Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 967 The Super Laboratory Within the Secrets of Creation!
Trajan the Wizard produced a document, and after obtaining the Fairy Dragon's stamp, he led Locke away from the greenhouse. Locke, however, noticed a deeper meaning in the Fairy Dragon's eyes.

The reason I suddenly spoke up to help her was mainly for my own sake.

After all, no matter how you look at it, if a fairy dragon of the third ring level suddenly suffers mysterious brain death and becomes lost in the ocean of her own destiny during the identity verification process, even if it can be attributed to her being harmed by the magic of her own school of prophecy, she will definitely miss the opportunity to enter the key laboratory.

For security reasons, it's highly likely that this key laboratory will refuse entry.

In addition, he did realize that Fairy Dragon's power was very close to the power of the World Tree.

She already possessed very powerful life magic, and as a third-ring creature, she would have been extremely likely to receive the favor of the World Tree if the power of the World Tree lineage was still intact.

Of course, the main focus is still on the second-ring magic artifact, the Angel's Tear Bracelet, which she is wearing.

Locke looked down at the magical artifact. If it weren't for the artifact enhancing his resistance to prophetic magic, he wouldn't have been able to speak up at the most critical moment.

Locke looked at Trajan, "Senior, now I can finally enter the key laboratory on Mount Golden Crown, right? I really want to see the whole thing. I wonder who my colleagues are?"

Trajan the Wizard thought for a moment. “This laboratory is very large; I estimate you will have a hard time seeing it all. Come with me, and you will see.”

The two walked through a ****-themed corridor, circling it several times, before stepping into a room. When they pushed open the door, Locke saw only darkness before him, with a path of dazzling magical light shining through the stars.

"This is..." Locke's pupils suddenly shrank, because he saw a world similar to outer space, with many scenes like the Big Bang of stars, and countless substances produced in these explosions and collisions.

"The secret of creation, no, not the secret of creation... this is the spirit of the secret of creation."

"There's still spiritual energy..."

Trajan glanced at him. "The higher the wizard's rank, the more they can see. But in fact, this key laboratory is quite prestigious in the wizarding world; its name is the Cardamom Farm."

"Wizards store a world within a flower by lowering the dimension, and then infuse this world with the spiritual essence and breath of the secrets of creation, which is what you see before you. Breeders can create the environment they need here, and then breed and cultivate magical plants in this environment."

“In the past, this key laboratory had quite a background.”

In this dark space, streaks of stars float in the universe, serving as the bridge to this great laboratory. Using the secrets of creation as experimental materials and the world as its laboratory, this is one of the key laboratories of the wizarding civilization.

Locke was dumbfounded. Although the wizard Trajan had not said what kind of world this was, the dimensional laws here were far more complex and complete than those of the Three Caverns World.

This place... can't possibly be on a world-class scale, right?
Of course, since this part of the information has not been made public, it means that it is a part of the information that needs to be hidden, and there is probably a lot of false information circulating outside.

Above the star trails, a Sun Ring Wizard whom Locke had never seen before at Mount Golden Crown nodded to Trajan, then glanced at Locke before looking back at Trajan. "Trajan, are you bringing newcomers into the key laboratory this time? I wonder what year and month it is today."

Trajan pondered for a moment and said, "This is thirty-one years since you entered the key laboratory, Juliussis."

Juliussis's face showed a look of horror. "Thirty-one years? I've been at the Cardamom Farm for thirty-one years? My God, I haven't returned to Golden Crown Mountain for thirty-one years! This... no one reminded me! Does that mean I haven't attended any of my courses at the academy? My performance record..."

"My students..."

Julius mused, "I've actually lived here for thirty-one years. I feel like this is the whole world. It's just that the new type of fertilizer I'm developing has reached a critical juncture. But I've encountered a problem… I need to understand why gold element composite particles are so important to magical plants, even though they're much harder to obtain than air and earth element composite particles. Hmm… maybe I need to start from the basics again. Next time, I'll create a world entirely of pure water, scatter magical plant seeds on it, and then gradually add nutrients. I want to see what happens…"

Juliussis glanced at the virtual currency displayed on the bracelet on his right hand, then walked away in a daze.

Locke raised an eyebrow. "And this is..."

Trajan said, "Juliussis, he previously applied for and received a third-circle advancement fund. Unlike the resources needed for a first-circle wizard to advance to the second circle, a sun-circle wizard, in addition to accumulating resources to increase magical pressure and forging great magic, also needs to apply for a third-circle advancement fund. This allows him to re-enter the key laboratory and attempt to advance to the third circle within it. A third-circle advancement fund grants access to the key laboratory for one hundred years. During these one hundred years, he will receive a basic amount of virtual currency from the key laboratory every day to build worlds and purchase holographic magical plants."

