Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 175 Practical Test
evening.

Locke went to Sophia's magical creature breeding room, where the vampire Howard, whom he had captured earlier, was imprisoned by Sophia.

Perseus's Eye Lichen must undergo real-world testing to produce a detailed report before it can be used to participate in the custom magical plant competition organized by the academy's combat department in order to win the championship.

Otherwise, no matter how impressive the data looks on paper, others will still have doubts.

This is where the value of advanced experimental subjects becomes apparent.

Locke has a first-class wizard apprentice prisoner from the Blood Curse Court. If he is used for experiments, high-quality practical test data can be obtained.

However, the prerequisite is that you need to convince him.

Inside the magical creature breeding room, vampire Howard's body had recovered, but his magic power had not, and he remained in a weak state.

In the darkness, Howard suddenly looked up, his eyes flashing a dangerous red light. "Who is it?"

Howard's eyes widened in fear upon recognizing the newcomer. "It's you, the White Wizard!"

"Your magic pressure... has improved again. You're improving really fast."

Howard has been wary of Locke ever since their last encounter.

At this moment, he realized that Locke's magical power had made significant progress in the past month or so, and the speed of progress far exceeded that of ordinary first-class wizard apprentices, which made him even more horrified.

Locke's magical power progressed much slower than he had during his time as a second-class wizard apprentice, but that was only because the quality of magical power for first-class wizard apprentices was extremely high, and every bit of improvement was hard-won.

Compared to ordinary first-class wizard apprentices, his monthly rate of mana increase was already very fast, especially after he used the Eye Demon Potion.

Locke's mana has now reached 462.

In the eyes of vampire Howard, Locke looks different every month.

Locke looked coldly at the vampire Howard. "Howard, I'll give you a chance. I'll help you restore you to your peak condition, open the restraint cage, and then let you escape."

"If you manage to escape, I'll consider you lucky."

Howard paused for a moment, gripping the iron cage, and said, "White Wizard, are you crazy? Help me regain my strength, open the cage, and let me escape?"

"You're really that kind of person? Didn't you go through a lot of trouble to catch me back then?"

What are you planning to do now?

Locke sneered, said nothing, and ordered the gray dwarf servant who had followed him in to push the cage that held him in, leaving the incubation room and heading to his laboratory.

Meanwhile, Locke had already spent an hour quickly mastering a basic 0.3-ring plant spell, [Green Moss Shield].

This level of magic trick is far too easy for Locke to master at his current level.

Of course, the magical plants that accompany this kind of plant magic are generally low to medium level magical plants, so this spell model cannot unleash the true power of the Eye of Perseus lichen.

This is like a small car paired with a large engine; the small car can't unleash the full power of the large engine.

Using this spell alone, in combination with the Eye of Perseus, to deal with the first-class wizard apprentice of the Blood Curse Court, one can see the full extent of the Eye of Perseus's broad-spectrum magic resistance.

Whether or not one can use a magical plant depends mainly on whether one can use magic to graft the plant, and whether or not one can use magic to graft depends on one's own magic power.

Magical plants of the level of the Eye of Perseus can only be controlled by a first-class wizard apprentice, and even a first-class wizard apprentice needs a certain amount of time to learn how to control magical plants of this level.

However, with Locke's current profound magical power, controlling this Eye of Perseus will not be difficult.

Inside Locke's laboratory, he opened the iron door of the restraint cage and tossed Howard a vial of magical creature blood.

For a moment, even the vampire Howard couldn't believe that Locke was serious.

He hesitated in fear for a moment, and after thirty seconds, seeing that Locke did not stop him, he frantically reached out, grabbed the bottle of magical creature's blood, and drank it down.

The terrifying vampire curse transformed into blood curse power, rapidly helping him draw energy from the blood of this magical creature, quickly restoring the hidden dangers in his body and his original magic.

A bloodthirsty, evil gaze pierced through the eyes of vampire Howard.

Howard the vampire smirked, "You'll regret this."

"During the time I was imprisoned by you, I constantly recalled every moment of our battle and analyzed why I failed. Now, in this confined space, with nowhere to hide, my vampire constitution can be used to its fullest potential."

Locke ignored him, instead activating the recording function of the True Sight Crystal in his palm and saying to the crystal ball, "This is the Eye of Perseus Lichen's first battle with First-Class Wizard Apprentice, Vampire Baron Howard. Before the battle, Vampire Howard had already recovered to his peak condition." Vampire Howard immediately flew into a rage. "You really were experimenting on me, White Wizard! You'll regret letting me go!"

The next moment, vampire Howard began chanting a spell—a paralysis spell.

During his captivity, Howard constantly reflected on his actions and concluded that he was captured because he had not fully utilized the curse magic system of the Blood Curse Court. Originally, the Blood Curse Court used curses to weaken the enemy and then used his vampire physique to defeat them in hand-to-hand combat.

