strictlysupreme Chapter 430: This Isn't a Golden Twin-Headed Dragon Bloodline at All!
Chapter 430: This Isn't a Golden Twin-Headed Dragon Bloodline at All!
One day later, Grand Wizard Sulla manipulated over five thousand mages of various levels within the Mage Saint Hall to assist Locke in performing a small-scale, deconstructed version of the Forest Sanctuary magic.One Mage Saint after another, controlled by Grand Wizard Sulla using powerful human charm spells, walked before Locke with dazed expressions.
After Locke gave them the Phantom Butterfly bloodline modification potion to strengthen their souls, he raised the golden grafting knife and carved partial runes of the Forest Sanctuary onto their souls.
Since this was only for these natives to use, there was naturally no need for the complete Forest Sanctuary magic. That would also make it easy for Grand Wizard Sulla to see through the method. Therefore, Locke only selected peripheral content from the Forest Sanctuary magic, even filling it with much false and meaningless content to deceive Grand Wizard Sulla.
Thus, eight days later, as the last native Mage Saint stared with wide eyes while Locke carved special runes onto his forehead.
Thirty Scorched Earth Holly plants manifested magical radiance, enveloping their souls. The souls of these thirty-one Mage Saints all received a second strengthening. Their originally apprentice-level souls rapidly grew stronger under the enhancement of this crude, beggar's version of the Forest Sanctuary.
A flash of excitement passed through Grand Wizard Sulla's eyes. "I didn't expect it to actually strengthen souls to this degree. To think plant magic could accomplish this."
"Although these souls are still at the apprentice level, their upper limit has reached around 1000 mana pressure."
"They're only one step away from breaking through the first racial limit."
But this one step was an insurmountable chasm.
Honestly speaking, Grand Wizard Sulla had never intended to teach these natives the true method of breaking through racial soul limits. Even the magic he gave them was a castrated and modified product like [Domain].
After a Second Circle bloodline wizard breaks through to the Second Circle, they can possess [Follower] seeds. Those native mages who learn his methods will have their own racial bloodlines altered when he breaks through to the Second Circle, transforming them into his follower race.
This was one of the reasons he valued these native mages.
Because the White Wizard Association strictly prohibited taking people with wizard aptitude from the main material plane to create follower races.
Follower races essentially conflicted with the White Wizard Association's absolute law against treating wizards as slaves. Therefore, the Second Circle follower races of bloodline wizards had always been strictly restricted in the main material plane.
Only when colonizing medium-scale or larger planes could bloodline wizards attempt to possess their own high-quality follower races.
Grand Wizard Sulla directly used a powerful human charm spell to control a Mage Saint to deploy his domain. Immediately, an energy particle torrent filled the space within a thousand-meter radius around him. Then that native Mage Saint roared, "Forbidden Curse Magic: God of the Great Windmill!"
Instantly, a true First Circle magic took shape with resonance in his domain. His soul bore tremendous pressure during the vibration, but relying on his strengthened soul essence, he forcibly withstood that enormous pressure and successfully cast a First Circle spell.
When Grand Wizard Sulla saw this scene, his eyes immediately lit up. "Worthy of being an Eye Demon Wizard. I must thank you. With your help, I now possess 31 followers who can cast First Circle magic... well, I can't call them follower races yet, since I haven't become a Second Circle bloodline crystallization master."
"But these natives can't be considered my students either. I wouldn't teach students so carelessly. Hmm, let's call them servants."
Grand Wizard Sulla smiled at Locke, "Students are those who inherit their teacher's ideals. These servants obviously haven't reached the level of inheriting my ideals. No, rather, they can't even understand me."
"With thirty-one mages who can cast First Circle magic, I can launch a major counteroffensive against those Demon Race and attempt to search for the location of the demon lair that has been hiding in the earth veins." Grand Wizard Sulla glanced at Locke. "However, I have one question. Since this magic was completed by a plant wizard, if I encounter plant wizards in the future, will they easily be able to sabotage it?"
Locke shook his head. "No, this magic doesn't need to fear interference from plant wizards at least at the First Circle stage."
Grand Wizard Sulla nodded. "Good. Then when I obtain the thirty-second Mage Saint, I'll still need to trouble you to inscribe the runes for her and completely finish this magic."
Grand Wizard Sulla manipulated this world's 'Alicia.' She bore a three-tenths resemblance to Alicia but was a full generation older, approximately thirty years old.
At this moment, this 'Alicia' walked before Locke with a blank expression.
Grand Wizard Sulla said to Locke, "She's the native most likely to break through and become a Mage Saint in the near future. Once her soul merges with my Dark Lair domain..."
