Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 215 Sixfold Curse Barrier
In Lilith's Hut, Locke opened his eyes, his mind returning to his current body.

"A six-fold cursed barrier? What's that?"

Upon hearing this, the vampire Howard was immediately surprised, as if he was astonished that such a term would come from the mouth of Locke, a white wizard.

He said to Locke, "Master, the Sixfold Curse Barrier is a special barrier that only a first-ring curse master can create."

"This is a corrupted barrier, a special kind of barrier that can corrupt all the energy within it. For example, if a piece of wood elemental energy enters this barrier, a corresponding cursed energy will combine with it. A six-fold cursed barrier is one where six different cursed energies combine with it. This will prevent any white wizard who enters it from casting even a single spell."

"Moreover, it can also prevent the White Wizard's magic from entering our Sixfold Curse Barrier."

Howard seemed to believe that Locke had planted some kind of magic in his body, making him Locke's slave. Therefore, he was now completely open and honest, no longer showing the gritted teeth he usually displayed when facing enemies. Instead, he was more like a dog wagging its tail vigorously.

Locke was somewhat shocked by what he saw; the influence of slavery on people's character could be so terrible.

Locke nodded slightly. "Yes, you did very well."

Howard's eyes widened, as if he were experiencing intense excitement after receiving Locke's praise.

Locke asked doubtfully, "But if that's the case, then the operation to bomb a cursed magic research institute with the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus wouldn't have been successful."

"The Sixfold Curse Barrier will render the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus and the Scorched Earth Bomb ineffective."

Howard the vampire said respectfully to Locke, "Master, maintaining the Sixfold Curse Barrier consumes an astronomical amount of magic stones every day, which is beyond the reach of an individual. It is said that maintaining that barrier for a month consumes the same amount of magic stones as a medium-sized project."

"It's because last time, your White Wizards' combat squad bombarded our... no, it was their cursed spell research institute that they've been keeping under six layers of cursed barriers."

"It is said that several cursed projects under development were completely wiped out that time, which made the elders of the Blood Curse Court very angry."

The vampire Howard flattered Locke, saying, "Master, now it's just you and me, that's 'us'."

Locke understood, nodded, and then said to Howard the vampire, "Howard, you're quite knowledgeable about curses, aren't you?"

"Then come with me. There's something I need your and the sketch artist's help with. There are some spells in that place that I don't understand."

Howard the vampire was caught up in the extreme joy of Locke calling his name, so he didn't realize that Locke was referring to one of their Blood Curse Court's curse magic research institutes.

Locke glanced at Howard, the vampire following behind him, and thought, 'Slavery is terrifying. This guy is completely treating me as his protector, or rather, his slave owner.'

'He not only no longer hated me, but was also incredibly loyal to me, trying to use this loyalty to curry favor with me.'

'Of course, his loyalty to me wasn't very valuable; it was merely loyalty to all slave owners.'

Locke thought to himself, 'We're about to infiltrate the Dark Wizard's territory; it'll be good to understand their logic beforehand.'

'For these dark wizards, concepts like trade, law, and contracts seem to nonexistent; the law of the jungle, where the weak prey on the strong, and the weak depend on the strong, is the only natural order.'

'This might be because in the Dark Wizard's Land, the strong can obtain anything, which leads to this.'

'If this logic is applied properly, it is indeed quite easy to cultivate spies within their society.'

Locke first locked Howard back in the cage in the Sophia Witch's incubation room, and then he went to a chimera market.

Today was the day he, Anglu, and Aisie had agreed to recruit assistants for the third phase of the Bear Spirit Gallbladder Potion experiment.

The college kept urging me to finish the third phase of experiments on the Xiongling Cuidan medicine as soon as possible.

At the job market in Chimera Market, Anglu, Aisie, and Locke each sat in an office Locke had rented for 10 magic stones.

Locke said to Anglu and Aisie, "Because of the privileges granted to us by the Healing Hand, we will not lack a source of wizard apprentice test subjects for the Bear Spirit Gall Elixir."

"The experiments on mortals and animals are easy to do, but we lack manpower. We should assign the experiments on mortals and animals to four second-class wizard apprentices respectively, and the three of us will do the third phase of experiments for the wizard apprentices."

“Recruit some more second-class wizard apprentices to assist us in the third phase of the experiment.”

Locke said, "Therefore, we plan to recruit six second-class wizard apprentices. It's a joint recruitment by our team."

"So, how are you two?"

Anglu laughed and said, “Agreed. That’s perfect. Two second-class wizard apprentices will help us with experiments on mortals, two second-class wizard apprentices will help us with experiments on animals, and two second-class wizard apprentices will help us organize data at the Healing Hand Clinic.”

"This will save the three of us a lot of time and energy."

Anglu yawned. "I've really been too busy lately."

“Ashe and I have rarely been involved in such busy projects in the previous ten years.”

“I’ve been getting very little sleep lately. Every day, as soon as I open my eyes, I go to the treatment center to observe the physical condition of the patients who are using the Xiongling Cuidan medicine. Every day, as soon as I close my eyes, I have to organize the various changes in the patients’ conditions after they take the Xiongling Cuidan medicine.”

“Some first-class wizard apprentices became very worried when they heard that I had given them the new medicine. They suspected every day that any problems they had with their bodies were caused by taking the Bear Spirit Gallbladder Potion… No matter how I explained it to them or assured them, they wouldn’t believe me…”

With dark circles under his eyes, Anglu said to Locke and Aisie, "I'm so annoyed by them. If I had two dedicated assistants, they could stop bothering those other assistants."

Aisi laughed and said, "Anglu, you have the nerve to say that. It's just that we didn't have access to any high-level projects or topics before."

"That's why you have so much free time."

"Now that you've finally been fortunate enough to join the research group for the Bear Spirit Gallbladder Elixir thanks to Tolock, you should be secretly happy."

Aisie yawned and said, "In the past, projects like this would definitely be snatched up by the senior students. How could it possibly be the turn of me and Anglu?"

"Of course, Professor Edwin has relatively few high-quality projects like this. Even if he wanted to allocate them, he wouldn't be able to."

Anglu coughed. "Don't speak ill of the teacher. He's petty. If he hears about it, you'll see what happens to you."

"If he stops allocating research resources to you in the future, you'll be left completely helpless."

Aisha laughed and said, "What's there to be afraid of? Everyone in this office is one of our own. No one will tell anyone."

Aisi looked at Locke and said, "Locke, from now on we'll follow you."

Anglu looked at Locke, "Speaking of which, I don't know if it's just my imagination, but why do I feel like Locke, your magic power has surpassed mine..."

A look of doubt crossed Anglu's eyes. "Forget it, geniuses like you are beyond the comprehension of us mortals anyway. I'll just follow you and get involved in some projects, that'll be fine."

Locke smiled and reminded the two, "The second-tier wizard apprentices who wanted to come for the interview have arrived."

Anglu and Aisie immediately straightened their clothes and adopted a cold and serious attitude in the office before the second-class wizard apprentices lined up to enter.

(End of this chapter)