Locke left the elemental pool. Immediately, the hidden passage at the bottom of the elemental pool opened, and a large amount of magical energy pool water rapidly flowed away, returning to the White Dragon Tower's Elemental Fission Well.

Locke changed into a new set of white wizard robes, tidied up his clothes and hair a bit, then took out a red crystal matrix from his astral ring and tested his current magical power.

Two numbers appeared on the red crystal matrix. "6000, 7000."

"My magical power has reached 6000, and my Abyss energy is still only equivalent to 1000 magical pressure. Very good. This shows I'm controlling the ratio between Abyss energy and my normal magical pressure very well." Locke pondered.

After becoming a First Circle liquefaction stage wizard, taking Mammon's Powder Potion could no longer have any effect.

So Locke needed to find a new potion to accelerate the substantialization process of his magical power.

However, fortunately, he could currently access the energy of the elemental pool inside the White Dragon Tower at any time. Even without potion assistance, performing meditation techniques daily wouldn't slow down his magical power growth rate.

"I'm currently twenty-one years old. As long as I reach the liquefaction stage before age fifty, I can officially submit my résumé to the Origin Academy of True Knowledge. I now have one more option." Locke thought.

"Given my current situation, substantializing my liquid magical power into crystalline magical power will take approximately another eight years."

This speed was already very fast, even faster than the advancement speed of typical Elemental Children.

After all, formal wizards had long lifespans. Using only ten years to advance was equivalent to using hardly any time at all.

Locke said, "Using this elemental pool, I'm confident I can become a crystallization stage First Circle wizard within six years."

"But if I can obtain better resources, perhaps I can speed this up even more."

"In any case, I should soon submit applications to those top Origin Academies of True Knowledge in nearby wizard lands and see if there are any replies." Locke pondered.

From when he became a formal wizard to coming to the Land of Six Towers, the accumulated time had already been fifteen months.

Quite a few things had happened in this year or so.

Locke recalled his first teacher, Witch Sophia.

Over two years ago, she left the southeastern quadrant and parted with him. He didn't know how she was doing now.

Locke noticed magical power fluctuation from the letter paper Alicia had given him in his astral ring. He immediately took out that half piece of letter paper from the ring.

It read: Dear Locke, I've managed to obtain Hive Mind Potion without attracting anyone's attention and had my grandfather take it. Tonight at 1:00 AM, please meet in my grandfather's bedroom.

Locke frowned and thought for a moment, then wrote on this half piece of letter paper: Alright.

As a potion master hired to treat Grand Wizard Sulla, investigating where Grand Wizard Sulla's mysteriously disappearing soul went when he was unconscious was indeed part of his job.

After all, the centaur wizard and that witch potion master had already been busy there for over a month, while he had spent this past month just working on his own projects. So he really needed to contribute some effort.

Locke first returned to his residence in the White Dragon Tower.

...

At night, at 1:00 AM, relying on the special permissions of the White Dragon emblem in his hands, Locke silently bypassed everyone and arrived at the first floor of Grand Wizard Sulla's residence 30km high in the White Dragon Tower.

As soon as Locke stepped out of the floating staircase, the White Dragon emblem on his wizard robe flashed with light. The magic lock automatically released, and the guards who should have appeared in front of the magic lock had also been reassigned by Alicia.

Locke walked through the magic lock with an unchanged expression.

The tables and potion materials in the first floor hall had already been moved away. Locke passed through the hall and walked up the stairs toward the second floor.

Locke soon arrived inside Grand Wizard Sulla's sleeping quarters on the second floor. At the same time, Alicia, who had changed into simple white wizard robes, was already waiting beside Grand Wizard Sulla's bed, looking at Grand Wizard Sulla lying on the bed with worried eyes.

After Alicia realized Locke had come up, she immediately turned around and looked at Locke. "Locke, you're here. Then we can start immediately."

"I used the excuse that I wanted to be alone with my grandfather to win us half a night's time, but we must hurry, or they'll all come back. And we don't know if there's a spy among the people around my grandfather, who that spy is, and who sent them."

Locke glanced at Alicia with surprise, looking at the simple wizard robes on her body without a single gemstone, and said, "Alicia, you've grown."

Alicia pursed her lips and smiled. "Independently facing this world that eats people, one always grows relatively fast. Only after losing the protection of adults did I realize how hard-won each day of peaceful times is."

