Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 229: Forced Entry

Everyone began searching overnight in the core of Corinth city-state's castle for the entrance to the Curse Ritual Research Institute.
They began carefully examining every detail of this castle, fearing that any spot might be the entrance to the Curse Ritual Research Institute.
Locke also began using the Summon Tomb Spirit spell, creating two invisible tomb spirits to wander through the castle searching for the entrance.
Now his Summon Tomb Spirit spell model was becoming increasingly proficient, so he could actually summon two invisible tomb spirits at the same time, simultaneously executing two tasks of reading Mordor language.
"The Curse Ritual Research Institute consumes massive resources daily. The magical resources consumed in just one day might reach thousands of magic stones, so large amounts of resources must be invested. Such traces, no matter how well hidden, will remain." Locke thought. "However, this castle seems to have quite a few black wizard apprentices. Even with Nils covering for us, I must be careful."
"These insignificant figures among black wizards lack the ability to accomplish things, but they definitely have the ability to ruin things. Accomplishing things is very complex and difficult, but ruining things often only requires shouting once or twice."
At midnight, a crescent moon hung in mid-air.
Locke wandered alone in the courtyard. A second-class wizard apprentice from Blood Curse Court saw Locke disguised as a mortal in the courtyard. He frowned, feeling strange, and walked over, casually wanting to cast a fear curse spell on Locke, but was surprised to discover that the crude spell model couldn't take effect on Locke.
Not to mention the super-high magic resistance produced by Locke's 505 magical pressure, even the effect of the Bear Spirit Jade Bile Potion could immunize against this level of curse magic.
This second-class wizard apprentice immediately became alert. "Who are you?"
The next moment, his neck and mouth were both sealed by Omen Mandrake Vines. He could neither break free nor make any sound.
Purple berries grew from the branches of the Omen Mandrake Vines wrapped around his neck, releasing deadly poison. Soon this second-class wizard apprentice died.
This was Poison Berry Ejection.
For the current Locke, casually cast spells were deadly and dangerous toxins for these low-level wizard apprentices.
Witch Sophia's voice appeared in Locke's ear. "Locke, you seem to have encountered an enemy on your side. You handled it very cleanly, which is good."
"Among us, only when you use spells is it almost impossible to be detected by the Wall of the Faithless. Especially when you're using low-level spell models."
"Locke, Andy has already found the entrance. Come quickly to the castle's second floor."
Locke was surprised for a moment, not expecting that among the five people, the fastest to find the entrance was actually the professional combat Incinerator Andy.
However, this was good.
It was much better than having Witch Gabriel forced to take risks after half a day, facing the Wall of the Faithless and using First Circle divination spells in the center of Blood Curse Court's heartland.
Locke immediately put this black wizard's corpse into his astral ring, then went to the castle's second floor.
As soon as he stepped onto the castle's second floor, he found Andy, Albert, and the others gathered in a room.
Everyone was already waiting here.
Incinerator Andy said, "Good, everyone's here. The entrance to the Curse Ritual Research Institute is in the mirror in this room."
"Because I often fight on the front lines, I have some understanding of Blood Curse Court's spells. Since it's not at a real entrance or in shadows, it's most likely in the mirror world."
"Blood Curse Court has a well-developed blood curse called the Mirror Blood Curse. They can use curse magic to open up a special cursed space behind a mirror."
"The method to confirm this is also simple."
Andy placed a weak magical flame in front of the dressing mirror in this room. Stimulated by this weak magical flame, the mirror's surface immediately showed large amounts of blood.
Streams of blood flowed from the mirror's surface.
"This slight stimulation won't attract attention from the research institute entrance or the Wall of the Faithless, but it will stimulate the blood curse, making it manifest."
"Ordinary weak magic can't stimulate this kind of blood curse space."
"But based on my understanding of them on the battlefield, I previously discovered that flame magic has a restraining effect on this kind of mirror curse magic. This curse will be manifested under flames."
Black wizard Nils softly shared his insight. "It might be that this blood curse's curse formula happens to fear high temperatures. High temperatures destroy some of the curse formula's connection points. I'm guessing that for advanced curses, the key is those connection points when curse geometric formulas are stacked."
"Sometimes, to create certain curse effects, connection points can only have certain weaknesses that cannot be remedied."
Andy glared at him. "Don't talk to me, black wizard."
Nils looked rather aggrievedly at Witch Sophia and even at Locke.
