626: You Can Have Two Great Magics!
Inside the dormitory, Locke opened the druids ring and entered. At this moment, the thousand-acre forest was lush and verdant, with luxuriant branches and leaves. Having received the backflow of astral power from the night meteor, the entire forest had undergone natural evolutionary changes.
It added a touch of ancient nobility.
This effect was even better than Locke's manual intervention using magic. He saw that the Ancient Tree of Life had already reached the First Ring Crystallization Stage under the irrigation of the night meteor.
The dense Ancient Tree of Life sensed Locke's arrival and immediately lowered its branches. The branches of the canopy touched Locke's fingers. Within the Forest Sanctuary, the magical power of three hundred and four One-Ring Magic Plants (including a new Clear Sky Birch storing two types of tyrant element no. 2 cell combinations) gathered together and touched Locke's fingers.
"The Ancient Tree of Life has grown to the First Ring Crystallization Stage. With it as the core, I can expand the forest again. I estimate I can increase the forest's area by at least three times, and the number of original One-Ring Magic Plants can be increased to a thousand."
"The strength of the Forest Sanctuary will be improved to the greatest extent."
Locke thought, "But the druids ring is no longer enough."
The druids ring only had an area of fifteen hundred mu.
The area wasn't even the main problem; it was that the druids ring, even with the enhancement of the Ring of Four Elements, was itself finding it difficult to carry a magic plant forest of several thousand mu.
He needed better Druid equipment.
Fortunately, he had earned a lot of money during the Sports Festival.
"Expanding it once more could turn this ancient-era forest into something even more primordial," Locke thought, combining his current knowledge of ecology. "It would be best if I could directly move some ancient trees into my Forest Sanctuary, rather than those greenhouse magic plants that have just been carefully cultivated by Breeders in plantations."
In fact, after being washed by the astral power of the night meteor, his Forest Sanctuary had already developed the temperament of a wild forest.
To achieve this step, a large amount of financial support was required.
But that wasn't the most important part. Finding the future path for the Forest Sanctuary spell was what mattered most.
And the Forest Alliance Spell could be that path.
It was just that he hadn't yet figured out how to complete it.
Locke left the druids ring. A pile of materials appeared in the study. After the competition ended, Locke had looked up a lot of materials from the free area, so the place was piled high with documents.
But he had no leads.
The Forest Alliance Spell was something that even Dean Levis, the former dean of Liliths Cottage, had not successfully researched.
If he could research the Forest Alliance Spell, it would not only further increase the total biomass of his Forest Sanctuary but also further enhance his control over it, allowing it to undergo a transformation.
According to Dean Levis's plan, this step was originally one that could only be taken when crossing into the Second Ring Wizard stage.
Locke flipped through the books on the desk. "It's not that there are no leads, it's just that my current contribution points are all used up. I need to submit some articles to tier 1 and tier 2 to exchange for more contribution points."
"And..." Locke flipped through an article by a Sun Ring Wizard from the Rose Council. This article was research from thirty years ago, but it provided some specific cases on how to establish alliances between major forests.
After reading it, Locke felt this information was very helpful, but he still had some questions, and some things in that article weren't detailed enough. Therefore, he had tried writing a letter yesterday to that Sun Ring Wizard of the Rose Council to consult with them.
He just didn't know if that Floramancer Sun Ring Wizard would reply to him.
Locke looked at the eight million magic stones transferred to him and curled his lips slightly. His wizard shoes work at the Sports Festival had topped the sales charts, which was why he had earned a huge sum of eight million magic stones in just seven days.
This ability to amass wealth had already made many wizards in his group envious.
With such a large sum of money, Locke had the confidence to complete his previous hypotheses. "Before completing the Forest Alliance Spell, I can completely use existing ecological knowledge to push the ancient-era forest into an extremely old-growth stage. With the Ancient Tree of Life here, I can suppress this forest."
If there were no Ancient Tree of Life, this idea would be impossible to realize.
An overly powerful Forest Sanctuary might even suppress him in turn; it would no longer be a forest centered around him, but would instead turn him into a part of the forest.
That would be equivalent to a magical backlash.
He might very well find himself in a bizarre situation where he was trapped in the forest and unable to leave.
"But the prerequisite is to buy equipment better than the druids ring."
