899: Other Golden Crown Mountain Wizards Squeezed by the Magic Plant Crystallization Technology Route
A clone appeared beside him.
Locke's two clones and his main body closed their eyes at the same time. Clone magic is different from ordinary magic.
The clones created are not just empty shells, like duckweed on a river.
The clones created by clone magic are equal to the self, which is why these clones can work in one's stead.
This also means that every time a clone is added, the risk of magic backlash increases.
At this moment, Locke felt that his consciousness could not seem to accommodate three clones; he felt as if the ancient tree fruit clone and the main body were one person, while his new Potionology clone was a second person.
This person was revealing fear towards him, constantly worrying about being devoured by him.
Furthermore, it was ready to flee.
The clone potion clone waved its hand, and immediately summoned a Great Green Leaf Dragon Finch from the astral ring worn on the hand of Locke's ancient tree fruit clone.
The Great Green Leaf Dragon Finch flew through the room like a green bird, its overbearing magic pressure causing items on the surrounding shelves to topple over, but Locke, as the ancient tree fruit clone, opened his right hand, and the Great Green Leaf Dragon Finch immediately stalled in mid-air.
The ancient tree fruit clone laughed: "Are you confused by the Mystery of Clones?"
The clone potion clone revealed a look of confusion in its eyes. Immediately after, a prosperous golden tree appeared between the two clones. It was a tree shining with golden light, and every leaf seemed to be shrouded in golden light and shadow. In this golden light and shadow, streaks of spirit macro appeared with the emergence of the golden light.
Those lights and shadows were like leaves.
Amidst these golden light-shadow leaves, Locke's life seemed to be reflected.
The clone potion clone and Locke's ancient tree fruit clone reached out their hands at the same time to grab the same leaf.
The two spread out their hands, looking at the golden leaf in their palms.
Locke's clone potion clone took a leaf from his hand, and Locke's ancient tree fruit clone also raised the leaf in his hand.
The clone potion clone said: "So that's how it is. Although not in contact, the two leaves might not necessarily be different leaves."
"I am you, there is no question of who devours whom between us."
Locke's main body consciousness completely controlled the three bodies.
The clones created by clone magic are different from ordinary avatars or Half-Body; these special clones are essentially three main bodies.
That is, his original main body, and the two bodies projected into the Main Material Plane by the Ultimate Magic.
That is, three main bodies.
This means that among the three main bodies, as long as one is alive, he is alive.
When Locke killed a Second Ring Wizard before, he had to ensure that he destroyed the other party's main body and their Ultimate Magic at the same time.
Locke thought: "But every time a new clone is created, it carries huge risks. This time, even with my second Ultimate Magic, I almost failed to control my clone, leading to [Knowledge Barrier], mistakenly believing it was independent. Once that happens, I will fall into a battle between my own powers."
Locke realized that if he created a third Ultimate Magic and attempted to create a third clone, a clone war would very likely occur by then.
Because the more clones there are, the easier it is to fall into the Mystery of Clones.
The clone potion clone took thirty thousand magic stones directly and turned to leave the dormitory.
He had to head to the Hui Ming Borderland via a wizard airship, because if he were any later, it would likely be too late.
Meanwhile, Locke's ancient tree fruit clone received a message from an unexpected person on the water gourd system; it was his student, the clever Witch Williams, who contacted him through the water gourd system.
Williams sent a message through the water gourd system.
"Teacher Augustine, hello."
The Ganoderma Magic Plant is universal. He had two Ganoderma Magic Plants in total, one with the main body and one with this clone, though usually, the clone handled the water gourd system primarily, while his main body handled it occasionally.
At this moment, he replied on the water gourd system: "Hello, Williams. How are you doing over at the Tong Mo Peach Garden?"
Williams immediately replied: "Teacher, the Tong Mo Peach Garden is indeed different from Golden Crown Mountain. The Tong Mo Peach Garden is just one of the advanced academies of Golden Crown Mountain. Someone with my talent is actually considered a little genius at the Tong Mo Peach Garden. It's truly hard to imagine."
