Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 151 Provocation from the Cursed Master
The second floor, inside the isolation room.

Locke looked at the patient on the hospital bed and asked Aisie and Anglu, "What are your thoughts, you two?"

Anglu shook his head.

Aisie was also stunned, and shook her head slightly, indicating her helplessness.

Anglu asked Locke, "Can't we solve it like last time?"

Locke pointed to the complicated situation on the hospital bed and gave a wry smile. "Do you think this is acceptable?"

"The electric bamboo on his body has become inextricably linked to his flesh and has taken the place of his arm."

On the sickbed, a bizarre scene unfolded: a first-class wizard apprentice lay on the bed, barely breathing, while his right hand was entangled with several twisted bamboo joints. These bamboo joints, like a giant claw, gripped his right shoulder and fused with the flesh of his right arm.

Aisha carefully added, "This isn't just an ordinary fusion with his right arm; the root of that electric bamboo is also connected to his heart. If you want to forcibly replace the magical plant, you'll have to kill him."

A flash of anger crossed Angru's eyes as he said in a low voice, "This is a provocation against us. I just don't know how our treatment process from last time got leaked. She must have seen the information about our treatment methods, so she made some modifications to her curse."

Locke walked over and looked down at the electric bamboo, where a name had been left by an enchanter's inscription knife: Severin Sagamor.

It's her again.

Locke raised an eyebrow. "They're putting us in a difficult position."

"Not only can I not forcibly replace the magical plant, but I also can't use the magical resonance cultivation method to weaken it. Because now the magical plant is completely integrated with it."

Locke looked into the isolation room, at the only outsider there.

That is, his junior sister, Carrie Ackerman, a first-class wizarding apprentice at the Angron Special Workshop.

Carrie Ackerman was dressed smartly, with her hair in a ponytail and wearing a meticulously tailored white wizard's robe. She had a slender figure, a charming look in her eyes, and even wore exquisite makeup, with red lips and eyeliner.

When Carrie Ackerman heard that a special patient had been sent to their small team, she decided to come along on her own.

Clearly, she wanted to see if her Angron Studio could easily resolve the issue. If they could, it would earn her and Angron some performance points.

She and Angron didn't come to the healing center for proper work; they came to rack up performance points to get the title of Excellent/Outstanding Healer and to make Angron the Potions Star of the year.

Locke looked at Carrie Ackerman, who had come over to inquire about information, and said, "What's wrong, Senior Ackerman? Do you have a way to treat this patient? Otherwise, I'll just let your studio take this patient."

Aisie and Anglu's eyes lit up immediately.

Patients with complex conditions are a hot potato; if they can't be resolved, it will not only lower their evaluation score.

The most realistic scenario is that it will cause them to waste a lot of medicine, and they might even lose money.

It's better to get rid of this hot potato if you can.

Carrie Ackerman took a half step back, holding the documents in her hands, raised her eyebrows, and said, "I just came to take a look."

"Our Angron Studio is here to solve the most complex problems."

After saying that, Carrie Ackerman walked away from the scene with her head held high and her chest puffed out.

Anglu and Aisi both rolled their eyes.

Aisha complained, "She runs away so fast. As soon as a problem becomes difficult, she leaves. If it were easy to solve, believe me, her studio would snatch the patient away."

Locke shook his head slightly. "Let's focus on this patient. I don't have any good ideas right now."

As he spoke, Locke took out a bottle of Lesser Emerald Potion. "I'll try using the Lesser Emerald Potion to break the curse."

Anglu and Aisie's eyes lit up.

Aisha said, "Locke, you've finally learned how to make Lesser Emerald Potion. Emerald Potion is the most versatile antidote. I really envy your mentor for giving you a simplified version of Lesser Emerald Potion that even a first-class wizard apprentice can make."

"Try it quickly, it might work. This is a simplified version of the Emerald Potion."

"If we can cure this person, I'll see how ugly that arrogant Carrie Ackerman will look!"

“Locke, you’ve grown so fast. You’ve already mastered the Lesser Emerald Potion.” Anglu also had high hopes for him. “Then I’ll prepare to give him an IV infusion of Bear Spirit Bile Potion. This will strengthen his body’s magic resistance. With the two combined, he might be able to suppress the magical plants parasitizing his flesh and blood using his own [Magic Pressure Structure].

The three of them began working together.

