Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 187: Sephilin's Punishment

Sephilin was stunned for a moment, "Mentor... I... is this related to that white wizard Locke Augustine? I will handle this matter properly. If necessary, I can even personally infiltrate Lilith's Cottage and kill that white wizard with my own hands to restore my lost reputation and win back your colleagues' respect."
The next moment, Rashid Tariel slapped Sephilin across the face again, not leaving her even a shred of dignity in front of her juniors.
"Fool, let me tell you. This should have been something you knew. Didn't you learn this most basic knowledge in your introductory curse studies courses!"
Rashid Tariel almost roared in anger, "Magical plants are most prone to plant essence mutations."
"Bloodline factors in magical creatures, even in the beast taming magic sub-direction of the Summoning School and the magical creature bloodline modification direction of the Conjuration School, still cannot undergo large-scale mutations."
"Bloodline factors of magical creatures are naturally more stable than plant essence factors of magical plants, with lower error tolerance, but plant essence factors of magical plants are extremely prone to mutations during sexual reproduction, resulting in polyploid phenomena."
"Moreover, magical plants can be asexually reproduced by breeders using cutting cultivation methods. Even if magical plants appear that cannot naturally produce offspring due to plant essence mutations, they can still continue asexual reproduction through cutting cultivation."
"So, cursing magical creatures is fine, but absolutely never curse magical plants, otherwise those damn breeders might find magical plants adapted to our curses, or even worse things."
"Because the mutation potential of magical plants far exceeds that of magical creatures!"
Rashid Tariel looked at Sephilin, who was beginning to show signs of fear, with cold eyes, saying, "This should have been the most basic of basics."
"I should have told you this once in your first week after enrollment."
Sephilin explained in a low voice, "But... mentor, you only said it once then, and that was many years ago. This..."
Rashid Tariel's gaze became even colder, "That's no excuse, Sephilin. I am very angry and disappointed with you."
"You have made me lose face completely in front of my colleagues."
"Especially in front of Lady Victoria, Hussein's wizard mentor."
Rashid Tariel said coldly, "Because of your foolish actions, the magical plant curse you created has linked all the curses commonly used by our Blood Curse Court from the first-class to second-class wizard apprentice stages with magical plants, causing, according to my intelligence, a broadly effective curse-breaking potion to appear on Lilith's Cottage's side."
"That potion is even very basic. An ordinary potion master assistant can learn to brew about ten bottles a day with just a little study, and one bottle is enough to deal with most of our curses."
"The Council of Elders even suspects that using that basic-level potion could provide some adaptation ability against our blood curses. If so, it would drastically change our sphere of advantage."
"Sephilin, do you know what disaster your magical plant curse has created!" Rashid Tariel commanded, "Immediately stop all research related to magical plant curses and destroy all materials."
"At the same time, you must await the punishment decision from the Blood Curse Court's Council of Elders. During the time before the result comes out, you cannot leave this Curse Ritual Research Institute."
Sephilin immediately pleaded, "Mentor, can you help fight for me?"
"This was just an experimental mishap."
"Please fight for me again. I will always remember your investment in me and repay you after I become a formal wizard. Mentor, I know I was foolish, please help me..."
Rashid Tariel said coldly, "I have considerable investment in you, so if I can fight for you, I certainly will. But this matter has already attracted the attention of the Blood Curse Court's Council of Elders."
"How much I can fight for is hard to say."
"Recently I've been helping the Blood Curse Court research a blood curse with tremendous lethality against wizard apprentices. You'll stay in this Curse Ritual Research Institute and help me with experiments. Don't go anywhere else for now."
Sephilin was slightly stunned, because before this, even the Blood Curse Court had certain tacit understandings with Lilith's Cottage.
That is, the apprentice level and mentor level were kept separate. Wizard mentors tried not to interfere in matters between apprentices, and apprentices didn't have to be affected by wizard mentor-level influences.
The reason for this tacit understanding was that both sides wanted to preserve their wizard seeds as much as possible, preventing large numbers of next-generation deaths that would cause a shortage of talent in the following fifty years but obviously, the Blood Curse Court no longer intended to honor this understanding, and even wanted to use this time gap to severely harm Lilith's Cottage.
Rashid Tariel said, "You could say your luck was bad. Under normal circumstances, even if you created magical plant curses, as long as we had sufficient time, we could quickly recover the cursed magical plants and prevent the situation from getting further out of control."
"But their little apprentice was quite lucky, actually breaking your magical plant curse in less than two months."
"Before we even noticed this matter, it had already become serious in its impact."
Rashid Tariel turned and left, never once looking at the other second-class wizard apprentices in the room.
After Rashid Tariel walked out of the room, Sephilin clenched her fists, bit her lip, and blood flowed down.
"Damn it, how did things develop to this point."
"Just an ordinary experimental mishap, how did it become so complicated," Sephilin said unwillingly, "Wasn't Hussein's blood curse also broken by them?"
"It's just that I developed a curse for magical plants! Now I temporarily can't leave this Curse Ritual Research Institute. No, I must think of a way, otherwise I'm dead."
Sephilin clenched her fists, her eyes revealing suppressed frustration and bone-deep hatred, "A mere potion master assistant actually caused me such misery. You really deserve to die. Just a weak first-class wizard apprentice. If it were direct combat, I could crush him with my own hands."
"For now I can only be restricted to this Curse Ritual Research Institute."
"I don't know how the Council of Elders will punish me."
In the room, several second-class wizard apprentices secretly exchanged glances, having silent communication through their eyes. Everyone understood what the others' gazes meant.
That was that their senior sister Sephilin, whom they followed, seemed to be finished now.
If they didn't want to be ruined along with her, they needed to find a new master.
Under Wizard Mentor Rashid Tariel, there were some other first-class wizard apprentices. If they wanted protection and to safely leave Sephilin's side, they first needed to obtain protection from those first-class wizard apprentices.
Under this slave system, for slaves to escape from one slave master, they first had to seek refuge with another slave master.
And loyalty, in this black wizard society, was the most hypocritical thing.