Chapter 719

Chapter 716 The Truth Behind the Death of the First Emperor

At this moment, the witch Georgina returned to the Dharma Realm and hid in its deepest depths with the Spinning Machine of Fate, to prevent being ambushed by Locke and the strange witch when she was at her weakest.

But soon, Georgina realized something was wrong.

‘Wait…why hasn’t the Shadow Fern disappeared? Why hasn’t the Land of All Spirits disappeared?’

‘The Spinning Machine of Fate severed Edgar’s spiritual existence, that is, his destiny. Even a saintly incarnation could directly kill his true form, accelerating his demise. His destiny has been severed by me, has been killed by me.’

‘The Land of All Spirits should also disappear.’

Georgina stood in the Dharma Realm, gazing at the mortal world, and was astonished to see the Land of All Spirits being swallowed up by Locke’s Dharma Realm at this very moment.

Locke had originally wanted to merge the Land of All Spirits with the Dharma Realm, a move that served the interests of the Silent Dimension.

Now, with Edgar’s dominant magical pressure gone, his Land of All Spirits was left uncontrolled and was being swallowed up by Locke’s Dharma Realm.

What concerned Georgina the Witch most was that Edgar’s Time-Shadow Fern was actually leaving the Land of All Spirits and flying towards the Moon of Evolution hanging above the Realm of Magic.

Georgina the Witch stood at the deepest part of the Realm of Magic, gazing up at the sky. “Is this Edgar’s doing, or Locke’s?”

The Destiny Loom behind her transformed into a Destiny Computer, beginning to help her calculate fate. However, this wasn’t a pure, purely prophetic, great magic, so Georgina the Witch couldn’t deduce the true outcome without sufficient information.

“If Edgar were dead, his great magic should have collapsed along with him. How could it possibly change masters?”

“The situation is somewhat beyond my expectations; the Time-Shadow Fern is changing masters,”

Georgina the Witch pondered. “Never mind. Now I can only proceed cautiously. The first step in weaving isn’t obtaining raw materials, but observing the original pattern I want to weave.”

At this moment, the Destiny Loom behind her had already woven five full moon patterns, and was continuously weaving new fabrics bearing these patterns.

The wizards below the Silent Throne, witnessing this scene, began to discuss it amongst themselves.

The magic weavers, in particular, reacted strongly.

The first step in normal textile science is preparing raw materials.

Georgina the Witch’s first step, however, is to observe the original textile design, constantly adjusting textile techniques and raw materials, and ordering her officials in the Imperial Charity Association to collect specific materials to create threads more suitable for the patterns of the Evolution Moon.

Therefore, this so-called new textile science has altered even the very first step.

To those conservative magic weavers, this is like digging up their ancestral graves.

Georgina the Witch’s Destiny Loom possesses the ability to reverse-engineer the opponent’s magical pressure flow loopholes through the existing spiritual system.

By imitating and referencing the opponent, and embroidering it onto clothing, she can further decipher more complex and powerful targets.

Georgina the Witch intends to use the concepts of this new textile science to find the weaknesses of the Evolution Moon and then defeat it.

Meanwhile, within the special access space of the Mind Network, Locke senses that two things he has always desired are being eroded by his own magical realm: the Land of All Spirits

and the Shadow Fern entering his own Evolution Moon.

Two objects flew into his hands automatically. At this moment, Locke was still unaware that Wizard Smith had ‘sacrificed himself’ to save everyone.

Locke’s expression was strange as he glanced at the Duke of Westminster.

He opened his right hand and saw a Time-Shadow Fern appear in the crater on the dark side of his Moon of Evolution.

‘The Time-Shadow Fern couldn’t resist my lunar gravity and became part of my ecosystem. Although this isn’t a complete Time-Shadow Fern, it signifies that Edgar is in trouble.’

Locke turned his attention back to the real world and was surprised to find that the real world of the Silent Dimension was empty, without a single second-circle magic pressure reaction.

‘What’s going on? I only entered the Mind Network’s access space, but Edgar and Wizard Smith’s magic pressure reactions disappeared. Georgina the Witch vanished without a trace, hiding in the deepest part of the magic realm.’

