Chapter 175

Chapter 175 Combat Test

Locke went to the magical creature breeding room of witch Sophia, where the vampire Howard, whom he had captured before, was imprisoned by witch Sophia.

The Eye of Perseus lichen must undergo real combat testing before a more detailed report can be issued, and then it can participate in the Custom Magic Plant Competition held by the Academy’s Combat Department to win the championship.

Otherwise, no matter how good the data on paper looks, others will still question it.

At this time, the value of advanced experimental subjects can be reflected.

Locke has a first-class wizard apprentice captive who is a dark wizard of the Blood Curse Court. If he uses him for experiments, he can obtain high-quality practical test data.

The only prerequisite is that I need to convince him.

In the magical creature breeding room, the vampire Howard’s body has recovered at this time, but his magic power has not recovered and he has been in a weak state.

In the darkness, Howard suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with a dangerous red light, “Who is it?”

After Howard saw who was coming, a hint of fear appeared in his eyes. “It’s you, the White Wizard!”

“Your magic pressure… has improved again. Your progress is really fast.”

Howard has been afraid of Locke since his last battle with him.

At this time, he noticed that Locke’s magic power had improved significantly in the past month, and the speed of progress was far beyond that of an ordinary first-class wizard apprentice, which shocked him.

Although Locke’s magic power is improving relatively slowly compared to his own progress when he was a second-class wizard apprentice, that is only because the quality of the magic power of a first-class wizard apprentice is extremely high, and every bit of improvement is hard-earned.

Compared to ordinary first-class wizard apprentices, the speed at which his mana increases every month is already very fast, especially after he used the Eye Demon Potion.

Now, Locke’s mana has reached 462.

In the eyes of vampire Howard, Locke changes every month.

Locke looked at the vampire Howard with indifference. “Howard, I’ll give you a chance. I’ll help you restore your condition to its peak, open the restraint cage, and let you escape.”

“If you can escape, I’ll consider you lucky.”

Howard was stunned for a moment. He grabbed the iron cage and said, “White Wizard, are you crazy? Help me recover, open the restraint cage, and let me escape?”

“Are you that good? Didn’t you put in a lot of effort to catch me?”

“What do you want to do now?”

Locke sneered and said nothing. Instead, he ordered the gray dwarf servant who followed him in to push the restraint cage that imprisoned him, left the breeding room, and went to his own laboratory.

At the same time, Locke had already spent an hour to quickly master an ordinary 0.3-level plant magic [Green Moss Shield].

This level of trick model is too easy for Locke to master now.

Of course, the supporting magic plants for this kind of plant magic are generally medium and low-level magic plants, so this spell model cannot exert the true power of the Eye of Perseus lichen.

This is like pairing a small car with a big engine. The small car cannot exert the full power of the big engine.

Using this spell alone, combined with the Eye of Perseus, to deal with the first-class wizard apprentice of the Blood Curse Court in front of him, one can see the power of the Eye of Perseus’s broad-spectrum magic resistance to the greatest extent.

Whether or not one can use the magic plant depends mainly on whether one can graft the magic power onto the magic plant, and whether or not one can graft the magic power depends on one’s own magic power.

Magical plants of the level of the Eye of Perseus can only be controlled by the magic power of a first-class wizard apprentice, and it usually takes a certain amount of time for a first-class wizard apprentice to learn to control a magical plant of this level.

However, with Locke’s current profound magical powers, it would not be difficult for him to control the Eye of Perseus.

Inside Locke’s laboratory, he opened the iron door of the restraint cage and threw a bottle of blood of a magical creature to Howard.

Vampire Howard couldn’t believe for a moment that Locke was serious.

He hesitated in fear, and after waiting for thirty seconds, he found that Locke did not stop him, so he reached out frantically, grabbed the bottle of blood of the magical creature, and drank it.

The terrible vampire curse transformed into blood curse power, quickly helping him to gain energy from the bottle of blood of the magical creature, and then quickly recover the hidden dangers of his body and his original magic power.

A bloodthirsty and evil look flashed from the eyes of the vampire Howard.

Vampire Howard raised his lips and said, “You will regret it.”

“During the time I was imprisoned by you, I kept recalling every moment of our battle, summarizing the reasons for my failure. Now, in such a small space, you have no way to escape, and my vampire physique can be brought into play at its most powerful.”

Locke ignored him and activated the recording function of the True Vision Crystal in his palm. He said to the True Vision Crystal Ball, “This is the first battle between the Eye of Perseus Lichen and the First-Class Wizard Apprentice, Vampire Baron Howard. Before the battle, Vampire Howard had recovered to his peak condition.”

Vampire Howard was immediately furious. “You are indeed using me as an experiment, White Wizard. You will regret letting me go.”

The next moment, vampire Howard began to chant a spell, which was a paralysis spell.

While being held captive, Howard kept reflecting on himself and believed that he was captured because he did not utilize the Blood Curse Court’s curse magic system to its fullest potential. Originally, the Blood Curse Court used curses to weaken the enemy, and then used vampire physique to defeat the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.

