Locke placed his right hand on the magic alloy door of the Cold Ice Mirror room. His palm pressed against it and rotated slightly, unlocking the magic lock.

Then the alloy door opened again, and a cold current rushed toward him.

Ice marks appeared on the floor.

From his astral ring, Locke took out a bottle of improved version of Spirit Spring Soul Surge Potion. The Spirit Spring Soul Surge Potion was refined from the juices of seven improved versions of colorful lichen magical plants, so it could restore a wizard's state to optimal while also increasing resistance to various environmental changes, such as heat or cold.

After drinking the Spirit Spring Soul Surge Potion, Locke no longer felt the bone-piercing cold, so he walked into the Cold Ice Mirror room.

The instant he entered, the magic alloy door slammed shut with a boom.

In this dim room, a beam of magical radiance lit up, illuminating the mirror inside the room that was as large as a three-story house.

What a majestic and magnificent mirror it was.

The human body, standing before it, appeared so insignificant.

The surface of this enormous silver mirror continuously emitted electric arcs. The azure discharge arcs showed the powerful energy contained on this mirror's surface.

At the same time, Locke's reflection appeared in the mirror.

His reflection in the mirror was surrounded by countless electric currents, like fiery trees and silver flowers, appearing exceptionally beautiful.

Locke looked at this mirror and said in a low voice, "So this is the Cold Ice Mirror with a minimum price of thirty million magic stones and an average price of fifty million magic stones?"

A massive magic pressure, like an endless mountain, emanated from the mirror's surface and rushed toward Locke like oppressive dark clouds overhead.

At the same time, Locke's reflection suddenly magnified in the mirror, becoming three stories tall. Moreover, Locke's reflection's eyes released azure magical radiance, transforming into two spell eyes.

At the same time, his reflection spoke in an indifferent tone, "I am the mirror spirit of the Cold Ice Mirror. Please place the magical plant component you wish to test into a vessel and add developing potion."

"Then place it into the Cold Ice Mirror."

"This is the control console."

A magical radiance lit up, illuminating a device resembling a stone podium beside the magic mirror. Magic buttons flickered on the podium's surface.

The mirror spirit explained, "You will adjust parameters through the control console and initialize the Cold Ice Mirror. You will also need to constantly adjust the observation angle of the items within the magic mirror, the data collection direction, identifying what deserves your attention and recording, and what can be ignored."

"Do you require instruction?"

Locke said calmly, "Yes."

The mirror spirit of the Cold Ice Mirror was a product of cooperation between alchemists and Evocation School wizards. Alchemists provided the external device foundation, while Evocation School wizards used spells to create the mirror spirit consciousness.

Locke walked to the control console and took from his astral ring a transparent solution contained in a glass vessel. Previously, he had used the structure comparison machine and column element separation equipment to separate out the special natural magic structure component from inside the Big Yellow Duck Crown Bromeliad and placed it into the solution.

This step was also called "purifying the substance."

This way, this solution was no longer a mixed juice of magical plants, but rather a pure elementary substance.

Locke had also previously tested that directly feeding this elementary substance to lightning bees could also cause them to rapidly undergo bloodline transformation, becoming lightning bee queens. The progress was faster and the effect more obvious, but quite a few lightning bees died after using this elementary solution alone.

The probability was approximately one-third.

Locke suspected it was because taking too much of the special natural magic structure component extracted from the Big Yellow Duck Crown Bromeliad at once caused their deaths.

At this time, Locke picked up a bottle of developing potion on the control console, glanced over it, then added the black developing potion into the glass vessel.

Developing potion actually made a substance's spiritual field manifest, becoming visible to the naked eye.

This way, one could more simply observe certain characteristics of this substance, especially characteristics related to mysticism.

Then, under the mirror spirit's guidance, Locke directly held that glass vessel, stood in front of the magic mirror, and then placed the glass vessel in his hands into... the mirror.

The mirror's surface was like water ripples, swallowing down that glass vessel.

Then the glass vessel appeared on the magic mirror's mirror surface, as if it had become a reflection within the mirror.

A cold ice magic shrouded it. In just an instant, the object inside the glass vessel was condensed into an ice block.

The speed was extremely fast.

After the glass vessel was frozen into an ice block, its reflection within the magic mirror rotated rapidly.

Locke hurriedly followed the mirror spirit's instructions, controlling the microscopic lightning magic inside the magic mirror through the control console, firing an electron flood to observe specific positions of a certain microscopic part of the item. At the same time, the upper left corner of the magic mirror would display the observed microscopic structure of the natural magic structure component, as well as the spiritual structure and magic structure.

