Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 364

Chapter 362: Puppet Thousand Silks and Mycelium Branding Curse (4000)

The puppeteer quickly retreated. At the same time, Locke summoned the Execution Hammer Mushroom from his astral ring, and the mushroom head of the mushroom hammer was flashing with a magic spell model of [Mushroom Hammer].

Locke smashed the one-ring wizard dressed as a puppeteer with a hammer. The next moment, the opponent urgently mobilized all eight arms in front of him, and the puppet substitute covered with white magic silk flashed in front of him to block the attack.

In an instant, the gravity field exploded on the puppet. Even the first-ring magic alloy, refined gold, was deformed by the mushroom hammer magic driven by the magic pressure of Locke 4000 (3400+600) at this moment, just like a burst plush puppet. The parts inside were squeezed and deformed by the huge force from the middle and exploded. A large number of precision parts made of refined gold and still iron erupted.

“The platinum puppets were all smashed to pieces by a hammer. That mushroom hammer is very tricky…” When the puppeteer saw this scene, cold sweat immediately broke out on his forehead. He knew that he must not be hit by the mushroom hammer in the opponent’s hand, otherwise he would die!

After practicing meditation for more than a month on the Void Battleship, Locke’s basic magic pressure reached 3400. And because of taking the Eye Demon Elder Potion many times, the abyss energy in Locke’s body circulated independently and also upgraded from 500 to 600.

The ratio of the abyss magic pressure to Locke’s normal magic pressure rose slightly again, reaching 0.176.

According to Locke’s calculations, as long as the ratio of abyssal energy to his normal magic pressure does not exceed 0.3, the problem will not be too big.

“Did you block it with a puppet?” In a flash, Locke locked his eyes on the puppeteer, stepped out again, raised the mushroom hammer, and smashed it towards the puppeteer’s head.

Although his hammer was blocked by the puppet controlled by the opponent, the opponent had revealed too much of his secrets just now.

If the opponent’s permanent defense field is a defensive magic, then the opponent’s operation just now would seem very strange. He could clearly use the permanent defense field to absorb his mushroom hammer, and then control the puppet to attack and kill him.

However, the opponent chose to use the puppet he controlled to defend himself instead of continuing to attack. This shows that the opponent’s permanent defensive force field should not be defensive magic.

In the darkness, Locke noticed a series of translucent silk threads that passed through the darkness and attacked him. He slightly turned his body to avoid them, and then swung another hammer in the direction of the puppeteer.

The execution hammer mushroom automatically extended its mushroom stem and smashed the puppeteer’s body with its hammer head.

In an instant, many fragments of fine gold parts exploded from under the puppeteer’s wizard robe, and gears flew out one by one. His so-called body was originally just a puppet, and he himself was ejected from this puppet and fled in another direction.

The puppeteer himself is a halfling, less than half the size of a human. At this moment, the halfling wizard looked at Locke in the darkness with an ugly expression.

“This guy’s insight is amazing. He can see in the dark. We all went through special training to fully master fighting in the dark. And his control of timing is very exquisite. His insight is even more amazing. He completely saw through my little tricks.”

“When did such a troublesome character appear in the White Wizarding Society? If we had known earlier, we should have included him in the list of targets to seal from the beginning. We made a mistake.”

The halfling puppeteer’s permanent defensive force field is certainly not defensive magic, or in other words, it is meaningless for this group of wizard airship pirates to pursue defensive magic.

This group of pirates pursues magical changes, which allow them to steal all their targets and escape before anyone can react.

Therefore, no one in their group set the permanent defense field as a defensive magic, and all chose a kind of auxiliary magic with strange and changeable effects.

The magic within his permanent defense field is called [Puppet Thousand Silks], which can transform mana into tiny silk threads that are difficult to see by humans. These threads can be attached to humans, wizards, objects, or some magical creatures, temporarily controlling the opponent’s body for a few tenths of a second. This effect can even bypass that person’s permanent defense field, so although the effect is short-lived, it can often bring about unexpected changes in battle.

But what the halfling puppeteer didn’t expect was that Locke, who clearly didn’t understand him, had avoided the traps he set twice during the battle.

A circus magician has nothing to fear if his tricks are seen through by everyone.

