Chapter 234

Chapter 234 The True Face of the Special Research Project

Chapter 234 The True Face of the Special Research Project

In the corridor of the research institute, Locke took out the Big Blue Owl Banana from the Star Ring. This magical plant only has a pair of banana leaves. The trunk has shrunk and degenerated into a part the size and length of a palm. There are also many aerial roots similar to ginseng tendrils on it, which are exposed outside and continuously absorb energy from the air.

Locke sprinkled some high-quality nutrient solution on the roots of the big green owl banana. When the magic plant is fighting, it often needs to be sprinkled with some nutrient solution to maintain its condition.

After all, the magic plant is a living organism. Although its spiritual power is grafted into its own magic power, it also needs some nutrients to nourish its functions.

Then, Locke used the flight mimicry technique: raptor. The pair of banana leaves behind him automatically sensed the changes in air flow and began to adjust the direction of change. The wings made of overlapping broad banana leaves transformed into the wings of a raptor, pushing the air flow and allowing Locke to fly quickly forward.

At the same time, Locke controlled the two tomb spirits and used his own basic movement speed to increase. The tomb spirits would also have their basic movement speed increased when they were not parasitizing others. He continued to control the two tomb spirits and search for enemies in front of him.

While flying, he held the magic map in his hand and looked at his relative position on the map, avoiding countless enemies and magic traps.

About twenty minutes later, Locke passed through the tunnel of the research institute and came to a tunnel that looked ordinary but was actually full of invisible curse magic traps.

This tunnel has many upside-down animal head ornaments.

There are powerful curse magic hidden inside those animal head pendants. The most insidious thing is that these curse spells are hidden. When ordinary wizards see this, they will just think it is an ordinary tunnel.

But when Locke read the Mordo language, he could accurately discover every magical trap hidden here.

“With my current level of magic, it’s far too difficult, almost impossible, to unlock the magic traps here.” Locke flew in mid-air. “The only way is to use flying plant magic to fly across this corridor. Luckily, I noticed this corridor when I was in Lilith’s cabin and spent half a day calculating how long it would take to fly through it.”

“If I’m not mistaken, this corridor should be used by those dark wizards to isolate some dangerous experimental subjects. I wonder what’s behind this corridor. Senior Albert is so unlucky to be randomly teleported here.”

Locke thought for a moment, “With the basic speed of the Great Blue Owl Basho, it’s still not safe enough. But I have a backup plan.”

Locke took out a disposable low-level magic item from his astral ring, a wind bead. This low-level magic item had limited effects, but was cheap, costing only one magic stone.

But it just so happens that it can form a linkage with his rare magic plant, the Great Blue Owl Banana.

After he crushed the wind element bead, a breeze suddenly appeared in the corridor of the research institute. The leaves of the Great Blue Owl Banana, which had transformed into a night owl, a magical creature and a bird of prey, automatically fine-tuned their angles again to adapt to the changes in the airflow and adjust their own aerodynamic structure.

Then, Locke gathered his strength for a while, and then suddenly flapped his wings that were mimicking a magical bird of prey. An invisible air wave appeared behind him, and he suddenly jumped forward.

Locke himself turned into a shadow and walked through the corridor.

At the same time, the eyes of all the beast heads in this corridor lit up red, and curse rays shot out from these upside-down beast heads.

Locke brushed past these curse rays every time, but as long as he was hit once, he would be knocked down immediately, and then all the curse rays would be concentrated on him, cursing him to death in an instant.

But as time passed, Locke’s speed did not slow down, but became faster and faster.

He gradually began to distance himself from these cursed rays.

Three minutes later, with sweat pouring down Locke’s forehead, he successfully passed through the long corridor.

Locke took out a bottle of Spirit Spring Soul Surge potion, drank it, and began to recover his magic power.

Just now, in order to pass through this magic trap corridor, I burned most of my magic power in a short period of time, so my speed became faster and faster, and those curse rays could not keep up with me at all.

Locke took a look at the big blue owl Bajiao behind him and confirmed that Bajiao was in good condition. It did not suffer any damage to its roots, stems or leaves due to the influx of a large amount of magic power in a short period of time.

“The quality of this synthetic magic plant is quite good. If it can be mass-produced, I will make a fortune.”

“Breaking through to becoming a full-fledged wizard requires accumulating a large amount of magical resources, and this problem can be solved. The only prerequisite is that we can solve the problem of mass-producing a rare magical plant.”

