Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 455 Abyss Shell and Mysterious Dragon Trail
An hour later, the old black wizard's body had completely transformed into a silver werewolf, its body shimmering and every inch of it covered in silver texture.

A crack suddenly appeared on his forehead, and a rolling silver eyeball emerged from it—the innate demonic eye possessed only by a werewolf as a first-ring creature.

The silver eyeballs looked rather frightening; their structure resembled that of a human eyeball, but they were clearly magical eyes.

At the same time, the face-cutting curse appeared as a scar on his face, leaving a knife mark.

The old black wizard looked at his new body and laughed heartily, extremely excited. "Finally, I've been transformed into an abyssal werewolf."

"With this body, even infiltrating the endless abyss is no longer impossible. So, what about that ruin..."

The old black wizard's eyes flickered and then stopped abruptly. He had clearly realized that in his excitement he had let something slip. He glanced at himself and wisely chose to remain silent.

The old black wizard observed his current form through the mirror in the potion room, but he didn't care about losing his human appearance.

There are alien wizards everywhere.

In the mirror, the old black wizard's eye on his forehead emitted a faint silver light, which was as viscous as liquid. Then, a crack appeared in the mirror, as if a fist had smashed directly onto the magic mirror.

The spell model on the back of the magic mirror also began to break.

A crack resembling a spider web appeared on the mirror.

“Eye Wizard, my name is Warwick. I’ll be your friend.” Warwick the old wizard said, “Legend has it that Abyssal werewolves possess a natural eye—the Eye of Wisdom. Abyssal werewolves are the strategists of the Endless Abyss, providing guidance to the Abyssal forces.”

"I never imagined that this legend was actually true. The Eye of Wisdom is incredibly powerful; even just a glance at this magical mirror that faithfully reproduces the details of people and things can cause it to crack, and at the same time..."

Warwick's eyeballs on his forehead rolled.

Alicia noticed that Warwick was looking at her and immediately took a half step back. In his eyes, Alicia's reflection was not human, but a scorpion woman.

This scorpion woman possesses characteristics of both a scorpion and a woman, while the scorpion's back is decorated with a dragon's eye pattern.

This is the bloodline of the Dragon Scorpion Scorpion Woman.

The Abyss Werewolf's Eye of Wisdom can see through the enemy's secrets, revealing things that even the enemy themselves cannot see.

Warwick noticed some abyssal energy swirling around the Scorpion Woman's left hand. "The energy of the Mammon Demon? The energy of the Greed Demon?"

"Having absorbed so much of Mammon's energy, it didn't turn into a golden statue. That's superb potion-making skills."

"Then, Eye Demon Wizard, what image do you present in my Eye of Wisdom?" Warwick's Eye of Wisdom suddenly spun on his forehead, shining down on Locke. At the same time, a huge three-eyed tiger-eye cat appeared before him. "What a ferocious creature. No wonder you are so keen on the archaeological heritage; you are a fellow traveler."

In Warwick's Eye of Wisdom, the three-eyed tiger-eye cat glared angrily, as if it were about to pounce on him at any moment. Its innate demonic eye on its forehead met his gaze, and a kind of eye-power-level eye-to-eye confrontation occurred between them.

But the next moment, the three-eyed tiger-eyed cat, which was just about to pounce, changed its appearance and became a huge eye demon. The eye demon wore the crown of the abyss and was enormous, as if it had descended from the sky and come to earth, like a magnificent and high dome.

'The Eye Lord... and its level is so high.' Warwick's expression changed slightly. He could actually sense that the Eye Lord's life level on Locke was no lower than his current level as an Abyssal Werewolf.

'What kind of abyssal potion did he consume? He actually possesses such a high level of abyssal energy, yet his body hasn't shown any abnormalities. It's practically a seesaw; if he's not careful, the damage will be irreversible, and the abyssal energy will explode and expand...'

Moreover, it seems that some kind of power is hidden deep within the spiritual realm.

Warwick continued to observe and saw that deep within the Eye Demon's spirit lay a vast forest.

The forest ecosystem was so powerful that a golden dragon shadow suddenly appeared deep within the forest.

'This is…' In Warwick's Eye of Wisdom, the golden dragon shadow was pierced through the chest by a black and purple dragon claw, forcibly torn apart, and the golden dragon shadow let out a wail.