At this moment, Locke did not blink, staring at the puppeteer with his eyes. The opponent’s deception skills were really amazing. In just two short battles, he had tried to deceive him twice. There were times when he almost fell into the trap. He relied entirely on some kind of instinctive fighting talent to avoid the opponent’s trap.

This might be the innate ability of some kind of golden two-headed dragon, and it shouldn’t just be an ordinary instinct.

Locke chased after him, mercilessly striking the fleeing puppeteer with his mushroom hammer. “I almost got tricked by you again. When I first saw you manipulating the puppet, I thought you were a Transfiguration wizard.”

“Seeing those thin strings you hit me, ordinary wizards might mistakenly think that they were strings made of some special material, like rubber strings, created by some kind of Transfiguration spell.”

“Even if it gets stained, it’s not a big deal.”

“But your permanent defensive force field is… a spell from the School of Conjuration, right? The spell you should be majoring in is the manipulation sub-magic of the School of Conjuration, not the transfiguration spell of the School of Transfiguration.”

The puppeteer made a “tsk” sound and dodged Locke’s additional attack while thinking of a countermeasure.

He was almost hit several times, and just now a mushroom hammer even brushed against his cloak, directly scraping off a large piece of his cloak. It was so scary that he would be injured if it brushed against him, and die if it touched him. The heavy mushroom hammer was really terrifying.

The halfling wizard was annoyed. Why did he take the initiative to kill the Salvadoran expert? He should have replaced him with someone else.

The puppeteer was thinking of a countermeasure. “This is really tough. A competition of hard power is not my forte.”

“Damn White Wizard, when did he become so good at fighting? It’s almost like he’s fighting against the masters among us Dark Wizards.”

“We can’t keep fighting him. The other members should all be heading off to their intended targets and looting the spoils… Circus members never help each other. If I die here, no one will come to save me.”

At this time, the puppeteer controlled him in the battle and secretly threw out the Thousand Puppet Silk. Countless silk threads were densely packed and all concentrated in his hands. At the other end of the silk threads were some objects, tables and chairs, magic books, and some were even some wizards who were unknowingly trapped in his Thousand Puppet Silk in the dark and were secretly controlled by him.

At this moment, these objects, magic books, tables and chairs, as well as the wizards who were under his puppetry, were all temporarily controlled by him with a spell from the school of conjuration. Those wizards even immediately recited some short spells and used magic to attack Locke.

At the same time, the puppeteer ran away in another direction with his short legs. He knew that the opponent must have a defensive type of permanent defense magic. Although this attack could delay the opponent, it was hard to say whether it could cause any damage to the opponent.

He was just a thief among the dark wizards, not a professional killer, so it would be better for him to escape at this moment.

At this moment, Locke immediately deployed a defensive force field [Life Field]. The emerald green crystal wall barrier surrounded him and blocked many magic spells for him.

At the same time, the fleeing half-orc puppeteer screamed in surprise. He suddenly turned around and saw that there was a layer of white triangular pattern surrounding the wizard robe behind him.

Looking more closely, these patterns were all made of hyphae, stamped on his body like a seal.

When?
That’s right, it was at that time, when the mushroom hammer in that bastard’s hand brushed past his body, and the magic was cast at that time.

The next moment, the mycelium imprint formed a gravity field on his body, and he was directly knocked away. The magic vest on his body actually broke with a snap and flew backwards.

This is the botanical magic of the Hammerhead Mushroom, the Mycelial Brand Spell!
The moment a person comes into contact with this mushroom hammer, the mycelial brand will attempt to transfer to the opponent, rapidly multiplying on their skin or clothing, forming enough mycelium to form a miniature formation. This then explodes into the enemy with the equivalent of a blow from the mushroom hammer.

Therefore, the execution hammer mushroom will indeed cause injuries if it touches it, and death if it is touched.

In fact, a wizard with keen insight, amazing fighting instincts, strong hard power, and very strong comprehensive strength, this type of wizard is just the right type to defeat the dark wizards of the Magic Thieves Circus, who use a combination of real and fake, weak to defeat strong, and small to large fighting style.

The puppeteer was holding his back and had not yet stood up from the ground. As soon as he raised his upper body, Locke’s mushroom head smashed towards him again.

