Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 231: The Disappearance of Witch Sophia

"I've emptied this warehouse," Locke said as he walked out of the warehouse. "To prevent suddenly encountering black wizards again, I'd better use some methods."
"If one of the black wizards were to escape, it would be very troublesome."
Locke softly chanted the incantation for [Summon Tomb Spirit]. Immediately, before his eyes, it was as if a laser had scanned the entire corridor within the research institute. Lines of Mordo language information appeared before him.
Two invisible tomb spirits, one on the left and one on the right, moved forward to scout in both directions of the corridor, always maintaining a position one hundred meters ahead of him.
Using this method, even if he came face to face with a black wizard, he would have time to react.
Locke looked at the magic painting map in his hand. With this magic painting map, he could freely move through the research institute and avoid the various magical mechanisms and magical traps within.
Of course, the quality of Blood Curse Court's magical traps was mediocre, nothing special to begin with.
"The positions where my teacher and the others fell should all be random, and I'm currently at the southernmost edge of the research institute."
"I can have the tomb spirits search for them, and there's also my spy within this research institute," Locke said. "Through the tomb spirit on his body, hmm?"
"Senior Andy moved way too fast. He shouldn't have used magic at full power, yet relying only on basic mana and a high-grade magical item, he slaughtered all the second-class wizard apprentice black wizards in the entire Curse Hall who were responsible for folding curse spell patterns."
"It must be because he has profound insights into fire magic, a sub-direction of the Evocation School. Senior Andy and Senior Albert both possess the qualities of someone about to become a formal wizard."
At this moment, through the tomb spirit on Leoni Murphy's body, Locke saw Captain Andy standing beside Witch Gabriel, holding the enchanted Candice wizard sword.
Captain Andy held a burning greatsword, surrounded by corpses he had cut down into charcoal.
Wielding the Candice wizard sword, he had killed the second-class wizard apprentice supervisor here with a single strike. In just an instant, the supervisor's corpse turned to charcoal, completely engulfed in flames.
A whirlwind of fire enveloped him. He didn't even have time to scream before his throat was destroyed by the flames.
Incinerator Andy was about to swing his flaming greatsword at Leoni Murphy, who was crouched on the ground in fear, when he suddenly frowned. The flaming greatsword slightly deflected and struck the ground. Instantly, the obsidian floor of the research institute melted, turning into a large pile of glass shards.
Andy raised his eyebrows. "Locke? This black wizard maggot is your man? I sensed your magic pressure."
A voice appeared behind Leoni Murphy. "Yes, that's correct, Senior Andy. He's my man."
At that moment, the invisible tomb spirit behind Leoni Murphy began to materialize under the stimulation of Locke's Three-Eyed Tiger Cat's ancient creature bloodline. A Pharaoh Mask Tomb Spirit was born from within the invisible tomb spirit and replaced its form.
Leoni Murphy was startled. He felt heavy pressure bearing down on his head.
The ghost parasitizing his body had undergone some kind of decisive qualitative change But Leoni Murphy suddenly became joyful. "Master?"
"Two white wizard lords, I am my master's black wizard slave. Don't kill me, I am your servant, I am one of you."
Leoni Murphy glanced smugly at the supervisor who had constantly offended him during this time. Now that supervisor had become a charred corpse.
He once again sighed in relief that his risky choice to become Locke's man had been the right one.
Andy sheathed his wizard sword and raised his eyebrows at the Pharaoh Mask Tomb Spirit, saying, "An archaeologist's methods? Impressive. Archaeologist is a core wizard profession for black wizards. Junior Locke, you've even mastered this magical discipline."
"This is excellent. If our team has an archaeologist, it will greatly help this operation."
Locke spoke through the tomb spirit, "Senior Andy, Lady Gabriel, where are my teacher and Senior Albert?"
Incinerator Andy immediately replied, "Junior Locke, Witch Gabriel and I were directly randomly teleported here. I had no choice but to kill all the black wizard apprentices who saw me."
