Locke, Wizard Daniel, and Wizard Matthew walked together up to the mid-slope area.

The buildings inside Golden Crown Mountain Academy were basically all medieval castle style, but the interiors of these castles were in various very modern and prosperous styles, such as some in Baroque style, some in minimalist style, some in Gothic style, and so on.

Following Wizard Matthew, Locke passed through several buildings. The academy's architecture followed the path of harmonious integration between prosperity, beauty, and nature.

Inside the academy, buildings were completely nestled among magical plant gardens of various sizes. There were countless gardens, and many flower sprites flying above the gardens.

There were rose sprites with rose wings, narcissus sprites with narcissus wings, lily sprites, bluebell sprites, and tulip sprites.

These special fairy sprites classified as flower fairies had become the most common servants, guides, and diligent employees tending the gardens within Golden Crown Mountain Academy.

Because Wizard Matthew walked too fast through the magical plant garden corridors, he nearly collided head-on with a palm-sized rose flower fairy flying toward him. What surprised Locke was that this flower fairy actually possessed official wizard-level magical pressure.

One must know that the flower fairy clan was quite different from wizards.

Wizards viewed transcending their own racial soul limits as the norm and possessed complete methods, but for flower fairies to become First Circle existences, they either had to be naturally blessed by the forces of nature, or experience some mutation later due to certain events.

Locke's gaze fell on the wings behind this rose flower fairy. Behind her back were not only her original pair of rose petal wings, but also a pair of pink peach blossom petal wings.

Clearly, those post-transformation magical plant peach blossom petal wings were the key to her advancing to official wizard-level magical pressure and achieving her first racial soul limit breakthrough.

The rose flower fairy raised her head. Seeing it was Wizard Matthew, she immediately became angry. "How many times have you nearly crashed into me this semester, Matthew? Why do you always have to walk so fast!"

Wizard Matthew felt somewhat wronged. "You were flying pretty fast yourself."

The rose flower fairy immediately became angry and flew in a circle around Wizard Matthew's head. Flower fairies left magical pollen as they flew, so points of starlight surrounded Wizard Matthew.

Seeing flower fairy Margaret getting angry, Wizard Matthew quickly pointed to the two wizards behind him and said softly, "These two are research personnel who just joined our Golden Crown Mountain."

"Lady Margaret..."

Margaret looked with surprise at Locke and Wizard Daniel behind Wizard Matthew, her pretty face immediately turning slightly red. "How rude of me. I originally thought they were two students, but they're actually two researchers."

Margaret bowed slightly to Locke and Wizard Daniel.

"I was truly discourteous before you both."

Locke nodded slightly but said nothing.

Wizard Daniel said in surprise, "Official wizard-level flower fairies are truly rare, and there are actually so many flower fairies around here."

"In Fission Mausoleum Plains, I've never seen such a large-scale flower fairy community."

Wizard Matthew proactively explained, "Golden Crown Mountain has a special cooperative relationship with the Fairy Wilderness Plane. This cooperative relationship has a history of three thousand years."

"So we have a large number of flower fairies. These fairies serve us, and at the same time the academy is also responsible for providing resources to cultivate them. The Peach Blossom Wings behind Lady Margaret are one of the cooperation projects, a small project that our Ordinary Origin Academy is responsible for. This project allowed seven Origin Academy students to obtain graduation certificates."

Locke nodded slightly. It seemed that the graduation conditions for the Ordinary Origin Academy were also much lower than those of their Advanced Origin Academy.

Although the Peach Blossom Wings behind Lady Margaret had the function of helping flower fairies achieve their first racial transcendence, if this contribution were divided into seven parts and could still allow Ordinary Origin Academy students to graduate, then the contribution didn't seem that significant.

Lady Margaret greeted Locke and Daniel respectively, then flew away happily, leaving a trail of magical pollen in midair.

Wizard Matthew watched Margaret's departing figure, shook his head slightly, and said with a bitter smile, "Lady Margaret means no harm. She just doesn't watch where she's going when she flies."

