The branches of the Super Mandrake Vines were breaking one by one. Even though Locke had strengthened them and the spell models with his three thousand magic pressure, these spell models and apprentice-level magical plants could not withstand magic pressure above one thousand for too long.

Moreover, the beast-form vampire count was definitely not simple. Its close combat strength was enough to rival the legendary First Circle creature Behemoth, and perhaps it could even brawl with demons from the Abyssal World without falling behind.

So the Super Mandrake Vines were rapidly breaking, but the problem wasn't too serious.

The Minor Viridian Potion was eroding Stanley's permanent defensive field, causing one flaw after another to appear in his permanent defensive field, as if the originally airtight armor now had one small defect after another appearing.

The Minor Viridian Potion was a First Circle level universal curse-breaking potion. At this moment, its medicinal effect could just dispel the Aberrant Blood Curse that surrounded Stanley's body.

Meanwhile, Locke's Life Force Field crystalline barrier penetrated pervasively into the gaps in Stanley's permanent defensive field. The anti-negative energy field seeped into Stanley's body.

This caused some of the connection points of the advanced curse formations on his skin surface to begin breaking. Some skin actually reverted to human skin.

Locke manipulated his Life Force Field, "Compressing the permanent defensive field... this is roughly how it works. I've grasped a bit of the trick."

This thing was originally just some slight adjustments and changes to the existing spell model. Before becoming a formal wizard, Locke had already modified the Forest Sanctuary and made fine adjustments to adapt it to his soul.

So during battle, he rapidly calculated formulas mentally and redesigned the model, slightly compressing the Life Force Field into a pervasive force field to invade Stanley's body.

Stanley, three stories tall, let out a bestial roar. His three pairs of crimson eyes on his face released an unusual red glow.

The Black Chain Sword Bamboo, wrapped in black magic pressure, transformed into a massive blade edge that slashed across Stanley's back.

At the last moment, Stanley finally broke free from the restraints of the three Super Mandrake Vines and forcibly flew away.

However, his lower body was severed at the waist by Locke using the Black Chain Sword Bamboo. But because he had three pairs of wings, even with only his upper body remaining, he could still fly normally, so he flew away directly without looking back.

Because the Large Green Owl Banana couldn't catch up to his speed, Locke glanced at the direction Stanley was fleeing and didn't continue pursuing.

Stanley's angry voice appeared in midair. "You just wait, Wizard Locke Augustine."

However, he was also somewhat lacking in confidence. He was just a formal wizard, fundamentally unable to take revenge on a wizard with vaporized mental power.

And Locke's permanent defensive field was too powerful, with high magic pressure as well.

Unless he fell into being surrounded and attacked by numerous First Circle wizards, or was hunted by a wizard whose magic pressure far exceeded his, otherwise there was almost no danger to his life.

Locke glanced at the direction Stanley fled. According to his usual practice, he would definitely eradicate the roots, but because First Circle permanent defensive fields were really too much like turtle shells, even using three bottles of Minor Viridian Potion to temporarily dispel the curse, because First Circle permanent defensive fields were permanent, as long as the medicinal effect weakened slightly, Stanley's permanent defensive field would automatically recover.

And he himself didn't have any particularly powerful attack magic, which meant that without revealing his trump cards, he fundamentally couldn't kill Stanley.

Considering that Stanley had previously had a small half of his body severed by Witch Sophia, injuring his soul foundation, and now had his lower body severed by himself again, once more injuring his soul foundation, his future path cut off, just recovering from his injuries would take who knows how many years, so Locke didn't pay too much attention.

Locke looked at the Black Chain Sword Bamboo in his hand. At this moment, the Black Chain Sword Bamboo had actually already broken, like a broken sword.

This magical plant could no longer be used, otherwise it would completely die.

After all, it was a magical plant that had followed him for over a year. Locke sighed and placed it into his astral ring, then took out the Jade Iris Lichen.

"Apprentice-level magical plants fundamentally cannot participate in battles between First Circle wizards. Magical plants without wood element crystal cluster cells are really like holding a blade of grass for First Circle wizards, truly too fragile."

"Only First Circle magical plants that are kings among magical plants can withstand the magic pressure of formal wizards."

Locke sensed that the Nibelung Astrology System was once again attempting to establish mental contact with him. Witch Gabriel's voice sounded somewhat nervous. "Locke, you seemed to have just encountered a senior curse master. Are you alright?"

"What is your current condition?"

Locke nodded, "Mm, I'm fine. It's just that formal wizards with permanent defensive fields are really too hard to kill. I let him escape."

Witch Gabriel seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, "Locke, you just advanced to First Circle wizard. You have far too few spells in your spell pool."

"Moreover, normal battles between First Circle wizards are like this. Everyone has permanent defensive fields, so they're really hard to kill. You being able to defeat a long-established senior curse master is already very excellent."

Senior Advisor Francis suddenly interjected in the Nibelung System, "I observed your battle a bit through the Nibelung System. That magic pressure reaction was Wizard Stanley, right? Although he's just an ordinary wizard, the beast-form vampire count he transformed into is still relatively troublesome. He's killed quite a few of our wizard apprentices on the battlefield."

"Locke, you being able to defeat him shows that you can now hold your own. Time is truly wonderful. The apprentice of yesteryear now stands on equal footing with us."

Senior Advisor Francis said, "Wizard Augustine, as long as you open the defensive system and accomplish great merit for my academy, I promise you that you can have priority to stay and work at the school, even directly giving you a position as Lecturing Wizard."

"Our Lilith's Cottage teaching work has its own advantages. For example, our Lilith's Cottage teaching positions don't have as much pressure as other places, and they're all lifetime tenure systems."

"There are also many benefits. All wizard apprentices in the academy can support you financially, and research conditions can be satisfied as much as possible. As long as you work well, I guarantee that within ten years, I can get you evaluated for a formal wizard mentor teaching position!"

"The evaluation conditions from lecturer to wizard mentor at our Lilith's Cottage Academy aren't that strict. You only need to publish three S-rank articles in the association library. That is, equivalent to super S-rank articles or SS-rank articles on Lilith's Cottage's side."

"It can be said that at Lilith's Cottage, formal wizards all live very comfortably. With conditions like yours, Wizard Augustine, at our Lilith's Cottage, you'll very quickly be absorbed as a core member. Your future development ceiling might even be Senior Advisor!"

Locke was rather speechless. He hadn't expected that even at this time, Advisor Francis would still extend an olive branch to him, wanting to keep him at Lilith's Cottage.

The key was, why would he want such comfort? Formal wizards staying in the southeastern quadrant would indeed have very little pressure, but his ambitions didn't lie there.

Locke quickly used the Large Green Owl Banana to fly to his destination, the underground entrance to Lilith's Cottage's defensive device. "Witch Gabriel, please help me get in first."

"If we delay a bit longer, I'll very likely be noticed by those black wizards."

Witch Gabriel at this moment obviously also believed that restarting Lilith's Cottage's defensive system was more important than persuading Locke to stay at Lilith's Cottage, so she directly ignored Senior Advisor Francis and said to Locke, "Alright, Locke."

"Locke, I'm using Astral Orbit Fortune Tampering to modify your destiny trajectory, so those black wizards temporarily won't notice you. But I can't sustain it for too long."

"Hurry inside."

Before Locke, at the entrance to an underground chamber, the magic lock on the magic alloy door suddenly began to rotate. The magic lock automatically opened.

Locke quickly entered inside and immediately locked the magic lock again from the inside, closing the magic alloy door behind him.

Just shortly after he entered, a green fireball struck this magic door. Obviously, some black wizard had already noticed Locke's actions.