The Second Circle wizard in charge of the class waved his hand, and immediately all the writing made by the magical chalk on the magical wall began moving crookedly. Then, as if being pulled away by something invisible in the air, it all disappeared.

The Second Circle wizard smiled and said, "Congratulations to all four of you. You have all completed this course, earned 100 points, and obtained the qualification to teach students at Golden Crown Mountain."

"Next, the academy will assign students to each of you. These students will also serve as experimental assistants for your research. They are both your students and experimental assistants for you as official wizards."

The Second Circle wizard pointed at the smooth black wall and said, "By the way, I will now teach you an incantation that can activate the Black Hole Witch Peach located in the center of Golden Crown Mountain's mountain body. It is a powerful peach tree. Using the incantation, you can summon part of that tree's power to make it swallow anything you need to erase, those 'unnecessary' things."

"From small garbage and waste to out-of-control experimental subjects, it can swallow them all. Other wizard organizations like to throw experimental waste into Cloud Lake, but we are more environmentally friendly. We let the Black Hole Witch Peach... eat the experimental waste."

The Second Circle wizard ate a canned food item, then threw both the can and the waste on the ground, making that area of the floor quite dirty.

But he chanted an incantation, and in the next moment, the ground seemed to grow an invisible giant mouth. In just the blink of an eye, everything disappeared.

The classroom floor became spotlessly clean.

Daniel the wizard said in Locke's ear with surprise, "Did Golden Crown Mountain put a black hole in their mountain body just to make it convenient for wizards to throw away garbage?"

"Using black hole gravity to dispose of trash?"

"No wonder the buildings here are so clean."

Locke was somewhat speechless. "This should just be incidental. If tens of thousands of wizards at Golden Crown Mountain are constantly throwing experimental waste into that Black Hole Witch Peach, I think it must also be meaningful for that magical plant."

Locke tried using the incantation that the Second Circle wizard had just taught him. Immediately, he sensed that in the darkness, a towering ancient tree appeared behind him. That seemed to be its spiritual body. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

But the peach tree was surrounded by infinite gravity, and there was also a circle resembling a black hole's event horizon around it.

Its spiritual body was like a black and white photograph. After discovering that he had nothing to throw away, in the next moment, Locke snapped back to attention and refocused on the classroom.

Daniel the wizard had obviously also tried it. He said in an amazed tone, "That magical plant... I can't sense its magical pressure at all, as if it doesn't exist, yet I can clearly see where its spiritual body is."

"Just for throwing away garbage, we can actually invoke such a powerful magical plant. Worthy of being Golden Crown Mountain indeed."

Locke said, "Well, it's quite practical anyway."

"From now on, when I do experiments and have experimental waste, I won't need to dispose of it myself anymore. Just chant an incantation and throw it to the Black Hole Witch Peach."

Daniel the wizard sat in his seat. At this time, only the two of them remained in the classroom. Daniel the wizard said, "Speaking of practical matters, we've been at the Origin Academy for over a month now. What do you think of Golden Crown Mountain and Cloud Marsh Wetland?"

After thinking for a while, Locke said, "Well... because I've been very busy lately, let alone Cloud Marsh Wetland, even at Golden Crown Mountain I only go to a few fixed places: the library, the laboratory, and my magical field."

"So, it's hard for me to say what particular impression I have of Cloud Marsh Wetland. But it's definitely completely different from how I felt when I came to participate in the Cloud Marsh Cup last time."

Locke said, "Overall, life here is convenient, and there are many things that wizard lands outside don't have. But consumption at Golden Crown Mountain is very high. I've already been working hard to save money, yet I still spent a thousand magic stones on living expenses over the past month."

Locke asked Daniel, "What about you? How do you feel at Golden Crown Mountain?"

The two had become quite close because they were neighbors, colleagues, had taken classes together for over a month, and had both entered the Origin Academy in the same year.

Daniel the wizard pursed his lips and said, "Thinking about it carefully, it feels like yesterday. Anyway, this place is very different from the Golden Crown Mountain I imagined. The pace of life in Fission Mausoleum Plains is much slower than here. Here, every wizard acts as if they're fighting an invisible opponent. Everyone is working hard, mining their time to do experiments."

"Also, in Fission Mausoleum Plains, I spent every day researching how to create weather systems with more functions. But here, my team leader has had me spend a month just observing the form of mist within five meters above different pine tree canopies..."

Daniel the wizard covered his head and said, "I'm a bit confused now. I feel like I've gone from being a great chief engineer to becoming a tiny little component part."

"My vision here hasn't expanded, but has actually become very narrow."