Locke asked, "A holographic magical plant?"

Trajan stretched out his hand and summoned a holographic, sun-ring-level magical plant, the Fire Monkey Peach.

"In this key laboratory, we can simulate some magical plants by inputting their information through the Spirit Macro of the Creation Secret. However, these holographic magical plants will lose their effect when they leave this environment, but they will be just like real magical plants within this environment. It is just a special application of Spirit Macro science, which is the domain of the Illusion School. I am not very clear about the specific principles."

"The main advantage of holographic magical plants is that they can simplify life conditions, which is very useful in certain experiments. For example, plant environmental stress experiments, the differences in the types and functions of specific energy-locking structures and plant cell organs, and the analysis of abnormal expression of specific factors."

"When you perform atavism, you can access the standard holographic magical plants in this database to observe their complete set of standard plant essences. This will make it easier for us to find out which part of the plant factors caused the changes in the magical plant's traits."

"Isn't this holographic Fire Monkey Peach quite interesting? It looks very cute too."

Locke saw a holographic fire monkey peach appear in Trajan's palm after Trajan shrunk it down. The fire monkey seemed very excited, and the peach tree, which looked very much like a fire monkey, kept waving its branches, just like a magic monkey throwing stones at people.

Trajan the Wizard said, "In the key laboratory, some wizards have been staying here for a long time. Some have never left, while others spend most of their time here and rarely go out. Junior Brother, you are just a newcomer here."

“I know how you feel right now. In my younger days, and for you now, the key laboratory was like a place we dabbled in, a place to broaden our horizons. There was a… strange sense of alienation here, wasn't there? Because the wizards here were all too focused on their own work, while our lives revolved around the outside world. Locke…”

Locke looks straight at Trajan.

Trajan said calmly, “One day, you and I will be just like Juliussis, completely immersed in our experiments, and then for hundreds of years we will ignore the world and devote ourselves to this laboratory.”

"That day will come."

Locke nodded. “Senior brother, you are already a Sun Ring Wizard. I believe you will soon be able to apply for the Third Ring Advancement Fund and then immerse yourself in this key laboratory like Mr. Juliussis.”

Trajan the wizard laughed and said, "Then I'll take your kind words."

"Locke, you should have been granted two days of unlimited virtual currency access. Because you have a special grant and a sub-project, if I remember correctly. So you'll have two days. Remember to use it sparingly. This may be the only time in the last ten years that you'll have such luxurious experimental conditions."

"If it weren't for the special request from the White Wizard Association, our key laboratory would never have offered you such favorable treatment. This is a concession made by high-ring wizards to young geniuses like you low-ring wizards."

Locke nodded solemnly.

The two walked through the star trails. Trajan seemed to know many wizards, as they nodded to each other. Most of these wizards were of the Sun Ring type, some even of the Third Ring type, and a few of the Moon Ring type.

However, both Sun Ring and Moon Ring looked nervous, probably because entering this key laboratory was a very rare opportunity for them.

Meanwhile, the Third Ring Wizards, along with a group of students and apprentices, hurriedly ventured into the deeper regions of the universe along the star trails to conduct their experiments.

Overall, this key laboratory should still be used by high-ring wizards, especially for third-ring wizards.

Sun-ring wizards and moon-ring wizards, including myself, are only able to share some of the resources here because the third-ring wizards established this key laboratory.

Of course, cases like the wizard Juliussis's are a different story altogether.

Trajan the wizard led Locke along a star trail.

"At the end of the star trails are worlds being created or destroyed. You can think of this as a series of planes being created and destroyed. Some planes are planes that are coupled with elements within them, and these planes are real planes that exist in the endless void."

"This is a miracle of life magic."

"Congratulations, you have arrived at the super laboratory of life magic!"

"Being able to enter this laboratory is something many wizards cannot achieve; it is the glory of their entire lives. But junior brother, don't let this moment become your moment of glory. Your teacher has high hopes for you."

As Locke gazed at the flickering light of the world at the end of the star trails, he suddenly felt immense pressure on his cognitive level.

"I have a question, senior brother. I sensed a powerful life magic permeating this place; the entire laboratory is a demonstration of life magic. So, does life truly exist within this White Cardamom Farm laboratory?"

