Wizard Kelt seemed to have been scared by the data fabrication incident and reminded Locke, "Unless it's a confirmatory experiment, how could the data you produce be close to the theoretical expectation? Random errors are universally present. So we all modify the data to some extent."

"But if you haven't modified any data, yet your experimental data is very close to the theoretical expectation, this situation is very abnormal."

Wizard Kelt looked worriedly at Witch Yekaterina.

Locke instantly realized the problem. In the southeastern quadrant, he actually hadn't properly done formal wizard-level projects, and when doing projects in the Land of Six Towers, no one paid attention to his experimental details, so there wouldn't be any problems.

But this habit of his would lead wizards at Golden Crown Mountain to notice that he could always quickly find the correct direction, so that when doing experiments, the curve of the actual data would fit the ideal curve.

Locke frowned, thinking about how to respond.

Actually, this problem wasn't very serious, because even if a wizard noticed this point, from the results, he had indeed discovered the mechanism pathways of these magical plants. It was just that the process was puzzling.

But these could indeed all be attributed to experimental methods.

Just before Locke could think of an excuse, Witch Yekaterina suddenly spoke, "Locke, I need to ask you something. You must answer my question honestly."

"This matter is very important. It even relates to your future destiny, your future upper limit."

Locke bowed to Witch Yekaterina, "Yes, teacher, please ask."

Yekaterina said, "When you're doing experiments, do you always have a kind of intuition that, in some mysterious way, you can sense whether the direction you're currently working in is correct? If it's wrong, you'll feel a headache and discomfort, with no desire to continue, even though you yourself can't explain why you don't want to continue."

"But you'll definitely become very uncomfortable. Sometimes you'll think you're tired, and sometimes you'll think your condition is poor."

"And when you're working in the right direction, you become passionate and full of vitality."

Witch Yekaterina looked directly at Locke and asked, "Have you experienced these situations I've described?"

Wizard Kelt looked confused. He didn't understand at all what Witch Yekaterina was talking about, so he looked at Witch Yekaterina, then at Locke, his eyes full of puzzlement.

Locke had been hesitating, but he suddenly thought of something, breathed a slight sigh of relief, then said, "Yes, teacher."

"I do often have these phenomena you mentioned, and I'm deeply troubled by them."

"Sometimes, I don't even know if these feelings are illusions or something that truly exists."

Locke appropriately displayed confusion and distress on his face.

These emotions were not all false, but ninety percent true and ten percent false. Otherwise, there was absolutely no way he could deceive a Third Circle Throne wizard.

Wizard Kelt's eyes became even more confused. He couldn't help but ask Locke in a low voice, "Locke, what are you and the Throne discussing? Why can't I understand at all?"

Wizard Kelt was beginning to doubt his life.

Clearly he was the Second Circle wizard, with experience and knowledge several times greater than Locke's, yet now listening to Witch Yekaterina's words, he felt completely baffled. On the contrary, the young First Circle crystallization stage wizard could understand.

This situation was too strange.

Witch Yekaterina glanced at Kelt, then looked at Locke, saying, "I see. It's indeed as I expected. You've awakened the special ability of the true dragon race, super intuition."

"It's a talent where the spellcasting risk and spellcasting effect are equally powerful. If not used well, it becomes a cursed talent."

Witch Yekaterina said, "So that's how it is. I've found the reason why you can quickly discover the general mechanism of magical plants' functions and breed magical plants with new natural magical power structure components."

"Because the dragon's super intuition can give you a vague directional judgment. If your direction is wrong, you'll have a somatic reaction. If the direction is correct, you'll become very comfortable."

"The true dragon race possesses such a powerful talent."

"Using super intuition allows you to have research efficiency that ordinary wizards find difficult to achieve, at least when doing this kind of simple, repetitive digging into the mechanism pathways of magical plants' specific directional functions, it will be very useful." Witch Yekaterina said, "In other words, like me, you possess the dragon race's super intuition ability."

Witch Yekaterina said, "When I was a First Circle wizard, it was because of my super intuition ability that I grew faster than other wizards and did research better than other wizards."

Wizard Kelt didn't dare speak, but looked at Locke with surprise, because Witch Yekaterina had acknowledged that Locke possessed the same special talent as her.

To possess the same talent as a Third Circle wizard had in the First Circle stage was absolutely a tremendous honor.

It was also proof of ability.

Wizard Kelt lowered his head, unable to suppress the corners of his mouth. 'I've struck gold this time.' 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

'Fortunately, the Throne first assigned Locke to our Group Six. Originally, our Group Six was the worst team under the Throne, but who would have thought we'd receive such a great benefit.'

'Group Six has hope of raising its status. Whether I can stay at Golden Crown Mountain depends on producing results. Now it seems I'll have to count on Locke.'