Grand Wizard Sulla now harbored a trace of doubt toward Locke. First, he had originally instinctively wanted to find something to hold over Locke, but he hadn't found Locke's weakness. Yet now, because Locke had completed this life magic for him, his own weakness had instead fallen into Locke's hands.
Originally, Grand Wizard Sulla had planned to use the friendship between Alicia and Locke, along with the Plutarch family's sponsorship of Locke, to keep Locke stable. But now he was somewhat worried.
Because there was a very significant problem here, which was that Locke's participation in the Cloud Marsh Cup competition seemed hopeless to him.
'Twenty to ten is just too difficult,' Grand Wizard Sulla thought uncertainly. 'What level the wizards of the Land of Six Towers are at, others may not know, but don't I know? Moreover, he's using Erik's ghostwriting and a large number of commoner wizards. Without resources behind him, without prominent wizard families supporting him, the slightest setback will immediately result in counterattacks from those family wizards.'
'The Cloud Marsh Cup gathers breeding master talent teams from various wizard lands. There's a high probability that Locke will be eliminated in the first round. At that time, after his elimination, he won't have any projects related to our Plutarch family in hand, and I'm afraid he'll develop ulterior motives.'
'I only had him participate in the Cloud Marsh Cup to dangle a carrot before him. He shouldn't be able to catch that carrot. Now it seems I can't afford to turn against him.'
'He's also a talented person. Alicia is extremely dependent on him. My subsequent plans to elevate Alicia's prestige still need to rely on him.'
Grand Wizard Sulla thought for a moment. 'I must use something else to bind him. Unfortunately, I'm currently overwhelmed with tasks and really have no way to find something to hold over him.'
'Then I can only give him benefits.'
Grand Wizard Sulla considered for a moment, then said tentatively to Locke, "Locke, you did very well this time. I heard you've already registered to participate in the Cloud Marsh Cup."
"For that kind of competition, at your age, participation is what matters. Even just participating counts as a gain for you." Grand Wizard Sulla said, "So don't put too much pressure on yourself. If you're eliminated in the first round of the main competition, that's just the wizards of the Land of Six Towers holding you back."
Locke glanced at Grand Wizard Sulla strangely.
Good heavens, this guy actually looked down on the wizards of the Land of Six Towers himself.
He himself had high hopes, yet Sulla was already giving him a preemptive warning.
Just as Locke was about to speak, Grand Wizard Sulla suddenly said, "Locke, there's something I want to ask you. As a bloodline wizard, I noticed very early on that you possess a very high-grade bloodline, and it's even more obvious now. I want to ask you, is that a newly formed Golden Twin-Headed Dragon bloodline?"
Locke was startled for a moment, then nodded seriously and said, "Yes."
Grand Wizard Sulla revealed an understanding smile and immediately said, "Then that's a big problem. According to principle, an ancient creature bloodline like the Golden Twin-Headed Dragon... wizards shouldn't be able to possess it, right?"
Locke said, "My family originally had the Golden Twin-Headed Dragon bloodline."
Grand Wizard Sulla nodded. "As a bloodline wizard, I naturally understand how precious the gifts our ancestors give us are."
"So you actually possess such a noble bloodline."
"But Locke, don't you know? The Golden Twin-Headed Dragon has two consciousnesses. This is a typical [Twin-Type Bloodline]."
"In our Land of Six Towers' bloodline studies, there's a branch specifically describing this kind of bloodline, Twin Bloodline Studies."
"Twin Bloodline Studies is very powerful, but the side effect is that if you don't follow the proper modification sequence and perform bloodline modification on yourself, you can easily create a second consciousness in yourself." Grand Wizard Sulla said, "However, your current problem isn't very serious yet. This is because this bloodline originally came from your own body. Secondly, the strength of this bloodline is truly insignificant compared to your current mana pressure."
Locke listened with cold sweat running down his back.
If Grand Wizard Sulla was telling the truth, didn't that mean he had almost caused himself to develop split consciousness?
Many wizards used products on themselves that hadn't undergone complete three-phase trials, since they didn't have the time or resources to wait for the three-phase trials to be completed.
Therefore, side effects were often very severe.
But Locke hadn't expected that continuing to strengthen the Golden Twin-Headed Dragon bloodline would actually result in a second personality. This problem was far more serious than he had anticipated.
Fortunately, he had come to the Land of Six Towers and encountered the bloodline crystallization masters of the Enchantment School here. And because he was truly too useful to Grand Wizard Sulla, Sulla had no choice but to speak up and remind him of a loophole inadvertently left in his magic.