Trajan's expression remained unchanged as he calmly looked at Locke and said, "What do you mean by that? No, I understand your question."

"You can think of this place as a projection, or an illusion. The world here is ever-changing and can be created and destroyed at our will. As long as we have enough virtual currency, it can appear and disappear as we wish."

"This is, after all, a top-notch agricultural laboratory. Both the planting environment and the planting resources are simulated to the greatest extent possible."

"As long as there is virtual currency."

"Because it can create and destroy worlds, even the planting speed can be accelerated. Therefore, countless breeders regard the White Cardamom Farm as a holy land."

Locke still asked, "But senior brother, are the life forms in these created worlds truly life?"

Trajan pondered for a moment and said, "In this world, it conforms to the Demistocles' definition of life, but from our perspective, it doesn't. The Demistocles' life has five essential elements. First, the ability to reproduce. Second, the ability to self-replicate. Third, the ability to self-grow. Fourth, a complex interactive system. Fifth, the ability to adapt to the environment."

"In these places created by wizards using the spiritual energy and spiritual breath of the secrets of creation, the standards required by these five definitions can be met. But from our perspective, that is, from a higher dimension, the third one does not exist. Because these are foods simulated by the spiritual energy and spiritual breath, they are a projection of an illusion from a lower dimension, and therefore do not actually have the ability to grow on their own."

"Their altitude was determined by us. Therefore, it does not conform to the Themistocles' definition of life."

“Some people previously suspected that the Endless Void was just a more advanced cardamom farm, but we are certain that its self-sustaining nature confirms that the Endless Void is not a virtual world.”

"Similarly, because the White Cardamom Farm does not have a true sense of time, these five conditions may not be truly met or satisfied."

Locke said, "So the magical plants grown here won't be true magical plants?"

The wizard Trajan nodded in affirmation, "That is indeed the case. Even if this is not a holographic magical plant, it is still a product of this world. It is effective within this world, but ineffective outside of it. Otherwise, if it were possible to shrink such a vast world into a flower, then dimensional reduction would be dimensional reduction."

"However, the information is true."

Locke realized that everything that happened here was real within the context of the story, but would be fake if taken outside.

But all the information we get here is true.

Of course, this "truth" may only refer to information within a certain range.

So, it seems that the wizard Juliussis has stayed here for thirty-one years, and essentially created nothing here except information. But precisely because he needs to advance to the third ring, this is the only place where his hope is greatest and where he can gain the most.

At that moment, Locke suddenly understood why Golden Crown Mountain emphasized the pursuit of uselessness.

In this long pursuit of truth, a wizard can remain calm even if he produces nothing for one, two, or five years. But if he produces nothing for ten or thirty years, can he still stick to his principles and pursue exploration instead of creating more material things?

Keep in mind that if the goal is simply to increase power, accumulating power within the second ring framework is sufficient.

Locke seemed to see a glimpse of his own future through the Sun Ring Wizard—a greater test of his mind on the path to truth. Although he seemed far from that cruel and terrible test at the moment, and had no chance of encountering it yet.

'Thinking about it from this perspective, perhaps I haven't completely escaped the intermediate-level advancement trap yet, and it's not so easy to solve. Otherwise, it wouldn't have stumped countless civilizations in the endless void.'

Locke pondered, "And on my very first day here, Golden Crown Mountain was trying to teach me how to break free from the intermediate-level advancement trap."

'This is preaching to me, not teaching me some kind of magic.'

'But the number of wizards who can understand what they hear, put it into practice, and succeed in doing so, will likely be very small.'

Locke continued walking with Trajan, and they came to a world that appeared to be on the verge of destruction. Locke realized that the magical energy of these creation secrets was being used to maintain this key laboratory. Therefore, although the wizards were constantly surrounded by these creation secrets, they could not receive a significant increase in magical pressure.

Of course, his magical pressure still increased here.

Because one is essentially witnessing a creation secret diluted thousands of times over at all times.

If my previous encounter with the secrets of creation was like drinking a beverage, then being here feels like drinking a diluted version of that beverage.

Therefore, at least for low-level wizards, staying here is equivalent to entering a high-level wizarding secret realm.

An Alarite rode a cloud motorcycle out of the world on the verge of destruction. Star trails appeared automatically beneath his cloud motorcycle, and wherever his cloud motorcycle appeared, star trails appeared.

This Alarite was only a third the height of a human, wore sunglasses, had pointed ears like an elf's, three earrings, and a Taotie tattoo on his forehead.

