Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 207: Mana Increase, Mana 500!

Locke placed his palm on the amethyst matrix, and saw waves surging inside the purple crystal head, wave after wave rising, with the numbers climbing from 462 all the way toward 470.
Within this month, because Locke had been taking Beholder Potions, his meditation speed had increased, so his mana had already grown from 454 at the beginning of the month to 462.
But now, his mental power was rising due to ancient bloodline transformation, and the speed of this advancement actually exceeded the improvement speed after taking large quantities of potions including Beholder Potions.
Locke felt the constantly roaring consciousness of the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat in his ears, continuously impacting his consciousness.
The bloodline transformation potions created by archaeologists contained a portion that was input using Gray Mushroom Rod Bacteria, information he had obtained from negative energy particle fields that existed hundreds of thousands of years ago.
That is, the scenes that this Three-Eyed Tiger Cat saw in its final moments before death hundreds of thousands of years ago.
This portion of scenes was impacting Locke again and again. Locke couldn't see what exactly that Three-Eyed Tiger Cat had witnessed at the time, but he could feel the creature's anger, fear, despair, and that fierce courage.
In its final moment before death, it was still trying to resist that continental-scale geological disaster, ultimately being submerged in the torrent of that era.
A deep confusion lingered in Locke's heart, just as it lingered in the hearts of all archaeologists.
What exactly happened at that time?
Was it a worldwide disaster, or just a regional catastrophe?
Why couldn't any negative energy particles related to that disaster be preserved, as if all related negative energy particles had been destroyed?
Archaeologists could only analyze that disaster by obtaining reactions from other fossils of that era, indirectly understanding the existence of that massive geological catastrophe.
Locke planned to research and explore these things in the future. After all, if he could solve this mystery, he could probably publish many articles.
Most importantly, ancient creature bloodlines could indeed strengthen his constitution, with quite a few benefits.
Of course, these might not be things that an apprentice level could solve. He could slowly work on them after becoming a formal wizard in the future.
Until now, Locke somewhat understood what it meant to be an archaeologist.
Across hundreds of thousands of years, using magic and knowledge to decode knowledge sealed in history, so ancient that no one in modern times understood or cared about it, recreating the mysteries and glory of that era, allowing long-extinct ancient creatures to appear again in this era.
This was what archaeologists were doing.
Locke stabilized his mind and the wildness and unease generated by the bloodline transformation in his heart. His pupils began turning into golden vertical pupils, with another pupil within those golden pupils, becoming even clearer this time.
Locke looked in the mirror, "Sure enough, this bloodline transformation will trigger a reaction from the mysterious bloodline in my body. The pupil changes have become more detailed this time."
Locke activated the True Sight Orb beside him, recording the scene of his golden double pupils in the crystal orb.
In the future, he could research the source and origin of this golden pupil pattern.
This way, he might be able to trace the source of this bloodline, as well as the identity of this body's mother.
Locke saw in the mirror that his pupils quickly returned to normal human pupils, "Is the chain reaction over? How unsettling."
"I need to figure out what's happening with my own body as soon as possible. Although so far, the chain reactions that have occurred have only benefited me, having surprises means instability."
"As a wizard, how can I tolerate this instability caused by the unknown?"
At the same time, Locke's body officially entered Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline transformation. Locke directly grabbed five bottles of cell acceleration division potions from the shelf and drank them all.
This was a little trick.
Cell acceleration division potions were just ordinary functional potions with assistant-level brewing difficulty. These potions could accelerate one's cell division speed, suitable for experiments requiring rapid generation changes.
Similarly, they were also suitable for consumption during bloodline transformation, completing bloodline transformation better and faster by increasing the number of cell division generations.
Locke felt his whole body burning hot, becoming very, very hot, as if he was constantly in a high fever state. He was somewhat prepared for this and quickly jumped into a large bucket of cold water he had placed inside the laboratory.
Soon, this bucket of cold water began boiling, bubbling up one after another.
Locke raised his right hand and saw veins bulging on the surface of his right arm, while in the water's reflection, a mysterious eye pattern faintly appeared on his forehead.
"The intensity of this bloodline transformation far exceeds my previous expectations," Locke said, "It's probably reached 0.9-circle bloodline transformation intensity, very close to First Circle level bloodline transformation."
"Being able to complete this level of bloodline transformation at this stage, I can publish many more articles. Wait, what am I thinking about now? I'm not an article-publishing machine. How did I alienate myself like this?"
Locke stabilized his mind, "Hold on a bit longer, the transformation will be completed soon."
"This time I positioned the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline with very high precision, and after synthesis, it improved another level. That requires cultivating Gray Mushroom Rod Bacteria for three years and learning archaeological spells for three years to possibly create such a work."
"Therefore, the side effects of this bloodline transformation potion shouldn't be too severe."
An hour later, the warm water in the bucket had calmed down. Locke picked up a mirror to look at his face.
Currently, he was in the bloodline activation stage of the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat.
First, his mana had changed from 462 before the transformation to 500, an increase of a full thirty-eight points!
This was mana that would have originally required Locke to spend over 400 magic stones daily, plus taking three Beholder Potions monthly, and meditating with full effort for about two years to possibly increase but this transformation directly pushed Locke's mana to 500, making his basic mana more powerful and solid.
Moreover, the mana obtained through this method actually had relatively high purity.
This might be due to the inherent power of the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline.
At the same time, Locke in the bloodline activation state was consuming mana every moment. A spell eye appeared on his forehead, which was a natural magic eye that Three-Eyed Tiger Cats were born with.
The magic eyes crafted by alchemists had their prototypes from the natural magic eyes on modern magical creatures' bodies.
Meanwhile, Locke's entire body was covered with the special white tiger stripes of the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat, and his hands had become a hybrid state between tiger claws and human hands.
Locke felt that his constitution had been strengthened to an extremely exaggerated degree through this bloodline transformation.
After all, Three-Eyed Tiger Cats were famous for their remarkably powerful physiques.
However, maintaining this bloodline activation state required continuous consumption of enormous amounts of mana. After all, Locke wasn't a natural Three-Eyed Tiger Cat, he was just a Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline transformer.
He estimated that his current mana could only maintain this bloodline activation state for 10 minutes, consuming approximately 50 points of mana per minute.