Chapter 958

Chapter 952 The Defeat of the Dragon Wizard!

Amidst the embers of time, the Dragon Wizard held his opium pipe aloft. Before him, Locke’s Spring Thunder Arrow transformed into a lightning dragon, hurtling towards him, while behind him, Edgar’s Life Piercing Slash lashed out. Both spells were amplified by King Otto’s magic.

The smoke from his opium pipe formed a protective shield, enveloping him. Forced into the sky by the combined attack of the two spells, he was then met with a special flame formed from potion magic, which instantly transformed his immense magical power into a potion.

The Dragon Wizard shook his opium pipe, narrowing his eyes as if deep in thought.

“Things are getting a bit complicated…”

King Otto looked at Locke and said, “Locke Augustine, and this young wizard, I have a good idea. During the battle just now, I saw the spell model of your comradeship war ritual, and it was very interesting. I’ll make a few modifications, and I can show you something fun.”

“Hold off the dragon wizard for at least three seconds while I brew a potion,”

Locke said to King Otto. “Okay.”

Edgar looked at King Otto in surprise.

‘Can you modify magic just because you’ve only just come into contact with the War School? Where did Locke find this ancient wizard king? He seems different from the other Embers.’

The seven cauldrons behind King Otto gathered together, and then a ball of flame appeared in each cauldron.

At the same time, King Otto directly extracted the spirit essence from his own name, Locke’s name, and Edgar’s name, then kneaded the three spirit essences a few times and threw them into the seven special cauldrons behind him.

Meanwhile, the dragon wizard, pipe in mouth, lunged at Locke and Edgar.

Without King Otto’s help, the two faced this terrifying dragon head-on.

For a moment, Edgar felt a shiver run through his soul, a warning from reason, telling him that no rational person would challenge such an opponent.

Each scale of that terrifying dragon seemed to contain the power of an entire plane.

It was a miracle of life; for an individual to reach this level was a miracle of the void itself.

Edgar looked at Locke in astonishment. ‘Has he been fighting this kind of thing all this time?’

‘Isn’t he afraid?’

‘We have a third-ring wizard standing behind us, and he has faced this being alone for so long. Locke… I understand.’

Edgar’s eyes hardened as he forcibly suppressed his fear and the soul radiation damage he had suffered from facing this terrifying dragon.

Edgar’s war spear from the ancient war tree and Locke’s second-ring sea gold sand clashed with one of the dragon’s claws.

At this moment, the two were empowered by the almost boundless magical pressure of a third-ring wizard, essentially possessing endless magical pressure, so they were able to slightly block the dragon wizard’s claw.

The dragon wizard, with a large pipe in his mouth, said, “Tch, such magic power can’t change anything.”

Both were sent flying.

Locke and Edgar

were almost sent flying a thousand miles away, but before this could happen, two large cauldrons on King Otto’s back contained them, successfully stopping their flight.

King Otto said, “It’s done.”

“This is the potion recipe I just combined during the battle, called [Comrade Potion].”

Locke, inside the cauldron, saw a slip of paper appear before him, containing the specific recipe for the Comrade Potion.

“This is… King Otto actually analyzed the Comrades’ War Ritual during a lull in the battle and used the immature potion-making theory of this era to create a variant of the Name Potion for this ritual.”

Why could Locke see the immaturity at a glance?

Because Locke could see the spiritual science of this era in this potion recipe, which lacked even an overall framework, filled with King Otto’s highly personalized descriptions.

These descriptions even jumped around many logical leaps, which wouldn’t be a problem for others because King Otto’s thinking speed was too fast. His potion recipe didn’t divide the ingredients into four parts like modern potion recipes, orderly and full of a sense of order, but rather it was written casually, as if he wrote down whatever came to mind.

But such a potion recipe could actually be made.

“The core of the ‘Comrade’s Potion’ is crafted using the principle of ‘Same Name for Different Objects,’ requiring at least a third-ring level potion-making skill. This is the recipe for a third-ring potion…”

Locke exclaimed in astonishment, “If King Otto were born in this world, how extraordinary his talent would be? He would never be unknown; he would be renowned throughout the land.”

Locke even sensed a kind of sorrow. Imagine someone standing at the forefront of an entire era, looking back and finding no one behind him.

No one in the world understands him; everyone in the world misunderstands him.

This is King Otto’s predicament.

Therefore, when he refused to become a disciple before the dragon wizard of the Black Sun Tower and insisted on fighting to the end, King Otto must have felt a sense of joy at meeting a kindred spirit.

