The wizard airship quickly entered the domain of the Second Sky. Compared to Locke, who was riding a void warship for the second time, the other students, including the four First Circle wizards in his project team, all looked through the Time Gold Crystal transparent windows with expressions of astonishment and shock.

Having lived in the wizard world for decades, none of them had ever imagined that above the sky over their heads, there existed a Second Sky.

Quite a few students showed pained expressions. Clearly, suddenly entering the Second Sky had caused their magical pressure or mana to become disordered, a symptom of magical pressure disorder.

Locke contacted the crew for them and had them activate the pressurization equipment in this cabin to input air from the wizard world's surface into the cabin.

Magical pressure disorder was a symptom that rarely appeared when a wizard suddenly moved from the world principles of the wizard world into an environment enveloped by the world principles of a different world.

By urgently inputting more air from the wizard world's surface into the cabin, this symptom could be relieved.

Montgomery, sitting beside Locke, looked at the enormous storm formed by world power outside the window, then looked at the incredibly composed Locke, and couldn't help but sigh. "I never imagined the outside of the Land of Six Towers was like this."

Locke said, "The void warship also has a free library where you can freely consult materials. There are quite a few spell models that have been public for many years, or some very useful minor theories. If you're interested, feel free to go there and read."

"Besides that, the public library also has equipment that increases magical tide concentration gradients. It's essentially a micro semi-wizard secret realm, which should be quite an opportunity for the students. But don't rush over there first. Stay in this pressurized cabin until your magical pressure stabilizes."

Immediately the students let out cheers.

Locke added, "Second-rank wizard apprentices should obediently stay in this pressurized cabin. It's too dangerous for you to leave. Moreover, your magic level is too low. Even if you go to the free library, you won't gain much."

Among the cheering students, some immediately became downcast.

A second-rank wizard apprentice witch said in a low voice, "How is this fair, mentor..."

Leopold smiled and said, "In that case, I'll stay in the pressurized cabin to lecture the second-rank wizard apprentices who remain here. Teacher Locke, does that work?"

Locke glanced at Leopold and said, "You're already a First Circle wizard now. Whatever you do, you can decide for yourself. You have full White Wizard Association headquarters membership rights."

"According to White Wizard Association headquarters law, every white wizard apprentice who becomes a First Circle wizard automatically gains White Wizard Association headquarters membership rights and obtains complete personal autonomy rights."

Leopold immediately nodded. "I understand, Teacher Locke."

Immediately, those second-rank wizard apprentice students who had previously shown regretful expressions, not expecting things to turn around, all had smiles reappear on their faces.

While those first-rank wizard apprentices who had originally been very happy suddenly didn't know whether going to the free library on the airship was worthwhile, or whether staying in the pressurized cabin to attend the lecture together was better.

Hesitant expressions appeared on their faces one by one.

Locke looked at the harmonious atmosphere within the project team, the corners of his mouth curving up slightly, then he stopped interfering.

...

A month later, the airship passed through a special network route, accelerating midway and arriving directly above Cloud Marsh Wetland.

Cloud Marsh Wetland, Thunder Marsh Lowlands, and Rain Marsh Swampland—these Three Marsh Lands, due to Cloud Lake, naturally attracted more network routes leading to these three wizard lands, making transportation exceptionally developed.

Cloud Lake brought too many conveniences to the Three Marsh Lands, whether in logistics costs or other costs.

The travel time between the major wizard lands in the Eastern Zone and the Three Marsh Lands was about one month, without much variation, so even some logistics would go through the Three Marsh Lands wizard lands to travel between major wizard lands.

In other words, the Three Marsh Lands were a material distribution center for resource exchange between Eastern Zone wizard lands and wizard lands outside the zone.

Therefore, the Three Marsh Lands had very developed industry and commerce, producing massive commercial shop economies rarely seen in other wizard lands, creating store alliances of enormous economic scale.

These alliances had many similarities to companies from his past life.

The commodity economy was further developed here. It was said that most goods prohibited from circulation in major wizard lands could be purchased here through currency—magic stones.

But even the Three Marsh Lands were still exploited by those who controlled the issuance of magic stones using currency. They had merely become logistics centers and mid-to-high-level processing centers for magical materials.

Through the Time Gold Crystal window, Locke saw a pillar of light shooting up into the sky outside the window, even enveloping the entire airship.

"This is... not an energy impact, but a sudden increase in magical tide concentration gradient. This scale is truly exaggerated."

