Hussein immediately wanted to retreat, but he was horrified to discover that the Sea Gold Sand's gold sand wall had absorbed his fist, preventing him from quickly breaking free.

He could only raise his left hand to protect his face.

The next moment, three gold sand torrents, like countless high-speed rotating iron balls, struck his left arm, actually causing the Vampire Count's arm to fracture.

'Bang bang~'

Continuous heavy sounds occurred on Hussein's body.

'So it's countless iron ball-like gold sand grains causing me blunt force trauma.' During the battle, Hussein quickly constructed in his mind a special dynamic simulation of how Locke's Gold Sand Torrent spell caused him damage. 'No, it should be compound damage, because the gold sand is still fluid.'

Hussein quickly retreated and looked at his fractured left arm. He saw that at the wound, there was an obvious torn cavity.

The wound on his left arm looked as if a large chunk of flesh and blood was missing.

'It's as if countless iron balls struck my arm. At that moment, the damage was mainly blunt trauma, but there was also fluid cutting damage because the gold sand is in a fluid state.'

'So it formed instantaneous cavity damage to my arm, which is blunt tearing damage.'

'It has the blunt trauma from heavy object impact, the cutting damage from countless fluids passing through, and the cavity damage caused by instantaneous pressure differentials, these three forms are very complex, enough to make ordinary defensive magic unable to cope.'

'Worthy of golden magic, worthy of Locke Augustine. Indeed troublesome. And my curse magic hitting this gold sand won't have any effect.'

The next moment, red light emanated around Hussein's beast arm. Facing Locke's second use of Gold Sand Torrent, he swung his right arm, forcefully tearing an air wall in the air, temporarily blocking the three gold sand torrents pursuing him and deflecting their attack direction.

At the same time, magical radiance like a blood moon appeared around his broken left arm, and in the blink of an eye, it had completely healed.

Seeing this scene, Locke frowned slightly, already guessing in his heart what Hussein's permanent defensive field was.

He hadn't expected the opponent to choose such an extreme direction for his permanent defensive field.

Hussein jumped over Locke from above, trying to circle behind him, and casually released a Full Body Paralysis Blood Curse, but was once again blocked by the gold sand wall that Locke used with Gold Sand Torrent.

Moreover, the next moment, when Hussein got close to Locke and tried to attack Locke's back with his left hand.

Locke suddenly turned around. The Sea Gold Sand spear gripped in his right hand instantly spread its branches and leaves, automatically extending to form a sharp spear that pierced through Hussein's chest.

This was the First Circle plant magic [Flowing Gold Fern Spear].

Gold Sand Torrent could assist in defense, attack, and control.

While Flowing Gold Fern Spear fully utilized Sea Gold Sand's sharp characteristics and the immutability of gold property. In an instant, using plant magic, it manifested all of Sea Gold Sand's magical plant traits and golden magic characteristics, transforming it into an extending spear that pierced through enemies.

It could be used in close combat or thrown as a spear.

Endless wonderful uses.

Hussein coughed up scorching blood. His fist struck Locke's life force field and was deflected.

He smiled bitterly. The next moment, he felt that as the Flowing Gold Fern Spear pierced through his chest, countless Sea Gold Sand spore gold powder also entered his bloodstream and began rampaging inside his body.

It was as if after a spear pierced through his chest, countless small spears were also rampaging inside him.

At the same time, intense piercing pain erupted within him.

All pain for those wounded by Sea Gold Sand would be magnified more than tenfold within an hour!

This was enough to directly eliminate most of the combat ability of wizards without firm willpower.

Locke said to Hussein, "Wait, I'll help you remove the curse."

"Sea Gold Sand will amplify your pain. At the same time, my plant magic Flowing Gold Fern Spear will cause golden element particle elemental infusion damage inside you. This is the typical damage characteristic of First Circle plant magic, using magical plants to perform elemental infusion on enemies. It's very dangerous. If you're not careful, your body and soul elements will lose balance, and you'll develop [Elemental Imbalance Syndrome], a disease that's fatal even to wizards."

Hussein grinned. "No need. This level hasn't reached my limit yet."

"Locke, don't underestimate my willpower."

The next moment, he flapped the three pairs of bat wings on his back. The three pairs of scarlet blood eyes on his face released six scarlet rays of vision, as if a demon god had descended.

