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Chapter 703: The seeds of civilization in the Age of Enlightenment and the Demonic Plant Legion in the Land of All Spirits

Chapter 703 The Seeds of Civilization in the Age of Enlightenment and the Demonic Plant Legion in the Land of All Spirits

With the completion of the establishment of the Great Magic Time Shadow Fern, the [Land of All Spirits] appeared in this world, and some of the vitality of this world that had been devoid of many animals and plants was restored.

 This world originally did not have the concept of [magic plants], but because of Edgar Wizard's great magic, it connected the world to the Emerald Dream, so a large number of plant spirits poured in.

 These spirits emerge from the Land of All Spirits and will look for a plant to live in between the wilds and factories of this world, so this world has initially developed the concept of [magic plant].

  A large number of wild magic plants have been evolved.

 The land of all spirits is the underworld of plants, the place where plants die.

Therefore, as long as such a cycle of life and death of plants is established in this world and connected to the Emerald Dream, magic plants can be created again in this world without magic plants.

 Among the 17 provinces in the eastern part of the empire, weeds suddenly grew underground in many areas. Apprentice-level low-level magic plants [Netherworld Armor Vine], [Soul-eating Vine], [Wailing Thorns], [Soul Xue Li], and [Huming Tangle Vine] appeared in various areas of the world. , destroying and overturning the foundation of the factory, pushing the machines upward, and knocking down the boilers—.

  These magic vines are the guardians of the ecological community in the Shadow Fern of Time, the land of great magic. They are the guardians of the land of all spirits, the guardians of the land of all spirits borrowed from the Emerald Dream.

  It is both a guard and an ecological community.

 It is these Ten Thousand Spirits vines and the Shadow Fern that appear at the same time, and are combined to form the Land of Ten Thousand Spirits.

  On the streets of the imperial capital, a vine suddenly transformed into an all-spirit vine, the soul vine, under the infusion of the Land of All Souls. It was a giant gray vine, and the vines kept grabbing movable objects around it.

 But the next moment, a bolt of spiritual lightning fell, and the vine was reduced to ashes in the flames.

 Locke frowned, it was obvious that as Edgar cast down his huge magic, the huge magic could no longer be hidden.

 The emperor found the target and directly led his spiritual network to kill it.

  Two existences at the second ring level collided with each other.

The imperial capital began to operate. Telegrams were sent back from the frontline rebel provinces, and the entire empire entered a state of all-out war. All manpower, material resources and troops from the seventy-eight provinces of the empire and the mainland were mobilized, and transported to the 17 provinces in the eastern part of the empire through railways to destroy these apprentice-level magic plants.

 Obviously, Edgar has now become the emperor's main target.

 Locke looked at the [Soul Xue Li] at his feet, "This kind of apprentice-level magic plant is very rare in the wizarding world. Although it is a low-level magic plant, its growth environment is extremely rare, and I have only seen it in books. "

 "Is this the material basis of the Land of All Spirits in this world?"

"If this is the case, then this Land of All Spirits is essentially similar to the Kingdom Realm." Locke thought: "The Kingdom Realm is a special legal realm created using a spell model. 'The Land of All Spirits is also a special legal realm created using a spell model. The only difference is that it is the product of the convergence of the power of all the citizens and earth lines of the Magic Kingdom. The land of all spirits is the product of the convergence of the power of the earth's veins and plants.

"There is no other difference between the two except the main body. In this case, it is no wonder that the kingdom realm will be eliminated by the great magic.

The great magic can be compatible with the kingdom realm, but the kingdom realm cannot be compatible with great magic.

Although the kingdom-like realm of all spirits created by Shikage Fern cannot be said to be completely the same as the kingdom realm, the general framework is similar.

  Locke looked east. "In this case, Edgar is temporarily in the lead. Being ahead means taking the initiative. Edgar can take advantage of this opportunity to find the three of us in advance and attack us, knocking us out of this plane. But..."

Locke looked to the east and saw that the spiritual network that enveloped the world was mobilizing a large amount of magic pressure to suppress the Land of All Spirits in order to prevent the spread of the Land of All Spirits and destroy the Land of All Spirits.

 Psychic Network, while continuing to suppress the world will of this world, is destroying the most fringe areas of the Land of All Souls.

 In this way, the psychic network will no longer have the ability to completely block the sky.

