Three hours later, the carriage convoy stopped in front of a white giant tower that resembled a dragon in appearance. Peggy stepped down from the carriage and said to Locke in a low voice, "Locke, I can only escort you this far. You just need to follow the Plutarch family's wizards up, but remember, all the potion masters you encounter here will not be your friends, but your competitors."

"Although those potion masters themselves may not be much of a concern, the families behind them who invited them here may not be so simple. In any case, be careful in everything."

Facing Peggy's instructions, Locke nodded slightly, "I understand."

Soon, from the White Dragon Tower No. 2, a First Circle vaporization wizard wearing the Plutarch family emblem walked out and looked toward Locke, as well as several other external potion masters invited by other families beside Locke.

These potion masters varied in age, but all sized each other up with wary gazes.

When the time was about right, the Plutarch family's First Circle vaporization wizard said to everyone, "Distinguished potion master guests, the Plutarch family welcomes you. Please follow me into the Dragon Tower No. 2 area."

A total of thirty-seven people followed the Plutarch family's First Circle vaporization wizard up. In other words, during this period, the large and small noble families of the Land of Six Towers had recruited a total of thirty-seven First Circle potion masters from outside, and they were still continuously inviting more.

Locke followed the crowd and walked up the spiral stone stairs of the White Dragon Tower. The Dragon Tower was very similar to the Elephant Tower, only different in external appearance, though the Dragon Tower's diameter was clearly larger than the Elephant Tower.

They entered the Dragon Tower's interior, passed through the White Dragon Magic Gem University campus inside the tower, as well as several factory workshops for transferring ore from the underground mines, then stepped onto the floating staircase and headed all the way toward the height of 30km.

That's right, the ground height of the White Dragon Tower was far higher than the White Elephant Tower, reaching a full 30km.

Grand Wizard Sulla's residence was located at the top floor of the White Dragon Tower, starting from the 30km ground height of the White Dragon Tower and going up for a total of five floors. These entire five floors at the top of the White Dragon Tower were all Grand Wizard Sulla's residence, containing his various laboratories, project sites, important meeting rooms, and so on.

At the same time, that place was said to be the location in the White Dragon Tower where the magical tides were most concentrated.

On the floating staircase, there were numerous wizards traveling up and down. Unlike at the White Elephant Tower, since this was someone else's territory, the wizards here only watched coldly and no one greeted Locke.

Locke also saw several formal wizards belonging to the Ptolemy family on the floating staircase, though they did not look at him.

This was normal. There were a total of thirty-seven potion masters here, and the Ptolemy family had never had any direct conflicts with him, so naturally they would not notice him.

Ten minutes later, the floating staircase arrived at the 30km height of Grand Wizard Sulla's residence. As they stepped off the floating staircase, they encountered an Illusion School magic lock in the corridor. After the steward wizard removed the lock, the corridor passage behind it was revealed.

"Everyone, please. This is the first floor of Grand Wizard Sulla's residence. Grand Wizard Sulla is currently on the top fifth floor, while our test is located in the great hall on this first floor," the vaporization stage steward wizard said with a smile.

As Locke walked down the corridor, a scent of oranges assailed his nose.

The fragrance in the corridor was very strong.

Hanging on the walls on both sides of the corridor were magic lamps and First Circle magic paintings. Those magic lamps were not ordinary alchemical items, but sun-moon lamps created by First Circle weather mages who used magic to bind the radiance of the sun and moon. They could emit sunlight or moonlight according to their master's mood, and could even display special phenomena like solar or lunar eclipses. They were extraordinarily wonderful, but because of this, only First Circle weather mages could capture celestial phenomena to create them.

As for those First Circle magic paintings, they were basically albums of various magical creatures.

What caught Locke's attention was that these magic paintings were lifelike, and the eyes of the magical creatures inside them were extremely animated, as if they possessed souls.

'These magic paintings have imprisoned the souls of those magical creatures inside them. This is what the quick painter Elagabalus of the Atlas Palette Academy mentioned, magic paintings with souls. Each of these soul magic paintings is worth a fortune, and even for First Circle magic painters, creating them is extremely difficult,' Locke thought. "Truly luxurious."

These extremely rare soul magic paintings were hung everywhere along both sides of the corridor, as if they cost nothing.

This was just the corridor of the first floor residence. Who knew what other rare items would be found on the higher floors.

Beside Locke, a young centaur potion master sniffed the fragrance wafting through the air, and a shocked expression appeared in his eyes. "This is Sun Orange Incense, a treasure within the incense studies branch of potion studies. A First Circle potion master who specializes in incense studies would find it difficult to produce 100 grams of incense in a year."

