Chapter 273

Chapter 272: Crazy Memory Fragments

Chapter 272: Crazy Memory Fragments

Locke threw Zoeina into a wasteland outside the manor, where there were fewer stone soldiers.

When Locke took off again and flew back over the manor, he saw that in that manor where [life and death meet] and [forbidden knowledge and power] converged and was in the echo of memory, the gargoyles on the roof had spread their wings and their eyes were shining red.

A complex transfiguration spell model appeared on the surface of their bodies.

These gargoyles flew high into the sky and chased after him.

“After all, this is just the remaining power of the first-ring wizard after his death. All first-ring magic has seriously lost its own power.” Locke focused his attention, took out the three-headed shooter pea in his hand, concentrated all his magic power, and poured it into this magic plant. Suddenly, nine lines of fire shot out from the three-headed shooter pea, covering all the gargoyles.

The wings of the gargoyles were pierced by the Burning Pea Gundam bullets, and their bodies began to shatter, turning into rubble and falling to the ground.

Fragments of memory fell into Locke’s mind.

Locke flew in the sky and began to spin around the entire manor. Along the way, he shot at the gargoyles chasing him from behind and strafed the statue soldiers on the ground.

The huge stone statues turned into rubble under Locke’s attack. The energy of transformation soared into the sky and dissipated into beams of light. Fragments of memory entered Locke’s mind.

“Using the Great Blue Owl Basho and the Three-Headed Shooter Pea, I have both high mobility and high output,” Locke pondered. “Add to that the Black Lock Bamboo Sword, which increases my magic pressure to 800. The Psionic Network and Talmud Energy also enhance the power of the magic plants. My actual combat power is now almost at the limit of a wizard apprentice.”

“Keep doing this and you’ll be able to get a lot of memory fragments.”

Locke checked the memories in his mind. Although he had dug out these memory fragments from the echo, he still needed to rely on his own understanding to understand and digest them. It could only accelerate his progress.

But in just a short while, Locke used these memory fragments to sort out some unique insights, discovered his previous misunderstandings of the first-ring plant magic, and formed an overall concept of the first-ring magic.

“So that’s how it is. Essentially, I can piece together a first-ring magic with dozens of magic models. All magic models can be thought of as the broken down parts of a first-ring magic.”

“This is a deliberate design of the wizarding world. When students learn the magic model, they are actually learning the first level of magic. Therefore, the more magic models they learn, the better.”

Locke understood. “Not only that, the first-ring spell model will be directly engraved deep within my sea of consciousness, creating a greater connection with me. This allows me to bend the laws of physics with my own will.”

During this process, Locke quickly learned from others and quickly understood what one-ring magic was.

“Bang~”

Locke wielded his Black Lock Bamboo Sword, piercing the heart of an angel statue. The entire angel statue, infused with Locke’s black magic pressure, cracked and rapidly disintegrated. “According to the magic map Teacher Harlan gave me, killing this type of angel soldier will yield a higher quality memory reverberation.”

“This is probably because this official wizard had a preference for certain statues during his lifetime, so he was more likely to project important memories into these statues.”

“Even if a person is born with many identities, there is always someone who has a favorite identity.”

Locke looked towards the manor. “It’s been circling over the manor. Let’s try to get closer.”

When Locke approached the manor from the air, suddenly a bell in a clock tower in the center of the manor rang.

“Invading dark wizard, you do have some abilities. But you underestimate my magic. All your innate identities are just the initial states that have not been changed by magic!”

As the manor bell rang, a white light enveloped Locke’s eyes. When the white light disappeared, Locke found that all the damage he had caused in the manor before had disappeared.

All the statue soldiers returned to their original positions.

But not only that, Locke noticed that the deformation energy of the stone soldiers in the manor seemed to be strengthened a bit this time.

Locke looked at the clock in the manor and saw that it had returned to zero. At the same time, an angel statue soldier flew behind him, raised the two-handed stone sword in his hand, and slashed at him.