Locke breathed a slight sigh of relief in his heart.

Excellent. Fortunately, the wizard world had countless super geniuses and invincible freaks. This way, he could quickly produce results in Group Six, and his strong research talent could all be attributed to the dragon race's super intuition.

Although his super intuition had only appeared once before and hadn't performed stably since then, as long as Witch Yekaterina believed he had it, that was enough.

As a beneficiary of the true dragon race's super intuition, Witch Yekaterina would naturally have immense confidence in the super intuition talent.

Moreover, this could also explain his own talent clearly.

Locke stood up again and bowed to Witch Yekaterina. "Teacher, thank you for answering my questions. So this is the dragon race's super intuition. I originally thought it was just my personal psychological problem."

Witch Yekaterina smiled and nodded. "I can relate to your pain. You're very much like me when I was young. This is a side effect for people with our kind of talent."

Although Locke hadn't really enjoyed super intuition much and naturally hadn't carefully experienced the side effects, he still chose to acknowledge it at this moment.

He directly nodded.

Locke asked, "Teacher, will wizards with super intuition find research much easier than other ordinary wizards? Then would wizards of the Divination School have more advantages in doing research than wizards of other schools?"

Witch Yekaterina shook her head slightly. "It's not like that."

"First, you asked me whether wizards of the Divination School would have more advantages in doing research than wizards of other schools. For this question, I cannot give you a simple answer of yes or no."

"Because the issues involved are very complex."

"Wizards of any school may have advantages from certain angles when doing research, so you can't say that wizards of the Divination School have no advantages if they use divination spells for research."

"But the advantages aren't as great as you think. In many cases, they might even backfire and take detours. This involves the characteristics and drawbacks of divination spells, as well as the price that must be paid."

"Also, the super intuition talent of those of us with Immortal Dragon Scales cannot simply be equated with ordinary Divination School magic. It's a type of magic with a very high divination level. If an ordinary wizard mastered it, they would inevitably have to pay an enormous price, but for the dragon race's super intuition ability, the price isn't paid by the individual but by the clan."

Witch Yekaterina glanced at Wizard Kelt, who was silently eavesdropping beside them, then suddenly spoke, "Wizard Kelt, you may leave now."

"Remember, I hope in six months you can give me a decent answer."

Wizard Kelt's body stiffened. He stood up from his seat and bowed to Witch Yekaterina. He knew what Witch Yekaterina meant was that he had six months left to find a way to produce results to avoid leaving Golden Crown Mountain.

Of course, he could also choose to leave Golden Crown Mountain right now.

He was free. He had always been free.

It was just that Golden Crown Mountain, the Origin Academy, and the Throne wizards would never lack excellent Second Circle wizards coming to work for them.

Second Circle wizards from Cloud Marsh Wetland, as well as a large number of excellent external Second Circle wizards from outside the wizard lands, would continuously pour into Golden Crown Mountain.

His position was also being eyed by countless wizards outside, and those people couldn't wait for him to leave Golden Crown Mountain six months early.

Wizard Kelt quickly readjusted his goals in his heart. He understood that Witch Yekaterina didn't want him to hear the next conversation, so it was better for him to leave tactfully in advance.

Wizard Kelt bowed to Witch Yekaterina, saying, "Throne, I know what to do now. Over the next six months, I will work hard. Moreover, I plan to develop on two fronts. I won't abandon Group Six's original work focus, and I'll also prioritize some resources for Locke to fully leverage our Group Six's advantages."

"I'll produce results that satisfy you."

Then Wizard Kelt left the round table conference room.

After he left, Witch Yekaterina said to Locke, "Within the Origin Academy, my Ten-Person Plan project has six teams in total, divided into Team One through Group Six according to the importance of their work."

"Group Six's work is the least important among the six teams. Team One has my most outstanding wizards and researchers from the advanced Origin Academy. That's why I let Wizard Kelt, whose qualifications can only be considered average, try being the Group Six leader."

"Among the six team leaders, he's the only Second Circle wizard without advanced Origin Academy experience."

"But now it seems his ability really isn't sufficient to be Group Six's leader."

Witch Yekaterina said in a regretful tone, "I originally quite appreciated him, but now it seems choosing him was indeed a mistake. It's not a matter of ability, but rather his psychological resilience is problematic."

Witch Yekaterina looked at Locke, saying, "Good. Since the outsider has left and only our own people remain, we can speak more deeply."

Witch Yekaterina glanced at Locke's left hand, and immediately a patch of golden Immortal Dragon Scales appeared on Locke's left hand.

For an instant, Witch Yekaterina's eyes turned into red vertical pupils, the eyes of a dragon.

