Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 268: Entering the Twilight Garden

The next day, early morning, Locke tidied up a bit, then hired a carriage and came to the wizard secret realm entrance of the Twilight Garden.
This was a ruin deep in the forest. Because it was located deep in the forest, it was covered with dangerous magical plants, and ordinary wizard apprentices couldn't even approach this place.
Wearing a black wizard robe and looking very introverted, the first-class wizard apprentice Zoina looked at Locke, "Senior... is this the secret realm entrance? But there's no one here at all..."
Locke frowned slightly. He scanned the surroundings and saw before him only the remnants of an ancient building's foundation, along with some incomplete walls. The walls were indeed carved with some magical text, but it had all become fragmented and incomplete with the passage of time.
"Are you going to enter the Twilight Garden? Show me your application forms." From behind a wall among the ruins walked out a tall, thin wizard wearing a tattered black robe and holding a huge scythe, like a guardian of this place.
Locke sensed magic pressure equivalent to a first-class wizard apprentice from him, but what was strange was that his magic pressure fluctuated high and low. Sometimes it was so high it seemed extremely close to a First Circle wizard, and sometimes it was only at the level of someone who had just become a first-class wizard apprentice.
Sometimes, that magic pressure might even break through limits and reach an unknown realm, appearing very strange.
Moreover, he was full of dense death energy, as if he wasn't a living person.
The guardian wizard took the application forms from Locke and Zoina's hands. After confirming the academy's magical seal on them, he laughed gleefully with a schadenfreude-like chuckle, "Confirmed, it is indeed the academy's magical seal."
"I wish you both good luck."
"The Twilight Garden... welcomes you both."
The guardian wizard raised the two application forms in his hands and used both hands to overlay the two application forms together. Immediately, the magical seals on the two application forms overlapped each other, forming a complete seal.
The magical seal projected a magical projection in mid-air. At the same time, the ruins began to undergo dramatic changes.
First, a mist rose from the ruins. Strands of small lantern flowers climbed all over the ground and lit up with a crystalline glow.
The flower of each lantern flower was like a lantern held in someone's hand. The light from these lantern flowers, like street lamps in the night, released intense radiance.
The guardian wizard let out a mocking laugh. "Two students from Lilith's Cottage, here you will definitely leave memories that you'll never forget for the rest of your lives."
"Don't worry too much, after death, you will automatically be transmitted out of the wizard secret realm."
"You won't experience true death inside the wizard secret realm, but you will truly experience the concept of death and bear the punishment of death. If your mental capacity isn't strong enough, please cherish this only opportunity to back out now and leave here immediately."
Locke frowned and immediately asked, "What if I don't die inside? Is there any method besides death to leave the wizard secret realm of the Twilight Garden?"
The guardian wizard looked at Locke and said indifferently, "You don't need to consider that question."
"Because there's no such possibility."
After waiting for a moment, the guardian wizard said, "Since no one is withdrawing at this moment, then please enter the memory reverberation of First Circle Wizard Foucault."
"Once again, I wish you both good luck."
The next moment, the guardian wizard concealed his form, and magical mist enveloped Locke and Zoina.
When the magical mist dissipated, they saw that the original ruins had actually become a magnificent and beautiful manor.
In front of this elegant manor in the night stood marble statues. The statues had various shapes, various races, and various identities.
A full moon, the manor, statue soldiers, and lantern grass covering the ground. A gentle breeze passed, and countless magical fireflies danced in the air.
Zoina's eyes widened. "Senior, where is this?"
Only then did Locke understand that the wizard secret realm of the Twilight Garden was actually built on the reverberation of a formal wizard.
A reverberation was the product of a formal wizard's death.
It seemed this wizard secret realm was fundamentally created when Lilith's Cottage, after a wizard of the Transmutation School died, modified the reverberation produced after his death, even solidified and controlled it, and then turned it into a wizard secret realm like this for wizard apprentices to practice with.
According to what the guardian meant earlier, this meant that he and Zoina were currently in the memory of a deceased First Circle wizard.
No wonder Teacher Halen Vera said that entering the wizard secret realm would allow him to learn what a First Circle permanent defensive force field was. So this was what he meant.
Wizard secret realms were indeed special places!
Locke looked at this manor. Outside the manor and inside it were all marble statues. These statue soldiers, some were human soldiers, some were dwarf miners, some were elf wizards, but they all had the same face.
It was as if these statues were all the same person, but different identities of this person.
Locke saw written on the base of an elf statue, 'Each of us will have many identities, but there is no absolute innate identity, only the initial state not yet transformed by magic, Foucault.'
From this statement, Locke sensed this was the other's magical philosophy. He said to Zoina, who was in a state of confusion and unease, "This should be the memory of a First Circle wizard of the Transmutation School."
"From the words on that statue's base, we can deduce that the other party most likely was a wizard of the Transmutation School."
Zoina's mouth opened slightly. "Ah? Senior, this is actually the memory of a First Circle wizard lord?"
"Then this place must be very dangerous."
The next moment, a huge marble statue of a minotaur warrior suddenly appeared behind Zoina, holding his marble axe and chopping down from above toward her head.
Locke grabbed her and immediately used the Large Green Owl Banana, employing Plant Mimicry: Bird of Prey, flying into mid-air and dodging the giant axe attack of that marble statue soldier.
Just as they flew into mid-air the next instant, three marble statue arrows ruthlessly fell on their original position, making clanging sounds.
In an instant, all the marble in the entire manor seemed to be endowed with some kind of life. They came alive, transmutation energy flowing over them, and an army of marble statues appeared here.
A magical energy was released from the center of the manor. That malice, accompanied by magic pressure, penetrated Locke and Zoina.
'Black wizards, you dare come before me!'
'I will kill you!'