Chapter 829

Chapter 826 The Golden Route, Wizard Russell, and the Golden Bloodline

Crown Mountain, Little Peach Mountain, Gate of Hell, the summit of Infinite Mountain.

Locke flipped his right hand, revealing a black Rubik’s Cube the size of a fingernail floating in his palm. The cube was spinning, each rotation releasing a strange energy.

At this moment, on Infinite Mountain, numerous wizards were entering near-Earth orbit or the void routes.

The skies above the wizarding world were filled with special routes built upon powerful golden magic, using spellcasting and conjuration techniques. These routes could accelerate the speed of any flying device in the Great Void.

After all, the Great Void was vast, its scale far exceeding the imagination of those living in other planes. Without using these routes, entering the Great Void with a void flying machine would likely only allow them to linger near near-Earth orbit.

Locke infused his immense magic into the Void Cube in his hand, which quickly transformed from black to emerald green. He picked it up, whispered an incantation, and the cube began to transform, magical sparks swirling around it.

Then, the cube grew from the size of a thumb to the size of a basketball, and from a normal cube shape to an octahedral cube. The magic then shot rapidly into the void, disappearing into the [channel].

Locke had already given it the coordinates of the void plane through the incantation; the cube would enter the void, find its target, and extract a portion of that plane’s power to return.

Locke glanced at the virtual clock on the Water Hyacinth System.

Beside him, a burly man in a wizard’s robe glanced at Locke and chuckled, “First time deploying the Void Cube?”

“It shouldn’t be back for at least a week. That’s assuming there’s a shipping lane for acceleration; without one, it’ll probably take hundreds of years.”

“Long ago, before ancient wizards established shipping lanes, they could only explore the void in void warships. Back then, they could only explore within a radius of 100,000 world scales from the wizarding world. However, according to the modern magical age’s definition, this is only considered near-ground exploration, not true void exploration.”

Locke looked at him in surprise.

Void exploration within a radius of 100,000 world scales is only near-ground exploration?

Data on anything becomes incredibly exaggerated once it reaches the level of void exploration, so exaggerated that even wizards like themselves find it hard to believe.

Locke asked, “And you are?”

The burly wizard laughed heartily, “Surprised, aren’t you? When I first learned of this, I had the same expression as you. I couldn’t believe the wisdom of our ancestors could reach such a level. In the past, wizards could only conduct near-Earth exploration, yet they treated the process of near-Earth exploration as true planar exploration.”

“This period lasted for a very long time. Until a genius suddenly stood up and told everyone that the endless void is so vast that if we explore according to this scale, we will forever be like frogs on the edge of a pond, only able to explore the land on the pond’s shore. He proposed the Network Path—the Pathway Project.”

“Then, everyone entered the era of Great Void exploration.”

The burly wizard extended his hand to Locke, “So, for those ancient people, what we have achieved today is unimaginable to them. The so-called void exploration in many ancient magic books is, in today’s world, nothing more than near-Earth orbit exploration.”

“I am Jon Quess.”

“I am a senior researcher at Mount Golden Crown, three years your senior, and my teacher was also the witch Catherine.”

Locke shook hands with him.

“Hello, Locke Augustine.”

Jon Quess flashed a hearty smile.

“I know, the famous one.”

“The champion of the Silent Grail. A true breeding genius.”

“I’ve seen the first pair of second-circle pure magic plant wizard shoes you recently made. Unprecedented.”

Locke frowned and gave a wry smile.

“You flatter me. Jon Quess, my project couldn’t even secure a single Zone 1 grant or a Zone 2 grant.”

“What’s so unprecedented about that?”

Jon Quess chuckled dryly. “No, quite the opposite. I don’t think so. I believe many truly brilliant plans can’t be systematized. This means their value isn’t initially apparent. I’ve carefully studied that great trailblazer, also a very famous traveling wizard.” “

A great wizard of the epoch-making school of spellcasting.”

