At the banquet, many formal wizards' gazes fell upon Locke. Many formal wizards' projections showed expressions of surprise, envy, and disbelief on their faces.

Wizard Anthony said in amazement, "The Star Domain Sea? That's truly a big place. I remember that the year I just graduated, Witch Sophia was only a second-class wizard apprentice. Although she was a super genius at the time, I didn't pay much attention to her."

"She's already gone to the Star Domain Sea now?"

"My god, then she's not an ordinary genius."

Wizard Anthony's words carried deep envy. "The Star Domain Sea is not a place just any First Circle wizard dares to go."

"In that kind of place, even for First Circle wizards, dying of poverty there is very normal."

Adriana also spoke, sighing, "Hearing what Teacher and junior brother said, that Witch Sophia is indeed a super genius."

"The Star Domain Sea, even the Sunshade Peninsula wizard land where I am is at least two levels below the Star Domain Sea. I heard that the White Wizard Association of the Star Domain Sea has already begun wanting to concentrate magical resources and elevate the magical tide gradient of the Star Domain Sea, to promote the Star Domain Sea to a high magic environment, right?"

"Once the magical tide gradient is elevated, the upper limit of that wizard land will also be raised, and the speed at which wizards advance their magic levels can all be enhanced. Of course, for lower-level wizards, this may not necessarily be a good thing. It will make their lives even more difficult."

At the banquet, a formal wizard diverted the topic and deliberately told a joke, saying, "That's right. The Star Domain Sea has even produced the joke of formal wizard beggars. Can you imagine? A First Circle wizard in the Star Domain Sea, due to bankruptcy and continuous loans, plus investment failures, ended up becoming a beggar."

"Later, relying on others' pity, he managed to get a ticket to return to his native wizard land."

The group of First Circle wizards began to sigh about the hardships of life and how difficult things were for everyone.

Some began to say that forget about the Star Domain Sea, even the Sunshade Peninsula wasn't any easier to get by in.

From these formal wizards' accounts, Locke learned that the so-called Sunshade Peninsula was a peninsula connected to the southeastern quadrant, surrounded by sea on three sides.

Located to the east of the southeastern quadrant, but the connection point was blocked by the natural barrier of the Abyss Great Rift. Inside the Abyss Great Rift was space highly overlapping with the Abyss Plane, so it was crawling with abyssal creatures.

And the Sunshade Peninsula was land under the shadow of the sun. There was a special natural phenomenon-level wizard wonder called Sky Curtain created by ancient wizards, and it was a place where daylight hours exceeded nighttime hours.

Therefore, the Sunshade Peninsula, whether day or night, was perpetually covered in shadow, without seeing sunlight, looking as if it was forever under the sun's shadow.

Hence the name Sunshade Peninsula.

There were extremely many shadow wizards there.

Their shadow magic was very advanced, not comparable to shadow-related magic in the southeastern quadrant.

Halen Vera seemed to have considerable influence in the Sunshade Peninsula. His students had established a branch of shadow-type magical plants in the Sunshade Peninsula, and after so many years of development, it had gradually become a prominent discipline.

Locke even seized the opportunity to ask Adriana a question related to shadow-type magical plants. Adriana was an expert in shadow-type magical plants.

After Adriana finished answering, she smiled at the thoughtful Locke, saying, "Junior Augustine, you indeed have quite some ideas. From the quality of the question you posed to me, that can be seen."

"Indeed, the lightweight characteristics of shadow-type magical plants can be utilized, using the grafting cultivation method to improve the flight speed of flying-type magical plants."

Adriana gave another suggestion. "Teacher Halen Vera is the main proponent of shadow-type magical plants. The modern breeding concepts for this type of magical plant all come from him."

"You can go to the public library and review Teacher Halen Vera's related works. I think you'll definitely gain great inspiration."

Adriana smiled, saying, "No wonder Teacher would be willing to hold a banquet of this scale for you."

"Also thanks to you, we fellow disciples can meet collectively for the first time in these thirty years. This honor hasn't been seen for thirty years."

Locke bowed to Adriana, saying, "Senior Adriana, thank you for your answer and praise. Being able to join Teacher Halen Vera's school faction is also my honor."

Adriana suddenly asked, "Junior, you seem to have a flying-type magical plant project with a very high completion rate in hand, otherwise you couldn't ask such an in-depth question."

"Isn't that right?"

Seeing Halen Vera looking over with great interest, Locke simply nodded and said, "Yes, Senior. I do indeed have a flying magical plant that has completed the cultivation process in hand."

Locke's words attracted the attention of many First Circle wizards and other fellow wizards.

Flying-type magical plants were relatively special even at the First Circle stage.

Locke's topic still aroused the interest of quite a few First Circle wizards.

Locke said, "I've done certain breeding improvements to the Large Green Leaf Banana and found a rootstock-type magical plant that can mass-produce this rare magical plant, and have already successfully cultivated it. Just two days before attending the banquet."

"However, currently I still lack manpower to mass-produce this type of magical plant. The cultivation work for that rootstock-type magical plant I discovered is also not simple and requires a lot of manpower."

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone at the banquet varied.

The level of importance that some First Circle wizards placed on Locke in their eyes increased considerably.

If it were only a flying magical plant breeding project, for these First Circle wizards, it would just be interesting but if Locke truly solved the mass production problem of the Large Green Leaf Banana, then this project would have a certain appeal even to these formal wizards.

It was just a pity that at this moment, most of the people here weren't physically in the southeastern quadrant, and different wizard lands were separated by great distances, generally blocked by natural barriers, otherwise they couldn't be independent wizard lands.

Therefore, they had no way to propose cooperation with Locke.

Halen Vera's eyes lit up. Looking at Locke, he said, "Locke, such good news, yet you didn't tell me in advance. You let me find out at the gathering."

"This makes me, as a mentor, seem truly too derelict in my duties."

"You actually solved the mass production problem of the Large Green Leaf Banana. Good, excellent, this is very good. Truly worthy of Locke."

"Manpower? You lack manpower?" Halen Vera adjusted the position of his non-prescription glasses and raised his eyebrows, smiling at Locke, "There are plenty of outstanding wizards here, and even more of my students, as well as my students' students, who didn't come."

"Because I only invited the most outstanding batch."

"That is, all of you."

"These people can all become the manpower you need."