Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 502 The Complete Formation of the Mysterious Dragon Bloodline
‘Click~’

A large number of fragments of memory entered his mind.

At the same time, Locke also gained a deeper understanding of the realm of second-circle wizards, the construction methods of great magic, and bloodline science and bloodline poison science from these memories.

"The mysterious toxin in the air isn't its full power. If it really is a second-ring level bloodline toxin, then I would be severely injured the moment I'm infected. It seems that a certain antidote has been added to that mysterious toxin as well," Locke pondered.

"Judging from the memories of the wizard Basil, his great magic seems to be a venom, which transforms into a pool of poison, alters the race, flows through the bodies of all his subordinate races, and becomes part of their bloodline."

"Essentially, these dependent races are all part of the great magic of second-circle wizards. The fragments of Basil's memories tell me that he believed poisons were an important means of accelerating and regulating biological evolution, and therefore he highly advocated using various deadly poisons to enhance his bloodline power."

"The use of highly toxic attacks is merely a byproduct of this ideology."

"Unfortunately, the wizard Basil is dead, and I will not be able to see his complete great magic and his power at his peak."

Locke sighed with regret, "Hmm? This is..."

Among the fragments of memory obtained from killing the giant venomous snake, one piece of knowledge was relatively complete and caught Locke's attention.

“The Poison Well in the Poison Valley, this wizarding secret realm, is itself a place for bloodline tempering.” Locke’s eyes were fixed on the dark green poison lake. “The larger the Poison Well, the stronger the bloodline tempering ability. And as long as there is a Poison Bead, the terrible toxins within this Poison Well can be neutralized.”

"During the process of detoxification-poisoning-detoxification, the power of my bloodline will be enhanced and sublimated. In the process of fighting against the toxins, my bloodline power will grow spontaneously. Moreover, there are many toxins of the tonic type in the poison well."

Locke said, "This is the core concept of the wizard Basil as a second-circle bloodline wizard."

"The Valley of Deadly Poisons, as his echo, also embodies this concept. Of course, it also carries enormous dangers."

Locke hesitated, frowning as he suddenly placed the dark green poison bead under his tongue. "Anyway, in the Wizarding Realm, even death only damages the soul. I have the Holy Spring Dew Potion. Even if I die here and am forced to leave the realm, I'll just have to drink a few more bottles of Holy Spring Dew Potion."

"The opportunity to enter this secret realm was practically free, but if I can use this poisonous lake to refine the potential of all the bloodlines within me, then I'll have hit the jackpot. There's no magical research that doesn't involve risks."

After weighing the pros and cons and assessing the cost-effectiveness, Locke walked directly into the poisonous lake. Immediately, the churning venom inside the lake seemed to sense something and frantically wrapped around Locke's feet.

Whirlpools appeared on the surface of the poisonous lake, and the hundreds of dried-up riverbeds around the lake seemed to sense the presence of a wizard entering the lake. They were filled with dark green, highly toxic rivers again, pouring the poison into the lake like rivers flowing into the sea.

At the same time, the lake surface suddenly exploded, and a tidal wave of poisonous water transformed into a giant water spider, which leaped into the air from the lake surface and then, as if hunting, bit down on Locke.

'Boom~'

Locke was engulfed by the poisonous water. At the same time, he gritted his teeth, risked deactivating the Permanent Defense Field, and put away the Hydra. Meanwhile, the large amount of venom directly corroded all the clothes on his body.

Then, it began to penetrate his body, starting from his entire skin.

"Ah!" Locke felt countless toxins burrowing into his body in an instant, trying to kill him completely. The terrifying toxins completely suppressed all the bloodline power and magic power in his body, and in just a moment, they corroded his bloodline power and magic power, leaving them riddled with holes.

And this trend has not stopped.

In less than half a minute, Locke felt like he was about to die.

He opened his eyes, which contained abyssal energy, thus temporarily resisting the poison. However, he saw that his skin had been completely corroded by the poison, and his muscles and tendons were beginning to break. He was almost turning into a skeleton.

To Locke's surprise, there was a bloodline power protecting his heart.

'The source of my true dragon bloodline power lies in my heart?'