Alicia took out a bee from her astral ring. The bee's wings flashed with green light, and the bee's head had some crystalline material.

Like a crystalline mask.

This was a typical characteristic of crystal bees. The earthy yellow mask on its face was actually a composite type of earth element particle condensation that could provide a certain amount of defensive power.

As Alicia released this crystal bee, the crystal bee first circled in the surrounding air, seemingly looking for a place to hide.

But soon this crystal bee seemed to suddenly smell something with extreme attraction to it. It suddenly changed its flight trajectory and headed toward the sleeping Grand Wizard Sulla.

Soon, the crystal bee changed direction and headed toward the third floor.

Alicia and Locke immediately followed and used their permissions to open the magic lock at the third floor corridor to prevent the crystal bee from being unable to pass through the magic lock and reach where Grand Wizard Sulla's soul was located.

As soon as they stepped onto the third floor, Locke was startled because the walls of the third floor hall weren't filled with treasures like the first and second floors. Instead, they were bare.

Locke thought for a moment and understood. Grand Wizard Sulla had placed all the treasures on the first and second floors because only the first and second floors were used to receive outsiders, while the third floor and above had originally all been his private space.

For over a hundred years, he had never invited any wizard to go there.

So this was probably why Grand Wizard Sulla felt there was no need to place those treasures on the third floor and above.

That crystal bee shuttled through the corridor, stopping and starting, pausing at all the rooms on both sides of the corridor as if confirming something.

Alicia said in a low voice, "Could grandfather's soul be here?"

"But why would grandfather's soul leave his body and come here? Grandfather isn't a wizard who studies necromancy. Soul separation also carries certain risks for him."

The crystal bee stopped at a room's door.

Alicia waved her hand, and the door automatically opened.

The crystal bee immediately flew in impatiently. Inside the room behind the door was completely empty with nothing inside. The crystal bee immediately flew impatiently toward the high position in the center of the room. The next moment, the crystal bee was cut in half by an invisible blade and died immediately.

Alicia was stunned. "Defensive array? Why would there be magic traps in such an empty room?"

Locke frowned and observed carefully. At the same time, he flipped his left hand, palm up, and a Shadow Eye Grass appeared in his palm. After Locke used the botany magic [Eye of Plants and Trees] spell model, it transformed into an afterimage, traveling through the shadows in the corner of the wall in the empty room ahead, then appearing in the deepest corner shadow inside. At the same time, that eye grass rolled upward as if rolling an eyeball.

Then Locke closed his left eye. His left eye's vision connected with the eye grass, allowing him to see the world the eye grass saw.

The Eye of Plants and Trees spell model possessed a certain ability to break through invisibility spells. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Hmm? There's an invisibility array in this room." Locke said, "It seems to be the Abjuration School's First Circle [Array Invisibility] magic."

"I can't destroy it. If I damage it and make it visible, it will definitely immediately trigger a chain reaction of the array, activating all the magic traps in this room."

Locke thought for a moment and placed his hand on Alicia's shoulder. The [Eye of Plants and Trees] spell model could strengthen the connection between the eye grass and himself, grant the eye grass the ability to see through invisible things, and also granted Locke the ability to share vision.

Immediately, under Locke's physical contact, Alicia's left eye also connected with that Shadow Eye Grass, seeing the layers upon layers of hidden arrays in the empty room.

Alicia was quite amazed. "Locke, this eye grass you developed is really impressive. Ordinary reconnaissance magical plants don't have the ability to so easily see through this First Circle Abjuration School spell."

"It's that magical plant that strengthened the power of your Eye of Plants and Trees spell."

"No, now's not the time to talk about this. Locke, I recognize these arrays. One of them is an invisibility array, but the main array is a sealing array, and it can be opened directly with a White Dragon emblem."

Alicia raised the emblem in her hand. Immediately, that magic emblem emitted a ray of light that shone into the air. Then a profound white dragon pattern representing the Plutarch family symbol appeared in midair, and the array automatically released.

A spatial vortex appeared in this empty room.

Locke looked at that spatial vortex, still puzzled. "What is that? A weapon? Equipment? An entrance?"

Alicia stood frozen in place. She recognized it. "That's it, Locke. You've never passed through a planar passage to leave the prime material plane and enter other planes, have you?"

"Locke, that's a planar gate leading to another plane."