“When he first proposed the Web and the Trail, those projects, in the eyes of other wizards, were far less important and valuable than the works of other geniuses of the time. Because the earliest Web and Trail didn’t utilize any particularly profound basic knowledge.”

Locke knew that the reason his Zone 2 wizard shoes couldn’t secure grants or publish in high-quality journals was due to insufficient basic research.

His basic research, if taken out of context, would probably only be enough to publish some Zone 3 and Zone 4 articles in Zone 2.

Jon Quess the Wizard said, “But the key is the kind of thinking that others can’t think, and doing that others can’t do. Mass-producing second-circle pure plant-based wizard shoes is something no breeder has ever done before. Even if there were second-circle level pure plant-based wizard shoes before, no one had ever actually mass-produced them.”

Jon Quess the Wizard continued, “Lock Augustine the Wizard, I admire your idea. I see in you a power that can shake up an era, although that power is still relatively weak at present.”

“But it’s a possibility.”

Locke looked at Jon Quess strangely.

He found that Jon Quess seemed to genuinely admire him; his eyes were practically shining.

What was going on?

He hadn’t expected that among the seven second-circle wizards of the House of Truth most likely to compete with him for the top-tier funding project next year, there was one who admired him?

Jon Quess said, “Oh, right. Let me introduce myself. I’m a researcher from Group 1. Our research mainly revolves around waterway breeding.”

“These illusory waterways still have some magical plants artificially planted on them, and others are wild magical plants that grow automatically.”

“Our Group 1’s research studies the impact of these magical plants growing on the waterways. Some are positive, but undeniably, some magical plants have negative effects.”

Locke nodded. No wonder he knew so much about the history of the waterways; this was Group 1’s research.

Locke recalled the research of Groups 1, 2, 3, and 6—the four were completely unrelated.

I really don’t know what exactly Catherine the Great’s ten-person plan was researching.

But in any case, the research of these six groups combined should constitute Catherine the Great’s ten-person plan.

Locke looked up at the waterway: “That waterway, an illusory existence in the void, still has magical plants growing on it?”

Jon Quess laughed heartily: “That’s precisely what I find so amazing about magical plants.”

“However, the waterway isn’t exactly an illusion. Its foundation is gold magic. Gold magic possesses the unchanging nature of gold, so it’s perfectly suited to create the waterway. That’s why the waterway in the void has existed for tens of thousands of years, yet it can still be used after some repairs.”

Jon Quess said to Locke: “Wizard Locke, I admire the wizard shoes you made. Before you created the second-circle pure magical plant wizard shoes, I could only buy expensive blue belt wizard shoes and Solas’ barefoot wizard shoes, but after you, I have more choices.”

“I have high hopes for you and your second-ring wizard shoes. Perhaps continuing will bring unexpected rewards.”

Locke smiled at him. “Thank you.”

Jon Quess said, “I hope you can produce more wizard shoe products. For Void Explorers, a good pair of wizard shoes is extremely important.”

He stood up and said, “Alright, I have to go now. Good luck, Wizard Locke.”

“I’ll be waiting for your second, even better pure magic plant wizard shoes. Now I’m a loyal user of your Augustus wizard shoes.”

Locke also said goodbye to him, then left ’Gates of Hell’s Gate’ and left Infinite Mountain.

Locke sat on the Rainbow Sparrow. “I didn’t expect that a senior researcher in the Institute of True Knowledge would be so impressed with me and so friendly because of his appreciation for my wizard shoes.”

“Jon Quess, this guy seems quite easy to get along with.” Wizard

Jugglus, Jon Quess, Brandy, and that Wizard Droma, it seems there are three more competitors for him.

However, based on the information he had read, his biggest competitors next year, in the first tier, were Brandy and Droma. Both were wizards nearing their final stage, had accumulated the most experience, had been second-circle wizards the longest, and were the two most willing to dedicate all their resources to the special grant application next year. Of

the remaining candidates, the most threatening was Jon Quess.

