Actually, Wizard Smith had chosen his timing extremely well.
He had seized the moment when Locke and Wizard Edgar had clashed with their Great Magic—the brief instant they needed to recover their magic pressure.
As a high-ranking descendant of Storm Tower, he knew quite a bit about Great Magic, so he accurately judged Locke's current condition and approximate limit of ability.
He knew that Locke was currently the strongest existence on this plane, possessing 16,000 magic pressure, three Great Magic Runes, and the ability to make two First-Ring Crystallization-stage assistants descend simultaneously in an instant.
All of this gave Locke far too many advantages.
But he also knew that because the Second-Ring First Forging Great Magic had just been forged, it was still in its first forging—in other words, the [Unforged Stage].
At this point, Great Magic's energy dissipation was too high, its separation was too great, and its instantaneous magic-pressure output multiplier would not be particularly high. Therefore, after Locke used Great Magic for a single strike, no matter how much capital he had, how great his total magic pressure was, or how many Great Magic Runes and assistants he possessed, he would briefly become drained.
Thus, he immediately seized this opportunity and used Extraterrestrial Meteor Magic with all his strength, launching a direct attack at Locke.
What Wizard Smith had not expected, however, was that Kingdom Domain and Moon of Evolution would be so perfectly compatible.
One plus one was greater than two.
He estimated that Locke would need at least a minute to restore his total magic pressure. That minute would be enough for him to seize the opportunity and make Locke suffer a heavy loss. Yet he had not expected Locke's Moon of Evolution to restore his total magic pressure after only a single breath.
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