Wizard Edgar seemed to think that through his natural avatar stacking damage and continuously using natural spells, he could stack the damage to completely exceed the steel fortress's imitation permanent defensive force field in a short time.

Therefore, his natural avatar continuously used botany magic. Under the enhancement of natural force infusion, it was truly earth-shattering. Each spell was filled with terrifying power.

Edgar's treant swung a fist, smashing an S3 machine gun that kept firing at him, directly turning it into fragments. At the same time, he punched the ground, and one of the most powerful First Circle stage magics, Natural Fluctuation, like an energy orb, fell to the ground. Then, with natural force infusion, the Natural Fluctuation caused the fortress ground to become extremely distorted.

Edgar's treant then cast another Natural Storm.

At the same time, Witch Diana also gritted her teeth and went all out, holding her twin blades, attacking into the city fortress from the other end. Slash after slash, she continuously applied osmanthus flower fragrance. That fragrance condensed into ice, enveloping the fortress sky.

One possessed natural force infusion, amplifying life magic as if standing in a wizard tower where each magic spell could be magnified. The other, after using the Luna Laurel Treant and laurel leaf blades, possessed botany magic with second circle extremely powerful magic characteristics. Each strike split the sky, incredibly terrifying, with a round moon symbol faintly visible behind her.

Their damage output was extremely terrifying.

But after the two continuously fought for ten minutes, they still hadn't completely broken through this steel fortress's imitation permanent defensive force field.

Meanwhile, Locke landed on this permanent defensive force field and looked at the two wizards frantically outputting damage in the sky. "These two people's damage output capability is definitely higher than mine. Without using the Fierce Beast panel, my damage output capability couldn't surpass theirs."

"But this isn't a life-or-death crisis. I don't need to use the Fierce Beast panel in a competition."

The Three-Eyed Tiger Cat's natural magic eye appeared on Locke's forehead. "But without competing in damage output, I still have a way to win this competition's championship."

A beam of geomagnetic force shot from Locke's forehead. While striking some component sub-robots, it actually paralyzed a portion of the component sub-robots.

This caused the operation of this massive steel fortress to stall.

"My guess was correct." Locke thought, "These massive component sub-robots are like individual cells that run to specific positions to repair this fortress. But knowing which specific position to go to requires guidance from some kind of signal. Although time is tight and I can't rule out which kind of signal it is, using geomagnetic force, I can use a powerful magnetic field to destroy the energy these component sub-robots use to capture that specific signal."

"After all, it's not a true permanent defensive force field. A permanent defensive force field wouldn't have these vulnerabilities."

Locke contemplated as beams of geomagnetic force shot from his eyes. These light pillars fell on the fortress city, interrupting the normal operation of these component sub-robots. As some robots' operations encountered problems, more bugs were triggered. These cascading logical errors caused the entire fortress's component sub-robots to become completely chaotic.

The entire fortress's imitation permanent defensive force field developed problems.

At the same time, among the paying audience, those First Circle wizards seeing this scene all nodded in agreement.

"This wizard is very calm. He knows he can't compete in damage output with those two wizards, but through calm thinking, he instead found a method to counter the imitation permanent defensive force field."

"I originally thought this kind of imitation permanent defensive force field was already quite perfect and could be practically applied, even potentially triggering a revolutionary wave in golem studies. Some wizards might even publish papers and obtain Throne Wizard status. But looking at it now, this kind of imitation permanent defensive force field still isn't a true permanent defensive force field. The flaws are still too great."

"If it really had no flaws, do you think they'd let those Mekani people use it?"

At the judges' seats, those judge wizards had already begun scoring.

Although Locke hadn't directly destroyed the Revenge Machine Soul, he had thought of a method that caused the entire steel fortress's imitation permanent defensive force field to develop vulnerabilities, cracking this version of the imitation permanent defensive force field. This action could add significant points for him.

On the competition field, Wizard Edgar and Witch Diana, seeing this scene, further accelerated their attacks. After all, the steel fortress's imitation permanent defensive force field had been breached, so they only needed to continue attacking to more easily destroy the Revenge Machine Soul.

