Chapter 938

Chapter 933 Acceleration and Preparations Before Advancing to the Star Ring

Locke looked at Orion seriously and said, “No, it’s possible.”

“Currently, this world, the world you call your world, is, in my words, the source of all power systems in the Three Hole Worlds, and I am the source. Of course, the power path of the gods is rather special. But in any case, if someone can utilize all the resources of this world, it is possible to become a second me.”

Locke said, “Orion, you must progress, I must progress, and this world must progress. In the continuous evolution, all things prosper.”

“Contrary to your understanding, I hope you can become me, reach my level, or even surpass me.”

Orion immediately bowed respectfully to Locke.

“There are very few people with the magnanimity of a Tree Man teacher. Those excellent Rangers, although possessing extraordinary strength, diligently hone their skills every day, all for the sake of always being ahead of others. They teach their students martial arts, but the more powerful the Ranger, the more difficult it is to admit that their apprentice can one day surpass them.”

Locke walked to the very center of this city-state and took out a golden tree seed.

This was a plaza with perfectly fitted marble slabs. Locke tossed a golden seed into a crevice in the marble—a fertile seed from his powerful magic, the Tree of Prosperity.

His magical power was so deeply intertwined with the second-circle Tree of Life that it had created a new, unique magical plant.

The golden seed quickly took root, sprouted, and broke through the slabs, growing rapidly. In just a few breaths, it transformed into a colossal tree, standing tall in the very center of the city, for all forest rangers to admire.

Locke placed a wisp of verdant spiritual energy on the magical plant, and it immediately began to grow again, its golden leaves unfurling, each leaf scattering golden spiritual energy.

Orion asked Locke, “Teacher, what is this?”

Locke replied, “This is a sapling of my Tree of Prosperity, the Golden Tree. It can connect to my ultimate magic and can govern the lower forests of this world’s Forest Sanctuary.”

“Currently, it’s in a normal first-ring state, but I intend to cultivate it into a second-ring magical plant.”

“The Golden Tree can connect to my ultimate magic, and my ultimate magic can connect to the Emerald Dream. In other words, you can enter the Emerald Dream through this Golden Tree.”

Orion’s eyes widened in confusion.

“The Emerald Dream?”

Locke nodded.

“The Emerald Dream is the underworld of plants, but it has been invaded by the power of nightmares. Even I must keep my promise, enter it to destroy the nightmares, and purify them.”

Orion’s expression gradually changed.

Orion took a hunting axe from his back, excitedly twirling the weapon in his hand.

“Teacher Treeman, leave it to me… leave it to us Rangers. Let me fulfill your duty for you.”

“We Rangers are meant to fight for nature, to comprehend the Forest Breathing Technique in battle… We are warriors, and after so much peace, we’re itching for action.”

Locke glanced at him.

“Orion, that’s exactly what I’m thinking. I will bestow my Emerald Blessing upon this golden tree, so that as long as you sleep beneath it, you can enter the Emerald Dream and fight to purify the Nightmare. This can solve many problems, such as the Rangers’ lack of combat experience and the resulting slow progress.”

Locke closed his eyes and raised his right hand, chanting an incantation. Instantly, the entire edge of the golden tree was enveloped in the special power of the Emerald Dream.

Orion was eager to try.

Locke said, “Wait, Orion, you cannot enter now. You need to guide the Rangers of the Three Caverns World gradually into it, and your city-state will become the center of this world. I will guide the civilization of this world towards its second prosperity, the Summer Prosperity. And your city-state will be the core of this prosperity.”

“In this process, your family will face many responsibilities and trials. As my beloved disciple, I can give you a choice: you can choose to withdraw from this responsibility and let someone else take over.”

Orion asked doubtfully, “What does withdrawing mean?”

Locke said, “Your family will be far from the center of power in this city-state, and I can guarantee your descendants a thousand years of wealth and honor. You possess a certain wizarding talent; if you withdraw from the Rangers, I can take you away from this world, just like the Demon Wolf Giant.”