Witch Yekaterina said, "Golden Crown Mountain's full name is the Golden Crown Mountain Dragon Blood Society. The earliest Golden Crown Mountain was jointly established by a group of wizards with true dragon bloodlines and ordinary wizard friends."

"Wizards of that era still retained pure-blood human centrism, only acknowledging that pure-blood humans could learn magic. If there were alien races or mixed-blood humans who learned magic, then they had to... immediately return the magic. In that bloody era, non-humans who knew magic would be considered by the wizard world at that time to have stolen magic from us, and the magic needed to be reclaimed."

"In that era, dragon-blood wizards were outcasts, and the ordinary wizards among Golden Crown Mountain's founding wizard members were an even more idealistic group."

Witch Yekaterina said, "The wizard world at that time made a great mistake, incorrectly believing that your ancestors must all be human within fifteen generations, otherwise you were an illegal wizard. But later the wizard world came to its senses. The pure-blood humans we pursued might actually limit the development of the human race."

"Making humans lose competitiveness."

"Moreover, in later periods, the definition of human became increasingly strict, from broad humanity to wizard world humans, then humans from a specific region, and the scope kept shrinking. Eventually it became so small that humanity itself was actually divided into thousands of races. Finally, the wizard world at that time realized it couldn't continue like this, and thus initiated the current Pan-Magical Race Wizard Law, which states that anyone who learns magic can be classified as human, unless they join the black wizards."

"Under this law, anything can be human. Only black wizards don't count as human under white wizard law."

Witch Yekaterina said, "Of course, many things from the pure-blood human centrism era still remain in the law. For example, for the White Wizard Association, only by becoming a legal human do you have your own rights and obligations and receive the White Wizard Association's protection. A lizardman, as long as they become a formal wizard and join the White Wizard Association, is human in the legal sense of the White Wizard Association."

"Whether you're human or not is very important. If you're not human, you won't receive any protection at the Supreme Truth Council."

Witch Yekaterina said, "I've digressed. Locke, we at Golden Crown Mountain have always had a secret society."

"It's a secret society that only dragon-blood wizards can join. It's a secret society that has continued from that pure-blood human centrism era. Although the situation has changed now, this tradition has been preserved and gained new purposes."

"The name of this society is protected by magic and cannot be obtained by outsiders. Once mentioned, some of us can sense it. Only wizards with dragon blood who pass the test can join Golden Crown Mountain's secret society."

"As you know, Golden Crown Mountain has four major forces: the Council of Elders, the Academic Committee, the Executive Patrol Group, and Landbridge Academy. Setting aside Landbridge Academy, within Golden Crown Mountain we actually have three major forces. Among them, most members of the Academic Committee... are members of the secret society."

Witch Yekaterina said, "In other words, Golden Crown Mountain's academic oversight and project review are basically controlled by us dragon-blood wizards. And the conditions for entering the Academic Committee have always hidden this necessary condition."

"In contrast, the Executive Patrol Group is the domain of those ordinary wizards without dragon blood. As for the Council of Elders, they are the descendants of those ordinary wizards who established Golden Crown Mountain, or simply themselves."

"As for Landbridge, Landbridge Academy is even more unique. We maintain harmony with Golden Crown Mountain despite our differences. It seems independent, but Golden Crown Mountain and Landbridge maintain consistency in all actions at the upper levels. If outsiders mistakenly think we are two wizard organizations, they will definitely receive sufficient lessons."

Locke's heart stirred slightly.

Witch Yekaterina glanced at him. "That's right. The biggest reason Golden Crown Mountain invited you wasn't because you're the Cloud Marsh Cup champion, but because you possess Immortal Dragon Scales."

Locke finally understood.

In the eyes of Witch Yekaterina and these wizards with true dragon bloodlines, he, who possessed true dragon bloodlines, was considered one of their own.

Of course, to truly become one of their own, he had to join that secret society.

This standard of "one of our own" should be even deeper than ordinary Origin Academy colleagues, or even the mentor-student relationship within one academy.

It was a very useful label for him at present.

Perhaps he could gain quite a few benefits from this.

Locke said to Witch Yekaterina, "Then teacher, what kind of test must I pass to join that secret society?"

Witch Yekaterina said, "You're already in the midst of the test."

"If you pass, I'll tell you and let you join this society. At that time, you'll be able to know the specific name of this society."

Locke was puzzled. If he was already in the midst of the test, what exactly was this test?

But clearly, Witch Yekaterina wouldn't answer him, so there was no need to ask. That would just be getting rejected for nothing and might even cause a Third Circle Throne wizard to become annoyed.

'Although I don't know what the specific test is, from the current situation, my progress bar for this test should be going quite well. Otherwise, Witch Yekaterina wouldn't need to mention this in front of me.'

