Chapter 149: Chapter 149

On the second floor, inside the isolation room.

Locke looked at the patient on the hospital bed and asked Axi and Andrew, "What are your thoughts, you two?"

Andrew shook his head.

Axi also looked stunned and shook her head slightly, indicating helplessness.

Andrew asked Locke, "Can't we solve it the same way as last time?"

Locke pointed at the complex situation on the hospital bed and smiled bitterly. "Do you think that's possible?"

"The Lightning Bamboo on his body has already tightly connected with his flesh and replaced his arm."

On the hospital bed was a bizarre scene: a first-class wizard apprentice lay there barely breathing, while his right hand was entangled by several twisted bamboo segments that gripped his right shoulder like a giant claw, fused with his right arm's flesh and blood.

Axi carefully added, "This isn't ordinary fusion with his right arm, the Lightning Bamboo's roots are also connected to his heart. If we try to forcibly replace the magical plant, it would only kill him."

Locke walked over and looked down at the string of names left on the Lightning Bamboo by an enchanter's inscription knife: Sephilin Sagamor. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novel✶fire.net

Locke raised his eyebrows. "She's really giving us a difficult problem."

"Not only can we not forcibly replace the magical plant, I also can't use the Mana Co-frequency Cultivation Method to weaken this plant because it's now completely fused with him."

Locke looked at the only outsider in this isolation room, a first-class wizard apprentice from Andrew's special workshop, his junior sister Kali Ackerman.

Kali Ackerman was prettily dressed with a ponytail, wearing a carefully tailored white wizard robe. Her figure was graceful and slender, with a touch of charm in her eyes and brows. She even wore elaborate makeup with red lips and eyeliner.

When Kali Ackerman heard that a special patient had been sent to their small team, she had come along uninvited.

Obviously, she wanted to see if Anglon's workshop could easily solve this, if they could, it would earn both Anglon and herself some performance points.

She and Anglon hadn't come to the Treatment Center to work seriously, but to accumulate performance points to get excellent/outstanding healer quotas and help Anglon become this year's Rising Star in potion studies.

Locke looked at Kali Ackerman, who had come to gather intelligence. "What's wrong, Senior Ackerman? Do you have a way to treat this? Otherwise, I'll just hand this patient over to your workshop."

Axi and Andrew's eyes immediately brightened.

A patient with complex conditions was like a hot potato, if they couldn't solve it, it would not only lower their evaluation scores, but more realistically, would waste many potions and might even result in losses.

If such a hot potato could be passed off, it was better to do so.

Kali Ackerman stepped back half a step, hugging the materials in her hands and raising her eyebrows. "I'm just here to take a look."

"Our Anglon workshop handles the most complex problems."

After saying this, Kali Ackerman straightened her chest and... quickly fled the scene.

Andrew and Axi both rolled their eyes.

Axi complained, "She sure ran fast. When she sees a tricky problem, she leaves. But if this could be easily solved, I bet their workshop would snatch this patient away."

Locke shook his head slightly. "Let's focus our attention on this patient. I don't have any good solutions at the moment."

As he spoke, Locke took out a bottle of Minor Viridian Potion. "Let me try using Minor Viridian Potion to break the curse."

Andrew and Axi's eyes lit up.

Axi said, "Locke, you've finally learned Minor Viridian Potion! Viridian potions are the most versatile curse-breaking potions. I really envy that your teacher could give you a simplified version of Minor Viridian Potion that a first-class wizard apprentice can brew."

"Try it quickly, it might work. This is a simplified version of Viridian Potion after all."

"If we can cure this person, I'd love to see how ugly that arrogant Kali Ackerman's face would look!"

"Locke, you're growing so fast, you've already learned Minor Viridian Potion." Andrew also held great hope for this. "Then I'll prepare to give him an IV of Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion. This method will strengthen his surface magic resistance, and with both combined, maybe he can use his own [Magic Pressure Structure] to suppress the magical plant parasitizing his flesh."

The three began working together.

Half an hour later, Locke administered the Minor Viridian Potion intravenously to the patient. Fortunately, before falling unconscious, the patient had signed a loan contract, so there was no shortage of money for treatment.

