Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 500 The Basil Family Finding Trouble
At the entrance to the Valley of Poison, Nidhogg Basil, a wizard at the Crystallization stage, led five wizards from the Basil family at the Vaporization stage to the entrance to the Wizarding Realm.

The ordinary first-ring wizard of the Plutak family guarding the entrance quickly bowed to the six people.

"Lord Nidhogg, hello."

"Are you also going into the Poison Valley?"

Nidhogg Basil smiled. The Basil family crest is a spider, and the main bloodline of the Basil family is the Spider Bloodline. Nidhogg Basil is the biggest hawk in the Basil family.

He is also the wizard whom the Basil family most desires to seize power ahead of time and rule the Six Towers.

Nidhogg nodded, then asked casually, "Kandal, I heard that the renowned wizard Locke Augustine has also entered Poison Valley?"

A hint of doubt appeared in Kondel's eyes. He didn't understand why Nidhogg, as an elder of the Basil family, the second largest ruling family, would pay so much attention to their Plutarch family's distinguished guest entering the Wizarding Realm.

Kandal then confirmed, "Yes, Lord Augustine entered this wizarding realm just ten minutes ago. This was a reward from the Plutarch family after he won the Cloud Ze Cup, so it complies with the regulations."

Nidhogg nodded and said, "That's good."

"I'll go in first."

Having said that, Nidhogg walked through the gates of Poison Valley alone, and in an instant he entered Poison Valley.

Nidhogg glanced around and frowned slightly. It was a pity that he would be randomly teleported after entering the Poison Valley. Otherwise, he could have found that troublesome Locke Augustine immediately and taught him a lesson in the Wizarding Realm, crippling him so that he would never dare to enter the Six Towers again.

In this way, the Basil family can continue to try to seize the rights to the Six Towers ahead of schedule.

The great wizard Sura is already half-dead, and for a little blonde girl to want to rule such a large wizarding land as the Six Towers is simply wishful thinking.

Nidhogg immediately dispelled his permanent defensive field, the "Tarantula Hairs," allowing the toxins in the air to enter his body.

His pupils turned dark green as a result. "The ancestral toxins not only pose no threat to me, but can even enhance me in this secret realm."

He turned to look at a poisonous well and jumped in. He saw the dark green venom churning inside, transforming into bloodline power that entered his body and strengthened Nidhogg's bloodline.

“Originally, I couldn’t do anything about him, but as long as he enters this wizard’s secret realm, it will give me the opportunity to cripple him. Even if the wizard’s secret realm cannot truly kill a wizard, my Basil family wizards can still do some work on his soul here.”

“I was already a level below that Augustine, and this secret realm was a place that weakened him and was full of terrible poisons, but for me, it was a place that strengthened my bloodline power.”

Centered on the poison well where Nidhogg was located, countless streams of venom from the earth's surface converged toward him.

Outside the Valley of Poison, after Nidhogg entered, the wizard Kandel immediately broke out in a sweat, only then belatedly realizing that the other party was up to no good.

Moreover, it was noticed that five Basil wizards had already positioned themselves around him from all directions, blocking all possible escape routes.

Sweat beaded on the wizard Kandel's forehead as he swallowed hard.

His eyes darted around, pretending not to have realized what was happening, and he still smiled at the five Basil family wizards. "Gentlemen, I didn't expect Lord Nidhogg to also be entering the secret realm. He's already a first-ring crystallized wizard, is he preparing to break through to the second-ring wizard? Otherwise, why would he suddenly enter the wizarding secret realm?"

“I remember that the number of secret realms each family is allocated each year is limited. I think it’s better to leave the opportunities to enter secret realms to those young wizards.” He secretly crushed the letter in the pocket of his wizard’s robe.

If one half of the same piece of paper is crushed, the other half will also automatically break.

Kandel breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his actions had gone unnoticed. At the same time, a wizard from the Basil family retorted, "While it's true that we should give opportunities to the young, those young people also need to prove themselves. Our Basil family has always had very few male descendants; the direct line is mostly female, and they're not very successful either."

"But if we give the opportunity to enter the secret realm to outsiders, then we would be being too lenient with them."

“Our Basil family is not like your Plutarch family, who are always thinking about how to give up resources to outsiders.”

Kandel smiled as if he hadn't noticed the hostility, though he was slightly anxious inside.

'Hopefully, Lady Alicia and Archmage Sura will see that I've crushed this letter. Oh no, Nidhogg is a first-stage crystallization wizard, while Lord Augustine is only a liquefaction wizard.'

'There's a huge difference in their levels, and this wizarding realm is the home ground of the Basil family. The Poison Valley is filled with their most potent toxin, the Eight-Legged Reaper. That's a bloodline toxin with second-circle characteristics…'

"If Lord Sura doesn't come, this matter might get out of control." Fine beads of sweat appeared on Wizard Kandel's forehead. "But the problem is, how can Grand Wizard Sura, in his current state, possibly handle something like this?"

'If Grand Wizard Sura doesn't come, who can stop Nidhogg?'

For a moment, even the wizard Kandel felt a pang of sorrow. With the great wizard Sura in a state of near-death, their Plutarch family lacked an absolute force to suppress the land of the Six Towers.

Alicia, on the other hand, is too young and clearly lacks the necessary fighting skills.

Normally things are fine as long as things are within the rules, but now that Nidhogg has seized the opportunity of Locke entering the secret realm to cause trouble, it fully exposes the current problem of the Plutarch family—insufficient conventional strength.

However, using the Wizard Tower to attack would be going too far. It's impossible to use the White Dragon Tower to attack the wizards of the Basil family, as that would trigger a civil war.

At that time, inside the Poison Valley, Locke used the Execution Mushroom Hammer. With one swing of the hammer, a gravity field was created, trapping the spider that suddenly jumped out of the poison well into the gravity field. Then, the spider with a human face on its back screamed in agony.

"All the blood offerings belong to... Lord Basil!"

The next moment, the spider was killed by Locke, and at the same time, a fragment of memory flew out and fell into his palm.

Locke looked at the corpse of the spider he had killed and thought, "So that's how it is."

“Here, I resist that mysterious toxin every moment, and my bloodline power is enhanced. By killing the subordinate race of the deceased second-circle wizard of the Basil family in this valley, I can obtain the memory fragments of the second-circle wizard within them.”

"Gain relevant experience as a second-circle wizard."

“These subordinate races…” Locke looked down and observed carefully. “There’s no mistake, these creatures are all alive. It must have been due to the death of the second-ring wizard that these bloodline races of that second-ring wizard were also trapped in this wizard’s secret realm.”

"Although they are alive, because the second-ring wizard died, they became the guardians of this graveyard as a dependent race."

(End of this chapter)