 Some meteors will be summoned by star prayers. Occasionally, meteors will streak across the sky and fall to the earth.

 Locke said: "Originally, Edgar had the right to take the lead. It was just that he was the first to let his great magic come down, and triggered the emperor's full counterattack. Although the Land of All Spirits has been established, the emperor has been operating in this world for many years, and the total amount of magic pressure in his system is still the largest."

 "So, it will become the Emperor's Land. "The emperor's indigenous psychic network - it uses a lot of technology from the wizarding world, but it was obtained by him, not all of it. "

"Furthermore, it is still some kind of backward technology. The inspection system was inspired by it and was created by him or someone in this world."

 Locke looked at the book in his hand. "The emperor collected a large number of books in his library. These books can only be read by his close associates. No one else can read them, but it allows me to easily obtain the essence of knowledge in the entire world."

"It has been confirmed that the emperor has obtained knowledge from the wizarding world."

Locke opened the album of a book and saw a picture on the book, which was a meteorite from the sky.

 The meteorite fell from the sky, bringing knowledge and civilization.

 Loke frowned as he looked at the special text on the meteorite on the pattern. "The Age of Enlightenment? This seems to be an antique artifact from the wizarding world."

Locke snapped his fingers, and his legendary history book jumped in front of him in the form of a paper dragon. At the same time, he scanned the negative energy particle field information historical data in the book.

 Locke reads the text above. This is the first year after the Age of Enlightenment. One year has passed, the wizarding world is thriving, and the total amount of magic pressure in our world is recovering. , "This proves that our original choice was correct. Now, one year after the establishment of the Siming Waters Council, all members of the Wizards Council swore a commitment to the truth to the Wizards Association. From now on, knowledge is no longer the private treasure of the wizard monarch. In order to fulfill our commitment, we entrusted the meteorite wizards to carry part of the knowledge of the Siming Waters Wizarding Land and transport it to the endless void. The place where meteorites come will be knowledge. Where to spread. We firmly believe that knowledge should always be free and open, and anyone in the world who wants to learn knowledge should have easy access to any knowledge he needs. According to this logic, we believe that knowledge should be open to the whole void. If one day, knowledge is no longer free and open, it means that our past efforts will be in vain.

Locke was stunned for a moment when he saw this scene. "Has there ever been a period in the wizarding world when all knowledge was free and open to the public?"

  "The Age of Enlightenment——"

  "It seems that the wizarding world in each era is different. In the modern era of magic, the most precious treasure in the wizarding world is knowledge. Basically all knowledge is charged - and a lot of secret knowledge is passed down as a school. "But in the wizarding world, during the Age of Enlightenment, was all knowledge free and open to the public? This discovery is quite surprising."

 h "What happened later that led to the charge for knowledge in the modern age of magic? Could it be that a sign of the end of the Age of Enlightenment was that knowledge began to be charged?"

Locke thought: "No, Golden Crown Mountain and the Wizard's Aerospace have free libraries."

"Knowledge is just graded, some are free and some are paid."

"So, it should be the era of modern magic." In this era, major wizarding universities no longer selflessly share their knowledge systems with all wizards who are interested and can learn it, like the wizards in the Age of Enlightenment, allowing them to roam freely in the ocean of knowledge."

Locke looked thoughtful.

   He put this part of the historical data into his legendary history book, and planned to check the relevant documents when he went back, and then he could publish an archaeological article related to this.

The wizard civilization in the Age of Enlightenment seems to have consciously carved knowledge on meteorites and sent them into the endless void, hoping to spread the knowledge.

 This fulfills the [Public Knowledge Oath] that everyone swore to the truth when the White Wizard Association was first established.

 Obviously, after the emperor of this world obtained this part of the knowledge, he did not follow the instructions on the meteorite and make the knowledge free and open to the public, but decisively kept this part of the knowledge private.

 Put it in his library and put it on the shelf.

  To enter his library, one must be a high-ranking official in the empire.

  In other words, less than ten people in the empire can enter it.

 As these ten people hold high positions, they must be busy and cannot have time to read.

 So, a whole world of knowledge has been gathered together, and it has been quietly eating ashes in the library.

 It’s just that for some unknown reason, the emperor still allocates funds to the library every year to find people to organize and maintain the books in this library that has no readers.

 h Locke said: "I asked why the emperor's spiritual network has the shadow of the wizarding world's system. It turns out that it is like this."

 h "But there is another problem. According to the current emperor's character, the supervisory body Did he really come up with the system and the psychic network by himself? "

 Locke said: "Go back and look at the books in the library. I didn't expect such an unexpected gain."

