Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 258: Obtaining a First Circle Wizard Characteristic

Because he had used the archaeological spell on himself, streams of decoded Mordo language immediately appeared in Locke's mind.
At the same time, his forehead automatically opened the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat's natural magic eye.
In the natural magic eye's tiger pupil, the scene from ten thousand years ago was reflected.
Countless swarms circling the cold black sun of the underground world. This master of the underground world was so powerful, standing at the very top of the entire underground world's ecosystem. But at this moment, this apex predator had fallen into extreme terror.
The entire swarm seemed to be facing an enemy they could not resist, or rather, a large-scale disaster.
Because the entire underground world's ecosystem was collapsing on a massive scale due to this disaster.
The swarm was merely one of many facing this destructive large-scale geological catastrophe.
Just like the situation the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat had encountered at that time, a massive disaster that could not appear in the image was transforming heaven and earth, causing this unknown underground swarm population to die continuously.
As the death psionic pulses and fear psionic pulses were continuously emitted, this underground swarm population kept giving birth to warrior-type underground bees, commander-type underground bees, breeding-type underground bees, survival-type underground bees, and so on, constantly taking measures to counter this disaster.
But in the end, all attempts failed.
A certain disaster seemed to be continuously approaching that cold black sun, and the swarm was fighting against that disaster to protect the cold black sun, but their resistance was futile.
The final image was a glimpse filled with the queen bee's terror, then the image abruptly stopped. This indicated that the queen bee, as the center of the swarm's psionic network, had died in an instant.
Just when Locke thought that, like last time, because there were no negative energy particles to carry that disaster, he would be unable to see anything further, suddenly a final image entered his brain.
That disaster indeed could not be preserved by any negative energy particles.
However, the swarm possessed special psionic energy, and psionic energy was the energy of spiritual communication from deep within a creature's soul.
In its final moment, the swarm queen bee used its brain's psionic energy, that is, its bloodline passive psionic spell, to store partial information about that invisible disaster.
Although the queen bee's time was too brief, the psionic information it preserved was very incomplete. Moreover, this incompleteness became even more incomplete due to its death and the passage of time, as well as the loss and alteration of spirituality during the time this information was preserved in its brain through potion-making.
However, Locke still saw a detail of that disaster at the Psionic level.
"What is this thing?" Locke looked puzzled, because the psionic information the queen bee had preserved at the end was not any sound, text, or rune.
Nor was it any kind of energy.
Rather, it was the pattern of a tree.
Or rather, a tree-shaped diagram.
Locke looked at this tree diagram, examining it from left and right, but couldn't see anything special about it. Most crucially, through the queen bee's memory, he clearly saw that the queen bee, before dying, had tried to depict the enemy they had encountered.
Or rather, the information about that disaster.
As a result, the information it had painstakingly preserved was merely a tree diagram composed of circles and straight lines, and this tree diagram was even incomplete.
Locke thought, "Perhaps even psionic energy cannot preserve information about that disaster. After all, up to now, I haven't discovered any negative energy particles that preserved that disaster."
"It's as if that disaster cannot be preserved by any means. The tree diagram the queen bee recorded before dying already has considerable research value. This is the only graphic related to that disaster itself that I can access."
Locke quickly used his pen to draw down that tree diagram.
Looking at this incomplete tree diagram, Locke began to think, "It's too abstract, and it's not any kind of magical text at all. Even with the most ordinary magical text, as long as I write it out, it would definitely cause some element in the air to vibrate slightly."
"Magical texts are all characters evolved from the dismantling of spell model runes. No matter how you look at this tree diagram, it looks like an ordinary child's doodle, but this is indeed the information about that disaster that the queen bee ten thousand years ago preserved with psionic energy before dying."
Locke said, "I can go to the library to check if there are any related materials, or go to McCarthy's side to probe a bit, to see if he has any related research."
Locke recalled the scene he had just seen. Until the underground swarm completely collapsed, they had been guarding in front of that black sun, and that unknown disaster was targeting that black sun.
If he wasn't mistaken, the reason the Hive Mind Potion was precious was because the queen bee used as the main material was an ancient insect, and ancient insects had already gone completely extinct.
In other words, the Hive Mind Potion was a kind of potion that could no longer be produced, which was why it was so precious.
Of course, the fact that he, as an apprentice, could obtain this kind of potion also indicated that although this potion was precious, it hadn't yet reached a certain degree of rarity.
Perhaps the warehouse of some ancient wizard organization had been excavated by wizards in the southeastern quadrant, and inside happened to be preserved many brain tissues of these ancient insect queens, so although rare, the current inventory was still considerable.
Although this potion was useful even to First Circle wizards, it only served an auxiliary function. Probably some First Circle plant wizards didn't like this distributed thinking psionic energy, which was why apprentices like him could get their turn in some competitions.
"From the illusion, it can be deduced that the swarm was guarding the black sun. This may be related to some ancient creatures having the so-called [Guardian Duty] responsibility."
Locke shook his head, "I don't know if, after becoming a First Circle wizard, I'll be able to establish a special connection with the nature plane again, giving me a guardian duty. Perhaps that last time was just an accident."
"Forget it, these are all matters for the future." A trace of interest flowed through Locke's eyes.
The duty of wizards was to explore the unknown and pursue truth, so Locke was very interested in this system of ancient creature bloodlines.
He even had the idea of developing ancient breeding studies in the future, though currently it was just an idea.
In any case, becoming a First Circle wizard first was the most important thing for him at present.
Locke spent some more time testing the so-called thinking neural psionic tendrils. This special psionic organ could connect magical plants that had formed mana grafting with him, forming a small ecosystem with the wizard individual as the core.
Because it was an ability produced by taking a First Circle level potion, Locke highly suspected that this psionic network was a permanent First Circle level bloodline spell ability that the potion had brought him.
Because it was psionic energy obtained through taking a potion, the strength of this psionic energy had nothing to do with whether his mana pressure and mana were strong. He also couldn't use this psionic energy to do anything, only to establish a psionic network.
Through reading related books, Locke believed that if he took a second dose of Hive Mind Potion, he could increase the psionic energy in his psionic pool but for now, first, there was no need, and second, there were too many unknowns.
He'd better not casually take a second bottle of Hive Mind Potion.
Enhancing the psionic energy in his psionic pool wouldn't have much significance anyway.
The current psionic energy was sufficient to complete the construction of his distributed thinking psionic network and establish a small magical plant ecosystem.
"I suppose this counts as having a First Circle characteristic, right?" Locke couldn't help but laugh.
"I didn't expect that I would also possess the characteristics of a wizard seed, having my own First Circle characteristic. This shows that I am already very close to becoming a First Circle wizard."