Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 223 Heading to the Heart of the Blood Curse Court

Locke spent two thousand magic stones to secretly purchase 28 bottles of potions from their shop before leaving the Owl Cauldron shop.

Then, as evening fell, Locke secretly went to a port in the port city of Lilith's Hut, as agreed.

It was a small port among the many ports of the port city, a near-shore port. In the southeastern corner of the region, simply crossing the sea didn't mean one was already in the realm of the endless, mysterious sea.

The nearshore area is relatively safe.

Even though there are some ferocious aquatic magical creatures, they are not very dangerous.

But once you leave the coastal area, everything changes completely.

The Endless Mysterious Sea is a sea that even formal wizards must be careful to avoid, and there are certain areas that are absolutely off-limits.

That was no ordinary ocean. Its depths were unfathomable, and beneath its abyss lay countless mysteries.

It is said that even ancient marine creatures that have long since disappeared may reappear in the endless mysterious sea if one is unlucky.

Even a wizard ship operated by a legitimate wizard could be destroyed by a suddenly appearing sea monster or an ancient dragon king.

Or perhaps you're driving along when you suddenly encounter a massive ocean whirlpool the size of a continent. That level of geological disaster would be enough to kill most wizards.

That was a completely different region from the safe land.

The endless mysterious sea seems to connect different times and dimensions.

Locke had seen some records of people who went to sea for three years and accidentally entered a strange plane. When they returned, they found out that hundreds of years had passed in the prime material plane.

But in the nearshore waters, it's just ordinary ocean and very safe.

The ship that Locke arrived at in this small port was a vessel used by ordinary wealthy people in the port city of Lilith's Cottage.

He deliberately took off his wizard robes, put all the magical plants into his astral ring, and put on a set of medieval noble attire.

Wearing a tight-fitting top, purple-dyed leggings, and a semi-circular cloak trimmed with silver needles, Locke, whose perfect physique was enhanced by the bloodline of ancient creatures, looked like a handsome and dashing elven ranger.

When Locke arrived at the small port, Sophia the Witch, two first-class wizard apprentices, and a female first-ring wizard whom Locke had never seen before were already there.

At this moment, they had all disguised themselves and concealed their magical pressure, appearing as a group of ordinary nobles.

Locke knew that, according to the plan, they would disguise themselves as a group of ordinary mortal nobles and pretend that they were smuggling a shipment into the mortal territory of the Blood Curse Court.

This is quite reasonable, because the civilization level of the mortal world of the Blood Curse Court is completely outmatched by that of the mortal world of the White Wizard Land. Therefore, mortal nobles often travel thousands of miles, risking all sorts of dangers, to transport goods from here to the White Wizard Land.

The Blood Curse Court's jurisdiction is too vast, making it impossible to restrict the flow of such goods.

Upon seeing Locke's arrival, the group sprang into action. Sophia, the witch, chuckled slightly at Locke's attire. "Locke, you're overdoing it. You've probably never done a stealth mission before, have you?"

Locke asked, "Teacher, what's wrong?"

"Is this the image I'm wearing? Does it not resemble that of a mortal noble? I specifically looked up the common attire of mortal nobles in the Lilith Hut area before coming here..."

Sofia the witch and another formal witch, Bella Gabriel, exchanged a glance, and then Sofia the witch smiled and said, "It's not a matter of clothing, but of temperament."

Sophia the Witch raised her index finger and shook it. "Your aura is simply too outstanding."

“No ordinary mortal nobleman would be like you.”

Even if you were thrown into a group of mediocre people, everyone would immediately focus on you.

The witch Sophia handed Locke a bottle of potion, "But don't worry, this is the Thousand Faces Potion."

Locke looked down and saw that the witch Sophia had given her a gourd-shaped glass potion bottle containing a purple potion.

This was the first time Locke had obtained a first-level potion, which was a proper magic potion.

But he hadn't expected it to be in this form. And it was a functional potion. Locke's expression changed slightly. "Teacher, this is too precious. How can someone of my magic level use a first-level potion?"

Sophia the Witch dismissed it. "After taking the Thousand Faces Potion, you will gain some of the abilities of a Transfigurationist for the next month, allowing you to rapidly change your appearance, demeanor, and soul aura."

"In fact, I will give a bottle of Thousand Faces Potion to all participants in this operation for free. It is a potion that I made myself, and it is not expensive."

Sophia the Witch became serious. "The difficulty of this operation is to kill one of the enemy's official wizards deep behind enemy lines."

"Therefore, we must not attract any attention. The Thousand Faces Potion is essential. We will need it for both infiltration and escape."

“Without potions of this caliber, you would be easily discovered by the enemy’s curse inspectors, and once discovered, their wizarding army would surround us.”

"At that time, we had no choice but to retreat."

Locke nodded. "I understand, teacher."

He opened his mouth and drank it down in one gulp.

The potion of a thousand faces was very mild; he only felt countless magical energies silently merging into his bloodline.

This temporarily granted him a very powerful bloodline passive spell that didn't require him to expend much mana.

This spell is even a first-level polymorph.

"This is essentially a trial card for a first-level Appearance Transformation spell," Locke mused. "A first-level potion, truly amazing."

"Even if those shapeshifters take the Thousand Faces Potion just once, the insights they gain can greatly improve their shapeshifting skills. We laymen, though we don't understand shapeshifting, can also gain a month of shapeshifting experience out of thin air."

"Moreover, the magical energy required for transformation is entirely paid for by the potion; you don't need to pay for it yourself."

Sophia the Witch smiled at the formal wizard Bena Gabriel beside her and said, "Well, isn't my student quite interesting?"

Bella Gabriel smiled. "His personality is quite compatible with yours."

The witch Sophia looked at Bella Gabriel with great interest. "Bella, why don't you make a prophecy for my student? What do you think his future holds?"

Gabriel the Witch quickly waved her hand. "That won't do. I'll suffer a severe backlash if I predict the future for others. It costs tens of thousands of magic stones per prediction."

"I can't work for you for free."

Sophia the Witch joked, "He's just a wizarding apprentice, how much backlash could he possibly suffer?"

The witch Gabriel became serious. She had white hair, a delicate face, and no eyebrows. "It's not about magic level."

"The magic of the prophetic school is the most complex."

“If your student has great potential for the future, then the backlash against me will be just as great. If he has a high chance of becoming a formal wizard in the future, then the backlash from me making a prophecy for him during his apprenticeship will be much greater than the backlash from making a prophecy for an ordinary formal wizard.”

The Witch Gabriel said, "Unless he asks me something trivial."

"But I don't think that's what you meant, Sophia."

Sophia the witch had no choice but to give up. "Locke, let me introduce you. This is the witch Bena Gabriel."

"She was also a student of Mrs. Morgana."

"Lady Morgana has done some research on the magic of the prophecy school, and the witch Gabriel is one of the most powerful advanced prophets in our school."

The witch Sophia pointed to the two first-class wizard apprentices beside her, "This is my friend, Albert, who is also the potions wizarding seed of this generation of Lilith Hut."

"This is also my friend, Captain Andy Layton of the combat squad. He is a dedicated combat Incinerator. Incinerator is a general term for wizards who specialize in the fire magic sub-direction of the Evocation school, and who specialize in learning how to burn enemies to death with fire magic."

(End of this chapter)