Chapter 34

Chapter 34: One Year and a Second-Class Wizard Apprentice

In Dwarf Street, in the house that Locke and Lawn rented together, Locke was in the room, putting on a pair of rubber gloves.

Then he grabbed a poison dart frog in the glass and smashed it into a pulp with a tool.

Then he added a blue-ringed octopus, mashed it up, and mixed it with pieces of poison dart frog.

Locke then added castor beans, crushed them, and poured the mixture into a glass jar engraved with twenty-one ogham characters.

Locke sat on the ground and began to chant a spell to the vessel, “Nephris~Nephris~”

As the spell was chanted, twenty-one Ogham characters lit up one by one, extracting special substances from the mixed liquid in the vessel and evaporating the waste.

This is the most important step in the Poison Berry Shot, a trick within the sub-direction of plant magic in the School of Life.

Locke was very careful. According to Teacher Sophia’s warning, if he was not careful in this step, the toxins would leak out and cause great harm to the surrounding life forms.

Magical poison is a type of toxin that is difficult to disappear automatically in the natural environment.

Secondly, using rituals and magic, drawing on toxins from animals and plants already in the natural environment, to mix together magical poisons with supernatural powers is extremely dangerous in itself.

If any one of the steps goes wrong, the spell may backfire.

Failure is the safest outcome.

Mentor Sophia once told herself that there was a third-level wizard apprentice of the same age as Lilith in Lilith’s hut. While learning this spell, he wrote an Ogham tree character at a wrong angle, causing the mixed venom to explode and the apprentice was disfigured.

The unfinished spell poison remained in his skin forever due to the explosion.

Among all the trick models, the poison berry ejection spell is probably the most dangerous, but also the most powerful.

Therefore, it requires a long period of study and repeated simulation, and you cannot try it rashly.

Locke looked at the ten rings on his hands. Five brand new dark blue gems were stabilizing his magic power, and five navy blue gems were transmitting magic power to him to make up for his own magic power, which made it difficult to fully operate the berry ejection.

With the help of these gems, I dared to try to complete the 0.4 ring trick of berry ejection after only one year of learning.

As time passed, the mixed liquid in the glass container in Locke’s hand had completely evaporated, leaving only a drop of crystal clear lavender liquid.

Locke glanced at the mechanical clock in his room and saw that an hour had passed.

At this time, his magic power had been completely exhausted.

If it were an ordinary wizard apprentice, he would have no choice but to interrupt the spell now because he has no mana left. If he continued, he would lose control of the spell and be backfired by the magic.

However, at this moment, Locke called upon the five dark blue gems in his right hand, and the fifty points of magic power stored in the gems gradually returned to his body.

After replenishing his mana, Locke opened the glass container and made the Mandrake vine in his right hand visible. Then he carefully dropped the drop of crystal clear lavender liquid on the leaves of the invisible Mandrake vine.

Instantly, the invisible Mandrake Vine reacted, appearing to be in great pain. All its branches and leaves were trembling, and twenty-one Ogham runes appeared on its surface.

About ten minutes later, the reaction of the invisible Mandrake vine disappeared, and the Ogham runes on the surface gradually disappeared.

Between the branches and leaves of the invisible Mandrake vine, small lavender raspberry-like fruits appeared.

At the same time, a new spell model appeared in Locke’s sea of consciousness. This spell model consisted of 21 Ogham characters.

The spell power is 0.4 levels.

It even exceeded the strength of the stone crab bloodline transformation that Professor Old of the Corfu continent had performed on himself. The bloodline transformation he had performed at that time was only 0.3 rings.

Locke breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at his hands. The five dark blue gems were already covered with cracks and had completely lost their effect. Countless cracks also appeared inside the five navy blue gems. It seemed that they were no longer effective.

But despite the huge cost, the rewards are well worth it.

I completed the [Poison Berry Ejection] myself.

At the same time, because of completing the [Poison Berry Ejection], Locke felt that his mental strength had also been greatly improved.