Locke thought, 'In that case, I just need to continue as before, properly doing funding projects at the Origin Academy and pursuing the special funding project.'

'I don't need to change anything in particular.'

Locke thought of something and asked Witch Yekaterina, "Then, Witch Mason..."

Witch Yekaterina nodded, "You're indeed very smart. It seems your super intuition ability has developed quite well."

"Your intuition is very sharp."

"Witch Mason possesses the bloodline of a Second Circle level giant dragon, the Frost Dragon. The earliest membership standard for the secret society was possessing true dragon race bloodlines, but later, because its function changed, the standards were continuously lowered. So strictly speaking, as long as you possess Second Circle level dragon race bloodlines, you meet the membership standard."

"It's just that your priority in the society is higher than Witch Mason's."

"Although she's also quite good, a very hardworking young lady."

Locke nodded.

Golden Crown Mountain was indeed not as simple as he had thought. He had only joined Golden Crown Mountain for four and a half months, but had already seen undercurrents surging.

Witch Yekaterina said, "In contrast, your good friend, Wizard Daniel, his collaborative advisor is Wizard Feodor. Feodor is from the Executive Patrol Group. The Patrol Group maintains its existence and recruits new members through mentor-student relationships."

"Your friend is a key examination target."

"As for the Council of Elders? Those old folks still remain in ancient times. Although their bodies have come to the modern wizard world, their spirits still remain in the past. Some of them might even be so nostalgic they could go directly back to the Magic Empire era before the pure-blood human era..."

"The Council of Elders can only be entered through bloodline relationships. Neither you nor Wizard Daniel will ever be able to enter."

"Even if you wanted to."

Locke nodded thoughtfully. "I see, teacher. I understand."

Witch Yekaterina said, "Actually, these matters don't have much to do with you young wizards. You just need to do your own work."

"Back to the main topic. The side effect of super intuition is borne by the entire dragon race, meaning difficulty in producing pure-blood descendants. So the two of us don't have to directly bear the side effects."

"Under normal circumstances, learning the Divination School won't have any effect on research."

"We are special. First, not all wizards have the talent to learn the Divination School. Second, divination is always very vague. The more refined it is, the higher the price to pay and the higher the level. For example, to do First Circle level research, you need divination magic that is essentially Third Circle level to truly play a decisive role. This is why I could detect from your data that you might have awakened super intuition ability."

"The same ability as me. And this ability can only play a limited auxiliary role at Second Circle, and at Third Circle, it's just icing on the cake."

"Third, every divination requires paying a price. A diviner can always dissolve the accumulated price through some form before it accumulates to an unmanageable level."

Witch Yekaterina said, "So top diviners will use complex methods to try to forcibly deduce certain important research through divination methods. Golden Crown Mountain even has such research groups, but this method isn't conventional. The price is quite high, and resource consumption is even higher. It belongs to the second method by which academies obtain breakthrough technologies in research."

"And this method is indeed being attempted by research groups within top-tier wizard organizations everywhere."

"It's just that the efficiency of producing results is very slow."

"All in all, super intuition can only give you a vague direction. What plays the decisive role is still the knowledge you've accumulated yourself."

Witch Yekaterina handed Locke a crystal bracelet, mainly composed of a type of white crystal. It was Angel's Tear crystal, strung with mithril thread.

"This is a Second Circle magical artifact I used when I was young. It's useless to me now, so I'm giving it to you."

"Angel's Tear crystal can obscure your fate, causing divination magic to distort on you, fail to take effect, or be misled."

"This can make other people's divination magic ineffective on you, and can also make your own divination magic lose its effect on you."

Witch Yekaterina said, "Although we don't have to pay the side effects of super intuition ability, the habit of using divination ability for long periods isn't good. It will gradually damage your perception of reality. As your usage increases, you might not be able to distinguish whether that's your divination intuition or your speculation and fantasy."

"Wearing this magical artifact bracelet can let you control the number of times you use super intuition. As long as you use super intuition within a reasonable range, you won't confuse your perception of reality due to overuse."

Locke looked at the bracelet in Witch Yekaterina's hand, stunned for a moment, not knowing whether he should accept the gift of a Second Circle magical artifact.

That was a Second Circle magical artifact!

Every Second Circle magical artifact was worth at least a million magic stones.

Many Second Circle wizards didn't have a single magical artifact due to poverty. Of course, some had magical artifacts once but mortgaged them for loans and lost them.

Before Locke could react, Witch Yekaterina grabbed his left hand and personally put the crystal bracelet on him.

"The magical artifact retains my magical pressure, so you can also use the Angel's Tear bracelet."

A First Circle wizard's magical pressure wasn't sufficient to activate a Second Circle magical artifact, at least not sufficient to normally use a Second Circle magical artifact for extended periods.