Chapter 1152

Chapter 1128 Guardians of Nature: Director

Locke stepped down from the carriage and nodded to the crystallized wizard of the Summoning School, whose entire body was covered in dinosaur feathers. The crystallized wizard immediately bowed to Locke, who then walked towards the research institute. Before him lay a desolate wasteland, devoid of any shrubs, only a clump of wild grass, on which many lizard-like magical creatures lived.

As Locke reached the edge of the wasteland, a gentle breeze swept across the grass, revealing the most magnificent research institute in the Rain Swamp. A gigantic dragon claw stretched from the ground towards the sky. For a fleeting moment, Locke seemed to see the Path of Truth again.

In other words, this massive stone structure, resembling a dragon claw reaching towards the sky, was itself a root realm located on the Path of Truth. As long as a wizard was within it, it was as if they were constantly standing on the Path of Truth.

Locke pondered for a moment, realizing that the research institute itself was formed from the pseudo-forging of different wizards. In other words, the entire building was constructed of magic; it was magic itself.

No wonder it was the only research institute housing a super project in the Rainswamp.

This feat was astounding.

Moreover, the level of these pseudo-forgings must be quite high, and their quantity numerous, somewhat reminiscent of the ancient Tyrannosaurus Rex among the Three Ancient Kings.

A hunched old woman holding a candle appeared before Locke. She coughed and looked at him with surprise.

“Is this Wizard Locke Augustine? This is the first time in a hundred years that the institute has been open to outsiders. It’s truly a rare occasion. We’ve invited a Moon Ring Wizard to enter. Please follow me. The institute is protected by extremely powerful magic. To enhance the comprehension and learning abilities of the wizards within, and to facilitate the world’s most cutting-edge research in bloodline and summoning, the institute is located on the Path of Truth.” “

Entering requires a special magical artifact; otherwise, the entrant will be shattered to pieces, their soul bound by the magic of the summoning school, suffering endless punishment before a sliver of hope can be found.”

This old woman seemed to possess Sun Ring-level magical pressure, indicating she was a Sun Ring Wizard.

The old woman continued walking forward. Realizing Locke hadn’t followed, she turned to look at him. Locke joked, “Sun Ring Wizard, are you sure this is the Ancient Bloodline Factor Research Institute, and not some special secret base of a Black Wizard’s Land? After all, I only arrived in a magical carriage.”

The Sun Ring old woman chuckled, her back hunched.

“Seeing you organize a competition and provoke so many important figures, I thought you were a reckless brat, but I didn’t expect you to be so cautious. How could a dark wizard have such resources to build so many laboratories on the Path of Truth?”

The old woman waved her hand forward, extremely proudly saying, “This is one of the top fifty laboratories in the Eastern Region.”

“It is one of the three most advanced Summoning School laboratories in the Eastern Region.”

“Why would we lie to you?”

Seeing that Locke was unmoved, the old woman smiled helplessly. “Alright, better safe than sorry. You’re so young, a wizarding genius. I initially thought you’d be a reckless and arrogant young man, but I was surprised to find you so meticulous. Your caution is commendable. It’s good to be cautious; when I was young, I met some people who had great potential but lost their lives due to carelessness. This is the badge of the White Wizarding Association. Can you trust it now?”

Locke glanced at the badge in her hand, confirming it belonged to a high-ranking member of the White Wizarding Association. Generally, the loss of such items would trigger corresponding protective and prophetic magic to prevent dark wizards from obtaining them, and the owner would usually report the badge lost immediately to avoid trouble.

Therefore, Locke believed her.

“Please lead the way, sir.”

The old woman with the sun-like ring shook her head and smiled helplessly. “Your junior is a capable person. Better safe than sorry. Come with me.”

Locke followed the old woman with the sun ring through the wilderness. Everything around them seemed to have become dimly lit, like the flickering candlelight in the old woman’s hand. The candlelight seemed to have opened a shortcut, and Locke followed it. In a daze, he somehow found himself in a large hall.

The old woman with the sun ring glanced at Locke. “Follow me.”

She walked slowly forward, her back hunched.

