In the special-grade laboratory, Montgomery and Tacitus led half the students in conducting extreme capability tests on the Hydra magical plant, collecting usage information for the Hydra magical plant and compiling a weapons manual.

Meanwhile, Witch Barbara and Locke, along with the remaining twenty-two students and Leopold, continued creating subspecies of the Rust Bead Flower, collecting related finite element plant essences, hoping to further improve the Rust Bead Flower or find new beneficial mutation points.

Synthesis using the Synthesis Cube to produce special synthesis formulas had certain patterns.

During Locke's use of the three major cultivation methods, as well as the Mana Co-frequency Cultivation Method and Finite Element Cultivation Method, it was easier to determine which synthesis materials were more likely to produce special synthesis formulas and the specific enhancement directions of the special synthesis formulas that appeared.

At the same time, Rust Bead Flowers cultivated using the five major cultivation methods would also be one of the synthesis materials, capable of optimizing synthesis materials themselves.

In the ecological garden, Locke walked before a hybrid magical plant grafted from Iron-Toothed Demon Boar bloodline essence, a fast-growing shrub, and Rust Bead Flower.

Locke reached out to touch a Rust Bead Flower on the shrub's branches and leaves.

This Rust Bead Flower had undergone indirect grafting with the Iron-Toothed Demon Boar.

Through a fast-growing shrub magical plant, the two were grafted together, and the Iron-Toothed Demon Boar's bloodline essence was used to strengthen this Rust Bead Flower, so its size was larger, with flowers three times the size of ordinary flowers.

The moment Locke's fingers touched the Rust Bead Flower, the flower's surface suddenly ruptured, oozing pus, and the petals withered.

"No good. This direction also has problems. The failure rate of grafting using bloodline essence is really too high." Locke thought, "However, to properly work in this field requires equipment investment at the tens of millions of magic stones level, plus the help of excellent talent that the Land of Six Towers absolutely doesn't have."

"I can't set my requirements too high. The bloodline essence grafting field is itself a very difficult direction."

Locke took out paper and pen, recorded the experimental data, and quickly rejected the 178th attempt at grafting bloodline essence to the Rust Bead Flower to enhance its magical plant trait functions.

Witch Barbara consoled him, "Boss Locke, you don't need to be too anxious. The Hydra magical plant is already perfect. Further strengthening the Rust Bead Flower seems to be just icing on the cake anyway."

Locke nodded slightly and said, "I know."

"I just want to make good use of this last month. Witch Barbara, I still want to try a magical creature's bloodline. Please go to the storeroom and get me the Sword Hero Demon Badger bloodline essence."

Witch Barbara said, "Alright, Boss Locke, please wait."

Soon, the month passed by in a hurry.

Locke and the others received free ship tickets from the Cloud Marsh Cup wizard airship. He could bring fifty wizards to Cloud Marsh Wetland to watch the war between subsidiary plane wizards and the Revenge Machine Soul Mekani people in the Cloud Marsh Cup.

In the special-grade laboratory, Locke placed the fifty ship tickets in his hands into his astral ring. He could hold onto these tickets first and take them out once aboard the wizard airship.

Before him was a Rust Bead Flower that looked quite ordinary, but it had a label: Tetraploid Rust Bead Flower, Grade 8 synthesized item.

[While cultivating ordinary Rust Bead Flower, by grafting Wolf Spider bloodline essence, ordinary Rust Bead Flower cell division was interrupted. But the plant essence had already begun self-replication, causing the ordinary Rust Bead Flower to possess four sets of plant essence.

Therefore, Tetraploid Rust Bead Flower has twice the magical pressure density absorption capability, but this also caused its growth speed to decrease by 500%.]

During the last period within this month, five days ago.

Locke finally cultivated a special Rust Bead Flower subspecies while attempting grafting using Wolf Spider. He then decisively used the Synthesis Cube to synthesize three subspecies, obtaining a perfect version of Tetraploid Rust Bead Flower that appeared after optimizing the process.