At the same time, the innate demonic eye on his forehead was forced to open under the pressure of the deadly poison, automatically emitting the Earth's magnetic field to protect himself.

Locke discovered that what protected him in this poisonous pool was basically bloodline energy. Even the abyss energy could play a role because it was closely connected to his eyes.

Magic power and demonic pressure, however, have absolutely no effect.

Unless a permanent defensive force field is activated.

“If this continues, I’ll definitely die in less than half a minute and be forcibly expelled from this first-level wizarding realm. Although I’ve already made some progress, should I drink some antidote?” Locke pondered. “Although I’m severely injured now, I still have a chance to survive.”

“Forget it.” Locke thought for a moment, “I’d better follow Basil’s ideas completely. And this poisonous lake, if I suddenly interrupt it with a potion halfway through, I don’t know what the consequences would be.”

"I'd better not overstep my bounds. This is still within the Wizard's Secret Realm, where I don't face much pressure from death. If it were outside, I really wouldn't dare to directly enter this poisonous lake."

Locke gritted his teeth and decided to persevere a little longer.

At worst, we can just leave the secret realm.

Just as his bodily functions reached their limit, a strange energy suddenly emanated from the poison bead beneath his tongue. His body, ravaged beyond recognition by the poison, was detoxified by this strange energy. Immediately afterward, all the blood vessels in his body began to grow frantically during this detoxification opportunity in order to protect his survival.

At the same time, the detoxified toxins actually turned into a tonic, starting to flow back into all of Locke's bloodlines, unlocking the potential of all the bloodlines in his body.

At this moment, the entire sky above the poison lake was shimmering with a crystal-clear, dark green magical light. The poison lake was like an embryo nurturing Locke, with venomous foam constantly churning on its surface.

Meanwhile, Nidhogg the wizard emerged from the poison well. He changed into a new wizard's robe, then suddenly became serious, squatted down, and placed his palm on the ground, feeling the ground tremble.

"Hmm? Has he discovered the secret of the Poison Pool of Basil? Such speed! This wizard from the outside world is incredibly perceptive. It hasn't been long, and he's already discovered that one can strengthen their bloodline through the poison pool. It seems he killed the guardian and obtained the poison pearl."

"However, even if he can discover the secret of the Poison Pool, whether he has the courage to step into the Pool of Ten Thousand Poisons depends on the wizard's boldness. The fact that he can step into the Pool of Ten Thousand Poisons shows that he has amazing courage."

A shadow of gloom flashed across Nidhogg's eyes.

As an absolute hawk of the Basil family, and a white wizard with lives on his hands, he did not want to see wizards from the outside world obtain one of the most profound secrets of their Six Towers.

“Damn Alicia Plutarch! I told you Eric should be in charge, or at least hand over the reins of power to the Basil family sooner.” “They actually handed over the vital resources of our Six Towers to wizards from the outside world. Wouldn’t it have been better to leave these resources to our descendants in the Six Towers?”

"Even if those younger generations are not capable and cannot use those resources, it is still better than letting outsiders benefit from them."

Nidhogg's body began to undergo a violent transformation, turning him into an eight-legged spider with a human upper body and a massive eight-legged spider lower body.

At the same time, he used the spider's powerful sense of touch to sense the direction from which the subtle vibrations in the ground were coming from.

When a wizard enters the poison pool, while stimulating their bloodline potential, their body is at its weakest. At this time, it would be an easy task to teach that outside wizard a lesson.

“It won’t take ten minutes to find you. Hmm?” Nidhogg frowned. “How is that possible? Why were there two tremors?”

"And the direction and distance are completely different?"

Nidhogg's expression changed slightly. He swung one of his spider legs, which seemed to be the sharpest blade, completely slicing a stone in two, while simultaneously injecting a deadly poison into the stone.

Even the stone was corroded by the potent poison and turned to dust in the wind.

"Two seismic sources?"

Nidhogg remained silent for a long time. "Could it be that the outside wizard discovered me? That shouldn't be the case. The Plutarch family knew nothing about my actions. I even arranged for people to interrogate that blond girl during today's family meeting in the Six Towers, just waiting for me to severely injure Locke Augustine."

