Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 299 Slaughtering the Black Wizard Seed

An immense, overwhelming demonic pressure rose from Locke's body. As his previously suppressed demonic pressure increased, the amount of negative energy combined within the Sixfold Curse Barrier also increased, with countless energies converging towards Locke from afar.

Its concentration is so high that it is almost visible to the naked eye; even ordinary people can see the concentration of negative energy.

An immense pressure, like a mountain, weighed down on the shoulders of every black wizard seed present. The playful expressions on their faces froze, their pupils dilated, their breathing became heavy, their muscles began to spasm, and the magical pressure structure on the surface of their souls began to malfunction. This caused the spell models stored in their sea of ​​consciousness to err continuously, resulting in a continuous disruption of magical power.

Meanwhile, the magical pressure released from Locke's body was still rising.

The six dark wizard seeds are already overwhelmed.

The dark wizard apprentice with the pointed head stared wide-eyed. "His magical pressure... how could it exceed 1000?"

"That's magical pressure at the level of a formal wizard!"

"My God, the Eye Demon Wizard is already a full-fledged wizard."

The fat vampire apprentice's face showed utter terror. Dark wizards were confident in killing people of higher levels during their apprenticeship, but they had absolutely no confidence in killing people of higher levels during their formal wizarding career.

The combat logic of a formal wizard-level character is completely different from that of an apprentice-level character due to the existence of a permanent defensive force field.

Sneak attacks, underhanded tactics, and backstabbing all rely on the premise that wizard apprentices lack a permanent defensive force field.

That's why it can be established.

However, because formal wizards have a permanent defensive force field, ordinary combat experience is no longer applicable. Wizards who are no longer good at fighting are like having an impenetrable tortoise shell, possessing a huge margin for error.

Therefore, in battle, the focus is no longer on instantaneous combat experience, but on the depth of theoretical research and its practical application in combat.

Laurie, the vampire, screamed, her face pale. "The intelligence report didn't say that the Eye Demon Wizard was on the verge of becoming a full-fledged wizard! He actually became a full-fledged wizard!"

"The barrier... there's also the Sixfold Curse Barrier against us. Even if we're formal wizards, we still can't cast white magic within the Sixfold Curse Barrier... At least... we can escape!"

Locke chuckled softly. "I think you seem to have misunderstood something."

"The principle behind the Sixfold Curse Barrier is that a portion of my white magic combines with six portions of curse energy to enter my body in order to neutralize and suppress my white magic. In other words, the Sixfold Curse Barrier can only be established if there is a sufficient amount of dark magic energy present."

"Then is your dark magic power sufficient?"

Locke unleashed 3000 magic pressure, and instantly the surrounding negative energy was no longer sufficient to combine with his magic pressure. His highly condensed magic pressure was like a black hole, forcing the surrounding negative energy to concentrate towards him.

The surrounding air lacked negative energy, so the magic power was instead drawn from the six dark wizard apprentices.

But that's still not enough.

As a result, cracks appeared one after another on the small six-fold curse barrier on the ground.

Without the energy supply from the Curse Magic Research Institute, this mere six-layered curse barrier posed no threat to him.

Then, amidst the horrified gazes of these dark wizard apprentices and the delighted looks of Sebastian and the others, the sixfold cursed barrier shattered with a deafening roar.

In that instant, Sebastian and the others also regained their magic and began to use their own magic to remove the spore curse that was binding them.

At the same time, the expressions on the faces of the six dark wizard apprentices changed drastically. They scattered and fled in six groups, heading in six different directions.

"Run! We are no match for any formal wizard!"

“Formal wizards possess a permanent defensive force field; we are no match for them.”

The six dark wizard apprentices all had a cunning glint in their eyes. On the surface, they were reminding the other party to escape, but in reality, they were casting paralysis and incapacitating spells on the other party during the escape.

In their view, escaping from a formal wizard is extremely difficult, but if Locke goes after others first, they have a better chance of escaping.

These dark wizard seeds had all emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood; they were ruthless, treacherous, and incredibly cunning. Locke coldly watched them. Suddenly, the Ominous Mandragora Vines, which had remained invisible until now, revealed themselves on their bodies. It turned out that they had been captured by the Ominous Mandragora Vines from the very beginning.

Locke reached out and grabbed them, forcing all six of them to be pulled back backwards from a hundred meters away.

"The gap between a formal wizard and an apprentice is far greater than you can imagine. Trying to escape from me? That's a pipe dream."

Locke deployed his life force field, and instantly, emerald green crystal barriers spread out in all directions. The life force field resisted all negative energy, while the black wizard apprentices were pulled towards them by magical vines.

They crashed into a wall like a speeding car, killing four of the six potential dark wizards on the spot.

Locke glanced at Laurie and Hussein, who were still alive. Laurie was seriously injured; she had crashed into the crystal barrier formed by the life force field, and half of her body had been shattered by the life force field.

Hussein, however, was a special case. At the last moment, he seemed to have unleashed some special power, breaking free from his restraints and escaping.

Laurie lay on the ground, her pupils unfocused. "How could this happen..."

Locke glanced at her, snapped his fingers, and the life force barrier expanded toward her again. Laurie was like a water balloon being squeezed in someone's hand, her entire body of dark magic being compressed by the life force field.

She let out a scream as high-level curse spells appeared on her face. Then, one by one, those curse spells broke, and the vampire curse on her body was destroyed by Locke's life force field barrier.

"I see. Using a first-level spell, the life force field barrier formed by life energy can kill vampires directly without breaking their immortality."

Locke suddenly realized. "Perhaps it's because there's an absolute gap in rank between me and these vampire apprentices."

"Therefore, the immortality they possessed due to the curse also became useless."

Locke looked in Hussein's direction, and the Great Blue Owl appeared behind him. Like an arrow released from a bow, it chased after him, striking first and arriving ahead of Hussein's flight path, waiting there.

Locke said, "This feeling is strange. Hussein, do you remember the second time we met, you used curse magic to make me look like a fool?"

"Now, it seems like our positions have been reversed."

A look of seriousness appeared on Hussein's face. He stopped, and the bat wings behind him instantly doubled in size, turning from black to blood red, covered in cursed energy. Then he flew off in another direction.

Hussein gave a wry smile. 'Lock really holds a grudge.'

'However, it seems he didn't intend to kill me.'

'Yes, he has to keep hunting me down, otherwise... I really can't explain it to my mentor. But he really does hold a grudge.'

Locke glanced at Hussein; he had indeed not killed him.

Otherwise, no matter how powerful Hussein was, he wouldn't be a match for a first-ring wizard at the vaporization stage.

But from the very beginning, he realized that the Sixfold Curse Barrier had a flaw, and that flaw was in Hussein's direction.

In other words, before Hussein knew he had become a formal wizard, he secretly created a way out for himself during the ambush, which is why Locke did not kill Hussein.

He attacked him several times simply to avoid exposing the fact that Hussein had secretly let him off the hook.

If this isn't done, Hussein's dark wizard mentor at the Blood Curse Tribunal should immediately detect the anomaly through the surveillance system he left on Hussein.

That's when Hussein will truly die.

Locke took out the Three-Headed Pea Shooter, aimed it at Hussein, and smirked.

Hussein turned around and felt the immense magical pressure gathering on Locke's side, causing his heart to skip a beat, a rare occurrence. "Oh no."

(End of this chapter)