Chapter 264

Chapter 264 Grand Welcome Dinner

The next day, in the evening, after finishing several projects at hand and his own meditation in advance, Locke went to the place where the Hellfire Club held a party.

The party was not held in the port city, but in a public reception room belonging to the college next to the public plantation.

This seems to be specially prepared for celebrations and banquets within the college, and the facilities are very complete.

The interior is extremely gorgeous, so renting it for just one night costs five hundred magic stones.

In the center of the Hellfire Club’s banquet hall, Locke held a glass of [Refreshing Ice Brew] wizard wine and toasted with Harlan Vera’s outstanding students present.

The banquet provided a large number of different types of wizard wines and delicacies made by flavorists. There were even more than a hundred wizards who came to participate in the banquet in person.

There are even more powerful wizards who are no longer in the school, who chose to use magic projection to participate in the banquet and toast to themselves through the projection.

These wizards who used magic projection to attend the banquet are generally first-ring wizards.

They just symbolically toasted Locke with a glass of wine to give face to the protagonist of the banquet, and then focused on communicating with other people who were also official wizards.

After all, they are all formal wizards who have graduated long ago. Being able to come and drink a glass of wizard wine with Locke is already a courtesy.

The main purpose of these first-ring wizards participating in the master-disciple gathering is to continue exchanging information with other formal wizards in Harun Vera’s network, and even to trade some rare magical resources on the spot.

This is also one of the functions of the wizard mentor’s network of relationships.

Harlan Vera, with a smile on his face, exchanged experiences with those outstanding wizards who had already graduated, sharing what these students had recently told him about their achievements.

Harlan Vera sat in the main seat at the banquet. The two people sitting on his left and right were senior first-ring wizards, while Locke sat in the third seat next to his right.

This seat seems to be the one that is customarily reserved for the nominal protagonist at this kind of banquet.

Harlan Vera drank a glass of demon-blood champagne and looked at a formal wizard, his eyes lighting up. “Really? Adriana, have you been promoted from lecturer to official wizard instructor at the Essosend Fireweaver Academy on the Sun Shadow Peninsula?”

Harlan Vera smiled and said, “The Essosend Fireweaver Academy is the top wizarding organization in the Sun Shadow Peninsula Wizarding Land. Congratulations.”

“You really do have potential in this area.”

“The next step is to develop into a chief instructor.”

Adriana smiled, raised a glass of wizard wine, and toasted Harlan Vera. “I have to thank you, teacher. If it weren’t for that letter of recommendation, I wouldn’t have been able to join the Essosend Fireweaver Academy in the first place.”

“The teacher’s recommendation letter played a big role in the beginning. It’s a pity that Dean Bazel has been busy lately, but he still asked me to say hello to the teacher and hoped that the teacher would not be angry.”

Harlan Vera smiled and said, “It’s okay. Bazel is already a second-ring wizard. He’s naturally busy and won’t be attending my party. It was because of his influence that you were able to join the Fire Weaving Academy.”

“Bazel…” Harun Vera’s lips curled slightly. “He’s my proudest student. I still remember that no matter what teaching plan I assigned him, he always completed it perfectly.”

“It’s not so much that I’m teaching him, but rather that he’s testing the limits of my teaching abilities,” Harun Vera said with a smile. “Teaching a student like this is truly challenging, and it’s also what I love most.”

All the wizards present fell silent for a moment.

Obviously, everyone remembered Harun Villana’s teaching method of constantly raising their expectations of them. Even they felt overwhelmed and scared when they thought about it now.

They are wizard mentors themselves now, and rarely ask such of their students.

But they found it hard to imagine that there was someone who would feel helpless against Harun Vera’s teaching method.

What kind of super genius is that?

Harlan Vera looked at a formal wizard sitting across from the round table and said with a smile, “Anthony, I remember you went to the [Land of the Six Towers] wizard land to develop. I don’t know any formal wizards there, and you are the first formal wizard in our sect to go there.”

“In the future, if I have any students who need your help, you must help me, such as writing a letter of recommendation or something.”

“I don’t know what the land of the six towers is like. I haven’t been there much.”

Wizard Anthony smiled. It was obvious that he had just become an official wizard for a few years. Therefore, he felt extremely satisfied when he heard the stern and majestic teacher Harun Vera speaking to him in such a gentle and equal tone.

Wizard Anthony looked at Harlan Vera with gratitude. “Of course, Teacher Harlan. Just like you helped me before, I will also help my fellow students.”

Wizard Anthony was a bit boastful, so he talked incessantly about what he saw and heard in the land of six towers.

“The Land of Six Towers is a place with six super-ancient relic wizard towers. These six super-ancient wizard towers form a barrier that covers the wizard land. The most important magical resources in that place come from these six wizard towers.”

“The Land of Six Towers has many wizard towers and possesses a wealth of wizard tower construction technology. This is different from our southeastern region.”

“Every wizarding force has at least one wizard tower. I was shocked when I first saw a wizard tower.”

“The wizarding heritage in the Six Towers is dominated by families, and the master-disciple relationship is relatively weak. This is mainly because most of the magical resources in the Six Towers are controlled by a few fixed forces.”

Wizard Anthony talked incessantly, and his fellow formal wizards at the banquet were listening attentively. This banquet itself was also a rare opportunity for them to exchange information.

“The wizards of the Six Towers are extremely conservative and refuse to change drastically. Therefore, their magical skills, aside from those in the Wizard Tower, have basically fallen behind those of our Southeastern Region. It seems to me that they don’t want to progress, but only want to maintain the status quo.”

Wizard Anthony said, “If the Six Towers hadn’t been in need of a large number of potion masters for some reason and hadn’t offered them a coveted salary, I wouldn’t have gone there. But now, I’m just using the Six Towers as a springboard, a stopover to make some money before heading to a larger wizarding land.”

Harlan Vera nodded in agreement. “I agree that with your talent, you should go to a better wizarding land. Staying in the Land of the Six Towers isn’t a bad option, but it’s not the best.”

“It’s good that you think so.”

Locke had been listening silently at the side. Although he was the nominal protagonist of the banquet, this banquet was essentially a rare opportunity for Harun Vera’s disciples to reunite.

The main body of communication is still these first-ring wizards.

However, just by listening from the side, I can get a lot of useful information, which is much better than trying to interrupt and not hearing anything.

From the communication between these seniors, Locke gradually understood that the southeast corner was just an ordinary and remote small wizarding land among many wizarding lands.

But the southeast corner is not the worst wizarding land.

For example, the land of six towers, although the resources are richer than those in the southeast corner, and the magic tide is several levels stronger than that in the southeast corner, due to ideological reasons, the wizards there are complacent. Except for the wizard tower technology, other technologies have fallen far behind the outside world.

Then, those family wizards dared not step out of the wizard land of the Six Towers, which made them fall into a vicious circle, and something bad would happen one day.

Of course, Locke was surprised to learn that there was no Dark Wizard Alliance and no Dark Wizards in the Six Towers.

It was a completely white wizard land.

At the banquet, Harlan Vera suddenly changed the subject, pointed at Locke, and said, “Speaking of better wizarding lands, your new apprentice’s former wizard mentor, Witch Sophia, recently went to the Star Region Sea.”

“The Starry Sea is a really big place. It takes a lot of courage to go there.”

(End of this chapter)