Wizard Edgar activated the life ancient tree's backup plan. Immediately, the eight mages of Sureyas Unit 1 channeled all their mana into that life ancient tree. Then, countless pale green essence spirits appeared on the battlefield and, as if attracted by some kind of gravitational force, all converged toward the life ancient tree.

In the viewing hall, Wizard Edgar David said to Locke and Diana, "The life ancient tree person possesses the ability to summon essence spirits. Essence spirits are the primitive form of those souls wandering in nature when life in this world first formed, the primitive spiritual bodies that were everywhere in this world before the first soul appeared in this world."

Locke and Diana showed thoughtful expressions.

"I didn't expect the life ancient tree to actually possess the ability to manipulate primitive soul spirits. Research related to essence spirits is still relatively scarce in the First Circle stage." After thinking, Witch Diana said, "But why are you gathering so many essence spirits?"

Wizard Edgar extended his hand toward the sky and began softly chanting some kind of incantation.

Locke recognized what this incantation was. "The Common Root Curse?"

Witch Diana immediately turned around nervously, looked at Locke, and asked, "What is the Common Root Curse? What's its effect?"

Locke glanced at her and, thinking there was nothing he couldn't say about this information, said, "A type of plant magic that can unite the qi mechanisms of plant with plant, and plant with oneself. It's a type of auxiliary magic."

Diana showed a contemplative expression.

Locke then saw that the life ancient tree person, having gathered large amounts of natural essence spirits, connected qi mechanisms with Wizard Edgar. Immediately after, the life ancient tree person raised its right hand just like Edgar, and the qi mechanisms between the tree person and Edgar grew closer and closer.

Three minutes later, the entire life ancient tree actually transformed into a ten-meter-tall enlarged version of Wizard Edgar's appearance.

Its branches simulated Edgar's limbs, while its face simulated Edgar's facial features.

At this time, nearly half of the footage on the dome screen showed images of Edgar's tree person. This represented that the True Sight Orb system evaluated this spell extremely highly.

On the screen, Edgar's tree person and Edgar in the viewing hall spoke in unison. "The life ancient tree possesses the ability to manipulate primitive soul spirits: essence spirits. By gathering primitive soul spirits: essence spirits, it can make this life ancient tree person's body become my, Edgar David's, body for a short time."

"In other words, the life ancient tree has the ability to become a plant wizard's avatar. Everyone should be able to understand what it means for a plant wizard to have such a powerful natural force avatar, right?"

Edgar's tree person raised his right hand composed of branches and tried releasing a Life School plant magic, Natural Storm, toward the front.

In just an instant, a thousand-meter-high natural storm tornado appeared with wind and rain, sweeping all the Mekani people into it. At the same time, within the rainstorm, many grass seeds fell into the gaps inside the Mekani people's bodies. In just an instant, large numbers of grass seeds took root and sprouted, growing inside those Mekani people.

The planetary gear systems inside the Mekani people's bodies continuously sparked, continuously malfunctioning and exploding.

At the same time, Edgar's tree person lifted his foot, and a vine appeared on the ground. That vine lifted him over the large Mekani military forces, directly attacking the metal fortress hidden beneath Cloud Lake in the rear.

Wizard Edgar chanted an incantation in the viewing hall, so Edgar's tree person on the battlefield simultaneously chanted the same incantation. Edgar's tree person pulled down a branch from the tree crown. Immediately that branch transformed into a life spear and attacked toward the depths of Cloud Lake.

The top-tier First Circle plant magic: Life Spear!

Metamagic: Double Casting!

Metamagic was some special casting techniques researched by wizards in certain regions. Locke had completely not encountered this content before and had only seen related introductions in books. Now seeing the so-called metamagic techniques, his eyes lit up.

Double casting could enhance spell power.

The dome screen's lens showed that the life spear thrown by Edgar's tree person inserted into Cloud Lake and rapidly grew and sprouted, transforming into a small war tree person.

Immediately after, that war tree person pulled branches from its body, transforming them into spears, and threw war spears toward the Mekani people's war fortress hidden below Cloud Lake.