Locke flew in the air and began to survey his surroundings.

He flew forward about two hundred meters, and at this time the true face of the magic trap corridor behind was exposed in front of him.

Locke looked at the magically shrouded isolation rooms on either side of the corridor, his expression growing serious. “This… the Blood Curse Tribunal. These lunatics are even more rebellious than I imagined.”

“The so-called special project experiment turned out to be something like this.”

The high-level isolation rooms on both sides of the corridor, shrouded by magical barriers, were filled with various wizard apprentices, from third-class wizard apprentices to second-class wizard apprentices and first-class wizard apprentices. Some were dark wizard apprentices, while others were white wizard apprentices captured from the battlefield.

These wizard apprentices all showed signs of having been severely transformed by magic.

It should be the masterpiece of the senior curse master [Rashid Talil].

Moreover, their faces and hands were covered with traces of infection from various tiny cursed organisms such as plague cores and curse seeds.

Locke even saw culture medium containers that Rashid Tariel used to preserve specific tiny cursed organisms in some isolation rooms.

He was flying in the air and looked down to see a dark green river of strong acid at the bottom of the corridor, which left him with nowhere to stand. He was probably thinking that this was also a special device to seal these experimental subjects and materials.

Fortunately, I can fly.

Locke landed in front of an isolation chamber filled with numerous human-sized culture tanks and read the diagrams on them. “An attempt to use invisible microscopic organisms (microscopic organisms slightly larger than magical components and bloodline factors) to transform them into tiny cursed creatures, thereby spreading the blood curse…”

“The biggest problem with curse magic is that it requires a medium for transmission. Ordinary curse magic requires physical contact and the form of harm to spread the curse magic.”

Locke understood. “But using Plague Cores and Curse Droplets, engineered from tiny organisms, can simultaneously contact and harm the enemy during the transmission process. Furthermore, they possess the ability to replicate and multiply rapidly within a short period of time, as well as possess a strong adaptability to various agents.”

“The prototypes of these microscopic cursed organisms should be the cursed organisms in the Blood Raven Wasteland.”

“Official wizards can now begin studying the microscopic realm. Therefore, the Blood Curse Court began experimenting with utilizing the easy transmission and strong adaptability of tiny cursed organisms to spread their blood curse magic.”

“The ability of blood curse magic to spread is originally a conceptual chain transmission. If it is combined with the transmission and adaptability of tiny creatures, then…”

Locke raised his brows. “No wonder this is a top-notch research project for the Blood Curse Tribunal. Once completed, it could indeed change the course of the Wizarding War.”

“However, the Blood Curse Court seems to be having some bad luck. My teacher, Witch Sophia, must kill Rashid Tariel if she wants to leave Lilith’s Hut, which will definitely ruin this special research project.”

“They planned everything, but in the end it was all in vain.”

Locke looked at the plague cores and curse particles that were transformed by cursed magic and stored in the isolation room in front of him, and suddenly an uncontrollable thought popped up in his mind.

“What would happen if I used these tiny cursed creatures, transformed by cursed magic, to cultivate my Emerald Iris Lichen?”

“The Emerald Iris Lichen possesses remarkable adaptability, and perhaps it will continue to evolve because of this.”

“But the prerequisite is that these tiny cursed creatures must be able to infect plants.” Locke searched around and frowned. “What’s going on? None of these tiny cursed creatures in the isolation room can infect the demonic plants. There’s a common demonic plant fungus disease that’s been transformed into a cursed gnat, and it’s been modified to castrate its ability to infect plants.”

“Was this done by [Rashid Talil] to prevent breeders from exploiting these tiny cursed creatures?”

Locke was somewhat unwilling to accept the fact that he had just found a good research direction, but in the blink of an eye, he was forced to give up. So, he continued to search for any tiny cursed creatures that could be used.

“These tiny cursed creatures appear to be failed transformations. I’m afraid the successful ones, or the ones that are close to being successful, are still in the core laboratory of the institute. This is just a recycling station for the failed ones.”

Locke thought: “Maybe, if I enter the core laboratory, there will be the tiny cursed creatures I need.”

Locke continued to fly forward. He saw that some of the white wizard apprentices in the isolation rooms were clearly students of his Lilith Hut.

Some students tried to seek help from Locke.

