Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 275: Mana Power 800, Magic Pressure 900!

one year later.

In Locke's makeshift laboratory, Locke was immersed in the last portion of spinal fluid from the Tartarus burrowworm.

At the same time, he drank a potion containing a bright red eyeball in a glass bottle. After drinking the potion, Locke's eyes emitted an eerie red light.

His pupils reflected the light of an abyss.

Over the course of a year, Locke used Memory Ointment and Eye Demon Potion to enhance his memory and perception. Through the extravagant process of repeatedly failing at potion making, he improved his potion-making skills and mastered the extremely difficult task of crafting the Eye Demon Lord Potion.

Being able to refine potions of this caliber means that Locke's potion-refining skills have reached the highest level for a potion master's assistant, and there is even a hint that he is going to go even further and explore higher levels.

Eye Demon Potion is already the highest level of potion master assistant, not to mention the even higher Eye Demon Lord Potion.

Potions is, after all, a discipline that combines theory and practice. As long as you are given enough materials to squander, improving your skills is an incredibly simple matter.

This is also true in the fields of enchanting and alchemy. Many things that seem very complex are actually just repetitions of existing things, not research and development. Therefore, with enough practice and materials, one can achieve in a short time what others cannot in ten years.

With a monthly income of 36,000, Locke could easily spend tens of thousands of magic stones each month to buy materials and improve his potion-making skills.

Locke's savings have now reached 20 magic stones.

That year, he also received some sporadic external orders, so his savings were not 18 magic stones, but 20 magic stones.

After drinking the Eye Demon Lord potion, Locke's mental power continued to rise. He seemed to have transformed into a huge Eye Demon Lord who spanned the heavens and the earth, commanding all the Eye Demons. Countless eyeballs followed him as he moved.

"I am the supreme ruler of the eyeballs! I am the Eye Demon Lord. All eyeballs must obey my commands! I am the eyeball that rules the world!" Locke's expression became fanatical as he raised his hands high.

"Start with the wizarding world, invade it, rule it, and turn it into my eyeball world."

As a result, he activated a magical trap he had set before taking the potion, and a cold water ball fell from the sky and hit him on the head.

Locke snapped back to reality. "What the hell? Was that something I could just say? The mental side effects of the Eye Demon Lord's potion are even greater than I imagined."

"Fortunately, given my current physical condition, I am still in a relatively safe zone."

"However, the aggressiveness of the life forms in the Abyss plane is even stronger than I originally expected. That aggressiveness comes from the Abyss energy itself, so I estimate that all Abyss life forms possess strong aggressive traits."

Although he had never actually seen any abyssal life form, Locke had already predicted the basic characteristics of these life forms based on his research into abyssal energy.

Locke placed his palm on the amethyst matrix, a look of joy in his eyes. "A year has passed, and my mana has finally reached 800."

"That way, I can go to the academy to apply for an advancement potion."

Locke's face lit up with joy, but then, another line of numbers appeared on the amethyst matrix: 900.

The deep purple magical pressure in Locke's palm permeated the amethyst matrix, and an unsettling power emanated from that pressure.

“800 mana, 900 magic pressure.” Locke’s expression was strange. “Mana and magic pressure should correspond one-to-one. Normal wizards are like that. If they don’t correspond, there is only one possibility: I have a second source of power in my body besides my own mana source.”

"Just like what happened when I used the Black Chain Bamboo before, the external magical pressure that Albert left inside the bamboo enhanced my magical pressure."

Locke, as the potion master's assistant, pondered, "This situation is most likely due to my long-term habit of taking the Eye Lord's Potion 20 times a month for the past six months, and the long-term habit of taking the Eye Demon Potion 20 times a month for the past six months."

"The Eye Demon Potion is fine, but the Eye Demon Lord Potion is actually a new type of potion. In addition to the Eye Demon, it also contains a Tanari demon finger material."

Locke pondered the effects of this abyss potion repeatedly, while simultaneously releasing magical pressure twice in succession. The first time was the normal magical pressure of a purebred wizard, which was an invisible magical pressure.

Only the Black Lock Sword Bamboo can transform its invisible demonic pressure into black demonic pressure.

The second type of demonic pressure is a purplish-black demonic pressure, which is a demonic pressure entangled with abyssal energy.

Two numbers, 800 and 900, appeared on the amethyst matrix.

