Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 140 Indiscriminate Killing
Pierre felt a suffocating sensation, like the seawater threatening to completely engulf him.

That feeling of loneliness and negativity piled up layer upon layer, endless and without ceasing.

'Is this the Paralysis Curse?'

'No, it's too painful, I have no hope.' Pierre's eyes were dim with pain.

Curse magic is most likely to make a person lose heart.

The most troublesome thing for those under a curse is not the effect of the curse itself, but the influence of the curse magic on their minds. Their willpower will also decrease, their emotions will become easily agitated, and their personality will become strange.

Pierre rolled his eyes and saw an owl circling overhead, seemingly looking down at him.

The owl's large eyes gleamed with an unusual light.

The next instant, the seven second-class wizard apprentices of the Blood Curse Court in front of him screamed in terror.

Vines pierced through their bodies, passing through their vampire-blooded flesh. Their bodies were pierced, their limbs were broken, their wings were smashed, and their brains were smashed into a pulp.

Those seemingly delicate vines and leaves now acted like drills and swords, enveloping the seven vampire apprentices in their attack range.

Numerous fist shadows filled the air as fifteen vine fists slammed into the seven second-level wizard apprentices before they could even react, instantly inflicting massive damage on their bodies.

With the support of the Deep Blue Diamond Belt, Locke's exquisite magical stability was enough to control the fifteen vine fists, each strike hitting their weak points.

The hearts of the four vampire apprentices were pierced by fists formed from magical vines. They screamed in agony as their bodies burst into golden flames and were quickly burned to ashes.

Locke appeared in the middle of the dense forest, his eyes filled with displeasure; he had almost lost all his experimental data.

Doing the experiment again would waste another two months!

The three surviving vampire apprentices were horrified to feel the heavy magical pressure emanating from Locke; it was not the magical pressure of a newly promoted first-class wizard apprentice.

That was an opponent they could never challenge.

The three second-class wizard apprentices and vampire apprentices struggled, their bodies already severely injured by Locke's vine punch, and they turned into afterimages, flying off in different directions in the sky.

"Run! This person is not someone we can afford to mess with."

"He was ruthless. He's completely different from those white wizards. He killed all four of us without even blinking an eye!"

Three vampire apprentices, who had flown into the air and were flapping their bat wings, found that they had been flapping their wings for a long time but had remained motionless in the same spot.

When they looked down, they saw that three branches of Locke's ominous mandrake vines were tied to their legs, rendering them completely immobile.

No matter how much it flapped its wings, it was like an insect caught in a spider web, unable to move.

The three vampire apprentices were terrified, and they all screamed in horror at the sight.

"How did I end up running into a first-class wizard apprentice here?"

"Help! Damn white wizards! Don't kill us! We're human too! We have feelings! Please give us a chance! We were forced to become dark wizards..."

Just as a vampire was flapping its wings in mid-air, begging Locke for mercy, he lowered his head, a strange look flashing in his eyes, and then suddenly bared his fangs, trying to swoop down towards Locke and directly attack Locke's body.

But in the next instant, the bodies of the three vampire servants, including him, were all wrapped in Ominous Mandrake vines, and deep purple fruits grew between the branches and leaves of the three Ominous Mandrake vines.

Hundreds of fruits exploded at the same time.

Poison Berry Catapult! It completely shattered the three-headed vampire apprentice's ability to resist. At the same time, Locke's Omen Mandrake Vines spun like a storm. Ogan runes flashed continuously on the surface of the three Omen Mandrake Vines. Then, the three-headed vampire servant was strangled to pieces under this attack.

This is the Vine Strangulation spell from the Vine Frenzy series.

The three vines, with a total of fifteen branches, will envelop the enemy like a meat grinder, turning them into fragments.

The spells following Vine Frenzy were all quite similar in model and only had a difficulty level of 0.5. So, Locke casually completed the Vine Strangulation spell model, which he had been learning recently, during the battle.

After eliminating the seven second-class wizard apprentices of the Blood Curse Court, Locke immediately took out a vial of Lesser Emerald Potion from his Astral Ring and used wood elemental magic flames to make it evaporate in his hand, turning it into a cloud of mist that drifted towards the nearby forest contaminated by dark magic and the undead creatures.

This is a little trick that potion-making assistants usually know, called [Potion Atomization].

This is a method of utilizing a potion formula. By taking advantage of the properties of wood elemental magic fire, the liquid potion is transformed into mist, which is then widely dispersed into the surrounding environment.

Its applications are quite broad. For example, in the current situation, it would be suitable to use a higher-level secondary Emerald Elixir to create a large-scale purification of the surrounding undead creatures.

Under the influence of the atomized secondary emerald potion, the forest, which had been affected by dark magic, gradually changed from a gloomy and dark environment to the color of a normal forest.

At the same time, the souls bound by necromancy to their rotting bodies also tilted their heads back the moment they breathed in the Lesser Emerald Potion, as if their souls were about to ascend to heaven.

Their souls were also freed.

Batch after batch of ghouls fell to the ground, their bodies rapidly and completely rotting, unable to be used a second time by necromancy.

When Lauen and Pierre saw this, they were both excited. They had thought they were going to die this time, but who knew that Locke would come to save them personally.

Laun and Pierre were incredibly excited, exclaiming as if they had seen a savior, "Locke!"

"You've arrived. You're too strong. With just one move, all those dark wizards from the Blood Curse Court are dead."

The two of them were about to walk over, but Locke gestured for them to stop with his eyes, while the ominous mandrake vine wrapped around his right hand remained black and red.

Laun and Pierre sensed something was wrong, their eyes filled with suspicion.

Gabi's voice, transmitted through whispers, reached Locke's ears. "Senior Locke, there's another sign of humanoid activity here. It's rapidly approaching you, underground."

"Right under your feet!"

Locke immediately looked at the ground beneath his feet, and the leaf blade of the Clivia flower in his right hand flew out, landing on the ground like a flying sword, colliding with a blood claw that had emerged from the ground.

It produced a clanging sound like metal colliding violently.

Locke jumped back, a smirk playing on his lips. "A first-class wizard apprentice? No wonder you dared to use those seven second-class apprentices to lure me in."

"The Blood Curse Court wants you to kill me? But you're not worthy."

Locke was neither caught off guard by the sudden attack, nor did he feel anger at discovering he had fallen into a conspiracy, nor fear or panic. Instead, he was intrigued, a look of amusement flashing in his eyes.

After all, he had already realized this possibility on his way here, and through the special abilities of the Ominous Mandrake vines and Gabi's observational abilities as a shapeshifter, he confirmed the location of the ambush.

At first, Locke also thought that the seven second-class wizard apprentices should also know about part of the ambush plan.

But as soon as they engaged in combat, Locke realized from their reactions that they knew nothing.

They were simply bait being used.

(End of this chapter)