Orion shook his head.

“Teacher, I will not run away. My family and I must bear the responsibility; we will not shirk it. I am making a choice here for all my descendants; we will stay at the center of this world, and no matter what happens, we will persevere to the end. We will shoulder the responsibility of prosperity.”

Locke sighed.

It is a pity that those who enjoy prosperity are often not those who create and maintain it.

“Well, since this is Orion’s own choice, I can only respect it. “

Locke recalled his first meeting with Orion, never expecting that the boy from back then would be so stubborn.

Orion patted his apprentice, Julian, on the shoulder.

“But teacher, I want my child to become a wizard. Can you take him out of this world? I originally wanted him to become a Ranger, but since that responsibility is so heavy, perhaps… he should enter the wizarding world with you.”

Locke, with his hands behind his back, reminded Orion, “There are no suitable conditions or environment for wizards to learn here, and your child has a very high talent for wizarding. I don’t want to settle.”

Such talent would be a valuable resource for various schools in Cloudswamp Wetlands.

Locke reminded him, “I will take him out of this world, and I will accelerate the time in this world. In other words, if you become a Ranger, and your child chooses to become a wizard, the two of you will have to separate from now on.”

“Orion, you can choose to become a wizard, or your child can choose to become a Ranger.”

Orion seemed to have made up his mind.

“Teacher, I’m ready. I entrust Julian to you from now on. I want to shoulder this responsibility myself, but I want my child to be far removed from it. Teacher, I was separated from my father when I was very young, and Julian is already ten years old. I want to entrust him to you.”

Locke nodded.

“I understand. I will use this golden tree to open a dimensional portal; you can send your child through.”

He took out a time-tracking tablet. “The moment your child passes through, I will accelerate time in this entire world. However, you can still back out now. Once this happens, even I cannot stop it. Orian, if you go to my world, that wizarding world, you will live well.”

Orian looked at Locke earnestly and said, “But Teacher Treeman, this is my home, and I won’t leave. But I want my child to leave. I’ve thought about it, and I want him to go further. He’s still too young; this is far from his home.”

“Teacher,” Locke continued, “I’ve thought about it. Our world is constantly at war. My child is ten years old; his peers have already been sent to military camps or training grounds, but because of my hesitation, he hasn’t. Staying by my side won’t really help him achieve anything.” “

I’ll only feel at ease if he’s sent to your side,”

Julian said, clutching his father’s sleeve. For a moment, he wanted to refuse, but the instant his eyes met his father’s, he understood his father’s thoughts, and he remained silent.

Julian looked at his father’s teacher, Teacher Treeman, who was likely his future guardian in the larger world his father spoke of.

How far was the new world?

Would it be farther than leaving his own city-state for a neighboring one?

It would probably be farther.

It might be dozens of times that distance.

Locke nodded, chanting a spell. The Golden Tree was his greatest magic and a crucial core of his Forest Sanctuary, allowing him to create a dimensional portal within this world he already possessed, directly connecting it to his Forest Sanctuary in the Wizarding World.

At that moment, branches of the Golden Tree drooped down, forming an archway.

Orian nudged Julian’s back, gesturing for him to step inside.

“Julian, goodbye. Study hard with your Tree Man teacher in that world.”

Julian turned back every three steps, his figure disappearing into the archway formed by the Golden Tree branches.

Locke asked Orian, “Where is the child’s mother?”

Orian replied, “Dead, from a fever.”

Locke looked at him in surprise, then remembered that the medical principles of the Three Caverns World hadn’t manifested, and the herbal medicine techniques in that world were very primitive—basically, anything suspected of being useful was crushed, juiced, and given to the patient. Therefore, it wasn’t surprising that Orian’s wife would die from a common fever.

The moment Julian’s figure vanished, the entire world trembled. It seemed the Three Hole Worlds had sensed Locke’s intentions and agreed with his ideas; this world itself was only one step away from becoming a medium-to-large-scale world.