Locke’s mind moved, he recited a spell, and mobilized the remaining magic power. Immediately, the invisible mandrake vine in his hand responded, and about five lavender raspberries shot towards a calf in a cage in his room.

“Bang~bang~bang~”

Five lavender raspberries hit the calf and shattered in an instant. Liquid and poisonous gas were emitted. The calf did not even last for 1 second and fell to the ground.

This calf is about the size of an adult.

Locke took out the dissecting tools, immediately opened the iron cage, and began to dissect the calf’s body to judge the speed of his poison berries and the actual damage to the calf.

“Yes, there are purple reticular lines on the skin, bruises under the skin, and black mucus in the nose and mouth. This is caused by damage to the nerves and blood vessels within the organism.”

“The heart, liver, and kidneys all showed signs of necrosis, like tofu dregs.”

“This is even more powerful than the poisonous toxins ejected from poison berries described in the book. The speed of ordinary poison berries is only enough to cause severe damage to nerves, but the toxins in this spell will cause comprehensive damage to the target’s internal organs.”

Locke pondered. “The magical toxin created by my poison berry ejection instantly destroyed the calf’s nerves and blood vessels, and also caused irreversible damage to its internal organs.”

“This should be the result of my synthesis of the blue-ringed octopus corpse, castor bean plant, and poison dart frog corpse. The castor bean plant, poison dart frog corpse, and blue-ringed octopus corpse are all level 5.”

Although there are no special synthesis formulas and they are all just ordinary level 5 synthetic items, there is no doubt that continuous synthesis has enhanced the basic toxicity of these things.

The basic toxin of the poison berry projectile is determined by the raw materials of these spell rituals.

This resulted in the poison ejected from the poison berries that he had inflicted on the invisible Mandrake vines exceeding the original intended effect of the spell.

Locke believed that the power of his spell might have exceeded the original standard 0.4 ring power and reached the level of 0.5 ring.

After all, the raw materials for all the steps of this magic were synthesized to level 5 by himself using the Horadric Cube, and strengthened out of thin air.

That doesn’t make sense, the strength achieved will be the same as using ordinary materials.

Locke understood. No wonder he felt his mental power had leaped forward after completing the spell. This turned out to be the reason.

The more powerful the spells you perform, the more your mental strength will be improved.

Locke sat down, took out a rose-red gem, and began to absorb the red mist inside the rose-red gem.

Based on this year’s experience, he currently has the highest effect in absorbing this special red mist substance.

An hour later, the color of the rose-red ruby faded and turned into an ordinary white ruby, and Locke’s mental power had reached its current limit.

Locke opened his eyes, a blue light flashing in them. “Including Green Cleansing Grab, I’ve completed three spell models.”

“Especially the poison berry ejection, which was completed to a degree beyond my original expectations. It is likely to double the speed of my mental power.”

“I originally planned to become a second-class wizard apprentice in two years, but now I don’t know…”

“I don’t know if my mental strength has reached 50. I’ll go borrow the Amethyst Matrix from Teacher Sophia and test it to find out.”

“Over the past year, I’ve completed the three basic open courses and received countless small lessons from Teacher Sophia.”

It can be said that he has made great progress in this year.

If the me from a year ago were to attack the me now, I would probably be dead in less than one round.

Locke’s mind moved, and he chanted the spell of Green Dirt Grabbing. Suddenly, the invisible Mandrake vine in his right hand moved rapidly, but it was not the movement of vine branching. Instead, the vine branches and leaves grew rapidly, coiled forward, and formed a shield.

Green Cleansing Grab is a complementary spell to Hand of Vine. It is not difficult, so Locke completed it more than half a year ago.

This spell can control the enemy, and can also form vine shields and vine walls to provide certain defensive capabilities. It can be considered an auxiliary spell.

Locke now has four spells, and the richness of his spell pool has been greatly improved, which is very helpful in combat.

From now on, I will update them all at this time so that everyone can read them when they wake up the next day.

(End of this chapter)