Soon, the Philade family members stepped on the floating steps and arrived at a banquet hall located at the 20km peak.

This banquet hall at a surface height of 20km was magnificent and resplendent. Countless magical lamps floated on the ceiling. There were even weather mages using magic to constrain some natural phenomena rolling on the ceiling—dark clouds, lightning, rain clouds, clear skies, hail—all flowing naturally on the ceiling, very magical.

At the same time, wizard swords with golden handles hung from chains dropping from the sky, naturally hanging down like treasured swords dangling from above. It looked very wondrous.

The banquet hall was already fully arranged.

Exquisite food made by flavor masters from the Enchantment School was piled together and placed on the golden dining tables of the banquet.

Beautiful Third-rank wizard apprentice elf maids wearing elegant long dresses shuttled around the banquet tables, arranging dishes for the Philade family wizards.

There were also dancers from the Transmutation School dancing gorgeous dances in the center of the banquet. The dance steps could often achieve angles incredible for mortal dancers, with even more exquisite and superb dance postures.

At the banquet, there was even an entire orchestra team specializing in the Illusion School. This musician family affiliated with the Philade family in the Land of Six Towers—an entire orchestra team was a wizard organization.

They were playing dozens of instruments, incorporating Illusion School spells, with a formal wizard conducting the entire orchestra.

The grand scale of this scene left even Locke somewhat astonished.

Such a spectacle was completely impossible to see in the southeastern quadrant.

In the southeastern quadrant, every formal wizard was extremely precious. They were either wizard mentors at wizard academies or individual practitioners independently presiding over micro wizard organizations.

Only in the Land of Six Towers, this wizard land with distinctions between family wizards and commoner wizards, could one see so many First Circle wizards celebrating together for a Philade family banquet.

The Philade family controlled the White Elephant Tower beneath their feet, held half the wizard mentor positions at Magic Gem University, controlled numerous important positions at the White Wizard Association branch. Here, all resources had to be given out from the mouths of these prestigious families and the two ruling families.

At Wizard Anthony's invitation, Locke quickly took a seat, sitting to his left. An elf wizard apprentice maid immediately held a golden bottle and poured wizard wine into the golden cup before him.

Locke noticed that this banquet actually had two types of beverages. One was wizard wine, one was some beverage similar to witch watermelon juice.

'I see. Those people whose golden cups are filled with wizard wine are the true leaders of this banquet, the wizards entering the power center of this banquet. And those wizards whose cups contain witch watermelon juice beverage are basically junior wizards from major families or marginal people.'

'Although they're present at the banquet, they've actually long been marginal people.'

Locke noticed this detail.

In other words, the vast majority of people at this banquet were supporting roles. What was poured in front of them was all some kind of wizard beverage.

Only at this table and several neighboring tables with formal wizards, or some family wizard apprentices with relatively high seniority and status—only the liquid in the golden cups before these people was wizard wine.

'Have I entered the power core of the Land of Six Towers from the start?' Locke thought. 'It's mainly because Senior Anthony is doing well.'

He glanced at Senior Anthony. At this moment, Senior Anthony was saying some polite words, such as introducing some people for him, the nominal main character of this banquet, and introducing him to everyone.

But Senior Anthony's true purpose was just to find a reason to display his authority to all the Philade family people.

After all, three days ago, he had already become the main decision-maker of the Philade family.

Locke cooperated with Senior Anthony, greeting some wizards. Some of these people were flattering him, some were sizing him up, some were testing him.

Locke sat in place without having too much exchange with the Philade family and their affiliated family wizards.

First, he wouldn't stay here too long. There was no need to establish complex interpersonal relationships.

Second, since his senior brother already introduced him to others as a potion studies genius, of course a genius should be a bit aloof. If you were too enthusiastic with others, they would definitely doubt your abilities.

Soon, gems were reverently carried by elf wizard apprentices with both hands, placed on porcelain white plates, and rotated on the turntable table to display these magic gems to everyone sitting at the table.

Wizard Anthony turned the table and introduced to Locke, "Junior brother, I remember Teacher Halen Vera told me you also really like magic gems. Look at these gems here. This is gray speckled stone. If someone touches it with their hand, it will leave traces difficult to clean. Some wizards like using this stone to track enemies."

"This crystal that looks like arsenic is alkali frost crystal. It can strengthen some spells of the Evocation School's ice and snow magic sub-direction, even First Circle magic."

"This is river sand heart. Carrying it allows you to breathe underwater for half an hour."

Wizard Anthony said, "And this one, this is rose red jade, extremely precious even in the Land of Six Towers. It's the king among ores, very rare."

"Currently we haven't mastered a stable mining source. This kind of ore vein essence, we collect one piece whenever we find one."

Wizard Anthony rotated the round table in front of Locke. On a porcelain white plate was placed a piece of special ore that looked like withered tree wood but upon closer inspection also looked like a stone.

Wizard Anthony said, "And this one, this is moss wood marrow. It's a First Circle magical plant called moss wood tree that was buried underground for over ten thousand years. With the passage of time, it naturally formed into a magical ore."

