Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 334 Holy magic, how could it be such an inconvenient thing? (4000)

Hussein immediately tried to retreat, but he was horrified to find that the golden sand walls of Haijinsha were holding his fist in place, preventing him from breaking free quickly.

He could only raise his left hand to cover his face.

The next moment, three streams of golden sand struck his left arm like countless high-speed spinning iron balls, actually causing the vampire count's arm to break.

'Bang bang~'

A series of heavy thuds occurred on Hussein.

'It was countless gold dust particles, almost like iron balls, that caused me blunt force trauma.' During the battle, Hussein quickly constructed a dynamic simulation in his mind of the damage Locke's Gold Dust Torrent magic inflicted on him. 'No. It should be compound damage, because the gold dust is still a fluid.'

Hussein quickly stepped back and looked at his fractured left arm, where there was a clear tear and cavity at the wound.

The wound on his left arm looked as if a large chunk of flesh had been missing.

'It's like having countless iron balls hitting my arm; the damage at that moment was primarily blunt force trauma, along with fluid-induced cuts, because the gold dust is in a fluid state.'

'So it caused instantaneous cavity damage to my arm, which is essentially blunt force trauma.'

'It possesses three highly complex forms: blunt force trauma from a heavy impact, cutting damage from the passage of countless fluids, and cavitation damage caused by a sudden pressure difference. These three forms are enough to render ordinary defensive magic ineffective.'

'As expected of Golden Magic, as expected of Locke Augustine, this is indeed troublesome. Moreover, my curse magic will have no effect on these gold dusts.'

The next moment, red light emanated from Hussein's beast arm. Facing Locke's second use of Golden Sand Torrent, he swung his right arm, tearing a wall of air in the air to temporarily block the three pursuing Golden Sand Torrents and deflect their attack direction.

At the same time, his severed left arm was surrounded by a magical glow like a blood moon, and in the blink of an eye, it was completely restored.

Locke frowned slightly upon seeing this, already guessing what Hussein's permanent defensive force field was.

Unexpectedly, the other party chose such an extreme and permanent defensive force field direction.

Hussein leaped over Locke, attempting to circle around to Locke's back, and casually unleashed a blood curse that paralyzed Locke's entire body, but was blocked by a wall of gold dust created by Locke's torrent of gold dust.

And then, the next moment, as Hussein and Locke were close together, he attempted to strike Locke's back with his left hand.

Locke suddenly turned around, and the hydrangea spear in his right hand instantly unfurled its branches and extended automatically, transforming into a sharp spear that pierced through Hussein's chest.

This is a first-level botanical spell, the Golden Fern Spear.

The Golden Sand Rapids can be used for defense, offense, and control.

The Golden Fern Spear, on the other hand, fully utilizes the sharpness and unwavering nature of the sea gold sand. In an instant, using plant magic, it unleashes all the magical plant properties and golden magic characteristics of the sea gold sand, transforming it into an elongated spear that pierces through the enemy.

It can be used in close combat, or it can be transformed into a spear and thrown.

The uses are endless.

Hussein spat out a mouthful of scalding blood, and his fist slammed into Locke's life force field, only to be deflected.

He smiled bitterly, and the next moment he felt that as the Golden Fern Spear pierced his chest, countless golden powders of Lygodium spores entered his bloodstream and began to rampage freely within his body.

It was as if, after a long spear pierced his chest, countless smaller spears were also rushing and crashing around inside his body.

At the same time, a sharp, piercing pain erupted within him.

All the pain of a person stabbed by sea gold sand will be amplified more than tenfold within an hour!
This is enough to render most wizards with weak willpower powerless, losing most of their fighting ability.

Locke said to Hussein, "Wait a minute, I'll help you break the curse."

"The sea ginseng will amplify your pain, and at the same time, my botanical magic, the Golden Fern Spear, will inflict elemental infusion damage of gold particles within your body. This is a typical damage characteristic of first-circle plant magic, using magical plants to infuse the enemy with elements, which is extremely dangerous. If you are not careful, your body and soul elements will lose their balance, resulting in a disease that is fatal even to wizards: [Elemental Imbalance].

Hussein grinned. "No need, this level isn't even my limit."

"Locke, don't underestimate my willpower."

The next moment, he flapped the three pairs of bat wings on his back, and the three pairs of scarlet blood eyes on his face released six scarlet gazes, as if a demon god had descended upon the world.

He flew backward using his wings, breaking free from the spear formed from the sea gold sand in Locke's hand.

