On the carriage, Helen immediately focused her gaze on Locke's left arm. A flash of confusion passed through her eyes. "Mage Emperor lord, what is this on your hand..."

Helen immediately became nervous. "Could it be that you're a demon tra..."

Before she could finish speaking, Alicia raised her right hand. The charm bracelet on her wrist released a strange red glow toward her eyes. Immediately, that Enchantment School's powerful human charm spell penetrated deep into this third-rate wizard apprentice's brain and soul, forcibly changing her thoughts.

Then Helen turned to stare at the back of Locke's left hand. Clearly seeing that blue cross birthmark, she said, "Oh, I'm sorry, Mage Emperor lord. I saw wrong."

"Truly sorry."

Alicia glanced at this native woman, then said, "Although she can use magic with spell power approaching a third-rate wizard apprentice, her soul itself is so fragile. This world's power system has problems, serious flaws. It seems to exist dependent on some object. Locke, how do you handle your hand now?"

Locke cast a 0.3 Circle illusion at the back of his right hand. This was based on him being a First Circle liquefaction stage wizard, temporarily constructing a spell model and forcibly casting an Illusion School magic.

Although it was only 0.3 Circle, it should probably correspond to this world's Grand Mage magic level. Deceiving a few guards should be enough.

A light membrane appeared on the back of his right hand. The light membrane gradually covered the entire palm, but soon that light membrane suddenly shattered.

The illusion directly failed.

Alicia said in confusion, "What's going on?"

Locke looked at his right hand and frowned. "It's the Divination School's magic power. That magic power constantly lingers around us, trying to lock onto among infinite possible futures the few future directions he most hopes for."

"So this 0.3 Circle magic directly failed. Because among countless futures, this magic was selected as the worst possibility. Its weakest point suddenly erupted, and the spell directly lost effect."

"Alicia, there's an extremely formidable Divination School First Circle wizard standing in opposition to us. You'd better pay attention to your powerful charm human spell. I believe that under the effect of the opponent's magic, your powerful charm spell's duration will be much shorter than you think."

Alicia showed a trace of confusion. "Why, Locke, can you be certain the opponent is a First Circle wizard?"

The next moment, Helen, whose thoughts were controlled by the powerful charm spell, suddenly struggled in her eyes, actually showing a tendency to break free from control.

At the same time, the carriage curtain was actually pulled open. The other party had waited for a long time without response, so that soldier actually wanted to enter directly.

'Rip~'

The curtain was pulled open. The human guard scanned everyone in the carriage with confusion. "Why has no one come down for so long? Is something wrong with you?"

"Sir, please look at the people in the carriage."

An old man wearing a yellow cloak, that is, that Mage Venerable level mage, leaning on a gray staff, appeared before the carriage. He scanned everyone: Alicia, Locke, Helen, and the other four adventurers.

"Hmm, no problem. Perhaps they're too nervous seeing a high-level mage like me."

"Let them go."

Alicia glanced over, but saw Locke directly place his left hand inside his wizard robes, while having her cast the powerful charm human spell on everyone around.

After all, this was First Circle magic, and among the people around, only the Mage Venerable level mage was a first-rate wizard apprentice with magical pressure of 600.

By rights, even if weakened by divination magic, this powerful charm human spell should still work on these natives.

As long as they didn't forcibly make these natives see Locke's left hand, but modified the thoughts in their minds to make them pretend not to see, that would work.

In other words, the back of his left hand was the key. Just wrap this key in clothing and solve it with physical isolation.

The adventurers immediately breathed a sigh of relief and quickly drove the carriage into the city. At the same time, Helen in the carriage looked up but discovered that the two wizards sitting in the carriage had disappeared at some unknown time.

After a while longer, Helen and the four adventurers felt the memories in their minds about encountering two strange Mage Emperors becoming fewer and fewer. Half an hour later, the five people had completely forgotten all memories about the so-called Mage Emperors.

