Claudia's right leg transformed into a bird claw. The moment she flew up using her wings, she kicked at the Golden Eye Grass in Locke's hand. Immediately, spell sparks burst from the surface of this golden magic mirror due to the collision.

Streams of bright red bloodline magic energy erupted from the Golden Eye Grass surface. The Golden Eye Grass directly vibrated and moved backward. At the same time, a small point mark appeared on its surface, but it wasn't serious.

Claudia landed on the ground with a surprised expression, then her wings and bird claws reverted to normal legs and feet. She bowed to Locke, "Lord Augustine, I didn't expect this magical plant's defensive power to be so astonishing. A kick that could bend First Circle magic alloy, hitting your magical plant, surprisingly left almost no trace."

"This subordinate is incompetent."

"Claudia, you did well." Locke glanced at her, nodded slightly, then looked at his Golden Eye Grass. The slight damage caused to the Golden Eye Grass surface didn't matter.

After all, this was just a grass.

Grass, with a bit of nutrition absorption and growth, would heal on its own.

Locke reached out, summoning from the nearby arcane energy pool that was dispersing azure blue arcane energy gas into the air, a drop of magical energy that had already materialized into liquid. He used the First Circle plant magic [Rapid Growth].

A very complex spell model appeared in his palm.

At the same time, Locke brushed across this Golden Eye Grass surface. The Golden Eye Grass surface directly recovered to its original state. What appeared to be a perfect circular Golden Eye Grass had slightly small golden aerial roots at its bottom. Its roots were frantically absorbing that energy.

The overall shape of the eye grass had roots and stems shrunk small, while the leaves specialized into exaggeratedly enlarged circular leaves.

"The arcane energy pool water inside wizard towers is really useful. This pool water is essentially a highly concentrated state of magical power from nearby earth veins." Locke said, "In other places, it's really difficult to find such energy-rich liquid. The Land of Six Towers is indeed uniquely blessed. I'm afraid the magical tide level concentration gradient in the Land of Six Towers environment is more than two orders of magnitude above the southeastern quadrant. Even among medium magic environments, it's considered relatively good."

Arcane energy pool water was even more useful than growth hormone gel and First Circle nutrient solution.

Moreover, the six white towers of the Land of Six Towers were continuously extracting energy from earth veins, transforming it into magical tides, feeding back this land.

As long as the magical ore veins beneath this land weren't depleted, this place would be forever prosperous.

And such a superior environment naturally could support the Land of Six Towers developing an organizational structure with not very strong competitiveness. If in some resource-poor place, playing by the Land of Six Towers' rules, they would have long since declined beyond recognition.

Locke took out paper and pen from his astral ring and began writing the experimental record of the Golden Eye Grass just now. "The magical plant characteristics of Golden Eye Grass are even a bit better than I thought. Its physical defense and resistance to Evocation School magical energy make me very satisfied."

"Without wizard control, Golden Eye Grass relying on its own strength alone can block one full-force strike from an Evocation School bloodline refiner. It seems this defensive magical plant's performance is very balanced."

In fact, Golden Eye Grass's defensive ability had exceeded Locke's expectations, because Locke originally thought this was just a magical plant that could only defend against specific attacks. But who would have thought its basic defensive ability was also so excellent.

It just couldn't rebound Claudia's physical attack just now.

Locke put on the Focus Monocle and took out equipment allocated to him within the wizard towers of the Land of Six Towers—a differential magic mirror. He then dropped developer liquid on the differential magic mirror. Immediately, the internal details of the Golden Eye Grass Locke saw on the differential magic mirror became even clearer.

Developer liquid could, on the basis of the differential magic mirror—Focus Monocle joint action, further see an object's internal microstructure.

"Mm? Metal elements formed fibers that mixed together with wood element fibers and Golden Eye Grass's wood element crystal clusters, mutually reinforcing each other, even giving birth to metal element crystal clusters."

Crystal clusters of both elements were distributed throughout Golden Eye Grass cells, intertwining and mixing with each other, jointly strengthening this Golden Eye Grass.

"The appearance of wood element crystal clusters is a typical characteristic of First Circle magical plants, but Golden Eye Grass actually produced metal element crystal clusters. This obviously further strengthened the original strength of the First Circle magical plant. Is this why it could withstand Claudia's full-force strike?"

"However, further testing of Golden Eye Grass is still needed." Locke thought, "Moreover, since there are large numbers of frustrated commoner wizards here, perhaps I can directly request them to develop plant magic spells together with me based on the three types of eye grass."

