Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 22 The Dark Wizard's Attack

Two days later, in his room on the wizard's ship, Locke set two dark blue gems into a gold ring and then filled both gems with magic.

In this way, including the azure jade he synthesized a day earlier, he was wearing three azure jade gold rings, gaining an extra 30 points of mana.

With 10 mana points, you can cast Vine Hands approximately five times. With an extra 30 mana points, you can cast Vine Hands an additional 15 times.

This is a crucial boost in combat.

This means that while other wizard apprentices of the same level still need to calculate their mana and use spells wisely, ensuring that every spell is used effectively, they have already achieved basic spell freedom and can continuously attack enemies based on sheer numbers.

The only problem is that the number of spells in one's spell pool is too small, making it difficult to fully utilize the advantage of having a large amount of extra mana reserves.

"We've used up all the gems we brought on board," Locke sighed. "We'll have to disembark from the wizard ship and figure out how to buy more."

"The dark blue jade should also be a consumable item; I wonder how long one can last."

Locke looked at his palms. At that time, he wore five deep blue sapphire gold rings on his left hand and three dark blue gemstone gold rings on his right hand. His magical power fluctuations were so stable that they seemed to have disappeared.

Locke picked up a wooden cup from the lid of the barrel in front of him, and the water in the cup began to swirl under his magical power.

"The centrifugal extraction technology has been mastered."

"very good."

Someone knocked on his room door, and Raun Guerrero's voice came from outside, "Locke, it's time for dinner. Let's go up to the deck to eat."

Raun Guerrero, the kind third-class wizard apprentice whom he, Patty, Cord, and the others had met when they first boarded the ship.

Locke spent a day in a room below deck on the wizard ship, only to discover that Laun Guerrero was also a Level 3 aptitude and lived on the same floor as him.

After a while, neither of them were socially anxious, so they quickly became familiar with each other and got along well.

Strangely enough, from the moment they boarded the wizard ship, all the rules and regulations here were categorizing people into different groups.

Wizarding prodigies of the same aptitude will live together.

This resulted in the formation of seven rudimentary circles on the wizard ship within just two days, and also led to Locke not becoming friends with Patty and Codd, but instead becoming new friends with Laun Guerrero, who lived on the same floor.

That's probably how life is. At different stages, you'll encounter different people who walk alongside you.

Previously, Locke was on good terms with Patty and Cord only because they were the only three wizarding talents on Corfu. Now, however, there are hundreds of wizarding talents from all over the world on the wizarding ship, which has led to the emergence of new friends and the neglect of old ones.

Locke opened the door, and Raun Guerrero was carrying two plates. "I can already smell the delicious food on the deck."

"We only have a limited time to get on the deck, let's go, Locke."

"I've already gotten your tray."

Locke looked at Raun Guerrero helplessly, "Raun, you're too familiar. We've only known each other for two days."

"That just proves we're meant to be," said Raun Guerrero.

"From the moment I saw you board the ship, I knew we would get along."

Locke caught up with Raun Guerrero, who, according to Raun himself, came from the continent of Schleswig and was the eldest son of the emperor of the Obsidian Empire on the island of Schleswig.

According to the traditions of their mortal world, he should have been the heir to the empire, the next emperor, but he was found to have the aptitude of a wizard.

Laun told Locke that there were no wizarding academies disguised as schools on the island of Schleswig.

The wizards there served the emperor directly, forming a council of wizard elders to help his father rule the empire.

The wizarding elders on the island of Schleswig immediately stripped him of his right to the throne because of his wizarding qualifications and guided him onto the path of seeking the truth.

Laun's personality was exactly that of a knight-errant; he loved helping others and was therefore very satisfied with this arrangement.

Locke also felt that Laun's personality was more like that of a wandering swordsman than a wizard apprentice. On this wizard ship, most of the wizard apprentices had gloomy faces, were taciturn, and always vigilantly observed their surroundings.

But Laun was easygoing and liked to talk to people.

This led many wizarding apprentices to believe that Laun had some ulterior motive, and they were reluctant to speak to him.

Only a few wizard apprentices like myself would pay him any attention.

On the deck of the wizard's ship, many oak tables and beech benches had been set up, and the tables were filled with a sumptuous feast, from roast suckling pig to truffle and wild mushroom risotto, herb-baked lobster with saffron foam, to black truffle cream mushroom soup and many other dishes.

Laun had already picked up a steak and was devouring it, quickly finishing off a large piece. Then he grabbed two roasted chicken legs and ate them without even chewing.