"At the instant we were hit by the research institute's automatic defense system, I managed to grab Witch Gabriel and used some of my secret techniques to ensure that Witch Gabriel and I could act together."
"Unfortunately, I don't know the exact locations of Witch Sophia and Albert. They're very likely still acting separately. But it's fine, Witch Gabriel is from the Divination School, she can definitely determine their locations."
"Our original plan was to help Witch Sophia quickly approach our target, then have her assassinate that formal wizard. While she assassinates, we can immediately retreat. But who would have thought, plans can't keep up with changes."
Witch Gabriel nodded and said, "I'm not worried about Witch Sophia's safety. Locke, your teacher is far more powerful than I am. Perhaps only Lord Halen Vera, Lady Morgana, the Dean, and the seven Senior Advisors at the academy can be stronger than her."
"Therefore, I'm only worried about Albert. I hope he has good luck."
Witch Gabriel held a First Circle magical item that resembled a fishing net, saying, "This is a dreamcatcher, a magical item from the Divination School. It can capture dreams to capture location information about Sophia and Albert. But strangely, the dreamcatcher can't find any information about your teacher, but it has Albert's location information."
"Let's rendezvous with Albert first. Your teacher, she's someone even I can't understand. She must have her own plans."
"I'll tell you Albert's location information. By the way, do you have a magic painting map? Please share it with us. Using your magic painting map and my dreamcatcher, we can easily find Albert's location."
Locke immediately used the location information provided by Witch Gabriel to tell them through the tomb spirit how to proceed. "I haven't yet learned the archaeologist's [Historical Projection]. But I can verbally guide you through the tomb spirit on how to go."
"Albert seems to be in an isolation room area. There are a total of six routes leading there, but five of them are very dangerous. They either pass through concentrated rest areas for black wizard apprentices or have important security defense measures."
"There's only one safe route. This route is a bit longer, but the advantage is that all the difficulties along the way can be directly avoided, preventing us from alerting the enemy."
"There's only one defensive corridor in the middle that can't be avoided, it's covered with curse traps. But we can use some flying magic to quickly pass through that corridor. I happen to have a flying magical plant and have learned the Plant Mimicry series of spells."
Andy and Witch Gabriel nodded continuously as they listened. With this magic painting map, so many problems were solved.
Andy suddenly spoke, "Locke, there's one problem. I don't have flying spells. Witch Gabriel does, but she can't use First Circle spells, that would alert the enemy."
"Albert also doesn't have flying spells. If it's as you said, then Albert can't escape from the area where he's located. He's essentially trapped in a specific section of this research institute."
Only then did Locke realize, that's right, flight capability at the apprentice level was relatively rare.
Witch Gabriel quickly spoke, "Locke, then the mission to rescue Albert is entrusted to you."
"Andy and I will continue with the original plan and try to approach Rashid Tariel. According to my intuition, we should maintain the original plan, assuming Witch Sophia is very safe and her disappearance is intentional. And when we approach Rashid Tariel, Witch Sophia will also be able to approach Rashid Tariel."
Witch Gabriel said, "I have absolute confidence in Sophia. As long as she wants to accomplish something, she has never failed."
"Therefore, Locke, Albert's safety is entrusted to you."
Locke was silent for a moment, feeling the trust Witch Gabriel had placed in him and the heavy responsibility. Then he said, "Understood, Lady Gabriel. I will bring Senior Albert back."
Andy suddenly said, "But there's still one problem now. I was forced to kill too many black wizard apprentices just now. They all had many curses on them. With so many dying at once, it's very likely to attract the attention of the research institute's central control room."
"But I had no choice. Witch Gabriel couldn't take action, and I don't have control magic... I'm not good at that. If only Albert or you, Locke, had been by my side just now."
Locke thought for a moment. This was indeed a problem.
With so many second-class wizard apprentice black wizards dead, all the curses on them would disappear. This was far too obvious for the invisible curse network.
