The next day, in the evening, after Locke had finished handling several projects on hand and his own meditation in advance, he went to the place where the Hellfire Club was holding its gathering.

The location for holding the gathering was not in the port city, but in a public reception hall belonging to the academy next to the public botanical garden.

This seemed to be specially prepared to provide for celebrations and banquets within the academy, with very complete facilities.

The interior was extremely luxurious, so just renting it for one night required payment of five hundred magic stones.

In the center of the Hellfire Club banquet hall, Locke held a glass of Mind-Clearing Ice Brew wizard wine and toasted with Halen Vera's outstanding students present.

The banquet provided large quantities of different types of wizard wines and delicacies made by flavor masters. The wizards who personally came to participate in the banquet even exceeded a hundred people.

There were even more powerful wizards who were no longer within the school faction. They chose to use magic projections to participate in this banquet and toasted with him remotely through projections.

These wizards who used magic projections to attend the banquet were generally First Circle wizards.

They only symbolically toasted a glass of wine with Locke, giving face to the protagonist of this banquet, and then focused their attention on communicating with others who were also formal wizards.

After all, they were all formal wizards who had graduated long ago. That they could come and drink a glass of wizard wine with Locke was already giving face.

The greatest purpose for these First Circle wizards attending the school faction gathering was still to continue exchanging information with other formal wizards in Halen Vera's network, and even to conduct some transactions of rare magical resources on the spot.

This was also one of the functions of a wizard mentor's network.

Halen Vera had a smile on his face and exchanged insights with those outstanding wizards who had already graduated, sharing the achievements belonging to them that these students had recently told him about.

Halen Vera sat at the main seat of the banquet. Sitting to his left and right were two senior First Circle wizards, while Locke sat in the third position to his right.

This position seemed to be the spot habitually reserved for the nominal protagonist in this kind of banquet.

Halen Vera drank a glass of demon blood champagne and looked at a formal wizard, his eyes lighting up. "Is that so? Adriana, you've already been promoted from lecturer wizard to formal wizard mentor at the Ethosend Fireweave Academy in the Sunshade Peninsula?"

Halen Vera said with a smile, "The Ethosend Fireweave Academy is a top wizard organization in the Sunshade Peninsula wizard land. Congratulations."

"You indeed have potential in this area."

"The next step can be developing in the direction of chief mentor."

Adriana smiled and raised a glass of wizard wine, returning the toast to Halen Vera. "I still have to thank Teacher. If it weren't for Teacher's recommendation letter, I wouldn't have been able to join Ethosend Fireweave Academy at the beginning."

"Teacher's recommendation letter played a great role at the start. It's just a pity that Dean Bazel has been busy with matters recently. He's very busy, but he still asked me to send his regards to Teacher and hopes Teacher won't be angry."

Halen Vera smiled, "It doesn't matter. Bazel is already a Second Circle wizard. Of course, he's relatively busy and won't attend my banquet. That you could join the Fireweave Academy was originally because he used his influence."

"Bazel..." Halen Vera's lips curved slightly upward. "He's my most proud student. I still remember that no matter what kind of teaching plan I assigned him, he could complete it perfectly."

"Rather than saying I was teaching him, it would be better to say he was testing the limits of my teaching ability." Halen Vera showed a smile, saying, "Teaching such a student was truly a challenging thing, and also my favorite thing."

The First Circle wizards present all fell silent for a moment.

Clearly, everyone recalled Halen Vera's teaching method of continuously raising requirements for them. Even now when they thought about it, they felt their heads ache and felt afraid.

They themselves were now wizard mentors and rarely demanded so much from their own students but they found it somewhat hard to imagine that there would actually be someone who would make Halen Vera's teaching method feel powerless.

What kind of super genius would that have to be?

Halen Vera looked at a formal wizard sitting across the round table and smiled, saying, "Anthony, I remember you went to develop in the Land of Six Towers wizard land. I don't know any formal wizards there. You're still the first formal wizard in our school faction to go to the Land of Six Towers."

"In the future, if I have any students who need your help, you must help me, such as writing recommendation letters and such."

"I don't know what the Land of Six Towers is like. I haven't been there much."

Wizard Anthony showed a smile. Clearly, he had only become a formal wizard not many years ago, so hearing his formerly strict and dignified Teacher Halen Vera speaking to him in such a gentle and equal tone, he felt extremely satisfied internally.

Wizard Anthony looked at Halen Vera gratefully. "Of course, Teacher Halen. Just as you once helped me, I will also help my junior brothers and sisters."

Wizard Anthony was somewhat boastful, so he began talking endlessly about his experiences in the Land of Six Towers.

"The Land of Six Towers is a place with six super-ancient relic wizard towers. The six super-ancient wizard towers form a barrier covering that wizard land. The most important magical resources in that place all come from these six wizard towers."

"Within the Land of Six Towers, there are many wizard towers with very rich wizard tower construction technology. This point is different from our southeastern quadrant."

"Every wizard power has at least one or more wizard towers. The first time I saw a wizard tower, I was startled."

"The wizard inheritance in the Land of Six Towers is dominated by families, while master-disciple relationships are relatively weak. This is mainly because most of the magical resources in the Land of Six Towers are controlled by several fixed powers."

Wizard Anthony spoke endlessly, and the formal wizard peers at the banquet also listened carefully. This banquet itself was a rare opportunity for them to exchange information.

"The wizards of the Land of Six Towers are all extremely conservative, refusing major changes, so apart from wizard tower technology, their magical technology has basically fallen behind our southeastern quadrant. The feeling they give me is that they don't seem to want to progress, only wanting to maintain the status quo."

Wizard Anthony said, "If the Land of Six Towers didn't recently, for some unknown reason, need large numbers of potion masters and offered tempting salaries externally, I wouldn't go there. But now, I'm only using the Land of Six Towers as my stepping stone, just a transit station for me to make money before going to a larger wizard land."

Halen Vera couldn't help but nod as he listened. "I also feel that with your talent, you should go to better wizard lands. With your ability, staying in the Land of Six Towers, although not too bad a choice, isn't the best choice."

"It's good that you can think this way."

Locke had been listening silently on the side. Although he was the nominal protagonist of this banquet, this banquet was essentially a rare reunion opportunity for Halen Vera's school faction.

The main participants in the exchange were still these First Circle wizards.

However, just listening on the side allowed him to obtain a lot of useful information, which was much better than forcing himself to interject and ending up hearing nothing.

From the exchanges of these senior brothers and sisters, Locke gradually understood that the southeastern quadrant was just an unremarkable remote small wizard land among numerous wizard lands but the southeastern quadrant wasn't the worst wizard land either.

For example, that Land of Six Towers, although its resources were richer than the southeastern quadrant and its magical tides were several gradients denser than the southeastern quadrant, due to ideological reasons, the wizards there were complacent. Apart from wizard tower technology, other technologies had seriously fallen behind the outside world.

Then, those family wizards dared not step out of the Land of Six Towers wizard land even one step, which made them fall into a vicious cycle. Something would happen sooner or later.

Of course, Locke also unexpectedly learned that the Land of Six Towers had no black wizard alliance and no black wizards.

It was a completely white wizard land.

At the banquet, Halen Vera suddenly changed the topic and pointed to Locke, saying, "Speaking of better wizard lands, your new junior brother's former wizard mentor, Witch Sophia, recently went to the Star Domain Sea."

"The Star Domain Sea, that's truly a big place. Going there requires quite a lot of courage."