Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 312 Establishing the Eye Wizard's Reputation

The witch was smashed into the floor by Locke's mushroom hammer. Her sister immediately screamed and used the first-circle spell [Ice Mourning]. Instantly, an ice ring exploded around Locke, but it was blocked by Locke's oak magic armor.

Locke chanted the incantation "Every bush and tree is an enemy" again, and the handle of the execution hammer in his hand automatically extended, while the mushroom head rapidly enlarged to the size of a carriage. It slammed into another witch, and at the same time, a gravity ball resembling a shadow ball surrounded her, attempting to break her in half with its distorted gravity.

A huge crater appeared in the wall beneath the witch.

However, she was surrounded by many ice rings that protected her. These ice rings shattered one by one, but a third of them remained around her. After Locke stopped attacking, the Permanent Defense Field quickly restored the number of ice rings around her to their original state.

That's why Locke didn't smash him in two with a single blow.

She screamed, ignoring her sister who was lagging behind her, and her body transformed into a ghost once more, passing through the wall and escaping to another place.

Locke glanced at her.

That's how troublesome permanent defensive fields are. When two first-ring wizards with permanent defensive fields fight, it's like two medieval knights and lords in full plate armor comparing their martial skills. They fight for hours, and in the end, they can only win by exhausting each other's stamina.

Locke turned his attention back to the witch he had knocked into the corridor floor.

By this time, the witch had gotten up from the corridor floor. She used magic to grow another head from her neck, and looked at Locke with a flushed face.

She watched her sister run away and immediately became extremely anxious. "Sister?"

"Damn it, you flew away when disaster struck."

The witch looked at Locke, a hint of fear flashing in her eyes. "Don't think I'm easy to bully. I'm over two hundred years old this year, and I've been at the level of a formal wizard for at least two hundred years. People are afraid of me and dread me, calling me Brittany Porter the 'Infant Spirit Witch'."

The infant spirit witch chanted a spell: "Don't think I'm easy to bully."

“In times of crisis, it’s the students who are reliable. No sisters are as dependable as us students who have become ghosts.”

Brittany summoned the infant spirit beside her and placed it into her soul. At the same time, she chanted a spell and used the first-circle magic [Fetal Spirit] again. This infant spirit was slightly different from the previous one. Although it had a large head and wore red clothes, it wore a golden lock made by its mother around its neck.

At this moment, the Infant Spirit Witch also dragged the infant spirit into her own soul. The three souls merged together, transforming into an unprecedentedly powerful infant spirit ghost.

This infant spirit had three skulls around its neck, and was surrounded by white vengeful spirits, each of which was screaming. This was Brittany's permanent defensive force field magic, "Scream of Vengeful Spirits."

The Brittany witch, now transformed into an infant spirit, charged at Locke, shouting, "I am the Black Witch Infant Spirit Witch! My spells are all combined!"

The Brittany witch waved the enormous hand of the infant spirit, carving a trench in the wall along the way, and frost condensed in the trench.

Ghosts have a naturally low temperature and cannot get close to living people; the more powerful a ghost is, the lower its temperature.

Moreover, she is surrounded by [Wraith Screams]. Those who stay by her side must endure the mental attacks of the wraith screams every moment, while also facing attacks from infant spirits that deal physical, frost, and mental damage simultaneously.

No wonder she, an ordinary formal wizard, was able to make a name for herself in the dark wizarding world during her two-hundred-year life.

But Locke was already impatient. A surge of abyssal energy flashed in his eyes, and his magic pressure increased from 3000 to 3500. Using the Oak Armor, he arrived in front of Brittany and slammed his head down on her with a hammer.

"Have some decency!"

"Even if you two sisters were put together, you couldn't even put together the brain of one person."

A gravity field the size of a house appeared on the infant spirit witch's body, destroying the entire corridor into pieces of stone and broken magical alloy, which Locke smashed into the air with a hammer.

Locke chanted the incantation of "every bush and tree is an enemy" again and smashed his hammer into the infant witch's stomach once more. Her swollen, ghostly belly, like a balloon, spewed out countless amounts of soul energy after being hit hard by Locke, and her entire body shrank slightly.

Then, before she could react, Locke slammed his hammer down again, simultaneously activating the bloodlines of some ancient creatures. A gravity field the size of a house enveloped her, obliterating all the vengeful spirits within her. At the same time, Locke also forcibly ripped the two infant spirits she had fused with out of her body.

"You!" Before the Brittany witch could finish speaking, Locke slammed into her cheek again. A gravity field the size of a basketball enveloped her face. The abyssal energy and the gravity magic of the Execution Hammerhead Mushroom had somehow synergized, actually strengthening the gravity magic.