"Sun Orange Incense can forestall death, summon energy, and increase the magical tide concentration in an area. It is extremely useful whether for combat or cultivation, and its greatest use is to delay the progression of injuries on a person's body."

"The method of making it is even more extremely complex. Many materials require a large amount of manpower to meticulously handle complex and repetitive processes, and also require waiting for considerable time. For example, the most important orange peel needs to go through dozens of processing steps and must wait for more than half a year before it can be made into sun orange peel."

"But looking at the fragrance here, so rich and concentrated, one can tell that many grams of Sun Orange Incense have been used."

The centaur potion master, seeing that everyone was looking at him, could only say, "I apologize, everyone. Don't blame me for making a fuss. I'm also a potion master who specializes in incense studies, so being able to smell this kind of incense is indeed surprising."

The potion masters shifted their gazes away from him.

Locke looked at these potion masters and thought, "Grand Wizard Sulla has brought in fairly well-known potion masters from various wizard lands. These potion masters come from all over the world, and they each have their own specialties. Incense studies, a branch of potion studies that has never even been heard of in the southeastern quadrant."

"Even just the field of potion studies alone is extremely profound and mysterious."

At this moment, the thirty-seven potion masters, led by the Plutarch family's vaporization stage wizard steward, passed through corridors and rooms and entered a magnificent hall covered with magic paintings.

Inside this hall, wooden tables were arranged everywhere, and on over a hundred wooden tables were placed all kinds of precious potion materials.

Someone looked strangely at the steward wizard. "Where is Grand Wizard Sulla? I am Nyx Santos, a First Circle potion master from the Spiral Basin wizard land, specializing in healing potion studies. Please have Grand Wizard Sulla come out in person, so I can properly diagnose his condition."

Santos seemed extremely proud. He said to the steward wizard, "I am an extremely famous potion master in the Spiral Basin. Among the seven potion masters who came from the Spiral Basin this time, I have the greatest reputation, the best skills, and the strongest abilities. Moreover, I have continuously developed six of my own famous healing potions in the past thirty years."

The honor certification badges hanging on Wizard Santos's robe were indeed numerous.

The other six wizards who came from the Spiral Basin all lowered their heads. They seemed to want to argue, but since this was indeed the truth, they had nothing to say.

Wizard Santos said, "I also have my own complete set of methods for diagnosing and identifying symptoms, guaranteed that whatever difficult and complicated illness can be resolved by drinking my potions."

"Quickly go and ask your master, Grand Wizard Sulla, to come out. Treating illnesses should be done early, not late."

The Plutarch family's vaporization stage steward wizard turned around, bowed to Wizard Santos, and gave him a small compliment. "Master Santos's abilities are indeed outstanding even among this batch of external potion masters. With your participation, Grand Wizard Sulla's illness will surely be cured."

Santos nodded proudly.

However, the steward wizard suddenly said, "But, Grand Wizard Sulla believes that he has seen so many external potion masters, among whom there are also various renowned potion masters, but the result is often that they can have some medicinal effect at the beginning, but the more treatment continues, the more useless it becomes. He has been disappointed too many times."

"Additionally, there are too many potion masters who came this time, making it difficult to distinguish the genuine from the fake. Therefore, Grand Wizard Sulla has designed a test question here."

"There is a pile of potion materials here. Please each take one type and brew a potion in the potion room provided on the first floor, then present it to Grand Wizard Sulla. Grand Wizard Sulla will identify from these potions which ones are truly excellent potion masters. Only those potion masters will be able to meet with Grand Wizard Sulla."

Santos smiled proudly and was not angry, because he had absolute confidence in himself. "So you're doing this."

"How boring and time-wasting. Wouldn't it be better to just let me go up directly and treat your family master's illness?"

Santos walked over to take a look, and his expression changed slightly. He turned to look at the steward and said, "What's going on? All the potion materials here are not the commonly used materials for healing potions. You've brought out a pile of random miscellaneous materials. Do you even understand anything?"

Locke also walked to the edge of these tables and took a look. He discovered that among the potion materials on the tables, there were quite a few materials used for Abyss potions, but there was not a single trace of the common materials used to prepare healing potions and curse-breaking potions.

A strange look flashed through Locke's eyes. "What's going on? Is there some special reason for this?" 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

The steward wizard bowed to Santos and said, "Master Santos, these are Grand Wizard Sulla's special instructions."

"Distinguished potion master masters, you may begin. The time limit is one day."

Immediately, quite a few potion masters began competing to grab the only materials among these materials that had even the slightest connection to healing materials.