Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 170 Provocation of the Dark Wizard

"Bang~"

Locke's eyes changed slightly. A calf on the operating table in his makeshift laboratory had exploded like a bomb after drinking water mixed with a drop of fission agent.

Locke's left eye, through the Focus Spell, recorded the changes in the calf's magical power after taking the potion.

In an instant, the various elements of the calf's body underwent a violent reaction, and in this reaction, a large amount of all the elements were transformed into light and fire elements.

Then, the calf's flesh exploded.

Locke was somewhat stunned. "This potion is actually meant for wizards to take and to enhance their mental power."

"It seems that a detailed safety dosage experiment must be conducted before taking it."

"Moreover, I need to strengthen my physical body as much as possible, otherwise, the moment the elemental fission generates a large number of light and fire elemental particles, my body will be torn apart like that calf."

"But at the same time, if my physical body can withstand this powerful energy, it is indeed possible that my magical power will improve rapidly in a short period of time."

"In any case, this method is indeed somewhat radical."

Locke thought of archaeology. Perhaps it would be wiser for him to study archaeology before taking the fission potion and use it to enhance his physique.

Locke ordered the cat maids to come in and tidy up the laboratory, and then used syringes to extract a vial of blood from each of the two women.

During this period, Locke frequently drew blood from the two catwomen and continuously used blood purification equipment and specific bloodline separation potions in an attempt to extract their special bloodline through potion-making techniques.

Of course, this is a massive undertaking, and it may require some more advanced equipment.

However, if one can successfully extract the bloodline of the ancient three-eyed tiger cat, it will indeed greatly enhance one's physique!

And this is exactly what I need right now in order to rapidly increase my mental strength.

Locke left the laboratory and entered his second small-to-medium-sized plantation, where he had ordered the minotaur slaves yesterday to erect the Differential Mirror in front of an acre of magic field.

Meanwhile, Locke used grafting to graft a degraded electric bamboo onto the rootstock of an emerald iris lichen (a variant).

Locke then used a secondary grafting healing technique on both wounds.

Where the wounds of the electric bamboo and the emerald iris lichen come into contact, festering wounds constantly form, and a special kind of sticky secretion is secreted. The secretion has a foul odor and is somewhat black.

Locke saw in the Differential Magic Mirror that many magical components of the degraded electric bamboo and the emerald iris lichen were in serious conflict. The two were barely able to heal together under the effect of the secondary grafting healing spell, but the healed parts would be torn apart in the next moment.

'Once you can identify which specific magical components are conflicting, you can try using a specific magical resonance frequency to mitigate these conflicts.'

Locke said in a low voice, "In this way, an experiment that would normally take more than half a month to complete may only take half a day."

"Of course, this requires me to operate the Magic Frequency Cultivation Method more precisely and to have a deeper understanding of the theoretical knowledge; otherwise, it would be impossible to achieve."

Locke adjusted the radiation cauldron to a specific frequency, and immediately, in the reflection of the differential magic mirror, the conflict between the two magical plant components eased.

About half a day later, Locke saw that the deteriorated electric bamboo had shown obvious signs of positive change, and at the same time, the emerald iris lichen variant had also shown some changes.

Clearly, the offspring of this variegated Emerald Iris lichen has memorized the characteristics of the curse on the Electric Bamboo and has produced a corresponding change in magic resistance.

Locke carefully dug out the mutated seed with a shovel and moved it to another acre of magical field for preservation.

Emerald Iris Lichen is a type of fungal magical plant. Fungal magical plants have a characteristic of communicating with each other.

Therefore, once a lichen develops a magical resistance to a certain curse, it will pass this memory on to the rest of the Emerald Iris lichen over time.

Of course, the first step is to cultivate a variant of the Emerald Iris lichen before this exchange of anti-tumor antibodies can be achieved.

The original Emerald Iris Lichen did not possess any natural specific magic resistance to curses. Rather, it was more of a natural increase in magic resistance, and also possessed the ability to retain magic resistance memories.

Its specific anti-magic antibodies will disappear over time, gradually returning to their original state.

One advantage of this is that when attacked by other magical attacks, such as elemental magic attacks other than curse magic, it will generate special magic resistance against elemental magic.

Locke later used grafting to cultivate a round shield-shaped Emerald Iris lichen variant, which developed a specific resistance to curse magic only.

The advantage of this is that this variant of the Emerald Iris lichen has greatly increased resistance to curse magic. It even possesses active defensive capabilities, gradually transforming into a combat-oriented magical plant.

Locke's goal is to cultivate a super defensive magical plant based on this one, one that is specifically designed to counter curse magic.

Locke glanced at the time. "Another grafting experiment has been completed. The variant of the Emerald Iris Lichen has adapted to the second type of magical plant curse."

"We haven't found any broad-spectrum magic resistance to curses yet."

"I need more magical plant curses."

"I'm going to the Healing Hand Research Institute this afternoon."

Locke pondered, "Perhaps I should provoke Severin."

……

In the afternoon, at the Healing Hand Treatment Center, Locke deliberately greeted many of the potion-making assistants as he entered the treatment center.

Since Seflin was able to obtain firsthand treatment data on her treatment of Luckin Coffee, she figured she could also convey the information to Seflin within the treatment facility.

Locke had already realized that there were probably quite a few people in the white wizarding society who were being used by the black wizards.

The two articles I bought from the library earlier clearly used a lot of data from dark wizards, so that person probably has some problems.

The wizard apprentices at Lilith's Hut might indeed have the motivation to trade information with dark wizards in order to publish more articles.

Furthermore, the white wizards also spend money to directly purchase some services from the black wizards.

Historian McCarthy's teacher may very well have been a dark wizard.

But McCarthy himself, for some reason, sided with the White Wizard.

Archaeologists hold a very special and high position in the Black Wizarding Society.

Even so, McCarthy still preferred to open a small shop in the Chimera Market, which must have been for a special reason.

Whether they are white wizards or black wizards, they are essentially wizards, so they are not completely isolated from each other.

Carrie Ackerman, wearing red lipstick and serving as a first-class wizarding apprentice assistant at Angron's workshop, greeted Locke at the entrance to the healing facility.

With a hint of schadenfreude and a sense of watching the show, she said to Locke, "Good morning, Augustine, the Potions Master."

"Ah, do you have any treatment ideas for those two patients you have who are afflicted by the cursed magical plants?"

Locke feigned indifference and said, "Well, I already have a solution."

"The curse of the magical plant is just a relatively ordinary minor curse, far inferior to my lesser emerald potion."

"I am very confident about this."

Carrie Ackerman paused, looking at Locke with surprise. For a moment, she couldn't understand why Locke was so confident.

Even though their studio dared not touch the curse, Locke seemed completely unfazed and didn't take it seriously.

Carrie Ackerman forced a smile. "Potion Master Augustine is joking."

"As long as you are sure."

After hearing this, many of the potion-making assistants around Locke looked at him thoughtfully.

Having achieved his goal, Locke quickly left and headed towards his office.

'Given Severin's personality, she's extremely arrogant. If she senses my disrespect for her plant curses, she'll likely try to create more plant curses in a short time.'

'But that's also what I hoped would happen.'

'Hopefully it will succeed. Dark wizards... should be easier to provoke.'

(End of this chapter)