Sebastian immediately became furious.

"Are you kidding? According to the unwritten rules, this is our Lilith's Cottage's Forbidden Forest area. Doesn't Pyrotechnic Academy have your own Forbidden Forest area? Why intrude into our Forbidden Forest area?"

"Don't think we'll be afraid of you just because you're all specialized combat white wizards."

A flash of firelight passed through Wayne Acosta's eyes. At this moment, his eyes contained fury. If they hadn't set their sights on that army ant queen, they wouldn't have risked entering another academy's backyard.

Although the Forbidden Forest was a public resource, according to unwritten rules, everyone still swept the snow from their own doorsteps. Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't privately enter someone else's backyard.

Of course, occasionally going in once or twice wasn't too big a deal.

Anyway, they were all in the outer area of the Forbidden Forest maintained by the White Wizard Association. As long as black wizards couldn't enter, it was fine, so it wasn't that strict.

The main issue this time was that their luck was really bad. They actually encountered people from Lilith's Cottage not long after crossing Forbidden Forest areas.

Wayne Acosta said domineeringly, "Enough talk. There are over a hundred army ants here."

"There's even an army ant queen hidden among them. If you don't make way, can you handle them?"

The next moment, a massive magic pressure surged toward him. Black magic pressure transformed into sharp blades that cut through ten army ants beside Wayne Acosta.

All these army ants were instantly cut into pieces by the Black Lock Bamboo Sword controlled by Green Grasp.

Locke accurately used magical vines to collect the mandibles of twenty army ants into his astral ring.

Wayne Acosta looked back toward Locke's direction in alarm. "This magic pressure... he even vaguely exceeds the 800 mana limit."

"I'm Wayne Acosta. You are?"

Locke said calmly, "I'm Locke Augustine. According to regulations, you shouldn't appear here, right?"

"Leave immediately."

"These army ants are also our prey. I'm also very interested in the army ant queen you mentioned."

Wayne Acosta's expression changed slightly. 'It's actually the "Eye Demon" wizard. His combat power is astonishing. Meeting him today, he seems even stronger than the rumors.'

'My luck recently has been so bad. Generally, people who cross Forbidden Forest areas don't encounter any problems. But not only did I have a conflict with wizards from Lilith's Cottage, I even encountered this kind of ruthless person.'

The several wizards behind Wayne Acosta heard Locke driving them away, and anger appeared on their faces one by one.

Pyrotechnic Academy's combat white wizards naturally looked down somewhat on the combat power of Lilith's Cottage's wizards. At this moment, they were naturally unconvinced.

"We threw out a lot of special bait and worked hard to hook this army ant swarm in the Forbidden Forest. You say we should leave, and we leave? Will you compensate us? Compensate us and we'll leave, plus our wasted time!"

"You Lilith's Cottage wizards think too well of yourselves."

Sebastian's side also showed furious expressions. "It was clearly you Pyrotechnic Academy who broke the rules first."

"This entire Forbidden Forest area is our Lilith's Cottage's secret realm. You shouldn't have intruded."

Several Pyrotechnic Academy wizards directly attacked brazenly. "We don't care about all that. If you don't want to die, make way immediately. Don't obstruct us."

Pyrotechnic Academy specialized in studying the flame magic sub-direction of the Evocation School. Even if they hadn't transferred to become Immolators, they were all skilled in highly destructive flame magic.

At this moment, four Pyrotechnic Academy wizards collectively attacked. Immediately, over fifty basketball-sized fireballs attacked toward Locke and the others.

This was a large-scale collective fireball technique composed of group fireball techniques cast by each wizard.

High temperatures immediately enveloped Nixon, Sebastian, and the others. Plus the army ants were still attacking them. For a moment, the Lilith's Cottage wizards fell into a situation of being attacked from front and back.

Sebastian and the others' expressions were ugly. The Gear Iron Brambles were under tremendous pressure in the high temperature of the flames.

Flame magic indeed countered ordinary plant magic quite well.

But in this instant, Locke swung the Black Chain Sword Bamboo again. A black magic pressure transformed into a sharp magic blade and directly cut through the middle of these fireballs. In an instant, all the fireballs completely disintegrated and the flames extinguished.

Even those flames were blown back by the black magic pressure wind, conversely blowing toward the Pyrotechnic Academy wizards.

The four wizards who had attacked were all blown about by this black magic pressure wind.

This was the power of the extreme limit of apprentice-level combat capability.

In this moment, all these apprentices felt the huge gap that existed between them and Locke at this moment.

The magic pressure wind produced by his close-combat type plant magic was sufficient to extinguish their flames.

"This magic pressure... how terrifying."

Locke began to grow impatient, and his eyes had become threatening, "Scram."

All things come in threes. In the Forbidden Forest, this was a rare lawless place in white wizard society. Whatever happened here, no one would know.

As long as they prevented others from using True Sight Orbs to record any images and leave evidence, basically no matter what they did, there wouldn't be too big a problem.

At this time, Pyrotechnic Academy wizard seed Wayne Acosta's eyes flickered, full of fury. Only his wariness of the legendary Eye Demon wizard prevented him from acting.

Immolators were different from ordinary wizards. They refused to suppress their anger, so compared to ordinary wizards, their personalities were more violent.

Wayne Acosta naturally didn't want to swallow this grievance. Even though they had slightly violated rules, this world spoke with strength. Ordinary Lilith's Cottage wizards weren't skilled in combat and would most likely have to swallow this bitter pill.

Who knew that this time it was the formidable Eye Demon wizard leading the team, conversely making them swallow this bitter pill.

Wayne Acosta was secretly calculating his odds of victory against Locke if he acted.

Suddenly, his eyes moved slightly as he sensed a massive tremor from the ground. The scale of this tremor was very large.

"It's earth trembling." Wayne's face showed joy. "After chasing for so many days, we've finally drawn out the army ant queen. Earth trembling is a sign of the army ant queen's appearance."

An army ant queen over a hundred meters long from front to back drilled out from the Forbidden Forest ground. Nearby tree-type magical plants fell about in disarray. Magical creatures could only flee in panic.

This army ant queen obviously possessed the most powerful force below a formal wizard.

The army ant queen sprouted a pair of massive transparent wings from its back and seemed to be flying with these transparent wings. The Pyrotechnic Academy wizards were very excited after seeing this scene, but the next moment, they widened their eyes.

Because a geomagnetic force descended on this army ant queen's back. A beam of light cut it in half at the waist. The massive army ant queen was actually directly split in two and crashed to the ground.

Then this near-First Circle magic geomagnetic force suddenly contracted, gathering all the nearby flowers, birds, insects, beasts, trees, and foliage.

Just like the scene Locke had once seen through archaeological magic in images from the past, of the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat ranging across ancient forests.

At this moment, Locke displayed the ultimate power of geomagnetic force that 900 magic pressure could support, instantly killing the army ant queen that had triggered earth trembling.