Locke blinked within the access space of the Mind Network.

‘As expected of the Silent Holy Grail Tournament, there are so many talented people among the participants.’

‘Before, my super intuition prevented me from directly attacking Edgar, and now it seems that was indeed the right thing to do.’ “

The situation at that time must have taken a turn for the worse, something I’m unaware of. Either Edgar orchestrated it, or Georgina the Witch orchestrated it.”

Locke looked at the Shadow Fern in the crater of the Moon of Evolution. “I want this thing, not because I’m interested in its function.”

The Duke of Westminster, seemingly transformed into a loyal subject, asked from the side, “Your Majesty, what do you need it for?”

Locke gave the Duke of Westminster a half-smile. This man was interesting; since Locke had usurped his position, he had acted like a subordinate.

“I am a botanical wizard, but even after becoming a second-circle wizard, I don’t possess a single second-circle magical plant.”

“The core of the Moon of Evolution, a major botanical spell, lies in the word ‘evolution.’ If a magical plant cannot be evolved into a second-circle magical plant, it is never truly complete.” “

However, second-circle magical plants differ greatly from first-circle magical plants in that they possess an imaginary root.”

Locke pondered for a moment, then used his left hand to manipulate the Moon of Evolution in his right palm. He then used his magical power to cut off the upper part of the time-shadow fern, which had lost its master. Next, he grafted an ordinary sea lavender onto the time-shadow fern rootstock using a grafting cultivation method.

Simultaneously, he used the power of the Moon of Evolution to continuously strengthen the ordinary sea lavender, preventing its death.

Locke explained, “Second-ring magical plants possess special roots, imaginary roots. Even the Evolution Moon cannot transform a magical plant into a second-ring magical plant without these.”

“That’s why I want the Shadow Fern—to obtain imaginary roots. With just one Shadow Fern, I can create many second-ring magical plants.”

Imaginary roots are externally derived plant roots, making grafting easier. He only needs one second-ring magical plant to harvest its externally derived plant roots and graft them onto other selected magical plants, helping them evolve into second-ring magical plants. Only

when a first-ring magical plant evolves into a second-ring magical plant will his Evolution Moon be truly complete.

So far, his Evolution Moon has only been a trial run and hasn’t truly demonstrated its full potential.

The first evolution of roots led to plants growing from the ocean to the interior, and the emergence of roots resulted in the creation of soil.

Without plant roots, soil would not exist in this world.

The second major evolution of plant roots was the emergence of Imaginary Roots, which led to the creation of Second-Ring Magical Plants

and a series of corresponding phenomena.

Therefore, this is a matter of immense magical power; even Locke’s immense magical power cannot directly create Imaginary Roots, but can only borrow them from the Second-Ring Magical Plants in Edgar’s possession.

It seems Edgar obtained his Second-Ring Magical Plants from Quinnjoll.

He rose and fell because of Quinnjoll.

Because of Quinnjoll, he gained many resources, but also because of Quinnjoll, his immense magical power seemed unable to be constructed according to his own will.

Conversely, while the witch Catherine didn’t offer much direct help, she guided him to the Dune Plane where Group 2 was located. Now, realizing his purpose in sending him to the Dune Plane only after becoming a Second-Ring Wizard, he understood Catherine’s intention.

A higher vantage point yields a broader view.

Having become a second-circle wizard, Locke finally saw many of the witches’ previous plans and immediately realized that he still had a significant advantage to exploit in this competition! Locke

pondered, “That’s fine too.”

“I still have quite a few tricks up my sleeve.”

At this moment, the former emperor, now the Grand Duke of Westminster, glanced at Locke, his eyes filled with shock.

So, Locke still had many tricks up his sleeve?

Locke looked at the Grand Duke of Westminster and said, “Continue.”

The Grand Duke of Westminster bowed to Locke and then said, “Your Majesty, the creator of the Mind Network is named Zorro Rick.”

“Back then, there were dozens of countries within the Silent Dimension, each hostile to the others. We were at war every day, seemingly trapped in an eternal war.”

Locke nodded. The Age of Stars in the Wizarding World had encountered the same situation, which was due to the fragmentation of 300 million magical kingdoms, leading to an eternal war.