Locke saw many bloodline essence sequences floating in the air. These bloodline essence sequences were miraculously uncontaminated and unmutated in this laboratory, simply flowing in the air. Not only were these bloodline essence sequences in the air, but Locke also saw many specially colored bricks on the walls. Upon closer inspection, these were simply special material blocks carrying specific bloodline essence sequences.

A lizard crawled across Locke’s feet, stuck out its tongue, stood up on its hind legs, and ran towards a corner of the castle.

The old woman with the sun-like ring glanced at Locke and said, “You have an aura that the experimental creatures here find very appealing. That lizard just now carried a crucial bloodline essence sequence from a legendary Tyrannosaurus Rex. We extracted it from the fossil using various methods. The bloodline essence sequence was severely incomplete, so we painstakingly repaired it bit by bit using different methods. When we encountered people pretending to know what they were doing and making haphazard repairs, we had to examine their repaired bloodline essence sequences and then remove them one by one.” “

Finally, we injected our findings into its body,”

Locke said, looking at the old woman.

The old woman with the Sun Ring said, “But we never expected that after fifty years of hard work, injecting this bloodline essence into the lizard’s body, nothing would happen. Some people didn’t believe it was a failure, thinking that something must not have been figured out, and wanted to continue research; others gave up. Fortunately, for us, we were just doing this bloodline experiment in our spare time.”

The old woman with the Sun Ring continued, “I suspect that the bloodline essence sequence we repaired didn’t have a suitable promoter. Of course, the situation might be worse.”

The old woman with the Sun Ring led Locke through the hall and into a corridor. The wizards here looked hurried, their eyes filled with thought, completely absorbed in their work, oblivious to the visitors. The wizards here were either Moon Ring or Sun Ring, and Locke even saw two Third Ring wizards deep in thought.

After all, this laboratory was of a very high level, so throwing a brick here could hit several Third Ring wizards or a dozen Sun Ring wizards.

These wizards were all powerful figures in the outside world, but here they were just small researchers.

The old woman with the sun-like ring casually picked up a brick, crushed it, and the bloodline factor information contained within the brick leaked out. The air seemed to be stained red by this dangerous bloodline factor, and Locke felt his magic power boiling, affected by that dangerous bloodline essence.

The old woman said, “Each bloodline factor needs a starter to function. Perhaps there’s a design flaw in this direction, or even worse, the substance carrying the bloodline essence might be different.”

Locke watched as several small lizards quickly repaired the brick she had broken off. These lizards brought over small brick blocks, which quickly combined to form the original brick.

Locke didn’t know the working principle or the purpose, but it was clear that the new brick also contained a new bloodline essence.

Perhaps that bloodline essence was still a starter.

Soon, they passed through a room filled with large fish tanks teeming with goldfish. The goldfish observed them through magnified, convex-faced magic mirrors, their eyes appearing as if they were the eyes of some enormous fish.

A sun-ring wizard was examining the fish’s flesh through the mirrors in each tank, while a moon-ring witch was placing a goldfish on a cutting board and observing it through different magic mirrors.

Locke asked the old woman, “Those goldfish—I noticed that in some of the bloodline essence sequence diagrams recorded by those wizards, the basic structure of some of the diagrams seems to be different from our human bloodline essence.”

The old woman looked at Locke and smiled, “The most cutting-edge bloodline research is being conducted here, and cutting-edge research isn’t just about modifying bloodline essence with bloodline factors. You see, both essence and factors need matter to carry them. The earliest bloodline essence was composed of very fragile matter, which could only exist for a few minutes to a few hours. Later, through natural evolution, the basic particle structure and types of these substances changed. Just removing one basic element particle greatly increased the stability of the carrying material.” “

This became the carrying material for the bloodline essence of humans and most ordinary magical creatures.”

“The material carrying the bloodline essence is itself evolving. If the basic carrying material evolves, then for bloodline essence that was originally beyond modification, changing it becomes incredibly easy.”

“This is the secret to the power of those ancient creatures. Of course, I’m referring to the ancient creatures from the time of the Three Kings. According to our observations, for even more ancient mythical creatures, such as the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline within you, there exists something called the Mythical Factor. The substances that carry the bloodline essence in different periods may be different. It could be just a difference in a few basic particles, or a difference in the position of the basic particles, but because they are from different worlds and different times, the substances that carry the essence may be completely different.”