Half an hour later, Locke administered the secondary Emerald Elixir intravenously to the man. Fortunately, the man had signed a loan agreement before losing consciousness, so he wasn't short of money for treatment. They could give him the best medicine.

After the Lesser Emerald Elixir was given to him, the wizard apprentice's face immediately regained some color, and the cursed energy within his body was continuously washed away.

The Emerald Potion is the most versatile uncurse potion and a potion frequently concocted by the witch Sophia. The simplified version, the Lesser Emerald Potion, is naturally incredibly effective, and removing this level of curse from this person is no problem at all.

Five minutes later, the person's complexion returned to normal, and the curse energy within their body was almost completely cleared away.

However, the three of them still looked solemn.

Locke frowned. "No."

"The curse on him is not difficult to remove; it's just a minor issue. It's just that the other party cleverly used the curse to cause mutations in the demonic plants."

"The mutated magical plant cannot be restored to its original state."

"This mutated plant is constantly supplying him with new curse energy. In other words, unless the root problem is solved, he will have to keep taking the Lesser Emerald Potion."

“Every so often, the curse energy within him must be cleansed.”

"The key question is whether he has the money? Besides, only I can refine the Lesser Emerald Elixir, and I can't possibly provide him with personal service."

Locke said, "We may not be able to solve this problem for the time being. Let's hand this patient over to all the potion-making assistants on the second floor and brainstorm together."

Anglu shook his head slightly. "If they were capable of solving this, they wouldn't have pushed it onto us. The enemy is too cunning; they actually used the malignant mutation of the magical plants to create such a troublesome situation."

“Sefrin Sagamor…”

"This person is terrifying. If I encountered her in the wild, I probably wouldn't stand a chance against her," Angru said, a hint of fear in his voice. "Even if we solve this problem, what if she presents us with an even more difficult one?"

Locke glanced at Anglu, interrupted him, and reminded him, "Anglu, calm down."

Anglu realized what was happening. He ignored the strange looks from the other second-class wizard apprentices and instead coughed, nodded slightly to Locke, and said softly, "Locke, thank you."

"I was definitely not calm just now."

"As an assistant to a potion master, it is truly shameful to admit defeat to a curse master like this."

Locke nodded slightly, then looked at the patient on the hospital bed and fell into deep thought. 'Restoring a mutated magical plant to its original state is indeed beyond the capabilities of an ordinary breeder.'

'The other side anticipated this, which is why they used this mechanism to create such a complex curse. But conversely, the fundamental reason why the magical plants could backfire on the wizard is that the wizard's plant magic spells became unbalanced, and their own magic resistance was insufficient to resist the magical backlash, thus resulting in the plant magic backlash.'

'Therefore, I need to break free from fixed thinking. The correct approach isn't to deal with things after they happen, but to prevent them in advance. If I can instantly increase magic resistance in a short period, I can prevent the magical plant from successfully turning against its owner.'

'In this way, no matter how sophisticated or advanced Severin Sagamor's plant curses may be, they can be fundamentally resolved from their underlying principles. This directly undermines the curse masters' confidence in this type of curse and prevents them from conducting further research.'

Otherwise, it will never end.

Locke thought of the Bear Spirit Bile Potion, but the current efficacy of the Bear Spirit Bile Potion was far from sufficient.

Locke said to Aisie and Anglu, "Let's give him something to live on first."

"Let him live at least until we find a solution to the problem."

Locke looked at the patient and already had some ideas.

This curse from the magical plant is of little use to me, as I am a breeder. I know all kinds of magical plants too well and have various ways to prevent the magical backlash from this plant.

The reason I couldn't solve it right away was that this time, after observing my previous solution, the other party optimized the magic plant curse.

This is like a duel between masters. The opponent has already made two moves, while you have only made one. So you need some time to think about how to solve the problem.

Of course, the fact that the other party had indeed studied curse magic in great depth was also a contributing factor.

Locke pondered, "Adding anti-curse magic properties to magical plants is also a way to solve the problem proactively. I remember that in the 'Secret Words of Lijin,' there's a mention of selling anti-curse lilies."

'The Curse-Breaking Lily possesses the ability to defend against curses.'

'However, that kind of magical plant is a type of anti-curse magical plant that targets ordinary curses aimed at wizards. Since magical plant curses have never appeared before, or rather, the wizards at Lilith's Hut have never faced one, this area is still a blank slate.'

(End of this chapter)