No matter how well Locke performed, ultimately the wizard who destroyed the Revenge Machine Soul would receive the highest evaluation points.

Victory would still belong to one of the two of them, and Locke's actions were merely stepping stones for them.

However, just as Locke was about to take the opportunity to continue attacking, he suddenly noticed something wrong. The Hydra magical plant on his right hand flashed with magic brilliance.

"Hm? Is someone directly attacking the Hydra magical plant's main body?" Locke looked back and saw that Yennefer was actually directly attacking his Hydra magical plant's main body, directly attacking those eight Sureyas people, attempting to use this method to remove the nine-layer permanent defensive force field protection on his body.

Now he was constantly enveloped in the Mekani people's artillery fire. Once he lost the Hydra's protection, he would immediately fall into enormous danger, even mortal danger.

The opponent's intentions were already clear.

Locke saw on the ground that the eight Sureyas mages were crying out in pain, with white mycelium growing on their bodies.

Clearly, before the war began, Yennefer's Mushroom King had first attached imperceptible mycelium to those eight Sureyas people, just waiting to erupt at a critical moment.

Yennefer smiled at Locke across the sky. "Sorry about this, Wizard Locke."

"I still really want to obtain third place."

A missile struck Locke's body. Clearly, as long as Locke lost the Hydra's protection, he would immediately be enveloped by the Mekani people's saturation attacks.

Wizard Edgar and Witch Diana also noticed this scene. Both Witch Diana and Wizard Edgar showed disgust toward Yennefer, but for the sake of the championship, they both intensified their attack speed.

Locke gritted his teeth and looked at the ground. "Fortunately, I still kept a backup plan."

The eight Sureyas people collapsed under the Mushroom King's mycelium toxin, but what made Yennefer's expression change drastically was that after losing eight First Circle level magical pressure sources, the Hydra not only didn't immediately become weak but seemed completely unaffected.

Locke looked at the Hydra magical plant coiled around his right hand. The Tetraploid Rust Bead Flower could amplify the permanent defensive force field's strength by two times and could also store this portion of magical pressure for later use.

In other words, because of the Tetraploid Rust Bead Flower, the Hydra magical plant could still be used for a very long time even without anyone controlling it.

On the ground, Yennefer noticed this scene and immediately became furious. She swung the Petrifying Hammerhead Mushroom in her hand, smashing it toward the Hydra magical plant's main body. "I don't believe it. Without anyone controlling a tactical-level magical plant, even if it can still move, how much power can it display!"

In the fortress, Locke ignored all attacks. "Idiot."

In the next moment, the mushroom hammer in Yennefer's hand collided with the Hydra. Her action was equivalent to using her own magical pressure to clash head-on with nine layers of permanent defensive force field, and Yennefer didn't possess second circle characteristics like Edgar and Diana.

Thus, in the next moment, the Hydra magical plant that had accumulated nine wizards' magical pressure deployed nine layers of defensive force field, colliding with that Petrifying Mushroom Hammer.

Yennefer's expression changed drastically because she felt that she alone was confronting nine wizards' magical pressure.

It was a confrontation with vastly disparate numbers.

It was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, attempting to use one person's strength to oppose nine people's strength, like a strong man standing in the middle of a road trying to stop a speeding car.

In the next moment, she cried out in pain as blood flowed from all her facial features. She was sent flying back, and the Petrifying Mushroom Hammer in her hand directly broke into two pieces.

Using a single magical plant to directly attack a tactical-level magical plant was undoubtedly extremely foolish and reckless behavior. But Yennefer was fully convinced that without anyone controlling the Hydra magical plant, she would definitely destroy it with one strike.

And Locke would very likely die, allowing her to secure third place.

As long as she placed in the top three, she would have a chance to enter the Origin Academy of True Knowledge.

Unfortunately, she hadn't anticipated that the Tetraploid Rust Bead Flower could store an additional portion of magical pressure. This meant that the Hydra magical plant could still function for a period of time without anyone controlling it.