The two black wizards, in that instant, thought Locke was a black wizard disguised as a white wizard. Otherwise, how could they explain his various behaviors just now?

Locke quickly locked onto the clown leader. His eyes swept over the throwing knives behind him, then fixed his gaze on the clown leader's body. "Your little clown troupe is truly a group of complete fraudsters."

Just now, the clown leader, in order to dodge Locke's spell attack while carrying the burden of Alicia, directly exposed his cards. He used Transmutation School magic to transform his legs into a pair of spring legs, then barely avoided Locke's spell with the jumping force.

But this also meant he told Locke the fact that he was a shapeshifter from the Transmutation School. Those little tricks of using Evocation School to control throwing knives were relatively exposed before Locke.

He wasn't an Evocation School wizard at all, but a Transmutation School shapeshifter.

At the same time, the clown leader also gritted his teeth. "Calling me a fraudster, then what about you? Aren't you a bandit? You robbed our clown troupe's spoils and completely disregarded the hostage's life or death."

The animal tamer secretly used magic behind him, summoning a small magical bird in his palm. But the next moment, both the magical bird and his palm were pierced through by Locke using Sea Gold Sand transformed into a Flowing Gold Fern Spear.

The animal tamer screamed. His permanent defensive field was the auxiliary spell [Double Summoning], so as a Summoning School wizard, he could summon two magical pets in the same summoning magic.

This point was very easy to use for sneak attacks.

At this time, his right hand and a magical bird were pinned to the ground by the Flowing Gold Fern Spear, but a steel blade swallow hidden in the magical bird's shadow suddenly separated from the shadow and slashed toward Locke's neck.

But the next moment, Oak Armor appeared on Locke's body. A set of full-body armor made of white oak appeared on him. At the same time, Locke deflected that steel blade swallow with his right arm.

This group of black wizards' methods were truly too treacherous. There were too many little deceptive tricks.

At this time, the clown leader's eyes shone with light, feeling he had seized an opportunity.

His entire form rapidly changed. His whole person transformed into a spring person. Powerful potential energy accumulated throughout his body. Then he punched toward Locke. The moment his fist contacted the Oak Armor on Locke's body, this guy's fist suddenly began to flatten, becoming a two-dimensional planar fist that drilled in through gaps in Locke's Oak Armor.

Delight appeared in the clown leader's eyes, followed immediately by surging killing intent.

His permanent defensive field also wasn't defensive magic, but auxiliary-type magic [Two-Dimensional Expansion]. This spell could keep his body in a two-dimensional plane, using topological methods at incredible angles to find loopholes in the three-dimensional shapes of enemy wizards' permanent defensive fields. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

After all, some defensive fields only appeared to have no dead angles at 360°, but in reality, aside from Transmutation School wizards, other wizards rarely put too much effort into topology. As a result, their permanent defensive fields were very likely to have loopholes in topological structure.

This was why the clown leader learned this magic.

When facing enemies, suddenly deploying this magic with first-encounter killing effect, in an instant he could hit the enemy's vital point.

Although this trick couldn't possibly work a second time, the problem was that life only came once.

At that time, Locke's expression changed slightly. He obviously realized the other party's fist was attacking along the gaps in his Oak Armor's full-body plate armor.

Although the other party's fist had already been two-dimensionally expanded, the transmutation magic energy contained within hadn't diminished at all. As long as it passed through the Oak Armor's gaps and struck his heart, in an instant his heart would be blown apart.

The premise was that he only had Oak Armor as a permanent defensive field.

Locke's mind moved slightly. Immediately he transformed the Oak Armor on his body into Steam Bark. Now switching to Life Force Field was already a bit too late.

Because the other party's fist had already almost touched his skin.

The next moment, violent high-temperature steam erupted from Locke's body all at once. High-temperature steam transformed into a layer of bark on Locke's body.

The clown leader's expression changed dramatically. "What!"

"How can you have two permanent defensive fields?"