It was one of the four major problems of that era.

At that time, because each major magical kingdom had a kingdom domain, it could be said that the Wizarding World possessed at least 300 million kingdom domains in the present world.

With such a situation, how could the Wizarding World possibly have peace?

Of course, the situation in this Silent Plane is different from that in the Wizarding World.

The Wizarding World’s problem stems from the existence of kingdoms and the duality of the sun and moon, while this world’s problem likely arises from a hole in the sky, leading to a barren world plane. The world itself lacks sufficient resources to guide this plane into the next era.

This situation will probably only be alleviated after the first emperor, Zorro Rick, established the Mind Network Canopy.

The Duke of Westminster sighed, “We were all young then. I was just a boy. I remember the first day I met Zorro Rick, in the streets and alleys. Back then, I was one of those poor people’s descendants.”

“I played football with those poor people’s descendants, wearing dirty T-shirts. If I hadn’t met him, becoming a poor person would have been my original fate. I was just an ordinary person.”

Locke glanced at him.

In the Duke of Westminster’s time, ordinary children could still play football in the streets, but in his era, ordinary children in the Silent Plane could only climb chimneys and work in dark factories.

This person clearly came from a humble background, but after he rose to power, the ordinary people of this world not only didn’t live better lives, but actually lived even worse lives.

However, these things were none of his concern, so although Locke saw through this, he had no intention of saying anything.

The Duke of Westminster said, “Zorro Rick was a descendant of an ordinary man, but he himself was extraordinary. He found me, and others, those old bones. He told us that the rulers of this world were foolish and corrupt.”

“Our future must be in our own hands. Our future doesn’t necessarily mean becoming prey to those in power.”

“Somehow, his ideas gained the approval of some neglected second sons of great nobles, or marginal figures within the aristocracy. He was always so dazzling, so charismatic; no one knew why they liked him.”

“He brought us the then-outdated power system and made us learn it. He always learned faster than anyone else. When we learned 1, he had already learned 100; or even if he only showed us he had learned 100, he might have already learned 1000.”

The Duke of Westminster said with a nostalgic tone, “Zorro Rick was like a bright ray of sunshine, shining upon us. Back then, many people, under his call, began to think about our future: to continue sinking, or to rebel.”

“We chose to rebel.”

“Countries saw us as dangerous elements and wanted to suppress us, but our numbers only grew. Our power grew stronger. At first, we roamed freely among nations, and later we actually controlled some territories,”

said the Duke of Westminster. “Then, one day, he suddenly told us that he had obtained a meteorite. A meteorite hidden by the upper echelons. It turned out that there was a beautiful, ideal world in this world, a world called the Other Shore Great World. That world was giving away knowledge of backward civilizations for free everywhere.”

“He told us that we were not alone. The Other Shore Great World was our distant and never-before-seen ally.”

“That meteorite had been hidden by the nobles of this world, but now, this meteorite would help us overthrow the corrupt rule of the nobles of this world and lead us to a new future.”

The Duke of Westminster reminisced about the past, tears welling in his eyes. “Back then, we were truly willing to risk our lives for him. Not one of us would refuse, not even to die for him!”

“Later, we finally overthrew those powerful figures according to our ideals. We gained this world.”

Locke suddenly spoke up: “Grand Duke, how did the first emperor die?”

The Grand Duke of Westminster gritted his teeth, “I killed him.”

Locke said, “So, you were one of those who would have died for him back then?”

The Grand Duke of Westminster seemed extremely agitated. “Of course. I considered him my idol, my everything.”

“But he betrayed us first! We risked our lives for him, finally conquering this world. Yet he wanted us to relinquish power, to give it to those more capable of governing it.”

“He also wanted to announce all the power systems he and we had developed to the entire world. He wanted everyone in the world to become superhumans.”

The Grand Duke of Westminster’s eyes were bloodshot. “He’s so selfless! Does he even consider us, his brothers who’ve risked our lives for him, as human beings?!”

“We thought… I thought… that he should be the emperor, and we should be the feudal lords! Shouldn’t that be right? But he dared not to be the emperor! So, I had no choice but to take his place.”

(End of Chapter)