"I can ask my teacher about this. Besides, I can use the queens chessboard to create a batch of tyrant element no. 2 magic plant forests within my Forest Sanctuary."
tyrant element no. 2 was entirely a product of his own research.
Using these tyrant-transformed magic plants could both strengthen his forest and enhance his degree of control over it.
Of course, tyrant-transformed magic plants were not normal magic plants at all, so the ratio of tyrant-transformed magic plants to normal magic plants in the forest had to be kept within a certain reasonable range.
As for Abyss Devourer magic plants...
Forget about those.
That kind of thing wasn't suitable for his Forest Sanctuary; the hidden dangers were too great, and the losses would outweigh the gains.
Locke took out four Porcelain Moon Growths fixed with witch porcelain. "I also need to analyze the moonlight stored in these four spells as soon as possible."
"To refine my Peach Arc Thorn Arrow and Full Moon Growth."
"Additionally, within the night meteor, my Three-Eyed Tiger-Eyed Cat bloodline has gained the potential to advance toward the Second Ring. The true form of my dragon bloodline is also becoming clearer and clearer."
Golden undying dragon scales appeared on Locke's left hand. Soon, these undying dragon scales dimmed, turning into a dangerous black-gold ancient color.
A terrifying dragon bloodline power appeared within them.
Locke's pupils turned into golden vertical slits. He twisted his neck, and a hint of dragon-like tyranny appeared on his face.
He looked at the mirror in the study, continuously twisting his neck.
"Both of my bloodline powers seem to have the potential to advance toward the Second Ring. My power system is so complex, and Great Magic reflects a wizard's characteristics and their power system..."
Locke thought, "If the foundation of the Great Magic isn't laid well from the start and doesn't fully reflect a wizard's characteristics and their power system, it won't just affect their current power."
"It will also affect their future ceiling. Now I have the powers of Archaeology, Bloodline Studies, Breeding Science, Botany, and Potionology. How exactly do I balance these powers?"
Locke spent an afternoon writing an article about the Tyrants Eye Potion and then had his student, Gregor, submit it to "Green Grass Cloud Marsh."
At the same time, he decided to wait until he reported to Group 2 and learned about their research content before deciding what articles to write to farm more contribution points.
After all, Witch Catherine wanted him to cooperate with Group 2, so it wouldn't be appropriate for him to analyze the functional pathway mechanism of the pineapple magic plant anymore.
...
Inside Witch Catherine's office at the True Knowledge Institute, Witch Catherine pushed a cup of Eagle-Tooth Black Tea to Locke and smiled, saying, "Locke, you gave the wizards of the Academic Committee a great surprise this time."
"You didn't fail my expectations of you."
Witch Catherine handed Locke a badge featuring four hands clasped together. "This is the participation permit for the Plane Conquest Competition you earned. Keep it safe. If you lose it, it will be equivalent to our Golden Crown Mountain forfeiting directly this time."
"The Plane Conquest Competition concerns the rankings of the True Knowledge Institutes of the four top academies. Therefore, we cannot be careless."
Locke was somewhat stunned. "Teacher, did you believe I could win the championship from the very beginning? Even though you knew there was a three-way struggle in the Spell Fighting Competition, and there were experts like Wizard Antoine..."
Witch Catherine smiled. "Yes."
"I simply chose to believe in your ability. When you were able to quickly complete two projects relying on Super Intuition, I knew you could do it. Because... you are too much like my younger self."
"My younger self would certainly have won the championship of the Spell Fighting Competition. It's true that in my youth, I never encountered something like the reincarnation of a Third Ring Wizard during the First Ring stage, but even if I had, he would have certainly lost."
Witch Catherine looked at Locke, hesitated for a moment, then reached out and patted his shoulder, saying, "Believing in you is equivalent to believing in myself."
"Therefore, your performance this time was still within my expectations. Of course... one thing slightly exceeded my expectations. That is the Porcelain Moon Growth."
Witch Catherine said, "Locke, show me the Porcelain Moon Growth again."
Locke bowed to Witch Catherine. "Yes, Teacher."
He reached out and sketched the outline of a magic moon in mid-air.
Witch Catherine shook her head. "Not such a crude thing."