Gravity magic materialized into an abyss sphere, once again enveloping the Brittany witch's head. Then, with a 'bang,' it exploded, twisting her body as if trying to suck her in.

Even if the Brittany witch used the first-circle spell "Avatar," she still couldn't escape this abyssal gravitational field that combined abyssal energy.

'Bang!' Her whole body was squeezed, and with a scream, she chanted a spell, splitting her soul and turning it into a soul serpent that snaked and crawled through the corridor.

'That's terrifying, that white wizard is terrifying.'

The Brittany witch never expected that, in the blink of an eye, she would be reduced from a whole person to a sliver of a soul snake by Locke.

If she weren't a Ghostly Wizard with extensive knowledge of the soul realm, she would have been killed by Locke by now.

'I need to escape quickly. This is for the best; I'm practically a wisp of a soul now. He might not expect me to still be alive. After I leave, I'll find a newborn baby and use the first-circle spell [Soul Possession] to take over its body. I'll start over, beginning afresh, and conveniently replace my Permanent Defensive Field with defensive magic.'

Locke stepped on the tail of the serpent of souls, ending all of the Brittany witch's fantasies.

Having consumed a large amount of Eye Lord potion, Locke's insight far surpasses that of ordinary formal wizards; the abyssal energy in his eyes is no joke.

At this moment, a demonic eye appeared on Locke's forehead. "Is the remaining soul protected by magic?"

The Brittany witch was terrified. "Wait, wait! My soul is protected by the Soul Torch, a magical artifact from our Ghostly Holy Church headquarters. I cannot be completely dead."

"Stop... Don't you white wizards make deals? I want to make a deal with you. I have many ghosts made from the souls of my first-class and second-class wizard apprentices. I can sell them to you, as long as you choose a baby with good wizarding potential for me, preferably a child of the elements, to be my student, and I..."

The next moment, Locke's innate demonic eye on his forehead opened, releasing a beam of primordial magnetic light. Due to the enhancement of the original rune panel, this beam of primordial magnetic light seemed to undergo a special change, no longer a beam of light, but a rotating sphere that could change size at will.

At this moment, the sphere shrunk its enormous energy to the size of a grain of rice and fell into the body of the Soul Serpent. The next instant, the entire Soul Serpent was destroyed by an incomparably terrifying Yuanji Magnetic Light.

In the instant of its destruction, a symbol representing the calamity beast appeared on its surface: a claw mark burning with flames.

At that moment, Locke's magic pressure... was 7000.

普通一环巫师的法力是1000——3000，气化巫师的法力是3000——6000，液化巫师的法力则是6000——9000，而晶化巫师的法力则是9000以上。

In other words, Locke, who used the Disaster Beast Panel, had reached the level of a first-ring liquefied wizard in terms of magical pressure. Therefore, for a moment, his magic power even changed from a misty state to a liquid state due to a qualitative change.

At the same time, the Brittany witch, the infant spirit witch, died completely.

This infamous witch, who had dominated the southeastern corner of the region for over a century, died at Locke's hands.

Locke quickly sealed his Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline. There were two reasons why he used the Primal Runes in the battle. First, the soul of this thing was unexpectedly difficult to kill. It can only be said that the wizards of Ghost Studies have indeed made in-depth research in the field of souls.

Secondly, during the battle, due to the energy chaos, he had become detached from the Nibelungen system, and no one could see his battle footage. Moreover, all the magical traps around him were destroyed by him using the Execution Hammerhead Mushroom.

Therefore, if I only use it for a moment, it's not a big problem, and no one will notice.

During the battle, Locke made contact with the Nibelungen System.

Within the Nibelungen system, the witch Gabriel asked anxiously, "Locke, how are you?"

"I haven't been able to contact you since just now; the magical energy on your end is too chaotic."

Within the Nibelungen system, the voices of concern from others could also be heard.

Locke said calmly, "Yes, I'm fine. I killed a full-fledged witch of the Ghost Cult. She said she was the Infant Witch of Brittany."

The Nibelungen system suddenly fell silent.

After a long pause, the old Forbes witch smiled and said, "What a fine bewitching wizard you are, making our Lilith Hut famous."

"That infant spirit witch Brittany has been roaming the southeastern corner of the region for a long time. She is cruel and often collects the souls of newborn children. The human experiments she conducts are appalling. However, she is so cunning and her methods are so effective that no one has been able to catch her all this time."

"I never imagined she would die at your hands today."

"Your reputation will spread throughout the entire southeastern region with her death. According to the dark wizards, this is called 'Fear'."

(End of this chapter)