Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 762

Chapter 759 Wizarding Treasure and the Pureblood Cult

When the two dark wizards quickly returned to the living area provided by the wizard airship and found their leader, the female magician in the Magic Thief Circus, the magician’s expression was grim.

She glanced at the clown and the puppeteer and sighed slightly.

“You lot, didn’t you notice that the master has placed a spell on you?”

“How many times have I told you, in our circus, if anyone suspects they’ve been cursed, they absolutely cannot meet with any member to avoid implicating others. It seems you’ve forgotten my words.”

The newly recruited clown, puppeteer, and beast tamer in the Magic Thief Circus all paled.

The beast tamer glared at the clown and puppeteer.

“What are you two doing?”

The clown spread his hands and rubbed his red nose.

“A curse? I’m a sorcerer of the Conjuration School, most sensitive to spells. My permanent defensive field is the [Multiple Spells]!”

“Even if he’s a second-circle sorcerer, he couldn’t possibly cast a spell on me without my noticing,”

Zoe the Witch said calmly. “The Bewitching Wizard’s perception far surpasses yours.”

“It’s normal you didn’t notice he cursed you,”

the Puppet Master said, somewhat panicked.

“What should we do now? Let’s get out of here quickly!”

the Clown immediately retorted. “No. If the Void Warship is functioning perfectly, as soon as our spaceship leaves the Void Warship, a single Void Cannon can blast it to smithereens!”

Zoe the Witch sat there, waiting for a while, then sighed.

“Looks like this can’t be resolved peacefully. We didn’t fool him.”

Zoe the Witch glanced at the Clown and the Puppet Master, surprised that these clowns hadn’t misled the Bewitching Wizard!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the void warship, Locke stood on the ship’s deck, looking at Zoe, the witch dressed as a sky wizard in an eagle-hat, and the female sketch artist beside her. He asked, “We meet again, Zoe.”

“The first time we met, you were a Holy Wizard. The second time… you were a Sky Wizard. What will you be the third time we meet?”

Zoe paused abruptly.

Indeed, the body of Zoe she had left on the other side of the void warship was not her true self. She had simply used the sealing magic—Consciousness Seal—to seal a portion of her consciousness into another person’s body.

She was preparing a backup plan. If Locke discovered their presence, she would use those three fools, plus a manipulated puppet, to lure Locke away, while she and the female sketch artist, who was originally a servant of her family, would escape using [Dimensional Exile].

However, Dimensional Exile takes ten minutes to complete.

Therefore, they needed to find a secluded location and a female sketch artist to quickly sketch a magical image, mimicking the surrounding environment to conceal their dimensional teleportation process.

However, unexpectedly, Locke, using her past methods and the insight granted by her three-eyed bloodline, noticed these subtle anomalies and sensed the magical pressure emanating from her true form. He then located them among the two witches far from the crowd.

The witch Zoe sighed, knowing this matter couldn’t be resolved peacefully. She turned and bowed to Locke, saying, “Greetings, I am Zoe, greetings to the Great Wizard of the Eyes.”

The female sketch artist beside her, sweat dripping from her forehead, nervously looked at Locke.

Although they had encountered second-circle wizards before, they had always remained calm and successfully slipped through the fog. This was the first time they felt completely exposed.

Of course, this was mainly because they had always repeatedly verified the passengers’ identities, status, and magical levels before making their move, ensuring the target was safe to attack.

But Locke’s advancement was simply too rapid.

They hadn’t expected that such a super genius would appear on one of the wizard airships they had previously tried to plunder.

He had advanced to a second-circle wizard in such a short time.

The witch Zoe looked at Locke, who was smiling but silent, and then gave a wry smile. “Great Wizard of the Eyes, what do you want?”

A tiger’s eye appeared on Locke’s forehead, and he looked down at the two of them, like a king of the forest scrutinizing his prey.

“Zoe, tell your handmaid to give up. She wants to trade her life for a chance to successfully cast [Path of Exile] on me. But that’s ridiculous.”

