Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 237 The Eye of Perseus's Counterattack

"Watch out!" Albert shouted.

The next moment, the cursed creature at the first ring level jumped onto the wall above Locke's head, its right hand deforming into a scythe gleaming with black light, about to slash at the large blue owl banana tree behind Locke.

Below the three of them was a river of strong acid; if they were knocked down, they would fall directly into the acid.

Albert used the 0.9-level [Blade Bamboo Sword Dance] technique with a backhand, forcibly cleaving the terrifying monster in two vertically, and then cutting it horizontally into four equal pieces.

The speed of the Bamboo Blade Dance attack is extremely fast; in the instant of its swing, it surpasses the attack and movement speed of the modified ghoul.

But after the monster was cut into four pieces, it not only showed no signs of death, but instead used each of its remaining upper body halves to transform one hand into a blood-and-flesh scythe that glowed with black light, and then it tried to slash at Locke and Albert.

"The wizard... is dead..."

In this critical moment, Albert shouted, "Locke, get out of the way!"

Sisyphus shouted, “Throw me out to distract him, Locke!”

Locke frowned. In such a panicked state, most people would probably make all sorts of mistakes.

But at this moment, instead of feeling flustered, I became even calmer, my mind as still as a well, unaffected by any emotions.

His pupils had even turned slightly into golden vertical pupils.

'Even if I abandon them, I can't escape.' This ghoul's vitality and physical functions have been greatly enhanced by the Cursed Erosion. And it's filled with hatred for all wizards; it's not hunting us, it's hunting any wizard.' Locke thought quickly, 'Wait a minute, no matter how much it's been enhanced, its foundation should still be curse magic.'

'The Cursed Orb is merely a container; the advanced geometric curse spells within it are what truly function.'

Locke immediately summoned the Eye of Perseus Lichen Shield from his Astral Ring and used the 0.5-ring [Moss Shield]. Instantly, a green aura surrounded the surface of his Eye of Perseus Lichen Shield, forming ring after ring of green light.

These green halos were the magical glow emanating from the spell model of [Moss Shield]. Driven by this 0.5-ring spell, the Eye of Perseus shield stood between the monster and Locke and the others.

‘Bang~’

'Clang~'

The monster's fleshy scythe rubbed against the surface of Perseus's Lichen Eye shield, creating magical sparks and leaving two huge grooves on it.

However, the attack from the flesh-and-blood scythe transformed from the Cursed Child on the Eye of Perseus also quickly illuminated the eye pattern inside the Eye of Perseus, emitting a crystalline green light wave.

Magic rebound!

'Boom~'

In an instant, the monster let out an unprecedented scream. "Wizard...that hateful wizard..."

"I hate you, I resent you..."

"One day, I will kill you all..."

Under the magical rebound of the Perseus Eye Lichen Shield, the ghoul's body, transformed by the Cursed Erosion, began to collapse, its flesh decomposing little by little, exposing the large amount of black mycelium of the Cursed Erosion inside its body.

Under the magical rebound of the Eye of Perseus's lichen shield, the guy's body seemed unable to continue, while the hyphae of the Cursed Corruptor barely managed to bind together his remaining body cells, combining them all at once.

Under these bizarre circumstances, the creature's body swelled up and transformed into a fleshy ball covered in bloody tentacles.

The fleshy tentacles surrounding the ball of flesh lashed out like whips, continuing to chase after Locke and his companions. However, this time they were much slower and could no longer keep up with Locke's plant mimicry technique: Raptor Transformation.

Locke even had a moment to stop and glance back at the monster. "The Eye of Perseus lichen still has enough power to fight back against this kind of monster."

"After all, the Eye of Perseus lichen had already gained broad-spectrum resistance to common curses of the Blood Curse Court by means of the curse of magical plants, and had also gained corresponding magical counterattack capabilities."

"That monster seems to have had its body blasted apart by my Eye of Perseus lichen, causing it to collapse and now completely out of control. As a result, its movement speed has slowed down considerably, and it can't catch up with me at all." Locke frowned as he looked behind him at the creature, which, even after turning into a ball of flesh, was still waving its whip-like fleshy tentacles, trying to keep up with his Cursed Child modified form.

These cursed creatures created by the high-level curse masters are simply disgusting.

If they really manage to use the Cursed Erosion Stone to research some kind of monstrous thing, wouldn't there be all sorts of these weird things on the battlefield?

Fortunately, the Perseus Eye lichen I had cultivated earlier performed very well, and it was still able to perfectly reflect the curse energy on that monster just now.

No matter how the curse spell changes, or what the carrier of the curse energy is, it is still curse magic. You can use the Eye of Perseus to reflect it back!

Locke examined his Eye of Perseus lichen and found that it was in a state of partial destruction and could probably only be used once more.

We still need to develop the spells that work with the Eye of Perseus lichen as soon as possible.

Furthermore, this could serve as a foundation for developing a basic spell model framework that can be continuously iterated upon, preparing for the defensive magical plants of the Perseus Eye Lichen series after one's advancement to a first-circle wizard.

Albert and Sisyphus breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that they were out of danger.

“Finally, we’ve gotten rid of that damn thing.” Albert raised an eyebrow as he looked at the Perseus’s Eye lichen hovering around Locke and spinning in mid-air. “Junior Locke, where did you get this rare defensive magical plant? Its defense against curse magic is so good that it can even reflect back the failed attempts made by a first-ring high-level curse master.”

"I have never seen such a powerful defensive magical plant before."

"You have a lot of rare magical plants on you. You must be very wealthy."

Sisyphus, unusually, chimed in, "That's right, Mr. Locke."

“I’ve never seen this kind of defensive magical plant before. Could it be that you found an unknown wild magical plant somewhere? But no, it has obvious signs of magical modification. It doesn’t seem to be wild. It’s more like… it was made in a laboratory.”

Locke glanced at the two of them with surprise, and said with a hint of oddity, "Oh, I bred this myself."

"This magical plant wasn't obtained from anywhere else. It's not a rare magical plant either; I can mass-produce this kind of magical plant!"

"I will continue to sell it in the Lijin Secret Words shop. You can buy it if you want. By the way, this is also my entry for the custom magical plant competition. If I win the top three and get the academy's bulk purchase order, you won't need to buy it. You can obtain this magical plant directly on the front lines based on your battle merits."

Locke looked at the two of them with a strange expression. "What? Do you consider this a rare magical plant?"

"This can be considered a rare magical plant?"

Albert and Sisyphus were both at a loss for words.

Sisyphus smiled wryly and said, "Sometimes, I really feel that people like me don't have much in common with geniuses like you."

Albert replied, "Junior Locke, you're joking."

Locke pondered deeply. 'It seems that the rarity of magical plants is relative. For wizards other than myself, this kind of magical plant is indeed currently not for sale…'

Locke suddenly turned to the two of them and said seriously, "You two both know some defensive plant magic, right? As long as it's a plant spell that controls fungi, mosses, and lichens, that will do."

"I'll give you two Perseus's Eye Lichen Shields."

Locke said, "Don't refuse yet. This is part of the deal. After you two leave, you can act as spokespeople for my Eye of Perseus Lichen Shield."

Albert reacted very quickly. "Of course."

"I see, it's for the competition, so you need an endorsement, right?"

Albert, being a frequent participant in competitions, immediately understood what Locke needed and what situation he was in.

(End of this chapter)