Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 139: Battle

A vampire with far more severe bodily mutations emerged from the dirt.
If second-class wizard apprentices transformed into vampires showed at most fangs, blood claws, blood pupils, and bat wing changes while still looking mostly human, then first-class wizard apprentices who used vampire curses to transform into vampires through blood curse conversion were much closer to beasts.
His face had elongated, eye sockets deeply sunken, his body covered in gray fur like a terrifying beast. The wings on his back had grown black spikes, and his body surface was covered in viscous slime.
If second-class wizard apprentice vampires were 30% beast and 70% human, then he was now 70% beast and 30% human.
His pupils were blood-colored whites with black inverted cross pupils in the blood-colored whites.
The vampire Howard who had emerged from the dirt said somewhat gloomily, "Did you anticipate my ambush in advance?"
Howard glanced at the owl flying in mid-air, his eyes flashing with savagery. "Damn, a shapeshifter."
"Never mind, it doesn't matter." Howard flashed with confidence. "As long as you leave Lilith's Cottage, I can kill you."
"You white wizards aren't good at combat, but I'm different. I'm a black wizard, fighting is what I do every day. I don't know how many times I've fought, how many times I've seized magical resources to reach this point today."
Howard grinned maliciously, but the next moment his chest was pierced by an Omen Mandrake Vine.
Locke had made this magical vine invisible and attacked him while he was talking.
Locke frowned slightly because despite his magical vine piercing the opponent's heart, he hadn't died.
In an instant, Locke quickly thought, 'The wood element clearly pierced his heart, could it be that first-class wizard apprentice level vampire undead bodies have already overcome this weakness?'
Howard grinned maliciously. "You've never fought a vampire baron before, have you? A vampire baron's strength, speed, and undead abilities aren't comparable to ordinary vampires."
The next moment, he sprinted at extreme speed directly toward Locke's main body, wanting to use his blood claws to slice open Locke's throat.
But a Corrupt Soil Taro King floated behind Locke, firing a [Mayfly Flower Cannon] shot at him.
Howard seemed to have intelligence about Locke. He knew how powerful those spore shells were, so he clicked his tongue and used the vampire's high speed to dodge directly.
The deep purple spore shell hit the ground and immediately exploded, releasing deep purple mist that quickly contaminated the ground soil and air.
Locke used Mayfly Flower Cannon to continuously fire at his opponent, pursuing and attacking.
"Single Mayfly Flower Cannon attacks are still too clumsy. It would be best to control three Mayfly Flower Cannons simultaneously to create covering spore rain attacks against enemies," Locke thought. "But obtaining six more Corrupt Soil Taro Kings is almost impossible. Perhaps in the future I can use other plant magic to make up for the attack gaps in my Mayfly Flower Cannon."
"I still need to fight a bit more, only in battle can I improve my understanding of my own spells."
While using Mayfly Flower Cannon so many times to suppress his opponent, Locke was also rapidly improving his understanding of this spell.
Locke's Mayfly Flower Cannon was like heavy artillery, each shot forcing vampire Howard to use every method to avoid it.
Although Howard boasted of having an undead body, if he were hit by the Mayfly Flower Cannon's cognition-disrupting spore shells, he would be completely finished.
So in a sense, Locke possessed spells that could bypass the vampire's undead body and directly defeat his opponent, this was also what Howard found difficult to handle.
The battle between the two had already involved rapid movement, fighting from one side of the mountain range to the other.
All along the way, the magical pressure struggle between them frightened all the ordinary magical creatures and ordinary creatures in the forest into scattering and fleeing, with birds flying in all directions.
During this process, Howard constantly tried to rely on the vampire's physical superiority and undead ability advantage to attack Locke's main body during the escape process.
Meanwhile, Locke maintained heavy artillery attack suppression with Mayfly Flower Cannon, forcing his opponent not to dare directly confront him, while using Omen Mandrake Vines to harass him and employing Green Grasp to engage when his opponent wanted close combat.
At the same time, Locke relied on his Night Walker Cloak's defensive power to withstand the opponent's sudden blood claw sneak attacks.
Under this combination, Howard had no good solutions.
But simultaneously, during Locke's pursuit, aside from hitting his opponent with Mayfly Flower Cannon, he indeed had no other methods to deal with his undead body.
Both sides' magical power was rapidly depleting.
During the chase, Howard suddenly turned around, his blood claws reaching for Locke's throat, but collided with the leaf blade controlled by Green Grasp.
In just an instant, Locke again chanted the Green Grasp incantation. The leaf blade immediately surrounded his body, launching over ten consecutive attacks, from neck to wrists to ankles, causing streams of blood to flow from his opponent.
If he weren't a vampire, this series of attacks would have already killed him.
But Howard still let out maniacal laughter. "You underestimate our blood curse magic too much! This kind of attack has no effect on our undead bodies whatsoever!"
Locke said impatiently, "Weren't you here to kill me? Stop running, our battle has already attracted the attention of patrol wizards and academy high-level wizards."
"If you want to kill me, hurry up."
Howard's expression darkened. He indeed wanted to kill Locke because he had accepted a Blood Curse Court academy mission.
Blood Curse Court had issued a kill order for the first-class wizard apprentice who developed the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus.
Because last time, they had suffered tremendous losses in the wizard war due to the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus.
That destruction of the Curse Technique Research Institute had cost them large numbers of wizard apprentices, along with research materials for new curses under development and related experimental data.
Unfortunately, Howard had still underestimated Locke's strength. He hadn't expected that Locke wasn't at all at the level of a newly promoted first-class wizard apprentice as described in the intelligence.
His magical power was far more substantial.
If not for the vampire's undead body, he would have already lost. Even now, he was barely managing to hold on.
He hadn't found any opportunities.
Locke's spell composition was very reasonable, and he also wore a high-grade magical item that enhanced his defensive power.
Meanwhile, Locke took advantage of the moment Howard turned to attack him to directly scatter a handful of seeds into the air. Those seeds were mixed with some advanced growth hormone. Then Locke chanted an incantation, and the 0.5-circle Wild Grass Entanglement immediately erupted.
Those Wiregrass Bull Sinew began rapidly growing around Howard, this was a binding-type spell.
Howard's eyes flickered. "This is bad, absolutely terrible."
He tried to use extreme speed to leave the Wild Grass Entanglement's casting range, but the wild grass entangled his legs and wound toward his upper body.
Meanwhile, the Mayfly Flower Cannon behind Locke was like death's giant maw, aiming to fire at him.
Howard struck the Wiregrass Bull Sinew with his blood claws, his expression changing.
This wild grass was simply too hard, he couldn't destroy it in time before being hit by Locke's Mayfly Flower Cannon.
Then he would be finished.
The next moment, Howard's eyes flashed with determination. He actually used his blood claws to cut his own legs, then relied on his wings to fly directly out of the Wild Grass Entanglement's range.
He gasped in mid-air, looking at Locke who was pursuing him. "This guy..."
Locke followed with interest, watching his legs slowly regenerating. "The undead body has reached this degree?"
"That's indeed quite troublesome."
Locke didn't stop attacking, directly throwing a Crystal Palm Fire Lotus at him, then chanting the Scorched Earth Bomb incantation.
Howard had no time to catch his breath before seeing in horror a beautiful crystal flower thrown at his forehead.