Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 228: The Silent Lady Morgana

The next moment, Locke heard obvious footsteps outside the door. The person seemed very panicked and wanted to escape immediately but the next moment, the person was directly grabbed by Locke's Omen Mandrake Vines using Green Grasp.
Green Grasp was a 0.3-circle spell, laughably weak, so it could be used freely without worrying about triggering detection by the Wall of the Faithless.
Locke's mana was already at some distance from the Wall of the Faithless's priority detection range, and besides, there were many black wizard apprentices in this place. A bit of magical fluctuation wouldn't attract anyone's attention.
Locke's Omen Mandrake Vines could become invisible and sense hostility, so the moment they discovered someone following black wizard Nils, they immediately detected the person's presence and location, using the magical vines' invisibility ability to secretly trap them.
The person was a first-class wizard apprentice with 200 mana, while Locke currently had 505 mana and had consumed the Giant Tree Heart Potion, with all magical plants' power increased by 10% because they received radiation from Talmud Treant energy.
Under these circumstances, the opponent had no resistance at all and was directly locked down and dragged in by three Omen Mandrake Vines.
Nils looked in shock at the person Locke had captured. "Quintus, it's you? Why were you sneakily following me?"
Nils immediately reacted, looking at Quintus who was controlled by Locke's magical vines, "You've been tracking me? Why? What do you know?"
Quintus wanted to resist and tried to chant an escape spell, but the next moment, Locke scattered a handful of Wiregrass Bull Sinew seeds on him, using the 0.5 circle Wild Grass Entanglement to completely seal him.
This was to prevent this first-class wizard apprentice from escaping and directly ing back information.
The entire process, from the initial ambush to the plant magic sealing, was extremely smooth and fluid.
Albert and Andy were somewhat surprised. Although the opponent was only a newly advanced first-class wizard apprentice with 200 mana, Locke was also a first-class wizard apprentice who had just advanced this year.
Yet the gap between them was so huge that the first-class wizard apprentice black wizard had almost no ability to resist against Locke.
Albert looked thoughtfully at Locke. 'Perhaps Locke isn't just likely to become the next generation pillar of Lilith's Cottage, but he will inevitably become the next generation pillar of Lilith's Cottage?'
'Does he possess talent equal to Witch Sophia?'
Albert stepped forward and directly took out a bottle of truth serum from his astral ring, "Nils, you don't need to ask him."
"Come, open your mouth and drink. This is a special truth serum made with my enhanced personal formula. As long as you drink one drop, even those unspeakable youthful fantasies from your teenage years, you'll spill everything cleanly."
"I estimate it's nothing serious. This guy is probably following you for personal reasons and just happened to stumble upon this."
Albert grabbed Quintus's chin, "Relax a bit, don't resist. If I accidentally pour half a bottle down, your brain will be turned into an idiot by my special truth serum. You don't want to become an idiot for the rest of your life!"
After hearing this, Quintus really didn't dare resist anymore. He widened his eyes and drank the one-sixth bottle of truth serum Albert fed him.
Quintus burped, and a pink bubble came out of his mouth. Then his eyes began to become confused, and he told the truth about why he was tracking Nils.
It turned out he had always been dissatisfied with Nils holding a high position in Corinth city-state and receiving far more magical resources than him, always being one step ahead in everything.
He had always wondered why Nils could so easily obtain magical resources, so he began secretly paying attention to Nils. Sure enough, he discovered that Nils had been sending Blood Curse Court information to the outside and even investigating the Curse Ritual Research Institute and special grade projects.
At this point, he could choose to to Blood Curse Court or investigate privately to gain greater merit.
He chose private investigation, wanting to gain greater merit, so he hadn't ed to anyone yet.
As a result, he happened to encounter two formal wizards, which nearly scared him to death.
Then, before he could escape, he was discovered by Witch Gabriel and had already been trapped by Locke, who caught him.
Witch Sophia nodded with satisfaction. "So this guy hasn't told anyone about Nils's abnormal behavior. Fortunately he had selfish motives, otherwise our plan would have been ruined by such an insignificant figure."
Incinerator Andy sneered, "These black wizards all have this kind of personality."
"That's why I say black wizards are all unreliable."
"Kill this black wizard called Quintus."
Andy looked meaningfully at Nils, frightening Nils into hiding behind Witch Sophia, not daring to make eye contact with him.
Although Andy was serious but relatively close to Albert and Locke, when facing Nils, he showed an expression of barely being able to restrain his desire to kill him.
Lady Morgana's voice appeared in Andy's ear, "Andy, don't kill him. I have no objection if you want to kill black wizards without magical pressure structures, but if you kill a first-class wizard apprentice black wizard, his soul already has a magical pressure structure."
"The moment he dies, his magical pressure will rapidly decline, and the Wall of the Faithless can detect this very obvious anomaly. So it's absolutely not allowed."
"The probability of this detection is one hundred percent. Don't ruin Sophia's mission."
Only then did Andy give up and extinguish the flames in his hands.
Albert gave this black wizard apprentice three bottles of Sleepy Bug potion. This kind of potion could put wizard apprentices with mana below 300 into a coma for a very long time, at least over a month.
Albert threw him to Nils. "That solves it."
He looked at Locke and said, "What I'm good at is status-changing type potions. I'm skilled in both enhancement and debuff directions. So I'm not good at curse-breaking, which is why I've never been to your Healing Hand Treatment Center."
Witch Gabriel looked at Locke and said, "You discovered this little bug only slightly slower than I did."
"And you quickly counterattacked when even Andy and Albert didn't notice. It seems the magical vines in your hands are quite special?"
Locke saw that Witch Gabriel, a divination school witch, had pointed this out, so he could only explain, "Yes, it's because my Omen Mandrake Vines have both invisibility and the ability to sense enemy malice."
"This direction of sensing malice isn't divination-type magic, but very close to mind school magic... though this is a special magical plant ability possessed by the natural magical components of magical plants."
Even Witch Sophia looked at Locke with surprise, "Locke, you never mentioned this to me."
"If that's the case, why are you selling Super Mandrake Vines externally instead of this type of magical vine?"
Locke thought for a moment and somewhat embarrassedly told the truth. "I plan to gradually upgrade versions."
"Sell Super Mandrake Vines completely once, then sell Invisible Mandrake Vines, then sell Omen Mandrake Vines. This way I can make money three times."
"If I sold the most powerful version from the beginning, I would have lost the money from two version updates."
After hearing this answer, Witch Sophia fell somewhat silent.
Witch Gabriel also secretly glanced at Witch Sophia.
Even Lady Morgana rarely had no response.
Andy looked completely unable to understand, as if what Locke said had exceeded his range of comprehension.
Albert covered his mouth, secretly laughing, and patted Locke's shoulder. "Well said, I think similarly to you. When I sell potions, I also deliberately add some extra ingredient formulas to reduce efficacy, then gradually improve efficacy later, claiming it's a version update. This way I can legitimately increase the selling price of potions."
"Locke, we really should have met earlier."
"I could form a workshop with you!"
Lady Morgana seemed unable to watch anymore and began changing the topic, "You only have half a day to find the entrance. If you still haven't found the research institute entrance after half a day, then Gabriel will have to risk using divination magic to locate its entrance."
"The Nibelung Astrology System can cooperate with you."
"Remember you only have half a day. Please find the research institute entrance before dawn tomorrow!"