Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 194 Archaeological Investigation (One Week Later)

Locke thought for a moment, then downed the entire bottle of Eye Magic Potion in one gulp.

In an instant, his mental sensitivity was raised to an extremely high level, even faintly feeling as if it had exceeded a certain limit.

Locke took a small half-step back. Everything around him seemed to have grown eyes of different colors, shapes, and sizes. Some of these eyes were trying to talk to him, as if trying to convey some kind of message.

When Locke looked at the periodic table of negative energy particles on the Tombstone Grimoire, the four-dimensional models of those negative energy particles on the periodic table all seemed to turn into different eyes.

Locke shook his head, trying to decipher the information in the negative energy particle field on the fossilized skeleton. "I guessed right, the Eye Demon Potion does indeed enhance my ability to recognize the Mordor language."

"This makes learning much easier."

"But I have to fight it at any time, which has caused me to suffer from the side effect of mental breakdown."

After carefully examining it for more than twenty minutes, Locke said with some surprise, "The Eye Demon Potion has indeed enhanced my mental sensitivity to an extremely high degree. In this state, I can learn the language of Modo very quickly. As long as I can take the Eye Demon Potion every day, I think my progress in archaeology will be very significant."

"The negative energy particles on the fossilized bones swirled before my eyes like dancing eyeballs, as if I were one of them. It was so beautiful, it was simply art! I wanted to immerse myself completely in this art..."

"Oh no, focus! Don't let the side effects of the medication distract you."

Locke quickly used the deep purple jade necklace he wore on his chest to slightly purify his chaotic magic and focus his attention.

And so, Locke spent most of the following week in the laboratory studying archaeology.

The rest of the time was divided into three parts: one part was to oversee the expansion of the Emerald Iris Lichen Magic Field in the plantation; another part was to enter the Healing Hand Clinic to continue treatment and collect the short- to medium-term healing effects of the Bear Spirit Emerald Gall Potion; and the last part was to meditate to continue improving one's magic power.

A week later, Locke sat in front of the fossilized skeleton of the three-eyed tiger cat, looking at the information of the negative energy particle field on it.

Blue light appeared in his eyes, and he saw an illusion appear before him.

A massive, three-eyed tiger-like cat with soft white fur, resembling a giant tiger, roamed freely through the ancient forest, stepping on the ground and ancient magical plants.

Wherever it went, all the beasts were terrified.

In the blink of an eye, the eye pattern on the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat's forehead suddenly flashed with magical light, forming a magical eye that looked at a unicorn in the forest. Instantly, the unicorn's body was blasted into pieces, and a pillar of light rose from the spot where the pieces had been.

The beam of light seemed to have a magnetic field, drawing all the small magical creatures in the vicinity towards it. Countless birds and beasts cried out in alarm as they were all forcibly sucked into the beam of light and disappeared.

The three-eyed tiger-eye cat's pupils narrowed slightly as it strolled over, about to collect its spoils. But at that very moment, a flock of magical birds seemed to fly past behind it.

It blotted out the sky and even the sun's rays were hidden.

The panic of those magical birds was unprecedented. Even the king of this ancient forest, the ancient magical creature Three-Eyed Tiger Cat, seemed to be startled. It looked back and a deep fear appeared in its eyes, as if it was afraid of something.

Then, the images that appeared in Locke's mind abruptly stopped, and Locke was forced to abandon the deciphering of the Modo language.

He rubbed his eyes. The scene he had just witnessed had shocked him, but ultimately, he still hadn't seen anything clearly.

"This is the first time I've interpreted historical footage."

"The result was some kind of large-scale disaster. Faced with such a massive disaster, even the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat, a first-ring magical creature approaching the level of a formal wizard, was powerless to resist. What kind of disaster was it?"

"Is it a large-scale local disaster, or a global catastrophe that occurred at some point in time?"