Daniel the wizard fell into confusion. "I don't know if I came to the wrong place."

Daniel the wizard thought for a moment, then immediately reacted and looked at Locke, saying, "I don't know if you have this feeling, but we haven't thought about useful things that can be directly converted into results and commercialized for a long time, have we?"

"I'm afraid that after staying here for five years, I'll have completely forgotten all that knowledge about creating exquisite weather systems, and only be left with knowledge about observing the forms of different mists."

Locke nodded slightly. "I'm doing okay though."

Daniel the wizard looked at Locke with confusion. "Okay? You don't have this predicament like I do? That's impossible..."

Locke shook his head. "Daniel, haven't you realized something? The research here is so subdivided, which has tremendous benefits for us two 'engineers.'"

"Here, if you want any information, you can just look it up directly. I've tried it. In Golden Crown Mountain's library, you can find almost any information. You just need to pay contribution points to borrow paid books. Of course, the free section's documents are already quite abundant."

Daniel the wizard's body trembled.

Locke said, "The research here is so detailed that it naturally benefits us two for free. By reading these studies, we can more easily use these materials to make the practical things we want, right?"

Daniel the wizard nodded, using his clenched right fist to strike his open left hand. "I almost got led astray by Wizard Thomasson."

"To hell with being impractical. Don't worry about all that. Just focus on what's beneficial to us."

Daniel the wizard slapped his forehead. "I should also use my spare time to go to the library and borrow some books."

"This past month, I've just been mechanically and repetitively recording those mist shapes every day. It's time to borrow some materials and improve myself."

"Make a special weather system to please myself."

Daniel the wizard said gratefully to Locke, "Locke, thank you for reminding me. You're more perceptive. You've adapted to Cloud Marsh Wetland much faster than I have."

Locke spread his hands and said, "Even if I didn't say it, I think you would have figured this out yourself soon enough."

"I'm heading back now. My project application is almost finished."

Daniel said, "So fast. Well, my project application also has some direction now. See you later then."

Locke returned to his residence. In his study, Locke took out a Sea Gold Sand from his astral ring. However, this Sea Gold Sand was not only a tree fern mutant variety, but its entire body was also covered in ice crystals.

Ice crystal snowflakes floated around its triangular leaves, and its golden powder spores had a bluish tint.

Over the past month in the library's free section, Locke had learned about two special pieces of botanical knowledge:

First, the success rate of grafting tree ferns with tree-type magical plants was very high.

Second, using the drill-hole grafting method under aurora light to graft branches from the Six-Faced Prism Watchtower Ice Tree onto tree ferns could grant those tree ferns the ability of natural ice magic.

Using these two points, Locke had used grafting cultivation methods and the Synthesis Cube to complete the cultivation of another Sea Gold Sand mutant variety within the Druid's Ring over the past month.

Six-Faced Prism Watchtower Sea Gold Sand!

At this moment, this tree fern Sea Gold Sand had six ice crystal snowflakes surrounding the Sea Gold Sand tree fern, forming six snowflake ice crystal mirrors.

Locke used this Cold Ice Sea Gold Sand. Immediately, as he employed the Gold Sand Torrent spell model, a large amount of ice-blue gold sand erupted. It was a mixture of gold sand spore powder and ice shards.

A combination of golden magic and ice magic.

Golden magic already had excellent conductivity. Now using the mutant version of Sea Gold Sand, it was naturally very easy to add ice power to the golden magic while using it.

Locke looked at this scene with satisfaction.

"This mutant variety of Sea Gold Sand will have unique uses. Although it loses the purity of golden magic, it can mix in specific frost power when attacking."

"Perhaps at certain times, it will play a key role."

Locke thought, "This way, I can use Scorching Gold Sand Flow to summon both ice sand and gold sand simultaneously. Next, if I have time, I can also see if I can create more Sea Gold Sand mutant varieties."

The Golden Crown Mountain library was a free treasure trove.

It contained many materials that could give him ideas he had never thought of before, helping him quickly lock onto special synthesis formulas or cultivate special subspecies.

Next, Locke entered his study and began writing a project application using the experimental data he had collected earlier.

...

A month later, Locke walked into the public laboratory and entered the office of Second Circle Wizard Kelt, the team leader.

His project application was finished. Although according to the contract, he didn't need Second Circle Wizard Kelt's approval and only needed his collaborating mentor to sign,

Witch Yekaterina was very busy. Over the past two months, he had only seen her once collectively with a group of people during a team meeting.

