Half an hour later, Alicia brought four ordinary First Circle stage wizards with her.

At this time, Alicia was not only a vaporization stage wizard, but her mana had already reached 5500, rapidly approaching the liquefaction stage. And as her time in power increased, the majesty about her had also become increasingly weighty.

Alicia nodded and said to Locke, "These four ordinary First Circle wizards are all my trusted confidants, but they're all half-elementalized wizards. Is that okay?"

The four ordinary First Circle wizards looked at Locke with curious and awed gazes, also curiously observing this ecological garden built by the largest project the Plutarch family had recently invested in.

Their eyes looked with astonishment at the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome floating in the sky at a hundred meters, radiating earth-shaking magical pressure properties.

Locke said to Alicia, "That's fine. I just need them all to sign a confidentiality contract. Alicia..."

Alicia blinked and pointed at herself, "Do I have to sign too?"

Locke smiled. After Alicia's long time in power, her manner of dealing with people had become more magnanimous than before. She could even actively joke with him.

Moreover, after this year had passed, she could actually win over four half-elementalized First Circle stage wizards as her confidants, showing she had gained much from managing the family this year.

And even though she devoted much energy to managing family affairs, her mana growth rate showed no sign of slowing. Instead, with the help of continuously taking Mammon's Powder, her mana was about to reach the liquefaction stage.

Locke smiled, "Of course you don't have to. This project was originally one you invested in. I believe you also won't actively leak anything related to it. These four copies are curse contracts formulated by contract masters. Once violated, the curse magic hidden within will descend upon your souls."

"Severely injuring you."

Locke looked at the four ordinary wizards and handed over the contracts and magic quills. "The contract specifications are very high, so the curse magic will partially bypass the permanent defensive fields on your bodies the moment you sign and agree. Once violated, the problem could be very serious."

"Take a look. If there are no problems, you can sign the contracts."

The four family wizards looked and discovered this was actually a very high-level contract. One contract cost thirty thousand magic stones.

Locke was indifferent about this because the project was almost finished. Funds that couldn't be used up would expire and be recovered. Moreover, confidentiality work was of paramount importance, so spending more money on this was definitely right.

The curse magic enchanted on these contracts was Civilization Curse.

This curse would connect to the Eye of Truth at the White Wizard headquarters. Once either party violated the contract, it would use the Eye of Truth to attack. Because it was an attack from the Eye of Truth, it could bypass formal wizards' permanent defensive fields.

Of course, also because the Eye of Truth was involved, this contract had to ensure fairness and justice. Otherwise, the Eye of Truth would consider the contract invalid.

The four family wizards didn't hesitate much and immediately signed their names on them.

Since it was a contract with Eye of Truth involvement, and Alicia had them sign it, there would be no problems.

Once the Eye of Truth was involved, the rights and obligations of both parties in the contract would be relatively equal. There wouldn't be situations where one party had few rights but had to observe excessive obligations, or one party had few obligations but many rights.

These would all be calculated by the Eye of Truth as invalid contracts.

Next, Locke led them to directly below the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome, which was where their project team had cultivated the Hydra magical plant.

Alicia was stunned for a moment, seeing that Hydra magical plant radiating terrifying magical pressure just through itself. "Could it be... you successfully cultivated it?"

"That project could actually succeed?"

Alicia turned to look at Locke, surprise and pure happiness flashing in her eyes.

Alicia said, "No wonder you needed me to find four trustworthy wizards."

Locke said, "Yes, then let's begin. If this experiment can succeed, only then will it truly be a success. Even so, afterward my research group will still need to conduct testing work on the Hydra magical plant."

"Observe whether it has obvious defects and what its main weaknesses are."

The four family wizards looked completely baffled, not understanding the conversation between Locke and Alicia. They didn't understand why four extraordinarily mediocre bloodline studies wizards like them were called here.

These four people neither understood botany nor had any noteworthy achievements in bloodline studies.

They didn't understand what they were called here to do.

Under Locke's guidance, nine wizards simultaneously let Hydra coil around their waists. Then Hydra began to become extremely active.

According to the initial design, to fully unleash Hydra's power required nine wizards to let it parasitize them.

And at this moment, Hydra indeed obtained the power of nine wizards.

Locke sensed that the power of those four family wizards was somewhat weak. He directly extended his right hand. The White Dragon Ring worn on his right middle finger immediately flashed with magical radiance. Then the White Dragon Tower's elemental fission pool actively distributed energy to these four half-elementalized wizards, strengthening their spell power.

To balance the basic strength of the nine wizards.

Next, Hydra began to rage wildly. All nine mimetic crocodile lock heads revealed red 'light.' Those mimetic crocodile lock heads seemed to come alive, constantly waving in midair, constantly trying to bite at non-existent enemies.

At the same time, dozens of chains constantly waved around their nine wizards, like chains descending from the sky, sealing everything in the world.

Hydra itself could not only unite permanent defensive fields together. It itself possessed certain attack and defense capabilities.

At this time, Hydra's small vine leaves appeared in nine colors. Next, the permanent defensive fields of the nine wizards all stacked together.

Each person had nine layers of shields on their body.

These were respectively: one layer of Oak Armor provided by Locke, one layer of Dragon Scorpion Carapace provided by Alicia, four layers of elemental creature elemental shells provided by the four family wizards, one layer of Dryad Skin provided by Barbara, one layer of Poison Spore Purple Mist provided by Wizard Tacitus, and one layer of Life Force Field provided by Wizard Montgomery.

Each wizard bore nine permanent defensive fields, their armor thick as turtle shells.

Locke felt uncontainable joy arise in his heart. Hydra perfectly met his expectations, truly possessing the ability to stack together different wizards' permanent defensive fields.

Montgomery blurted out, "It can actually be realized!"

Alicia was stunned. She looked at this magical plant in her hands, her heart incomparably shocked.

She knew that once this magical plant was made public, it would cause an enormous sensation.

And at that time, the four family wizards finally understood why Locke had them sign contracts worth thirty thousand magic stones each. It wasn't wasting money, but because this matter truly required high-level confidentiality.

Alicia sternly swept her gaze over the four of them. "Before the Cloud Marsh Cup ends, matters related to this place absolutely cannot be leaked. If premature leaking occurs, regardless of whether it's related to you, I will treat it as if you leaked it."

"Understood?"

The four family wizards knew this matter was of great importance. They all hurriedly nodded, indicating they absolutely wouldn't leak anything they saw today.

This matter had benefits for them as well, after all, they had completely pledged allegiance to Alicia, and Locke was clearly an outside wizard that Alicia had invested in.

If Locke produced results, it was equivalent to Alicia obtaining enormous achievements.

Regarding the past year or so, the struggle between Eric and Alicia for control of the Plutarch family would completely end with the success of this project, with no possibility of further dispute.

This instead showed that the four of them had chosen the right side.

The four wizards harbored excited feelings, secretly glancing at Locke and Alicia, all feeling they had truly pledged allegiance to the right side early.