"By the way, Golden Crown Mountain advocates the harmonious coexistence of civilization and nature, so there are many advanced treants and advanced fairies on Golden Crown Mountain. But these are all minor issues. As long as you pay a little attention, it'll be fine."

"The Origin Academy is just ahead."

The three walked out of the courtyard and saw a majestic castle ahead. The castle's surface was covered with green vines, and there were also some special flowerpots hanging on the castle, filled with magical plants.

Several wizards were wearing anti-gravity boot magic devices made by alchemists, standing on the castle walls, watering those magical plant pots.

Wizard Matthew introduced, "Every inch of Golden Crown Mountain is precious. This castle's surface has concentrated large amounts of magical energy, so there are vertical magical fields hanging on the castle's surface."

Wizard Daniel complained, "Vertical magical fields? This is basically squeezing into every available space."

Wizard Matthew rubbed his nose. "On Golden Crown Mountain, wherever there's a bit of special magical energy, it's definitely a scarce resource. Even these vertical magical fields are expensive to rent. I remember renting one acre for a year costs a thousand magic stones."

Wizard Daniel raised his eyebrows, showing a surprised expression.

Wizard Matthew said, "Vertical magical fields are indeed one of the cheapest types of magical fields. I remember that cheaper than vertical magical fields are only scattered magical fields."

"Underground magical fields used to be quite cheap too, but later because geothermal technology was applied comprehensively, the rental price became high. I remember renting one acre for a year now costs five thousand magic stones."

Daniel asked, "Scattered magical fields? What's that? I have a bad feeling about this."

Wizard Matthew explained to Locke and Wizard Daniel, "It means one acre of magical field area isn't all in one place, but rather a piece here, a piece there, all counted together as one acre for you, and they can even give you a bit more land area. Plus the price is cheap, so some breeders without much money, or breeders who love getting bargains, rent this type of magical field."

Locke understood. This was finding places from every nook and cranny that could barely be developed into magical fields.

Scattered magical fields... this name was really too grand.

Locke looked up at the sky over Golden Crown Mountain. Golden Crown Mountain Academy was more like a three-dimensional academy, with large numbers of wizards in the sky, on the surface, and underground.

In the sky were many cloud whales and rainbow sparrows, serving as mounts for wizards and even wizard apprentices. Besides these transportation tools made from natural phenomena collected by weather mages using magic, there were also some flying magical pets, such as radiant unicorns, griffins, chimeras, wyverns, and so on.

Additionally, there were some flying magical plants, such as pumpkin hot air balloons, ginkgo flying wings, and so on.

Locke even saw a liquefaction-stage wizard with two rocket bamboos tied to his legs, moving rapidly through the sky like a rocket soldier.

After Wizard Matthew greeted a treant at the entrance to the Origin Academy castle, he led the two into the Origin Academy, going directly to the office of the Origin Academy's personnel management department.

After the two went through some procedures and completed their registration, Wizard Matthew said to them, "Then I'll take you to the finance department to receive your benefits, and you'll officially join our Origin Academy."

"Please follow me."

The three passed through the granite corridor and entered an office on the castle's third floor. The office had exquisite and luxurious decorations, with a soft and thick magic wool carpet on the floor. Magic paintings hung on the walls all around, but they weren't portrait paintings, rather landscape paintings.

Unlike the Land of Six Towers, which liked to hang human portrait paintings on walls, the Cloud Marsh Wetland side seemed to prefer hanging some scenery-related magic paintings on walls.

Of course, occasionally there would be one or two personal portrait paintings and magic paintings of magical creatures displayed together, hanging on the walls.

The office director was a First Circle crystallization-stage wizard. He actively stood up and greeted Locke and Daniel.

"Hello, Researcher Daniel, Researcher Augustine."

"You can call me Wizard Freud." Wizard Freud looked at Locke with surprise. "Wizards who can enter our Origin Academy at the First Circle liquefaction stage can be counted on one hand."