“Hello, Trajan the Wizard. And this young wizard whom I am meeting for the first time. I am an Alarite from here. Our people live in this world to repay the kindness of the Golden Crown Mountain in taking us in and protecting us in the past.”

The Alarite jumped off his cloud motorcycle, and Locke nodded to him; this guy possessed Sun Ring-level magical pressure.

This Alarite looked small and seemingly harmless, but a closer look revealed an immense magical pressure emanating from him.

Locke remembered the Alarite people. He had once read about this human race in an old issue of a journal in the library. They were a relatively short but intelligent race that once existed widely in the planes of the endless void. Later, they gradually declined and their population shrank because they were relatively weak and were always the easiest to be eliminated in many planes, unable to obtain the power to protect themselves.

After joining the wizarding world, they enjoyed a period of prosperity due to their high talent in the pyromancy school.

It is said that after learning magic, any Alarite can split a space in two with a single spell.

This talent earned them great renown within wizarding civilizations, where they distinguished themselves during the Great Void exploration era. However, later, during the Pureblood era, this race was considered by the Pureblood Order to be among the ten most deserving alien races to steal magic, and thus faced extermination by the entire wizarding world.

The Alarite population never recovered after that catastrophe.

Locke was surprised to find a wizard of the Alarite race on Mount Golden Crown. After he bowed to the Alarite wizard, the wizard looked at Locke with the kind of affection one would give a junior.

"Let me see, the information says you can use this lab for a year. A whole year. Good heavens."

The Alarite wizard patted his forehead.

"My God, it's a whole year! I thought it was only half a year. You have two projects that could qualify you for a key laboratory? This is really..."

"Very well. It seems His Majesty the Red Dragon Throne values ​​you highly. Welcome to our ranks, Wizard Locke Augustine. You may call me [Guberdin]."

Wizard Guberdin said to Locke, "We Alarite are the administrators of this laboratory, so you can ask me any questions you may have about its use. Because Golden Crown Mountain took us in during the pure-blood era, we are happy to serve this academy."

“Of course, our clan has sworn an oath never to set foot in the wizarding world again, so… we can only stay in this key laboratory. Therefore, Mr. Augustine can only ask me about things related to this laboratory. I cannot concern myself with anything outside of this laboratory.”

Locke bowed again and thanked him, saying, "Thank you for your help."

Wizard Guberdin smiled and said, "No trouble at all."

He was wearing a rather small wizard's robe and a wizard's hat trimmed with pine needles.

The wizard Guberdin said, “Wizard Trajan, you may leave now. Next, I will introduce everything about our key laboratory to Mr. Augustine. This laboratory is divided into areas, with only three levels: L1, L2, and L3. We are on level L3. You are not authorized to work on levels L1 and L2.”

"On Level 3, you can only create worlds of medium size or smaller, and purchase holographic magical plants of the second ring level, as well as seeds of second ring magical plants, or other fertilizers. In addition, the academy will also assign you a detached villa and a vehicle."

Trajan the wizard said goodbye and left.

After greeting his senior brother, Locke turned to look at the option Guberdin with surprise.

"Real estate?"

I never expected that there would be a demand for housing in a key laboratory.

But that's normal, I suppose.

After all, this laboratory is so large that it is likely a separate, large world in itself. Without a place to live and a means of transportation, it would be extremely troublesome.

Wizard Guberdin chuckled, “Yes, there are 98 types of transportation available here. My cloud motorcycle is just one of the types created by the weathermen. You can choose other transportation options, which are mostly good flying equipment. However, these are only available for rent, not ownership.”

"You'll have to pay for it if you break it."

"The real estate is located in Star City, which is within this key laboratory. The real estate in that city is permanent, and you can keep some of your servants there. Star City will naturally have a wizarding society ecosystem, and you can only buy servants there; you can't bring servants from outside in."

Locke felt that this key laboratory was actually a branch of Golden Crown Mountain in a special world. This so-called Star City probably had a strong degree of independence and should be considered a core force within the Academic Committee faction.

Locke asked, "What will happen to my properties, servants, and businesses here if I lose access to this key laboratory later?"

The wizard Guberdin said, "Do what needs to be done. Apart from not being able to come in, your property will not be affected in any way."

"However, not being able to come in is indeed a big problem."

"Then let's keep trying and find another way to get access."

Wizard Guberdin gestured for Locke to jump onto his cloud motorcycle. The two of them stood on a cloud, and the little tail behind the cloud flicked, accelerating them towards Star City.