Outside the city, Locke and Alicia walked on the road. Alicia said to Locke, "I've followed your request and used the powerful charm human spell to forcibly command them to forget all memories related to us."

"As long as it doesn't involve that birthmark on your left hand, my First Circle magic artifact works quite well."

"This way, we should be able to reduce that Divination School wizard's interference with us."

Locke nodded. "You asked me earlier how I could be certain the opponent was a First Circle wizard. I inferred it from the degree of interference from the opponent's divination magic. I forcibly used a small 0.3 Circle illusion, and that illusion immediately lost effect. But your First Circle magic used to conceal this birthmark on my hand could maintain its effect for a period."

"From the opponent's interference with your magic artifact, we can reverse calculate the opponent's approximate level, roughly at First Circle crystallization stage."

A trace of gravity flashed through Alicia's eyes. "There's a crystallization stage Divination School wizard opposing us? No wonder. This matter is really tricky. Who could it be? And what relationship does it have with my grandfather's illness?"

Locke pointed at the road ahead and said, "I've already had you use the powerful charm human spell to control that Mage Venerable's brain and plant in his mind the concept of returning to the Mage Saint Hall to report to his superior."

"I believe that as long as we go to that so-called Mage Saint Hall, the whole truth will surface."

"From the looks of it now, this plane isn't a free plane. A prime material plane wizard has deeply colonized here and completed assimilation with the natives here. All natives are basically tool people for those wizards controlling here."

"The mage system here is completely a laughable ecosystem bottle transformed by a First Circle crystallization stage wizard."

Locke and Alicia secretly followed all the way, returning to the so-called Mage Saint Hall. Along the way, they also heard many passersby discussing what prophetic legend—a demon spy disguised as human would kill Grand Wizard Sulla and this year lead the demon race to complete victory.

Three days later, following behind that Mage Venerable level mage, they finally arrived at the so-called Mage Saint Hall.

It was a city located in the forest. A white tower shaped like a white dragon stood in the middle of this city. At the same time, this city had large and small wizard towers.

Locke looked at Alicia with a strange expression. "Alicia, your grandfather moved a miniature version of the White Dragon Tower and wizard towers into this medium-scale plane?"

Alicia looked ahead at what could nicely be called a miniature version, or harshly called a beggar's version of the White Dragon Tower, and was somewhat speechless. "Such a huge project, how did I not know anything about it before? What exactly is my grandfather doing in secret?"

Locke looked at that Mage Saint Hall city. He saw the Mage Saint Hall city ground had many caves. Inside those caves was pitch black, but some kind of echo seemed to drill out from those caves.

"Those elemental particles commanded by those mages all drilled out from the caves in this city..."

Locke understood. "I see. Those elemental particles that those mages can command with that laughable chanting method all originate from those caves. Those mages think they can control all elemental particles in this world. Actually, that's just an illusion. Only elemental particles that come out from these caves will be commanded by them and become what they call elemental spirits."

"That is to say, this Mage Saint Hall is fundamentally the source of power for this world. Your grandfather built a city here that can serve as the energy source for this world's power system?"

"Hmm... this city also references quite a bit of mage tower technology." Locke said, "Look, those trees growing beside the surface caves in this city are the source for making staffs. Staffs are locators. Only mages holding staffs can command those elemental particles."

"In a sense, the magic hidden behind those caves has almost become a natural cycle of this world... Wait, could this be your grandfather's purpose?"

Alicia looked completely confused. "Why would my grandfather want his magic to become the natural cycle of a colonized world?"

"However, that cave's power attribute... does indeed very much resemble the [Dark Cave Scorpion Woman] my grandfather researched over fifty years."

Locke felt his left hand suddenly experience a burning pain like heartburn.

He looked ahead and saw that in front of the Mage Saint Hall city, a massive dark army of demon tribes had actually appeared.

Even more demons were drilling out from the ground. They seemed to have dug all the way from distant places underground, wanting to give this city a surprise attack.

Those demon tribes seemed to want to attack this city.

