Chapter 955

Chapter 949 Subtraction Replication! The Power of Star Forging Great Magic! The Origin of the Lagmamon Witch King

Bolts of lightning flowed around Locke and the wizard from the Badakria Royal Court. Locke attacked the wizard with Attila’s Lightning Chains using the fifteen Great Blue-Leaf Dragonflies on his back, while the wizard chanted a spell and simultaneously countered with fifteen ordinary lightning spells.

Each lightning bolt annihilated the others, as the wizard used perfectly timed lightning magic to neutralize all of Locke’s lightning attacks.

“As expected, you are utterly incapable of unleashing the true power of Attila’s Lightning. You are unworthy to possess this spell model. Your illegal acquisition of our Badakrian Royal Court’s hidden heritage is already disrespectful, and your audacity in offending the Tower of the Black Sun makes you a sinner. You should surrender willingly, not continue your stubborn resistance.”

The young Witch-King spoke with refined elegance. With each word he uttered, a Great Azure-Leaf Dragonfly unleashed a chain of Attila’s Lightning through the plant portion mimicking a green dragon’s head, but all were blocked by his casual lightning magic.

He truly lived up to his reputation as a Witch-King of the ancient Evocation school; with a mere gesture, he could unleash powerful lightning magic. Its power was immense, its casting animation short, and its speed rapid. One lightning spell followed another with fluid grace; he was a master of lightning magic.

A skilled lightning magic practitioner would never allow their attacks to be interrupted for even a moment.

The next moment, the fifteen Great Azure Leaf Dragonflies surrounding his head split into two, making a total of thirty Great Azure Leaf Dragonflies hovering above him. Simultaneously, they unleashed thirty Attila’s Chain Lightning spells upon him. These Great Azure Leaf Dragonflies were already enchanted with the Attila’s Chain Lightning spell model, so at this moment they were essentially magical artifacts, fixedly using the Attila’s Chain Lightning spell model.

It was only because they were magical plants that they could split in two under the influence of the Tree of Prosperity.

“Useless,”

the wizard said, raising his little finger.

“We, the Emperor of Badacria, are the most powerful magical kingdom since the Age of Stars. We rule over one-fifth of this world. We possess the fastest casting speed; I can cast thirty spells in an instant with just a flick of my little finger.”

“And if I cast with both hands, my maximum casting speed is seventy-eight spell models per second.”

“You are no match for me, sinner.”

“Indeed, how could a sinner like you be a match for someone like me, a descendant of the Badacria royal family? We started from different places.”

The young wizard king seemed unwilling to soil his magnificent wizard’s robes, which is why he didn’t immediately attack.

The next moment, the thirty large blue-leaved dragonbirds hovering above his head suddenly recombine, their magical pressure overlapping and surging dramatically. Furthermore, the auras of these fifteen magical plants connected, their magical pressure completely concentrated in one place, while a surge of immense life force mixed into the Attila’s Chain Lightning spell model.

The core principle of Attila’s Chain Lightning lies in the fact that the caster must possess immense vitality. This is because Attila’s Chain Lightning requires life energy to compress lightning energy and can convert life energy into lightning energy; therefore, the more life energy, the better. So, while Locke didn’t understand the Emanationist school’s lightning magic like this ancient wizard king, the problem was that he didn’t understand life magic either.

With a surge of immense life energy, an incredibly thick and exaggerated bolt of Attila’s Chain Lightning suddenly descended from the sky.

The young wizard king, startled, hurriedly raised both hands and simultaneously cast the spell model seventy-three times in succession, but these lightning bolts were all swallowed up by the Attila’s Chain Lightning, which was filled with terrifying life energy. The next moment, he was struck by that incredibly thick bolt of lightning.

“Ah~ Impossible…”

He was sent flying by the lightning.

When the wizard king rose from the ground again, his pupils suddenly contracted. “Could he have obtained the complete inheritance of Attila’s Chain Lightning? And it’s an uncensored version! He even has the part that converts life magic into lightning magic. Who is he?”

The wizard king subconsciously activated his kingdom domain, a world of lightning, where the sky was filled with lightning, and countless bolts of lightning fell from the sky to the earth. A

second-ring level kingdom domain possesses certain characteristics, allowing it to establish rules. Therefore, all lightning magic within this young wizard king’s lightning magic kingdom would be enhanced. However, the problem was that the young wizard immediately realized that Locke was also using lightning magic!

The next moment, a lightning dragon-like Attila’s Chain Lightning descended upon him from afar.

He quickly raised his right hand, summoning a Thunder Beast Shield. A lightning lion formed from lightning appeared before him, but the Attila’s Chain Lightning was simply too powerful, and it sent him flying again.

He was completely blasted away.

Locke noticed something. “Hmm? I know the magic pressure amplification of your Kingdom Domain isn’t high, which is why your ancient wizard kings have a lower instantaneous damage output ceiling. But your magic pressure solidity is also so low.”