Locke raised the Black Lock Sword Bamboo, wanting to block the opponent’s attack like before, but suddenly the stone sword in the hand of the angel statue soldier began to deform rapidly under the action of the deformation energy, and turned into a stone spear.

The chopping turned into stabbing.

In the crisis, Locke quickly reacted and flew upwards, thus dangerously avoiding the opponent’s attack.

When Locke wanted to use the three-headed shooter pea to attack the angel statue soldier, silver-blue lines appeared on the surface of the angel statue soldier, dividing it into square stones.

These stones quickly reorganized, allowing the statue to transform like a Transformer, from an angel into a falcon with a better aerodynamic structure. The falcon flew at least twice as fast as the angel, so it completely avoided all of Locke’s burning pea bullets.

Locke looked down and found that all the human-shaped stone statues below had turned into various birds of prey and flew into the sky. The scene was very grand.

Locke frowned. “What is this? A secondary transformation? We’ve already used Transfiguration to alter the forms of these statues. By giving them continuous form changes, we’ve given them corresponding mobility.”

“But this time, a second deformation was added on top of the first deformation.”

Locke dodged a raptor’s claw attack. “Every time the bell rings, time is reset. But I don’t know how this is achieved based on the principles of transfiguration magic.”

“Perhaps, it can be found in the memory fragments later.”

While Locke was fighting these aerial stone statues in the air, he thought: “No wonder the guardian of this wizard secret realm said that I don’t need to worry about the possibility of death.”

“As long as I kill enough, the bell will ring, increasing the combat power of all the transformed statue soldiers.”

“If I grind a few more times, the increased combat power will eventually kill me. But…” Locke’s pupils turned golden due to his uncontrollable excitement. “Until then, I can mine as much as I can and grind for more memory fragments!”

Locke looked down at his feet and saw the group of raptor stone soldiers all following behind him. At this moment, Locke took out the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus from the Star Ring and used scorched earth bombs continuously. Suddenly, ten scorched earth bombs spewed out scorching flames behind him. At the same time, Locke inserted three tubes of pea replenishment potions into his three-headed shooter peas, and continuously sprayed tongues of fire behind him.

Fragments of memory entered his mind.

Locke said, “Sure enough, the memory fragments on the transformed statue soldiers that have increased their strength are of higher quality. I think I understand the rules of this secret realm.”

“The higher your combat effectiveness, the more advantages you’ll gain here.”

“It’s not just a matter of combat effectiveness, it also requires some thought.” Locke pointed the muzzle of his gun at the deforming statues. A burning pea bullet could completely shatter a deforming statue.

In an instant, countless stone soldiers in the manor were destroyed by Locke.

“The moment these stone statues transform a second time is when they reveal their weakness.”

“The statues are very fragile during their transformation and reorganization, and even the slightest external force can destroy them.”

“If I seize this opportunity, I can easily kill these stone statues.” Locke fought and retreated, destroying a large number of stone statues in the sky. Memory fragments gathered towards him. At the same time, Locke activated his ancient biological bloodline, and his innate magic eyes flashed, destroying the stone statue closest to him.

At the edge of the battlefield, in the mist filled with lantern grass, the figure of the guardian wizard appeared at the edge of this wizard’s secret realm.

The guardian, wielding a scythe and wearing a black wizard robe, had a glint of red in his eyes. “I didn’t expect this student to be so skilled in combat. This is truly rare.”

“There aren’t many White Wizards who are so skilled in combat. In the midst of a rapidly changing battle, even within the methods of a regular wizard, he can still maturely spot the flaws. This is truly…”

“It was beyond my expectation.”

“Although this echo is within a permanent solidification magic circle maintained by the lantern grass, which can restore the echo time and time again, it consumes a huge amount of magical energy every moment. If he continues to kill at this rate, he will consume too much energy from the secret realm alone.”

“Furthermore, the resources in this secret realm are limited and renewable. If too many memory fragments are plundered at once, the secret realm may not be able to regenerate and its scale may be reduced. The academy’s top management will reprimand me.”

The Guardian Wizard hesitated. “Never mind. He’s Harlan Vera’s student. I’ll wait a little longer.”

(End of this chapter)