The leading demon giant over ten meters tall kept roaring, demanding this city hand over one person—Alicia Edward.

If they didn't hand her over, they would immediately attack the city, and in the prophecy, that demon with the birthmark on his hand would kill Grand Mage Sulla as foretold.

Alicia Plutarch stood right beside him. Locke looked at her with confusion. "Your grandfather created a duplicate version of you in the colonized world?"

"Does he have two families?"

Alicia quickly shook her head. "How would I know? Locke, this city may not necessarily be something my grandfather created."

"Who exactly is Alicia Edward?"

A cold voice suddenly appeared beside them. A mage wearing a yellow cloak, surrounded by a special power, appeared beside that Mage Venerable.

"Alicia Edward is my teacher Grand Mage Sulla's prized disciple, who will become the thirty-second Mage Saint of our Mage Plane today."

"She's also the person most beloved by my teacher, like a granddaughter to him. And when she becomes this world's thirty-second Mage Saint today, my teacher Grand Mage Sulla will also become a Mage God."

"However, by then, you demons will all be dead."

A native Mage Saint had actually descended beside that Mage Venerable. The Mage Saint looked coldly at the Mage Venerable. "You were followed all the way by those demons, and you didn't even notice?"

Only then did the Mage Venerable turn around in shock and see Locke and Alicia standing openly behind him.

Locke smiled and said to that Mage Saint, "You don't need to blame him. After all, he's just a first-rate wizard apprentice. But you..."

"I see. No wonder you're immune to the powerful charm human spell."

So this world's Mage Saints truly could equal formal wizards of the wizard world.

Moreover, this native before him was enveloped in a unique power. He actually hadn't broken through racial limits to become a transcendent through the permanent defensive field method, but had used some other method.

That Mage Saint's eyes immediately showed cold light. "Foolish demons, you actually dare appear before us again. Have you forgotten how we completely defeated you twenty years ago and nearly exterminated you!"

"We have something you'll never have—domains!"

The next moment, that Mage Saint's soul suddenly surged from deep within. A domain of approximately 1000 meters expanded from around his body, enveloping Locke and Alicia. At the same time, all the elemental particles drilling out from the caves in the Mage Saint Hall ground filled his domain.

Every elemental particle in his domain completely became the kind that could completely obey his words and be manipulated by him.

Thus forming a unique domain.

Alicia was still confused. After all, only in potion studies thinking could she be faster than Locke. In other areas, her talent was average.

But Locke reacted quickly. "I see. This is the so-called domain, using this domain to replace the permanent defensive field, forming a special field wrapping one's soul. Within this field, one can break through racial limits and raise magical pressure to exceed one thousand."

"Moreover, this domain differs from the permanent defensive field, so it produces many wonderful uses. But the problems are bigger. First, it completely depends on that giant magic array beneath the Mage Saint Hall. After all, the entire mage system relies on that magic."

"In other words, everyone in this whole world, as long as they become mages, will become tool people for that wizard hiding in the shadows, become his students, help him run through this power system, and contribute to his magic."

"Second, this domain and the soul are after all two different things, fundamentally unreliable, belonging to external objects."

"Third, the domain seems inferior to the permanent defensive field's strength. Its strength is limited, limiting the mage system's upper limit."

In a flash of lightning and flint, Locke quickly thought.

At the same time, that Mage Saint stared at Locke's left hand. His gaze immediately condensed. "Damn demon, are you the child of prophecy? Then I must kill you. My teacher is the great sage and great scholar who brought magic to this world."

"I won't let you threaten my teacher."

Facing his killing intent, Locke said coldly, "Can you do it?"

The next moment, centered on this Mage Saint's domain, the sky immediately darkened. Inside the domain was pitch black. "God said, let there be fire to light the world, and so the world had its first flame."

In the darkness, a flame appeared. Countless powers condensed toward that flame.

All elemental particles within the entire domain had been completely manipulated.

So the scene within this domain changed according to this Mage Saint's thoughts.