Andy turned to look at everyone, his expression becoming peaceful, completely different from the fierce look he had when speaking to Nils. "Everyone, forcing entry will definitely alert the people in that Curse Ritual Research Institute."
Witch Gabriel smiled slightly. "Don't worry, I brought Diego's Feather in advance."
Witch Gabriel took out a white feather from her astral ring, but Locke saw it was white at first glance, black at second glance, then red at third glance, and even its shape had changed.
Diego's Feather, a feather from a First Circle level magical creature, could be transformed into a First Circle magical item using alchemy and divination school magic.
This thing's effect was a very high priority confusion curse that could confuse and disrupt abjuration school magical locks, identity authentication, and so on.
Witch Gabriel walked to the mirror. "As long as we find the entrance, we can find a way to enter the Curse Ritual Research Institute without alerting them."
"The Nibelung Astrology System can assist me in completing the cracking work."
She placed Diego's Feather in front of the mirror. At the same time, Locke sensed that the Nibelung Astrology System seemed to be accelerating its operation, so much so that the magical energy transmitted through the sub-circle increased.
Lady Morgana said, "Be careful not to alert the Wall of the Faithless. Since Blood Curse Court bought five sets of this defense system, the difficulty of infiltration has indeed increased a lot."
Ten minutes later, a blood-red curse door appeared in the mirror.
Witch Gabriel curved her lips. "Success."
"I successfully deceived the magical lock and opened the research institute's entrance. Everyone, let's go in quickly."
Witch Gabriel put Diego's Feather into the mirror. After the feather entered the mirror, ripples immediately appeared inside the mirror.
Lady Morgana's voice appeared in everyone's ears. "Everyone, next, I will use the Nibelung Astrology System to coordinate with Diego's Feather to confuse their six-layer curse barrier, making their barrier completely ineffective."
"But at the same time, my support for you will basically disappear. The Nibelung Astrology System must operate at full power to confuse the six-layer curse barrier for you and reverse the six-layer curse barrier for you when necessary."
"In any case, please stay safe."
"You all must come back."
Albert said to everyone, "Let's go in together. This way we should stay together."
"Nils, you stay outside and keep watch."
Nils had contingencies left by Witch Sophia, and he seemed to have completely bet on Lilith's Cottage, so he had initially gained everyone's relative trust.
Locke and the others walked into the mirror together and opened the blood door.
This feeling was very strange, walking into a mirror and opening a door inside it but just after they all passed through the blood door, suddenly a blood river rushed toward them, filled with curse energy.
This sudden change stunned both Witch Sophia and Witch Gabriel, but the Nibelung Astrology System was already operating at full power to confuse the six-layer curse barrier for them, so Lady Morgana had no time to give them guidance.
Witch Gabriel reacted quickly. "Sophia, don't use First Circle magic, it's not time yet."
"This is the automatic defense mechanism of this research institute. It should have detected an anomaly and therefore launched an indiscriminate curse attack. If they were their own people, nothing should happen."
"Albert, Andy, and Locke, you must protect Sophia and me. It's not time for us to act yet. The three of you don't have enough mana to directly make the Wall of the Faithless lock onto you. This is your advantage."
"Use it well, especially... Locke, you can almost fight at full strength in this environment with a high probability of not triggering Wall of the Faithless detection."
The next moment, the blood river completely engulfed all five people.
Locke immediately took out a bottle of Bear Spirit Jade Bile Potion from his astral ring, drank it, and used three Omen Mandrake Vines with Green Grasp to surround himself in a green cocoon for protection.
Although he could use Perseus Eye defense, that would be equivalent to actively launching an attack, easily attracting unnecessary attention.
The next moment, Locke felt the blood river violently impact his body, constantly invading his magical plants and his body, but the Bear Spirit Jade Bile Potion in his body produced corresponding magic resistance, rejecting all these curses from his body.
'Clang~'
A loud noise appeared in Locke's ears. In this blood river he couldn't hear anything clearly, and his ears seemed to hear a wail full of resentment. After all these sounds disappeared.
Locke frowned, dispelled the spell, and put away the three Omen Mandrake Vines. His clothes were somewhat corroded and dissolved by the curse energy, but he seemed to have successfully entered the research institute.
However, there was currently a problem: he was standing alone in a corridor.
It seemed that due to the accident during teleportation, they had all been separated.
"Trouble." Locke stood alone in this black wizard stronghold, frowning. "I must reunite with Teacher and the others as soon as possible. Teacher and the others can't use magic yet. What if they encounter enemies?!"