Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 499 Poisonous Valley
Director Morrison said, "Wait for my news from the negotiations, Locke."

He immediately broke the gray mist stone slab.

Locke put away the Gray Mist Slate, then sat down in his office and began writing two articles to submit.

Three days later, Locke submitted the two articles he had written to Southeast and Yunze journals, which were not ordinary even in Yunze Wetland.

Locke just needs to wait for the result.

After doing all this, Locke decided it would be better to redeem his opportunity to enter the Wizarding Realm in the Land of Six Towers as soon as possible. After all, he might leave the Land of Six Towers someday, after waiting for the outcome of Director Morrison's negotiations.

Exploring the secret realm takes a lot of time, so there's no better time than now. Let's take advantage of the time we have now to explore the Poison Valley and collect the resources inside this first-ring wizard secret realm.

So Locke submitted an application to Alicia and the great wizard Sura, and after the application was approved that afternoon, he took the floating ladder of the White Dragon Tower and went 20km underground to the underground Poison Valley Secret Realm.

A regular first-ring wizard from the Plutarch family, who was leading the way, bowed respectfully to Locke and said, "Lord Locke, the Valley of Deadly Poisons is just ahead. Once you pass through that stone gate, you will enter the Valley of Deadly Poisons. There is miasma formed by strange poisons in the valley, and you will die just by breathing it. Of course, in the wizard's secret realm, even if you die, you will not die a real death."

"Therefore, you will suffer soul damage. So, once you enter the Poison Valley, you will need to activate a permanent defensive force field. The Poison Valley is a valley formed by the convergence of many bloodline powers, and it is also the final resting place of a second-circle bloodline wizard from the Basil family. You must enter with reverence."

"Because Poison Valley is one of the three first-level secret realms in the Six Towers Land, wizards from other families also appear here. According to our agreement, we cannot attack each other in Poison Valley."

The first-ring wizard of the Plutarch family said, "Besides, once you enter the Poison Valley, there is no way to force your way out except by dying. The only way to get out is to find five poison beads in the Poison Valley and put them into the pool of poisonous blood in the Poison Valley to open the path out of the secret realm."

The family wizard bowed to Locke. "Please go in; I will be waiting for your return at the door."

"This is a task assigned to me by Lady Alicia."

Locke nodded slightly. "I understand."

Alicia was probably afraid that she would be seriously injured in the Poison Valley, so she deliberately sent one of her trusted confidants to meet her at the entrance of the Poison Valley.

He entered the Valley of Deadly Poisons through its gates, and after passing through a natural stone gate, he felt as if the world had changed.

He looked back again, but there was no one on the other side of the natural stone gate. There was no wizard from the Plutarch family, nor any of the wizards guarding the secret realm. The secret realm application form in his hand spontaneously combusted as he entered the wizard's secret realm.

It vanished in an instant.

Locke looked around and saw that the sky was a dark green color. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that countless poisonous wisps of mist were floating in the sky.

That's why the sky turned green.

Locke felt his magical power being suppressed. "As expected, the apprentice-level wizard's secret realm is formed by the echoes of a first-ring wizard's death. The death of a second-ring wizard will also produce an echo, and on a larger scale. This Poison Valley is simply a special echo produced after the death of a second-ring wizard."

"The scale of this echo far exceeds that of the apprentice-level secret realms I entered before. Entering here is like entering a new world, and even the principles of the world have changed."

"Therefore, this wizarding realm will suppress my magic power."

Locke thought for a moment and understood the reason.

Yes, a portion of the great magic of a second-circle wizard is made using the Worldstone, and the echoes formed after a second-circle wizard's death will certainly possess elements of the world's laws from other worlds.

He wasn't even sure if there were any remnants of powerful magic in this secret realm.

Locke walked through the Poison Valley, a valley filled with bare rocks. On the rocky ground were wells, but instead of clear spring water, these wells contained dark green venom.

Locke instinctively activated his life force field, a pale green crystalline shield surrounding him. However, amidst the toxins permeating the air, his life force field was slowly being damaged. "There's a toxin in the air, strong enough to penetrate a permanent defensive force field." Locke was slightly surprised; he had never seen a toxin capable of invading a first-ring wizard before.

Even the elemental infusion of a first-ring magical plant requires the use of wood elemental crystal clusters or the wizard's magical attack to break through the wizard's permanent defensive field before the elemental infusion can be successfully performed.

Or, by relying on the powerful force of elemental infusion, one could forcibly shatter the permanent defensive field of a first-ring wizard.

However, the special toxins in the air did not break through its permanent defensive field with powerful attacks, but instead used a method of contamination-invasion-expansion-contamination to rapidly disintegrate its permanent defensive field.

"As expected of a first-ring level wizard's secret realm, it is indeed strange." Locke frowned because some of that strange toxin had actually seeped into the permanent defensive force field and appeared in the air, which he had inhaled.

Although it was extremely rare, they still managed to do it.

"The poison can actually do this much." Locke's expression changed, and he quickly took out a bottle of Holy Spring Dew Potion and a bottle of Emerald Green Potion from his Astral Ring, and drank them at the same time.

His condition was thus restored to its peak, and at the same time, his magic resistance was activated to resist this unknown second-order toxin.

"Wait a minute..." Locke's expression was strange. "So that's how it is."

He directly used the Scorpion Woman Ring and the Berserk Technique to tap into his bloodline potential and strengthen his physical body. After his body was initially strengthened, the toxins that had begun to rage within him disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

“Strange,” Locke said. “The permanent defensive field cannot completely defend against the toxins inhaled from the air. They ignore my magic resistance and begin to replicate and increase the total amount of toxins. However, as long as I strengthen my physique and exceed a certain limit, I can completely suppress this second-level toxin.”

The Scorpion Woman ring on Locke's right middle finger flashed with magical light once more, and his pupils instantly turned yellow, like those of a wild beast.

At the same time, his entire body turned red, as if his blood was boiling.

This is a universal bloodline spell – Beast Body.

The first ring of bloodline magic is the universal magic of boiling blood.

With the blessing of three universal bloodline spells, Locke's eyes are now yellowish, his muscles are bulging, and he has grown three times taller, walking with a powerful and imposing gait. At the same time, the special toxins in his body have completely disappeared.

"This is, after all, a wizarding secret realm of bloodline wizards, so the solution to this wizarding secret realm must be based on the spell pool of bloodline wizards from the very beginning."

Locke pondered, "Although I don't understand the specific principles of this... second-circle bloodline toxin, bloodline wizards generally possess powerful physiques, so in this highly poisonous valley, I must simultaneously enhance my physique and deploy a permanent defensive force field."

Locke felt that the power of his bloodline was constantly suppressing the toxin.

During this process, the power of his three-eyed tiger-cat bloodline and the mysterious true dragon bloodline was actually slightly increasing.

Locke pondered, "Can fighting against the toxins in the air increase my bloodline power?"

"As expected of a secret realm for a first-ring bloodline wizard."

"Unfortunately, I dare not shut down the permanent defensive force field. The moment I shut it down, no matter how strong my physique is, I will be killed by the mysterious bloodline toxin in the air."

"Without knowing the specific principles behind it, it's best not to act rashly and to observe first."

Locke walked past a well when suddenly the dark green liquid in the well surged, and a huge black tarantula suddenly emerged from it, spitting out dark green venomous silk towards Locke.

On the back of the tarantula was a human face, which said with resentment, "I will offer you to the great wizard Basil as a sacrifice!"

(End of this chapter)