"Truly impressive."

Locke nodded slightly. Actually, on the way here, even Wizard Matthew had mentioned this matter.

In the Origin Academy, even among Ordinary Origin Academy researchers, only a minority were at the First Circle liquefaction stage.

And as an Advanced Origin Academy researcher himself, yet not being a crystallization-stage wizard, this point was indeed quite eye-catching.

He still needed to advance to the crystallization-stage wizard as soon as possible.

Wizard Freud said, "The specific monthly salary will be sent to your dormitories each month according to the conditions signed in the previous contract."

"Remember to keep your specific salary amount confidential."

"Besides that, these things are for you."

Wizard Freud gave Locke and Wizard Daniel each a badge. The badge's appearance was quite unique, looking like a giant dragon, but upon closer inspection, it was a mountain peak.

"This can represent your identity as Golden Crown Mountain researchers. With the academy badge, you can also freely enter and exit Golden Crown Mountain."

"Besides that, here are the keys. The dormitories at Golden Crown Mountain all have independent magic lock protection, and can only be opened with magic keys."

"Oh right, according to the contract, besides providing decent housing that meets certain magical tide concentration gradient requirements and area requirements, we also stipulated that we must provide a set of transportation tools."

"You two, please choose." Director Freud handed a form list to Locke and Wizard Daniel. "You can choose any of the transportation tools on this list. During your time at the Origin Academy, they will be given to you to use. You can use them freely, just don't damage them or have them stolen."

"Otherwise, you'll have to pay compensation."

"There are magical creature flying objects, magical plant flying objects, and also flying devices made by weather mages and alchemists, which can serve as your public transportation tools."

Locke looked at the form list. This meant they were providing him with vehicles and housing in Cloud Marsh Wetland.

Daniel appeared extremely excited and said to Locke in a low voice, "Some of the magical transportation tools on this list are very ordinary, but some are extremely rare, such as cloud whales and rainbow sparrows. Cloud whales are a special type of cloud cluster made by weather mages, with excellent flying ability. What's most outstanding is their carrying capacity, defensive ability, and durability."

"Rainbow sparrows aren't bad either. They're a special type of rainbow with very strong carrying capacity too."

"I choose the rainbow sparrow."

Locke wasn't too concerned about this. After thinking for a moment, he chose the cloud whale. "Then I'll take the cloud whale."

Wizard Daniel suggested to Locke in a low voice, "I think in the future, we could perhaps take turns riding them. This way we can both ride these two rare transportation tools."

Director Freud smiled. "The two transportation tools you chose are indeed the best."

"Cloud whales and rainbow sparrows, only you people from the Advanced Origin Academy have special benefits. Otherwise, for such good things, you'd have to wait in line for at least half a year before your turn came."

Director Freud said, "I'll also arrange for students to deliver the cloud whale and rainbow sparrow to your dormitories. Besides that, there are some other things for you."

"According to the contract, each of you has obtained one opportunity to enter a First Circle wizard secret realm."

"There's also research startup funding. Besides that, there are some things we didn't discuss in our contract, but these are benefits Golden Crown Mountain is giving you for free."

Wizard Freud took two huge peaches from the drawer. These two peaches seemed jade yet not jade, seemed flesh yet not flesh, red and white intermingled, extremely beautiful.

"These are two Water Jade Peaches. You two should eat them."

Even Wizard Matthew swallowed.

Locke took one and tentatively took a bite. The flesh immediately turned to water upon entering his mouth. Although it was called a peach, there was no chewing sensation at all, like drinking honey water.

The next moment, Locke's mana boiled. The peach fragrance merged with his mana, nourishing his soul. By the time Locke finished the entire peach, the mana in his body had received infinite nourishment and actually increased significantly.

Locke took out the red crystal matrix from his astral ring and tested it, discovering he currently had 8,700 magical pressure.

After eating one peach just now, he had directly gained 100 magical pressure out of nowhere!

Locke was stunned.