Zoe the witch immediately said to her handmaid, “Annie, stop! Don’t be foolish enough to provoke a second-circle wizard head-on. Our tricks worked before because those high-circle wizards never directly opposed us; they were basically not hostile towards us. Deception can only succeed if the other party doesn’t have strong hostility towards us.”

“Once they become hostile, that instantaneous v*olence can easily tear apart any deception.”

Locke’s supernatural intuition, which couldn’t always be present, suddenly appeared. Immediately, the tiger eye on Locke’s forehead looked up at the magic lamp on the ceiling and saw a gecko on it.

The next moment, the gecko was crushed by its own magical pressure, turning into a pile of ink that dripped to the ground.

The female sketch artist’s face immediately turned pale, severely affected by the magic backlash. “A second-circle archmage… indeed powerful.”

Zoe the witch’s face turned pale as her last resort failed.

The insight of the person before him was truly terrifying.

Locke smiled. The witch Zoe before him was a complete liar; even the words she spoke to her subordinates were just to deceive him.

What deception couldn’t work on someone who already harbored hostility towards her?

That was just to lower his guard.

After all, that only applied to low-level deception.

The gecko earlier contained enchanted magic, which could probably enhance the brightness of the magic lamp for a moment, creating a flashbang effect, allowing them to escape.

Locke pointed to his eyes and said, “My eyes have pupil magic. Even if you create a flash of magic, I can see through the light with my pupil magic.”

Second-circle wizards certainly have many ways to gain vision adapted to flashes, but that requires casting time.

Moreover, it depends on what type of magic they are proficient in. If they are proficient in power magic or construction magic, they might actually be temporarily blinded by the intense light.

They were probably trying to seize this last chance and fight to the death.

Locke looked at the witch Zoe with a half-smile.

“Not making a scene anymore?”

The witch Zoe sighed and bowed to Locke again.

“Great Wizard of the Eyes, we just want to make a living. We have no intention of offending you. Killing us will not benefit you, and we have no warrants…”

“I want to make a deal with you in exchange for our freedom to leave.”

Locke said, “I just saw an old friend, so I came to see him.”

“I just didn’t expect your band of thieves to change members so quickly.”

Apart from the witch Zoe and the female sketch artist, everyone else in the Demon Thieves band was a new face.

The witch Zoe nodded and said, “Yes. The casualty rate for airship pirates is very high; once caught, it’s death.”

“White wizards on airships rarely send black wizards to wizard prisons; usually, they just kill them on sight.”

Locke nodded slightly.

“You must be a seal master, right? Where are you from?”

Zoe the Witch said, “The leader of the Western District, the High Heaven Plains Wizard. My sealing magic was learned from the Purple Path of Exile.”

“Great Wizard of the Eyes, do you have any seals you need me to break? I am skilled at breaking all kinds of magical locks and seals.”

“I am also skilled at designing corresponding magical locks and seals,”

Locke said. “Give me a complete set of sealing magic data, and give me a magical item that you think will allow me to pretend I never saw you.”

He truly had no intention of killing Zoe the Witch. First, Zoe the Witch was only a first-ring wizard; as a second-ring wizard, killing her would bring him no benefit.

Second, Zoe the Witch had powerful backers; without any substantial benefit, there was no need for him to kill and offend them.

She likely had several high-ring wizards from the White Wizarding Society behind her.

Hearing this, Zoe the Witch breathed a sigh of relief, confirming that Locke had no intention of killing or arresting her.

The next moment, she felt that Locke’s half-smiling demeanor was somewhat shameless. She had only deceived Locke once before, and she never expected to be robbed because of that deception.

He actually managed to extract something useful to a second-circle wizard from an ordinary first-circle wizard—that was incredibly shrewd.

The witch Zoe handed Locke a set of spellbooks, saying, “These are a set of purple Path of Exile spells from my collection. They’re all publicly available spell models; the Archmage Eye is welcome to look them over.”

“As for what I might have that could be useful to you… I’m just an ordinary first-circle wizard, I’m even just a liquefaction wizard, what could I possibly have that would be of any use to you?”

Zoe looked at Locke with a troubled expression.

A liquefaction wizard is several major levels below a second-circle wizard, lacking only a breakthrough to the soul’s limit.