Because he hadn't yet entered the First Circle crystallization stage, there was no need for now to waste her busy time having her spend an hour specially selecting an advanced meditation method for him.

Therefore, Locke hadn't sought help from Witch Yekaterina for the time being.

And during these two months, Witch Yekaterina hadn't actively contacted him once either. Perhaps she was too busy, or perhaps he wasn't particularly special among her collaborating wizards. She had dozens of Origin Academy students collaborating with her.

But in any case, Wizard Kelt had a magical stamp bearing the name of Yekaterina's Throne. As long as Wizard Kelt deemed it acceptable, he could stamp it on his project application.

Then he could go to the White Wizard Association branch, the Fund Management Department, and submit his project application.

Of course, Wizard Kelt couldn't block him, because he was just a heartless stamping machine set up by Yekaterina's Throne to save trouble, with only a bit of his own judgment authority.

If Wizard Kelt showed any obstructive behavior, Locke could also go directly to Witch Yekaterina for her signature.

It would just be more troublesome that way.

In Group Six's leader's office, Second Circle Wizard Kelt looked at Locke and said, "You finished the preliminary experimental data in two months and wrote a project application?"

Second Circle Wizard Kelt nodded slightly. As for good aspects, he naturally acknowledged them.

He wished that everyone in Group Six was a capable wizard. That would reduce his pressure considerably.

Wizard Kelt frowned. "But there's one problem. During these two months, the wizards in Group Six told me that you hardly discussed things with them and never asked them for data."

"You also never came to consult with me. In fact, although I have strong opinions about you, I'm still very willing to discuss academic issues with you. Let me see what you've created after working behind closed doors for two months."

Wizard Kelt looked up at Locke.

Wizard Kelt looked at the title of the project application and immediately frowned, because the topic Locke had chosen was actually about the symbiotic relationship between avian magical creatures and bromeliad-type magical plants.

This clearly had no overlap whatsoever with Group Six's current research direction.

Wizard Kelt immediately frowned, and his tone became cold. "The worst thing I imagined has still happened. You've done the same thing as that eliminated senior Origin Academy researcher before. He also ignored my advice and did his own research."

Wizard Kelt said, "Most research related to bromeliad magical creatures was concentrated in our Group Six twenty years ago, and we achieved very good results. Therefore, recently Group Six's main energy has been on the relationship between ant-type magical creatures and madder-type magical plants."

"That was the direction chosen under the previous Group Six leader's guidance. Yekaterina's Throne has been very patient and hasn't interfered much with this."

"I suggest you... Hmm?" Wizard Kelt read on. With his sensitivity to data, he immediately realized that the quality of the preliminary experimental data in this project application was extremely high.

"How many magic stones did you spend to produce such high-quality data in advance?"

Wizard Kelt's tone gained some warmth. "Although you made the same choice as that fool, you're clearly much more capable than him. The quality requirements for this project application are very high, so if you insist on applying, I can only agree."

"But... the number of projects you want to do is far too many."

"If you streamlined it to just one item, it might be much better."

Wizard Kelt frowned because he saw that in Locke's project application, he was actually going to analyze the coexistence relationship of four types of bromeliad magical plants with specific magical creatures all at once.

However, to avoid seeming strange, Locke hadn't mentioned the Big Yellow Duck Crown Bromeliad in the project application, nor had he mentioned the quasi-Royal Lightning Field natural magical structure component.

Although Locke was certain that it was a naturally occurring type of natural magical structure component that had not yet been discovered in nature.

He only mentioned in the project application that perhaps the Big Yellow Duck Bromeliad had other natural magical structure components that might be beneficial to the growth of Lightning Bees, and clearly stated the fact that Thunderbirds enhanced their natural reproductive ability by eating Lightning Bees.

Wizard Kelt looked at Locke with incomprehension and said, "I admit that the data from each of your preliminary experiments is exceptionally solid. Your work is done better than I imagined."

"But aren't you being too hasty, actually wanting to explore four bromeliad-type magical plants at once?"

Wizard Kelt still couldn't forget the two projects he had wanted to give Locke earlier. "However, if you're interested, you could do both of those projects I wanted to give you earlier at the same time."

Locke shook his head slightly. "I'm sorry, Teacher Kelt, but I'm still more interested in the topics mentioned in the project application I've written now."

"I think... interest is still quite important."

"Where there's interest, I'll have more motivation to do the work."

Wizard Kelt looked at the project application in his hand, somewhat unwilling, and said with a frown, "If you would just listen to me and work together with Group Six, things would become much easier. Forget it..."

He muttered in a low voice, "Young people need to hit some walls before they know to turn around."