Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 510, how could it be you!
Locke picked up the scattered poison beads from the ground. When Nidhogg was pulled into the Blood River plane, these poison beads belonging to this secret realm were not absorbed but were decomposed into magical tides and sent back.

A total of seventeen poison beads fell to the ground.

"How can there be so many?" Locke pondered for a moment. "After all, this is the secret realm of the Basil family's ancestors. I guess they have a way to obtain the poison beads that I don't know about."

Locke put away the poison beads and found the three spider women from before, giving them the thirteen poison beads.

After all, he only needed five poison beads to get out, and he had already collected one.

The three spider women were extremely grateful to him. "Great wizard, in gratitude for saving us from this prison, we are willing to become your servants!"

Locke frowned, picked up five poison beads, and placed them into the poisonous lake in front of him. "No need. You've only just escaped one cage; there's no need to enter another."

"Furthermore, I am not a bloodline wizard, nor do I have any interest in taking on servant races."

“If you need to find a backer, I can give you a recommendation: you can go to the Plutarch family.”

A hint of regret appeared on Blanche's face. As descendants of a race of servants of second-circle bloodline wizards, they still retained the instinct to be loyal to wizards.

Locke's true dragon bloodline, especially the immortal dragon scale on the back of his hand, made it extremely easy for these subordinate races to submit to him.

They would only think it was Locke's personal charisma, unaware that it was the subtle influence of Dragon's might on their minds.

The three spider women had no choice but to give up and thanked Locke for his generosity.

Meanwhile, the three spider women secretly remembered Locke's words. The dragon's might had a very strong influence on them, so they decided to tell the other spider women in their clan about Locke's advice and go to the so-called Plutarch family after leaving the wizard's secret realm.

Locke walked out of the Wizard's Secret Realm through the stone gate. Before entering, his magic pressure was only over 7,000, but when he left the secret realm, Locke gained progress in his three bloodlines, and his magic pressure reached 8000.

The progress has been remarkable.

The five wizards from the Basil family glared at Locke as he emerged from the secret realm. They seemed unable to believe that it was not the Nidhogg wizard who had come out, but the wizard from the outside world.

A wizard from the Basil family questioned Locke, "Why is it you who came out? Where is Lord Nidhogg?!"

Locke glanced at him. Even without using the Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow, he could still unleash the dragon's might with the immortal dragon scales on the back of his hand.

In a sense, for a dragon, its true form is its scales, not its body.

Locke, who possesses dragon scales, can essentially be described as a juvenile dragon in the first stage of its life cycle.

Under the suppression of the dragon's might, the ordinary first-ring wizard who had just questioned Locke immediately felt fear and awe towards Locke. He lowered his head and dared not meet Locke's gaze.

The moment he opened his mouth, a chill ran down his spine, and his teeth chattered, rendering him unable to speak.

The remaining four first-ring wizards of the Basil family also felt fear towards Locke, and for a moment, none of them dared to step forward and stand in front of Locke.

Kandel asked Locke, "Lord Locke, have you ever encountered that...that wizard from the Basil family?"

Locke said, "I've encountered it." Kandel tensed. "Then you..."

Locke said, "I didn't suffer any losses. That guy suddenly attacked me. I'd like to ask the wizards of the Basil family what's going on."

Kandel looked Locke up and down, slightly surprised. He hadn't expected Locke to not suffer any losses in front of the Nidhogg wizard.

"Lord Locke, thankfully you're alright. So, where is Lord Nidhogg?"

"Rest assured, I have secretly requested support from the Plutarch family, and I believe our family's support will arrive soon."

Kandel glared hostilely at the five wizards from the Basil family before him.

Locke shook his head slightly. "Don't worry about him. The wizard you mentioned is already dead."

Kandel looked at Locke in astonishment. "Lord Locke, dead? You killed him?"

At this moment, the five members of the Basil family also looked at Locke as if they had seen a ghost, their hearts filled with horror and fear.

Locke shook his head. "No, I recorded his death with the True Sight Crystal, and it's impossible to kill another wizard in the Wizarding Realm under any circumstances."

"He was summoned away by the Blood River Plane."

The six ordinary first-ring bloodline wizards present all looked puzzled. Clearly, they had no knowledge of the first-ring crystallization stage and did not understand what Locke meant.

At the same time, Alicia arrived hastily with the soul of Grand Wizard Sula and three bloodline wizards at the liquefaction stage. Grand Wizard Sula was stunned when he heard Locke's words. He then looked at Locke with a complicated expression and spoke to the five first-ring wizards of the Basil family on Locke's behalf.

"After reaching the first-ring crystallization stage, most of us bloodline wizards will sign a contract with the Blood River Plane. The Blood River Plane is most compatible with us bloodline wizards, and the power of the Blood River can greatly enhance the bloodline power of us bloodline wizards."

"The Blood River Plane is also a rare and unique plane that has no upper limit to the power that can be borrowed through ritual magic."

"But once you borrow too much power from the Blood River Plane, you might be summoned away by the Blood River Plane. So, Nidhogg the wizard could be considered to have committed suicide."

Grand Wizard Sura said, "The fact that he was summoned away by the Blood River Plane means that he borrowed too much power from the Blood River Plane before that."

“This means that he encountered a formidable enemy before that.” The great wizard Sura looked at Locke with a complicated expression and said to Locke, “Locke, you have grown faster than I imagined. I originally thought that you would stay in the Land of the Six Towers for at least a few more years, but now it seems that the situation is not like that.”

"But why would Nidhogg choose to fight you? Can you tell me?"

Locke offered a brief explanation, at which point Grand Wizard Sura's expression turned cold as he looked at the five first-ring wizards of the Basil family. "Did you hear that?"

“Nidhogg was one of the four wizards in your Basil family who reached the first crystallization stage, but his death has nothing to do with us; it was entirely his own fault. Get out.”

The five wizards from the Basil family were still under the pressure of Locke's dragon might, and were even more terrified by the death of Nidhogg. They dared not say anything more and immediately fled in panic.

(End of this chapter)