Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 298 The joke is too big
Sebastian and the others left the dense forest somewhat hesitantly with Locke. Along the way, they dared not speak loudly, for fear of disturbing the formal wizards.

They were even more nervous on the way there than they were on the way there.

After all, when Locke arrived, he was just a wizard apprentice. Although his status was higher than theirs, they were still considered to be on the same level.

But at this moment, Locke was already a formal wizard.

As soon as they left the Forbidden Forest entrance, Locke frowned because Professor Harlan Vera was not there to wait for him as promised.

No students were assigned to wait here.

Sebastian and the others looked up at the sky with puzzled expressions. They saw a huge, blood-red wooden stake appear in the sky. The stake was as big as a meteorite and was falling from the sky, crashing down on the port city where Lilith's cabin was located.

The wooden stake was slowly falling from the sky, at a very slow speed, but blood was dripping from it. The moment the blood hit the ground, it would nourish the earth, causing the land to bloom with green grass and flowers, a truly beautiful sight.

Where blood flows, all magical plants thrive. Moreover, this blood nourishes all magical creatures on this land, and even mortals who are stained with the blood rain begin to rejuvenate.

Sebastian and the others were stunned.

"What is that? Is that a new magic that our school has developed?"

"Don't be silly, didn't you see the curse spell incantation swirling around that magic? That's a foldable curse spell unique to high-level curses."

"What about our school's large-scale protective barrier, the life force field?"

Everyone was horrified to discover that the large life force field that had been protecting the academy's main campus had actually disappeared.

Sebastian and the others' expressions turned serious.

Locke also looked up at the sky, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes. The wooden stake in the sky was undoubtedly a high-level blood curse spell of the Blood Curse Court.

Moreover, the other party is giving back the flesh and blood energy plundered through curse magic to this land, the plants and animals on it, and all mortals.

At this moment, the rain was already falling towards their heads, but Locke blocked it with magic.

Locke reached out and grabbed a drop of blood, examining it closely.

"There was no curse magic inside."

"This blood must be the blood that the Blood Curse Court has plundered from different wizards, mortals and magical creatures over the centuries. This stuff can indeed nourish everything, because it was originally plundered from life."

Locke frowned. "Wait a minute, accepting a gift is tantamount to accepting a bribe..."

Locke, using his current level of magic, quickly analyzed the situation and came to a startling conclusion: "The one who accepts the bribe is as if he has been given the money, and the one who accepts the money is as if he has been hurt or touched."

“Accepting bribes is also a form of harm.”

"Giving gifts is also a form of cursing; the target of the Blood Curse Court's curse... is this land."

Locke frowned. If this calculation continued, the scale of the Blood Curse Court's attack this time might be enormous, completely different from before.

He looked around and saw that the surrounding area was filled with curse energy. The blood rain contained powerful curse magic that suppressed the natural magical radiance of Lilith's cabin.

Therefore, Locke also had no idea how the academy headquarters was doing now.

However, the ground would shake violently from time to time, and booming sounds could be heard in the distance, clearly indicating that a major battle was taking place between the cities.

Locke was somewhat worried about his plantation and personal pharmacy.

He had just taken a step when he suddenly looked down at the ground and saw a black six-pointed star pattern appear, surrounded by five layers of inscriptions. Waves of negative energy swept in from all directions, attaching themselves to him and Sebastian.

Immediately, Sebastian and the others screamed in agony, their backs bent over as they endured immense pain, negative energy merging with their magical power.

The demonic plants they carried withered and died rapidly under the accumulation of massive amounts of negative energy.

"What happened? We can't cast spells anymore."

"What is this...?"

Locke's eyes flashed with surprise, for beneath his feet was a small, six-fold curse barrier at the first ring level.

I had only encountered this thing before at the Blood Curse Court's Curse Spell Research Institute.

Before anyone knew it, several vampires appeared around Locke. There were six in total, and each one looked quite strange.

One vampire had a pointed head, another was pot-bellied with a huge mouth on its belly, another was skinny and covered in blood-red flames, and yet another had two holes in its chest, making it look very strange.

The remaining two vampires, one a female vampire wearing a gold chain, were leaning against a tree, looking at them with disdain.

The bark of that tree had been touched by a curse, and thus it began to peel off piece by piece.

The last vampire was an old acquaintance of his, the nobleman Hussein of the night.

The female vampire let out a shrill laugh, which caused the nearby weeds to wilt and wilt, seemingly out of fear of the curse contained within her voice.

"This time, in order to kill them, a wizard seed from Lilith's Hut actually made our Blood Curse Court mobilize six wizard candidates and use a magical trap set by a high-level curse master—the Sixfold Curse Barrier."

"Eyed Wizard, the higher-ups of our Blood Curse Court are giving you way too much importance. Hussein, don't you think?"

The female vampire deliberately struck a seductive pose. Unlike Severin, she was exceptionally beautiful, like a delicate young girl. "Let me formally introduce myself. I am currently ranked second, Laurie Vick. Since the previous second and third were killed by you, I, who was fourth, am now second."

Laurie rolled her eyes. "But I'm not thanking you."

"Hussein, what do you say?"

Hussein remained silent, only saying briefly, "Laurie, don't let things get complicated."

The other four vampires let out sharp laughs and looked at Lilith's cabin and the others inside the six-fold cursed barrier as if they were fish on a chopping board.

Sebastian and the others were not only enveloped in negative energy, but also covered in blood-red spores that bound them, rendering them unable to move.

Laurie noticed Locke's gaze and snapped her fingers. "This is the curse I designed, the Spore Curse. It's quite troublesome; the stacking spells for this kind of curse are particularly intricate."

"However, I really have to praise you. Inside the six-fold curse barrier, you not only escaped my spore curse, but you also remained completely calm."

"You're quite something. If it weren't for the six-layered curse barrier, you might have actually managed to escape."

Locke stood within the sixfold cursed barrier, his expression turning strange. "Escape?"

“You’ve really taken this joke too far, apprentice.”

Laurie looked puzzled. "A joke?"

(End of this chapter)