The Cold Ice Mirror was a masterwork created by alchemists, a product of alchemists from Dragon Fall Land.

The Cold Ice Mirror was filled with high-energy electron flows from the micro-lightning magic studies sub-field within the Evocation School's lightning magic sub-direction.

This way, one could use high-energy electron flows to observe particle-level scenes, deconstructing the three-dimensional structure at the particle level of the pure elementary natural magic structure component separated from inside the magical plant.

But high-energy electron flows would destroy the natural magic structure components.

While observing, it was also destroying the object being observed.

Therefore, cold ice magic had to freeze this natural magic structure component in an extremely brief time to protect it from being destroyed the instant it was observed by microscopic lightning magic.

After adding the developing potion, the lightning mirror could not only observe the three-dimensional structure at the particle level of the natural magic structure, but could also observe the three-dimensional structure of this natural magic structure at the spiritual level and magic level.

At this time, Locke used the lightning mirror to conduct three-dimensional structure mapping on three levels for the natural magic structure similar to the Royal Lightning Field.

This usually required mapping hundreds of thousands of microscopic two-dimensional photographs of this natural magic structure component, then synthesizing them together to create several three-dimensional structures of the Royal Lightning Field-like structure on three levels.

Locke followed the mirror spirit's instructions, manipulating the console to gradually move the microscopic high-level electron flow within the magic mirror to map the three types of three-dimensional structures of this new natural magic structure component.

As a Third Circle level magic artifact, the Cold Ice Mirror had powerful functions. Therefore, although Locke was very unfamiliar with it, he was still gradually analyzing the three-dimensional structure of this new natural magic structure component.

Or rather, discovering the existence of this natural magic structure component was the most difficult step.

Analyzing this natural magic structure component was just a matter of time.

Even if Locke's technique was poor, coming a few more times would eventually work.

The difficulty of using the Cold Ice Mirror, 90% of the difficulty, was actually undertaken by the automatic operation system of the Third Circle magic artifact Cold Ice Mirror, the mirror spirit.

For example, the most difficult sample preparation and ice layer creation, where the quality of the ice layer determined observation quality, but this step was done automatically by the mirror spirit.

Locke just needed to place the sample into the magic mirror.

And the relatively difficult data collection and data processing were all done by the mirror spirit.

Locke only had to do what remained, selecting collection points and choosing regions for data collection.

Even if the collection points chosen weren't good, he could just come a few more times.

However, precisely because the Third Circle magic artifact's functions were so powerful, many people used it.

Therefore, what truly limited Locke was actually the opportunity to use the Cold Ice Mirror.

After all, he only had one priority use privilege per week.

Even using the priority use privilege, he still had to queue and waited half the night before his turn came.

After a full day passed, Locke had already photographed over ten thousand particle-level photos of this natural magic structure component. Then suddenly, the sample reflection within the Cold Ice Mirror disappeared, replaced by a three-story tall reflection of Locke.

That was actually the mirror spirit displayed externally by the Cold Ice Mirror.

The mirror spirit said calmly, "You have currently used this magic mirror for 12 hours, reaching the maximum upper limit value for single use."

"Please come again next time."

"You may choose to leave your sample stored within this magic mirror, and except for you, no other wizard has permission to take the sample from the magic mirror. You may also choose to take the sample away, but please note that removed samples cannot be used again."

"Samples you leave within this magic mirror can continue to be used next time. Please record relevant data to ensure that when you use it next time, you can continue completing the experiment based on already completed work."

"Welcome to use this magic mirror next time."

Locke was somewhat speechless. He hadn't expected that a wizard could use a Cold Ice Mirror for at most 12 consecutive hours.

However, this was also reasonable.

The Cold Ice Mirror was super breeder equipment, a Third Circle magic artifact.

Every day there was a huge pile of wizards queuing to use the Cold Ice Mirror. There were only two Cold Ice Mirrors in the entire Origin Academy, so naturally many people would use them.

If one wizard could use it continuously, there would most likely be cases of wizards finding ways to bring a large pile of life supplies and forcibly living in the Cold Ice Mirror room for several months.

Locke thought for a moment. "Currently only about one-quarter of the work is done, but this is because I'm unfamiliar. If I become proficient, I should be able to reduce some of the required time."

Only after using the Cold Ice Mirror did Locke realize that just the proficiency level of using this Third Circle magic artifact like the Cold Ice Mirror could largely determine the speed and quality of your results.

Although the Cold Ice Mirror's functions were powerful, thus guaranteeing your usage lower limit, the usage upper limit was still determined by the wizard.