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In the viewing field below the Silent Throne, seven Sun Ring wizards from the tournament committee were whispering to each other.

  "Although many contestants in the past years guessed that the emperor's natives had come into contact with wizard civilization in some form before, they did not really dig out the secrets. Unexpectedly, it turned out that the seeds of civilization from the Enlightenment Age had fallen into that world."

"During the Age of Enlightenment, a large number of void plane civilizations close to the wizarding civilization were born."

 h "The Age of Enlightenment - indeed a great era, but also a stupid era. In any case, that era has come to an end. Free knowledge? This is impossible -"

“None of the previous contestants helped the emperor preach. Naturally, it was impossible to enter the library. After winning the game later, during the competition, there was naturally no time to go to the library and read a few books to pass the time. "

   "Look, none of the other three contestants are working hard, fighting against the emperor's minions, calculating other contestants and developing their own huge amount of magical pressure."

  "But this contestant from Golden Mian Mountain - he hasn't moved his position in a long time. He really Is it a competition? "

 The audience was also confused and started discussing.

 Although Locke infiltrated into the emperor's camp and entered the library to discover the mystery of the emperor's spiritual network and the supervision system, which can be regarded as cracking a secret that has never been cracked by the players before.

 But the total amount of Locke's magic pressure has never changed since he entered it.

 On the contrary, through continuous preaching, he actually continued to increase the emperor's pressure.

 Originally, the emperor's total magic pressure should have a tendency to collapse under the dual pressure of the doomsday crisis and Edgar's great magic. However, through Locke's cult, the magic pressure became more and more stable, and he and Edgar fell into a deadly fight.

 On the viewing platform, Witch Camilla of the Demonic Hub City looked depressed. "What on earth is that guy Locke doing? Is he going there to conduct archeology?"

  On the other side, Haishan frowned, and suddenly he stretched his brows. "Onlookers can see that this is your plan. You are really shady, Locke."

 The senior partner of Mithril Law Firm next to him, a Sun Circle wizard, looked at Hai Shan and said, "Xiao Hou, do you know that contestant from Golden Mian Mountain?"

Haishan nodded and said: "Well, we are friends."

The senior partner of Sun Circle Wizard said: "Then you are lucky. There are many troubles in Jinmian Mountain, and you will not be short of work in the future. That's good, we Mithril Law Therefore, I really want to expand business to Jinmian Mountain recently -"

  In the audience area of Jinmian Mountain, there are also some wizards at this moment, looking at their own players with suspicious eyes. They are all a little confused and don't understand what Locke is going to do.

 In the viewing area, the wizards Solas Barefoot and Meloqui's Magic Steps were the happiest after observing Locke doing nothing.

Several wizard agents from the Wizard Shoe Store Alliance snickered below.

   "This person competes with our store alliance for the market. The more successful he is, the better the product sells. The more we lose money and the worse his performance, the more we can rest easy."

  "If Jinmianshan ranks last this time, that would be good. It is exactly in line with our wishes. Similarly, on the other side of the field, Zalan Bei Wizard Li is coming from the Research Institute of Group 2.

 Because the Holy Grail of Silence competition period is long, many wizards will not be here the whole time. They will let their students come and take pictures while doing their own things.

 And let these students stay here and inform them of the important points of the competition, so that they will come from other places.

For example, during the previous week when Locke and others were lurking in the Silent Plane, there was nothing interesting to see, so at least half of the people in the entire viewing field were missing.

 At this moment, with the advent of Edgar's great magic, many wizards, after watching the video recorded by their students at ten times the speed, took the transportation and came immediately to prepare to watch the game.

  Wizard Zalan Bailey raised his head and looked at Locke's magic pressure, a flash of fear and uneasiness flashed in his eyes.

 Because of Locke's magical pressure in the game, he has been steadily crushing him and is a full two thousand points higher than him!

 In other words, as long as Locke has one thousand more magic pressure, he will have one more huge magic pattern than him.

 For second-level wizards, the difference in combat power caused by one more huge magic pattern is very large.

Wizard Zalan Bailey was sitting on the stool, somewhat restless. However, Locke's inaction at the moment made him feel slightly relieved.