Wizard Daniel on the side was also incredulous, and his mind was still immersed in the infinite wonderful taste of the Water Jade Peach.

Wizard Daniel also took out a red crystal matrix to test and found his mana had increased by 10 points.

This was 10 points of mana at the crystallization stage!

Wizard Matthew moved his nose, greedily absorbing the lingering fragrance of the two Water Jade Peaches remaining in the air.

Wizard Matthew said in a low voice, "Water Jade Peaches are one of Golden Crown Mountain's specialties. Golden Crown Mountain has many peach-type magical plants, among which the most famous are twelve varieties total. Water Jade Peach is one of them, specifically for First Circle wizards to consume."

"After eating one Water Jade Peach, magical power greatly increases, and the increased magical power is clear and clean, without any side effects."

Wizard Matthew said, "The effect of Water Jade Peaches is infinitely great. Giving it to an apprentice-stage wizard to consume is enough to greatly reduce the difficulty when they advance to official wizard."

"Used on official wizards, it's enough to greatly increase their mana, and even if their mana was originally chaotic, after consumption, the mana will stabilize."

Wizard Matthew looked enviously at Locke and Wizard Daniel. "This is a benefit only your Advanced Origin Academy has. Everyone who joins for the first time can consume a Water Jade Peach that costs a hundred thousand magic stones. It's truly enviable."

Wizard Matthew said, "When we Ordinary Origin Academy wizards join the Origin Academy, we only eat White Dew Peaches that cost thirty thousand magic stones each. White Dew Peaches can only increase our mana growth rate and cannot directly give us pure mana."

Locke said in surprise, "The mana increased from eating Water Jade Peaches is too pure. If someone continuously ate Water Jade Peaches, wouldn't they be able to quickly reach the magical pressure limit value of the First Circle stage?"

Wizard Matthew showed a bitter smile.

Wizard Freud clapped. "Ambitious. It's just regrettable that Golden Crown Mountain's twelve types of special peach-type magical plant agricultural products have limited output, and only produce at specific time points. For example, these Water Jade Peaches only produce during the second month of spring this year."

"The White Dew Peach that Wizard Matthew just mentioned only produces in January."

"There are twelve months in a year, and each month Golden Crown Mountain produces one unique peach-type magical plant. These peach-type magical plant agricultural products with limited output and limited time cannot be bought even with money. Because these things must be provided to those high-level wizards, and also serve as benefits distributed to you wizards, and even those students."

"Therefore, the quantity circulating on the market is extremely scarce." Director Freud smiled. "I believe the simplest way for you to continue obtaining Water Jade Peaches is to perform well according to the academy's requirements."

"Look, this is the school's point ranking system. Everything you do within the Origin Academy will add points. Publishing articles adds points, doing projects adds points. If you do nothing, then your score won't change at all."

"The academy has set up a whole bunch of benefits. As long as your score reaches it, you can also obtain stored Water Jade Peaches."

"Wizards ranked in the top thirty percent by points can get one White Dew Peach. Wizards ranked in the top ten percent by points can get one Water Jade Peach. Besides that, if you publish in a Tier 1 journal, you can also get one Water Jade Peach."

"Teaching a student to become an official wizard can also get you one Water Jade Peach. Completing any one of the three major projects within the Origin Academy can get you one Water Jade Peach as a reward."

Wizard Freud smiled. "You two are still reminiscing about the taste of that Water Jade Peach, aren't you?"

Wizard Daniel was an honest person. He nodded and said, "Even the most delicious dishes made by the best flavor masters I've eaten cannot compare to the deliciousness of that Water Jade Peach just now. That special taste fills me with endless aftertaste."

Wizard Freud nodded. "Besides increasing mana, Water Jade Peaches can also replenish your own life essence and purify some defects within your life essence."

"So you will instinctively desire to eat Water Jade Peaches again. In other words, consuming Water Jade Peaches can even slightly improve your talent."

Wizard Freud said, "So if you two want to obtain another Water Jade Peach, work hard."