Locke reacted quickly and immediately asked, "Grand Wizard Sulla, do you know how to resolve the consciousness split problem?"
Grand Wizard Sulla gestured for Locke not to worry. "From the perspective of Twin Bloodline Studies, wizards with twin bloodlines developing consciousness splits isn't a pathological phenomenon, but a physiological phenomenon. For example, the Golden Twin-Headed Dragon, according to my research and inference, naturally has two dragon heads and two consciousnesses."
"And our Twin Bloodline Studies already has complete methods to handle this."
"Although it requires some resources and time. Forty kilometers underground within the White Dragon Tower, there's a Shadow Pool. Using the pool water there, you can condense and merge your consciousness, reunifying the two consciousnesses produced by the twin bloodline. That should roughly do it."
"At the same time, during this period, I can also teach you some simple Enchantment School spells to help you prevent tendencies toward consciousness split."
Grand Wizard Sulla placed his palm on Locke's left arm and revealed a confident smile. "Calm down. Let me test your bloodline situation, and I'll roughly know what stage you're at now."
Grand Wizard Sulla recited an incantation. An Enchantment School spell energy enveloped Locke's body. Under Grand Wizard Sulla's activation, the Golden Twin-Headed Dragon bloodline within Locke's body displayed an unusual power.
"Hmm? The bloodline's precision is even more accurate than I thought. This is indeed the Golden Twin-Headed Dragon bloodline, and it's pure blood at that. How remarkable. In this era, there's actually a wizard who possesses such high purity golden bloodline."
"The Golden Twin-Headed Dragon is a sacred dragon. According to ancient records, the Golden Twin-Headed Dragon judges the world and represents the order dragon of royal authority. So after activating your bloodline spirituality, you should be surrounded by order..."
An abnormally evil power erupted from the depths of Locke's bloodline. That evil force exploded violently from deep within Locke's body, even cutting Grand Wizard Sulla's avatar's left cheek, causing a large amount of blood to seep out.
A large quantity of tree demon blue blood fell to the ground.
Grand Wizard Sulla stepped back half a pace. The evil aura that had just erupted from the depths of Locke's bloodline had even contaminated the bloodline within his own body, causing his internal bloodline to rapidly wither. The tree branches on his body were breaking inch by inch.
Grand Wizard Sulla's expression changed drastically. He quickly took out a bottle of Holy Spring Dew potion from his astral ring and drank it down to restore his condition.
He also recited an Enchantment School incantation to stabilize the stability of his own bloodline. "What Golden Twin-Headed Dragon bloodline? Are you joking, Locke!"
"Locke, what's inside your body isn't a Golden Twin-Headed Dragon bloodline at all, but a more terrifying, more evil existence. The Golden Twin-Headed Dragon is a sacred dragon. It absolutely couldn't have such evil spirituality."
Grand Wizard Sulla used his trembling hand to wipe his left cheek. From the wound on his left cheek seeped an almost substantialized mana pressure. That evil power shocked Grand Wizard Sulla. "It is indeed dragon spirituality, but the grade may be even higher than the Golden Twin-Headed Dragon."
"This warlike impulse is even trying to ignite the impulse in my heart. What kind of dragon species is this?"
Grand Wizard Sulla muttered to himself. "There are numerous true dragon species with clear hierarchies, but I truly don't know what kind of dragon could be so evil."
He looked up at Locke, who had fallen into a state of vacant eyes, and immediately realized that Locke was still under the effect of his bloodline magic [Bloodline Manifestation Curse].
He could only grit his teeth, endure that wantonly erupting evil force, place his left hand on Locke's left arm again, and quickly chant an incantation, attempting to return the forcibly manifested, incredibly violent bloodline power to its normal state.
'Bang~'
Grand Wizard Sulla's left pinky finger and ring finger, both fingers actually fractured. He gritted his teeth and forcibly finished the incantation.
When Locke regained consciousness, he strangely saw Grand Wizard Sulla repairing the two fingers of his left hand.
Locke looked at Grand Wizard Sulla with confusion. "How is it? My problem shouldn't be too serious, right? After all, this is my own bloodline, not a product of bloodline modification."
The corner of Grand Wizard Sulla's mouth twitched slightly.
He raised his head and looked seriously at Locke. His eyes no longer held calculation, but rather the gaze of a bloodline wizard looking at something he didn't understand.
"No, your problem is very serious. First, it is indeed a twin bloodline, so there's still the aftereffect of consciousness split that needs to be resolved."
"But this isn't a Golden Twin-Headed Dragon bloodline at all! Who told you that you have a Golden Twin-Headed Dragon bloodline? Tell me, which mediocre bloodline wizard told you this?"