Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 236 First-Ring Cursed Creature

Locke, holding Albert and Sisyphus, flew over a pool of deep green acid, leaving the Cursed Ghoul Legion behind.

Sisyphus breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that they had escaped. As soon as his tense nerves relaxed, he started coughing violently again, even coughing up some blood clots. Locke noticed that the blood clots contained the characteristics of the Cursed Erosion Particle.

The main research area of ​​the advanced curse mage [Rashid Taril] in this top-tier project seems to be the curse particles within tiny cursed creatures, while the research on plague cores is even more incomplete.

On the contrary, it seems that Zhou Shizi has at least produced a batch of barely usable gadgets.

Seeing Sisyphus so weak, Albert thought for a moment and said to Locke, "Junior Locke, sell Sisyphus a bottle of Bear Spirit Gallbladder Potion!"

"He's dying."

Locke looked puzzled. "What, Senior Albert, don't you have a better potion to fight the Cursed Corruptor? I see you're basically unaffected by the Cursed Corruptor, and I was even thinking of asking you for one."

Albert slapped his forehead. "What nonsense! The reason I wasn't infected by the Cursed Spawn is because I took your Bear Spirit Jade Elixir. I was surprised to find that your Bear Spirit Jade Elixir can at least enhance my magic resistance and immunity."

“I told you long ago, I’m not a potion maker who researches healing potions. You’re the expert in that area.”

Albert asked, "Is the troll stimulant potion effective? It's my secret formula."

Locke nodded as he flew through the air.

The troll's adrenaline potion activated his mana, increasing his speed by at least 20% when using Plant Mimicry.

Therefore, even now, with two people in his hands, his flight speed is only half a percent slower than before.

Locke opened his astral ring and let Albert retrieve a bottle of Bear Spirit Gallbladder Potion himself, telling him not to worry about the money.

After all, Albert's bottle of troll stimulant was a gift from him, and it was just a normal consumption item in battle.

In the midst of war, there is no room for commercial transactions.

Albert fed Sisyphus a bottle of Bear Spirit Elixir, and Sisyphus's complexion improved slightly, regaining some color.

Albert sighed and said, "Luckily, we have your special medicine, otherwise Sisyphus would be in big trouble."

Locke glanced at Sisyphus, who was flying in mid-air, and said, "But even the Bear Spirit Jade Elixir can no longer help him completely eliminate the Cursed Particles in his body. It can only temporarily suppress them."

"The true nature of the Cursed Erosion is a mutated fungus and a cursed organism, both of which are difficult to completely eliminate."

“Unlike us, who are not infected with the Cursed Spawn and can fight off the infection by increasing our magic resistance, he has too many Cursed Spawn inside his flesh. We can only take him back to the academy and let the first-ring wizards think of a solution.”

Sisyphus is afflicted with a genuine first-circle wizard's curse, and ordinary potion-making assistants cannot help him at all.

Sisyphus thanked Locke, saying, "Thank you."

"An unfamiliar wizard."

Locke consulted with Albert, saying, "But there's still one problem, Senior Albert."

"We are now in a partial area of ​​a research institute that is sealed off by a magic trap corridor." "I used flight magic to force my way in through that magic trap corridor."

“But now that I’m with the two of you, even if I use your troll stimulant potion, I’m not confident that I can cross that cursed magic trap corridor again.”

Locke said, "Given my current condition, I can only take one person with me at most. That was my original expectation."

Upon hearing Locke's words, both Albert and Sisyphus fell into deep thought. Indeed, among them, only Locke possessed the magical ability to fly.

But there were three of them.

Asking Locke to lead the other two through a trap-filled corridor set up by a high-level curse master is asking too much.

Albert suddenly said, "Be careful."

Locke, while still in mid-air, noticed the three ominous mandrake vines wrapped around his right arm, which suddenly turned red, a symbol of danger.

Suddenly, a monster, its face completely disfigured, covered in red tumors, without skin, and emitting steam of blood, appeared behind them. It stretched out ten fingers, which extended into ten tentacles in an extremely brief moment, attacking Locke.

If Locke hadn't foreseen this and reacted quickly, those ten tentacles could have completely pierced him in that instant.

Locke brought the ten tentacles to a sudden stop in mid-air, causing them to miss their target.

At the same time, the leaves on the surface of the large blue owl banana tree behind him quickly rearranged, so Locke had very little time to stop and flew directly in the opposite direction, dodging the subsequent attacks of the terrifying monster.

Long, elongated tentacles, like spears, followed Locke, brushing past him and piercing the upper wall of the research institute's corridor.

Albert praised Locke, saying, "Locke, the performance of your flying magical plant is truly remarkable."

"Are all flying magical plants this good? Before this, I wasn't very interested in flying magical plants, but now it seems I should really save up and buy one."

Albert turned back to observe the pursuing monster and said, "That seems to be the most powerful individual among this large group of failed experiments. Moreover, it actually has magical pressure on it. I highly suspect that it is a ghoul individual modified by a first-class wizard apprentice."

"Its physical capabilities are actually keeping up with our flight speed, and its attack power is at the top of the apprentice level."

"It's very likely that Rashid Taril personally modified it, so it's a work that a first-ring wizard seriously made, although it's definitely a failure... Locke, you have to be careful."

Albert used the bell flower wrapped around his right middle finger to fire over thirty shots at the monster behind him with the [Sonic Flower Cannon], and countless invisible sonic bullets enveloped the monster.

This is far more powerful than the Angruna, which requires a period of pause after firing a single shot.

More than thirty holes the size of bowls were punched into the surface of the monster's body.

However, its body cells, which had been hijacked by the Cursed Erosion Particle, were rapidly recovering with abnormal activity. In a very short time, it regenerated its body on the spot and caught up with the enemy again.

The terrifying ghoul let out a roar, and with its body filled with steaming flesh and blood, it leaped across the walls of the research institute's corridors, following Locke at high speed.

No matter how Locke maneuvered in the air, he could never shake it off.

(End of this chapter)