Chapter 319: Working Hard Is Not As Good As Choosing the Right Side
After Locke selected the exchange on the gray mist stone tablet, the association immediately sent him a message saying they would deliver the supplies he exchanged for to his designated location within a week.
Locke wrote his address at Lilith's Cottage as the designated location.
Locke looked at the introduction to Sea Gold Sand on the gray mist stone tablet. Adult Sea Gold Sand typically had a height of 1 to 4 meters. It was a common fern First Circle magical plant, but belonged to the rare climbing type among fern magical plants.
Its spore powder was like golden sand dust. In the wild, it would automatically secrete large amounts of spore powder. In an instant, it was like a golden sand sea submerging enemies, hence the name Sea Gold Sand.
The reason Locke chose it, aside from the fact that this magical plant's related First Circle plant magic technology was mature and its attack magic was very complex and varied, able to provide him with sufficient output and auxiliary capabilities, was also because it was a rare magical plant among plants that possessed multiple natural gold magic-like mana structural components.
It could only grow in golden sand lands. Its surface would be covered with a layer of golden fuzz. Its appearance looked like the entire green plant was shrouded in a layer of golden fuzz.
It was a rare golden magical plant.
The place with the most golden magical plants was the Twilight Border. They almost didn't exist in the southeastern quadrant. This fern magical plant, Sea Gold Sand, had been transplanted from the Twilight Border and didn't belong to the native magical plants of the southeastern quadrant.
After Locke finished the exchange, he said something to Dean Thompson, then left the underground building and went to the surface to check whether his several related industries had been damaged.
Locke first went to his residence. Next to his residence, there were two small to medium-scale botanical gardens, one medium-scale botanical garden, and one small-scale botanical garden. Here, Locke encountered several fellow disciples of Halen Vera. These people actively greeted him and secretly looked at him, who had already become a formal wizard, with envious and worshipful gazes.
A first-class wizard apprentice junior said to Locke, "Locke... Senior, during the previous war, a small-scale life force field defense formed around the Alchemy Cottage. Combined with us first-class wizard apprentices and your two servant first-class wizard apprentice black wizards, we barely managed to hold this place."
Locke nodded slightly. Noticing that these people all had some injuries, he took the initiative to retrieve some apprentice-level potions he had stored from his astral ring and distributed them to this group of first-class wizard apprentices.
These first-class wizard apprentices immediately showed smiles on their faces. The way they looked at Locke was full of worship, awe, and even affection.
"Senior Locke treats us so well, even giving us treatment."
"Senior is now a First Circle wizard. Will he be retained by Lilith's Cottage to serve as a formal wizard here?"
Locke dealt with them with a few sentences, then summoned the Large Green Owl Banana to go to his personal pharmacy in another city. That place wasn't in the black wizards' main direction of attack.
So when Locke arrived here, he discovered that Terry and the three students he was teaching on behalf of others were basically fine, without a single injury on them.
Terry said to Locke, "Boss, it was so dangerous just now. Fortunately you came. Those black wizards were too dangerous."
"Boss, why do I feel like I can't sense your magical pressure at all anymore?"
Following behind Locke who was entering the pharmacy to inspect the equipment, Terry suddenly looked at Locke with confusion. Previously when she saw Locke, she could feel a terrifying magical pressure from him at all times, as if a fierce beast was staring at her, making her constantly feel fear emanating from the depths of her heart.
But now it was different.
Terry looked at Locke with confusion. 'Why can't I sense any magical pressure from Senior? But this is impossible.'
Locke glanced at Terry. Terry was just an ordinary second-class wizard apprentice who had followed him for over a year. Her mana was only 120. From the minimum mental power threshold of 200 for first-class wizard apprentices, there was still a very distant gap.
One had to know that from second-class wizard apprentice to first-class wizard apprentice, the most difficult stage was from 190 to 200.
Back then, he himself had only easily broken through this threshold after taking the potion refined by Witch Sophia.
For Terry, it was too normal that she couldn't sense his magical pressure, because his current normal state of 3000 magical pressure was too high, too high for her.
Just like how an ant's eyes couldn't see a complete leaf, Terry's mana was too insignificant compared to his. As long as he restrained his magical pressure, she couldn't sense any magical pressure from him.
Simply put, the two people were no longer on the same level.
The gap was really too great.
And if he didn't hold back at all and completely released his magical pressure, in an instant, it would very likely cause some irreversible damage to Terry's soul.
The soul of a second-class wizard apprentice hadn't yet produced a magical pressure structure. To his current self, she wasn't much better off than a mortal in his presence.
Locke said to Terry, "Yes, because I've become a formal wizard."
"Terry, organize the pharmacy equipment. In the future, our pharmacy may undergo huge changes."
After Locke finished speaking, he directly left, leaving the four apprentices in place so they could digest and understand this fact.
Terry and the three students Locke was teaching on behalf of others all widened their eyes.
Two third-class wizard apprentice female wizards said in low, weak voices, "Senior Locke has become a formal wizard?"
"We're just two ordinary female wizards with level 2 talent. Are we worthy of being personally taught by a formal wizard?"
The two female wizard apprentices from local backgrounds said somewhat incredulously. They suddenly realized that as Locke advanced all the way, they had inexplicably become the direct students of a formal wizard at Lilith's Cottage.
This was something that these two wizard apprentices from local backgrounds could never have imagined before, no matter what.
On the contrary, Leo from the overseas mortal world didn't react as strongly to this.
Over these years, Leo, who possessed third-level talent, had finally reached the critical moment of about to become a second-class wizard apprentice.
And as a second-class wizard apprentice who had already preliminarily experienced the hierarchical ecology within the academy, Terry gasped. Back then, she was just an ordinary second-class wizard apprentice who bore the responsibilities of others and was rejected by all pharmacies.
But now, she had inexplicably become a wizard who had worked in and was primarily responsible for a formal wizard's pharmacy.
One could imagine how bright her originally dim prospects had now become.
Terry now finally had a deep understanding of one phrase: working hard is not as good as choosing the right side!