Chapter 308: The Eerie Circular Being
Locke looked at that eerie blue circle, the blue radiance. He saw that at this moment, that blue circle actually completely ignored his permanent defensive field, shining toward his body in a particularly bizarre manner.
But soon, Locke frowned, because he detected that this eerie blue radiance actually penetrated his physical shell, shining toward his soul core.
The power of this curse seemed to have an extraordinary origin. It only existed in the form of magic, but at the last moment, whether because it was suppressed by the restored earth or because the surface of Locke's soul had the Life Force Field barrier that was the core of the permanent defensive field, that blue light was blocked on the surface of Locke's soul.
The existence behind the ghost bride seemed extremely unwilling. It was so close to descending, just a little bit away from truly being born in this world, using that First Circle crystallization wizard's magic.
But at this moment, because Locke manipulated the ecology and created a counterattack of life energy flood, its plan had completely failed.
Even at this final moment, it attempted to attack the soul of the wizard before it, but the soul of a wizard protected by a permanent defensive field had an exceptionally high degree of resilience.
This was why First Circle wizards were very difficult to kill. With this permanent defensive field, even without a body, just the soul alone could exist independently for a long time.
To kill a formal wizard with a permanent defensive field, one had to kill them at least twice. The first time was to destroy their body; the second time was to destroy their soul that had their permanent defensive field.
If it was a formal wizard proficient in necromancy magic or who had learned special magic, they could usually also separate a part of their consciousness from their soul, just like that First Circle crystallization wizard Dean Lewis before.
Of course, this required being at least a First Circle crystallization wizard to accomplish. The condition for using the Ghost Reflection Curse was, at minimum, being a formal wizard with crystallized mental power.
Locke placed his palm back on the core crystal ball. Immediately, spell rune projections appeared in midair. Locke chanted the spell, and those plant magic spell runes, Ogham tree script, began changing their combination order to adapt to the current ecological environment.
A scream came from within the eerie blue halo. Some power seemed about to crawl out from within. "Stop!"
The next moment, an invisible Life Force Field, with the crystal ball in Locke's hand as the center, swept in all directions, rushing out of the underground defensive installation and attacking toward the entire port city of Lilith's Cottage.
In this instant, enormous ecological energy, under the guidance of Locke himself transforming into a forest ecology, combined into an incomparably powerful ultra-large-scale field that far exceeded the Life Force Field possessed by an individual wizard.
Countless skeleton legions, ghosts, ghouls, and vampires on this land all sensed an invisible anti-negative energy field sweeping toward them at a very fast speed in an instant.
This was a huge disaster for undead creatures.
Many undead such as ghosts, skeletons, and ghouls near the position where Locke and the others were located vanished into thin air the moment their bodies touched the invisible field.
Some slightly more powerful undead were trying to race against the Life Force Field's expansion speed, turning to run or fly into the distance, wanting to escape.
But the vast majority couldn't escape in time. At the moment Locke deployed the Life Force Field, they completed their purification and vanished into thin air.
Meanwhile, before Locke's eyes, the circular being emitting eerie blue light let out a scream. Its radiance grew dimmer and dimmer.
"Once I appear, I will not disappear."
"Wizard, I've memorized your soul's aura."
The figure of the circular being emitting eerie blue light became dimmer and dimmer until it completely disappeared. All the curse spirits and ghost brides on this land all disappeared in an instant. The entire cursed land was completely reversed, and the ecology recovered most of its vitality.
And those undead armies that were originally going to destroy the forest, because Locke timely deployed the ultra-large Life Force Field and blew away those undead armies, they also couldn't destroy this region's ecology.
Locke, who was manipulating all of this, exhaled a breath of turbid air. As a First Circle botanical wizard who had just advanced, having to preside over such a large ecological transformation project was truly a test.
Fortunately, he used the potion master's way of understanding to comprehend the process of healing this land, and he actually stumbled into solving the problem.
This was the benefit of having interdisciplinary thinking.
In the Nibelung Astrology System, congratulations and praise from the eight formal wizards of Lilith's Cottage other than himself rang out one after another. Senior Advisor Francis still tried to take the opportunity to invite him, promising him all kinds of benefits, hoping he could stay and develop at Lilith's Cottage.
Senior Advisor Francis said, "Locke, I didn't expect it would actually succeed. Very few botanical wizards can successfully preside over such a large-scale ecological transformation right after advancing to First Circle."
"First Circle level botanical knowledge can no longer focus only on magical plants but must focus on ecology, observing ecologies of different scales, different levels of ecology. Only then can one better develop one's own botanical magic."
Wizard Francis promised, "Locke, as long as you stay at our Lilith's Cottage in a teaching position, in the future I'll gradually hand over the work of presiding over Lilith's Cottage's ecology to you, letting you fully display your abilities."
"It's quite good for you to stay and develop at Lilith's Cottage. Don't look at how some places have magical resources, but there's also a lot of competition there. Moreover, teaching positions in some regions aren't even permanent but sign five-year contracts. As long as you have one stage where the quantity of articles you develop isn't good, the quality isn't good, or the projects you preside over aren't enough, your employment contract will be terminated."
Advisor Francis seemed to be considering things very much for Locke. "At your current age, going to such a big place is really too difficult. Why not develop at our Lilith's Cottage for thirty years first? After you mature, then consider whether to go to a better platform for development. That would also be good."
Advisor Francis felt a bit like history was a circle. As he was speaking, he even recalled that over a year ago, he had also persuaded... Witch Sophia in this way.
Old Witch Forbes interrupted Francis's lengthy discourse. "Alright, Francis, put away your little schemes. Locke is an outstanding wizard who graduated from our academy. Isn't this point alone enough?"
"Students being outstanding is precisely the glory of us wizard mentors."
"Don't casually distort the student's thoughts, and moreover, I'm afraid Halen Vera will settle accounts with you. Locke, you successfully deployed the Life Force Field. Most of the black wizard apprentices and undead creatures have already been cleared out of the city."
"You did very well. You bought us time."
Old Witch Forbes said, "You foiled the Black Wizard Alliance's conspiracy. That's truly rare."
Locke shook his head slightly. He knew his place. "I only borrowed the academy's large-scale defensive device and received help from all my colleagues. How could I possibly solve this curse relying on myself alone?"
Old Witch Forbes's voice appeared in Locke's ear. "You solved this yourself. Some people, even if you give them resources, will only make things worse and worse, so there's no need to be modest."
"Just be careful. I believe those black wizards won't give up like this. They mobilized so many forces. If they return in defeat, their own power structures will collapse."
Old Witch Forbes said, "Black wizards' logic of doing things is different from us white wizards. We only need to calculate gains and losses of interest and weigh economic losses. We can bear failure. But black wizards can't. If they mobilize so many forces yet can't obtain further spoils of war, the black wizards will rebel on their own."
Witch Gabriel suddenly warned, "Locke, be careful. Two ordinary formal wizards are attacking."