Locke found it difficult to understand what “Same Name for Different Objects” meant by “Same Name for Different Objects.” Logically speaking, “Same Name for Different Objects” is the hidden true form of an object, and the name is merely the outermost expression of that hidden true form. In other words, the true name should be unique to each living being.

However, since it was knowledge at the third ring level, forcing oneself to understand it might lead to cognitive dissonance.

At this moment, the comrade potion within the bronze cauldron was absorbed by Locke and Edgar.

King Otto also drank a bottle of comrade potion, and now the three of them each wore three identical third ring level mana armors.

The dragon wizard, standing majestically between heaven and earth, sensed a hint of danger. He remained rooted to the spot, not daring to move forward, and pondered while smoking his pipe, “Otto, no matter how much you deny it, you and your era are still under the order of my Black Sun Tower.”

“You are with us. Don’t do anything foolish. What was the effect of the potion you just gave them?”

King Otto looked at him and said calmly, “You don’t need to be too afraid of me. I am just an ember, not the real Otto. My abilities are limited. However, I can make a deal. You tell me how the Age of Stars ended, and I will tell you the effect of this potion.”

The dragon wizard said, “That’s impossible.”

King Otto looked at Locke and Edgar.

Edgar scratched his head.

“The Age of Stars? What’s that?”

King Otto was speechless and turned to Locke.

Locke shook his head slightly.

“Even for the wizarding world today, things before the Great Void Exploration Era are not very clear. We can’t even determine which eras the Age of Stars falls between, but we can confirm that it was the early era of the wizarding world.”

King Otto said in a low voice, “Impossible. With that brat in archaeology, your world’s history can’t be incomplete. Someone is playing tricks.”

King Otto said to Locke, “That’s dangerous. If even you don’t understand how you ended the Age of Stars, it means you might very well return to the Age of Stars. Locke Augustine, you’re also an archaeology wizard, right? Then you should understand how the Age of Stars ended, and as a breeder, you also need to understand why the Tower of the Black Sun is hostile to the World Tree.”

Locke bowed to King Otto.

“I understand, King Otto.”

King Otto smiled bitterly.

“Although I haven’t had time to pass on the entire Potions legacy to you, you still call me Your Majesty?”

Locke paused for a moment, then bowed to King Otto again, this time with a different gesture—the gesture a disciple makes to their teacher.

King Otto nodded in satisfaction.

The dragon wizard impatiently puffed on his pipe, filling it with more tobacco.

“Don’t be so mysterious, Otto,”

said King Otto. “I am someone whose time has stopped. I am the final me now, so you are the hope.”

Edgar nodded and said, “That’s right, I am the hope of the new generation. I am the strongest of the younger generation in the wizarding world, and I will become the greatest wizard of this era, walking at the forefront of the path of truth.”

Locke glanced at Edgar and said to Otto, “Teacher, we must keep moving forward.”

King Otto smiled sadly, “To have companions to walk with, this is probably the happiest thing in the world. Today, I’ll give you two a good time.”

King Otto became serious and looked at the dragon wizard who was on high alert, saying, “The effect of the comrade potion is simple: it will give them the true power of a second-circle wizard.”

The dragon wizard suddenly remembered what happened in the Dark Ages.

Could it be…?

King Otto’s voice appeared in their ears.

“Keep moving forward, don’t stop, don’t hesitate, don’t waver. Fear will only make you lose your way, and apprehension will only make you miss the chance to see the truth. Go, move forward!”

“The reason our wizarding civilization has endured is because of you wizards who are always exploring the future.”

“Use your ultimate magic with all your might.”

“At least for now, I can support the two of you moving forward.”

Infinite magical pressure erupted from King Otto’s body, and even the embers of the entire era began to sink, because the magical pressure was simply too heavy.

Locke and Edgar simultaneously unleashed their ultimate magic, Locke’s Moon of Evolution and Edgar’s Tree of Perfection. The two ultimate magics formed an ecosystem for each other, so the Moon of Evolution strengthened the Tree of Perfection, and the Tree of Perfection strengthened the Moon of Evolution.

This round of strengthening, which should have stopped, not only did not stop, but even entered a cycle.

Locke said, “This is…”

Edgar’s eyes flashed with terror and awe at King Otto’s terrifying talent.

“This potion’s effects are practically tailor-made for the two of us. And he’s only just met us, he probably hasn’t even encountered high-level magic before!”

The star rings behind them—Lock’s golden-blue star ring, and Edgar’s silver star ring with leaves at the top—rose up separately, then merged.

The two star rings joined together, becoming infinite!

A flicker of fear and unease flashed in the dragon wizard’s pupils; this power had reappeared.

