Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 110: The Responsibility of Potion Masters

Witch Sophia took out two sets of materials from her astral ring, handing one to Wizard Edwin and the other to Locke.
Wizard Edwin looked at Witch Sophia with some surprise. He found it slightly strange that she would also give her student a copy of the materials, because in his view, what meaning could blood curses have for students?
However, since it was someone else's student, Wizard Edwin didn't feel it appropriate to say much. He simply smiled and said, "It seems you value your student highly, Sophia."
Witch Sophia replied matter-of-factly, "Yes, he is very talented. I believe his intuition might help us someday in the future. Moreover, Hussein Quinn represents the next generation of the Blood Curse Court, so cultivating an outstanding next generation is also our responsibility."
Wizard Edwin smiled and said nothing.
Both Wizard Edwin and Locke began reading through the materials simultaneously.
As Locke flipped through the materials, the more he read, the more he felt that the Blood Curse Court's blood curses were truly sinister.
First, blood curses actually cursed a person's bloodline. Essentially, this wasn't a curse on a person's physical body in the physiological sense, but rather a curse on that person's entire bloodline genealogy.
In other words, by cursing one person, all of that person's blood relatives would be cursed and killed.
But this was only the most basic form of blood curse. Many blood curses had already undergone changes.
The Mother-Child Giant Corpse Blood Curse had changed its target, transforming the curse on bloodline genealogy into a curse on social relationships.
Wizard Edwin said calmly, "Sophia, according to your materials, the Mother-Child Giant Corpse Blood Curse spreads by cursing all people who spoke with the first-class wizard apprentice victim within one month."
"Even if they only exchanged a single sentence with him, it can form the closed loop condition for the curse."
"Am I understanding this correctly?"
Sophia nodded. "That's exactly right. This was improved from the original old blood curse, the Giant Corpse Blood Curse. The original Giant Corpse Blood Curse's transmission logic was that anyone who had intimate physical contact with the victim within one month could be cursed through the blood curse on their social relationships, then one curse would chain-curse all people who had physical contact with him."
"But this new curse only requires having spoken to work, lowering the transmission difficulty. The cost is that the curse's damage has been reduced to one-third of the original, which is why this first-class wizard apprentice has been able to survive until now."
"Otherwise, he would have died long ago."
Wizard Edwin nodded and said, "So it's equivalent to actively degrading the blood curse, using active degradation to strengthen the curse's ability in a certain direction. Not particularly clever, but considering he's only a first-class wizard apprentice, it's still exceptionally outstanding."
Sophia said, "That's not quite right either. This is just a blood curse from a first-class wizard apprentice, yet it increased the transmission range and increased the difficulty of eradication. Even though the lethality was reduced to one-third of the original, it became much more troublesome as a result."
"Or rather, even if you and I seriously took action to resolve this matter, how would the academy leadership view it? I think the academy leadership would prevent us formal wizards from taking action due to face-saving concerns, and would instead prioritize having Lilith's Cottage's most outstanding first-class wizard apprentice students and potion master assistants come and try to resolve this kind of blood curse."
"Although I don't want to say this, I'm afraid that in the academy leadership's eyes, face-saving issues are also very important."
Wizard Edwin agreed, "That's also true, face-saving issues are very important indeed."
"I think we can first use potions to sustain his life. As long as we get through one month, we can reduce the blood curse's affected range."
As Wizard Edwin and Witch Sophia discussed, many of the second-class and third-class wizard apprentice workers present had their faces change dramatically, because they had all engaged in verbal communication with this first-class wizard apprentice.
This meant that they were all now included within the blood curse's cursed range.
This curse was basically targeting them directly.
Now many wizard apprentices who thought they were still healthy all felt a chill down their spines, realizing they had all been cursed by the blood curse long ago.
The blood curse's activation method was that the moment the cursed person died, it would immediately begin harvesting all those implicated by the blood curse, until they were all killed or the curse was forcibly broken.
This was the terrifying aspect of blood curses.
So, although they were still alive and healthy now, as soon as that first-class wizard apprentice patient suddenly died, they would immediately be struck by the blood curse and die instantly.
Though they were alive, at this moment they weren't very different from walking corpses.
Meanwhile, Locke was also seeing this kind of curse for the first time.
He looked at the materials in his hands, secretly amazed.
This kind of curse could be said to be the Blood Curse Court's signature spell. In the southeastern quadrant, only they had developed most deeply in this specialized field.
'This is truly eye-opening,' Locke looked toward Witch Sophia, 'No wonder teacher brought me to see the world. A potion master assistant who hasn't seen this kind of scene is always missing something.'
Locke quickly thought about how to break this kind of blood curse, but he rejected his own ideas one by one. Ordinary detoxification potions simply couldn't break blood curses.
The Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion, originally designed to counter curse magic, should have minimal effect on this kind of blood curse.
The principle of the Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion was to enhance a wizard's resistance to curse magic by strengthening magic resistance.
But this kind of blood curse continuously cursed social relationships and other aspects. Even with stronger magic resistance, unless it was as strong as that of a formal wizard, it would only buy a little more time.
Without solving the root cause, it was useless.
Moreover, Locke had just seen the treatment center's nurses desperately injecting Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion into that first-class wizard apprentice patient like it was water.
Seeing that he felt helpless for the moment, Locke didn't have too many negative thoughts. After all, he had only just obtained his potion master assistant certification, lacked experience and time for accumulation. It was normal that he couldn't solve this.
The Blood Curse Court wasn't to be underestimated either.
With the workers' help, that first-class wizard apprentice finally managed to personally sign the contract.
Once the loan contract was signed, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, feeling that their lives might be saved.
"Now that the contract is signed, he has money for treatment," Wizard Edwin said indifferently, "Move him to a private room on the third floor. This kind of blood curse isn't suitable to remain on the second floor."
"Sophia, let your apprentice work together with my apprentices. We'll go over there to discuss other issues. Troublesome blood curses aren't limited to just this one. Two new, more troublesome blood curses have appeared on the third floor."
"Those are blood curses cast by formal wizards from the Blood Curse Court, even more difficult to resolve than this blood curse. Let's deal with those two blood curses first."
"Very well." Witch Sophia turned to nod at Locke, saying, "Go with the workers, and be careful."
"As potion masters, this is where we can exert our greatest power. While confronting those cursed forces, it's also when we create better potion formulas."
Locke bowed and said, "Yes, teacher."