An Omen Mandrake Vine extended from beneath Locke's right wizard robe sleeve and grabbed a gray Tree Sloth Stone Lizard clinging to the trunk of a Steel Needle Fir tree.

Locke squeezed the lizard's belly with his magical vine. Immediately, the lizard raised its head and emitted a strange call. The call released invisible sound waves, and all the Frog Tongue Moss that heard this special sound wave began to tremble inexplicably, and their movement speed became extremely slow.

Locke glanced at the other five first-class wizard apprentices and took the lead in actively walking through this Frog Tongue Moss jungle.

Locke said, "Frog Tongue Moss can be used to make various potions. Among them, the main material for Frog Transformation Potion is Frog Tongue Moss. Besides, the juice of this magical plant is also one of the common materials for making enchanted items. If you need any, you can collect some."

Locke used three magical vines to cut down some Frog Tongue Moss that had been slowed by the Tree Sloth Stone Lizard's call and placed them into his astral ring.

"Thank you, Senior." Sebastian squatted down with a smile, took out a runic knife from his pocket, carefully selected Frog Tongue Moss with better quality, picked them, and placed them in his small cloth bag.

The small cloth bag was a medium-quality enchanted item with a Space Extension Charm inside. The internal space was roughly equivalent to a carriage compartment.

Not everyone could afford to use astral rings.

The other four first-class wizard apprentices also followed along harvesting Frog Tongue Moss and began thanking Locke.

Inside the Forbidden Forest secret realm, special resources not found in the outside world were everywhere.

Just harvesting the complex magical resources inside was a huge gain.

After a while, several people had penetrated deep into the Forbidden Forest. All kinds of Forbidden Forest magical plants and Forbidden Forest magical creatures rarely seen in the outside world appeared before everyone.

Some trees were extremely tall, easily over a hundred meters. Walking beneath these trees, they were like ants, incomparably tiny.

Some magical flowers had complex and brilliant colors, but all were highly poisonous. Moreover, each different colored flower had different toxins. Many present were potion master assistants, so none dared to randomly touch unknown flowers in the Forbidden Forest.

No matter how beautiful they were.

Along the way, Locke and the others encountered many strange phenomena in the Forbidden Forest.

For example, in one area of the Forbidden Forest ground, as soon as they stepped on it, the ground not far away would emit a huge sound and form a deep pit similar to their footprint, only this pit was usually dozens of times the area of their footprint.

There were many such incomprehensible strange phenomena in the Forbidden Forest.

Sebastian said to Nixon, a first-class wizard apprentice traveling with them who was over a hundred years old this year, "Ah, I remember that special footprint phenomenon is the main research area of one of my classmates recently."

"It seems to involve some magical theory from the Illusion School, but he's been working on this subject for many years with basically no results."

"Mainly because his wizard mentor's research direction is also in this direction, so he can only be forced to research the special footprint phenomenon long-term because it's his wizard mentor's order."

Nixon's face was bitter as he smiled wryly. "There's no helping it. Sigh, this kind of field itself is difficult to produce results. Even formal wizards may not be able to research it clearly. Your friend is really unlucky enough."

Nixon looked at Locke respectfully and said, "This time we can follow Senior into the Forbidden Forest together and obtain some magical resources useful for our future, that would be great."

"It's all thanks to Senior Augustine."

Locke glanced at Nixon. Nixon seemed to be a member of one of the seventy-two native wizard families of Lilith's Cottage, the head of the Nixon family.

These native wizard families, although they were descendants of Lilith's Cottage's initial founding members, unfortunately had declined one by one into a sorry state.

The quality of first-class wizard apprentices from their side was generally quite low.

From a deep forest path ahead of them, a massive ant as large as a house suddenly sprang out. The ant was covered in steel armor with some bright red magical patterns on its body.

It seemed to have burrowed out from underground. Those magical creatures hiding nearby all scattered and fled one by one.

Locke frowned. "Army ants. This type of ant doesn't act alone. They definitely move in groups."

"Be careful."

"However, army ant mandibles are the main material for making high-grade enchanted items like Malice Scimitars. You can hunt some to bring back. They're all relatively large gains."

Nixon immediately released a defensive spell, manipulating the Gear Iron Brambles he carried with him. The Gear Iron Brambles automatically meshed and transformed into armor that covered his body and blocked the army ant charging fiercely toward him.

The army ant's enormous terrifying mandibles, like a pair of scissors, bit onto his body. The mandibles and Gear Iron Brambles produced intense friction, creating sparks.

The army ant immediately twisted its body, raised its rear, exposed the stinger behind its rear, and stabbed toward Nixon, injecting a acid-like curse from the stinger into Nixon's Gear Iron Brambles.

Fortunately, the Gear Iron Brambles had been tempered and refined as apprentice-level magical plants. Therefore, although there was a series of magical sparks and even some parts of the Gear Iron Brambles shrank and emitted intense sounds, they ultimately weren't destroyed.

On the contrary, that army ant was counter-injured by the Gear Iron Brambles. Its mandibles were full of wounds pierced by the spikes on the Gear Iron Brambles' surface.

This army ant therefore emitted a 'hissing' sound similar to intense friction.

Nixon's face was slightly pale. Obviously, he who lacked combat experience was quite frightened at this moment but soon the ground produced another series of tremors. Army ants after army ants drilled out from the ground, leaving deep pits one after another.

Hundreds of army ants actually drilled directly out from the ground. Their might was extremely terrifying. The ground seemed to experience a series of small earthquakes.

Nixon's face turned pale, "How can there be so many army ants? Even in the Forbidden Forest, it's impossible for so many army ants to appear together..."

Sebastian and the others were extremely tense and on guard all around. They sensed several unfamiliar mana pressures rapidly approaching from afar.

Several wizards wearing red wizard robes rapidly approached. When they saw Locke, they all paused, as if they hadn't expected to encounter first-class wizard apprentices from Lilith's Cottage here.

Locke saw from their wizard robes their identity as first-class wizard apprentices of Pyrotechnic Academy. The leader even wore a wizard seed identity badge, representing that he was this generation's wizard seed in the Immolator direction of Pyrotechnic Academy.

Pyrotechnic Academy's wizard seed Wayne Acosta frowned after seeing the people from Lilith's Cottage.

Because this part of the Forbidden Forest region strictly belonged to Lilith's Cottage, they had now intruded into someone else's Forbidden Forest area, so he simply took the initiative. "You wizards from Lilith's Cottage ahead, what's going on?"

"This batch of army ants is our target. We're driving them toward the direction of a predetermined magical trap. Please make way and don't obstruct us."