"This year, I have become more and more confident at the Tong Mo Peach Garden, feeling more and more that I am the hero and others are just worthless. But my goal is to return to Golden Crown Mountain."
Locke asked: "Your magic pressure seems to have increased a bit."
Williams said: "Yes, my magic pressure has increased by two hundred within a year. Although the Tong Mo Peach Garden is not big, small places have their own advantages."
"When I left Golden Crown Mountain, my magic pressure was one thousand one hundred, and now my magic pressure is one thousand three hundred."
"Teacher, I came to find you this time because I want to ask you for a favor."
Locke raised his eyebrows, guessing the other party's thoughts.
"Is it about the Magic Plant Crystallization Technology?"
Williams sent a message on the water gourd system.
"Teacher, how did you see through my thoughts immediately? This technical route has been too popular recently, and I am competing with others for the position of Official Wizard mentor at the Tong Mo Peach Garden. I don't know whether I should get involved in this technical research route. So, I want to ask for your opinion, do you think I am suitable or not?"
Locke thought for a moment and replied: "From the perspective of short-term profit, I think you should try this route. Don't be obsessed with the results, but perhaps you will have good gains."
"It mainly depends on whether you have things you want to do yourself. If not, then this technical research route can indeed bring you some papers and projects."
"Only from the perspective of long-term development, I don't think this technical route is necessarily that good."
Williams sent a message to Locke.
"Teacher, you seem to have a different attitude towards it than other wizards. But you are a Great Wizard of Golden Crown Mountain and my teacher, so I think I should listen to you."
"Teacher Augustine, it's just that there are no materials in this regard at the Tong Mo Peach Garden. So, I wanted to ask if you have any materials here that you don't need."
Locke sent her the materials he had organized during the last meeting due to habit. He originally thought it was useless to record them at the time, but didn't expect it to come in handy at this moment.
For an ordinary First-Ring Wizard, this complete meeting record was already a priceless treasure, enough for her to find some things she could do within it.
As for the equipment problem, that was still something Williams had to solve herself.
After all, he had already given her the materials.
Obviously, Williams appeared very excited after receiving these materials, because this likely exceeded her original expectations.
"Teacher, this is really great."
"I didn't expect you to really have so many resources here."
"Thank you."
After Locke and Williams communicated for a while longer, they stopped.
Immediately after, this clone of his headed to the Dune Plane to tend to that batch of golden dragon claw air pineapple breeding seeds; his shipment had not yet been delivered, so he had to be diligent.
Don't turn a good thing into a bad thing.
In the Dune Plane, Locke checked the breeding seeds in the magic field on the tenth underground floor in the Research Institute. At this time, under the care of Witch Mason and others, they had accumulated 300, and it would be ready to ship after accumulating about another one hundred.
Douglas turned on a turbine and threw the seeds into it, watching the seeds spin and bounce inside, classifying the unqualified seeds and the qualified seeds into two categories.
Locke was prepared to handle this batch of magic field himself.
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The clone potion clone arrived at the wizard airship, bought an express ticket, and in the waiting lounge area, Locke unexpectedly saw Antoine. At this time, a group of ordinary Second Ring Wizards stood around Antoine.
Locke recognized that most of these Second Ring Wizards were from the Advanced True Knowledge Institute, or the ordinary True Knowledge Institute, and he hadn't seen a few of them, appearing to have come from other gardens on Golden Crown Mountain.
Antoine took the initiative to greet Locke.
"I didn't expect to meet you here, Locke."
A group of Second Ring Wizards immediately looked at him.
Antoine walked towards Locke as if no one else was there and asked: "Where are you going?"
Locke said: "Hui Ming Borderland."
Antoine thought for a moment.
"Is it for the Golden Cup? We are going to the Siming Waters."
Antoine whispered: "Do you see the group of people around me? Speaking of which, it's all the fault of the Magic Plant Crystallization Technology. Five of those people are Second Ring Wizards from our Senate's Advanced True Knowledge Institute; they are all Kineticists. Four of them are researchers from the Deacon Group; they are all Weather Masters."
Locke immediately realized that the ten Second Ring Wizards, including Antoine, were also opponents he would face in this special grant.
The list of seven wizards he had noted before was just the list of wizards under Yekaterina.
