Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 287

Chapter 285 Forbidden Forest Treasure House

Chapter 285: Forbidden Forest Treasure House
A sinister mandrake vine extended from under Locke’s right wizard robe sleeve and grabbed a gray sloth stone lizard lying on the trunk of a steel needle fir tree.

Locke used the magic vines to squeeze the belly of the stone lizard, and immediately the stone lizard raised its head and made a strange call. The call released invisible sound waves, and all the frogs that heard this special sound wave began to tremble inexplicably, and their movement speed became extremely slow.

Locke glanced at the other five first-class wizard apprentices, then took the lead and walked through the frog tongue jungle.

Locke said, “Frog tongue coating can be used to make a variety of potions. The main ingredient of the frog transformation potion is frog tongue coating. In addition, the juice of this magical plant is also one of the common ingredients for making magical items. If you need it, you can collect some.”

Locke used three magic vines to cut off some of the frog tongue coating that had become slow due to the calls of the sloth stone lizards, and put it into his star ring.

“Thank you, senior.” Sebastian squatted down with a smile, took out a rune knife from his pocket, carefully picked out the better quality frog tongue coating, took it off, and put it into his small cloth bag.

The small cloth bag was a medium-quality enchanted item with a space-extension spell, and the interior space was roughly equivalent to that of a carriage.

Not everyone can afford a star ring.

The other four first-class wizard apprentices also followed suit to harvest frog tongues and began to thank Locke.

Within the secret realm of the Forbidden Forest, there are special resources everywhere that are not found in the outside world.

Just harvesting the complex magical resources inside is a huge gain.

After a while, the few people went deep into the Forbidden Forest, and all kinds of Forbidden Forest magical plants and Forbidden Forest magical creatures that were difficult to see in the outside world appeared in front of everyone.

Some trees were extremely tall, often hundreds of meters high. They walked under these trees like ants, so tiny.

Some magical flowers have complex and bright colors, but they are all highly poisonous, and each flower of different colors has a different toxicity. There are many potion master assistants present, so none of them dared to touch the unknown flowers in the Forbidden Forest.

No matter how beautiful it is.

Along the way, Locke and others encountered many strange phenomena in the forbidden forest.

For example, there is a forbidden forest. As long as you step on it, the ground not far away will make a loud noise and form a deep pit similar to their footprint, but this deep pit is usually dozens of times the size of their footprint.

There are many such incomprehensible strange phenomena in the Forbidden Forest.

Sebastian said to Nixon, a first-class wizard apprentice who was over a hundred years old and traveling with them, “Ah, I remember that special footprint phenomenon. It’s the main research area of one of my classmates recently.”

“It seems to involve a magical theory from the illusion school, but he has been working on this topic for many years with little success.”

“The main reason is that his wizard mentor’s research direction is also in this direction, so he was forced to study the special footprint phenomenon for a long time because this was his wizard mentor’s order.”

Nixon’s face was grim, and he smiled wryly. “There’s nothing we can do about it. Alas, this kind of field is inherently difficult to come up with results. Even serious wizards might not be able to fully understand it. Your friend is truly unlucky.”

Nixon looked at Locke respectfully and said, “It would be great if we could follow the senior into the Forbidden Forest this time and obtain some magical resources that will be useful to us in the future.”

“It’s all thanks to Senior Augustine.”

Locke glanced at Nixon. Nixon seemed to be a member of the seventy-two native wizard families of Lilith Hut and the head of the Nixon family.

Although these local wizarding families are descendants of the original founding members of Lilith’s Hut, unfortunately, they have all declined into a miserable state.

The quality of their first-class wizard apprentices is generally low.

In a deep forest path ahead of them, a huge ant as big as a house suddenly jumped out. The ant was covered in steel armor and had some bright red magic patterns on its body.

It seemed to have drilled out from underground, and all the magical creatures hiding nearby fled in all directions.

Locke frowned. “They’re army ants. They don’t travel alone; they must move in groups.”

“Be careful.”

“However, the mouthparts of army ants are the main material for making high-level magical items, such as the malicious scimitar. You can hunt some and bring them back. It will be a considerable reward.”

Nixon immediately unleashed a defensive spell, activating the gear iron thorns he carried with him. The gear iron thorns automatically meshed together, transforming into a piece of armor that covered him and blocked the army ants charging towards him.

The army ants’ huge and terrifying mouthparts bit him like a pair of scissors. The mouthparts rubbed violently with the gear iron thorns, and sparks appeared.

The army ant suddenly twisted its body, lifted its butt, revealing the poison needle behind its butt, and stabbed towards Nixon, injecting the acid-like curse in the poison needle into the gear iron thorns on Nixon’s body.

Fortunately, the Gear Iron Thorn was an apprentice-level magic plant that had been tempered through thousands of trials and tribulations. Therefore, although a series of magic sparks appeared, and even some parts of the Gear Iron Thorn shrank and made a loud noise, it was ultimately not destroyed.

Instead, the army ant was injured by the gear iron thorns, and its mouthparts were covered with wounds caused by the thorns on the surface of the gear iron thorns.

As a result, the army ant made a hissing sound similar to that caused by intense friction.

Nixon’s face turned pale. Obviously, he had little combat experience and was very frightened at the moment.

But soon there was a series of vibrations on the ground again, and one army ant after another emerged from the ground, leaving behind one deep pit after another.

Hundreds of army ants actually crawled out from the ground. Their power was so terrifying that it was as if a series of small earthquakes had occurred on the ground.

Nixon’s face turned pale. “How could there be so many army ants? Even in the Forbidden Forest, there wouldn’t be so many army ants…”

Sebastian and the others were extremely nervous and on guard, but they felt the magical pressure of several unfamiliar powers approaching rapidly from afar.

Several wizards in red wizard robes approached quickly. After seeing Locke, they were all stunned for a moment, as if they did not expect to run into the first-class wizard apprentice from Lilith’s Hut here.

Locke saw from their wizard robes that they were first-class wizard apprentices of the Secret Fire Academy. The leader even wore a wizard seed badge, indicating that he was a wizard seed of the current generation of the Secret Fire Academy’s Incinerator.

Wayne Acosta, the wizard seed of the Secret Fire Academy, frowned when he saw everyone in Lilith’s Hut.

Because this part of the forbidden forest technically belonged to Lilith’s hut, and they were now trespassing into someone else’s forbidden forest, he simply took the initiative. “Those wizards in Lilith’s hut up ahead, what’s going on?”

“These army ants are our target. We are driving them towards the predetermined magic trap. Please get out of the way and don’t get in the way.”

(End of this chapter)