"Moss wood marrow can promote rapid growth of First Circle magical plants. Placing a piece of moss wood marrow beneath the soil of a First Circle magical plant, even if that First Circle magical plant is damaged, it will completely recover overnight."

Wizard Anthony said, "Moreover, this stone can lower breeding conditions for First Circle wizards. In other words, moss wood marrow can help breeders lower the breeding conditions for some high-difficulty First Circle magical plants."

"Every piece of moss wood marrow, if taken outside, would be sought after by many senior breeders."

"One piece of moss wood marrow costs at least three thousand magic stones externally. There are ten pieces here. As the Philade family's gift for your first meeting, I've decided to give you ten pieces. Does anyone have objections?"

Wizard Anthony's face suddenly became expressionless as he looked challengingly at several Philade family wizards sitting at this table.

Locke glanced at that moss wood marrow. He remembered that moss wood trees were an ancient magical plant that had long been extinct. Extinct moss wood trees buried underground for ten thousand years would form one piece of moss wood marrow.

And Senior Anthony, at their first meeting, gave him a great gift worth thirty thousand magic stones, items he as a breeder truly needed. And the wizard world had the principle of equivalent exchange.

Obviously, this was the other party giving reciprocation.

After all, the other party had just used him, this junior brother, as a reason to hold such a large banquet here, using family funds to display his authority and suppress people in the family who didn't submit to him. Naturally, Wizard Anthony needed to give him some reciprocation.

Otherwise, things wouldn't make sense.

At the table, the atmosphere was silent for a moment. Suddenly, a handsome young wizard, Gore Philade, said in a joking tone, "Brother-in-law, this isn't good."

"Isn't this banquet a gem appreciation meeting? How can you give away magic gems from the family warehouse, and such precious unique items, to... an outsider?"

When Gore said "outsider," his tone was deliberately somewhat mocking. Then before Anthony could attack him, he suddenly spoke up, "How about this?"

"Let's make these ten pieces of moss wood marrow the stakes. Mr. Locke Augustine, as your junior brother, isn't he a potion studies genius?"

"I have a bottle of potion here, but I won't say its name. Can Mr. Augustine smell it and identify what kind of potion this is? If Mr. Augustine can state this potion's name, then we'll acknowledge Mr. Augustine is truly a super genius in potion studies, an honored guest of our family. What does it matter if we give ten pieces of moss wood marrow to an honored guest?"

"Never mind whether he can guess the specific name of the potion in my hand. As long as Mr. Augustine can guess the general category of this potion, I'll be completely convinced."

Gore looked challengingly at Wizard Anthony. "Brother-in-law, do you dare?"

Wizard Anthony sipped some wizard wine and sneered. Gore Philade was his wife's half-brother from a different mother. However, the Philade family's younger generation truly all had no prospects, actually using such low-level tricks at such a banquet.

When the atmosphere became somewhat awkward, Wizard Anthony skillfully spoke up, "Gore, this is a serious occasion. Put away your childish temperament. Don't joke around here."

"My Philade is a prestigious family of the Land of Six Towers. How can we question an honored guest at a banquet like this? Do you think this is your classroom?"

These words, spoken with such propriety and so naturally, made many Philade elders nod in agreement with Wizard Anthony's words.

That Wizard Anthony could control the Philade family as a son-in-law was definitely not without reason.

As for Gore Philade, his face flushed red. He hadn't expected that under Wizard Anthony's few words, his provocation became clown-like behavior, instead making him appear very immature.

Just as Gore slapped the table hard, stood up, and was about to attack Wizard Anthony sitting in the main seat, suddenly Locke glanced at that bottle of potion. "This is a bloodline modification potion, a unicorn rhinoceros potion, right?"

"It's just that the positioning accuracy looks very low. I'm afraid even if taken, the effect would be limited."

By coincidence, on the airship, because he wanted to find a way to design a method for Alicia to also take Mammon's Powder potion, the two had discussed unicorn rhinoceros bloodline modification potions on the airship for a long time.

So Locke was truly extremely familiar with this potion, even possibly more familiar than many wizards present with this special bloodline modification potion from the Land of Six Towers that could strengthen physical constitution.

Therefore, Locke, just by observing that potion bottle's color and the state of natural magical structural components appearing in the potion bottle and the flickering magical radiance, guessed that the bottle of potion was unicorn rhinoceros bloodline modification potion.

It was just that Locke also noticed that the potion's color was really too mixed. The bloodline positioning accuracy looked very low and couldn't be considered a successful potion.

Of course, if one wanted to use it, it could be forcibly used.

Gore looked at Locke incredulously, his expression suddenly changing. Obviously, he hadn't expected that he deliberately took out a bloodline modification potion unique to the Land of Six Towers to test Locke, but Locke could actually state the potion name in his hands with one sentence.

This made Gore's face turn pale. For a moment, he couldn't say a single word.

Wizard Anthony looked at him with surprise, then looked at Locke. His lips curved up, then he drank a sip of wizard wine and became even more composed as he asked Gore, "Brother Gore, is my junior brother's guess correct or not?"