The old woman with the sun ring said, “Those goldfish just now didn’t use ordinary substances to carry the bloodline essence. Our research institute has been conducting cutting-edge research on bloodlines, so we have been trying to enhance and change the basic substances that carry the bloodline essence. The basic substances that carry the bloodline essence of each goldfish are completely different from ours, and have been modified.”

“We’re very interested in a connecting bridge we used in the competition. We’ve focused on your article about the hadron bottle, and we’ve concluded that your Golden Crown Mountain has made a new discovery about plants—a fundamental particle we’ve never obtained before. We’re very curious about that particle. If we can apply that discovery to these goldfish, perhaps we can create an even more powerful bloodline essence.”

The old woman with the sun ring glanced at Locke. “The hadron, which the Golden Crown Mountain’s wave school has always hypothesized, has been confirmed by you?”

Locke coughed. “No, it’s just a new application to natural magical structures like the Heart-Piercing Poison.”

The old woman with the sun ring glanced at Locke again, then continued, “We’ve done a lot of research, such as adding a gold element particle to the basic particle structure of the existing fundamental essence carrier material, and then using this new fundamental carrier material to design new bloodline essences, with great success.”

She walked to a fish tank and used a fishing net to scoop a goldfish out of it.

Locke looked at the goldfish. “Hmm? This isn’t water; it seems to be some kind of highly corrosive liquid. Is it the venom of a green dragon?”

The old woman with the sun ring glanced at Locke. “As expected of a potion master, quite skilled. This is indeed the venom of a green dragon. After continuous experimentation, we can only allow this creature to survive in the venom of a green dragon for the time being, and its vitality is too low.

The advantage is that it’s just an ordinary fish, but even a first-ring wizard using first-ring magic cannot destroy it.”

“Such a small goldfish, if thrown into most of the mortal civilizations in the endless void, they probably wouldn’t be able to harm a single scale with any weapon they used. We also have many new designs for carrier materials. These breakthroughs have allowed us to create even more powerful bloodline essences. Mr. Augustine, as a bloodline essence master, a Sun Ring level one, I must tell you that the reason why the ancient biological bloodline within you is so powerful is because the carrier material of your bloodline essence is different from that of us humans.”

Locke asked in surprise, “Humans? Us?”

The Sun Ring old woman laughed, “Of course. Do you expect me to be like those summoner brats outside, thinking that just because I’ve injected a few reptilian bloodline factors into my body, I’m not a mammal? That’s truly laughable. Only a half-baked summoner would think that the difference between species is so small.” “

The carrier material of the bloodline essence of the three ancient races is different from that of us humans. The difference isn’t huge, about one to three different basic particles that make up the matter.”

“But this difference is absolute. It means that each of our bloodline essences is completely different.” “

This means that if there’s a problem with the bloodline essence carrier material we design, the bloodline essence we interpret will be completely unusable. And even if this step is correct, after injecting it into that lizard, because the lizard is just an ordinary creature from later generations, it might not be effective.” “

Too many steps could go wrong; it’s like trying to hold down a gourd only to have another pop up. So once a problem arises, just figuring out which step is faulty will take a long time.”

Locke asked doubtfully, “Why can’t we just use the bloodline essence carrier materials you designed to design a lizard? Oh, I see, I was stupid on that point. Is it because the environment has changed? The laws of the planes have changed, everything around us has changed, and ancient creatures simply can’t survive.”

“It’s like my n*ked Fern. If that’s the case, then I think there might be similar factors in botany, and the substances that carry these plant factors might be different.”

The old woman glanced at Locke and said, “Wizard Augustine, you’re very clever.” “

But it’s a pity. I don’t understand breeding science, and I haven’t been to the super-project laboratory for breeding science. Generally, a wizard can boast if they can visit one such laboratory in their lifetime. But you’re not a bloodline essence master or one of our native wizards, yet you’ve managed to get here. It’s truly enviable.” “

So you’ll have to explore this problem yourself.”

“Follow me. We can’t stay in one area for too long, or it will trigger an alarm.”

Locke followed the old woman through the laboratory and down a long corridor, encountering several magic doors along the way. Some of these doors seemed to lead to something behind them, which appeared to be magical research by the Summoning School.

