Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 446 Data Thieves and Attacks Using Wizard Towers
The wizard Gregory took the evidence and left.

The wizard Sphinx and Locke quickly found Barnaby and the family wizards associated with him.

When they were found, they were still having fun in the witch's tavern on White Dragon Street, chatting and boasting with the witch mistresses about the things they had done.

When Locke and their mentor, the wizard Sphinx, arrived, everyone turned pale.

The third-class witch apprentices in the witch's tavern were all pale-faced. They had never seen a formal witch in their lives, and now, in front of Locke and the others, they were all so frightened that they dared not make a sound.

Immediately following, the wizard Sphinx, angered by Locke, began to unleash a torrent of abuse on Barnaby. The intensity of his words, coupled with the arrival of the wizard Gregory, made Barnaby realize that his previous pranks had gone too far.

Things have become very serious.

Leopold's wizarding mentor turned out to be an archaeologist who used archaeological methods to record everything they did, turning it into evidence, and sent it to the school supervisor, Gregory.

Barnaby was so frightened that he apologized to Leopold and the others repeatedly, and returned all the magical materials and laboratory data that he had obtained from Leopold in his astral ring.

Leopold took the items with a cold expression, and after inspecting them, whispered to Locke, "Teacher, the data is all here."

Barnaby only calmed Locke down after learning that the wizard Sphinx had actually paid the price of two potions for advancement. He then realized the seriousness of the matter and quickly bowed to Locke, apologizing, "Teacher Augustine, I just wanted to play a prank and teach Leopold, who I usually don't get along with, a lesson."

"I never expected things to escalate to this extent."

"This really wasn't my intention, I..."

Locke gave him a cold look, not lowering himself to speak with the wizard apprentice, but instead looking at his mentor, Wizard Sphinx.

Wizard Sphinx also felt a sliver of hope and wanted to suppress the matter. "It's just a minor conflict between students. I think we, as first-ring wizards, should..."

Locke frowned at the wizard Sphinx. "Are you kidding me, wizard Sphinx?"

The wizard Sphinx's mind, having been repeatedly disrupted, was already somewhat confused. "Huh? A joke?"

"I'm not joking."

"Lord Locke, you..."

Locke held a Shadow Eye Grass, which fell almost imperceptibly from his hand, like a parachutist descending towards the ground, and then silently blended into the shadows of the witch apprentices in the tavern.

The next moment, the Shadow Eye Grass suddenly appeared from behind a witch and released a magnetic field from Locke's innate demonic eye on his forehead towards her.

The witch's expression changed drastically. The aura of a first-ring wizard in the liquefaction stage rose from her body. At the same time, cracks appeared on her dusty face. Then, her mask-like face suddenly shattered and fell to the ground, turning into fragments.

This is a Transfiguration magic spell—the Mask of Contradiction.

By simulating the changes in the form of magic power, or even the more subtle forms of magic power, and thus simulating specific soul aura and magical pressure fluctuations, the properties of magic power can be simulated using these microscopic details.

At the same time, one can disguise oneself as whoever one wants to be, from wizard apprentice to first-ring wizard, or even second-ring wizard, one can change at will.

However, as far as Locke knew, the Transfiguration magic of the Mask school required a great deal of effort, so if a wizard was good at this kind of magic, he would inevitably not be good at other types of magic, especially in combat.

At that moment, the mask fell to the ground, revealing the face of a cold, sinister man.

The wizard Sphinx suddenly understood everything; the problem was more serious than he had thought—academic thieves had actually been involved.

Some black wizards specialize in stealing data from laboratories around the world and then handing it over to interested individuals or, more specifically, to the clients who commission them.

Clearly, this was not just a simple act of provocation by a family wizard discriminating against a commoner wizard, but rather an act by a dark wizard in the liquefaction stage attempting to steal data from Locke's laboratory.

His student Barnaby's role in this is likely that he communicated with these dark wizards and committed serious acts of betrayal against the Tower of White Dragons.

Barnaby wasn't just at this tavern for fun; he was also there to meet with the dark wizard and hand over the data he'd obtained.

However, he probably didn't expect that several high-ranking wizard mentors would condescend to come to the apprentice living area.

Locke was surprisingly determined to investigate the matter thoroughly, especially because of the students' situation and to protect the students in his research group from harassment and difficulties in the future.

Furthermore, as an archaeologist, Locke directly investigated the real culprit, Barnaby, and then brought people to him in a very short time.

Therefore, what was originally just an ordinary investigation task unexpectedly attracted two liquefying wizards to this small witch's tavern.

