spellcasting technique when he fought himself during the spell-fighting tournament.
The other golden dragons glared angrily at the mutated dragon.
"What is this? How did he get among us?"
"Who knows when he came in? Is he... a spy?"
The pale giant in the distance seemed to have also sensed the presence of the mutated dragon and was chasing after it.
Locke stared at the terrifying mutated dragon. He had only caught it off guard, which did not mean that he had a way to kill it head-on at this stage, after all, it was a Sun Ring level being.
In a direct confrontation, I have absolutely no chance of winning.
'Last time was too rushed; I was only focused on escaping. Just as I suspected, the pale giants' primary target appears to be this mutated dragon. The pale giants are currently hunting it.'
Locke thought to himself, 'I can leave now.'
'It seems the primary target of the Pale Pilgrimage wasn't the Golden Dragon, but the Aberrant Dragon.'
'I……'
Suddenly, the mutated dragon in front of them broke off the finger of its left claw. As the finger broke off, it turned into a ball of black energy and disappeared.
In an instant, a gate to the abyss appeared behind Locke.
Locke turned back in surprise to look at the gate to the abyss.
"This is...this isn't golden magic anymore. This is...no way, this is genuine abyssal energy. The abyss is a world of energy, and energy is a concept, it's life. Abyssal energy appearing in this projection of the past within a historical reenactment...wouldn't the other side possibly be the real abyssal world?"
At this moment, the mutated dragon was looking at Locke with an extremely fearful gaze.
"This technique..."
"The power of your bloodline... the Tower of the Black Sun, you are the demonic dragon of the Tower of the Black Sun. Have you come to hunt me down?"
"Hahaha... I'd rather not eat you to enhance my bloodline than not kill you."
"Fall into the abyss. This is a method I specially prepared for you dragons."
"Hahaha……"
Locke's eyes suddenly erupted with the abyssal energy of the Eye Demon, and in that instant, he was directly absorbed into the abyssal gate.
Locke said, 'Oh no.'
'Now my clone is going to fall into the abyss.'
This is also one of the uses of clones. It's best not to use your main body for dangerous experiments, but if something goes wrong with the clone, there's still a chance to salvage the situation.
(End of this chapter)