Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 111 Blood Curse

Sophia walked up the spiral staircase. "Come with me to the second floor. The patients on the first floor are nothing special."

"The real trouble is those who are under the spell on the second and third floors. You'll understand why I have a headache once you see them."

Locke knew that the Sophia witch was improving his combat skills, and he had actually come here mentally prepared, but he was still taken aback at this moment.

However, now that I've seen it, I'll have the experience to deal with similar situations in the future.

"Looks like I'll have to carry a few more bottles of Bear Spirit Bile Antidote Potions with me from now on," Locke muttered to himself. Bear Spirit Bile Antidote Potions are universally effective potions against curse magic, which can optimize one's magic resistance, turning it into a state of resistance to curse magic.

Therefore, carrying this potion is the easiest way to deal with those wizard apprentices of the Blood Curse Court in the wild.

Locke followed the witch Sophia up to the second floor.

As soon as Locke stepped onto the second floor, he immediately sensed the tense atmosphere.

If the first floor was just a place where everyone was rushing around and someone was screaming in pain, then the atmosphere on the second floor was much more oppressive.

The second-floor hall was filled with sickbeds. The curses on each wizard apprentice were more severe than those on the first floor, and most of them had completely lost their ability to move.

A deafening roar shattered the deathly silence.

A first-class wizard apprentice shouted, "Where's the assistant? Come here quickly! This patient is afflicted with a blood curse. We need to find the senior wizards immediately; only they can temporarily suppress the blood curse's activation!"

"Damn it, this is a blood curse. Those beasts in the Blood Curse Court, they dumped someone cursed on us here just to deliberately waste our resources and make us waste our time here!"

In his eyes, being afflicted by the blood curse was tantamount to being dead.

Locke looked over there and saw the first-class wizard apprentice lying on the sickbed, his skin covered in blood, which looked terrifying. His pupils were dilated, his eyes were vacant, and his body was abnormally swollen, with every limb looking like it was edematous.

He is still alive because a wizard apprentice is using a syringe to administer specially modified blood to him, which keeps him barely alive.

A fully qualified wizard rushed down from the third floor and pointed a finger at the forehead of the first-class wizard apprentice patient, temporarily stopping the outbreak of the blood curse.

His expression was grim as he asked the helpers, "The blood curse requires a potion to cure it. Can this student afford it? Is he a student at this school?"

“If you are not a student of this school, you can only receive conservative treatment and delay it for as long as possible.”

"If he is a student of this school, let him sign a loan with the college. After he recovers, he can work full-time to repay the medical expenses."

The helpers quickly checked the list and replied, "Lord Edwin, this person is a botany student at our school."

Edwin said impatiently, "Then get him to sign the contract right away."

“Once the blood curse erupts, everyone connected to him by blood will die together. Because it involves a wide range of people, the accumulated pain will nourish the curse itself, making it even more unbreakable. Once the blood curse erupts, he will be completely doomed. Not to mention him, probably everyone related to him will die.”

Edwin said, "I don't know what type of blood curse it is, but it is at least a curse spell cast by a formal wizard of the Blood Curse Court."

“Perhaps even his friends will be implicated.” Edwin’s expression was grim.

The witch Sophia came over and said, "It's the Blood Curse of the Giants."

Edwin turned around in surprise, looked at the witch Sophia, then glanced at Locke, and smiled, "Sophia, you're here. That's great. Your thinking is always clear and quick. With you here, the pressure on me is much less."

"Is this your student?" The witch Sophia nodded to him and said, "Yes. This is my student, Locke Augustine. He just passed his Potions Assistant exam, so I brought him here to broaden his horizons."

“Locke, this is Edwin, a certified wizard, one of the potions wizarding instructors at Lilith Hut, and one of the three certified wizards who are permanently stationed at the Healing Hand.”

Locke bowed to Wizard Edwin. "Greetings, Lord Edwin."

The wizard Edwin nodded slightly to him, but didn't pay much attention.

After all, the two are of vastly different statuses. A formal wizard has no reason to pay attention to a first-class wizard apprentice he is meeting for the first time unless there is a special reason.

He looked at the witch Sophia and laughed, "I really didn't expect that you would have a first-class wizard apprentice student after only two years of advancement. Sophia, you and your student are both the type to advance quickly."

“Speaking of which, it’s been so long, and you’ve finally brought your students to help. I thought you’d be relying on yourself all this time.” Wizard Edwin showed a hint of weariness.

“Your student must have learned some of your skills. With him coming over to help, the pressure on our side can be reduced to some extent.”

Although the situation was urgent, the two formal wizards chatted idly in the second-floor hall, and no one dared to interrupt them.

Even the first-class wizard apprentice patient who had just almost died could only hold his breath and wait for the two of them to finish their conversation.

Fortunately, Wizard Edwin seemed to finally remember the main topic and said to Witch Sophia, "The Blood Curse of the Giants? I've never heard of such a blood curse."

The witch Sophia said, "It's a newly invented blood curse. Or rather, a new blood curse modified from the old blood curses."

"The inventor wasn't even a formal wizard, but rather Hussein Quinn, the first-order wizard seed from the Blood Curse Court who was most likely to become a formal wizard recently. It was probably his wizarding mentors who helped him modify this blood curse."

"Hussein should be able to obtain the entire Blood Curse Court and all the resources invested in the next generation."

“You know, the Blood Curse Court is different from us. Their wizarding apprentices are servants of the official wizards; they are a disgrace to wizarding.”

Sophia the Witch said calmly, "Among the wizard apprentices over there, I'm afraid only those few promising candidates who have entered the wizarding ranks can be considered human."

"I learned about this by chance."

Wizard Edwin nodded.

The Blood Curse Court is training wizard apprentices using the method of raising Gu worms, and they have ranked all the enrolled wizard apprentices.

A high-ranking wizard apprentice can kill a low-ranking wizard apprentice without any consequences.

The top ten who are ultimately selected are the wizard seeds of the Blood Curse Court.

Regardless of the merits or demerits of this training method, the character of the wizard apprentices it produces is evident; they are all ruthless fighters and indeed formidable on the battlefield.

Often, one can defeat ten white wizard apprentices of the same level and skill.

Wizard Edwin sighed. "It seems the Blood Curse Court has geniuses too. To be able to develop a blood curse of this caliber at the first-class wizard apprentice stage."

"It's a pity that such a promising wizard has been wasted by the dark wizards. If he could have entered the White Wizard Academy and studied diligently, he might have achieved even greater things in the future. In this world, combat only occupies a small part; magic is not just for fighting."

"So, how exactly does this Mother-Child Giant Blood Curse spread, Sophia? Do you know?"

(End of this chapter)