Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 209 Mana Increase, Mana 500!

Locke placed his palm on the amethyst matrix, and saw waves surging inside the purple crystal head, with the numbers on it rising from 462 all the way to 470.

During this month, Locke's meditation speed increased due to taking the Eye Demon Potion, so his mana has increased from 454 at the beginning of the month to 462.

But now, due to the ancient bloodline modification, his mental strength is constantly improving, and the speed of his improvement is even faster than the improvement speed after taking a large number of potions, including the Eye Demon Potion.

Locke felt the constant roaring of the three-eyed tiger cat's consciousness in his ears constantly assaulting his own.

The bloodline modification potions created by archaeologists include some that are infused with Botrytis cinerea, based on information they obtained from negative energy particle fields spanning hundreds of thousands of years.

That is, the scene that this three-eyed tiger cat saw before it died hundreds of thousands of years ago.

This scene repeatedly impacted Locke. Locke couldn't see what the three-eyed tiger cat actually saw, but he could feel the tiger cat's anger, fear, and despair, as well as its solitary courage.

Even in its final moments, it was still trying to resist the supercontinental geological catastrophe, but was ultimately swallowed up by the tide of that era.

A deep sense of doubt lingered in Locke's mind, just as it did in the minds of all archaeologists.

What exactly happened at that time?
Is it a global disaster, or just a regional one?

Why were all the negative energy particles related to that catastrophe unable to be preserved, as if all the related negative energy particles had been destroyed?
To understand the catastrophe, archaeologists can only glean information from other fossils from that era, indirectly learning about the existence of that massive geological upheaval.

Locke plans to study and explore these things in the future, because if he can crack this mystery, he doesn't know how many articles he could publish.

Most importantly, the bloodline of ancient creatures could indeed enhance their physique and had many benefits.

Of course, these things might not be something an apprentice can handle. He can work on them slowly after he becomes a full-fledged wizard.

Even now, Locke has some understanding of what an archaeologist is.

Across hundreds of thousands of years, magic and knowledge are used to unlock the secrets of history, knowledge that has been buried for so long that no one understands or cares about it. The mysteries and glory of that era are revealed, and ancient creatures that have long been extinct reappear in this era.

This is what archaeologists do.

Locke steadied his mind, calming the rage and unease arising from the bloodline modification within him. His pupils began to turn into golden vertical pupils, with another pupil within those golden pupils, now even clearer.

Locke looked in the mirror. "As expected, this bloodline modification has triggered a reaction from the mysterious bloodline within me. This time, the changes in my pupils are even more subtle."

Locke activated the True Sight Crystal Ball at hand, recording the image of himself transforming into golden double pupils within the crystal ball.

In the future, I can look up the origin and source of this golden pupil pattern.

This way, we might be able to find out the origin of this bloodline, as well as the identity of the mother of this body.

Locke saw in the mirror that his pupils quickly returned to normal human pupils. "Has the chain reaction ended? This is unsettling."

"I need to figure out what happened to my own body as soon as possible. Although so far the chain reaction has only benefited me, the unexpected means instability."

"As a wizard, how can I be too lenient with this instability caused by the unknown?"

At the same time, Locke's body officially began undergoing the transformation using the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline. Locke grabbed the five bottles of cell division-accelerating potions prepared on the shelf and drank them down. This was a little trick.

Cell division acceleration agent is just a common assistant-level functional agent with a high difficulty level in refining. This agent can accelerate the cell division speed of its own cells and is suitable for experiments that require rapid generation changes.

Similarly, it is also suitable for self-administration during bloodline modification, which can increase the number of cell divisions to complete the bloodline modification better and faster.

Locke felt a burning sensation all over his body, and his body became extremely hot, as if he had been suffering from a high fever. He was somewhat prepared for this and quickly jumped into a large bucket of cold water that he kept inside the laboratory.

Soon, the bucket of cold water began to boil, producing one bubble after another.

Locke raised his right hand and saw that the veins on his right arm were bulging, and at the same time, a mysterious eye pattern appeared faintly on his forehead in the water.

“The intensity of this bloodline modification far exceeds my previous expectations,” Locke said. “It has probably reached the intensity of a 0.9-ring bloodline modification, which is very close to the level of a first-ring bloodline modification.”

"If I can complete this level of bloodline transformation at this stage, I can publish a lot more articles. No, what am I thinking right now? I'm not an article-publishing machine, how did I become alienated?"

Locke calmed himself down. "Just hold on a little longer, and the modification will be completed soon."

"My accuracy in identifying the bloodline of the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat this time was extremely high. After synthesis, it has reached a new level. That is a work that requires three years of cultivating gray mushroom bacteria and three years of studying archaeological magic to create."

"Therefore, the side effects of this bloodline modification drug should not be too severe."

An hour later, the water in the bucket had cooled down, and Locke picked up the mirror to look at his face.

He is currently in the bloodline activation stage of the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat.

First of all, his magic power has increased from 462 before the transformation to 500, a full 38 points!
This is the amount of magic power Locke would normally need to spend over 400 magic stones every day, take three Eye Magic Potions every month, and meditate intensively for about two years to increase.

This modification directly boosted Locke's mana to 500, making his base mana more powerful and solid.

Moreover, the magic power obtained in this way is actually of higher purity.

This is likely due to the inherent strength of the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline.

Meanwhile, Locke, in his bloodline-activated state, was constantly consuming mana. A magical eye appeared on his forehead; this magical eye was a natural magical eye that the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat was born with.

The prototype of the Mystic Eyes created by alchemists comes from the innate Mystic Eyes on the bodies of modern magical creatures.

At the same time, Locke's entire body was covered in the distinctive white tiger stripes of a three-eyed tiger cat, and his hands had become a hybrid of tiger claws and human hands.

Locke felt that his physique had been strengthened to an extremely exaggerated degree during this bloodline modification.

After all, the three-eyed tiger cat is known for its incredibly strong physique.

However, maintaining this bloodline activation state requires a continuous consumption of a huge amount of mana, since Locke is not a born Three-Eyed Tiger Cat; he is merely a Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline modifier.

He estimated that his current mana was only enough to maintain the bloodline activation state for 10 minutes, which would consume about 50 mana points per minute.

(End of this chapter)