During the Dark Ages, the Black Sun Tower analyzed the reasons for their previous failure and concluded that keeping wizards at the second ring level, as long as the number of second-ring wizards increased, civilization could still advance. After all, as long as the scale of the priestly magic network was maintained, high-ring wizards would continuously emerge from the Black Sun Tower itself.

Therefore, for the Black Sun Tower, keeping the wizards on the ground at the second ring stage wouldn’t affect wizarding civilization.

In that era, authority ruled the wizarding world. The highest-ranking wizards were only at the second ring. However, a group of genius wizards, exemplified by the Holy Dragon, discovered that the second ring could be used to expand into infinite realms, developing the power of “Infinity,” and creating various forms of “Infinity.”

They used this “Infinity” to fight the Tower of the Black Sun.

The Dragon Wizard gritted his teeth.

“Damn Otto, you and the princess are truly our greatest enemies. Destroying the Tower of the Black Sun is not a good thing. How many times do I have to tell you? We are not unreasonable, but driven by a practical necessity! We are not good people, but we are certainly not bad!”

Edgar felt a continuous stream of power converging upon him.

Originally, even if he and Locke had completed this infinite cycle, they lacked the material energy to support it, and would simply burn themselves out. But the problem was that they had a source of this energy—the embers of King Otto.

Edgar shouted to Locke, “Locke, use the Peach Blossom Thorn Arrow! Your Peach Blossom Thorn Arrow can unleash the combined power of our two ultimate magics. My Life Piercing Strike has a portion of the magical power that transforms into a War Treant, so it’s not pure enough!”

Locke nodded. The Moon of Evolution manifested as a blue moon, transforming into a bow, while Edgar’s ultimate magic, the Perfect Tree, plucked the thickest branch from its crown and combined it into an arrow.

The bow was drawn!

The symbol was also superimposed on the arrow formed from the branch of Edgar’s Perfect Tree.

This was power that could be described as limitless!

The next moment, the arrow flew out and collided with the enraged dragon wizard’s claws. In an instant, the two powerful forces collided.

The dragon wizard roared in fury, “Otto! You’ve ruined me!”

A dazzling white light erupted before everyone’s eyes.

Otto’s voice appeared in Locke’s ears.

“Locke, this is probably the last time I can see you. Promise me you will keep moving forward. I’ve staked my future on you.”

“Don’t let the Tower of the Black Sun stand in your way, don’t let anyone stop you.”

Ten minutes later, amidst the embers of time, Locke and Edgar emerged from the thick layer of dust covering them. Locke coughed, spitting out a lot of embers. “The smell of this ember smoke is really awful.”

Edgar also got up, gagging and spewing out countless embers.

Edgar said, “That’s despicable… Do you have some kind of resistance to these embers? Why am I in so much worse shape than you?”

Edgar continued coughing up embers.

Locke looked at him in surprise. “You even want to compare yourself to me?”

At that moment, footsteps sounded. Locke and Edgar looked up and saw that the Dragon Wizard had returned to human form, his body tattered and battered, but this clone of him was still alive!

The Dragon Wizard staggered towards Locke, suddenly coughing up blood. His clone was on the verge of collapse; its core was a powerful spell, but he had never fully grasped the model of this spell, which he had stolen from another school of thought.

Now, under the combined onslaught of King Otto, Locke, and Edgar, it was on the verge of collapse.

The Dragon Wizard said, “Even infinite power can only threaten wizards newly entering the third ring. For me, it’s still child’s play.”

“Cough cough… It’s a pity, Otto, you’re dead. You really can’t do much more.”

The Dragon Wizard looked at Locke, his eyes resolute.

“Now I can finally kill you. The dragon bloodline must never be evolved again; all of this is for the greater good.”

“Although you don’t understand now, it is indeed for the truth…”

A crimson bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

The Red Dragon Witch’s clone stood before him.

The Dragon Wizard looked at the Red Dragon Witch. “How could you be here? How did you end up here?”

“You deliberately set a trap to invite me here at this time. You invited a fourth-circle wizard to oversee things for you, feeling secure and believing there wouldn’t be any problems. But in reality, your fate is already riddled with holes. Your enemies are already quietly approaching, the Dark World is secretly targeting your lineage, and the Rose Throne is directly attacking you. You will go mad as a dragon, driven to madness. This is your destiny.”

The Dragon Wizard looked at the tortoise shell in his left hand, which was now covered in cracks and on the verge of breaking.

Suddenly, the Dragon Wizard realized something. His pupils shrank sharply, and then he chanted a spell. A crack appeared on the tortoise shell, and upon seeing it, a look of sudden realization dawned on him.

“So that’s how it is.”

“You persuaded the Rose Witch, and the thread of fate has been altered.”

