Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 170: The Explosive Increase of Magical Plant Curses

Two weeks later.
"Move aside, quickly move aside, hurry and get this person to the second floor."
"Be careful, the magical plant on this person has already lost control!"
A Super Mandrake Vine had completely fallen into madness on a second-class wizard apprentice lying on a hospital bed, frantically trying to attack everything around it. It even broke through its restraints at one point and launched attacks at everything within its reach.
The thick magical vine, like the most ferocious iron whip, split several nearby hospital beds in half. If the patients on those beds hadn't reacted quickly and immediately rolled off their beds, they too would have been cut in half by the deteriorated magical vine.
At this moment, the second-class wizard apprentice assistant pushing the hospital bed looked troubled as he stared at the Super Mandrake Vine that had already lost control.
"This new type of magical vine is much more troublesome than Tiflo Root Vines when it loses control," he said with a difficult expression. "What should I do?"
But at this time, Locke walked down from the spiral stone stairs and pointed at the out-of-control Mandrake Vine.
Under the soothing of his magical power, the Super Mandrake Vine that had undergone malignant deterioration finally gained some control and lay prostrate on the second-class wizard apprentice's body.
'So that's how it is. On the wizard ship, that first-class wizard apprentice from the Bone Cult used a similar method to seal the low-level magical item in Lorne's hand.'
'It was simply using powerful magical force and deep understanding of magic to find the weak point in a magical item's spell operation and forcibly suppress it.'
After Locke became a first-class wizard apprentice, two and a half years after that incident, he finally understood what the first-class wizard apprentice from the Bone Cult had done on the wizard ship that day.
The second-class wizard apprentice assistant, seeing Locke walk down from above, immediately bowed to Locke and said, "Thank you, Senior Augustine."
"Without you, I wouldn't have been able to get this patient to your office."
Locke said indifferently, "How many patients has this been in these two weeks?"
The second-class wizard apprentice assistant was stunned for a moment, then respectfully said, "Senior Augustine, this is the seventeenth patient cursed with magical plant curses in these two weeks."
"About more than one wizard apprentice gets cursed with magical plant curses every day." This second-class wizard apprentice assistant, with his limited perspective, didn't understand that this was Locke secretly dueling with that second sequence black wizard from the Blood Curse Court. He said uneasily, "Those black wizards are really frightening."
"The curses they create have almost no purpose other than causing suffering to others."
"Recently, more and more people have been cursed. When will such days end?"
The people around who were still in shock also reacted to these words.
Locke nodded slightly. "Take the person to my office. That's about enough."
"A little more wouldn't have much meaning."
The second-class wizard apprentice assistant didn't quite understand what Locke meant by "about enough." He looked at Locke with confusion, thinking it was some instruction from Locke.
After confirming that Locke had no further instructions, he hurriedly pushed the hospital bed through the special passage toward the second floor.
Locke returned to the second floor through the spiral staircase while thinking, 'Indeed, just as I thought before, that black wizard is quite easy for me to provoke.'
'In these two weeks, to fully demonstrate to me the profoundness of her magical plant curses, these seventeen magical plant curses all used seventeen different curses, from Paralysis Curses to Blood Curses to Thousand Blade Curses...'
'The cursed magical plants were all different too. Some wizard apprentices even had multiple magical plants cursed. Sephilin gave me a comprehensive demonstration of her magical plant curses, wanting me to bow my head and admit that I couldn't solve her magical plant curses, making me feel inferior.'
'But this... is also what I wanted her to do.'
Locke's expression became serious. So-called battle wasn't just about defeating the opponent face to face. The invisible duel between the potion master and the curse master was also a kind of battle.
What he needed to do was predict the opponent's predictions, then use the opponent's curses to provide experimental data for himself, and subsequently create super defensive magical plants.
During these two weeks, the mutated Jade Iris Lichen in his botanical garden had been continuously improving. Under his careful modifications using the Differential Magic Mirror and Focus Monocle, the Jade Iris Lichen's offspring changed rapidly every day, producing corresponding changes in magical resistance.
By today, it had already developed broad-spectrum magical resistance similar to curse resistance.
In other words, his work had reached the final stages of cultivation.
Today's cursed magical plant was the last one he needed.
Locke encountered Kali Ackerman in the hallway, who had a mocking smile at the corner of her mouth.
At this time, Kali Ackerman was wearing a red wizard robe that had been altered to look like a long dress. Seeing Locke, she said with a somewhat theatrical attitude, "Potion Master Augustine, you've been really busy lately. I heard that your office has new patients every day."
"Some patients, you're even paying out of your own pocket to treat them."
Kali Ackerman said with feigned kindness, "If it really doesn't work out, I think you should seek external help. Don't try to handle everything yourself."
Locke raised an eyebrow, looked at her, and asked, "Oh? Then how about I seek external help from your Anglon Workshop?"
"Senior Anglon did say before that if I had any needs, I could ask you for help. You can't go back on your word, can you?"
The gloating smile on Kali Ackerman's face immediately froze. She was watching the show, but somehow got herself involved.
Anglon had warned her never to get involved with magical plant curses.
That thing required too much investment.
That kind of curse required deep involvement in both breeding and potion studies, and Anglon had been spending most of his energy on mental power enhancement potions recently, so he didn't want to touch magical plant curses.
Last time, to solve Hussein's blood curse, he had expended quite a few favors in his network, and now he had to use the Anglon Workshop to repay those favors.
Kali Ackerman immediately became somewhat stuttering, "That... that..."
"That's certainly possible, but Senior Anglon and we have all been quite busy lately... so... so..."
Locke smiled and didn't take it seriously, walking away directly.
He was quite busy too.
The final of the White Wizard Association's breeder competition wouldn't have results until half a year later, since this kind of competition was quite time-consuming.
After all, both the preliminaries and finals required producing one work each, and each work had to compete with breeders from the entire southeastern region, so good preparation was needed. Therefore, the interval between the two competitions was a full half year.
But even so, the breeder competition required the breeder to start preparing a year or even two years before the competition, at least preparing the general direction.
Otherwise, when truly entering the competition, it would be chaotic and there wouldn't be enough time.
And the custom magical plant competition issued by the combat department of Lilith's Cottage to breeders was approaching the registration deadline.
Only the last half month of registration time remained.
This was essentially another form of collective procurement bidding competition, just with faster progress, usually deciding results within a few months.
He had to completely finish his fifth work within half a month.
And this work was also the first one he had made entirely by hand from start to finish. Only the Jade Iris Lichen used as the foundation was a magical plant synthesized by the Synthesis Cube.