Originally, this optimization process might require a wizard five to ten years to resolve.

It depended specifically on how many people he had available for coordination, whether his ideas were correct, and whether he could persist in this direction.

Because it was very possible that the product initially created would seem to have no use and even show specialization. You should know that the subspecies Locke initially cultivated himself had extremely slow growth, not decreasing by five times but possibly decreasing by ten times.

Moreover, the growth state was very poor. Without massive resource investment, Locke couldn't even use cutting cultivation methods to replicate a batch of branch magical plants from this subspecies.

But Locke used the Synthesis Cube to skip this process improvement period, and immediately used the remaining time to install it on a Hydra magical plant they had cultivated, quickly replacing the ordinary Rust Bead Flowers originally symbiotic on the Hydra magical plant.

Now, the replacement of this Hydra magical plant was complete.

Locke had everyone transplant this magical plant into a temporary planting pot.

The temporary planting pot was a pot made of special black magic materials, products of alchemists. Magical plants placed within could be protected to the maximum degree.

This was common breeder equipment for transplanting magical plants and transporting them over long distances.

Of course, Locke bought the highest grade temporary planting pot. One was as large as a car, with multiple nested layers of alchemy materials on the outside, one alchemy material plated over another. The base of the alchemy materials was arcane clay made in an alchemist's dragon breath refining array using magical energy and clay, capable of stabilizing magical tide concentration gradients and improving magical energy permeability.

Such a temporary planting pot required one hundred thousand magic stones to purchase, a luxury among luxuries in the breeding field.

But only this way could his Hydra maintain optimal condition during transport to Cloud Marsh Wetland.

After the wizards used breeding methods to transplant the Hydra into the temporary planting pot, Locke took five blocks of Moss Wood Marrow from his astral ring and placed them on the surface of the temporary planting pot.

The Hydra inside the temporary planting pot received even more nourishment and quickly adapted to the new soil quality and environment.

Locke looked at Montgomery and said, "On the road, breeders still need to perform regular maintenance to prevent any problems, so you'll be responsible for maintenance work."

"Barbara, Tacitus, and Leopold, you're responsible for security work. Prevent any accidents from occurring."

Locke looked at Leopold. At this time, Leopold had already become a formal wizard.

A month ago, Leopold had asked him for leave to take advancement potions to break through to formal wizard.

A month later, he finally walked out of his simple laboratory, pushed open the magic alloy door, and immediately told him the good news: he had become a formal wizard.

Unlike what happened in other Land of Six Towers project teams.

After becoming a formal wizard, without signing a contract with White Dragon Tower, Leopold still remained in his project team, continuing to work for him.

One could only say that using contracts to retain people's hearts was the most helpless and inefficient method.

A good project team never needed to worry about quality labor drain.

Because a good project team would never lack talent.

There were plenty of talented people who would want to come.

Witch Barbara looked at the temporary planting pot and sighed, "I didn't expect the boss would still be able to optimize the Rust Bead Flower again in the last month."

Locke said, "It's just that the timing is a bit tight. We still need to conduct a round of testing on the new Tetraploid Rust Bead Flower and the Hydra magical plant."

Montgomery said, "It doesn't matter. This work can also be done on the wizard airship. Although it's a bit rushed, we can overcome this difficulty."

"Along the way, have we overcome few difficulties? This is just a small problem."

Several people looked at each other and smiled.

This development experience would be deeply etched in everyone's hearts, becoming one of their most precious assets and memories.

Wizard Tacitus looked at Leopold and nodded slightly at him. "Speaking of which, Wizard Leopold, you should be the only commoner wizard in the Land of Six Towers in the last fifty years who became a formal wizard without ghostwriting for family wizards or being a son-in-law, right?"

Leopold was stunned for a moment, then looked gratefully at Locke and the other wizards. "Yes, so I must thank Teacher Locke and all the teachers."