The difference was like the difference between taking photos with a phone versus using a DSLR camera.

The more proficient a wizard was at using the Cold Ice Mirror, the more clearly and accurately they could analyze the three-dimensional structure of natural magic structure components.

Of course, to truly know how to use the Cold Ice Mirror required adjusting the mirror spirit, which might require Second Circle wizards or even Third Circle wizards.

Locke also understood why ordinary Origin Academy researchers showed extremely envious expressions every time they mentioned that he could use the Cold Ice Mirror with priority each week.

After all, more uses of the Cold Ice Mirror meant proficiency could increase, meaning the opportunity and quality of producing results would both improve proportionally.

In a sense, senior Origin Academy researchers truly enjoyed enormous preferential treatment.

Locke turned and left the Cold Ice Mirror room. He left the sample in the magic mirror, after all, once taken out, all the previous work would have to be redone.

Leaving the sample inside was relatively safe.

The Cold Ice Mirror's functions were powerful. Golden Crown Mountain wizards could use it to conduct hundreds of types of experiments. No one would care what someone else brought to work on.

Moreover, once this sample was taken out from inside the magic mirror, it would become invalid, so whether anyone had touched it midway was simply obvious at a glance.

And with the guarantee of the Third Circle magic artifact mirror spirit, unless it was Witch Yekaterina or other Third Circle Throne wizards, there probably weren't any other wizards who could take his sample out from inside the Cold Ice Mirror.

And the sample prepared by him, a mere First Circle crystallization wizard, simply had no possibility of being noticed by Third Circle wizards...

When Locke walked out of the Cold Ice Mirror room, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon outside. The sun was high, and bright sunlight shone on his face.

At this time, the ordinary Origin Academy researcher waiting outside had an extremely impatient expression. He only nodded slightly at Locke in greeting, then quickly walked toward the Cold Ice Mirror room, opened the magic alloy door, and walked in.

For ordinary Origin Academy researchers, waiting for an opportunity to use a Cold Ice Mirror might require half a month to a month.

They often needed to apply to use the Cold Ice Mirror a month in advance.

Therefore, every opportunity to use the Cold Ice Mirror absolutely could not be wasted.

Locke went to Wizard Kelt's office and again applied to him for a request to use the Sunlight Mirror. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Wizard Kelt looked at Locke strangely. "Just verifying the key types of natural magic structure components within magical plants only requires using the structure comparison machine. Being rigorous, using the Cold Ice Mirror is sufficient."

"What do you need the Sunlight Mirror for? Wizards in our Group Six basically never use the Sunlight Mirror."

Locke knew there was a Sunlight Mirror worth sixty million magic stones in the public breeding room, and according to the contract, he also had priority use privilege once per week.

Locke said, "Teacher Kelt, I have the right to apply, and my current experiment truly needs to use it."

Indeed, just doing the work content of Group Six, apart from discovering new natural magic structure components, they basically wouldn't use the Sunlight Mirror, but he truly needed to analyze completely new natural magic structure components.

That required not only using the Cold Ice Mirror to analyze its three-dimensional structure, but also using the Sunlight Mirror to analyze its functional characteristics at the particle level, spiritual level, and magic level.

Locke said, "In addition, I also want to apply to you for use of the Electromagnetic Mirror."

The Electromagnetic Mirror was used quite frequently by wizards in their Group Six.

The three great mirrors: the Cold Ice Mirror looked at three-dimensional structure, the Sunlight Mirror looked at functional characteristics, and the Electromagnetic Mirror looked at the entire process of action pathways of natural magic structure components within living organisms.

Kelt wanted to say something, but at this time an ordinary Origin Academy researcher from Group Six came over to report work to him. Kelt could only immediately write his name on the two application forms Locke provided.

He nodded to Locke, then looked at that researcher and said, "Have the results come out for the volatile substance that causes Big Strength Grass to attract ant-type magical creatures to actively approach? According to my prediction, that should be Structure No. 5, the natural magic component structure similar to Grease. If it's not Structure No. 5, then it's Structure No. 8. Show me the results."

After Locke obtained the application forms, he directly proceeded to the other two magic mirror rooms in the public laboratory.

Locke waited for half a day, then entered the Sunlight Mirror room.

Inside the Sunlight Mirror room was high temperature. The mirror surface was also three stories tall, and there was also a mirror spirit inside that could assist him in operation.

Locke poured the developing potion into the glass vessel. After preparing it as a sample, he placed the glass vessel into the Sunlight Mirror, then began analyzing the functional characteristics of this natural magic structure component.