Locke's expression changed slightly. He felt his internal mana vibrating constantly. His mana improvement speed had increased by at least half or more, and his strength had increased somewhat out of nowhere.

This was mainly because a wizard with the same magical pressure would have completely different strength levels in different magical tide concentration gradients.

Just as Locke, as a First Circle wizard of botany, would dare to use magic to fight directly against Second Circle level demon archduke in the Natural Plane.

Locke looked down and saw below the void warship was a lake whose boundaries couldn't be seen. This could be called a sea even more than the oceans from his past life.

The lake surface rippled with azure waves, with green mist shrouding the surface. Moreover, on the surface were many special aquatic magical plant groups and some aquatic magical creature communities.

The sudden increase in magical tide concentration gradient above Cloud Lake was like a brilliant azure aurora in the sky.

Locke looked at Cloud Lake, which was even more vast than an ocean, and said in surprise, "It's hard to believe that below Cloud Lake with such an enormous area is a bottomless pit that possibly leads directly to the world's heart. Who knows how it formed."

"No wonder some wizards also like to call Cloud Lake the Cloud Abyss."

"If you just look at it this way, Cloud Lake is just a sea. But who would have thought that Cloud Lake is merely liquid suspended on the surface of that bottomless pit due to some special phenomenon."

"The wizard world, this world itself still has too many miraculous places. The great creations of its natural world are such that even current wizard society has no way to completely research and understand them."

Five more days passed. The void warship flew at low altitude, passing through large areas of Cloud Lake, and finally arrived at Cloud Marsh Wetland on the shore of Cloud Lake.

This was typical wetland terrain, shrouded in mist year-round, with low-lying terrain and crisscrossing water systems, with countless shallow lakes, mud ponds, and pools dotting the surface like stars.

It always rained lightly here, so when the airship flew at low altitude, a hazy azure rain was also falling.

From above Cloud Marsh Wetland, Locke saw that the city distribution here was very distinctive. Looking down from above, the urban settlements and forest magical plants formed a beautiful landscape painting.

"Right, the Hand of the Jungle can't interfere in the Three Marsh Lands. One reason is that the Three Marsh Lands' established forces are massive. The second reason is that the Three Marsh Lands' ecology is already very healthy and doesn't need additional intervention from the Hand of the Jungle."

"There's also a very special aspect: the Divine Master's influence is also suppressed here. The Three Marsh Lands are one of the regions where ordinary magic categories are most prosperous."

From above, Locke also saw Cloud Marsh Wetland's famous Magical Plant Gardens. The magical plant gardens within each city, even just viewing from low altitude, were scattered like stars, exceptionally beautiful, completely different in style from the southeastern quadrant and the Land of Six Towers.

Magical Plant Gardens were large garden green spaces with ecological, magical, strategic, and cultural functions, modified through transmutation, weather magic, and breeding magic methods.

The existence of the Magical Plant Garden mechanism fully demonstrated the balance achievements Cloud Marsh Wetland wizards had attained in pursuing both elegance and practicality.

Magical Plant Gardens gathered large quantities of beautiful magical plants and were themselves pleasing scenic spots. But at the same time, they were also magical plant behavior research facilities, potion material collection bases, combat magical plant cultivation bases, construction material source bases for constructors, and might even be large-scale hybrid breeding experimental bases, magical creature environment simulation bases, and so on.

They combined both recreational and practical functions. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

They were one of Cloud Marsh Wetland's symbols.

Montgomery, sitting beside Locke, looked through the Time Gold Crystal window in surprise and saw the airship passing by an enormous magical plant garden floating in the air.

That garden floated in the sky, magnificent and beautiful, as if not belonging to the mortal world. Magical birds still flew above the garden, extraordinarily beautiful.

Locke glanced at that garden and immediately recalled that a book he'd read in the airship's free library mentioned that Cloud Marsh Wetland had a landmark building representing the pinnacle achievement of Cloud Marsh Wetland's magical plant gardens—the Eternal Garden.

He hadn't expected to see it with his own eyes now.

The aerial garden was a holy land in breeders' hearts, possessing countless varieties of magical plants. Moreover, it held vast amounts of breeding experimental materials and related knowledge.

Every year, many wizard organizations would apply to Cloud Marsh Wetland's White Wizard Association for permission to enter the Eternal Garden to conduct research.

If a wizard organization could establish a laboratory in the Eternal Garden, it would almost immediately elevate that wizard organization by one level and be valued by students and young First Circle wizards.

Cloud Marsh Wetland's breeding and potion studies were at a level even far surpassing the southeastern quadrant!