When the dark wizard realized he had been exposed, he immediately tried to escape. He used a Transfiguration spell, which caused a bunch of sofas in the tavern to fly up automatically and form a humanoid shape, attempting to attack Locke.

The next moment, Locke snapped his fingers, and the Primal Flame flew out, burning the entire sofa to ashes without harming the surrounding environment in the slightest.

"A mere trick." Locke activated his magic, and sea gold sand appeared in his hand. The sky was filled with gold sand, which was the fifth spell in the Scorching Gold Sand Flow series, [Gold Sand Waterfall].

A torrent of gold dust cascaded down on the black wizard like a waterfall. The three protective spells he had set up in front of him using three magical artifact rings—the Lightning Shield, the Fire Shield, and the Storm Shield—were instantly engulfed by this powerful magic.

At the same time, the wizard Sphinx, as a wizard of the Plutarch family, also immediately took action. Dragon scorpion carapace appeared on his body, and he used the universal bloodline spell, Blood Flame, to attack the black wizard academic thief.

Under the magical attacks of the two, the dark wizard in the liquefaction stage suddenly used shapeshifting magic to infinitely deform his body, turning it into a piece of white paper. The white paper, which was floating in mid-air, then folded itself up and made a kind of 'clicking' sound.

It's like the sound produced by a metronome when practicing a musical instrument.

The paper dart, folded from white paper, bypassed all the golden spore powder from the sea gold sand, as well as the blood flames summoned by the wizard Sphinx by burning his bloodline energy, and fled towards the door.

Clearly, the other party wanted to escape.

“The permanent defensive field of the Transfiguration school wizards, one by one, is so strange.” Locke immediately realized that the fact that the other party could transform himself so completely was obviously due to the other party’s permanent defensive field, and the fixed ticking sound made by the paper dart when it was flying was obviously the ruler that was required for the first level of Transfiguration magic.

The ruler is something that inevitably exists after the metamorphic school, after the first stage.

The emergence of the ruler system gave the Transformation School the ability to safely transform and quickly change its form, elevating the school to a new level.

A typical first-circle wizard of the Transfiguration school likes to use the sound of their heartbeat as a "ruler" to represent the passage of time and remind themselves of its meaning.

Some first-ring wizards like to carry clocks or similar items with them. The size of the ruler affects the minimum and maximum volume of their shapeshifting objects, making the choice of which ruler to use paramount for shapeshifters. Locke couldn't think of a good way to counter the dark wizard's ruler for the time being, but the latter's belief that he could move freely within the White Dragon Tower was a gross underestimation of him.

Locke's right middle finger was adorned with the White Dragon Ring, which flashed with magical light. He immediately activated his access to summon an elemental torrent from the elemental fission pool of the White Dragon Tower.

Use the Wizard Tower's magic amplification module to amplify your magic!

With the current privileges granted by the Wizard Tower, Locke can become invincible among his peers without using any trump cards.

At the same time, all magic is amplified!
Moreover, he can directly invoke the spell models engraved in the elemental fission pool of the White Dragon Tower and use the Wizard Tower spell models to attack enemies.

Instantly, a materialized bloodline energy enveloped the black wizard's head, transforming into a beast claw that struck his deformed paper dart.

The universal spell for solidifying bloodlines in the White Dragon Tower—[Beast's Tribulation]!
A spiritual beast claw, formed from bloodline energy, was stamped onto the black wizard's body like a seal.

Wizard Sphinx froze for a moment, then looked in astonishment at the White Dragon Ring in Locke's hand. "Lord Locke, you actually possess such high privileges that you can use the Wizard Tower's [Beast Tribulation]!"

Beast's Tribulation is a high-level universal bloodline spell that converts bloodline energy into attack power with extremely high efficiency, and it also has the special ability of the Wizard Tower to amplify ordinary magic.

This means that once the Beast Tribulation is activated, even a first-ring crystallization wizard cannot withstand the attack.

However, if one possesses the highest authority in the Wizard Tower and has the magical level of a first-circle crystallized wizard, using [Beast's Tribulation] can activate its maximum power mode, or even more complex war bloodline spells. In that case, even a second-circle wizard would be defeated and sent packing.

Once six crystallized wizards simultaneously preside over the six wizard towers and activate the highest level of authority, they can use the highest-level universal bloodline spells that are solidified and imprinted behind the six towers.

Legend has it that it can withstand a third-circle wizard!
At this moment, the dark wizard sensed the magic [Beast's Tribulation], which actually had a locking function. No matter how he folded and transformed himself, he could not avoid the beast's claw that was stepping towards him.