But last time, vampire Howard thought he relied too much on the vampire baron’s strong physique and forgot about the curse magic.

Therefore, this time, the first thing he did was to use the paralysis spell he was most familiar with.

A bloody light was released from his hand and hit Locke, while he himself rushed towards Locke. At the same time, Howard was still chanting a spell, and the bloody claws also attached four other curses –

Blood curse, Thousand Edges curse, Split Consciousness curse, Coma curse.

These four curses and the paralysis curse form a linkage, and the five curses are integrated into a more powerful compound curse.

Obviously, this was a trump card that Howard did not have the chance to use before.

The blood claw hit Locke, and with a “bang”, it hit the magic plant lichen in front of Locke, which looked like a round emerald shield.

The next moment, the eye pattern in the middle of the emerald lichen lit up, and its curse energy flowed on the surface of the Eye of Perseus, making a violent collision sound.

The tearing sound was getting louder and louder.

Sparks caused by the clash of energies burst out on the surface of the lichen shield.

Howard was extremely surprised. He looked at the magic plant shield that blocked his blood claws and the compound curse trump card wrapped around his blood claws. “You didn’t have this thing last time… What is this? Why can’t my curse even break through it? I…”

The next moment, driven by Locke’s Green Moss Shield trick model, the eye pattern in the middle of the Eye of Perseus flashed with an emerald green light and attacked Howard’s eyes.

“Ah~ My curse was rebounded!” Howard was surprised. Before he could dodge, his eyes were destroyed by the rebounding green light.

At the same time, the purifying magic resistance energy that completely rebounded his compound curse rushed into his magic power and actually purified a large part of his magic power that he had recovered with great difficulty.

He was knocked flying and hit the wall of the laboratory. White steam came out of his body and he rolled on the ground wailing.

The compound curse he had cast before was his trump card and his most powerful curse at present. However, this curse was struck back by Locke using the Eye of Perseus.

This caused the corresponding purifying energy to rampage within his soul, directly causing him to lose his combat effectiveness and the ability to continue fighting.

Howard couldn’t believe it. Just over a month ago, he could still fight Locke back and forth, but now, in one encounter, he was defeated by Locke!

Locke watched the scene, nodded, and then turned to the True Sight Crystal and said, “The curse of the Vampire Baron, the First-Class Wizard Apprentice Howard, was perfectly rebounded by the Eye of Perseus, and the rebounded purifying energy has additional damage to the vampire’s immortal body.”

Locke took a look at the Eye of Perseus, whose surface was charred black.

“The conclusion is that the Eye of Perseus, even if powered by a 0.3-level spell, still possesses the ability to reflect back the curses of immature curse casters, and the reflected energy can cause fatal damage to the vampire’s undead body.”

“Dispel magic and holy magic have a doubled damage effect on a vampire’s constitution. The magic rebound of the Eye of Perseus now has a similar mechanism to the damage done by dispel magic and holy magic against vampires.”

“However, the Eye of Perseus is severely damaged and can only be used once or twice. If the enemy has experience dealing with the Eye of Perseus, they might be able to use this to their advantage and destroy it.”

“But if we can develop a spell that works with the Eye of Perseus lichen, and develop corresponding 0.5 and 0.8 level versions, we can probably bounce back the curse magic of a senior apprentice of the Blood Curse Tribunal’s first-class wizard, and maximize the use of the Eye of Perseus shield.”

“It is expected that the number of uses can be extended to about 15 times, which is more than enough to handle many fierce battles.”

When he said this, Locke thought of Severin and Hussein. As long as he developed a spell model that matched the Eye of Perseus, he believed that his magic plant work could even repel the curses of the two dark wizards.

Locke continued to speak to the crystal ball, “This actual battle proves that even using existing plant magic to drive the Eye of Perseus shield can still play a very important role in the battle of a first-class wizard apprentice.”

“Furthermore, the Eye of Perseus lichen has a very strong inhibitory effect on all magic of the Curse Master, and its magic rebound has a strong inhibitory effect on vampires and undead creatures.”

“The Eye of Perseus lichen also has a certain degree of physical defense ability. It has a certain defensive effect under the vampire’s blood claw attack.”

Locke continued, “This record proves the superiority of the Eye of Perseus lichen in fighting against curse masters.”

“But on the other hand, I believe the Eye of Perseus has the following flaws: First, it only targets curse magic. If the enemy isn’t a curse caster, then the Eye of Perseus will be useless.”

“The Second Eye of Perseus has a limited range of protection and requires the user to have a certain level of operational ability.”

Locke closed the Truesight Crystal and commented impartially, “If I write another article with combat data related to this, I should be able to write my third B-level article. The dwarf scholar Orr is right. Capturing a vampire means I can produce many related articles.”

Locke imprisoned Howard, who was almost unconscious, in the restraint cage again, and then ordered the gray dwarf slave to push the man back to the witch Sophia’s breeding room.

(End of this chapter)