"If they had found out, my plans wouldn't have been so successful..."

Nidhogg hesitated, unsure which epicenter to go to first, since both were far from his current location and in completely opposite directions. Going to one meant he couldn't go to the second.

However, if the wrong choice is made, the best opportunity to suppress the commoner wizard from the outside world will be missed.

Helpless, Nidhogg could only close his eyes and use the Spider Intuition, a prophetic ability inherent to his Spider bloodline.

This is an ability that is considered to be universally applicable to the Demon Spider bloodline, modified using the methods of a bloodline master from the sorcery school.

[Spider Intuition] Possesses a certain level of sensory ability, allowing them to perceive things that are dangerous to them or the direction in which things will develop in a way that is beneficial to them.

At this moment, Nidhogg prepared to use his spider instincts to determine which source of the earthquake was the poison well where the wizard was located.

However, Nidhogg opened his eyes, a look of confusion on his face. "Something is obscuring my spider senses. Does that outsider wizard also study prophetic magic?"

Essentially, studying the magic of the prophetic school has both advantages and disadvantages. Prophecy magic is indeed very useful, but using it comes with huge side effects.

Every wizard who tries to pry into and manipulate fate will suffer the backlash of fate.

Moreover, the backlash from each wizard is not quite the same.

In addition, the magic of the prophetic school is profound and mysterious, difficult to learn and master, and prophetic magic itself is not entirely reliable. Therefore, most wizards do not actually like to study the magic of the prophetic school.

In any case, even if there is a temporary need, one can seek out a fortune teller or astrologer to divine good or bad fortune and predict the future.

Nidhogg said in a low voice, "Before I came here, I inquired about this wizard's past history. He was known as the Bewitching Wizard in the Southeast Corner, but I had never heard of him doing any research on the spell models of the Prophecy School."

“It’s alright. We bloodline wizards have advantages that ordinary prophets don’t.” A cold emotion flashed in Nidhogg’s eyes. At the same time, he activated several streams of true blood within his body, going berserk once, then twice, and then three times.

He explored the potential of his spider bloodline three times to enhance the spider instinct inherent in his spider bloodline.

Suddenly, Nidhogg felt that the feeling of being deceived had begun to disappear. It was as if he had grasped some clue, and his intuition began to sense the future fortune.

At the same time, Nidhogg's blood boiled, once, then twice!

Complex bloodline magic models appeared beneath his eight spider legs, and his body began to grow larger as he used the sixth universal bloodline spell, the superior spell of Beast Body—Diamond Body.

Nidhogg is three hundred years old this year, and with the accumulation of years, the number of spells in his pool far exceeds that of Locke.

At this point, Nidhogg's size had changed to that of a small mountain-sized Spider-Man, and his spider instincts had been amplified to the extreme.

"found it!"

Nidhogg, guided by his intuition, pinpointed a direction. "The epicenter on the left is you. And the epicenter on the right was actually created by the Spider Woman race, the retinue of my ancestor, the wizard Basil."

"Is this a coincidence?"

A cold glint flashed in Nidhogg's eyes. "Logically speaking, these races in the Wizarding Realm cannot help any wizard and are naturally opposed to all wizards. Killing them will also allow me to obtain fragments of memories from the echoes of my ancestors."

"Forget it, I'll settle the score with them later."

Nidhogg took off on his eight spider legs and headed in the direction his spider instincts had guided him.

……

Within the poisonous lake, Locke's Orkney Giant Bear Chief bloodline was also taking shape towards the first stage. At the same time, the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline was growing rapidly, from the ordinary first stage to the vaporization first stage, then to the liquefaction stage first stage, and even continuing to advance.

Moreover, the mysterious true dragon bloodline within Locke's body was also rapidly taking shape, progressing from the apprentice stage towards the first stage. A golden dragon scale that would never normally appear on a human body actually appeared on the back of Locke's left hand.

Immediately afterwards, the golden, glazed dragon scale vanished completely.

Under the poison pool philosophy of the wizard Basil, the three ancient creature bloodlines are growing rapidly and evolving at breakneck speed!
(End of this chapter)