Locke set down the Three-Headed Rapid-Fire Peas. Just moments ago, he had aimed in Hussein's direction, forming a bullet shooting range that covered half the sky, leaving Hussein with barely more than half his body to escape with.

That was enough.

Although he didn't know which faction Hussein truly belonged to, this way he didn't have to kill him. He could observe Hussein's subsequent actions, weaken him, and still not expose Hussein's abnormality.

Locke looked at the pea magical plant in his hand. The pea was already beginning to be unable to withstand his magic pressure. Its roots were starting to wither, and the pea's leaves had turned scorched and black.

The mana of a First Circle wizard was not something an ordinary magical plant could bear.

Only First Circle magical plants possessing wood element crystal cluster wall cells could withstand it.

This was also why senior breeders constantly pursued cultivating even more powerful magical plants.

One of the breeders' ultimate goals was to cultivate the world's most powerful magical plants.

"I've only just become a First Circle wizard. Although I have three thousand five hundred magic pressure, in reality, as far as my spell pool is concerned, aside from three types of permanent defensive fields (plus the basic force field), I don't know any First Circle magic," Locke thought to himself. "The only First Circle magical plant I have is one Executioner's Hammer Mushroom."

"Fortunately, I still have the bloodline spells brought by the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat, as well as the ferocious beast template brought by being a Nature Guardian."

Locke commanded Sebastian and the others, "The academy is now under sudden attack by black wizards. You must immediately head to the academy to provide support."

Now that he was a formal wizard of the academy, he naturally could command these students.

A formal wizard was no longer a student, but an instructor!

Sebastian and the others now obeyed Locke's every word. They also had various contracts with the academy, and indeed needed to protect the academy's valuable assets at this time.

Locke acted alone, heading toward the main campus of Lilith's Cottage. Along the way, Locke observed that the main city of Lilith's Cottage during the attack was... thriving.

The common people, animals and plants, and even the ecology of this land had actually become stronger.

Only the black wizards were continuously attacking Lilith's Cottage's important facilities.

"Interesting. Most of the curses I've seen before used reduction methods, meant to diminish the target, but this curse actually uses an enhancement method, first enhancing the target to complete the curse. I just don't know what will happen in the second stage."

Locke observed while hovering in midair, "Through the enhancement method, they can indeed plant the curse into everyone's body in the first wave, then harvest through the second and third stages."

Locke wasn't too worried about his own safety at the moment.

A formal wizard's permanent defensive field was like the full plate armor on a medieval knight's body. It was like a turtle shell. Even if he couldn't win in battle, he still had enormous margin for error and could respond calmly.

The reason Witch Sophia had been able to consecutively kill two black wizards before was not only because she was a Fourth Stage First Circle wizard, but also because those two black wizards' permanent defensive fields were actually offensive blood curse magic, not defensive magic.

They had completely taken the wrong path.

They had lost their entire future.

Even their combat ability had drastically declined as a result. He really didn't know why the Blood Curse Court hadn't reminded them of this before they engraved their permanent defensive fields.

"Hmm?"

Locke looked toward the sky above the port city. Around that massive crimson wooden stake, many white skull-formed walls had appeared. These white skulls formed the pattern of a goat's head on the walls.

The skull goat head looked like some evil demon archduke.

That was... the symbol of the southeastern quadrant's top-tier black wizard organization, the [Corpse Control Court].

This operation was actually not a solo action by the Blood Curse Court.

Locke looked toward the top of that wooden stake from the Blood Curse Court that was slowly falling down like a meteorite. A dark gate had opened on top of it. Formal wizards and first-class wizard apprentices from four major wizard organizations, [Corpse Control Court], [White Bone Cult], [Ghost Sacred Order], and [Blood Curse Court], along with their war machines, were emerging from that dark gate.

Locke thought for a moment and still chose to temporarily land on the ground, first moving covertly to observe the situation.

The [Corpse Control Court]'s white bone barriers were assembling together in the sky, isolating the port city of Lilith's Cottage from the outside, though their purpose was unclear.

Moreover, this operation seemed to be a concentrated action by the Black Wizard Alliance of the southeastern quadrant.

At this time, within the port city there were already skeleton armies from the [Corpse Control Court] and [White Bone Cult], ghoul and vampire zombie legions from the Blood Curse Court, and phantom lords from the Ghost Sacred Order.

Various undead creatures were now rampaging through Lilith's Cottage's main campus.

The formal wizard from the [Corpse Control Court] standing there was a First Circle wizard at the mental crystallization stage. His entire body was skeletal, but he wore a black wizard robe. His bones were covered with decorative rivets, and even in his eye socket area, a nail had been driven in as decoration.

This formal wizard from the [Corpse Control Court], Hammerk, said, "Everyone, you've all seen it. The white wizards made the first move."

"The White Wizard Association of the southeastern quadrant has been aggressive, demanding we repay all the debts we owed before, and the interest gets higher every year. We have in fact become their cheap labor, and must accept their inferior assets every year, serving as targets for their conflict displacement."

"Lilith's Cottage has twice wantonly slaughtered high-level First Circle wizards from our side."

"The alliance leader can no longer tolerate us black wizards being used as the white wizards' black gloves and dumping ground for inferior assets!"

"The imbalance in asset structure, the unreasonableness of resource allocation, everything about this world is utterly unreasonable. Only force is most reasonable. The strong should naturally obtain everything, and the weak should be exploited by powerful wizards. Breaking away from those foolish, hypocritical rules and regulations set by the white wizards, we discover that to obtain resources, we only need to take them by force."

"What transactions? Too complicated. Just take them by force and be done with it."

"This time is a serious warning from our Black Wizard Alliance to the White Wizard Association of the southeastern quadrant. We will severely damage Lilith's Cottage, plunder the potions here, obtain the most important Sacrifice Potions, as well as those potions useful even to us First Circle wizards, and those magical resources..."

"Conquer and obtain everything with force! The era of transactions has passed!"

"The order of the southeastern quadrant must be rebuilt. We will restore ancient wizard society," Wizard Hammerk said coldly. "If you want magical resources, go plunder them with your own hands."

"I'll tell everyone some good news. The alliance leader recently discovered a medium-scale plane. We will learn from the glory of ancient wizards, restore the social system of ancient wizards, and imitate ancient wizards in forcefully plundering external resources! Completely cast off the hypocritical practices of those foolish white wizards."

"This operation is not only revenge for the Blood Curse Court, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, but also a test by the alliance leader of your values. Only wizard organizations that pass can participate in the alliance's development of that medium-scale plane in that enormous project."