Locke believed that if his ultimate magic, the Tree of Prosperity, could bear the Fruit of Summer Prosperity, it would likely allow this world to truly upgrade to a medium-to-large-scale world. Clearly

, this was why this world agreed with his plan.

Locke’s Time Stone disappeared into the land of this world.

The speed of the entire world was instantly accelerated.

One day in the Wizarding World was equivalent to a hundred years in this world.

Orian only saw the stone tablet magically ‘drill’ into the earth and then disappear. He blinked, wondering what had happened.

The Time Stone could only be used to accelerate worlds of medium size and was ineffective against the Wizarding World, so Locke couldn’t use it to accelerate the Wizarding World.

But this was enough.

The Three Hole Worlds were one of his strongholds.

He intended to build a Ranger’s Sanctuary here and forge his power system to the level where he could advance to a Star Ring Wizard at any time!

A golden light suddenly appeared behind the golden tree, followed by countless other lights and shadows, forming a divine radiance behind the tree.

Within this radiance lay the magnificent Emerald Dream, within which resided countless powerful nightmares.

These nightmares were laughing triumphantly.

Locke said, “See that? That’s the Emerald Dream, those are the misguided ones—the nightmares.”

The Emerald Dream seemed to agree with his idea, thus cooperating perfectly.

Locke’s strategy of using his power system, the Rangers, to repay his debts in the Emerald Dream was a win-win-win situation.

The Rangers, lacking enemies, had indeed experienced a stagnation in power, causing restlessness among the Rangers of the Three Cavern Worlds—a situation that would lead to problems if left unchecked.

Locke’s approach, however, would bring joy to the Rangers.

Orion held his hunting axe in front of him.

“Such immense pressure. That world is teeming with powerful evil beings, enemies of nature.”

Orion seemed to see an indistinct nightmare taunting him, as if beckoning him.

His stagnant power, which had been stagnant for so long, began to change again with a heavy heartbeat.

He felt progress!

He had to go into that place!

Locke blocked him a second time, stopping Orion with his left hand.

“You’ll die if you go in like that. Your power isn’t enough.”

Locke reached out and plucked a golden leaf. Instantly, his magical power flowed into the leaf, transforming into its veins and patterns.

“This is a model of an apprentice-level flight spell. I’ve infused this knowledge into these leaves.”

“You can use these leaves to sense the knowledge within and learn. These are also leaves of evolution, but they are more focused on knowledge.”

This was actually a model of the [Leaf of Knowledge] spell he had found in the free library of Golden Crown Mountain, combined with a leaf of power to create this.

In the wizarding world, this spell had already been phased out. The reason was simple: when this spell appeared, magical inheritance was extremely precious, and the number of wizards was very small. Therefore, directly using this spell model to crudely and slowly instill knowledge into other people’s minds became an acceptable practice.

However, in the modern magical era, this method of injecting overly advanced spell models, which also contained significant errors, was immediately eliminated.

But at this moment, this spell model was meaningful to him.

It was equivalent to giving his Power Leaf system an interface to a large amount of external spell model knowledge, making his Power Leaf system highly compatible.

In fact, it could enhance the value of the Power Leaf system.

At this moment, after Orion received the Power Leaf from Locke, he immediately closed his eyes, sensing the knowledge hidden within the leaf.

He was completely absorbed, rapidly learning based on his past accumulation and second-ring rank.

Locke said, “You and those rangers will learn through these Leaves of Power.”

“You must innovate. Currently, there are only a dozen or so selectable spell models for the Leaves of Power, but I hope to increase that to a hundred, and then a thousand.”

“In this process, I will work alongside you for the next few hundred years.”

That will also be the time to lay the foundation for his own Star Ring. (

Because my computer broke down, I’m typing on my phone. Chapter Two will be posted tomorrow during the day.)

(End of Chapter)