They could use good medicine on him.

After the Minor Viridian Potion was administered, the wizard apprentice's face immediately gained some color, and the curse energy within his body was continuously washed away.

Viridian Potion was the most versatile curse-breaking potion, and also one that Witch Sophia frequently brewed. The simplified version of Minor Viridian Potion was naturally effective, removing this level of curse from the patient was no problem.

Five minutes later, the person's complexion was completely rosy, and the curse energy in his body was almost completely cleansed.

However, the three's expressions remained grave.

Locke frowned. "It's not working."

"The curse on him isn't hard to resolve, that's just a minor issue. The opponent cleverly used the curse to cause mutation in the magical plant."

"A mutated magical plant cannot return to its original state."

"This mutated plant is continuously feeding him new curse energy. In other words, without solving the fundamental problem, he'll have to keep taking Minor Viridian Potion."

"Every so often, we'd need to cleanse the curse energy from his body."

"The key question is: does he have the money for this? Moreover, only I can brew Minor Viridian Potion, and I can't possibly provide personal service just for him."

Locke said, "We might not be able to solve this problem temporarily. Let's turn this patient over to all the potion master's assistants on the second floor to brainstorm together."

Andrew shook his head slightly. "If they had the ability to solve this, they wouldn't have pushed it to us. The enemy is truly cunning, using malignant mutation of magical plants to create such a troublesome situation."

"Sephilin Sagamor..."

"This person is terrifying. If I encountered her in the wilderness, I probably wouldn't be her match at all." Fear had crept into Andrew's voice. "Even if we solve this problem, what if she comes up with even harder challenges?"

Locke glanced at Andrew, interrupted him, and reminded, "Andrew, stay calm."

Andrew snapped back to reality. Without looking at the strange glances from the surrounding second-class wizard apprentice assistants, he coughed and nodded slightly to Locke, saying softly, "Locke, thank you."

"I was indeed too agitated just now."

"As a potion master's assistant, giving up to a curse master like that is truly shameful."

Locke nodded slightly, then looked at the patient on the bed, falling into deep thought. 'Making an already mutated magical plant return to its original state is indeed beyond the capability range of ordinary breeders.'

'The opponent also anticipated this point, which is why they used this mechanism to create such a complex cursed situation. But thinking in reverse, the fundamental reason magical plants can backlash against wizards is that the wizard's plant magic spell structure became imbalanced, and then their own magic resistance was insufficient to counter the magical backlash, resulting in plant magic backlash.'

'So I need to break free from rigid thinking. The correct approach isn't to solve the problem after it happens, but to prevent it beforehand. As long as magic resistance can be instantly increased in a short time, we can prevent the magical plant from successfully backlashing against its master.'

'This way, no matter how sophisticated Sephilin Sagamor's magical plant curses become or how much they improve, we can fundamentally solve this curse type from the principle level. This would directly shatter the confidence of curse masters in this type of curse and prevent them from researching it further.'

'Otherwise, it would be endless.'

Locke thought of Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion, but the current effect of this potion was still far from sufficient.

Locke said to Axi and Andrew, "Let's keep him stable for now."

"At least keep him alive until we find a solution to the problem."

Looking at this patient, Locke already had some ideas.

This type of magical plant curse wasn't very useful against himself as a breeder, he understood various magical plants too well and had various methods to prevent this kind of plant magic backlash.

The reason he couldn't solve it immediately was because this time, after observing how he solved the problem last time, the opponent had optimized the magical plant curse.

This was like masters sparring, the opponent had made two moves while he had only made one, so he needed some time to think about how to solve this problem.

Of course, the opponent's curse magic research was indeed very thorough, which was also a factor.

Locke thought: 'Adding some anti-curse magic properties to magical plants is also a way to solve problems in advance. I remember that Lijin Secret Language sells curse-breaking lilies.'

'Curse-breaking lilies naturally have the ability to defend against curses.'

'However, that type of magical plant is designed to counter ordinary curses targeting wizards. Since magical plant curses had never appeared before, or rather, the wizards of Lilith's Cottage had never faced them, this area remained a blank field.'