As soon as the young wizard king stood up, he realized Locke was directly slamming his magic pressure into him.

Locke’s magic pressure seemed to transform into a solar storm, while his magic pressure automatically protected its master. However, under the onslaught of this terrifying solar storm, it quickly shattered. As a result, the Kingdom Domain around him was suppressed by Locke’s star-ring level magic pressure, constantly retreating. He himself was left with only a permanent defensive field protecting his soul, preventing him from collapsing under Locke’s magic pressure.

The young wizard king gritted his teeth, enduring Locke’s magic pressure storm. He looked up at the Tree of Prosperity behind Locke and the Moon of Evolution in the sky.

“The magic of this era… what is this? Why does my Kingdom Domain crumble the moment it touches your two spells?”

A golden and blue star ring appeared behind Locke. “It’s a Great Magic. Your description is accurate.”

It was also a Great Magic of the Star Ring level, but after the second forging, the magical pressure solidified. Due to the existence of the core of the power system—this currency—not only was the magical pressure solidified, but the speed at which magical power was mobilized and the rate at which magical

pressure multiplied were also higher, faster, and stronger. In comparison, the moment his magical pressure collided with the opponent’s, the opponent’s magical pressure dissipated as if it were an ordinary Great Magic of the first forging level.

Both were Star Ring level, but their combat power was incomparable.

One thousand and one Power Leaves appeared behind Locke.

These Power Leaves meticulously described his power; he described all his power in his own language, hence this power was so free and completely under his control.

The young Witch King couldn’t hold on and retreated repeatedly, his kingdom domain also retreating further and further. Lightning bolts continuously shot towards Locke from his kingdom domain, but before they could get close, they were all blocked by Locke’s Spring Return Spear formed from the second-ring Sea Gold Sand.

The golden peaches transformed into bows and arrows, and the jujube branches of the Sky-Supporting Jujube became arrows. Now, the Sky-Supporting Jujube had finally achieved a magical grafting relationship with him as he became a Star Ring Wizard.

A bolt of spring lightning struck in his direction, and the young wizard king’s pupils suddenly shrank. The next moment, the lightning passed through his body.

“Cough cough…”

The young witch king coughed up blood, but the blood didn’t fall; instead, it turned into embers of an era, becoming snow-white but useless ashes that flew away like swirling snowflakes in the wind.

“So that’s how it is. I am, after all, just an ember.”

The young witch king’s eyes were filled with complex emotions. “Was that spell just now inspired by Attila’s Chain Lightning? Can you tell me which lord gave you this spell model?”

Locke said, “A friend named Lagmamon.”

The Spring Thunder Arrow did indeed have some elements inspired by Attila’s Chain Lightning, but because it involved his own complex system for designing spell models, it was difficult to say there was a direct connection. The

reason he was able to turn the tide just now was because he used his Great Magic Tree of Prosperity.

After the Moon of Evolution had completely completed its second forging, both the Moon Cultivation Method and the Ancestral Evolution had been strengthened, and all the spell models related to it that had incorporated Great Magic Runes had also been enhanced, thus comprehensively improving his overall abilities.

After the Tree of Prosperity underwent its second forging, the first Prosperity Fruit was created by mirroring a magical plant based on the flow of the four seasons’ energy.

The effect of the second Prosperity Fruit was to reverse summer into spring, transforming the fiery magic of summer into the burgeoning magic of spring, thus achieving something akin to subtraction replication.

The Witch King before him was not mistaken; he had indeed referenced the Spring Thunder Arrow.

The Spring Thunder Arrow could ignite life energy into lightning magic, and then convert lightning magic back into life energy, flowing between the two. Therefore, during his two hundred years in the Three Cavern Worlds, while developing this spell model, he had inadvertently mastered a spell model that could transform the excessively inflated life force, which would have entered a fiery phase, into a state of infinite possibilities under spring.

This might be a coincidence.

Or it might be something he did subconsciously.

Regardless, the Spring Thunder Arrow was inspired by Attila’s Chain Lightning, the core spell model of the Lightning Gate school. It’s like the general outline of the entire school’s magic; once you learn Attila’s Chain Lightning, what difficulty is there in mastering other Lightning Gate spells?

Therefore, Attila’s Chain Lightning contains the Five Elements Reversal of the Lightning Gate.

It’s the same as Douglas’s Perpetual Defensive Field from back then.

Locke took a step forward, and a clone appeared behind him. That’s right, the reason he was so powerful now was because he used his Tree of Prosperity and simplification to briefly reunite his clone with himself, making their power greater than the sum of its parts.

In a short time, he effectively gained double the magic pressure of 20,000.

This could significantly boost his power in a short period.

Simplification can be used on all clones; all clones created by the Tree of Prosperity can use simplification to merge and increase their power.