But last time, vampire Howard thought he had relied too much on the vampire baron's powerful physique and forgotten about curse magic.

Therefore, this time, he immediately used his most familiar paralysis spell.

A beam of blood-red light shot from his hand, striking Locke, while he himself charged towards Locke. At the same time, Howard continued chanting incantations, and four other curses were imbued on the blood claw—

Blood Curse, Thousand Edge Curse, Split Consciousness Curse, Coma Curse.

These four curses, along with the paralysis curse, form a synergy, merging the five curses into a more powerful composite curse.

Clearly, this was a trump card that Howard hadn't had the chance to use before.

The blood claw struck Locke, slamming into the emerald-like circular shield of magical lichen in front of him with a 'bang'.

The next moment, the eye pattern in the middle of the emerald lichen lit up, and its cursed energy flowed on the surface of the Eye of Perseus, making a violent collision sound.

The tearing sounds grew louder and louder.

Sparks flew out from the surface of the lichen shield as energy clashed.

Howard was utterly astonished. He stared at the blood claw that had blocked his path, and the magical plant shield—a trump card of compound curses wrapped around it. "You didn't have something like this last time... What is this? Why can't my curse even break through it? I..."

The next moment, under Locke's control using the Green Moss Shield Trick Model, a beam of emerald light flashed from the eye pattern in the center of the Eye of Perseus, attacking Howard's eyes.

"Ah~ My curse was reflected back!" Howard was so surprised that before he could dodge, his eyes were destroyed by the reflected emerald light.

At the same time, the purifying magic resistance energy that had completely deflected his compound curse rushed into his mana, actually purifying a large portion of the mana he had painstakingly recovered.

He was sent flying, crashing into the laboratory wall, his body steaming with white vapor as he rolled and howled on the ground.

The compound curse he had previously unleashed was his trump card, his most powerful curse to date, but Locke used the Eye of Perseus to deflect it back.

This caused the corresponding purifying energy to rampage through his soul, directly rendering him powerless and unable to continue fighting.

Howard couldn't believe it. Just over a month ago, he could fight Locke to a standstill, but now he was crippled by Locke in a single exchange!
Locke nodded as he watched this, then turned to the True Sight Crystal and said, "The curse of Howard, the first-class wizard apprentice and vampire baron, was perfectly reflected by the Eye of Perseus, and the reflected purifying energy has additional damage to the vampire's immortality."

Locke glanced at the Eye of Perseus, its surface charred black.

"The conclusion is that the Eye of Perseus, even when driven by a 0.3-ring spell, still possesses the ability to reflect the curses of an immature curse caster, and the reflected energy can cause fatal damage to the undead body of a vampire."

"Dispelling magic and holy magic have a doubled effect on the vampire's constitution. Now, the magic reflection of the Eye of Perseus has a similar mechanism to the damage that dispelling magic and holy magic inflict on vampires."

"However, the Eye of Perseus itself is severely damaged and should only be able to be used one or two more times. If the enemy has experience dealing with the Eye of Perseus, they may be able to take advantage of this and destroy it."

"However, if we can develop spells that work with the Eye of Perseus lichen, and develop corresponding 0.5 and 0.8 ring versions, it is speculated that it can reflect back the curses of senior Blood Curse Court first-class wizard apprentices and extend the number of times the Eye of Perseus shield can be used."

"It is expected that the number of uses can be extended to about 15, which is enough to cope with many fierce battles."

At this point, Locke thought of Severin and Hussein. As long as he developed a spell model that matched the Eye of Perseus, he believed that his magical plant creation could even reflect back the curses of those two dark wizards.

Locke continued speaking to the crystal ball, "This practical battle proves that even using existing plant-based magic to activate the Eye of Perseus shield can still play a very important role in the battles of a first-class wizard apprentice."

"Furthermore, the Eye of Perseus lichen has a very strong restraining effect on all the magic of the curse master, and its magic reflection has a strong restraining effect on vampires and undead creatures."

"The Eye of Perseus lichen also has a certain physical defense capability, and it has a certain defensive effect against the vampire's blood claw attack."

Locke continued, "This record proves the superiority of the Eye of Perseus lichen in the fight against cursed mages."

"On the contrary, I think the Eye of Perseus has the following flaws: First, the Eye of Perseus is only effective against curse magic. If the enemy is not a curse caster, then the Eye of Perseus will be useless."

"The Second Eye of Perseus has a limited range of protection and requires the user to have a certain level of operational ability."

Locke deactivated the True Sight Crystal and commented fairly, "If I write another piece of combat data related to this, I should be able to write my third B-grade article. The dwarf scholar Or is right; capturing a vampire means I can produce many articles related to it."

Locke locked Howard, who was almost unconscious, back into the restraint cage, and then ordered the gray dwarf servants to push him back into the witch Sophia's incubation room.

(End of this chapter)