Even within the crystallization wizard stage, there are distinctions like ordinary crystallization wizard, first-circle limit magic pressure, and the soul decay stage.

The gap between Zoe and Locke was enormous, so as a liquefaction wizard, she racked her brains, unable to think of anything she could possibly possess that would be useful to Locke, something that would make him spare her.

As time passed, Locke’s eyes grew increasingly impatient.

Zoe’s heart skipped a beat, fearing Locke would hand her over to the airship’s captain.

“Wait, Archmage, let me think again. Do I have anything useful to you?”

“That’s right…”

Zoe’s eyes lit up, as if she’d remembered something. “Information, information! I have some information that might be useful to you.”

She quickly produced a map.

Locke took the map with a mage’s hand. Zoe’s eyelids twitched at this. Of course, she had no intention of plotting against Locke, because he had seen through her schemes three times; she had long since given up on the idea of escaping danger through cleverness.

But Zoe still smirked at Locke’s caution.

You, a second-circle archmage, actually need an apprentice-level spell—Mage’s Hand—to take a magical map from a mere liquefaction wizard?

That’s a bit too cowardly.

Zoe glanced at Locke, gazing at his youthful face, and inwardly marveled at his talent.

Back then, when she met Locke, he was merely a wizard at the vaporization stage, skilled in combat and quick-witted.

Now, Locke was a second-circle archmage, while she remained a liquefaction wizard.

Such a young second-circle archmage—

even in the High Heavens, that was considered exceptional.

For a moment, Zoe was genuinely momentarily stunned, but she quickly regained her composure.

“Eye Demon Archmage, this is a treasure I obtained while raiding an airship.”

“When I first acquired this map, it was sealed by some kind of magic, making it a fake. But after years of painstakingly breaking the seal, it’s largely unsealed, revealing its true form.” “

Based on my interpretation of the information, this appears to be a map of a wizard’s treasure from the era of pure-blooded humans. It shows that this second-circle wizard placed his treasure in a place inaccessible to the pure-blooded order.”

Locke glanced at the location—it was actually in the Mortal Islands of the Southeastern Corner!

Locke asked, “Why don’t you go look for it?”

Zoe swallowed hard. “The Eye Demon Archmage’s second-circle wizard treasure is beyond the reach of a lowly wizard like me. I know my place.”

“My original plan was to find a way to sell it at auction.”

“Besides, I’m an airship pirate; I only raid airships and wizard ships… that’s enough for me.”

Locke glanced at Zoe, giving her a deep look.

“You’re looking for something specific, aren’t you?”

A chill ran down Zoe’s spine.

She hadn’t expected the Eye Demon Archmage before her to have such keen insight and sharp mind, actually guessing her true purpose.

Locke chuckled, “Since you’re so fixated on raiding airships and wizard ships, then that’s the only way to think about it. You’re looking for something that only appears on airships or wizard ships.”

“I’m not interested in that. Do as you please.”

“Alright, what you gave me is indeed satisfactory.”

Locke turned and left.

Zoe the Witch also had her own complicated problems. She had already successfully robbed a liquefaction wizard, managing to steal a map to a second-circle wizard’s treasure from him.

Add to that the pile of information on sealing magic

, and she had indeed gained a great deal. There was no need to get involved in this mess.

Zoe watched Locke’s departing figure, both relieved that he had kept his promise and feeling somewhat aggrieved.

A liquefaction pirate, squeezed dry of useful valuables by a second-circle white wizard?

Zoe stamped her foot.

“Damn Locke Augustine!”

“When I first met him, I thought he was an honest man with thick eyebrows and big eyes!”

“I never expected him to be so cunning and treacherous, like those ruthless old men in white wizarding society!”

Her maid whispered, “Miss, if you find that thing, you too can have hope of becoming a second-circle wizard.”

“Once you become a second-circle archmage, you can get your revenge!”

Zoe hesitated, “Can I find it?”

“Fine, he let me go, so I already owe him a favor. If we meet again, I might have to repay that favor.”

Zoe the Witch gritted her teeth.

(End of Chapter)