At the same time, a scarlet light emanated from his entire body, and his injuries were rapidly healing.

Seeing this, Locke said, "As expected, my guess was right. You actually set your permanent defensive field to the [Vampire Transformation Blood Curse]. In this way, by relying on the permanent defensive field, you have strengthened your physical body and your immortality. In other words, your physical body is your permanent defensive field."

"Or rather, you used a permanent defensive force field to enhance your immortality."

The Blood Curse Court's magical system, during the apprentice stage, possesses an exceptionally high level of immortality, because every vampire is essentially transformed into a vampire only after being cursed by a first-circle wizard's blood curse.

However, at the first level of wizarding, dark wizards of the Blood Curse Court will choose to reduce their immortality and rapid self-healing abilities in order to enhance their powerful physique, destructive power, and terrifying damage capabilities.

After all, at the first stage, continuing to add points to the vampire's pseudo-immortality ability doesn't yield much benefit.

First-circle wizards from various schools of thought have far too many ways to bypass the vampire's blood curse and kill them directly.

But Hussein did the opposite, using a permanent defensive field to strengthen his immortality curse, and indeed gained that terrifying super-fast self-healing ability.

Seeing that his permanent defensive field had been seen through, Hussein no longer concealed it and laughed, "That's right. This is actually the original advancement route of our Blood Curse Court, the correct path recorded in the Ancestral Wizard's Notebook, and the Blood Lord also followed this route."

"But this generation of Blood Lord, fearing that his students would pose a threat to him, used a conspiracy to distort the knowledge of the correct path of advancement, causing the dark wizards of the Blood Curse Court to learn other blood curses. It was putting the cart before the horse. I never imagined that one person's fear and doubt would be worth sacrificing the future potential of an entire school."

In mid-air, Hussein transformed himself from the beastly form of a vampire count back into human form, reverting to the elegant image of a noble young man in the darkness.

In this humanoid form, his flight speed seems to increase several times.

Using this speed, Hussein continuously flew around Locke and released blood curses, attempting to wear him down by using the blood curses to take advantage of his speed.

But Locke frowned and shook his head slightly. "It's no use. Hussein, you have no magic to break through my permanent defensive field."

"The only thing that can be broken through by continuous attacks is your physical strength. But you don't dare to get close to me now, so continuing to fight will only waste all of our time."

"On the contrary, it would be easy for me to shoot you down from the sky if I wanted to."

Locke's sea gold sand unfurled again, transforming into a golden spiral shape. At the same time, a gold sand bullet appeared at the tip of each of its triangular feathers, which Locke then continuously fired into the sky.

One-ring magic [Golden Sand Bullet]!
This magic can accelerate each grain of gold dust, causing it to shoot at the enemy at supersonic speed.

'Bang!' Hussein remained in the air for less than a minute before Locke used this magic to lock him down, knocking him to the ground and creating a crater.

When Hussein got up from the ground again, he smiled wryly and voluntarily deactivated his vampire state, reverting to the state of a human youth.

He waved his hands repeatedly and said with a wry smile, "I can't beat them, I really can't beat them."

“I originally thought that I could defeat you by relying on my special permanent defensive force field and the original version of the vampire count's transformation curse. But now it seems that even if we are at the same level, I am still no match for you.”

"I'm completely convinced."

The gap between the two is already very obvious.

Hussein's only possible means of breaking Locke's permanent defensive force field has been restricted.

Locke has already inflicted a great deal of damage on him. If the fight continues, Locke can use the Sea Gold Sand to gradually wear down his immortality curse power, and may even kill him.

His greatest strength, speed, is countered by the first-level botanical magic, "Golden Sand Bullet."

Therefore, he suffered a complete defeat this time.

Locke and he were not enemies at the moment, so Locke did not continue the pursuit.

If they were in the wild and were enemies, Locke knew that if he had continued the pursuit, Hussein would have been in serious trouble.

Not necessarily. It won't be much better than being crushed and defeated by Locke last time.

“Besides, you even ruined the wizard robe I bought before. In your White Wizarding Lands, money is really important. Without money, even a first-ring wizard will have to worry.” Hussein took out a new set of ordinary wizard robes from his astral ring and put them on. He shook his head slightly. “This is the first time I’ve been so thoroughly defeated twice in a row among my peers.”

"But next time we face off, I will definitely get my revenge."

Locke glanced at him, chanted an incantation to dispel the golden magic he had planted in him, and then said, "Hussein, let's get to the Dispatch Department as soon as possible."