"I mean, that witch porcelain moon of yours."
Only then did Locke realize, and he took the Porcelain Moon out from his astral ring.
This spell had already been refined by him into a state that was half-magic and half-Magic item.
Witch Catherine looked at this spell, frowning slightly, seemingly in thought.
"As expected... there's a reason you were able to beat Antoine. The first major reason is that he lacked competition before and was lax in his studies."
"The second major reason is that your Porcelain Moon Growth possesses the characteristics of a Great Magic prototype. Of course, it's still too weak now to be considered a true prototype."
Witch Catherine said, "As for which spell to choose as the blueprint for your Great Magic, that's up to you. After all, only you can merge all your powers; others giving you guidance will always be separated by a layer."
"It might even lead you in the wrong direction."
Witch Catherine thought for a moment and raised her right hand. The bookcase in her office suddenly opened, revealing magic books bound with chains inside.
At this moment, she waved her hand, and the chains on one of the magic books bound with magical chains automatically unraveled. The book flipped open on its own, and a page from the magic book fell into Witch Catherine's hand.
Simultaneously, in the next instant, that magic book tried to rush out of the bookcase but was locked up again by the magical chains. The bookcase door closed automatically.
Witch Catherine handed a leaf to Locke and said, "This is the Moon Gods Blessing Curse."
"Based on my observation of your magic and its future evolution, following your line of thought, I believe you should study this spell. Learning it will be of great benefit to you."
Witch Catherine said, "Furthermore, I am still investigating the Magic Dragon Bloodline in your body. I have some special suspicions."
"Did you know? Under certain circumstances, a wizard might not be limited to having just one Great Magic."
Locke looked at Witch Catherine in shock. "Teacher?"
Witch Catherine nodded and turned around, raising her left hand to signal him to be quiet for a moment. "According to my investigation, the bloodline in your body belongs to the World-Ending Demon Dragon Bloodline. And the World-Ending Demon Dragon Bloodline has a talent called Dual Souls."
"If a wizard has two souls, they can possess two Great Magics. This was originally a paradox—how could one person have two souls? But the World-Ending Demon Dragon clan possesses this special talent."
Witch Catherine looked deeply at him and said, "The World-Ending Demon Dragon has a special Half-Body mechanism."
"That is to say, besides your main body here and now, there is another version of you in an alien space-time within the Endless Void. This Half-Body looks different from you, but is the same age and has the same soul. When one of the two—the main body or the Half-Body—dies, the two souls will enter the remaining body."
Witch Catherine glanced at Locke and said, "Therefore, through my research on the World-Ending Demon Dragon bloodline, I have made the following judgment: it is very likely that you can possess two Great Magics."
"Because of the uniqueness of the Magic Dragon Bloodline, you possess two great souls."
"If you can have two Great Magics, you can solve many problems. For example, your power system is quite mixed, and you won't have to deliberately abandon certain magical fields you previously studied just to advance to a Second Ring Wizard. Many wizards indeed have to make this painful choice during their advancement process."
Witch Catherine waved her hand, and an image composed of peach blossom petals appeared in mid-air. It showed a wizard being cut in half in agony. "To advance, one must keep their Great Magic simple and pure. Otherwise, a Great Magic that is too complex will instead create a bottleneck for advancement. Therefore, those wizards must give up parts of their own traits for the sake of their future."
"A primordial Great Magic is like an anvil; a wizard needs to forge it with a hammer, so it is inconvenient to make an anvil too complex."
"But you are different," Witch Catherine said. "If you can split your power system in two, you can keep both Great Magics in a simple and elegant state."
Hearing Witch Catherine explain the World-Ending Demon Dragon Bloodline like this, Locke swallowed hard. As a transmigrator, his crossing over was originally his greatest secret.
But he suddenly realized that the Wizard World itself was a multiverse Plane at the level of the Great Void.
For High-Ring Wizards, traveling through time and space was as common as eating or drinking.
So, was the Plane he originally came from located within the Great Void?
Could it be that he was a Half-Body of Locke Augustine born on Earth because of the Magic Dragon Bloodline?
No, that's not right.
Locke suddenly snapped out of it; he had almost been led astray by Witch Catherine's words. He said to her, "Teacher, according to what you said, my Magic Dragon Bloodline took shape with the help of the night meteor and the Emerald Cat's Eye."