But Locke could only frown and leave helplessly, because this group of people were infected with too many tiny cursed creatures that could infect the human body. As long as they were released, a large number of tiny cursed creatures might infect himself in an instant.

Although I have the Bear Spirit Green Gallbladder Potion, there is no need to gamble.

His current main task was to find Albert as soon as possible.

As long as Witch Sophia kills Rashid Talil, everyone here can be rescued if necessary.

Right now, the overall situation should be prioritized. Besides, I have no relationship with the people in these isolation rooms and don’t know them at all.

Locke flew into the air and was suddenly stunned. He saw a high-level isolation room in front of him, and there was actually a formal wizard!

Locke originally thought it was an illusion, but he repeatedly felt that there was a formal wizard with vast magic pressure in front of him.

Locke flew over and saw the official wizard sitting on an exquisite chair. Unlike other isolation rooms, this isolation room had some simple furniture, and the official wizard was also wearing relatively neat and exquisite clothes.

This is a formal wizard with the appearance of a young woman.

She looked even younger than the witch Sophia, of course Locke didn’t really think that was her age. Wizards had too many ways to maintain their youthful appearance.

Judging from this person’s soul aura, she may be more than two hundred years old.

And the real age of witch Sophia, even now, is no more than thirty years old.

This official wizard’s body below the neck was all stone, as if she had been cursed by some very powerful curse. Only her head was still flesh and blood.

There were also some signs of being parasitized by tiny cursed creatures on her body, but they were not serious.

“No way, Rashid Talil actually captured a female official wizard as his experimental subject.” Locke’s expression changed subtly.

On the one hand, this shows the power of Rashid Talil, and on the other hand, it shows the importance of this Curse Spell Research Institute to the Blood Curse Tribunal.

Its importance far exceeds that of an ordinary curse ritual research institute.

Locke carefully identified the emblem on the First Ring witch’s clothes and asked in surprise, “Crow’s Rest Brigade?”

“This seems to be a small wizarding organization that Code originally joined.”

“That wizard organization seems to have only one official wizard. If all the official wizards of that wizard academy are captured, then Code…”

Code is a first-level talented wizard who formed a secret society with Patty and himself on the continent of Corfu.

Back then, he learned magic before me.

During the first half year of learning magic, his progress was faster than mine.

The first-ring witch from the Crow’s Nest Brigade seemed to have heard Locke’s voice. She opened her eyes tiredly and looked at Locke in surprise.

“White Wizard?”

“Are you the wizard from Lilith’s cabin?”

“How is it possible that you could have slipped past Rashid Talil’s sight and come here? Is this another trick to attack my inner defenses?”

The one-ring witch seemed a little hesitant to confirm Locke’s identity. She was between belief and disbelief, and looked at Locke with scrutiny and suspicion.

Locke hesitated for a moment, then gave her a simple courtesy. “My dear official wizard, it seems you are not an official wizard of the Blood Curse Court.”

“Are you a wizard from the Raven’s Rest? I have a friend named Cord. Where is he now? Is he safe?”

The first-ring witch of the Crow’s Nest Brigade narrowed her eyes slightly, “Code? He’s the new kid who joined the brigade, right?”

“He must have been killed by the Blood Curse Tribunal, or captured. I don’t know.”

The First Ring Witch looked at Locke suspiciously. “Out of greed, I tried to steal Rashid Talil’s treasure, but he planted a blood curse on it that would petrify anyone who touched it.”

“Alas, I ended up falling into his hands myself. Whoever you are, you’d better escape quickly. Rashid Talil… he’s no ordinary wizard, he’s a first-level wizard in the gasification stage. His accumulation of curse magic far exceeds my imagination.”

“It’s so scary…”

“Young man, run away while you still have the strength to do so. I hope you will make it.”

“If you can escape, can you help me search for the survivors of the Crow’s Nest Brigade? Although I don’t have anything to trade with you right now…”

Locke exchanged a few words with her, and after confirming that he could not help her remove the first-level petrification blood curse, he decided not to continue the conversation. The most important thing was to find Albert as soon as possible.

Locke whispered a spell, and the big blue owl Bajiao, which was disguised as a bird of prey, flapped its wings behind him suddenly, causing the airflow to shoot forward.

This curse technique research institute is more dangerous than I thought. I hope the teacher really has the ability to kill Rashid Talil.

(End of this chapter)