This is why the magic pressure of the fifteen Great Green Leaf Dragonflies doubled after he used simplification.

Moreover, he had used the “Twin Branches” spell at that time, which was his fifth spell model incorporating the Great Magic Rune of the Tree of Prosperity.

Using “Twin Branches” could enhance the simplification of his Tree of Prosperity, strengthening this simplification and allowing it to briefly allow magical plants with non-his Great Magic to harmonize their energy. This could also be seen as the “Twin Branches” spell, enhanced by his own Great Magic, playing a role.

This was why, even after advancing to the next level, he possessed combat power far exceeding that of an ordinary Star Ring Wizard.

The young Wizard King was thunderstruck upon hearing this. “You mean Lagmamon? Impossible, isn’t that my son’s name?”

Locke said, “Hmm? Lagmamon the Wizard King is your son?”

The young Wizard King’s pupils suddenly shrank, and he said in utter terror, “In the Badachrian Royal Court, only one family of wizards has a Wizard King. We don’t call ourselves Wizard Kings, but rather we lower our rank and call ourselves Wizard Earls. You say Lagmamon the Wizard King, a person from a later era, which means my son usurped the throne of the Badachrian Royal Court. With the Tower of the Black Sun above, you who control the rituals, how could you allow my son to inherit the Badachrian Royal Court?”

“If burnt offerings cannot be performed… then how did he become king? Does this mean that in my son’s time, the world’s rituals had already collapsed? How could this be? My son is actually a traitor! No… no… I don’t acknowledge it! The Badachrian Royal Court has only one king, and that is the king recognized by the Tower of the Black Sun. There is no other king!”

The young Wizard King was about to ask more questions when, in the next moment, his body suddenly collapsed into the ashes of the era.

At the same time, a massive gravitational force suddenly pressed down on him.

Locke looked up and saw a fat, ring-ringed wizard king walking towards him from a distance, a triumphant smile on his face. “Oh. You haven’t fought against a proper, second-ring level magic kingdom domain before, have you? While you were fighting, I set up my entire kingdom domain. Once the kingdom domain is successfully set up and merges with the earth, its suppressive power on a region will be far greater than the immense magic of your era. Within my gravity kingdom domain, any wizard who doesn’t use gravity magic or isn’t recognized by me will be crushed into mincemeat by gravity.”

“These are the rules of my kingdom domain.”

“This place is full of the embers of time; your perception has been suppressed to its limit…”

The fat wizard king was polite. “Sinner, you…”

But the next moment, a treant’s branch pierced his chest.

He stiffly turned his head, but his pupils suddenly shrank. He saw Edgar, whose right hand had transformed into a treant.

“You…” The fat wizard king turned to ashes.

Edgar gripped a cane with his other hand, barely supporting himself, and sneered at the fat wizard king.

“Weakling.”

“You poured all your power into Locke, and yet you had no magic to protect yourself. This so-called Kingdom Domain completely separates the wizard from their own power. Your true form is so fragile; how could I find an opportunity to ambush and kill you?”

Edgar’s hand was that of the Perfect Tree, making him very close to a Star Ring Wizard. While the fat wizard king was Star Ring level, he wasn’t a truly living Star Ring Wizard; he was still using the Kingdom Domain. Therefore, aside from having higher magical pressure, no one else was stronger than Edgar. Of

course, the reason he was ambushed and killed

was primarily because the attack power of Edgar’s Perfect Tree’s treant form during its transformation was extremely high.

Secondly, it was due to the flaws of the Kingdom Domain. A wizard’s power resides in the Kingdom Domain. When the opponent deployed the entire Kingdom Domain beneath Locke’s feet and suppressed him, it did have a very good effect, but his true form only possessed the protection of a permanent defensive field—a first-level protection.

Because he lacked ultimate magic, he didn’t have a permanent defensive force field shell, and a permanent defensive force field was only a first-ring product.

This meant that wizards using kingdom-level magic all had low defense.

This wasn’t a problem in normal combat, but if ambushed, it would be disastrous.

Locke looked at Edgar in surprise.

“Edgar, you didn’t leave? You actually refused the teleportation. You’re not a wizard from our Golden Crown Mountain, why get involved?”

Edgar laughed. “Locke, let’s fight, right here. I’m serious.”

Locke frowned.

Edgar said, “I am indeed serious. I also want to advance to a Star Ring Wizard, and this place is so dangerous right now. If you help me become a Star Ring Wizard, I will do everything in my power to help you deal with them. Your ultimate magic combined with mine, if both are Star Ring level, will be incredibly powerful. So, I want to fight you now. I need to figure out what I’m still lacking.”

“This is a necessary action to increase combat power. My friend—Locke.”

Locke hadn’t expected this guy to be so obsessive.

“What?”

(End of Chapter)