It was just that Witch Catherine was relatively powerful in Golden Crown Mountain, so the number of Second Ring Wizards eligible to apply for the special grant fund was relatively large.
But that didn't mean there were no qualified wizards under other Throne Wizards.
Locke whispered: "What's going on?"
Antoine smiled bitterly: "It's not just the trouble caused by the Magic Plant Crystallization Technology."
Locke was speechless.
"Isn't that a Breeder technology?"
Antoine said: "Although it is a new concept within your Breeding Science, everyone is competing for the same special grant. This means that the bonus from that technology for you is a weakening for all of us. Now, the Botany side is basically researching the Magic Plant Crystallization Technology."
"That means it will be difficult for us to apply for the special grant this year. At least for people other than me. Originally, the Red Dragon Throne was relatively strong in Golden Crown Mountain, and even more so after the last attack by the Twin Demon Realm. As her student, you can also get corresponding resource inclination."
"Not to mention after the Magic Plant Crystallization Technology, currently, any Second Ring Wizard who researches this technical route can basically produce results. And those of us who haven't enjoyed this wave of cutting-edge technology dividends are naturally in an absolutely weak position in this year's special grant application."
Antoine whispered: "Someone is leading the organization of us to go to a world relic in the [Siming Waters] to look for topics. Because you guys are too strong, we didn't call people from your side. Don't get too close to them later; they have a lot of resentment towards Breeders right now."
Locke smiled.
Antoine said: "But I still have some face among them. Do you want to come along?"
Locke shook his head, after all, there was still the matter of the [Wind Seeker Holy Land].
Locke asked: "Are there many world relics in the Siming Waters?"
Antoine said: "Of course. The Wizarding World has been increasing its land area, you know that. This is a result confirmed by Earth Wizards. The Wizarding World is still strengthening its world power through various forms and has far from grown to its peak."
"And the Siming Waters is the direction in which the Wizarding World is growing."
"In the process of the growth of world power, some special secret realms that only exist in the void will automatically appear in the sea area of the Siming Waters. Locals call them [Mirages]."
"So the Siming Waters produces many world relics; the so-called world relics are just such things. Most of the resources in the entire Siming Waters rely almost entirely on world relics. If not for that, it would just be a very ordinary Wizard Land."
An airship descended from the sky.
Antoine turned to look.
"It seems we are on different ships. Locke, our wizard airship has arrived. We will go first."
Antoine exchanged a word with Locke, then turned and returned to the crowd he was in before.
Those Second Ring Wizards seemed to reject him, and some even asked Antoine a few questions, wanting to confirm what he had said to him.
Antoine smiled and said, 'I didn't say anything.'
Those Second Ring Wizards then stopped.
After they boarded that wizard airship, they left the docking area of the wizard airship.
Locke watched the wizard airship leave and fell into thought.
He didn't expect the impact of the Magic Plant Crystallization Technology to be so profound, not only affecting Breeders, but also affecting wizards in other fields due to resource competition.
Right.
Resources are limited, and now that such a batch of technical routes that can attract resources has emerged within Breeding Science, it will naturally cause wizards in other disciplines to feel pressure.
And the researchers in the Deacon Group of Golden Crown Mountain and the Advanced True Knowledge Institute of the Senate, in order to cope with the impact of this year's Magic Plant Crystallization route, responded by going to the world relics of the Siming Waters to look for opportunities.
Obviously, this is a gamble that looks like it has little hope.
But it can also be seen how much pressure the Magic Plant Crystallization Technology route has put on them this year.
Two hours later, Locke waited for the wizard airship he was supposed to take.
After passing the inspection, he walked up, found the public free library on the wizard airship, found a seat, sat down, and started reading.
"I don't know which direction this Magic Plant Crystallization Technology triggered by the Rose Council will go."
"I also don't know if Antoine and the others will have any gains this time going to the Siming Waters. Wait..."
Locke showed a strange expression.
"I can understand why others go. Antoine has a project left for him by a Third Ring Wizard, why is he going there to join the fun? Could it be that he thinks the project he has also can't beat the Magic Plant Crystallization route?"