The Red Dragon Witch said to him, “Perhaps I don’t understand prophecy as well as you, but I understand human nature better than you. How long has it been since you used your own wisdom to judge how things would develop? This should be a basic skill for a wizard.”

The Red Dragon Witch showed him a wedding ring on her palm, a combination of her mother ring and the Rose Witch’s mother ring.

“The Rose Witch left a hidden weapon in her mother ring that could truly threaten me. The moment I snatched that ring, her scheme against me was completely completed, isn’t that what you think?”

Another crack appeared on the tortoise shell in the Dragon Wizard’s left hand, and Locke saw that the tortoise shell was almost completely shattered.

The Witch Catherine said, “It seems I guessed right.”

The Dragon Wizard appeared before him; he had used the Black Sun Tower to divine the Red Dragon Witch’s fate. It was a red dragon enraged, which had left Golden Crown Mountain and vanished into the world.

After receiving this divination result, he confidently launched his attack on Mount Golden Crown.

But when he divined again, the illusion vanished from his mind, replaced by a scene of the Red Dragon Witch and the Rose Throne negotiating. Ultimately, the Rose Throne agreed to the deal with the Red Dragon Throne.

They signed a contract—trading half of the Ancient Dragon Soul in exchange for removing the hidden force from Catherine the Witch’s marriage ring.

And the Rose Witch… agreed.

The Red Dragon Witch looked down at him and said, “I’ve never believed in prophecies. I believe more in human nature. My predictions are based on human judgment, while yours are based on your ability to perceive illusions from the surface of this world through spiritual means. This wizard, you underestimate me, and you underestimate my opponent—the Rose Witch.” “

Anna is only slightly less intelligent than me,”

the Dragon Wizard still didn’t understand. He shook his head and said strangely, “But the prophecies of the Tower of the Black Sun rarely go wrong…”

“Your prophecy was accurate before you observed it, but it became wrong after you observed it,”

the Red Dragon Witch said. “Anna and I are both cautious people. We both wear magical artifacts to prevent prophecies from happening. Your prophecy is not wrong. The events in your prophecy all fit our style, but only after you observed that prophecy did we realize it.”

“How can a prophecy that we’ve all already perceived maintain its objectivity?”

the witch Catherine said. “I only told Anna one thing: in your prophecy, you’d most likely escape unscathed, while Anna and I would gain nothing. Anna is strong-willed; she won’t allow you to win and me to lose while she neither wins nor loses. Her personality is either both of us lose, or neither of us wins. So, she doesn’t accept this outcome.”

“Therefore, when I suggested we team up to plot against you, she agreed. She can always recreate a Mother Ring with some time, but you missed your chance at the Ancient Dragon Soul. Although we’re competing, ultimately, making things happen is our primary goal.”

The dragon wizard’s pupils suddenly contracted; he finally understood where the problem lay.

A prophecy with an incredibly accurate outcome, yet it was essentially guessed by the two parties involved.

How could this prophecy remain accurate?

His divination using ritual magic pointed to a timeline he hadn’t actually predicted—the timeline of his direct journey to Mount Golden Crown. Yet, because the witches Catherine and Anna, through his actions, directly guessed the prophecy’s outcome, an error occurred.

This is a paradox.

But for this paradox to occur is extremely difficult; both Catherine and Anna must simultaneously guess his prophecy for it to happen.

And yet, they did.

The Dragon Wizard took a half-step back, feeling fear. Why did the heroes of this era seem so numerous, like a swarm of locusts?

Just encountering a few second-circle wizards had caused him trouble; targeting just one throne wizard had led him into a trap set by two throne wizards.

“The wizards of this era…”

said the witch Catherine. “You probably think you’re just one step away from success. But that’s not the case. I’ve seen through every step you take. I don’t need prophecies; I only need to understand human nature. Prophecies may fail for various reasons, but human nature is eternal.”

“You know what? The most interesting thing about magic is that it can always transform from one form to another in incredible ways. Ah, you’re not a modern third-circle wizard, so you don’t know this… [The Law of Magical Transformation]. If you were my student, I would suggest you start over from the apprenticeship stage. That way, your foundation would be much more solid than it is now.”

“A weak foundation leads to numerous flaws. That’s exactly what you’re like now.”

Suddenly, countless fragments of broken peach blossom petals appeared on the dragon wizard’s body. He realized that although he thought he had dispelled the Heart-Shaped Curse, the power of the broken curse still lingered on his skin.

This power…

Meanwhile, a Heart-Shaped Curse mark appeared on Locke’s forehead, and an arrow gradually emerged from it.

(End of Chapter)