Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 168: Provocation Against the Black Wizard

"Bang~"
Locke's expression changed slightly as the calf on the operating table in his makeshift laboratory exploded like a bomb after consuming drinking water mixed with a single drop of fission potion.
Through the monocle of focused observation in Locke's left eye, he recorded the magical power changes in the calf after it consumed the potion.
He observed that all the various elements in the calf's body underwent violent reactions in an instant, with large quantities of elements transforming into light elements and fire elements during this reaction.
Then, the calf's body burst apart.
Locke was somewhat stunned. "This potion is actually meant for wizards to consume to enhance their mental power."
"It seems that before taking it, detailed safety dosage experiments must be conducted."
"Moreover, I need to strengthen my physical body as much as possible, otherwise just the elemental fission and the instant massive production of light element particles and fire element particles would tear my body apart like that calf."
"But at the same time, if my body can withstand this powerful energy, it's indeed possible for my magical power to rapidly improve in a short time."
"No matter what, this method is indeed somewhat radical."
Locke thought about archaeology. Perhaps before taking the fission potion, it would be wiser to first study archaeology and use it to strengthen his physical constitution.
Locke ordered the cat-girl servants to come in and clean up the laboratory, then used syringes to extract a vial of blood from each of their bodies.
During this period, Locke frequently extracted blood from the two cat-girls and continuously used blood purification equipment and specific bloodline separation potions, attempting to extract the special bloodlines within their bodies through pharmaceutical methods.
Of course, this was a massive undertaking that might also require some more advanced equipment but if he could successfully extract the bloodline of the ancient three-eyed tiger-eyed cat, it would indeed greatly enhance his physical constitution!
And this was also what he currently needed for rapid mental power growth.
Locke left the laboratory and entered his second medium-small botanical garden. Yesterday, he had already ordered the minotaur slaves to erect the Differential Magic Mirror in front of one acre of magical farmland.
At the same time, Locke used grafting cultivation methods to graft a degraded Lightning Bamboo onto the rootstock of a Jade Iris Lichen (mutant variant) offspring.
Locke immediately applied minor grafting healing technique to both wounds.
At the contact point between the Lightning Bamboo and Jade Iris Lichen wounds, festering wounds continuously appeared, secreting special mucus that emitted a foul odor and appeared somewhat blackened.
Through the Differential Magic Mirror, Locke saw that many magical components of the degraded Lightning Bamboo and Jade Iris Lichen were in serious conflict. Under the effect of the minor grafting healing technique, they barely healed together, but the next moment, those healed portions would be torn apart again.
"As long as I can see specifically which magical components are conflicting with each other, I can try using specific magical resonance frequencies to reduce these conflicts."
Locke said in a low voice, "This way, experiments that originally required half a month to complete might only take half a day."
"Of course, this requires me to operate the Mana Co-frequency Cultivation Method more precisely and understand the theoretical knowledge more deeply, otherwise it would be impossible to achieve."
Locke adjusted the Radiation Cauldron nearby to a specific frequency, and immediately in the reflection of the Differential Magic Mirror, the component conflicts between the two magical plants became more moderate.
About half a day later, Locke saw that the degraded Lightning Bamboo had shown obvious benign transformation characteristics, while the Jade Iris Lichen variant had also undergone certain changes.
Obviously, the offspring of this Jade Iris Lichen variant had already memorized the curse characteristics on the Lightning Bamboo and produced corresponding magical resistance changes.
Locke carefully used a shovel to dig out this variant offspring and moved it to another acre of magical farmland for preservation.
Jade Iris Lichen is a fungal magical plant, and fungal magical plants have the characteristic of communicating with each other.
Therefore, when one offspring develops magical resistance antibody memory against a certain curse, over time, it will transmit this memory to other Jade Iris Lichens.
Of course, this first requires cultivating a Jade Iris Lichen variant to achieve this kind of magical resistance antibody communication.
The original Jade Iris Lichen naturally does not possess specific magical resistance against curses. The original Jade Iris Lichen is more of a natural magical resistance enhancer with magical resistance memory capability.
The specific magical resistance antibodies within it will disappear over time, gradually returning to their original state.
This has an advantage: when subjected to other magical attacks, such as elemental magical attacks other than curse magic, it will develop special magical resistance against elemental magic.
The shield-shaped Jade Iris Lichen variant that Locke later cultivated through grafting breeding methods developed specific resistance only against curse magic.
The benefit of this is that this Jade Iris Lichen mutant has greatly improved resistance against curse magic.
It even possesses active defense capabilities, gradually transforming into a combat magical plant.
Locke wanted to cultivate a super defensive magical plant specifically against curse magic based on this magical plant.
Locke checked the time. "Another grafting experiment completed. The Jade Iris Lichen variant has adapted to the second type of magical plant curse."
"Still haven't found broad-spectrum magical resistance against curses."
"I need more magical plant curses."
"I still need to go to the Healing Hand Treatment Center this afternoon."
Locke pondered, "Perhaps I should provoke Sephilin a bit."
...
In the afternoon, at the Healing Hand Treatment Center, when Locke entered the treatment center, he deliberately greeted many potion master assistant staff within the facility.
Since Sephilin could previously obtain first-hand treatment data from his treatment of patients, he figured he could also convey information to her within the treatment center.
Locke had previously noticed that there should be quite a few people being used by black wizards within White Wizard Association.
The two articles he had purchased in the library before obviously used large amounts of black wizard data, suggesting that person likely had some problems.
The wizard apprentices at Lilith's Cottage might indeed have the motivation to trade some intelligence with black wizards in order to publish more articles.
Moreover, the white wizards would also directly pay to purchase some black wizard services.
Like the historian McCarthy, his teacher was very likely a black wizard but McCarthy himself had defected to the white wizards for some reason.
Archaeologists held particularly special and very high positions in black wizard society but even so, McCarthy still preferred to open a small shop in Chimera Market, which should have special reasons behind it.
Whether white wizards or black wizards, they are essentially all wizards, so they are not completely isolated from each other.
Kali Ackerman, wearing red lipstick makeup and serving as a first-class wizard apprentice assistant at Anglon's workshop, greeted Locke in the entrance corridor of the treatment center.
With some schadenfreude and a mood of watching the excitement, she said to Locke, "Good morning, Potion Master Augustine."
"Ah, do you have any treatment ideas for those two patients of yours who were cursed by magical plants?"
Locke pretended to have a nonchalant attitude, saying, "Hmm, I already have a solution."
"Magical plant curses are just relatively ordinary minor curses, far inferior to my Minor Viridian Potion."
"I'm very confident about this."
Kali Ackerman was stunned for a moment, looking at Locke with surprise. For a time, she couldn't understand why Locke was so confident.
Even their workshop didn't dare to touch such curses, yet Locke acted as if he had everything under control and didn't take it seriously.
Kali Ackerman forced a smile on her face. "Potion Master Augustine is surely joking."
"It's good that you're confident."
After hearing this, many of the potion master assistants around looked at Locke thoughtfully.
Seeing that his purpose was achieved, Locke quickly left and headed toward his office.
"According to Sephilin's personality, she's very arrogant. If she perceives that I'm despising her magical plant curses, she should try to create more magical plant curses in a short time."
"But that's also exactly what I hope will happen."
"I hope it can succeed. Black wizards... should be relatively easy to provoke, right?"