Chapter 53

Chapter 53: Storm and Rumors

While Locke ate all the meat on the cart, he injected his magic power into the deep purple gem.

His stomach rumbled like thunder, as his ancient bloodline, which had enhanced his gastrointestinal capacity, quickly and completely digested the dried beef.

Locke heard the sound of the gem breaking, looked down, and found that the dark purple gem in his hand had turned into a pile of gem powder.

“It’s the special substance inside the Deep Purple Gem that’s been completely consumed, causing the gem to shatter. I need seven more Deep Purple Gems to completely eliminate the side effects on me. It will take me at least two weeks to synthesize them all, but this is already good.” Locke pondered, “If it were another second-class wizard apprentice, I’m afraid it would be impossible to suppress the side effects without several years.”

“Of course, Lilith’s hut sells potions that can remove the side effects of degraded mental power, but those potions are extremely expensive and can only be purchased from your wizard mentor.”

“Besides, the effects of those potions are not as effective as the Deep Purple Gem Jade.”

The medicine itself also has some side effects, so even if you use expensive medicine to remove the degraded impurities within the mental power, there will eventually be some side effects.

Locke could even sense that the toxicity of some of the d*rugs contained in his mental power due to taking the Moonlight Elixir and Concentration Ointment was also being cleared away by the effect of the Deep Purple Gem.

It can be said that the deep purple gem can keep oneself in a pure state without using any [potions].

Locke flipped through his notes on the Everything Class. The deep purple gem was a specialty of the Star Sea, but it was very rare in the Southeast Corner. Therefore, the wizard apprentices in the Southeast Corner could not obtain it to remove the toxicity of the potion from their bodies.

“Star Region Sea… Teacher Sophia has been mentioning this term a lot lately.”

“The deep purple gem contains the special energy of the Star Domain Sea—Void Energy. That sparse Void Energy is enough to purify all the impurities in my spiritual power.”

“Unfortunately, the void energy seems unable to purify the ether element, so some of the ether elements entangled within my mental power still exist.”

Locke frowned slightly at the mirror in the study. He was not sure whether this part of the ether element that was entangled with his mental power would have any negative impact on him.

However, from the current perspective, there seems to be no impact, so I don’t need to be too nervous.

Locke returned to his bedroom, applied some meditation ointment on his temples, and began his meditation for the night.

…

The next day, Locke went to the patrol cabin early to report.

But for some reason, many wizard apprentices in the patrol team looked at him with surprised eyes this time.

But when Locke looked at them, these people would greet him with a smile, or nod to each other.

Ever since Locke showed his prowess in the last mission, he has become popular in the patrol team and has become part of the team.

Faced with this slightly unusual situation, Locke frowned slightly.

It seemed like he had caused some kind of stir and became one of the central figures in the hot news.

Locke had some guesses about this.

He walked into Captain Bruno Suarez’s office. When Bruno saw Locke, his eyes lit up. “Locke, you’re here today.”

“We have a rather dangerous mission this afternoon. We need to go to the edge of the city and clear out a herd of rabid rhinos that broke into Lilith’s cabin. I’m going to take you and Helia with me this time.”

Ever since the last incident, in Captain Bruno’s mind, Locke was a second-class wizard apprentice with good combat ability, and naturally received his attention.

Helia looked at Locke curiously, “Hello, Locke.”

“I heard that you rejected the Reeves family’s investment contract and even said that you didn’t need the wizard family’s investment.”

“You know, you’ve become the talk of the town among the second-class wizard apprentices in our Lilith Lodge lately.”

“Everyone’s saying all sorts of things.”

Captain Bruno turned serious and raised his voice to Helia. “Helia, why are you saying that?”

“We’re all on the same patrol team. Why should we talk about our own people for the sake of outsiders?”

Helia shrugged, raised her brow, and put on a face of forced humor to lighten the mood. “There are also some wizard apprentices from the seventy-two local wizard families in the patrol team.”

“Besides, after I heard about this incident this morning, I clearly refuted those wizard apprentices who spread the news.”

“I told them it was just a rumor and that Locke Augustine was an outstanding wizard apprentice within the patrol team.”

Helia turned to Locke and apologized, “I’m sorry, Locke, I just wanted to remind you that the Reeves family seems to have taken some kind of revenge against you.”

“These impoverished local wizard families are so stingy.”

Although Captain Helia and Bruno are also local wizards, they are both from local mortal families, so they are not too biased in this matter.

In fact, because Locke had fought alongside them before, they actually had a better impression of him.

Locke frowned. He didn’t expect that the Reeves family would do such boring little tricks.

Obviously, the Reeves family was very dissatisfied with their rejection, so they wanted to use this method of stigmatizing themselves to prevent themselves from obtaining investment from any wizarding family.

If you really want to get investment, you will be very anxious if you encounter such a thing, and you may even go to the person to apologize.

But I am not.

I have never considered accepting investment from those 72 local families, as that would be tying myself up in knots.

Locke didn’t care much about it. He just made a mental note of the Reeves family, then said to Captain Bruno and Helia, “Thank you for the reminder.”

“However, these are just minor tricks that don’t get in the way. As wizard apprentices, learning and exploring the path of magic is our job.”

“Captain, can you tell me about this afternoon’s mission?”

Helia and Captain Bruno nodded in agreement. In their eyes, this rumor was indeed a bad trick that was not presentable.

But the two of them were still a little surprised that Locke didn’t care about it.

Helia looked at Locke in surprise. She didn’t know why Locke was so calm.

Captain Bruno said, “Okay, let’s get down to business.”

“There are about seven of these berserker rhinos, each with a passive 0.5-level enchantment cantrip [Berserk]. We’re planning to use our numbers to drive them off.”

“We will also gain some benefits in this process.”

Captain Bruno said, “The magical materials from the slain berserk rhino can be divided equally among our patrol.”

“In the territory of Lilith’s hut, we can safely kill some magical creatures that have intruded into the urban area. This is much safer than hunting and collecting magical materials in the dangerous environment of the wild. This is a benefit for our patrol team.”

(End of this chapter)