With a ‘bang’, the gravity field of the residual mycelium imprint on his body and the gravity ball of Locke’s mushroom hammer merged with each other. In a short period of time, the power increased by two times, and the puppeteer was immediately knocked back.

If Locke’s style of play is used against a wizard with a permanent defensive force field, he will not be able to defeat him immediately because he needs to fight head-on. However, when facing a black wizard thief like this in the circus, he is a natural nemesis.

Locke grabbed the puppeteer, whose lower limbs had been crippled and whose defensive magic weapons had been shattered by him, and asked, “Tell me, what is your plan?”

This is the real purpose of Locke’s insistence on catching the other party. If the Ptolemy family hired an ordinary black wizard killer, he would probably try to kill Salvador at most, and Locke only needed to protect Salvador.

But the other party’s purpose is obviously not just that. They even want to hijack the void battleship. The wizards cannot survive independently in the second sky, so they naturally cannot do without the void battleship.

Therefore, Locke had to ask clearly whether the other party wanted to just grab it and leave, or do something else with this void battleship.

If it is just the former, then I only need to protect El Salvador, and everything else has nothing to do with me.

Locke heard a woman’s scream from not far away. “Help… Dark wizard, you…”

Locke frowned. The situation was chaotic. He looked at the puppeteer in his hand, a fierce gleam in his eyes. “I’ll count to three, two, one. If you don’t speak, I’ll break your neck immediately. If you make any unusual movements, if I think you’re wrong, I’ll break your neck immediately.”

“Three, two…”

The puppeteer’s face was extremely pale. He knew Locke was capable of this. In the previous battle, Locke had attacked him several times without holding back. The man before him was definitely a man of swift and decisive action. Under the threat of death, the puppeteer halfling screamed, “I say, I say, Captain, the others must seize the most valuable core components of this Void Battleship, and then sell them to a branch of the White Wizards Association for money. The things they can’t take away will be blown up along with the Void Battleship’s energy core, the sun.”

“This way, the White Wizard Association won’t be able to trace our circus back. Those wizards we forced into exile for an hour will, when the time is up, appear in this second sky filled with hostility towards wizards. They will have no way to go up to the sky, and no way to go down to the earth. Everything related to our circus will be hidden in the boundless routes of this second sky…”

“The captain is carrying a rare Eclipse Seed. As long as he throws the Eclipse Seed into the artificial sun, this void battleship will immediately self-destruct.”

In fact, there is another reason why the puppeteer cooperated so well: he really didn’t want to die.

Dark wizards are all selfish. Now that he has been caught and the other members of the circus will definitely not come to rescue him, he will definitely die in the explosion.

The puppeteer halfling knew this, so he spoke so bluntly. “This… Beholder Wizard, the leader has captured the heir to the Plutarch family, and the other members have gone to rob their targets. The leader must be heading for the void battleship’s power core—the artificial sun. The battleship is expected to explode in less than twenty minutes.”

Locke’s eyes were filled with complexities. “The battleship exploded. What will happen to your circus?”

The puppeteer halfling said, “There are many small short- and medium-range flying devices inside the void battleship for escape…”

The Salvadorian wizard seemed frightened. He hurried over in the dark and said to Locke, “Augustine Breeder… I… I can’t die yet. I still need to go to the Six Towers to restore the ecology.”

“What now?”

Locke made a ‘huh’ sound and threw the half-dead puppeteer in his hand to the Salvadorian wizard. “Keep an eye on him. I’ll go after their leader. Don’t worry, I won’t let the dark wizard blow up this void battleship.”

The Salvadorian wizard and the dark wizard halfling collided with each other and both fell to the ground. The Salvadorian wizard immediately used a vine entanglement magic to control the halfling tightly, then looked in the direction of Locke and shouted weakly: “Wizard Augustine, why did you leave me here alone…”

“And you kept this dark wizard… by my side…”

Salvador, surprised by the old man, suddenly seemed to have an idea and hurriedly fumbled with the lotus leaf on his head. After confirming that it was intact, he breathed a sigh of relief. “But as expected of our Botanical Wizard, Wizard Augustine is indeed very powerful.”

“This is the power of a botanical wizard, the most advanced of all magics.”

(End of this chapter)