Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 342 Capturing the Abyss Demon
Locke invited Yuri into his laboratory.

As soon as Yuri entered the laboratory, she looked around, because there were many eyeballs floating in the tissue culture tanks inside.

These eyeballs actually belonged to different magical creatures, many of which were subspecies of magical creatures with bloodlines related to abyssal creatures.

Yuri was startled when she thought of Locke's reputation as a bewitching wizard. She looked at Locke with a chilling fear in her eyes. Only then did she remember that Locke was a first-ring wizard with a notorious reputation.

Locke glanced at her and said, "Oh, these are just byproducts of my previous research on Abyssal Potion."

"Lie down on this control panel. I already have a general idea of ​​your problem."

At this point, Yuri had no choice but to obediently lie down on the control panel.

Locke's right hand swept across her face, and immediately a series of spell models struck her body. "The so-called Abyss Potion Material Paradox was proposed by a first-ring wizard of the Blue Ring School, who was also a formal potion master. He discovered that adding materials from abyssal creatures to a potion recipe would improve the quality of the potion recipe."

"This is because the energy level of abyssal creatures is very high. As long as high-energy materials are added to the potion formula, the potion can react faster and be more effective."

"But adding abyssal biological materials will cause serious side effects, and these side effects do not increase linearly, nor do they suddenly surge, but rather... completely randomly."

"In this paradox, there is a possibility that increasing the amount of abyssal biological materials can enhance the potion's effects, but it could also turn the potion into a completely inedible poison."

Locke waved his hand, and a vial of potion appeared in his hand, with a red eyeball floating inside. Locke opened the vial, and something within Yuri seemed to sense the aura of the Eye Demon Lord's potion and began to stir.

Locke keenly noticed that Yuri's shadow... began to twist and turn strangely.

Locke said, "That wizard was also the culprit behind the Abyss Plant Cataclysm. In the paradox, he also hypothesized that perhaps someone could find a way to limit the side effects of Abyss materials through specific combinations of potion formulas."

"The Blue Ring Society's research on abyssal creatures not only caused the largest breeding magic experiment in the southeastern region to go out of control a hundred years ago, causing endless harm, but also had considerable damage to potion science."

"There is a group of potion-making assistants with mediocre skills who, in order to publish articles and obtain better data, will try to use abyssal materials to enhance the potion's effects when they are unable to improve the formula."

"But they lack the ability to know that all abyssal materials need to be purified of their abyssal polarity using magical flames before being refined. Therefore, I suspect that you once ingested some kind of abyssal creature material."

Locke looked at Yuri's shadow. "I guessed right."

Yuri turned to look at her shadow and was startled. Her shadow, cast by the magic light, showed a ghostly hand gripping her neck tightly.

The 'ghost hand' grabbed her neck, absorbing countless amounts of life energy to heal its injuries and missing body.

This is the truth.

The curse of aging on her body had long been lifted, and she shouldn't have aged any longer. But twenty years ago, a demon's remains were drunk by her along with an immature potion, and from then on, it quietly parasitized her body, absorbing her life force.

An ordinary potion master's assistant would be completely unaware of this deeply hidden demon.

The first-ring wizards hadn't really looked at Yuri carefully. Even if they had, unless they were studying Abyss Potionology, they would have had to observe her for at least a week, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to see anything amiss.

This is why Yuri has been misdiagnosed.

The ghostly hand in the shadow suddenly opened a chaotic and disordered black eye in its palm, and the surrounding light seemed to dim. The negative energy particle field in the entire laboratory was completely changed and reversed in an instant.

"Give me...give me that potion...give it to me..."

Locke raised his eyebrows in surprise. So that's how it is. Do abyssal demons have the property of reversing negative energy particle fields?

The white wizards seem to have studied this less, perhaps because the wizards of the southeastern corner region rarely come into contact with abyssal demons. The ghostly hand looked with insatiable greed at the Eye Demon Lord's Potion in Locke's hand; it could sense the rich, pure, and high-quality abyssal energy contained within the potion.

In the southeastern corner of the wizarding world, there are wizards who can extract such high-purity abyssal energy.

This was truly unexpected for it.

"Hurry up and give me that potion. Otherwise, I'll kill this woman."

Suddenly, the ghost hand exerted force and grabbed Yuri's shadow by the neck. Yuri, who was lying on the control panel, screamed in agony. Her magical pressure was completely suppressed by the ghost hand, and she was unable to resist its invasion. If the ghost hand were to strike, her already fragile life energy would be wiped out in an instant.

Locke stared at it coldly, his eyes indifferent, without saying a word.

'It doesn't seem to be the lowest-ranking, less intelligent Tanaris demon. Rather, it's some kind of higher-level demon.'

'More than twenty years ago, it probably didn't even have a single hand. All these years, has it been secretly stealing Yuri's life force to repair its own body?'

"Wait a minute," Locke suddenly realized. "That's not right. Doesn't repairing the body require a large amount of etheric element? The body is flesh and blood; how can it simply parasitize another person, absorbing life energy to recover? Even if it had energy, it wouldn't be useful because it lacks a physical body, or the large amount of ether needed to construct one."

'Unless... demons don't have physical bodies, but that doesn't make sense either; wizards have fought against abyssal demons, and those demons do have physical bodies.'

Locke thought, 'That means their bodies are special; they aren't normal flesh and blood beings.'

The ghostly hand screamed. "Give me that potion right now! I only need that potion. Give it to me, and I'll leave this witch's body. Otherwise, I'll kill her and take her with me."

"I only want that potion. Wizard! Give it to me!"

Locke drank the Eye Demon Lord Potion right in front of the ghost hand, which immediately let out a furious roar. But the next moment, Locke instantly appeared in front of Yuri's shadow, stretched out his right hand, grabbed the ghost hand, and squeezed it so hard that the ghost hand almost deformed.

Locke grabbed it, forcefully pulling it out of Yuri's shadow, and held it in his hand, staring at it coldly.

"A mere demon dares to threaten me? Who do you think I am?" Locke's eyes flashed with a fierce light, golden vertical pupils flashed in his pupils, and at the same time, abyssal energy flashed within them.

The demon instantly sensed the terrifying aura emanating from Locke. "Lord...it's the Lord's aura..."

"It's the Lord of the Abyss..."

"How can you possess Abyss Lord-level energy?! My God, could it be that you are a Lord of the Abyss?!"

Ghost Hand cried out in surprise, while Locke frowned. What the hell? It seemed that the other party had made some kind of wrong judgment based on his aura.

His abyssal energy came from taking the Eye Demon Lord Potion, which was synthesized from three Eye Demon Potions.

Wait a moment.

Locke asked tentatively, "What level of demon is the Eye Demon Lord in the Abyss?"

The ghostly hand became extremely frightened, trembling in Locke's grasp. "Reporting to you, sir. It is a lord-level demon... Beholder lords have extremely long lifespans, and there is even a Beholder lord who is the lord of the Abyss World in a layer of the Abyss Plane."

Locke asked, "Then what are you?"

Ghost Hand said fearfully, "Lord Eye Demon. I am the Mammon Demon, born from the combination of greedy energy and dark energy particles under the influence of abyssal energy."

(End of this chapter)