Only then did Locke notice that under the old woman’s white wizard robes were a pair of feet resembling the four legs of a Triceratops.

Locke walked down the corridor and passed a room filled with life-sized magic mirrors. In these mirrors were the enormous limbs of various animals, and a wizard was using chalk to trace specific parts of the massive magical creatures projected onto the mirrors.

In a fleeting glance, Locke saw that some mirrors depicted a phoenix feather, while others showed a unicorn’s hoof.

The old woman with the sun ring explained to Locke, “That’s partial summoning, which is the partial summoning of a part of a magical creature’s limb to attack enemies. However, this laboratory will soon be closed. This kind of thing was considered new a hundred years ago, but now, countless laboratories throughout the Rain Swamp are conducting related research.

“Hehehe—”

“Time is the most wondrous thing; it can turn some cutting-edge research into something even a three-year-old knows.

It’s commonplace. So it’s going to be closed; it’s not worth researching in this institute. Partial summoning is a type of special summoning. You haven’t seen much of it because Lady Macedon isn’t a bloodline master or a summoner. As for the Maupassant family, their ancestor was originally an intern at this institute. He stole some things and was able to act arrogantly outside. Actually, with their ancestor’s meager abilities, what are their skills worth if our institute really takes them seriously?”

“They don’t know how to do that,”

the old woman with the sun ring said to Locke. “You can call me the Triceratops Granny. That’s what everyone here calls me.”

“I heard that a descendant of their ancestors produced a throne wizard, who is quite remarkable. It is said that he perfected interdimensional summoning and created a special binding technique to bind high-level summoned creatures by utilizing the self-correcting power of the laws of planes and the order of spacetime.”

“That’s impressive.”

“That wizard was captured by the ancient Tyrannosaurus Rex King and taken back to its own timeline.”

The old woman with the sun ring led Locke through many laboratories that looked like they were conducting some kind of dangerous, cutting-edge experiment, and then brought him to a black iron gate. The old woman sighed. “That’s how summoning magic is; even without making mistakes, it’s still very dangerous.”

“After all, their magical foundation is full of high-risk, high-reward strategies.”

“Currently, the most cutting-edge research in summoning magic within our institute has begun attempting to use it to summon certain ancient magical artifacts. These artifacts have been lost for a long time, but some have unique functions, and some are incredibly powerful. Our institute’s wizards are trying to use contracts to summon magical creatures onto those inanimate objects.”

The Triceratops old woman said, “These things are actually occasionally touched upon by some summoning wizards in the common folk, but they are not systematic and lack the support of resources from the entire wizarding world. But once our institute confirms that it will invest resources in this direction, everything will be different. Perhaps in a hundred years, a complete system of summoning magic to summon ancient magical artifacts will emerge.”

Hearing this, Locke looked at the Triceratops old woman, his eyes shining.

Truly a research institute for a super project.

He had only been here for less than an hour, and he had already heard something useful.

If he could use the magic of the Summoning School to summon the Black and White Codex lost in the War of Historical Records, wouldn’t he be able to bypass the traps that the founding father of archaeology might have set for him and continue his progress in archaeological magic?

Locke pondered the feasibility, but the key question was why the research institute would help him?

How could he obtain this magical technology?

Locke tried to ask her, “Grandma Triceratops, how is the development of summoning magic in this direction progressing?”

The Triceratops looked at Locke and said, “The rules within the research institute are paramount. We don’t casually inquire about other people’s research progress; this is sensitive information. We need to guard against vicious competition among internal staff and external targeting. You must understand that when your research is extremely important and you obtain a lot of resources, not only will there be competition within the wizarding world, but even the forces beyond the void will be eyeing you.”

Locke raised an eyebrow. “Oh?”

the Triceratops old woman said, “Once, the goddess of love from the Persepolis race fell in love with a researcher at our institute. She bewitched him so much that he ultimately accomplished nothing. It was only because the Void Gods heard that he was researching a way to maximize the number of summons while maintaining the same summon quality under the same magical pressure.”