"This laboratory is very large, but there is very little matter. It is very similar to the void, so it is much safer than the void, because there is actually a lot of energy and matter in the void, but there is less visible energy and less accessible matter."

Wizard Guberdin said, "Our laboratory has too little material, and we only have one city, Star City, and a few cities in the L2 and L3 regions."

"There aren't many wizards who can actually enter the key laboratory, but it still forms a wizard ecosystem within the laboratory. This is because in the past, a large number of wizards would enter with their servants or students. Some of them did not choose to leave for various historical reasons and stayed here, living, marrying, and having children, eventually becoming the native race here."

"You can think of them as native wizards in the laboratory. These native wizards live using the experimental equipment and resources here, although they can only use the most basic parts. Their main responsibility is to maintain the experimental equipment and resources here. Jinmian Mountain also thinks this is good, and it may be beneficial to both sides, so it did not forcibly intervene. As a result, there are a large number of low-level wizards here."

Guberdin, an Alarite, seemed unconcerned about talking about himself.

“I am one of them. Most of the people in Star City are natives like this, but 99 percent of the wizards exist only for the 1 percent of wizards like you. You are the sole reason for the existence of this city.”

"The star trails connect the few cities and material gathering points within this laboratory. If you get lost in this laboratory, just follow the star trails. That will most likely lead you to your destination. If you accidentally fall off the star trails, you'll need rescue. Theoretically, you'll fall indefinitely."

"But it's actually quite difficult to fall down."

"As you can see, the botanical root realm of Yunze Wetland can also be used here. Under normal circumstances, if you attach your ultimate magic to the root realm, you won't keep falling down."

"But if you really fall, you'll need to use the Ganoderma lucidum plant to send a distress signal. Don't try to do it yourself; a second-circle wizard will never be able to escape from this endless fall."

Locke looked down at the infinite darkness of the universe beyond the star trails below the cloud motorcycle.

Perhaps there is an infinite distance below.

It's quite normal and not surprising that a large world would possess such spatial power.

Wizard Guberdin pointed to a massive city built on star trails and said, "Look, that's Star City ahead."

Locke saw that the entire Star City was as dazzling as crystal glass, and the city had a lot of functional public facilities, such as bars, auction houses, nurseries, and many residential areas, and even an academy area.

In other words, for the wizards living inside this key laboratory, it is a legitimate world.

Wizard Guberdin stopped in a villa area. Locke noticed that many nearby wizards were looking at them with awe and envy. Wizard Guberdin smiled and said, "This is the area where people like you live. It is also the best area in Starry Sky City, and an area that ordinary wizards cannot approach. Therefore, the wizards and dignitaries of Starry Sky City all live near this community. Of course, unless you invite them, they cannot come in."

"This seven-story villa is Mr. Augustine's residence."

"You can buy servants at the auction house. Of course, the villa has already provided two wood elf maids who can clean for you."

The wizard Guberdin gave Locke a list of vehicles, and after looking at the list, Locke discovered that it contained many high-level flying machines, mostly various flying devices made by alchemists.

Locke casually pointed. "Let's choose this magic flying bed."

Wizard Guberdin glanced at the magical flying bed and chuckled, "Not a bad choice. I heard this thing can sell for ten million magic stones outside."

Locke blinked. "Is it that expensive?"

The wizard Guberdin took out a luxurious bed from his astral ring. The bed had intricate gold silk curtains, golden unicorn statues at the four corners, and a golden statue of the goddess of love at the headboard. The entire bed floated in mid-air.

Wizard Guberdin coughed and said, "It comes with many magical gadgets, combining comfort and functionality. It's fast, comfortable to sit in, and even makes it easy to take a nap during long journeys. This curtain can be adjusted to be invisible or opaque, as you like."

"So ten million magic stones isn't expensive, is it? But since it's in a key laboratory, you can experience it as you please."

"Alright, now that you have the vehicle and the house key, I've finished explaining everything. Next, you can use the vehicle to go to the end of each star trail to simulate the world you want, and then start breeding."

"By the way, you have two days of unlimited virtual currency access, which you can use anytime. You can start it on and stop it at any time, since the total usage time is a linear 48 hours."

Wizard Guberdin said, "But at other times you can only earn virtual currency yourself, and then spend it here after you've earned it."

Locke's expression remained unchanged. "Then how do you earn cryptocurrency?"

Wizard Guberdin said, "We can exchange magic stones for virtual currency here at a ratio of 1000:1."

"However, I don't recommend doing that, because it's too expensive. And everything here is unusable outside, except for information. In other words, you can exchange magic stones for virtual currency, but you can't exchange virtual currency for magic stones."

