Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 289

Chapter 287 Acting Alone

Chapter 287 Acting Alone
Under the ugly gazes of the wizards from the Secret Fire Academy, Locke slowly turned around and looked at them, and the natural magic eye on his forehead moved.

Wayne Acosta, the wizard seed of the Secret Fire Academy, had a sudden change of expression. “Let’s go, retreat quickly, and find another marching ant colony.”

“The Eye Demon Wizard lives up to his reputation. His combat power is too strong.”

At this moment, Wayne felt the huge gap in combat power between him and Locke.

If he dared to take action, Locke would definitely not mind making them unable to leave the Forbidden Forest anymore, since there were so many dangers inside the Forbidden Forest anyway.

The five wizards from the Secret Fire Academy all chanted a spell, transformed into a flame, and fled into the distance.

After Locke was sure they were far away, he put away his bloodline activation state and said to the people who were looking at him with increasing respect, “I only need the glands of the army ant queen. The rest will be divided among you. The remaining army ant materials will also be divided among you for the time being.”

“Besides that, I will be leaving the team for a while. During this time, you will be exploring the Forbidden Forest on your own.”

“As compensation, I will give you a magic map of the Forbidden Forest. It shows the key exploration areas within the Forbidden Forest and the different areas, as well as the materials that can be harvested in different directions. This will help you explore the outer reaches of the Forbidden Forest. Sebastian, you will serve as the temporary captain of this exploration team.”

“The magic map must be returned to me afterward.”

Locke is ready to leave the team and go look for that five hundred year old special research project.

Although Nixon and Sebastian did not understand why Locke did this for the time being, after the conflict with the people from the Secret Fire Courtyard just now, these people became more convinced of Locke.

Therefore, they did not dare to ask more questions for the time being and could only express their agreement to Locke and thank Locke for sharing the magic painting map with them.

In this way, they will be more confident in obtaining the treasures they want in the dense forest.

Moreover, Locke had just killed the queen ant, severely damaging the army ant colony. These army ants lost their backbone and became very easy to kill, which was also a huge gain.

Not to mention that Locke doesn’t want this corpse of an army ant queen, which is almost at the first-ring level.

Of course, this is also because Locke’s main goal now is to become a formal wizard, and the biological materials on the marching ant queen are of no use to him at all.

The only thing is its gland, which can be barely considered a useful material at the first stage, so Locke took it away.

After Sebastian and others left, Locke snapped his fingers, and suddenly a 0.8-ring pointer made of rusty metal appeared in front of him.

In this year, Locke has completely learned the three basic spells of archaeologists – summoning tomb spirits, historical projection, and ancient pointers.

The Ancient Pointer spell is composed of [Rust Particles] among 210 types of negative energy particles.

Because [Rust Particles] have the ability to resonate with other [Rust Particles] over long distances. Moreover, [Rust Particles] only exist in very ancient places with metal. Without certain ages, it is impossible for these negative energy particles to even appear.

These are dark energy particles, which are contaminated by death, time, decay, and metal, and present a special particle state.

Apprentice-level wizards generally do not use black magic involving such particles.

But [Rust Particles] have a third characteristic, which is that as long as they combine with a special material aura, they will resonate with a certain specific special material aura again, thus producing a pointer-like characteristic.

The Tombstone Grimoire once wrote that the existence of [Rust Particles] seemed to prove that there was some kind of universal resonance in the time and space of this world that had not yet been accurately proven.

It explains why ancient things naturally attract other ancient things.

The [Rust Particles] themselves are the culprit that can corrode magic alloys and make it impossible for them to exist for a long time.

Locke placed a breath of air he had obtained from the original manuscript of Wizard Foucault in the Great Library on the ancient pointer. Suddenly, a special magical light appeared on the rusty surface of the pointer. The ancient pointer suspended in the air began to rotate slowly and turned in a certain direction.

“This magic is really useful for finding specific targets.” Locke’s eyes flashed with joy. “Of course, due to the special resonance properties of [Rust Death Particles], it is very inconvenient to use it to find modern objects and living people.”

“The effect will be very poor. While it can be found, the accuracy will be extremely low. This magic is perfect for resonating with ancient objects.”

“A five-hundred-year-old item can barely be considered ancient, though it certainly won’t automatically generate [Rust Death Particles].”

Locke used the Great Blue Owl Banana to fly into the air, passing over a group of screaming willows. After the screaming willows sensed a moving object flying over them, they immediately let out a deafening scream.

But Locke had picked a sound-absorbing mushroom in advance and created a circle of silence around himself, blocking out all the screams from the screaming willows.

Locke looked at the ancient compass in front of him and saw that it was shaking slightly, indicating that the target was very close. Otherwise, the compass would only point in a general direction. Only when you are close to your destination will the compass shake slightly, indicating that you are near the target.

Locke turned around in the air. Currently, there was a swamp below him and he didn’t find anything unusual.

But it doesn’t matter. Locke used these data based on his different standing positions and the angle of the pointer’s shaking to calculate the specific location of his destination in the swamp.

“Is it hidden by the magic of the School of Illusion?” Locke said, “Found it. It’s there.”

Locke fell from the sky and landed on a rock in the swamp. Suddenly, after he stepped on the rock, a research institute hidden by the School of Illusion was exposed before Locke’s eyes.

The illusion magic that hides this institute seems to be a first-ring magic, so if you don’t stand at this special position, you can’t see, touch, or perceive this institute in any way.

But as long as you stand in this position, the illusion magic of the hidden research institute will automatically become ineffective.

Locke was able to determine the location of the research institute through the magic of archaeologists. If he didn’t know the magic of archaeologists, it would have taken him countless more years to find his goal bit by bit through the records in the library and the fragmented information in the memory of Wizard Foucault.

But if something unexpected happens during this process, such as outsiders discovering one’s intentions, it can easily lead to tragedy.

Or maybe someone found this research institute in advance… In any case, Locke is now very glad that he has learned archaeological magic.

(End of this chapter)