Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 381 Two Types of Mutant Eye Grass
Over the next month, Locke completed three potion-related projects.

Furthermore, he continuously practiced the five potion recipes that Alicia had given him.

With Alicia's help and the support of the wizards of the Six Towers, his overall potion-making skills improved significantly.

Meanwhile, Locke spent a month continuously using the arcane energy pool of the Wizard Tower to cultivate the Eye Grass Magic Plant into an adult form and continuously synthesize it. Finally, he synthesized a special formula and obtained two subspecies of Eye Grass.

One type is Shadow Eye Grass, which is synthesized by combining two parts Shadow Eye Grass with one part of Mammon Demon's blood.

Next to the arcane energy pool in the Wizard Tower.

Locke reached out and beckoned, and the eye-shaped grass that had been in the azure arcane energy pool, absorbing the liquefied magical energy, disappeared automatically, turning into a shadow and appearing in the shadow of Locke's palm as it landed on the ground.

The original version of the Shadowgrass could only move by following the shadow of a specific person and connect with the gaze of the person who had been grafted with the magic, thus having a special surveillance function and relying on a specific shadow to track people.

But the Shadow Eye Grass is not only that; it can also transform into a shadow, enter the Shadow World, possess a person's shadow, and freely change positions within various shadows. Even its ability to track specific shadows is enhanced by abyssal energy.

"It's a variant of the paradox of Abyssal potion ingredients... Adding Abyssal energy to a magical plant can either make it better or worse. This Eye Grass, tainted with Abyssal energy, has gained the power to delve deeper into the Shadow World."

With a thought, Locke sent the Eye Grass within the shadow of his palm into a streak of light, which disappeared into the shadows of a corner of the Wizard Tower. Locke's vision merged with that of the Eye Grass's shadow, allowing him to monitor everything around him through the Shadow Eye Grass.

When Locke opened the innate demonic eye on his forehead, the pattern on the Shadow Eye Grass, which was shaped like an eye, seemed to transform into the shape of Locke's innate demonic eye, releasing powerful energy.

Locke can use this Shadow Eye Grass to teleport his gaze here, and also send his magic along with that gaze.

Locke looked at the description of the Shadow Eye Grass: "[Shadow Eye Grass, Level 8 Crafted Item. It uses potion-making techniques to process the blood of the Mammon demon. After fixing the blood's effects, it is made into an Eye Grass potion. Then, when planting the Shadow Eye Grass seedlings, it is diluted and watered once a day to transform them into Shadow Eye Grass.]"

[It possesses the unique ability to blur the lines between reality and shadow, allowing it to freely move and traverse between different shadows of real-world objects, and its ability to capture specific shadows and teleport lines of sight has been enhanced.]

The entry also includes a tutorial on how to make Eyegrass Potion.

All I can say is that I'm on a one-way street to becoming the Eye Demon Wizard.

Locke looked at the Shadow Eye Grass with satisfaction. It could be said that only after these two enhancements could it be considered truly powerful.

Only this kind of grass can suit my taste.

While the original version of the Eye Grass was indeed interesting, it was merely a more practical scouting plant with little value.

At the same time, Locke looked at the second Eye Grass in the Arcane Energy Pool, which was an Eye Grass that resembled a golden mirror.

The spherical leaves that were originally like false eyes of the eye grass have now completely merged into one and expanded outward, becoming a full moon shape, like a golden magic mirror.

Locke beckoned, and the Golden Eye Grass fell into his hand. He had synthesized this Eye Grass using his own blood; he had only intended to experiment, but unexpectedly, it had succeeded. Locke looked at its description: "[Golden Eye Grass, a variant of the Eye Grass magical plant. It is a subspecies produced by watering the Shadow Eye Grass seedlings daily with extremely diluted golden two-headed dragon blood, but its chance of birth is extremely low. It can refract magical light, reflecting back the enemy's pure energy magical impact at double the value.]"

Locke's expression was strange. "The fact that this magical plant can be completed proves that my blood has truly begun to possess the bloodline of the golden two-headed dragon."

“I’ve tried to synthesize my own blood before, but all I got was ordinary blood. But now I’ve actually seen a faint bloodline of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon in the entry. This means that even if I hadn’t found the book on the bloodlines of ancient creatures in the library of the White Wizard Association in the Southeast Corner Region, I would have found out what my bloodline was sooner or later.”

"I just didn't expect that the ancient dragon bloodline would cause the Eye Grass to mutate into a defensive magical plant. This is an unexpected gain." Locke pondered, "It seems that this defensive magical plant is a natural counter to direct energy impacts. That should mean it has complete restraint over spells such as the Rainbow Light Charm of the Charms school and the Light Magic Impact of the Evocation school."

"It seems to be only so-so in terms of defense against other magic."

Locke tentatively cast a 0.1-level Fireball spell on the mutated Eye Grass in his hand, which resembled a golden magic mirror. This simple spell was something Locke, even though he wasn't a wizard studying the Evocation school, could easily learn with his first-level wizarding skills.

The flame struck the Golden Eye Grass, causing it to float in mid-air. The Golden Eye Grass, radiating a golden glow, shifted slightly backward by half an inch, completely blocking the flame.

This shows that while Golden Eye Grass doesn't reflect ordinary magic, it does have a very strong defensive capability.

After all, this is a magical plant with a metallic attribute.

In a sense, this plant was nurtured with his own blood, and its compatibility with him was extremely high. Locke only touched it with his palm, and the magical plant directly established a magical grafting connection with him, as if it had been given to him upside down, without any of the reserve that other first-level magical plants had.

Locke completed the distributed psionic network grafting relationship with it, and at the same time he looked at the golden-eyed grass and let it rotate on his right arm.

At that moment, Claudia entered the energy core chamber of the small wizard tower and bowed to Locke, saying, "Lord Augustine, the head of the Anthony family has summoned you. It is said that the great wizard Sura has finally summoned you and wants to see you."

"The Great Wizard Sura summoned all the potion masters from the outside world who had recently entered the Land of the Six Towers, seemingly to test their potion-making skills and select those wizards who could truly heal him."

The blood elf witch Claudia smiled at Locke and said, "Lord Augustine, if you are chosen, a large number of projects and resources will immediately be poured into you, and the resources you can obtain may be many times greater than they are now."

"Your potion-making skills will improve rapidly! However, I've heard that you'll have more opponents this time."

“I see. It’s been two months, and you’ve finally summoned me. I was getting impatient.” Locke nodded and said to Claudia, “By the way, you’ve come at the right time. Use a standard first-circle conjuration spell from a first-circle bloodline essence master to attack this Golden Eye Grass. Give it a try.”

Although Claudia was confused, as Locke's subordinate, she still chose to obey orders. "Is this a new magical plant that Lord Augustine cultivated in the Land of the Six Towers?"

"I've never seen anything like it before; it feels very strange."

Claudia's right hand transformed into the wing of a Bloodwing Bird, and her right foot into a bright red claw. She then took flight and used her clawed right foot to kick at Locke's magical plant. "Lord Augustine, this is a bloodline modification of the Bloodwing Bird, a magical creature bloodline modification created by the Conjuration School that doesn't exist in reality. This bloodline modification will grant me the ability to fly, and the power to shatter magical alloys with a single claw strike."

"I wonder if your demonic plant can withstand a blow from my Bloodwing Bird Claw."

(End of this chapter)