"If you accumulate too much cryptocurrency here, but you don't have the permission to access it... of course, that situation is not very common."

Wizard Guberdin said, "Besides that, you can earn some virtual currency in other ways, such as selling some of the magical plants you grow here to this cardamom farm."

"Anyway, these magical plants are useless once they're taken out. You can grow them and sell them to the White Cardamom Farm to get some money."

"Furthermore, you can also try out those 'Dimensional Survival Games' in the center of Star City. If you can solve the virtual apocalypse questions left there by the high-ring wizards of Golden Crown Mountain, you can earn even more virtual currency!"

Locke blinked. "A dimensional survival game?"

Wizard Guberdin chuckled, “No need to be so serious. You can relax in our key laboratory. You can treat everything here as a game. Anyway… most of the time, no matter how serious you are, the progress is only so-so, so it’s better to relax. Wizards are all about sustained effort. Those who exhaust themselves too early will quickly lose interest in the truth.”

"Close your eyes, and a screen will appear in front of you."

Locke closed his eyes and found that a screen had indeed floated in front of him, with a line of text asking if he had been keeping the [Entertainment Assistance System] in the key laboratory open for an extended period of time.

Locke agreed, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw that everything had a proficiency bar and a level.

As soon as I took a step, my movement skill level immediately increased to level 2, and as I walked, a magical aurora appeared, resembling my own tail.

Locke's lips twitched. "What...what's the use of all this?"

The wizard Guberdin chuckled, “How peculiar! You said the same thing as the witch Catherine when she first came in. You're both too focused on practicality. This entertainment system can create an illusionary world before your eyes; we had a wizard from the Mind School create it for us. Whatever you do, your proficiency will increase, and your level will rise, giving you different levels of skins. You'll have special effects when you walk, when you eat, when you sing…”

"Isn't this great? What the world is like often depends not on the objective world itself, but on how we perceive it."

Locke suddenly realized. "This was done by the wizards from the Siming Waters? We were paid?"

The smile on the wizard's face froze instantly, and he coughed.

"I've accepted it."

"Cough cough..."

He honestly said, "We helped them experiment with this system. They believed that using this auxiliary entertainment system in the laboratory could increase the yield of results, so they paid us to let our wizards use it and see the effect. Of course, our high-level wizards also thought it was fine for our wizards to have some entertainment."

Locke was speechless.

Golden Crown Mountain is still Golden Crown Mountain. What entertainment? It's basically just making its wizards act as product testers for others.

Wizard Guberdin said, "There are some post-apocalyptic worlds set up and preserved by high-level wizards in the center of Star City. They left a test there. If you can use breeding methods to cultivate magical plant staples that can allow some life to survive in the post-apocalyptic environment, then you will pass the test and receive a lot of virtual currency."

"Alright, that concludes my introduction. Now, we'll move on to the final introduction. Once I've finished, Mr. Augustine can do whatever he wants; it's all your time."

"The last thing to introduce is a benefit that all wizards who enter our key laboratory can enjoy: the test to enter the founding wizard of our Golden Crown Mountain—the Golden Dragon Wizard."

"He left behind a post-apocalyptic survival game in Star City, which every wizard who has just entered the key laboratory can try. Of course, you can refuse, but there has never been a precedent for refusing. Because this is essentially a perk, a perk that I myself am not fortunate enough to enjoy."

"This doomsday survival game isn't about you cracking it; to be precise, it's just about you going in and seeing the magical power left behind by the Golden Dragon Wizard, one of the three founders of Golden Crown Mountain."

Locke nodded.

There was indeed no reason for me to refuse. Since it was a benefit left by the founder, it was definitely worth taking a look.

Wizard Guberdin said, “But don’t ask me what’s inside. Many wizards who have just come in have asked me this question, because this is your privilege and benefit, not mine. Only researchers in the laboratory have this benefit. I know nothing about it. Here, this is the tea you will drink before you go in.”

Locke frowned as he looked at the cup of cold tea handed to him, because he had never seen such wizard tea in the outside world, and he didn't know why he should drink this cup of wizard tea here.

The Alarite showed Locke the college's documents.

"This is what needs to be done before entering that place. Don't worry, this Wizard's Tea was prepared long ago and sealed inside, and I cannot bypass the protective barrier to change anything inside. This place is also monitored by True Sight Crystals."

"This is just a cup of bitter tea."

Locke nodded and drank it after checking and confirming that there were no problems.

(End of this chapter)