"If I were to have a Half-Body..."
"It should have only taken shape recently."
Witch Catherine nodded. "Your Magic Dragon Bloodline has one chance to generate a Half-Body. According to my research, when your Magic Dragon Bloodline reaches the First Ring Crystallization Stage, you can choose to use this Half-Body opportunity."
Witch Catherine reached out and tapped Locke's brow. A peach blossom petal rune appeared there and then quickly vanished.
Witch Catherine said, "I have used the Peach Heart Curse on you."
"This curse allows you, upon entering a Plane outside the Wizard World, to force the generation of a Half-Body in that Plane. Which specific Plane you choose is entirely up to your will. You can choose a specific Plane to generate your Half-Body and plunder the knowledge of that Plane. Otherwise, the Endless Void is vast; if you were to wait for the chance for your Half-Body to merge with you naturally, you would have to wait far too long. It would basically be a matter of luck."
"You would have to wait at least ten to several dozen years."
Locke asked Witch Catherine, "Teacher, if my Half-Body's soul enters my body, will it fight with me for control over the body?"
Witch Catherine shook her head. "The realm of the soul is not as simple as you think. The Gemini talent of the Magic Dragon clan is much more complex than you imagine."
"You can understand it as your Half-Body being another you. It is a special incarnation of yourself. When he returns, you will still be you, just with two souls."
Witch Catherine thought for a moment and said, "Essentially, that soul reincarnated in another world is just one of your spells."
"You can think of it as if the 'you' in the mirror suddenly walked out one day and went on an adventure far away. The moment he returns, you are still you."
"Essentially, this is a spell used by the Magic Dragon clan to harvest other worlds; it is a special incarnation. Like the Natural Incarnation you used before, they are both abnormal incarnations." Witch Catherine raised the book in her hand.
Locke was stunned when he saw the title of the book—'One Hundred Ways to Feed a Magic Dragon'.
Locke said to Witch Catherine, "Thank you, Teacher, for looking up the information and informing me of this. And for setting the Peach Heart Curse to help me lock onto the Half-Body's location. If I can create two Great Magics, then Teacher, I will have a huge advantage in categorizing and organizing my power."
Witch Catherine nodded. "Actually, it's alright. I think one Great Magic is enough."
"If you have two Great Magics, you'll have to forge eight times, which is four more than others. But you don't need to worry too much about that; I will help you solve it."
Witch Catherine said, "I'm going to specifically look up information for you recently. First, to completely understand your bloodline characteristics, and second, to create a method for you to forge two Great Magics simultaneously."
"Otherwise, having to forge four more times than others for no reason is completely unacceptable."
Locke asked, "Teacher, wasn't this Half-Body talent an advantage for the World-Ending Demon Dragon clan in the past?"
Witch Catherine curled her lips. "Firstly, there was no Great Magic in the past. A race's advantageous talent in the past was only an advantage then; in the current era, it might become a disadvantage. As it stands, if I don't help you come up with a way to forge them simultaneously, it will be more of a disadvantage than an advantage, at least during the Second Ring stage."
"After all, advancing to a Third Ring Wizard as quickly as possible is what really matters. If you have to forge four extra times for no reason, that's equivalent to four extra major levels... It would be better to just create one Great Magic from the start."
Witch Catherine said, "It's useless to open up even more new levels within the Second Ring."
Locke learned a piece of information from Witch Catherine: it seemed that the Second Ring magic level could be advanced indefinitely without having to step into the Third Ring.
For example, a normal Second Ring has four major levels.
If a Second Ring Wizard doesn't know the proper method and doesn't advance to become a Third Ring Wizard, it seems they can skip the racial soul limit breakthrough and continue creating more major levels within the Second Ring stage.
Therefore, the characteristics of the racial soul limit for the Second Ring should be completely different from those of the two racial soul limits for apprentices and First Ring Wizards.
Locke noticed that because Witch Catherine's magic level was high, her casual remarks contained some secrets regarding the transition from the Second Ring to the Third Ring.
However, just thinking about this secret knowledge caused his thoughts to feel abnormal, and his brain seemed to turn slower and slower.
It seemed that his current level was not high enough to contemplate this k