Locke observed and discovered there were quite a few dangerous creatures inside this swamp.

First, inside the swamp were active magical creatures called Swamp Mud Monsters. These giant-shaped swamp creatures were very dangerous, and they absolutely couldn't be attacked with fire magic, otherwise it would cause a chain explosion throughout the entire swamp.

Of course, these swamp creatures' combat power was very formidable. Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't let wizards hit them with flame magic either.

Besides this, there were also some special dangerous magical plants at the swamp bottom.

A swamp mud person appeared behind Locke. It crawled up from inside the swamp, raising its massive palm that was even dripping mud. This swamp creature let out a roar and fiercely slapped its palm down at Locke standing on the rock.

But the next moment, three Corrupt Soil Taro Kings appeared behind Locke. Under the spell model of Mayfly Flower Cannon, the three Corrupt Soil Taro Kings fired three shots in succession at the massive swamp creature behind Locke, directly blasting it apart.

Mud rain fell behind Locke all over the sky.

Locke raised his eyebrows. "Not bad. This swamp is naturally an isolation facility guarding the special-grade research project institute. No wonder after so many years, no one has discovered this research institute's location."

Locke looked up at the research institute before him. The research institute before his eyes was floating in mid-air, like a series of pyramids.

These pyramids were of various sizes.

Locke used the Large Green Owl Banana to fly directly onto the platform of the largest pyramid-shaped building floating in mid-air. He pressed his palm onto a rhombic crystal on the largest pyramid's platform.

As soon as he pressed his palm on this rhombic crystal, the rhombic crystal projected a series of magic lock projections into the air. Locke slid these magic lock projection according to memory, assembling the correct magic lock pattern from Wizard Foucault's memory fragments.

The instant he completed the magic lock pattern, the surface of the pyramid-shaped building floating in mid-air flickered with magical radiance. Countless green magical vines crawled onto the surface of these pyramid-shaped buildings, and these magical vines bloomed magical flowers of various colors.

A magic door opened on the pyramid-shaped building's surface.

"Very good. After so many years the magic lock hasn't been damaged, and the unlock password is also correct." Locke's eyes showed satisfaction. He walked into the magic door that opened on the pyramid-shaped building's main body.

As soon as he entered, he saw many person-height cultivation tanks filled with unknown liquid inside this building. Inside these semi-transparent cultivation tanks, some contained magical plants, some contained magical creatures, some were... embryos, and some cultivation tanks even contained some humanoid creatures, such as humans, elves, and dwarves.

Obviously, over 500 years had already passed, yet parts of this research institute's internal facilities were still operating.

Some mechanism still existed within this research institute.

Locke even saw some living humanoid creatures in some cultivation tanks. These creatures had obvious life characteristics.

They were still alive, but their current state was very strange. Therefore, Locke didn't dare randomly take them out. Very likely these people would face death as soon as they came out. It was better for him not to touch anything.

He walked through the dim research institute corridors and various rooms and entered this research institute's central control room, then attempted to activate the magic lamps in the central control room.

It turned out he really didn't expect that the magic lamp system in this central control room could still be activated.

The magic lamps in the entire central control room lit up one by one, illuminating the entire room.

Locke began reviewing the remaining materials in the central control room.

The materials in the entire central control room were placed in a messy manner. Perhaps it was because five hundred years ago, Wizard Foucault and the others had to respond to the White Wizard Association's sudden inspection and also had to relocate the research institute's location, so everything was very rushed.

Half a day later, a flash of joy passed through Locke's eyes. "These materials are very complete. They almost wrote down their research approach and the progress of results step by step."

"This trip wasn't in vain."

"Wizard Lewis and Wizard Foucault, five hundred years ago, attempted to research a magic that could reorganize and change one's First Circle permanent defensive field. This magic is called Forest Sanctuary. It's a magic that combined Transmutation School and Plant School magic and referenced heritage wizard array."

Locke paused because he remembered that heritage wizard array technology didn't exist in the southeastern quadrant. That should have been obtained by those two wizards in another region.

Reading the literature, Locke discovered that this magic's approach was actually to inscribe the basic spell model of Forest Sanctuary at the magic pressure structure level of one's soul. These spell models were just the composition structure.

Besides the composition structure part, the other spell model parts were external interfaces, which meant calling upon part of the spell models stored on external objects. This was a special design referencing heritage wizard arrays.

This way, the wizard's own basic permanent defensive field would merely be an ordinary natural energy shield. To add special effects to Forest Sanctuary, one would need to inscribe spell models on other objects to increase Forest Sanctuary's magical effects.

Originally, Wizard Lewis and Wizard Foucault wanted to place the external spell models in a forest, making that Forest Sanctuary have some special connection with the wizard, just like the connection between heritage wizard arrays and wizards.

The forest was part of that wizard's power. It could also be placed in a First Circle magical item called the Druid's Ring using special magical devices and carried around without affecting convenience at all.

It could also be placed in a certain location for a long time like heritage wizard arrays to guard an area and more easily absorb surrounding natural energy.

In battle, this wizard could call upon spell models hidden in the forest at any time to realize the possibility of using multiple permanent defensive field magics in one battle but the problem appeared here.

The original mana grafting connection between wizards and magical plants wasn't as close as the connection between wizards and heritage wizard arrays. Then the external connection part of this Forest Sanctuary magic couldn't be realized.

This entire magic became a castle in the air, a tree without roots.

No possibility of realization.

Locke pondered, "That would be equivalent to inscribing the most basic permanent defensive field on one's soul part, then the remaining advanced parts would be decided by externally connected spell models. It could achieve subsequent enhancement, even a series of repeated stacked enhancements."

"Its function isn't just the simple ability to use multiple permanent defensive fields in one battle. It can stack multiple permanent defensive fields onto one permanent defensive field in one battle. This achieves raising the upper limit of a First Circle wizard's permanent defensive field."

"According to this speculation, establishing such a permanent defensive field could even raise the combat power upper limit and future upper limit of a First Circle wizard."

Locke said, "The ambition hidden in this magic is really great."

"But because the problem of closer connection couldn't be solved, the entire project basically produced no usable results."

According to the materials, Locke looked toward a spell model platform device in the central control room that was specially built for this project, used to attempt establishing this spell model.

"Perhaps this device can still be used." Locke's eyes were subtle. "Wizard Foucault and Wizard Lewis never succeeded in a single simulation. They just couldn't solve the last problem."

"If I can succeed, then I can try using this magic to become a formal wizard. If I fail, then forget it. I'll just use Life Force Field magic to become a formal wizard." Locke pondered.