Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 504 The Flaw of the One-Ring Prophecy Magical Plant

On the other side of the Poison Valley, Nidhogg, who had transformed into an eight-legged spider, walked faster and faster. He noticed the unusual activity on the ground, and his expression changed slightly. The scale of the change on the ground clearly shocked Nidhogg.

"How could there be such a commotion?"

"What kind of bloodline does that wizard possess? Even the finest spider bloodline of my Basil family, or the scorpion woman bloodline of their Plutarch family, couldn't possibly cause such a commotion..."

"And three times."

Nidhogg pressed his palm to the ground, feeling the three violent tremors. "This shows that the other party has endured the body cleansing of poison three times in a row. It's an amazing willpower. There are many wizards in our Six Towers who cannot even withstand the first body cleansing of poison. Both the potential to trigger the body cleansing of poison three times and the willpower to endure it three times are astonishing."

Nidhogg's expression was gloomy. "No. This wizard's potential is too great. With him around, it's impossible for our Basil family to seize power ahead of schedule."

Every hundred years, numerous prominent families in the Land of Six Towers will hold a re-election to elect a ruling family to govern the Land of Six Towers.

Because the great wizard Sura was too powerful, the Plutarch family forcibly took over the territory for three centuries. Although there are still forty years until the next century, the Basil family has been unable to rule the land of the Six Towers for more than two hundred years.

Their ruling families' status was thus severely affected, so a group of bloodline wizards from the Six Towers, led by Nidhogg, harbored thoughts of seizing power ahead of schedule.

Originally, all of this could have been suppressed by the personal prestige of Grand Wizard Sula, but now that Grand Wizard Sula is half-dead, it has given these ambitious people an excuse and a reason.

Locke's capture of the Cloud Cup stabilized the situation in the Six Towers once again, greatly increasing Alicia's personal prestige. Therefore, Nidhogg naturally felt that Locke was blocking the path of their Basil family.

Therefore, without the knowledge of the Basil family, he led his confidants into the wizarding realm, intending to destroy Locke.

At this moment, Nidhogg's eyes turned icy. "But even if you inflict the poison three times, it will be useless. Because right now, I can destroy you."

"The waters of the Six Towers region are not so easy to stir up."

Behind Nidhogg appeared the Sun and Moon Ritual Pattern, within which were two vials of rare magical creature bloodlines: the bloodlines of the horse of Akromar and the deer of Dracula. At this moment, the two vials of blood evaporated, serving as offerings for the ritual magic.

A river of blood appeared behind Nidhogg, seemingly coming from the void and flowing into his back to strengthen his bones. This river of blood came from the Blood River Plane.

With the power of the Blood River Plane, Nidhogg's body grew even larger, becoming like a moving mountain, and every step he took caused a small earthquake.

He used his eight spider legs to traverse the mountains and reach the summit of a peak. He then swung his spider legs and charged directly towards the poisonous lake at the top of the mountain.

A spider leg, wielding like a blade, lashed out, intending to kill Locke in the lake. Instead, it pinned a poisonous toad in the first stage of liquefaction to the bottom of the lake. He then pulled the toad out of the lake, extracted the poisonous bead from its body, and put it into his mouth.

After all, the Poison Lake contains countless highly toxic substances, which even the bloodline of the Basil family could not withstand.

Nidhogg's expression changed drastically as he looked at the giant toad carcass on the flat ground atop the mountain. The toxins flowing from the carcass could even turn stones into a black, viscous substance.

"How could it be a guardian?"

“Where is Locke Augustine, who should be in the Poison Lake? Could it be…” Nidhogg looked at the two sacs at the mouth of the poison toad. In addition to its special venom, the poison toad can also emit huge sound waves and create small earthquakes through the two sacs at its mouth.

In other words, the earthquake he just felt came entirely from the poisonous toad!

Nidhogg looked out over the shore around the Poison Lake and spotted green fireflies that could provoke the poison toads.

But these fireflies shouldn't be here.

"Oh no, it's those spider women!"

"Why are they helping an outsider wizard! They are clearly descendants of my ancestors, the gravediggers!"

Nidhogg's expression changed, as if he had remembered something. "But that's not right. The tremors of an earthquake can be simulated using the Guardians' special abilities."

"But how could they deceive my spider instincts?"

"These frogs trapped in this valley are like frogs at the bottom of a well; they could never possibly master the magic of the prophetic school."

Nidhogg's expression was unpredictable.

That leaves only one last possibility: the wizard Locke Augustine possesses some kind of magic that interfered with his spider instincts.

Given the background of the Eye Demon Wizard, it is more likely that it is some kind of magical plant that interferes with prophetic abilities and possesses the ability to reverse prophecy.

However, this kind of magical plant is extremely rare, because even for a first-level magical plant, it takes a huge price to have the ability to predict the future at the first-level.

“It could be a reproductive defect, causing it to lose the ability to flower, or a root system degeneration, making it unable to survive on its own in the natural environment. It could also be the loss of chloroplasts, requiring other plants to provide sustenance.” Nidhogg began to ponder which magical plant was interfering, relying on his spider intuition. “To gain the ability to make prophecies, we spider demon bloodline bloodline wizards have even paid the price of losing our eyesight to light.”

"In order to gain this extraordinary intuition, one must pay an equivalent price—a weakening of vision."

"Every increase in the ability to predict the future is an increase in the burden on oneself exponentially."

Nidhogg said, "Is it the Shadow Palm? Although that kind of magical plant cannot be purchased on the Sunshadow Peninsula, there are still opportunities to obtain it. However, the magic wizard who doesn't look at you doesn't have a background on the Sunshadow Peninsula."

"Southeast Corner Region... I've heard that the University of Verdandia has a first-order magical plant called [Delusion Thistle] that possesses magical abilities similar to those of the Prophecy School."

"But the effect of the Delusion Thistle should only be that after being stung by it, this special thistle-like magical plant will arrange a death crisis within 24 hours."

"To acquire this ability, the Delusion Thistle is extremely fragile and easily broken, making it difficult to use to injure a wizard of the same level. However, once it does injure, it can be used in conjunction with botanical magic to guide the opponent into the most unfavorable situation for 24 hours."

Nidhogg placed his thumb to the corner of his mouth, lost in thought, and then wiped his mouth with his thumb. "Actually, there's no need to think so much. I remember that all first-level magical plants have a common drawback in their prophetic abilities—they can only predict the linear future."

(End of this chapter)