Locke raised an eyebrow; there was a reason why Laun could eat so much.

According to Laun himself, he seems to be some kind of great knight, and he is also a knightly genius.

The mortal worlds of different islands are truly vastly different, as evidenced by Locke's intentional and unintentional interactions with the third-level wizard apprentices over the past two days. Each island's mortal world is distinct; for example, Schleswig Island, where Laun resides, possesses a supernatural profession—the knight—that is absent from the mortal world of Corfu.

It is said that this is because two hundred years ago, the wizards who went to Schleswig Island were wizard apprentices from the Tower of Anomalies, which is in the direction of life magic.

They designed a special extraordinary profession called "Knight" for the mortal world of Schleswig Island. This profession allows for the implantation of life seeds to create artificial extraordinary organs within the human body, granting the human body superhuman physical abilities.

This is essentially an alternative human bloodline modification surgery, just like the stone crab bloodline human modification that Locke did for Professor Old.

There are other mortal worlds, and even worlds that are not in the Middle Ages, but have steam engines, coal mines, and early ancient trains, resembling a previous Renaissance world.

In short, the Southeast Corner Region is the true continent, while the mortal world is merely a collection of larger islands scattered across the ocean of the Southeast Corner Region.

Each island, separated by the endless, mysterious sea, has developed differently, like an independent world.

Laun looked at Locke and asked curiously, "Locke, aren't you going to eat?"

"Eat quickly, or all the food will be snatched up."

Locke nodded to the female wizard apprentice in front of him, who was also a level three wizard, then picked up a steak and put it on his plate.

Locke slowly finished a steak, then ate some broccoli and a small piece of strawberry jam with bread. He then asked Laun, "How many more days do you think it will take before we truly reach the wizarding world?"

Laun shook his head. "I don't know. I heard the wizard ship is about to return. There are almost a thousand wizard apprentices here."

Locke nodded.

The aspiring wizards on the wizard ship will eventually be assigned to different wizarding organizations.

The wizard ship will stop at different locations in the southeastern corner of the region, and the aspiring wizards will disembark in batches.

This means that some of the potential wizards should already have been assigned to various wizard mentors from the southeastern corner of the region.

However, none of their third-level wizarding prodigies have recently been seen to receive any wizarding mentors for assignment.

It's estimated that they'll only deal with the wizard apprentices on the deck after they've finished assigning them to their positions.

It's not their turn yet.

Locke finished packing his things and was about to return to his room below deck when suddenly the deck above shook, causing many wizard apprentices to fall.

Then, Locke turned his head and saw that Jarvis and dozens of other wizard mentors suddenly walked onto the deck and walked towards them.

Locke immediately sensed something was wrong.

A wizard instructor used magic to amplify his voice and shouted towards them, "Be careful, use magic to protect yourselves."

The next moment, countless black mists appeared above the wizard ship. The artificial sky, which had been bright and sunny, quickly darkened, and the artificial sun lost its light, like a celestial dog eating the sun.

The wizard ship continued to shake, and countless zombies fell from the black mist in the air as if it were raining.

The aspiring wizards were screaming in terror.

And in the sky, within the black mist, there seemed to be many wizards hiding.

They laughed.

"Heh... Are these the future talents of our Southeast Corner Region? They're really not good enough. They panic so easily when they encounter a little dark magic. What can we expect from them in the future!"

"The foolish and hypocritical white wizards of the southeast corner region have raised you to be so incompetent. It would be better to hand these seedlings over to us black wizards to raise properly."

"White wizards, according to the rules, half of the wizarding prodigies should be given to us black wizards."

"Get them!"

Jarvis and the other wizard mentors shouted.

"Damn it, those dark wizards are trying to snatch people away! Stop them! These are all promising talents nurtured by our White Wizard Association; we can't let them take them for nothing."

"Stop them quickly!"

Suddenly, various forms of dark magic emerged from the black mist in the sky, and Jarvis and other wizard mentors countered with fire magic, water magic, and other spells.

The zombies clashed with water elementals, fire elementals, lightning, and frost.

On the deck, Locke saw a second-level wizard apprentice being rammed into the sea by a zombie. Then, a black mist descended from the sky and, laughing loudly, abducted the man.

"Hahaha, this little girl belongs to our Carrion Graveyard today."

"I will train her to be an excellent dark wizard. You hypocrites, you'll see what happens to you later."

(End of this chapter)