Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 338 Initial Unraveling of the Mystery of the Bloodline

Hussein carefully memorized it, then nodded and said, "Very good, I've remembered. But you also know my background; I've never published any articles here."

Hussein was now in dire straits. He finally understood what it meant for a formal wizard to be penniless in the white wizarding society.

Locke pondered for a moment, then said to Hussein, "I can help you exchange it, which is equivalent to giving you 20 contribution points. But as a condition of the transaction, I would like to ask you some questions about curse magic as part of my knowledge expansion."

Hussein breathed a slight sigh of relief. "Of course."

So the two of them exchanged for the magic books they wanted, and then Locke and Hussein each found an empty seat in the library and sat down.

After they both sat down, they discovered that as soon as they sat down, a desk, sofa, food, flowers, and bookshelves would automatically appear in front of them.

In fact, the scene in front of them can be switched and changed as long as they want to read whatever book in whatever environment they want.

When Locke wanted to read by the shore, he was surrounded by bright sunshine, azure ocean, and a beautiful beach.

“As expected of visual desert magic,” Locke said, then turned his attention to the book in his hands.

Why would the central library determine that it needs this book?

Locke flipped through the book and began to read. It turned out to be a book about a collective exploration of mortal families suspected of having ancient creature bloodlines within 3251 overseas mortal island worlds in the southeastern sea.

The Endless Mysterious Sea is extremely vast, and each mortal island is at least equivalent to a continent in a previous life.

The author of this book is compiling a collection of these ordinary islands.

“Even if a legitimate wizard is incredibly powerful, there are still so many mortal worlds; can he possibly investigate them all?” Locke asked with a strange expression. “This raw data was actually obtained from the black wizards.”

“I can see that some of the investigative methods used archaeologists’ magical models.”

Speaking of which, I haven't found the lineage of archaeologists in the first stage yet.

If I have the chance, I should try to find McCarthy and see if he has any archaeologists with a first-level lineage, but to be honest, the chances are slim.

Moreover, even if he possessed it, this inherited knowledge would likely have been tainted with considerable trouble.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have hidden alone in the Chimera Market.

This knowledge is not publicly available, making it extremely difficult to obtain.

In the wizarding world, you can't just learn whatever you want. Knowledge is extremely valuable, and knowledge is power.

So you should learn whatever you have and whatever you need.

Locke flipped through the book and discovered that it contained a lot of information about the bloodlines of special ancient creatures and the lineages of some ancient families in the mortal world. It was even possible that those mortal families themselves were unaware of this, as they had all fallen on hard times, but the book had conducted some investigation into their family genealogies.

"Hmm? In the mortal world number 111, there is a family called the Duke of the North Sea who have the bloodline of the ancient marine creature Crystal Horned Whale, but the inheritance is extremely thin and cannot be extracted anymore."

Locke nodded. He looked at the family's lineage. It was because their ancestor married a mermaid princess with a rare bloodline of the Crystal Horned Whale that they possessed that rare bloodline.

This bloodline is even thinner than that of the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat on the Cat Queen of the Orc Royal Family. Even if you gave yourself to the members of this family, you wouldn't be able to extract specific components from their blood.

These bloodlines are so diluted that they only indicate they once possessed this bloodline; currently, they are no different from ordinary people. Locke continued reading. "In the mortal world number 154, there is a royal family called the Rodriguez family, which possesses the bloodline of the Serpentscale Beast. Their ancestors are suspected to have drunk the blood of the Kungu Beast, a modern magical creature with the bloodline of the ancient Serpentscale Beast, in ancient times."

Locke then read some more articles, and found that the families mentioned in these articles actually had bloodlines so diluted that they were almost nonexistent, so they were completely unusable.

But thinking about it carefully, it makes sense. If it were usable, why would they write it down in a book and let others know? They could just go and extract the bloodline of that family and obtain the ancient magical creature bloodline from them.

Through reading this book, Locke also discovered that the ancestors of most of the nobles and royalty in the mortal world had some connection with supernatural beings.

Thinking about it carefully, it makes sense. If their ancestors were the children of a wizard or the descendants of a powerful magical creature, their physical attributes would naturally be stronger than others, making it easier for them to occupy prominent positions in the secular world.

Of course, many families in the book have long since declined, and quite a few even thought they would remain commoners their whole lives, but the author of this book directly sorted out the lineage of their noble ancestors for them.

"At least the other party is very knowledgeable about bloodlines, which has broadened my horizons." Locke read the book with great interest. The book details how the author investigated and collected evidence, so he could learn a lot from it.

This offers a glimpse into the knowledge domain of an archaeologist.

"Wait a minute." Locke had already read the last part of the book, and his expression was strange. "I've gotten myself into this mess."

"Did the author of this book ever imagine that among all the families he wrote about, one of their descendants would become a full-fledged wizard and be able to access his book in the White Wizarding Association's public library?"

It's probably unlikely, since the probability is extremely low.

Everything in the mortal world is extremely far removed from the wizarding world, like heaven and earth.

Locke looked at the contents of the book, his expression gradually becoming serious. "It seems I've been going in the wrong direction all along. The reason I possess the ancient creature bloodline that gives me the secondary affinity for gold elemental particles might not be from the woman, but from the man."

"Moreover, I finally understand what kind of bloodline it is."

He looked at the book, which read: "Island No. 31, the Augustine family, according to research, possesses the bloodline of a mid-to-high-level ancient creature [Golden Two-Headed Dragon Bloodline]."

"It is suspected that their ancestor used shapeshifting magic with a dragon and came into contact with the girl he became. However, this branch of the Augustin family is only a side branch. The original main branch of the Augustin family seems to have attracted the attention of a force from outside the southeastern sea, and all of its members were mysteriously slaughtered."

"None survived."

"Currently, the ancient biological bloodline of this Augustinian family is so thin that it can be considered as non-existent."

Locke tapped his fingers on the table. "So, my witch mother's true purpose was to seize the ancient dragon bloodline of the Augustin family?"

Locke looked thoughtful. "It seems that things weren't so simple back then. Mother didn't tell Father the truth."

Was she really being hunted down back then?

"If her goal is to obtain the bloodline of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon, or to obtain a daughter who possesses both the bloodline of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon and the aptitude of a witch, then she must possess a powerful technology that can purify the bloodlines of ancient creatures, a technology that far surpasses my current imagination."

"But there is still a problem. If the golden two-headed dragon bloodline in my body is really so thin that it is almost non-existent, then why is the bloodline in my body being constantly activated, and even showing signs of intensifying and accelerating its formation?"

"Now that I know its specific origin, it will be easier and faster for it to take shape."

Locke could feel that as he became a first-ring wizard, the mysterious bloodline within him had become even stronger.

(End of this chapter)