Because he was too close to Locke, when Locke used Steam Bark, he had no way to avoid it at all. High-temperature steam directly hit his right arm and also hit his face.

Moreover, Steam Bark didn't have topological loopholes on the two-dimensional level. After all, this thing was just a layer of steam. Locke could shape it however he wanted.

His fist struck Locke's Steam Bark. Enormous elastic potential energy released in an instant. Not only did it fail to break through Steam Bark, it even inversely damaged his own arm.

The clown leader screamed and was about to flee backward. Locke's large hand reached over and grabbed his throat. "You two, I need to borrow your heads."

The clown leader's neck and head, under the effect of his transmutation magic, once again two-dimensionally expanded, transforming into paper and trying to slip away through Locke's finger gaps.

But the Executioner's Hammer Mushroom appeared in Locke's right hand. He swung a hammer toward the clown leader's head. Delight was about to appear on the clown leader's face, because physical attacks were really too easy for Transmutation School wizards to deal with.

Whether cutting or blunt strikes, none had any use.

He had ways to cope with them all.

So he hadn't pursued any defensive magic as his permanent defensive field. They Transmutation School wizards, just by changing their own shapes, were sufficient to cope with most attack-type magic.

But what the clown leader hadn't expected was that a gravity sphere enveloped his throat. "This is actually gravity magic..."

This sentence became his last words, because the next moment, the gravity sphere enveloping his neck exploded.

Powerful gravitational force twisted off his neck. No matter how he could change shape, two points were certain.

First, in topological surface shape transformation, it couldn't undergo fracture, meaning he couldn't transform by separating his neck from his head. It must transform continuously without division.

Second, gravity could twist all nearby objects. No matter what shape you transformed yourself into, it was useless.

Precisely because of this point, Locke decided to use the Executioner's Hammer Mushroom to deal with this Transmutation School black wizard.

Locke also snatched this black wizard leader's ring into his own hand and placed it in his pocket.

As for the large amounts of void warship materials previously robbed inside the ring, those also definitely belonged to him now.

Black wizards, this kind of thing, because they weren't considered people under White Wizard Association law, had this wonderful use for laundering assets.

Locke turned around and saw that animal tamer had actually commanded the golden lion to bite off his right arm, then after losing two arms, had re-summoned a human-sized rhinoceros beetle magical insect, riding on that insect's body and rapidly fleeing.

When Locke wanted to pursue, a rhinoceros beetle left behind lunged toward Locke. But before getting close, it was pierced through by Locke's Sea Gold Sand transformed into a spiral spear, summoned back by opening his palm.

That rhinoceros beetle screamed and lost mobility. Locke picked up this rhinoceros beetle and threw it into the interior of his Druid's Ring. After all, this thing was also good forest fertilizer and potion-making material.

"Fighting with Summoning School animal tamers is quite interesting," Locke said. "They actually even deliver magical materials to me."

Locke looked at the direction the animal tamer was fleeing in distress and the blood all over the ground. He prepared to follow. Alicia behind him suddenly spoke, "This... wizard... you..."

Locke looked back at her with confusion.

Alicia looked at Locke with gratitude. At her most desperate moment, Locke descended from the sky, immediately killed that hateful wizard who bullied her, and was also chasing to kill another wizard.

Alicia asked softly, "Wizard, what's your name? I'm Alicia. You're my lifesaver. I want to properly thank you."

Locke thought for a moment and said, "Locke Augustine."

Locke didn't pause long but immediately chased after him. Who knew if, aside from the black wizard leader having a Sun-Eating Strange Seed, anyone else might have that kind of thing?

So, to prevent accidents, he still needed to eliminate the roots.

Alicia watched the direction Locke left. In her azure blue pupils, Locke's figure gradually disappeared at the end of the corridor. She softly exhaled a turbid breath.

"Locke..."

Alicia remembered that young wizard's retreating figure. "Thanks to him this time. Otherwise, I don't know what I would have encountered."