“It’s an optimization of a spell model. But unfortunately, we’ll never know if it can be completed, or what the optimized spell would look like. Every wizarding genius is so important to this research institute; once lost, no one can catch up in a short time. A research direction will be abandoned. If that Moon Ring wizard hadn’t met with this misfortune, perhaps the basic structure of the spell models of some of the summoning schools you saw today would have changed,” the Triceratops

old woman said. “Therefore, apart from you being a distinguished guest today, invited by the director, the other wizards here don’t like to pry into other people’s affairs. Of course, as a guest, it’s only right to give you a basic introduction. If you want to know the research progress, I don’t have the answer here; go ask the director. Or, you can learn about the situation through one of the voluntary human experimentation channels offered by our institute?” The old woman looked

Locke up and down.

Locke coughed.

The old woman manipulated a magic lock to open the laboratory door.

“This is a bloodline studies laboratory, specializing in bloodline encapsulation. The director asked me to bring you here first. He’s currently working, and will summon you and hold a welcoming ceremony for you once he’s finished.” “

The director said that everything you need is here, so you can take whatever you see.” “The director

greatly admires your performance, and given this is a major event in the Three Swamps, he’s specially providing you with this material to read directly. This is all cutting-edge research. Mr. Augustine, please enjoy it.”

The Triceratops woman led Locke into an area resembling a rusty submarine, where the air inside the laboratory shimmered with bloodline essence.

The Triceratops woman led him to a life-sized magical glass window, which emitted a crimson light.

Many wizards in the laboratory nodded to Locke as a greeting.

Locke stood before the glass window and saw many floating bloodline factors inside. These factors themselves were information, and there were magic books nearby to identify them.

Locke picked up the instruction manual and quickly read it. It seemed that the bloodline factors inside the glass window, when combined according to specific requirements, could create a special set of bloodline essence factors.

This appeared to be a fairly mature experimental project, having even undergone three phases of testing, meaning the technology was quite advanced, just sealed within the research institute and not sold commercially. However, because it involved bloodline science, even with the instruction manual and reference book, Locke found it very difficult to read. He spent half an hour reading just one page, sweat beading on his forehead.

The Triceratops-like old woman stood behind him and said, “A wizard possesses multiple different bloodlines. If there’s only one high-level bloodline essence, that’s fine. But if there are multiple high-level bloodline essences simultaneously, they will interfere with each other within your body. Therefore, bloodline encapsulation technology is needed, which involves placing one set of bloodline essences into another set of bloodline essences with a special activation mechanism. It will only be activated when you want to use it, using special magic.”

“Your Three-Eyed Tiger Cat is relatively safe, but your Abyssal Dragon bloodline… I watched your matches. Although I didn’t examine it closely, I can only say it was modified by a master. Perhaps a bloodline essence master from your Golden Crown Mountain helped you straighten out a mess. But for some reason, he only did the most basic work. His technique was extremely skillful, almost unbelievable, at least at the third ring level, perhaps even a Throne Wizard.” “

But he clearly didn’t put much effort into you.” “

While your Abyssal Dragon bloodline is powerful, it has many hidden dangers. You didn’t encounter a powerful bloodline essence master, otherwise, your Abyssal Dragon bloodline could have collapsed in an instant.”

“Director, the reason I brought you here is so you can use our [Turisuartus Window] to create the bloodline encapsulation essence you need. How many sets of bloodline encapsulation essence you obtain is entirely up to you. Locke Augustine, this is an opportunity that few researchers in our institute have, including myself.” “

Because although the bloodline encapsulation essence technology is mature, it can only be completed using the special substance inside this fourth-ring magical artifact, the Turisuartus Window.” “

That substance is called Turisuartus Substance, a natural substance. It was discovered in the new route of the Endless Void.” “

Although this laboratory isn’t high-level, and many researchers can enter and use some of the equipment, this fourth-ring magical artifact requires special permissions to activate. Otherwise, to other wizards, it’s just an ordinary window, with no further distinction.”

Locke asked, “If we could obtain a large quantity of this substance, wouldn’t that mean all bloodline essence masters could freely encapsulate their bloodlines, allowing high-level bloodlines to coexist within their bodies?”