"Tier 1 articles, teaching official wizard students, completing one of the three major projects within the Origin Academy first, as long as you accomplish one of these things, you can immediately obtain a Water Jade Peach that outside wizards dream of."

"Moreover, regardless of Water Jade Peaches, even without these peaches, these things were all things you had to do anyway. The academy is just giving you some additional benefits."

Daniel swallowed and smiled bitterly. "Worthy of being Golden Crown Mountain. This method of motivating wizards is truly too superb."

"I'm actually still reminiscing about the scent of that Water Jade Peach just now."

This reminiscence wasn't dependency or addiction, but purely a living being's simple desire for that rare magical plant crop that could enhance life essence.

Just as humans naturally pursue beautiful things.

Locke thought, 'No wonder they say Golden Crown Mountain's specialty isn't cultivating combat-type magical plants, but is rather the exemplar of the Eastern Border Zone's high-efficiency agricultural area.'

'These twelve types of special peach crops are truly too miraculous. This function seems to deeply involve the special relationship between animals and plants.'

'Rare potions in potion studies rarely have such powerful effects of increasing wizard mana with no side effects whatsoever, and can also sublimate the wizard's life essence level. These peaches seem to be products that deeply understand the principles of nature. They should be the masterpieces of high-circle breeders.'

Locke judged, 'The growth obtained from consuming Water Jade Peaches and the growth obtained from consuming potions are also completely different in nature. Potions are medicines. Water Jade Peaches are products of the natural world, so... the spiritual power enhancement obtained from consuming Water Jade Peaches naturally won't have too many side effects for me as a biological organism.'

'Of course, such things originally rarely appear in the natural world. These are the masterpieces of breeders.'

This is why he needed to come to Cloud Marsh Wetland.

If he didn't come here, staying in the southeastern quadrant and the Land of Six Towers, he would never encounter such things in his lifetime.

Director Freud from the office said, "There are two final items. This badge is a library pass. Without it, you cannot enter Golden Crown Mountain's central grand library."

"And finally, the last benefit the academy is giving you for free, one defensive magic robe per person."

"The magic robes were also made by wizards at our academy."

Wizard Freud handed two wizard robes as soft and thin as silk, black in color, to Locke and Wizard Daniel.

"These two magic robes are also not cheap, at least thirty thousand magic stones each. They don't need cleaning. Woven from fibers of twelve types of plants that increase magic resistance, extremely thin, soft and comfortable. After wearing them, they can enhance your magic resistance to indirectly resist enemy magic."

"It's not as simple as just blocking attack magic. After enhancing magic resistance, whether it's Abjuration School type magic, Illusion School magic, divination or curse magic, even archaeology magic, will all have a certain resistance produced. The effect is very extensive."

"Therefore, these magic robes are also called Spell-Breaking Robes."

Locke satisfactorily put away this Spell-Breaking Robe. This way, having just arrived at this Advanced Origin Academy, they had received vehicles, housing, credentials, equipment, and various benefits.

Daniel asked about serious business. "Director Freud, my collaborative supervisor wants me to join half a year early and complete the Origin Academy fund project as soon as possible. I wonder, where should I apply for the project?"

Director Freud said, "Hmm, that's indeed a good arrangement. Since it's an arrangement from a Throne Wizard lord, you should follow it well. As for the specifics, I don't have the authority to say. You'll have to ask your collaborative supervisor." Director Freud said cautiously, "Or your senior brothers and sisters."

"I'm just a small director of the finance office. I wouldn't dare casually comment on the planning arrangements of Throne Wizard lords."

Wizard Matthew said to Wizard Daniel, "There's no rush for this. You can listen to your supervisor's arrangements."

"I think your collaborative supervisors should contact you in the next few days."

"Let's go. You two must also be tired from your journey. I'll take you to the Witch Kitchen for a meal first, and you two can also go soak in the wizard hot springs, rest and relax."

Wizard Matthew said meaningfully, "After all, this may be the last... leisure time for you both."