Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 344 Sealing the Demon Mammon
Locke looked at the bottle of Elder Beholder Potion, and saw the description on it: "[A first-level potion, based on the Beholder Lord Potion recipe, with the addition of Abyss Crypt Lord's carapace material, as well as other... materials, and its brewing process has become more complex...]"

Its function is to increase the speed of meditation practice by enhancing mental acuity, thereby strengthening the user's mental power.

[WARNING: This product has serious side effects. If the body has not developed a tolerance to abyssal energy, the moment it is ingested, the powerful abyssal energy will erode the body, causing it to collapse and transform into an abyssal worm. It is recommended to start with the Eye Demon Potion—the Eye Demon Lord Potion—and possess a strong physique to gradually build up good tolerance to abyssal energy.]

Locke glanced at the potion, deciding not to consume it for the time being, as it was the best example of how he could learn first-level potion techniques and simultaneously create new first-level potion recipes.

It would be such a waste to eat it.

It allows for rapid progress in the field of potion-making.

Knowledge at the first level is rarely taught directly by teachers; most of it is researched by wizards through reading books and literature, conducting experiments, and so on.

The artificially established knowledge transmission system during the wizard apprentice stage is merely a foundation laid by wizarding society for wizard apprentices, while in the first wizard stage, everything depends on oneself.

There is no teacher, because everything can be your teacher.

There are no specific textbooks, because everything around us can become a source of knowledge.

Locke can also exchange contribution points for the first level of potion-making knowledge he needs at the library.

Locke put away the Eye Demon Elder Potion and looked at the trembling 'Ghost Hand'—the Mammon Demon—beginning to consider how to deal with this demon.

If it were a normal magical creature, it could simply be imprisoned in a cage made by a wizard from the enchanting school, but this thing is a bizarre abyssal demon creature.

I don't know if it's okay to lock them inside.

The opponent can even parasitize the soul of a first-class wizard apprentice for twenty years, constantly absorbing the opponent's life force, so this must be guarded against.

The Mammon demon, sensing Locke's scrutinizing gaze, was immediately filled with fear. It remembered the information that the cruel abyss lords would devour each other to evolve.

"Don't eat me... Great Eye Demon Lord... I can be a subordinate officer in your army, no no no no... I am not worthy, I can be your vanguard."

"You must be the Abyss Lord lurking in the wizarding world. You've even risen to a high position among human wizards. Your subordinate is willing to become your vanguard and help you crush the strongholds of human wizards."

Ghost Hand kept promoting himself.

Locke, however, kept his gaze cold as he pondered how to deal with the thing; keeping it seemed like a good idea.

First, it's a good resource for understanding the sources of information about the Abyss, which can further accelerate your improvement in Abyss Potionology.

Secondly, a piece of this thing can be cut off and used as raw material to refine Abyss Potions. Moreover, you can restore its body by inputting life force into it, just like a perpetual motion machine.

But how to preserve it is indeed a difficult problem.

Locke's eyes suddenly lit up, and he snapped his fingers. His first-class wizard apprentice, the dark wizard Howard, immediately transformed into a vampire and rushed to Locke's side.

He had two dark wizard servants under his command, and Nils, a dark wizard who was a student of the witch Sophia had taken in before, became his assistant at Lilith's Hut.

The dark wizard Howard was captured by him as a prisoner and used as his experimental subject for a long time. Only after Howard voluntarily submitted to him did he reluctantly accept him.

Therefore, Locke was more casual with Howard, unlike the other two dark wizards, whom he had to show more respect for.

Locke said indifferently, "Release your magical pressure structure. I'm going to place this thing inside your soul."

Howard paused for a moment, but wasn't too scared; in fact, a look of joy appeared in his eyes. "Yes, Master, I will take good care of it for you."

Locke glanced at him. "Aren't you going to ask me why?" Howard knelt before Locke, his eyes filled with unwavering loyalty. "Master, you are a great first-ring wizard. In the Dark Wizarding Lands, the opportunity to become a direct slave of a first-ring wizard is something others crave but never have."

"Furthermore, you've recently been researching Abyss Potionology, and this is an important experimental material. You must want to have complete control over it, so you absolutely won't let it get out of control. Therefore, even if it's placed inside my soul, I have nothing to worry about."

"On the contrary, it is my honor to be able to make a greater contribution to my master."

Howard knelt down and said.

Locke glanced at him in surprise. "You've been getting increasingly clever lately."

As expected of a wizard nurtured by the values ​​of the Dark Wizarding Land, their thought processes are indeed different from those of normal people.

However, he is right; it is actually relatively safe.

Locke conjured a plant of sea gold sand in his right hand, and instantly countless spores of gold dust enveloped the Mammon demon under the effect of the botanical spell model [Gold Sand Torrent].

Because the demon Mammon mistakenly believed that Locke was the Lord of the Abyss, he offered almost no resistance.

Instead, they breathed a sigh of relief upon discovering that Locke only wanted to seal it away.

The demon Mammon exclaimed in surprise, "Great lord, you are an abyss lord, how do you possess golden magic? Golden magic is effective against us abyss creatures..."

Locke was not surprised by this, otherwise he would not have used the Sea Gold Sand to seal this guy.

Abyssal energy is inherently chaotic, while the main characteristic of golden magic is its unwavering nature; therefore, golden magic naturally counters abyssal creatures.

I just wanted to give it a try, but I didn't expect it to actually work.

The golden iron cage formed by the torrent of golden sand restrained the Mammon demon. Locke placed him in Howard's shadow. The Mammon demon instinctively wanted to absorb Howard's life energy to restore his broken body.

To everyone's surprise, the next moment, the Mammon demon felt nauseous. "Ugh... Lord, what is this thing? Why does its life energy taste so disgusting? Is it really a life form from the Prime Material Plane? Lord, among all life forms in the Wizarding World, life energy is the most delicious, but why does its life energy taste like expired, moldy food?"

That's right, Howard's zombie body is Locke's second limitation on this demon.

Of course, it's the smell of moldy food from the past. Vampires' immortality is just a bug in the gap between life and death, placing them outside of life and death.

Locke said indifferently to Howard, "You did very well this time. I will give you a bottle of Lesser Emerald Potion every day to help improve your resistance to Abyssal energy."

"Don't worry about that."

Howard felt that Locke was the most conscientious slave owner in the world, and he said with emotion, "Thank you, Master."

Locke instructed him, "Send Yuri back, and when she wakes up, tell her she's completely healed."

"Let her make good use of this hard-won second life."

Howard looked at the control panel and saw Yuri, who was unconscious. At this moment, Yuri's body was beginning to regain some of its youthful vitality because she was no longer possessed by the Ghost Hand.

In time, she will regain her appearance at her normal age.

Howard said, "Yes, Master. You are being too kind to her."

(End of this chapter)