That war fortress below Cloud Lake hurriedly operated its planetary gear system, enhanced mobility, sprayed countless flames, moved the mechanical fortress, trying to dodge that war spear.

This way, that steel fortress was forcibly driven out of Cloud Lake by Edgar's tree person, exposed to everyone's view.

In the viewing hall, Edgar's eyes showed a look of desire.

Past Cloud Marsh Cups basically, although they could determine winners and losers, had never really forced out the steel fortress behind the Mekani people. But today he had done it.

Edgar looked toward Locke and Diana, saying in a low voice, "You are both very excellent wizards."

"But there's only one champion, and that's me."

"The Sureyas people's magical technology lags behind wizard civilization by more than three hundred years, and their magical disciplines are extremely incomplete. Otherwise, this war should have ended long ago."

"Using the life ancient tree's ability, I can create a me on the battlefield. It just requires large amounts of essence spirits to drive it, to connect my spirituality with the life ancient tree avatar. This is the life ancient tree's unique special ability, it can transform into a certain wizard's avatar!"

"Moreover, not an ordinary avatar, but a natural avatar!"

Natural avatar?

Locke glanced at Edgar. No wonder currently Edgar's tree person avatar's footage was actually equal to his Hydra stacking eight permanent defensive fields footage. This represented that the True Sight Orb system considered his work could stand on equal footing with the other party's work.

Locke recalled the natural avatar recorded in the classics. That was similar to what divine beings called holy descent, a special form of avatar. A natural avatar was like the natural force of a regional area directly descending an avatar. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Every action could receive help from regional-level natural force.

Locke had tasted the power of using plant magic under natural force infusion, after all his consciousness had once reached the natural force plane.

If the life ancient tree could actually transform into a wizard's natural avatar, then no wonder the True Sight Orb system would judge this was a tactical-level magical plant equal to his Hydra magical plant.

Edgar laughed loudly, "Ahahahahaha... Locke, Diana, feel troubled, don't you?"

"After all, no matter how good your magical plants are, those Sureyas people can't bring out their full potential. Only when we breeders directly enter the field can we completely unleash the power of the magical plants we worked so hard to cultivate."

Wizard Edgar said, "I'll take the victory fruit."

At that time, the third-ranked Yennefer in the preliminary round suddenly raised her right hand and said, "Competition committee, I want to report that Edgar David violated the competition rules. As a breeder, he directly entered the competition field, completely violating our Cloud Marsh Cup's competition spirit."

Wizard Edgar was just about to use Edgar's tree person to directly capture the steel fortress's location. Who knew that when he heard Yennefer suddenly report him, he turned back incredulously. "What are you saying?"

"Didn't you see that's my life ancient tree's special function?"

Witch Yennefer immediately pointed out the loophole in his statement. "Then why did you chant the incantation in the viewing hall? Wizard Locke Augustine already pointed out that you used the Common Root Curse."

Witch Yennefer glanced at Locke.

Wizard Edgar obviously hadn't expected anyone would report him on this issue. He immediately became somewhat anxious. "You... this third place... how dare you!"

A True Sight Orb emerged from midair. "Since a contestant has filed a report, the competition committee must handle it."

"Regarding this issue, our competition committee had intense discussion and opinions were completely inconsistent. Therefore, we've decided to give the choice to the vast audience."

"Each paying viewer will vote to choose whether Wizard Edgar's behavior violates the rules."

"During this process, the competition committee requires Wizard Edgar David's avatar to stop advancing. Other competing contestants may continue the competition as normal."

Wizard Edgar's expression darkened. He had already used his avatar to force out the Mekani people's headquarters. Just one more step and he could kill his way to the front of the Mekani people and terminate the vengeful machine spirit.

Who knew Yennefer would report him at this moment.

Yennefer smiled, then quickly used the lingzhi magical plant to notify the Sureyas people to take this opportunity to directly seize the steel fortress that Wizard Edgar had forced out.

"Thank you, Wizard Edgar. Otherwise, I wouldn't even know where that fortress's location was."