"This point is surprisingly easy to accomplish in the Land of Six Towers. Although Land of Six Towers wizards' level might be a bit lacking, it's easy to recruit First Circle wizards here."

Locke handed the Golden Eye Grass in his hand, along with a Shadow Eye Grass, to Claudia and said to her, "Use the enchantment equipment [Seedless Hood] to seal their seed-retention ability on this Golden Eye Grass and this Shadow Eye Grass, then bring them to old Wizard Collins and his students. Have them test the characteristics of these two eye grasses while testing Shadow Eye Grass, and give me the test reports."

"Right, tell them to keep all test reports confidential. If they ask where these two eye grass subspecies came from, tell them they were developed by me during this month."

"Remember to have them not leak the test data."

Claudia raised her head, opened her mouth wanting to speak but stopping. Her gaze toward Locke became even more respectful, and she could understand why Locke's status was so distinguished in the Philade family.

Developing two such formidable subspecies from one eye grass within one month was truly difficult for Claudia to comprehend. She could only ultimately transform it into worship and trust for Locke himself.

Claudia bowed to Locke, "Yes, Lord Augustine."

Locke handed the testing work to Wizard Collins, first to save trouble. Now he didn't need to personally do everything himself.

Since he controlled funding, controlled project-related equipment, and controlled connections, he should completely utilize these advantages, distributing some work to others, having others work for him.

Secondly, all data from Wizard Collins' project was also in his hands. Both parties had tacit understanding and contracts not to leak data externally. Therefore, handing this kind of testing work to them was perfect.

They also needed to test Shadow Eye Grass anyway, and they had developed the eye grass project for over thirty years, being extremely familiar with it. Therefore, handing testing to them might even be better than doing it himself.

Moreover, test data wasn't any core secret. Therefore, even handing it to them didn't matter.

During this time, Locke also synthesized the eight new potions he had mastered, but none produced any special synthesis formulas. He just slightly improved the formulas and strengthened their effects.

But this was also equivalent to Locke currently mastering improved formulas for eleven types of First Circle level potions. This was already the level of a formal potion master with substantial strength.

Locke came to Anthony's mansion within the White Elephant Tower and followed Peggy into the carriage driven by their family wizards, heading toward White Tower No. 2—Dragon Tower.

Locke sat in the carriage, watching the flame horses leaping in midair ahead pulling the carriage.

This kind of horse was developed by Land of Six Towers' Evocation School bloodline refiners, using bloodlines from nightmare plane incubi and a kind of fire primal horse from the main material plane. They could tread on fire clouds, run in midair with astonishing speed and stamina. Originally used to haul ore cargo, later as bloodlines were gradually improved, they transformed from pragmatism into products pursued by family wizards for splendor and appearance. Therefore, they became increasingly tall with increasingly beautiful coat colors, but seemingly... stamina instead became lower.

Locke thought, "Grand Wizard Sulla specifically waited for outside potion masters to stay in the Land of Six Towers for several months before collectively summoning them?"

"To let outside potion masters adapt to the Land of Six Towers?"

Very likely.

After all, potion materials available on the market differed between regions. Each wizard land, due to being separated by desolate domains and natural barriers, was different.

For example, although both were medium magic regions, the magical tide concentration gradients of the southeastern quadrant and Land of Six Towers were different. The concentration gradient here was two orders of magnitude higher than the southeastern quadrant. So when Locke first arrived in the first month, his magical power was always disordered, magical pressure continuously oscillating.

Only in the second month after arriving here did his magical power get tamed and adapt to the magical tide concentration gradient here.

Locke thought, 'But it's also possible that during this process, Grand Wizard Sulla already had people secretly observing, eliminating some potion masters with obvious problems. Both are possible.'

Peggy and Locke sat in different carriages. Therefore, Peggy lifted the carriage's exquisite curtain, stuck her head out, and said to Locke, "Locke, in a few more hours, we'll arrive at White Dragon Tower No. 2. The family wizard forces within White Dragon Tower are even more complex and intertwined. You must be careful in everything."

"White Dragon Tower's rules are even stricter than our Elephant Tower's rules. That's the territory of the Plutarch family and Ptolemy family."

Inside the carriage, Locke said, "Alright, Peggy, I understand."

The Ptolemy family's territory was at White Dragon Tower. That meant the Ptolemy family was a direct line of the Plutarch family?

Locke hadn't thought of this point.

His expression immediately became strange. Last time, the black wizards hired by the Ptolemy family killed large numbers of Plutarch family wizards and even nearly threatened Alicia's life.

He didn't know how the Plutarch family viewed this kind of behavior from the Ptolemy family.