He directly used his wings to fly backward, breaking free from the spear that Sea Gold Sand in Locke's hand had transformed into.

At the same time, his entire body released scarlet light, and the damage on him was rapidly healing.

Seeing this scene, Locke said, "As expected, I guessed correctly. You actually set your permanent defensive field as [Vampire Transformation Blood Curse]. This way, by relying on your permanent defensive field, you've strengthened your physical body and your immortality ability. In this case, your physical body is your permanent defensive field."

"Or rather, you used your permanent defensive field to strengthen your immortality ability."

The Blood Curse Court's magic system, at the apprentice stage, had very overpowered immortality abilities because every vampire was essentially transformed into a vampire by being cursed by a First Circle wizard's blood curse. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

But at the First Circle wizard stage, Blood Curse Court black wizards would choose to reduce their immortality and rapid self-healing abilities to strengthen their powerful physique, destructive power, and terrible damage capability.

After all, at the First Circle stage, continuing to invest in the vampire's pseudo-immortality ability didn't yield great returns.

First Circle wizards from various schools had far too many methods to bypass the vampire's immortality blood curse and directly kill them.

But Hussein actually went against the norm, using his permanent defensive field to strengthen his immortality curse, and indeed obtained terrifyingly fast self-healing ability.

Seeing his permanent defensive field exposed, Hussein no longer hid it and smiled. "Indeed so. This is actually our Blood Curse Court's original advancement route, the correct path recorded in the founding wizard's notes. The Blood Lord also follows this route."

"But this generation's Blood Lord, afraid that his students would threaten him, used conspiracy to distort the knowledge of the correct advancement route, making Blood Curse Court black wizards learn other blood curses. It's truly putting the cart before the horse. I never thought one person's fear and suspicion would be worth sacrificing the entire school's future potential."

Hussein transformed from the beast form of Vampire Count in mid-air back to human form, once again becoming the elegant image of a nobleman in the dark night.

In this human form, his flight speed seemed to increase several times.

Using this speed, Hussein continuously flew around Locke, releasing blood curses, wanting to use his speed advantage to wear down Locke with blood curses.

But Locke frowned and shook his head slightly. "This is useless. Hussein, you don't have any magic that can break through my permanent defensive field."

"The only possibility to break through with continuous strikes is your physical strength. But now you don't even dare approach me. If we keep fighting, it's just wasting everyone's time."

"On the contrary, if I want to knock you down from the air, it's an easy matter."

The Sea Gold Sand in Locke's hand spread open again, forming a golden spiral shape. At the tip of each triangular pinnate leaf, a gold sand bullet appeared. Then Locke continuously swept fire toward the sky.

First Circle magic [Gold Sand Bullets]!

This magic could accelerate each gold sand grain's speed, shooting them at supersonic speed toward enemies.

'Bang~'

Hussein persisted in the air for less than a minute before being locked on by Locke using this magic and directly shot down, smashing a crater in the ground.

When Hussein climbed up from the ground again, he smiled bitterly and voluntarily released his vampire state, returning to the state of a human youth.

He waved his hands repeatedly, smiling bitterly. "Can't win, really can't win."

"I originally thought that with my special permanent defensive field and the original version of Vampire Count transformation curse, I could defeat you across levels. But now it seems that even if we were at the same level, I still wouldn't be your match."

"I'm completely convinced."

The gap between them was already very obvious.

Hussein's only possible means of breaking Locke's permanent defensive field had been restricted.

And Locke had already caused him tremendous damage. If they continued fighting, Locke could use Sea Gold Sand to continuously erode his immortality curse power, possibly even killing him.

And his greatest strength, speed, was countered by the First Circle plant magic [Gold Sand Bullets].

So this time, he was utterly defeated.

It was just that Locke and he weren't enemies at this moment, so Locke didn't continue pursuing.

If they were in the wilderness as enemies, and Locke had continued pursuing just now, Hussein knew he would definitely be in a terrible state.

It might not necessarily be much better than the last time he was overwhelmingly defeated by Locke.

"Moreover, the wizard robe I bought earlier was also damaged by you. In your white wizard lands, money is really too important. Even First Circle wizards have to worry without money." Hussein took out a new set of ordinary wizard robes from his astral ring and put them on. He shook his head slightly. "This is my first time being overwhelmingly defeated twice in succession by someone of the same generation."

"But next time we fight, I'll definitely get my revenge."

