Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 289 Advancement Begins

The port city surrounding Lilith's Hut headquarters.

A group of first-circle wizards from the Blood Curse Court, along with a host of first-class wizard apprentices, lurked beneath the ocean near the port city.

Stanley, a formal wizard, stood in the seawater, his pale face contorted with rage. Looking at his empty right side, he said, "Those white wizards didn't realize we were getting close. It seems our plan was a success."

The Blood Lord spoke indifferently: "I developed a powerful spy in Lilith's Lodge. He spent six months thoroughly testing the specific data of Lilith's Lodge's defense system, the [Wizard's Garden] system, and relayed the information to me in installments. Combined with the fact that we vampires can stop our magic and breathing, and drift across the ocean like inanimate objects, we can naturally succeed in not being discovered by them."

"Besides, I can also have that spy forcibly shut down their barrier from the inside."

"And all I have to give him in return is some magical resources afterward. Those hypocritical and selfish white wizards, they're always like that, gathering together for profit. Unlike us black wizards, who exist out of fear."

"Most of the wizards at Lilith's Hut are on the battlefield right now. They certainly didn't expect us to suddenly attack their headquarters. This time, we're going to avenge the last time we were attacked. You all need to follow the plan."

A female vampire elder's eyes revealed a startling desire. "I can hardly resist drinking the blood of those white wizarding geniuses. The blood of a wizard in despair is truly delicious."

Stanley, a formal wizard, licked his lips. "To me, the blood of a successful vengeance is the most delicious."

“Don’t try to take it from me. The Witch Sophia has left the Southeast Corner, but her students and her friends are still here.” Stanley’s eyes gleamed with intense hatred and a thirst for blood. “I want to drain the blood from every single one of them with my own hands.”

"I really want to see with my own eyes the expression on their faces when they see me standing before them—a high-ranking curse master standing before them. Only that despair can truly soothe me!"

The Blood Lord glanced at Stanley, a smirk playing on his lips. “Very well, Stanley. Hatred and pain are the wellspring of our cursed magic. I’m glad to see such hatred in your eyes; it makes your loss of your right arm worthwhile.”

"Perhaps, you can even take this a step further."

The Blood Lord looked up at the port city of Lilith House on the sea and said with extreme anger, "One day from now, I will drain the blood of all the white wizards of Lilith House, all the outstanding students, and turn their bodies into undead soldiers controlled by our curse magic!"

"This time, we're going to teach those white wizards a lesson they won't forget."

The first-class wizard apprentices behind these dark wizards had various expressions.

Hussein, in particular, had a glint in his eye.

His wizard mentor is also here.

……

Inside the Forbidden Forest, within the central control core of a laboratory that has been sealed for five hundred years.

Locke placed his palm on the virtual device.

Instantly, a series of running spell models appeared above the virtual device, forming node after node.

After scanning Locke's body, the simulation device obtained his data and simulated whether the relationship between magical plants and wizards, centered on a distributed psionic network, could replace the relationship between inherited magic arrays and individual wizards. Two and a half hours later, the simulation results appeared.

Locke's expression changed slightly, because the results indicated success.

A huge and complex closed-loop system appeared before him, slowly rotating. Using this simulation device to model spells had another benefit: it increased his proficiency and the chances of successfully engraving the spell.

"It actually worked!" Locke's eyes gleamed. "Then we can certainly try this magic."

"Wizard Levi was a first-ring crystallized wizard, only one step away from becoming a second-ring wizard. This was his last work before his death, embodying his life's essence."

"Compared to the creator of the first-ring magical life force field, who put in more effort and whose magical level is higher, this spell model is not bad for me."

Locke pondered whether his plant magic concepts were compatible with this system.

There's another issue: the One Ring of Eternal Magic Field incorporates the wizard's own understanding of magic. If there's a conflict in their beliefs, they still can't use the Forest Sanctuary spell.

"The core of the Forest Sanctuary magic lies in the forest protecting the wizard, and the wizard protecting the forest, forming a two-way cycle of reward between the natural world and the wizard."

Locke said, “I take a hair from nature and return a hair to nature. There is taking and returning, and the cycle never ends. This is the way of natural balance, and it does not conflict with my philosophy.”

"Even the concept of forming a magical plant forest that belongs exclusively to me is the prototype of my magical development all along. Before my magical plants came into contact with this magic, they had already formed an ecosystem with me at its core. I can use magic to better mobilize the power of this magical plant ecosystem that belongs to me."

"Furthermore, as a potion master, I understand that many potions' natural magical ingredients are derived from nature; as a breeder, I have an even greater understanding of the development and degradation, balance and damage of the natural ecosystem."

"The reason I was able to successfully construct this spell model in the virtual device in just two hours is because the spell model is highly compatible with me."

Locke said, “As an archaeologist, I can extend my understanding of nature from the present moment to all past time periods, gaining a deeper understanding of forest cycles. Therefore, this magic is indeed very suitable for me, requiring only a slight modification to the spell model.”

Locke said, "Fortunately, with this virtual simulation device, we can modify the spell model to better fit my soul's magical pressure structure, which makes it a very simple matter."

"I'll try to break through to become a formal wizard in this research institute. Anyway, this institute is surrounded by a strange swamp, so it's very safe. The institute is also protected by magic locks and automatic defense arrays, like an impregnable fortress. There is no safer place in the Forbidden Forest than this."

Locke took out a set of furniture from his astral ring, then sat on the bed he had taken out and began to think about how to fine-tune the spell model.

Meanwhile, he held the magic knife he had bought at the auction in his hand, and was already eager to try it out.

"First, I drank the Star Soul Elixir and other magical potions to further enhance my magic power. Then, I concentrated all my magic power and inscribed a ring of magic on the magical pressure structure of my soul."

"This process is a transformation of life. The life essence of a first-ring wizard is completely different from that of an ordinary person. Therefore, this transformation will face extremely terrible difficulties and pressures."

(End of this chapter)