The Triceratops Granny Sun Ring replied, “That’s right. But it’s very difficult to find. We searched for a long time, but eventually gave up because we couldn’t find a concentrated area of this substance. If we’re lucky enough to find it in the future, it could indeed enhance the power of high-level bloodline essence masters.” “

However, it wouldn’t enhance them by much. Although we don’t have a mature system for bloodline encapsulation technology, many high-ring bloodline essence masters, including myself, have unique skills that can replace the bloodline encapsulation essence technology.” “

This research institute also has many technologies sealed away. In peacetime, due to resource constraints, we won’t activate them. But if a real war breaks out, these technologies will be unlocked, and a continuous stream of new technologies will be activated regardless of cost. Therefore, countless civilizations in the Endless Void regard this research institute as a thorn in their side. Countless beings consider the members of this research institute a troublesome problem and want to eliminate them.”

“By the way, this astral ring is forbidden. Summoning magic can only be used in specific areas with an application. The same applies to other magic. Anyway, you’d better watch yourself.”

The Triceratops old woman turned to leave, then turned back to look at Locke, whose forehead was covered in sweat as he intently stared at the glass window, comparing reference books to identify the bloodline essence sequence. Because this wasn’t about breeding or potion-making, it was making Locke extremely tired.

It was like reading a single page of an instruction manual, requiring extensive research, making it very slow.

The Triceratops old woman turned and left in silence.

Meanwhile, many of the astral ring wizards and a few lunar ring wizards who were not working and were temporarily resting in the research institute learned of Locke’s presence. Many of them were wizards of the same generation as the Macedonian witch. They had all heard that Locke had gone to the bloodline encapsulation laboratory.

Many researchers went to the second floor of the bloodline encapsulation laboratory, wanting to see Locke Augustine, the astral ring breeder who had single-handedly challenged the entire Rain Swamp and stood at the pinnacle of the younger generation of wizards in the Rain Swamp, suffer a setback.

On the second floor, however, they couldn’t see the laboratory below through the magic glass; they could only see a shadowy mass.

The group lay prone on the floor, staring at the magic glass, trying desperately to see Locke’s frustrated expression.

“I heard. The director wants Mr. Augustine to assemble the bloodline essence himself inside the Turisuatus window. That’s really putting him in a difficult position. The director is indeed the director; this move is brilliant. It doesn’t embarrass the wizards of our Rain Marshland, and it teaches this wizard a lesson, letting him know that our wizarding land is not without its share.

” “This—is the director really that petty? This seems like a reward.”

“A reward? The director is making a breeder operate the Turisuatus window, which is extremely complex even for bloodline essence masters. Can this be considered a reward? This is a veiled compliment. I think the director clearly wants to make things difficult for this wizard. However, I really want to befriend this wizard. I watched his competition, and I’ve long admired him. When he comes out of the laboratory, he’ll definitely be dejected. If we go and comfort him, wouldn’t that be a way to become friends with him?”

“This is the director killing two birds with one stone!”

At this moment, they noticed that the Macedonian witch left them and took the floating staircase to the first floor.

The Star Ring Wizards’ eyes immediately flickered, especially Alexander the Wizard, who came from the Winged Dragon Garden. He slapped his forehead.

“Oh no! The Macedonian witch is the most intolerant of injustice. In this situation, she will definitely go down to help Wizard Locke. We won’t be able to watch the show, nor will we have a chance to comfort Wizard Locke and make his acquaintance.”

The other four Star Ring Wizards all smiled wryly.

“Why didn’t you keep it from the Macedonian witch?”

“But I think the Macedonian witch already considers Mr. Locke a friend. A wizard who can gain her approval must truly be an excellent wizard. This person is definitely worth befriending. Just the fact that he single-handedly challenged the entire younger generation of our wizarding land to investigate events from sixty years ago is something we greatly admire.” In

the Bloodline Encapsulation Laboratory, on the first floor, the door opened, and the Macedonian witch entered with two Star Ring Wizards. She looked at Locke, who had his back to her, and said, “Locke, you are a breeder, not a Bloodline Essence Master. You certainly can’t operate the large-scale, high-precision experimental equipment for bloodline studies. Don’t feel embarrassed; forcing yourself to read the instructions will only waste your spiritual knowledge.” “

I brought two friends with me; they are both Bloodline Essence Master witches. You can pay each of them a certain fee, and they can help you complete the Bloodline Encapsulation Essence.”