He immediately realized that this was the most common form of damage lock-in in the first stage of Bloodline Studies: Bloodline Identification. Bloodline Studies' attack method can lock onto your bloodline spirituality the moment of attack.

This is what troubles the Transfiguration school of wizards the most.

Because once their bloodline spirituality is locked, their Transfiguration school wizards cannot evade it no matter how they transform.

At this moment, even after folding himself three times in a row, transforming into different paper birds, paper grasshoppers, and paper airplanes, he still couldn't avoid the claw formed by the blood-red spiritual essence descending from the sky.

Bloodline magic is actually very effective against Transfiguration magic.

Alicia's mental state was broken by the clown leader of the clown gang because she lacked combat experience.

With a 'bang,' the dark wizard was forcibly pulled back to his original form from the first-circle transformation spell, [Paper Substitute]. He spat out blood and glanced back at the White Dragon Ring in Locke's hand. He was clearly surprised that the target of the data theft was just an outsider wizard who possessed a ring with access to the White Dragon Tower.

If he had known this, he certainly wouldn't have accepted the theft mission. Stealing data from a wizard with control authority inside the wizard's tower was far too risky.

However, since [Paper Substitute] is his permanent defensive force field, he regained the ability to use [Paper Substitute] 10 seconds after the spell was broken and his right hand was interrupted by Locke's botanical magic Golden Sand Torrent.

He transformed back into a blank sheet of paper, weaving through the walls of a street in Bailong Street, and quickly folded himself into a paper dart before entering the sewers.

The wizard Sphinx stared grimly at the vanished dark wizard, turning to Locke as if he were looking at his pillar of support. "Lord Locke, the dark wizard is gone! The liquefied stage dark wizard who infiltrated the White Dragon Tower is gone! What should we do?"

He glared at Barnaby fiercely.

He could forgive everything else, but he absolutely could not forgive the black wizard for bringing him into the White Dragon Tower.

At this moment, the wizard Sphinx's gaze toward Barnaby was icy cold.

Barnaby's heart sank.

He knew that no matter how powerful his background was, he was doomed now and would be sent to the wizard prison.

Locke raised his left hand and whispered an incantation. During the battle, Locke had sent a Shadow Eye Grass into the shadow of the paper that the opponent had transformed into.

No matter how he changes form, he will always have a shadow. As long as there is a shadow, the eye grass can hide inside it.

So the Shadow Eye Grass followed the other party relentlessly, and no matter how the other party tried to escape, they could not shake it off.

Locke closed his left eye and saw the dark wizard lying in the sewers, badly injured. "He can't escape. I want to see who hired him to steal my data."

Locke quickly recalled the contestants in the Yunze Cup group. He hadn't expected that one of them would be so cunning.

Indeed, by looking at some peripheral data, one can know the specific progress of their experiment. Could it be the wizard Alaric from the border between darkness and light?

But looking at his big mouth, it doesn't seem to be his usual way of doing things.

Locke directly transmitted his vision through the Shadow Eye Grass, and used his vision to transmit his magic.

After activating the White Dragon Tower's permissions, all magic is amplified, and the Earth Elemental Magnetism is also amplified!
Because of the use of the Wizard Tower, even if the opponent is a wizard of the same level, he can quickly crush him and directly bypass his permanent defensive field, rendering him completely incapable of fighting.

At that time, in the sewers, the Transfiguration wizard, no matter how he changed his body, could not get rid of the Eye Grass hidden in his shadow.

"Damn it." The wizard from the Transfiguration school changed his expression drastically, reverted to his original form, pulled a silver dagger from his astral ring, and then turned to stab his own shadow. However, the Shadow Eye Grass simply disappeared deeper into his shadow to avoid his attack.

"How could there be such a troublesome magical plant?"

"It disappears into the shadows, completely untouchable, and even attaches itself to my shadow, constantly transmitting the opponent's gaze. I've never heard of such a troublesome magical plant before. Such a useful magical plant should be used by many botanical wizards!"

"Could it have been developed recently?"

"No way, we've already distanced ourselves from that wizard. Could this magical plant be able to transmit his magic? How could such an excellent magical plant be cultivated in a place like this?" The black wizard's heart leaped into his throat as he felt terrifying magical fluctuations emanating from his shadow.

He only had time to pull out a defensive magical artifact worth 50,000 magic stones from his astral ring.

The next moment, a powerful magnetic field erupted from the shadows, enveloping him and, amplified by the wizard tower's magic, blasting the small silver shield in front of him into nine pieces.

　Because the content couldn't be separated, it was combined into one chapter, totaling 16,000 words, which is why there are only four chapters.

　　
　
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