Locke fell into deep thought. "No wonder McCarthy suspected that ancient creatures went extinct suddenly and in large numbers. If he saw these kinds of images often, he would definitely have some doubts too."

"Could it be some kind of giant eyeball that descended upon this world at some point in time... Stop." Locke slapped his face, forcibly interrupting his thoughts to prevent himself from continuing to ponder the eyeball.

"The side effects of the Eye Demon Potion are still a bit too strong for my current physical condition."

In a corner of the laboratory, Locke lit a stick of calming incense and continued to decipher the information inside the ancient fossil specimen.

During the process of deciphering, Locke's proficiency in the Mordor language will also improve rapidly. Originally, it would have taken him more than five years to learn to this level, but because of the Eye Demon Potion, he skipped directly to this stage.

The Eye Magic Potion provides a significant boost to the study of archaeology; its main effects and side effects are exactly what is needed for learning archaeology.

The reason why dark wizards don't use Eye Magic Potions in large quantities is twofold: firstly, they simply don't have enough potion masters, making it difficult to obtain Eye Magic Potions.

Hussein originally wanted to conduct an experiment, and even tried to trick me into giving him the Twin Flower Soul-Gathering Potion.

The Eye Demon Potion is far more difficult to make and rarer than the Twin Flower Soul-Gathering Potion.

It's likely that such a potion doesn't even exist in the dark wizarding world.

Moreover, most dark wizards are unaware of the existence of the Eye of Enchantment.

As a potion master's assistant, I had to ask the dwarf Or, a scholar of general knowledge, to learn about the existence of this potion.

The second reason is that the side effects of the Eye Demon Potion are simply too terrifying.

"I'm afraid there are two reasons, both." Locke looked at the ancient fossil specimen and carefully read the Modo language on it.

"First, I will read the information contained within this fossil, specifically the section about the bloodline of the three-eyed tiger-eye cat..."

"Then compare them. I took the pure bloodline from Catwoman and extracted it to see how different the two are."

"However, this is a massive undertaking, involving sequencing the bloodline factors within magical creatures. I can only focus on the key aspects. Otherwise, even if I had a hundred or a thousand years, let alone a month, this kind of work would still be a bottomless mess."

Sequencing all the bloodline factors of a magical creature has always been a popular research project in the field of white wizards.

The complete sequencing of bloodline factors contained in the blood essence of magical creatures is a project established by major wizarding organizations.

There are corresponding results every year.

However, the sequencing work has not been fully completed, and no one can do it.

Even the bloodline factor sequencing of an ordinary magical creature has not been completed, and it is impossible to obtain its complete bloodline factor sequencing spectrum.

Anyway, whoever can make it is basically like having cracked the secrets of the Creator, and it is one of the ultimate projects in the study of magical creatures.

There are many reasons for this.

In short, this is a realm that even a first-ring wizard cannot conquer, and there are a great many bloodline factors, with more than 39,000 known to exist. Some are unique to specific magical creatures, while others are common to all creatures.

But it doesn't matter.

He didn't need to make the bloodline essence information obtained from the fossil specimen exactly the same as the bloodline essence information of the blood he had extracted.

It only needs to be mostly similar.

Locke pondered, "Anyway, during bloodline transplantation and modification, some bloodline factors will pair up on their own, and even if there are some incorrect pairings, they will be automatically corrected."

"This is also the biggest reason why side effects occur when wizards perform bloodline modifications."

"Some modifications are essentially based on metaphysics, relying entirely on a small portion of factors injected into the blood essence within the organism to match itself."

"Therefore, the same bloodline modification potion will have different effects and side effects on different wizard apprentices. However, the higher the precision of the bloodline modification potion, the fewer the side effects will be."

Locke looked at the chapter on "Ancient Creature Bloodline Modification" recorded in the Tombstone Codex, "Archaeologists have their own methods of bloodline modification, which is different from the sorcerers of the Conjuration School."

"Let me see what the next step is."

(End of this chapter)