Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 37 Magical Flames
Inside the magical creature breeding room.

While resisting the tree spirit's passively cast human charm spell, Locke used a small knife to cut open its wrist and extract its blood.

"Human, you will be torn to pieces by our tree demon tribe."

"I will use your heart to hatch a new tree spirit!"

The tree spirit struggled violently, trying to break free, but the next moment, the mandrake vine, which had been invisible, grabbed its throat and squeezed its neck, rendering it unable to move or speak.

A normal tree spirit's combat strength is at least equal to that of a first-class wizard apprentice.

However, all the iron cages in this breeding room were enchanted with spells from the Enchanting School, which had a restraining and suppressing effect. Therefore, Locke only needed to use one vine hand to suppress the raging tree spirit.

But if he opens the iron cage, that would be a different story.

It's likely that this tree spirit will open the iron cages containing all the magical creatures in the nurturing room as soon as possible, and then stage a massive rebellion-style escape.

The tree spirit was suspended in mid-air inside the iron cage. It looked in confusion at the spot in front of it. Because of the invisibility provided by the mandrake vines, the tree spirit couldn't even see what had attacked it.

"What's this……"

"Damn it... the wizard's apprentice..."

"Wait for me to go out..."

After collecting 500ml of the tree spirit's blood, Locke put away his knife. The tree spirit's rough, old tree bark quickly healed, leaving only a scar resembling tree bark.

Locke looked at the tree spirit's blood in his hand. The blood was green, but within that green, there was a glassy color.

It's like green glass.

“For wizards, tree spirits are treasures from head to toe,” Locke thought. “But just capturing and imprisoning them is fraught with danger.”

"I'm afraid one should not attempt to capture magical creatures of this caliber unless one is a first-class wizard apprentice."

Locke covered the iron cage with a black cloth to prevent the tree spirit from using human charm magic to influence other magical creatures and cause unnecessary risks.

He had read in a miscellaneous book that a wizard apprentice had imprisoned a dryad and a kobold together, but the dryad bewitched the kobold and escaped from the laboratory with the kobold's help.

Human charm spells can be effective against humanoid creatures with a certain level of intelligence.

Locke left the incubation room and went to the wooden hut where Teacher Sophia brewed potions, which was also her potion room.

Inside the potion room, shelves were filled with bottles and jars containing specimens of many strange creatures, many of which were marked with danger signs, warning others not to touch them.

Locke used a magical centrifugal extraction method to combine the tree spirit bloodline with the bloodline extraction potion refined by the witch Sophia, separating out the required tree spirit bloodline essence, and then handed it to the witch Sophia. "Teacher, this is the tree spirit bloodline essence, two portions in total."

Sophia the Witch nodded. "Okay, put it over there for now."

“Locke, now that you are a second-class wizard apprentice, you should learn something more useful.”

"From now on, you can be in charge of the magical flames I use to concoct potions."

Locke asked in confusion, "Teacher, what is magical fire?"

With a wave of her hand, the witch Sophia illuminated the entire potion room, and colorful flames roared in the cauldrons.

There are red, blue, green, purple, and even mixed colors.

Sophia the Witch raised her right hand, and a blue flame landed in her palm. "Generally speaking, a formal wizard's potion-making assistant must be at least a second-class wizard apprentice, and sometimes even a first-class wizard apprentice." "That's because a potion-making assistant needs to help his teacher control the temperature and type of magical flames."

"Of all the miscellaneous disciplines, potion-making, alchemy, and enchanting are the most complex."

The witch Sophia said, "An independent breeder only needs to be at the level of a first-class wizard apprentice."

"But an independent potion master must have a first-level wizard magic level."

Sophia the Witch said, "The process of making potions requires extremely high standards for the flame. The temperature and characteristics of the flame are key factors affecting the potion-making process."

"For example, the wood elemental magic flame in my hand is the most gentle and close to nature. Its temperature is about 1,400 degrees Celsius, and it is one of the more commonly used magical flames."

“Different colored flames have different temperatures and properties.” The witch Sophia suddenly clenched her fist, extinguishing the blue flame. Then she opened her palm, and a red flame rose from the center. “This is a fire elemental flame, with a temperature of one thousand degrees Celsius. It has explosive properties and is used when refining some potent potions.”

The witch Sophia said, "So far, you have already been exposed to the centrifugal extraction of magic. Now I will teach you a more advanced technique: the magic flame."

"But these are just peripheral knowledge of potion-making. To become a true potion master, what these assistants know is far from enough."

"Locke, the path of magic is vast, and you have a long way to go."

"But so far, mastering these things will at least make you a good assistant."

Locke was completely captivated by what he heard.

This is one of the benefits of being the only student of a formal wizard.

If this knowledge were given to another formal wizard, they wouldn't have the opportunity to learn it.

Other formal wizards would not allow a wizarding prospect who has just become a second-class wizarding apprentice to become their potions assistant.

The witch Sophia said to Locke, "I will give you the spell model of magical flames. The specific technique is to use this spell model to summon flames and inject elemental particles in different proportions."

"This way, we can create flames with different properties."

"But this is just the beginning. Different potions require different magical flames. Sometimes, even when refining a potion, it is necessary to change several or even dozens of magical flames."

"Alright, now you can try to summon a wood elemental particle flame inside this crucible of mine."

Locke paused for a moment, then took the spell model scroll handed to him by the witch Sophia and began to learn it from scratch.

But at this moment, Wesley Durant, who had remained silent all along, finally couldn't help but speak up. "Sophia, I have no objection to you having your students practice magical fire."

"But by the time he learns it, I'm afraid I'll have been turned into a pile of mud by the Thousand Curses."

"Find someone else to practice on for him."

Sophia the Witch glanced at him. "Wesley, now you know fear."

"However, it's not a big problem."

"Your first-ring permanent defensive field [Full Metal Digester] is an extremely powerful permanent defensive magic. At least for the next week, you won't actually die."

“Locke has a great talent for mana stability. The spell model for magical flames is very simple. The key is mana stability, and he is very talented in this area, so you don’t need to worry.”

Under Wesley Durant's slightly panicked gaze, Sophia the Witch found a stool, sat down, and actually began to flip through the books and start reading.

(End of this chapter)