Warwick was stunned. "What's going on? What is that?"

Just as Warwick was about to continue observing, an angry dragon roar suddenly exploded in Warwick's ears like a sonic bomb.

His eardrums ruptured instantly, oozing a liquid resembling mercury. At the same time, mercury also flowed from the eye on his forehead.

Warwick groaned in pain, gritted his teeth, and quickly chanted a spell to close the Eye of Wisdom on his forehead, preventing it from continuing to gaze into Locke's spiritual depths and capture the dragon's shadow, which could backfire on his Eye of Wisdom.

He didn't want to lose the Eye of Wisdom so soon after acquiring it.

Warwick grunted a few times before recovering. He looked at Locke with a wary gaze and, after briefly explaining the function of the Eye of Wisdom to Locke, said, "You have the bloodline of an ancient dragon creature of unknown level within you. Although it is currently only at the apprentice level, its spiritual level is extremely high, and it has even damaged my Eye of Wisdom."

Locke looked at him suspiciously, then shook his head in denial, saying, "That's impossible. Even setting aside whether what you're saying is true, and even if my bloodline is indeed of a very high level, you now..."

Locke pointed and used a burst of magical energy to strike the old black wizard. Instantly, a shell of abyssal energy appeared on the old black wizard's wolf body.

"Your current permanent defensive field is the abyssal shell unique to a first-ring abyssal creature. No matter how high the spiritual level of something is, it can at most suppress your mind, but it cannot cause physical or magical damage."

"Transmitting matter requires a tremendous amount of energy, and to cross your abyssal shell and damage your eyes and ears, the energy level required is extremely high."

“Mind suppression essentially only requires transmitting one message, and then you will spontaneously exhibit fear and abandonment due to fear, so it does not require a large total amount of energy. The energy required to transmit magical damage is also lower than that required for physical damage.”

Locke looked at the Warwick dark wizard with suspicion and said, "I didn't use any magic just now, how could I have harmed your eyes and ears that were protected by the abyss shell?"

"The Abyss Shell itself has the special ability to assimilate and suppress magic."

Indeed, the abyssal shell of a ring-shaped abyssal life form possesses the power to counter magic, which is why abyssal creatures are so troublesome for wizards.

Locke discovered this while reading numerous books in the Land of the Six Towers.

Bloodline studies are more advanced in the Six Towers region than in the Southeast Corner, so there is more information on abyssal bloodline studies here.

Abyssal beings are energy life forms; they are neither material beings nor mental beings, but rather energy beings.

Therefore, they are neither materialistic nor idealistic.

They are life forms whose energy precedes existence and phenomena, so their energy has a very strong ability to continue, such as enhancing the eye grass to allow it to transmit its spells over extremely long distances.

Similarly, the abyssal shells of abyssal creatures contaminate magical energy, thus having a special suppressive effect on spells.

Of course, in order to maintain its ability to counter magic, the Abyss Shell naturally gave up its physical defense.

Although the Abyss Shell has some ability to resist physical attacks, its strength is very low among those of the same level, and it will be completely countered by physical attacks.

After some thought, the old wizard Warwick came to a conclusion. "I don't know how it was done, but that's how it happened. The special ancient bloodline hidden within you is very special, extremely special, and it harmed me in a way I can't understand."

"You want to inherit the legacy of archaeology because you want to find ways to further develop it, right? Archaeology is indeed a good way to explore the lineage of ancient creatures."

“Your situation is so interesting. I would tell any archaeologist about it, and they would be interested in you.”

Locke's gaze shifted slightly as he looked at him.

Warwick laughed and said, "I was just kidding. I won't cause trouble for myself. Besides, in your situation, I don't even understand what happened myself, so how can I describe what happened to others?"

Locke looked at Warwick and nodded slightly, saying, "So, are you interested in a second deal? I want to trade the patriarch you have—that reference book."

Warwick paused for a moment, then reached out towards the sky, producing a magic book. "You mean, the book of demons I have here?"

"The overlord is an archaeologist, the most important thing besides the Permanent Defense Force Field," Warwick said.

“Every archaeologist gives their sovereign a name, and the names are all kinds of things. Some call him an evil god, some call him the old ruler. I call my sovereign the Book of Demons.”

"It's just a matter of the name."

(End of this chapter)