Locke glanced at him, chanted a spell to remove the golden magic he had planted inside him, then said, "Hussein, let's hurry to the Dispatch Department."

This battle with Hussein had brought him considerable gains.

Among ordinary formal wizards, Hussein should be considered to have decent combat ability.

Although he had just advanced, because his permanent defensive field was special, he didn't have any soul weakness period. Moreover, his accumulation was deep, and he himself was a genius comparable to Witch Sophia, so his spell pool wasn't small.

Even because he had traced back the Blood Curse Court's founding wizard's research notes and was walking the correct path, his combat ability exceeded 99% of Blood Curse Court wizards at the same level.

But even so, when he only used his normal magical pressure, didn't use any ancient creature bloodline trump cards, didn't use a second First Circle magical plant, and didn't use Forest Sanctuary to switch permanent defensive fields, the opponent was completely suppressed by him using Sea Gold Sand magical plant and Scorching Gold Sand Flow magic series.

It could be seen that his use of Sea Gold Sand series magic was indeed extremely powerful.

Previously, when he chose Sea Gold Sand as his current main magical plant, it seemed he chose correctly.

Locke put Sea Gold Sand into his astral ring, and at the same time looked at the nearby terrain that had been shattered by him and Hussein fighting. He sighed in his heart—battles between First Circle wizards really destroyed terrain too much.

After the two fought, they had more understanding of each other, and quite a bit of estrangement disappeared.

The Dispatch Department was located at the White Wizard Association headquarters, and the White Wizard Association headquarters was established at Virdantia University. Therefore, Locke chose to rent the academy's Engel Swift Snail carriage fleet to go to that university with Hussein.

The journey was long, so he'd save himself from flying there.

Inside the carriage behind the Engel Swift Snail, Hussein looked at Locke's left arm and frowned. "Haven't you removed Stanley's tracking blood curse yet?"

He raised his hand. "How about I remove this blood curse for you on the road? I'm very familiar with higher geometric formulas. Starting from the fragile connection points, it's easy to undo."

Locke shook his head slightly, indicating refusal. "Forget it. I can also use potions to remove this blood curse myself."

"But I don't want to remove it. I'm still hoping to use this blood curse to attract Stanley to come seek revenge on me, so I can take the opportunity to completely eliminate him."

"Since this curse hasn't disappeared, it means Stanley survived on the previous battlefield, probably by relying on the vampire's survival advantages."

Unlike before, Locke's spell pool currently had three First Circle level attack magic spells, his magical pressure had risen again, and he had completely mastered First Circle level combat methods.

If Stanley came to seek revenge on him again, he could completely kill him with a backhand.

Hearing Locke say this, Hussein shook his head slightly. "Worthy of the Eye Demon wizard. But I know Stanley's character, he bullies the weak and fears the strong. If you're weaker than him, he'll be vicious. If you're stronger than him, he'll cower."

"I think he probably has no intention of revenge toward you anymore. His revenge only targets the weak."

"Most formal wizards in the Blood Curse Court are... like that."

"Otherwise, they definitely wouldn't remain in the Blood Curse Court."

Five days later, the carriage fleet they hired crossed half the southeastern quadrant and arrived at Virdantia University.

Virdantia University was located in a white mountain city.

All the buildings in the entire city were pure white, and the architecture was all square and very orderly.

After the two identified themselves, people from Virdantia University immediately came to receive them and brought them into the city, leading them toward the location of the southeastern quadrant White Wizard Association headquarters.

Locke and Hussein saw that the White Wizard Association building was a continuous palace complex composed of dozens of pure white buildings.

Eight enormous angel statues surrounded these buildings.

Hussein had a complex expression. "I never thought that as a black wizard, I would one day enter your White Wizard Association's stronghold."

Locke glanced at him and pointed at the divine barrier at the entrance to the White Wizard Association headquarters. "That's defensive magic from the Divine School."

"How will you get through? Although the entry conditions for that barrier won't be too strict, after all, many white wizards themselves aren't clean, so as long as there's no clear criminal charge, they should be able to enter but you're already black through and through. Are you sure you can enter the branch association headquarters?"

Hussein wore a special white badge on the chest of his wizard robe. "Oh, the association issued me a special pardon badge."

"I can use this to go in."

Locke glanced at the special badge in his hand that contained divine magic, feeling somewhat speechless.

Right, how could divine magic be such an inconvenient thing?