Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 15

Chapter 15 Stone Crab Bloodline

When Old saw Locke in his office, he was stunned for a moment, then smiled sincerely, and then showed some gratitude to Locke. “Locke, you’re here.”

When Olde saw Locke standing at the door of his office, refusing to enter, he smiled and said to the three students who were copying historical documents for him, “Keep copying.”

“Come on, Locke, let’s go somewhere else.”

“A safer place.”

After the two left, the three students in the office looked at each other, including Cohen Julian.

Cohen Julian, with a pale face, looked up at the departing backs of Locke and Professor Old, and clenched his fists.

Why, Professor Old could be so restrained towards Locke Augustine, or even be slightly flattering to him? Locke Augustine was just a former nobleman with no country and a down-and-out state.

What was the difference between him and that guy Locke?
Cohen Julian wanted to escape from this office.

But he thought of the letter his father had written the night before, in which he had angrily accused him of refusing to contribute to the family and to be loyal to the empire and the respected Frankish emperor. He could only lower his head and continue copying historical documents.

He has enjoyed too much power brought by the Julian family, and every gift bestowed by fate has already been secretly marked with a price.

Now is the time for him to give back to his family.

In a classroom in Aurelian College that had been unused for a long time, Olde opened a box. Half of the space in the box was occupied by an extremely large crab that had been dissected. The crab’s shell was not a chitinous biological shell, but a gray stone.

There are some red patterns on the surface of the stone crab shell.

The crab’s claws were unusually large and had some scars on them.

Locke said, “Is this the magical creature from the world of the sea, the stone crab?”

Older said excitedly, “Yes. The wilderness across the sea is much more dangerous than the wilderness of Corfu. There are many dangerous magical creatures there.”

“Stone crabs are one of them.”

“It’s one of the longer-lived species. Stone crabs have a lifespan of nearly three hundred years. I’ve been interested in this creature for a long time. I believe that if I can figure out the secret of stone crabs’ longevity, I can significantly extend my lifespan.”

“Of course, I’m definitely not capable of such a complex study with my abilities, but luckily for me, there’s a formal wizard at Verdandia University conducting this experiment, and I was able to join the experiment as an assistant.”

“The experiment was not completely successful until I came to Corfu.”

“But the experiment did produce some ancillary products, such as the Stone Crab Bloodline Transformation Potion, which can harden the skin and internal organs of the transformed wizard apprentice into the skin of a stone crab.”

Older recalled: “If I hadn’t been desperate, I wouldn’t have taken the risk of transforming myself into a stone crab bloodline.”

The remaining half of the box contained nine flowers of three unknown types, three round minerals, three bottles of alcohol, and three syringes of blood.

An ice-blue rune flashed on the inner surface of the wooden box, and then the rune quickly dimmed, as if it had lost its magic power.

Older lamented, “This box can only be opened once. Once opened, the magic inside loses its effect.”

“The materials stored inside can no longer be kept at low temperatures. If they are not refined quickly, they will become unusable. Locke, I will actually do the refining, but you will be the one executing it.”

“My magic power is too crude. I can’t do delicate work at all now.”

Locke said, “I can start anytime.”

He stroked the deep blue gem ring on his right hand. The craftsmanship of the ring was very interesting. An ordinary sapphire and a deep blue gem were combined together in the form of an inlay. In this way, outsiders would only see the outermost sapphire.

But you won’t see the deep blue gem embedded underneath.

The deep blue orb is like a filter, which can forcibly reduce the amplitude of one’s mental power fluctuations to half of the original. Locke gained great benefits from it when constructing his first spell model.

At the same time, the illusory Horadric Rubik’s Cube in front of Locke was also spinning rapidly, and every time it rotated, a spark of magic burst out.

The Rubik’s Cube is being synthesized. The synthesis materials are three level 4 dark blue gems, and the synthesized item is a level 5 item.

After Locke became a third-class wizard apprentice, the level of items that could be synthesized with the Horadric Cube was automatically increased by 1 level.

However, it will take another 24 hours to complete the synthesis.

There seems to be a threshold between level 4 items and level 5 items. It only takes 3 hours to synthesize a level 4 item, but it takes a whole day to synthesize a level 5 item.

Older held up his monocle and said, “The first step is to separate the stone crab’s special bloodline. Then, combine it with the bloodline separation essence injection potion my mentor created. This way, we can precisely separate the portion of the stone crab bloodline we need.”

Locke looked at the three syringes in the box, and thought that the so-called blood separation essence injection potion was these three things.

Older pulled a set of scalpels from his pocket and used the tiny knives to cut and disassemble the crab’s shell.

He was skilled in his movements and adept at using different tools. At the same time, as promised, he explained while he was operating so that Locke could understand the idea of the material processing steps.

According to the agreement, Locke would help him refine the potion, and he would repay him with knowledge and the skull explosion spell model.

Soon, the stone crab’s carapace, tail limbs, mouth, walking legs and claws were separated one by one and processed into different categories.

However, the main blood storage areas in the stone crab body, including the gill cavity, joint cavity and pericardial cavity, were avoided as much as possible.

Older said, “A large part of the value of low-level magical creatures lies in their blood. Therefore, during dissection, the bones, flesh, and shells must be dissected one by one. However, one must try to avoid damaging the heart and blood vessels that circulate the blood within the magical creature, or the main blood storage areas in open-circulatory systems like stone crabs.”

“So as to avoid wasting materials or even affecting their spirituality.”

“Some experiments are like gambling. Sometimes wizards can’t be sure which step is wrong, causing a slight spiritual influence on the materials, which will lead to a huge difference in the experimental results.”

Professor Old said calmly, “This is the foundation of the materials processing course, Locke. Please listen carefully.”

“I’ll teach you all of this for free.”

(End of this chapter)