  ‘Don’t be afraid. If he continues at this pace, he will be in last place. In this way, it would be impossible for him to compete with me for special funding. '

  Wizard Zalan Bailey exhaled a foul breath.

 A wizard next to him looked up at the scene on Edgar's side, "The native emperor is so powerful, and he can still withstand Edgar's complete magic."

 Wizard Zalan Bailey looked over there. "The native emperor has some knowledge from the Age of Enlightenment, which is probably why he can become a second-ring existence."

"He has been running that world for many years, and although Edgar Wizard is indeed powerful, he has only just landed."

 H At this time, in the rebel province, Edgar Wizard directly summoned a large number of [vine servants] from the Land of All Souls to attack the emperor's army.

  The two armies were locked in a stalemate for a whole week.

 The two sides fought countless battles in the rebel provinces, and the emperor's supervisors were given the power to learn to unlock the genetic locks.

  Every time they unlock the gene lock, their physical functions and mental power will increase. When they unlock it three times, they can even slightly distort reality with their thoughts.

 That will be equivalent to the level of a second-class wizard apprentice, that is, the level of a gunslinger in this world.

As time passed, Edgar had a slight headache, "Why is the emperor's magic pressure so stable?"

Edgar complained to the gunslinger and girl priest beside him: "Originally, I summoned the Land of All Spirits in the east of the world, causing panic among his people, and his spiritual network system would naturally be in chaos. The total amount of his magic pressure would continue to decrease, so that I could immediately suppress the emperor and immediately put pressure on the other three contestants. "

 This is also the method of play that Quin Joel told him.

 This is the speed-passing method that Quin Joel asked a moon ring witch to study for ten years and perfected.

 But the problem is that the emperor's magic pressure has not been scattered at the moment. Instead, he is constantly infusing magic pressure into the inspectors through the spiritual network, raising the level of the world's power system they possess in a short period of time.

Edgar, on the other hand, did not dare to use great magic directly, so he could only use the ecological community of the Land of All Souls to attack the emperor.

 Because if he directly used extreme magic, at his current level, he would definitely be able to crush the emperor and his spiritual system with one blow.

 But in that case, his total magic pressure will be empty in an instant. If Locke, Smith and Georgina join forces at the same time and take advantage of this time to attack him, he may be eliminated from this plane immediately.

 Wizard Edgar fell into thinking, should he take a gamble and take advantage of the fact that he has the initiative to directly use great magic on the emperor to defeat him and his ridiculous army in an instant?

 But there are still three contestants snooping around.

Edgar's eyes became sharp, and he ignored it and directly used huge magic to defeat the indigenous army in front of him.

   Anyway, he is the only one who has received great magic so far.

  If now, when he has taken the initiative, he is timid, then he is still competing.

 At this time, in an abandoned factory in the rebel province, countless servants of all spirits and vines crawled out from the corners of the factory and launched attacks on the supervisors.

 The inspector seemed to have eyes growing out of his back. He raised his hand and fired a shot behind him. The bullet accelerated by telekinesis directly blew up a humus vine.

 Then, a wailing thorn bush suddenly crawled out of the ground, grabbed the inspector's right leg, and dragged him underground.

The inspector screamed, and was dragged into the ground by the wailing thorn, whose blades were like black steel needles and moved as if they were wailing.

 One of the inspectors raised their muskets and used telekinesis to accelerate their bullets, shooting through the vines one after another.

  Their purpose is to kill the Shadow Fern in the center of the rebel province.

 As long as the Time Shadow Fern is cut off, the Land of All Spirits will naturally collapse and the Great Magic will collapse, the emperor's crisis will be resolved.

· A seriously injured inspector climbed to the top of an abandoned factory, his eyes were splitting, and at the same time he said, "For His Majesty the Emperor."

· With a sense of responsibility and extreme anger, he broke through the gene lock and unlocked it from the third-level gene lock to the fourth-level gene lock. The magic pressure instantly reached the level of a first-class wizard apprentice.

Then, he burned all his mental power, sacrificed his life in an instant, and shot a shot at the shadow fern in the distance.

 This is the gunfighting technique of the inspectors: sacrificial bullets!

 That bullet gathered the power of thought that he had condensed with his life force. It was like a magnetic field line in the air, and shot towards the thousand-meter-high Time Shadow Fern in the distance.

