Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 109: Blood Curse

Sophia walked up the spiral staircase, "Come with me to the second floor. The patients on the first floor are just so-so."
"What's really troublesome are the cursed victims on the second and third floors. After you see them, you'll understand why I feel troubled."
Locke knew that Witch Sophia was improving his practical abilities. He had actually prepared himself mentally when coming here, but was still startled.
However, now that he had seen it, when encountering similar things in the future, he would have corresponding experience to deal with them.
"It seems I'll need to carry several bottles of Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion with me from now on," Locke muttered quietly. Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion was a universal special-effect potion against curse magic that could optimize one's magic resistance, making it resistant to curse magic.
Therefore, carrying this type of potion was the easiest way to deal with those wizard apprentices from Blood Curse Court in the wild.
Locke followed Witch Sophia up to the second floor.
The moment he reached the second floor, Locke instantly sensed the stifling atmosphere.
If the first floor was just people hurrying about with some screaming in pain, then the entire atmosphere on the second floor was even more oppressive.
The second floor hall was filled with hospital beds. The curses on each wizard apprentice were more severe than those on the first floor, and most of them had completely lost their ability to move.
A earth-shattering roar shattered the deathly silence.
A first-class wizard apprentice shouted loudly, "Assistant, come quickly! This patient is afflicted with a blood curse. We need to find the formal wizard masters immediately. Only they can temporarily suppress the blood curse activation!"
"Damn it, this is a blood curse. Those beasts from Blood Curse Court threw someone afflicted with a blood curse at us, isn't this deliberately trying to consume our resources and make us waste effort here!"
In his eyes, being afflicted with a blood curse was tantamount to being dead.
Locke's gaze turned to that direction. He saw a first-class wizard apprentice lying on the hospital bed there, blood flowing from all over his skin. The blood looked very terrifying. His pupils were dilated, his eyes vacant, his body abnormally swollen, and each limb looked puffy.
He could still live because wizard apprentice assistants were using syringes to transfuse specially prepared blood into him, barely keeping him alive.
A formal wizard hurried down from the third floor, pointed a finger at the first-class wizard apprentice patient's forehead, temporarily stopping the blood curse outbreak.
He looked displeased and asked the assistants, "Blood curses need potion detoxification. Can this student afford it? Is he a student from our school?"
"If he's not a student from our school, we can only provide conservative treatment, delaying as long as possible."
"If he's a student from our school, have him sign the academy's loan. Let him work full-time to repay this medical expense after recovery."
The assistants quickly checked the roster and responded, "Master Edwin, this person is a botany student from our school."
Edwin said impatiently, "Then quickly have him sign the contract."
"Once a blood curse erupts, everyone connected to his bloodline will die together. Because the implications are widespread, the accumulated pain will reversely nourish the main body of this curse, making it even more impossible to resolve. Once a blood curse erupts, he'll be completely beyond salvation. Not just him, probably everyone related to him will die."
Edwin said, "I don't know what type of blood curse this is. This is at least curse magic cast by a formal wizard from Blood Curse Court."
"Perhaps even just his friends might be implicated." Edwin's expression was unpleasant.
Witch Sophia walked over and said, "It's a Mother-Child Giant Corpse Blood Curse."
Edwin turned around in surprise, looked at Witch Sophia, then also glanced at Locke, and smiled, "Sophia, you're here. Great, your thinking is always clear and agile. With you here, my pressure can be reduced considerably."
"Is this your student?"
Witch Sophia nodded to him, "Yes. This is my student Locke Augustine. He just obtained his potion master assistant certificate, so I brought him here to gain some experience."
"Locke, this is Formal Wizard Edwin, also one of Lilith's Cottage's potion magic wizard mentors, and one of the three formal wizards permanently stationed at Healing Hand."
Locke bowed to Wizard Edwin. "Master Edwin, hello."
Wizard Edwin nodded slightly to him but didn't pay much attention.
After all, there was a huge status gap between them. Formal wizards had no particular reason to pay attention to a first-class wizard apprentice they were meeting for the first time.
He looked at Witch Sophia and smiled, "I really didn't expect that just over two years after your advancement, you'd already have a first-class wizard apprentice student. Sophia, both you and your student are the rapid advancement type."
"Speaking of which, after all this time, you finally brought your student to help. I thought you'd always rely on yourself alone." Wizard Edwin showed a trace of fatigue.
"Your student should have inherited some of your true teachings. With him here to lend a hand, our pressure here can be somewhat relieved."
Although the current situation was urgent, when two formal wizards chatted in the second floor hall, no one dared to interrupt.
Even the first-class wizard apprentice patient who had nearly died just now could only hold his breath and wait for them to finish their conversation.
Fortunately, Wizard Edwin finally seemed to remember the main topic and said to Witch Sophia, "Mother-Child Giant Corpse Blood Curse? I've never heard of this type of blood curse."
Witch Sophia said, "It's a newly invented type of blood curse. Or rather, it's a new blood curse modified from an existing old blood curse."
"The inventor isn't even a formal wizard, but Blood Curse Court's most promising wizard seed to become a formal wizard recently, first-sequence [Hussein Quinn]. It should be his wizard mentors who helped him modify this blood curse."
"Hussein should be able to obtain all the resources that the entire Blood Curse Court invests in the next generation."
"You know, Blood Curse Court is different from us. The wizard apprentices there are servants of the formal wizards. They are the shame of wizards."
Witch Sophia said calmly, "Among the wizard apprentices there, probably only those few seed candidates who entered the wizard sequence can be considered human."
"I only learned about this by chance."
Wizard Edwin nodded.
Blood Curse Court was cultivating wizard apprentices using the method of raising poison insects, ranking all enrolled wizard apprentices.
Higher-ranked wizard apprentices could even kill lower-ranked ones without consequences.
The final top ten were Blood Curse Court's wizard seeds.
Setting aside the merits and demerits of this cultivation method, the character of the wizard apprentices it produced was evident. They were all ruthless fighters, indeed formidable on the battlefield.
Often one could fight ten white wizard apprentices of the same level and ability.
Wizard Edwin sighed, "It seems Blood Curse Court also has geniuses. At the first-class wizard apprentice stage, he could already develop this level of blood curse."
"It's just a pity that such a good wizard seedling is being wasted by the black wizards. If he could enter a white wizard academy and study properly, he might achieve even greater accomplishments in the future. In this world, combat is just a very small aspect. Magic isn't only for fighting."
"So, what exactly is the transmission method of this Mother-Child Giant Blood Curse, Sophia? Do you know?"