"Thank you for giving me this opportunity."

"Teachers, in my heart, you will forever be my teachers, regardless of whether I'm a wizard apprentice or a First Circle wizard now."

Leopold said gratefully to Locke, "Especially Teacher Locke, you advised me to use Life Field as my permanent defensive field and gave me three sets of optimized Life Field spell models to choose from."

"I'm truly so grateful to you."

Locke nodded slightly and instructed him, "You've just inscribed a permanent defensive field on your soul. Your soul is still in a weakened period. This period will last at least a year or more. During this time you need to regularly take some soul-nourishing potions to accelerate soul recovery speed."

"Relying solely on the soul's own recovery ability is too slow." Locke said, "Forget it, since we've talked to this point, I'll give you this bottle of Spirit Spring Soul Surge Potion that I've improved."

"Drink it, and your soul injuries should completely disappear within three months."

Locke said, "Don't refuse. Since you say that in your heart I'll forever be your teacher, then my giving you a celebratory gift for becoming a First Circle wizard is more than normal."

Leopold was immensely grateful. "Thank you, Teacher Locke."

Locke glanced at him, "Your permanent defensive field still needs fine-tuning, because when you advanced to First Circle wizard, you were too eager in your heart and inscribed it before fine-tuning the most suitable permanent defensive field yourself."

"This left you with a major hidden danger."

"In any case, becoming a First Circle wizard doesn't represent the end of the journey pursuing truth. On the contrary, it's rather the starting point of the path pursuing truth."

"Becoming a First Circle wizard, you'll discover that you know even less, while questions have instead become more numerous."

Leopold listened with relish to everything Locke said, digesting the experience Locke transmitted to him. As someone who had just become a First Circle wizard, he still had some difficulty understanding and comprehending what Locke meant.

But when the day came that he could understand, he would suddenly look back and realize that some words seemed ordinary at the time.

Some teachers might be the pinnacle among people you can meet in this lifetime.

Witch Barbara looked teasingly at Leopold. "There's something I've wanted to ask you for a long time. Since we, especially Boss Locke, are your teachers, then what about that ordinary First Circle wizard mentor from the Plutarch family who was originally yours?"

"I remember you haven't contacted him even once in almost a whole year, right? According to reason, he's your real teacher. After all, in this project team, you should only count as a wizard apprentice borrowed over. Of course, after becoming a First Circle wizard, you count as an adult, no longer a child."

"The potential in your body has been transformed into strength."

"It's just that, according to reason, you should still go tell your real teacher that you've successfully advanced."

Leopold shook his head resistantly. "Teacher Barbara, whether I tell her or not is the same. I was originally an exploited marginal person in her team."

"Moreover, in her eyes I'll forever be trash. Whether I'm a First Circle wizard or not doesn't matter."

"Some people's inner prejudices can block their eyes like a leaf, preventing them from seeing the sun and world behind the leaf."

...

Before heading to Cloud Marsh Wetland, Locke first needed to report to the Plutarch family higher-ups.

Currently the entire project had twenty magic crystal cards remaining, which could also be used as travel expenses. He could apply for them at once to serve as their travel costs and improve the quality of life during the journey for all forty-nine wizards in the project team.

After all, this money would be wasted if not used. If not used now, it would expire.

After learning about this, Alicia permitted Locke to bring the forty-nine wizards from White Dragon Magic Gem University to Cloud Marsh Wetland.

At the same time, in the office, Alicia expressed to Locke, "Locke, my grandfather, Grand Wizard Sulla, wants to see you."

"The thirty-second Mage Saint has been born in the Mage Plane, so he needs you to inscribe magic runes for her, using Scorched Earth Holly to protect her soul so she can use First Circle magic."

Locke nodded. "Sure. This is my job, and it's also the trade we agreed on from the beginning. Moreover, this won't take long."