He gained a lot from the fight against Hussein.

Hussein is considered to be a fairly strong fighter among ordinary, formal wizards.

Although he had only recently advanced, due to the special nature of his permanent defensive field, he did not experience any period of soul weakness. Moreover, he had accumulated a wealth of knowledge and was a genius comparable to the witch Sophia, so he had a considerable pool of spells at his disposal.

Furthermore, because he traced the research notes of the progenitor of the Blood Curse Court and was on the right path, his combat power surpassed that of 99% of the Blood Curse Court's wizards of the same level.

Even so, despite using only normal magic pressure, without using any ancient creature bloodline trump cards, without using the second first-ring magic plant, and without using Forest Sanctuary or switching to a permanent defensive force field, the opponent was completely suppressed by the Sea Gold Sand Magic Plant and the Scorching Gold Sand Flow magic series.

It is evident that the magic he uses with the Sea Gold Sand series is indeed incredibly powerful.

It seems that my choice of sea hyacinth as my primary magical plant was the right one.

Locke stored the sea gold sand into his astral ring, and at the same time glanced at the terrain around him that he and Hussein had fought, which had caused rocks to crumble and the earth to split open. He sighed inwardly, thinking that the battle between first-ring wizards was indeed too destructive to the terrain.

After their fight, the two gained a better understanding of each other, and much of their previous estrangement disappeared.

The Dispatch Office was located at the White Wizarding Guild headquarters, which was situated at the University of Verdantia. Therefore, Locke chose to rent the Engel's Whirlwind Snail caravan from the academy and travel to the university with Hussein.

The journey is too long, so I'll save myself the trouble of flying there.

Inside the carriage behind Engel's spinning snail, Hussein looked at Locke's left arm, frowned, and said, "Haven't you removed Stanley's tracking blood curse yet?"

He raised his hand and said, "If we're not on the way, I'll remove this blood curse for you. I'm very familiar with advanced geometry, and I can easily undo it by starting with the weakest connection point."

Locke shook his head slightly, indicating his refusal. "Never mind. I can break this blood curse myself with a potion."

“But I don’t want to break it. I’m still hoping to use this blood curse to lure Stanley to me for revenge, and then I can take the opportunity to get rid of him completely.”

"Since the curse hasn't disappeared, it means Stanley survived the previous battlefield, probably thanks to the survival advantages of vampires."

Unlike before, Locke now has three first-level attack spells in his spell pool, his magic pressure has increased again, and he has become completely familiar with first-level combat methods.

If Stanley comes back to seek revenge, he can simply turn the tables and kill him.

Hussein shook his head slightly when he heard Locke say that. "No wonder he's called the Eye Demon Wizard. But I know Stanley's character. He bullies the weak and fears the strong. If you're weaker than him, he'll be ruthless. If you're stronger than him, he'll cower."

"I think he may no longer have any desire for revenge against you. His revenge is only directed at the weak."

"Most of the official wizards of the Blood Curse Court are this kind of... thing."

"Otherwise, they would never have stayed in the Blood Curse Court."

Five days later, the convoy the two had hired crossed half of the southeastern region and arrived at the University of Verdandia.

The University of Verdantia is located in a white mountain town.

All the buildings in the city are pure white, and they are all square and very orderly.

After the two identified themselves, people from the University of Verdandia immediately came to greet them and led them into the city, heading towards the headquarters of the White Wizard Association in the southeast corner.

Locke and Hussein saw that the White Wizards' Guild was a complex of dozens of pure white buildings forming a continuous palace complex.

There are eight enormous angel statues surrounding these buildings.

Hussein's expression was complicated. "I never imagined that I, a dark wizard, would one day find myself in the headquarters of your White Wizarding Association."

Locke glanced at him, pointed to the sacred barrier at the entrance of the White Wizard Association headquarters, and said, "That's a defensive spell from the Holy School."

"How are you going to get through? Although the entry conditions for that barrier aren't too strict—after all, many white wizards aren't clean themselves, and as long as there's no clear charge, they should be able to go in—you're already filthy black. Are you sure you can get into the branch association headquarters?"

Hussein pinned a special white badge to the chest of his wizard's robe. "Oh, the association issued me a special badge of immunity."

"I can use this to get in."

Locke glanced at the special badge in his hand that contained divine magic, and was somewhat speechless.

Indeed, how could sacred magic be such an inconvenient thing?

(End of this chapter)