Locke had seen his resume before; he was also a breeding genius with many outstanding breeding projects. He had initially thought him a formidable rival, or at least some hostility.

But unexpectedly, after their unexpected meeting at Little Peach Mountain, Quess showed him great favor.

Locke pondered, “I remember there’s another breeder named Zeno, who’s also a formidable competitor. According to the information my senior gave me, this Zeno breeder studied our teacher’s Light Element Inversion Mutation Breeding Method.”

He had previously heard his second-circle wizard teacher from Mount Golden Crown mention that Rainbow Synchronization Breeding was key to Catherine the Witch becoming a Throne Wizard, and Light Element Inversion Mutation Breeding was a prerequisite for the third-circle Rainbow Synchronization Breeding Method.

In other words, Catherine the Witch was intentionally teaching this ordinary researcher from the Institute of True Knowledge, this second-circle wizard, the Rainbow Synchronization Breeding Method.

He just hadn’t met him before and didn’t know his personality.

Locke frowned, recalling Brandy and Droma the Wizard, because his impression of these competitors wasn’t very good.

But unexpectedly, Jon Quess the Wizard was different from what he expected.

After launching the Void Cube, he first went to the library to inquire about the breeders in the Golden Dynasty at the border of light and darkness who were researching golden and green foxtail grass.

Soon, with the help of the Ackerman troll wizard, he found the person—Russell, the Third Ring Throne Wizard.

This Russell Wizard was the Throne Wizard of the Golden Dynasty, holding a very important position and being a direct descendant of the Golden Dynasty’s royalty.

The Ackerman troll wizard said to Locke, “You want to write to him and inquire about his research? This Russell Wizard is not easy to deal with.”

The Ackerman troll wizard looked troubled.

“I’ve heard before that he was notorious in the Golden Dynasty for discriminating against wizards without Golden Dynasty blood. He’s short-tempered and a very famous racist.”

“I reckon he wouldn’t answer you if you asked him.”

Locke looked at one of his books about golden foxtail grass with a strange expression. “But in his published magic books, he thanks a whole bunch of his students. He wrote the names of the students who worked for him on the title page of the magic book.”

The Ackerman troll wizard said, “Take a closer look. Those are all wizards with Golden Dynasty blood, known as Golden Nobles.”

“If they didn’t have Golden Dynasty blood, see what his attitude would be.”

“Oh, right. You might not know what Golden Blood is. It’s not the bloodline of some great wizard, but the bloodline of those who are born with powerful Golden Magic. They can all be called Golden Blood, and in the Boundary Between Light and Darkness, they are granted a noble title.”

“There’s a powerful worship of golden magic in the Boundary Between Light and Darkness, a belief that only golden magic can bring a future to the wizarding world.”

Locke asked without looking up from the title page, “I have a question. What is the status of the Golden Dragons in the Boundary Between Light and Darkness?”

The Ackerman troll wizard paused for a moment. “Golden Dragons? Ah, you don’t know? The Golden Dragons held a special status in the Boundary Between Light and Darkness. They were once the symbol of the Golden Dynasty, but they are now extinct.”

“That’s the bloodline of the dukes of the Golden Dynasty.”

“The bloodline of the dukes of the Golden Dynasty is considered a guest of the Golden Dynasty. In other words, the Golden Dragon Clan was once a distinguished guest of the Golden Dynasty in the Boundary Between Light and Darkness. The same goes for the Golden Griffin.”

Locke nodded slightly.

He pointed to the title page and said, “I didn’t expect to see the name of an old acquaintance. This Russell wizard has a student named Alaric. I met him during the Cloud Cup. He even invited me to visit the Boundary Between Light and Darkness.”

“Perhaps I can contact that Russell wizard through him.”

The Ackerman wizard blinked.

“You’re quite adept at finding opportunities. You can even do that? You can give it a try.”

(End of Chapter)