Her two witch friends held Locke in high esteem and awe.

The two immediately said, “We quickly read through all the information we could find on bloodline encapsulation. This is also an opportunity for us to gain experience.”

“We can help you.” “

However, we can’t be sure if we can do it; we’re only about 60% sure.”

Locke said with his back to them, “Thank you for your kindness, everyone. Miss Macedonia, thank you for your suggestion. But no need, I’ve already completed one.”

The Macedonian witch raised her eyebrows, and the two witches also showed incredulous expressions.

Locke then waved the reference book in his hand. “Although I’m quite unfamiliar with bloodline studies, the basic principles of this fourth-ring magical artifact and the way bloodline factors are connected are surprisingly familiar to me. It actually uses the spiritual macro-science of potion-making. This technique has a deep involvement of potion-making.”

Locke’s fingers slid quickly in the glass mirror, and in a moment, a set of encapsulated essence, like a ball of red silk threads, appeared in his left palm.

“Assembling it according to bloodline theory is very complicated, but if you use the spiritual macro theory of our potions to translate each bloodline factor, I find it surprisingly simple. I only need to recognize the spiritual macro at the beginning and end of each bloodline factor. It’s almost as if a potion master I know very well designed it.”

The Macedonian witch frowned as she looked at the sealed essence in his hand. “In that case, I’ve been meddling. Sally, Dillow, let’s go.”

Locke turned to look at the Macedonian witch, who was keeping everyone at arm’s length, and felt rather helpless. “I thought we old friends would exchange a few more pleasantries.”

The Macedonian witch said, “We’re not friends. I just don’t like petty tricks.”

A mental projection of an old man in a chair appeared beside Locke. “Little Macedonian, I sincerely invited Locke to come and visit, and lent him the window of Turisuatus. How can that be considered a petty trick?”

The Macedonian witch bowed to the old man. “Deputy Director.”

The other two wizards quickly bowed as well.

This was a fourth-circle wizard.

The director said, “A hundred years ago, the Sea Queen was invited to help us perfect the Turisuatus Window and complete the bloodline encapsulation technology. This bloodline encapsulation technology, which incorporates a large amount of potion-making techniques, is a prime example of a multidisciplinary technological breakthrough.

Locke, a disciple of the Sea Queen, naturally finds using the Turisuatus Window very easy. However, some of the wizards below seem to have misunderstood my meaning.”

At this moment, Locke suddenly felt the three leaves of the World Tree within his immense magic vibrating continuously.

Locke looked at the old man in surprise. The old man’s entire body had turned to stone, half his chin was black rock, only the part of his head remained normal.

The old man looked at Locke, his eyes thoughtful. “Macedonian, take your friends and leave first. I want to spend some time alone with this young friend.”

The Macedonian witch was taken aback.

Young friend?

Why did the deputy director address Locke as “young friend” instead of “junior”?

The Macedonian witch turned and left with her friends.

The deputy director looked at Locke and smiled, “Macedonian is very intolerant of injustice. For her to consider you a friend shows your character is trustworthy.” “

Locke, it seems we have a lot to talk about. We need to have a long chat.”

The Macedonian witch left the Bloodline Sealing Laboratory with two Star Ring Witches, and a group of Star Ring Wizards, led by Alexander, surrounded them.

Wizard Alexander asked curiously, “Lady Macedonian, how is it going now?”

“Is Wizard Locke stumped by the director?”

The Macedonian witch gave him an annoyed look. “No. When I went in, Locke Augustine had already used his own strength to create the sealed essence.”

A group of Star Ring Wizards immediately erupted in commotion.

Alexander, a Bloodline Essence Master and Summoner, said, “Wow. Is this what a genius is? This—this is too exaggerated. He probably doesn’t even have a foundation in bloodline studies. I regret that I shouldn’t have made those sarcastic remarks that day, but instead, like you, applied for leave to participate in the Probus Truth Unveiling Competition.”

The other Star Ring Wizards also regretted not asking for leave that day.

The Macedonian Witch said, “It’s not too late for you to participate in the second one now.”

“Since there’s nothing more for me to do, then I need to get busy. I need to integrate the Cabbage Breeding System and the Warlock System. This will take a long time. You all should focus on your own tasks.”