Leoni Murphy, who had been lying on the ground listening to his master's conversation with his master's friends, suddenly brightened. He suddenly spoke, "My lords... I... I have a solution."
"If it's just to delay for a short time, it should be possible."
Immediately, Andy, Witch Gabriel, and the tomb spirit all looked at Leoni Murphy.
Locke spoke coldly through the tomb spirit, "Speak."
Leoni Murphy immediately fawned over Locke. "Master, I can pretend that there's been a laboratory curse object leak that caused mass casualties."
"This is something that happens often in the research institute, it won't seem suspicious."
"I can immediately activate the [Bidirectional Sound Curse] in this Curse Hall and tell those first-class wizard apprentice lords in the central control room that there's been a serious laboratory leak here."
Witch Gabriel nodded slightly. "That will work."
Andy also thought this was a good idea. "Locke, have your black wizard slave do that, but guard against any tricks he might try to pull. These black wizards are each more cunning than the last."
Andy placed the flaming greatsword next to Leoni Murphy's neck, then out of respect, explained to Locke, "When I was young, I was deceived by a black wizard spy and nearly made a grave mistake that would have wiped out my combat squad."
"Not a single one of these black wizards can be trusted."
Although Locke didn't think Leoni Murphy would betray him, after all, in Leoni Murphy's mind, he possessed the ability to read his inner thoughts at any time but Locke still accepted Andy's approach.
Locke gave Leoni Murphy a cold order. "Leoni, immediately an experimental leak to the research institute's central core room."
"Senior, Lady Witch Gabriel, then I'll go rescue Senior Albert first."
"You should leave that area as soon as possible. I estimate they'll seal off your area."
...
In the central control room, a first-class wizard apprentice black wizard froze for a moment. He was somewhat uncertain. "The curses inside more than thirty second-class wizard apprentices suddenly began to dissipate. How could so many second-class wizard apprentices suddenly die?"
"And most of them are from the Curse Hall, those wastes responsible for folding high-level geometric curse spell patterns, and a few are second-class wizard apprentices from other areas."
"What happened?"
"Damn it, only Sephilin can directly see the scenes before their eyes through the curses on them. I don't have that authority, but now Sephilin..."
Just as he was about to this anomaly to the senior curse master Rashid Tariel, a curse spirit line suddenly fell toward him, and behind this curse spirit line was a complex high-level geometric curse pattern.
Through the Bidirectional Sound Curse, this simple 0.3-circle curse, Leoni made contact with the central control room.
The Bidirectional Sound Curse was originally just a curse used to attack and harass enemies. By cursing an enemy, that enemy would forever hear one's voice in their ear, whether eating, sleeping, working, or meditating, using this method to attack the enemy's psyche.
Later, a first-class wizard apprentice black wizard, while researching sound curses, accidentally rotated the original sound curse's geometric pattern 180 degrees and folded and copied it once, resulting in a means of two-way communication. Thus this curse changed from an attack magic into a functional curse magic.
Leoni's anxious voice came through. "ing to my lord, curse objects in the laboratory have leaked, everyone here has died."
"My lord, please rescue us..."
This first-class wizard apprentice froze for a moment, then tensed up, saying, "Even if it's a leaked experimental subject, it's impossible to kill so many of our people at once! Could it be that Pandora's Box has leaked?"
"If so... that would be troublesome. That's a blood curse experimental subject specifically designed for wizard apprentices."
"You waste, leave that area immediately. In five minutes, I'll seal all the magical alloy doors in that area and lock the magical locks there."
"Leave there immediately and come to the central control room to the specific situation."
This first-class wizard apprentice black wizard was extremely nervous. "If it really is Pandora's Box that leaked, then I must it to teacher. No wait, if I now, teacher will inevitably vent his anger on me."
"Then I'm finished."
"I don't want to become the next Sephilin."
"There's only one way. I must solve this problem myself first. Once I've controlled the problem, then I'll to teacher, and teacher won't punish me too severely."
"So I'll wait until that second-class wizard apprentice waste comes here first."