Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 112 The Potions Master's Responsibility
The witch Sophia took out two documents from her astral ring, handing one to the wizard Edwin and the other to Locke.

Wizard Edwin glanced at Witch Sophia with some surprise. He found it slightly strange that she would give a copy of the materials to her students as well, because in his view, what was the point of giving students something like a blood curse?

However, since he was someone else's student, Wizard Edwin didn't say much, but just smiled and said, "It seems that you value your student very much, Sophia."

Sophia the Witch said matter-of-factly, “Yes, he is very talented. I think his intuition might help us someday. Besides, Hussein Quinn is the next generation of the Blood Curse Court, so it is our responsibility to cultivate outstanding next generations.”

Wizard Edwin smiled but said nothing.

Wizard Edwin and Locke both began reading the document at the same time.

Locke flipped through the document, and the more he read, the more he felt that the Blood Curse of the Blood Curse Court was truly sinister.

First of all, a blood curse is actually a curse on a person's bloodline. In essence, it is not a curse on the person's physical body, but a curse on the person's entire bloodline.

This means that by cursing a person, all of that person's relatives are cursed and killed.

But this is only the most basic blood curse; many blood curses have already undergone changes.

The target of the Blood Curse of the Giants changed, transforming the curse on bloodlines into a curse on social relationships.

Wizard Edwin said calmly, "Sophia, according to your information, the curse of the Mother Giant Corpse Blood Curse spreads by cursing everyone who has spoken to this first-class wizard apprentice victim within the past month."

"Even just exchanging a single sentence with him can create the conditions for a closed loop of the curse."

Am I misunderstanding something?

Sophia nodded. "That's right. It's an improvement on the original Giant Corpse Blood Curse. The original Giant Corpse Blood Curse's propagation logic was that if someone had close physical contact with the victim within a month, they could curse the victim's social relationships through the blood curse, and then use one curse to chain curse all those who had physical contact with him."

"But this new curse only requires speaking to spread, making it easier to transmit. The cost is that the curse's damage has been reduced to one-third of its original value, which is why this first-class wizard apprentice has been able to survive until now."

"Otherwise, he would have died long ago."

Wizard Edwin nodded and said, "That's equivalent to actively degrading the blood curse, using active degradation to strengthen the blood curse's ability in a certain direction. It's not particularly ingenious, but considering he's only a first-class wizard apprentice, it's still exceptionally remarkable."

Sophia said, "That's not right either. This is just a blood curse from a first-class wizard apprentice, yet it has increased the range of its spread and made it more difficult to eradicate. Even though its lethality has been reduced to one-third of its original value, it is still much more troublesome because of this."

"Or rather, even if you and I seriously take action to resolve this matter, what will the academy's higher-ups think? I think they will prevent us formal wizards from taking action because of face-saving issues, and instead prioritize sending the most outstanding first-class wizard apprentices and potion-making assistants from Lilith Hut to try to resolve this blood curse."

"Although I don't want to say it, I'm afraid that in the eyes of the academy's higher-ups, the issue of face is also very important."

Wizard Edwin agreed, "That's right, face is also very important."

"I think we can keep him alive with medicine for now. If he can survive for a month, we can reduce the range of the blood curse."

As the wizard Edwin and the witch Sophia discussed, many second-class and third-class wizard apprentices and their helpers present changed their expressions drastically, because they had all had verbal exchanges with this first-class wizard apprentice.

This means that they are now all included in the curse of the blood curse.

This curse is clearly targeting them.

Many wizarding apprentices who still consider themselves healthy now feel a chill down their spines; they've all been cursed with a blood curse. The blood curse is activated by the death of the cursed person, immediately beginning the reaping of all those affected by it, continuing until they are all killed or forcibly broken.

This is what makes the Blood Curse so terrifying.

Therefore, although they are currently alive and well, if the first-class wizard apprentice patient suddenly dies, they will also be immediately struck by the blood curse and die instantly.

Although they were alive, they were now not much different from walking corpses.

On the other hand, Locke was also seeing this kind of curse for the first time.

He looked at the documents in his hand, secretly surprised.

This curse can be considered a signature spell of the Blood Curse Court; they are the only ones in the Southeastern Region who have developed this niche most deeply.

"This is truly eye-opening," Locke said, looking at the witch Sophia. "No wonder my teacher brought me here to broaden my horizons. A potion-making assistant who hasn't seen anything like this is always missing something."

Locke racked his brains trying to figure out how to break the blood curse, but he dismissed each of his own ideas: ordinary antidotes wouldn't work.

Originally designed to counter curse magic, the Bear Spirit Bile Antidote should have little effect on this blood curse.

The principle behind the Bear Spirit Bile Antidote is to enhance a wizard's resistance to curse magic by strengthening magic resistance.

However, this blood curse, through its continuous inflicts on social relationships and other aspects, only buys a little more time, unless the magic resistance is strong enough to reach the level of a formal wizard.

It's useless if you don't address the root cause.

Moreover, Locke had just witnessed the caregivers at the treatment center recklessly applying the bear spirit bile antidote to the first-class wizard apprentice patient as if it were water.

Locke felt helpless for the moment, but he didn't have too many negative thoughts. After all, he had only just passed the exam to become a potion master's assistant. He didn't have much experience or time to accumulate knowledge, so it was normal that he couldn't solve the problem.

The Blood Curse Court is no pushover either.

With the help of the laborers, the first-class wizard apprentice finally managed to sign the contract himself.

Once the loan agreement was signed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that their lives might be saved.

“Now that he’s signed the contract, he’ll have the money for treatment.” Wizard Edwin said indifferently, “Push him into the private room on the third floor. This kind of blood curse isn’t suitable for staying on the second floor.”

“Sophia, let your apprentices work with my apprentices. Let’s go over there and discuss some other issues. This isn’t the only troublesome blood curse; two new and even more troublesome blood curses have appeared on the third level.”

“Those are blood curses cast by official wizards of the Blood Curse Court, and they are much more difficult to deal with than this one. Let’s deal with those two blood curses first.”

“Alright.” Sophia the Witch turned and nodded to Locke, saying, “Go with the helpers, and be careful.”

"As potion masters, we can unleash our full power here. Confronting those cursed forces is also our chance to create better potion formulas."

Locke bowed and said, "Yes, teacher."

(End of this chapter)