 But in the despairing eyes of the inspector, he injected life with a gun, but before it got close to the Shadow Fern, it was enveloped by the Land of All Spirits, and then a first-level Queen of Thorns descended.

 It is a magic plant of the same type that was also planted in Locke's Forest Sanctuary. It is a magic plant between vines and trees. The Queen of Thorns was transformed from the Land of All Souls by Edgar by spending a lot of magic pressure, and was also enlightened into the existence of a treant.

As soon as the Queen of Thorns tree man appeared, she slapped the ridiculous bullet away.

 Before he died, the inspector roared: "No!"

 For a time, on the battlefield, tens of thousands of inspectors also felt sad and angry at the death of their companions.

 There are many people on the battlefield who unlock higher-level gene locks amid life and death and sense of responsibility.

 Even some inspectors, under the magical pressure of the spiritual network, temporarily unlocked the seventh-level gene lock at the cost of their lives, which is equivalent to the level of magic pressure of a first-level wizard.

 In the confrontation with Edgar's Land of All Souls, the inspectors faced this group of inhuman opponents. Not only were they not defeated, but they were awakened to their own sense of responsibility and courage as humans.

Under such circumstances, these inspectors broke through the genetic locks one by one.

 The will of the world is reflected in them, and the increasingly clear will of the world is active at this moment, moving for their will.

 Even if the will of the world actually favors the four wizards at this moment, these inspectors are the best people in the world. Their anger, their hopes, and their wishes can, to a large extent, influence the choice of the will of the world.

 When they faced the ecological community of the Land of All Souls, and were forced to unite as one during the war, even Edgar noticed that the will of the world was becoming more and more resistant to helping him.

 Edgar was inside an abandoned factory, with his hands behind his back, "The strong are always strong. Alice."

 The young priest said "hmm". "god.

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ˆ Edgar raised the corners of his mouth. "Alice, I like this title. Alice, Tommen, I promised you, I will show you the truth of this world."

  "So, you watch, this is my great magic."

 Edgar turned his left hand, palm upward, and was about to cast great magic to drive the Land of All Souls to directly attack the emperor, but at this moment, there was a throbbing in the Land of All Souls.

 Edgar decisively stopped. The Shadow Fern's spell model developed by the senior sister incorporates part of the spell model of Quinjoll's strength, group prophecy. In other words, my Land of All Souls has a certain prophetic ability that can give me early warning. Although the strength is not high, this ability does exist. , 'At this moment, the Land of All Souls warned me to stop using great magic. Could it be said that if I use a lot of magic at this moment, I will be in a desperate situation? How is it possible? , Edgar thought for a moment, he was not a fool.

 Edgar chose to stop. "That group of indigenous troops are still continuously improving their power level, putting my ecological community at a disadvantage."

  "Although it is a huge magic that I did not intend to do—damn it, who is helping the emperor to stabilize the magic pressure! If it weren't for you, this emperor would not be my opponent."

Just after Edgar stopped, the sky suddenly fell into darkness again.

 Then, countless meteors fell from the sky.

 One after another.

  The total amount of magic pressure in this world has increased again!

  The second great magic comes.

  is the shooting star from outside the sky of Wizard Smith.

 Edgar suddenly understood. "I see, if I hadn't held back just now and used a huge amount of magic. And Smith had let a huge amount of magic come down, then at this juncture, I would have been eliminated from this plane by Wizard Smith because I had exhausted my magic pressure."

   "Just a little bit, I was eliminated.

Under the Throne of Silence, applause erupted from the audience area on the other side of the Storm Tower. Not only the wizards of the Storm Tower, but also the wizards of the affiliated wizard organizations under the Storm Tower, all applauded.

   The second-level wizards of the Smith family were all smiling.

  "It has finally arrived. Haha, the second great magic that has arrived is not bad, and the timing is just right., "Hahaha, everyone, this is the great magic of our Storm Tower, Meteor. The construction this time is a little different from the last one, please watch it carefully. "

  On the other side, the Moon Ring Witch on the other side of Quinjor is a little anxious.

 She looked at the playing field in confusion. "Edgar, what's wrong with you? Why didn't you let one of your two teammates come to that world even though you had completed the construction of the great magic?"

  "That way you could defeat the emperor in advance, seize the opportunity, and expand your own great magic. How could you be trapped in such a dilemma."

  "Why didn't you let yourself, or one of your two helpers, come to that world?"