Locke frowned. "As expected, my guess was right. Because of my long-term use of the Eye Demon Lord's potion, I have actually built an independent abyssal energy cycle in my body."

"This power has given me 100 points of magic pressure."

"I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing."

Locke thought for a moment and then accepted. "Whatever, my magic still contains a lot of etheric elements anyway." "It's because I absorbed a lot of crimson gems during my second-class wizard apprenticeship to improve my mental strength. Now, in order to become a full-fledged wizard, I'm absorbing a lot of abyssal energy, so it's normal."

"Most formal wizards suffer from various side effects, but I'm considered relatively healthy."

After all, they researched many things and then applied them directly to themselves.

Honestly, sometimes the side effects of certain products only become apparent after you've used them.

It's practically impossible to achieve a situation with absolutely no side effects.

Even drugs that have passed three phases of trials and have been used for decades will still have some minor side effects, and in some special cases, serious side effects may occur.

Locke tested it several more times and found that he had not yet found out in which part of himself this abyssal energy was generating a sustainable and independent energy cycle.

But in short, it seems to have truly become a source of strength for me.

Therefore, it doesn't have much of an impact on me. Only when I use it do my emotions become somewhat violent and more aggressive.

Normally, it has no impact on me at all.

This is normal. Even though abyssal energy is naturally highly aggressive, overall it is not an energy that wants to self-destruct, so it will not threaten the main body.

Secondly, with my current mana of 800, a mere 100 points of abyssal energy cannot affect me at all.

But if the proportion is increased further, it's hard to say.

Locke pondered, "This is a question I can study after I become a full-fledged wizard, but for now, it's only beneficial to me."

"The quality of the abyssal energy is extremely high, so it can be stacked on my magic pressure, allowing me to have 900 magic pressure even though I only have 800 mana. This greatly increases my combat power and brings me closer to becoming a formal wizard, making it easier to break through."

"Over the past year, my magical power has reached 800. With the help of a large amount of funding, my knowledge of breeding and potion-making has also reached its peak. With the help of Professor Harun Vera, my understanding of botanical magic has also improved significantly."

“I am now almost one step away from becoming a full-fledged wizard,” Locke mused. “But that is precisely why I must be even more careful.”

"Along the way, countless geniuses have fallen before breaking through to become formal wizards."

"The wizard who guards the secret realm, and Elagabalus's first wife, are both precedents."

Locke stepped out of the bathtub, changed into a clean set of clothes, and rang a copper bell to signal the servants to come and tidy up.

"I need to carefully consider which spell to choose for the Permanent Defense Field. My priority is either the Life Field or... the spell information I obtained from the secret realm."

Within a year, Locke had read all the reference books on Life Field and Oak Armor. In the end, he decided that if he had to choose between the two spells, he would definitely choose Life Field.

Oak Magic Armor specializes in the plant magic subfield of the Life Science school, specifically the smaller direction of Treant Magic.

The life force field, on the other hand, is a general-purpose plant magic that can form an invisible, permanent protective shield of life energy around oneself and can be combined with various plant magics.

This is currently the most suitable botanical defensive magic for me.

If Locke chooses this spell, he can now convert 20 magic stones into cash and begin preparing for his breakthrough.

But after much deliberation, Locke decided to exchange his three accumulated Wizarding Realm resources and the opportunity to enter the Forbidden Forest. After obtaining the results of the sealed top-tier research project, he would then decide which magic to choose as his direction and turn it into his own permanent defensive force field.

This year, he was once again selected as a wizard seed and a rising star in breeding, thus gaining two more opportunities to enter the wizarding realm.

Normal dungeons can be cleared quickly.

While I'm at it, I'll also fulfill my duty as the senior student of Harun Vera, leading some junior students to quickly clear three ordinary wizarding dungeons.

Locke thought for a moment, then went to his study and began writing applications for entry into the Everlasting Garden, the Arctic Iceland, and the Tesla Wasteland.

These three apprentice-level wizarding realms pose no threat or difficulty to me now that I possess 900 magic pressure. I can easily mine a large amount of the 'ore' I need without any preparation.

Once again, increase your required magical accumulation.

Next, Locke prepared to go to Harlan Vera's office to ask if any of his students had recently wanted to enter the Wizarding Realm with him.

(End of this chapter)