The five crystallized wizards who had previously helped Locke manufacture the Spiritual Breath Cornerstones gathered in Serenity Garden once again at his summons.
Immediately afterward, they began a new round of construction.
Locke also commissioned the Maupassant Family in the local Wizard Town to find him a second-ring general studies wizard, then hired him to write an article about the Flower-King Bottle: Garden Grotto-Heaven for submission to Thunder Marsh.
The five crystallized wizards looked up at the countless motes of verdant spiritual breath floating in the air, resembling light, mist, and candle flames all at once. As experienced hands, they began using their magic to combine those wisps of verdant spiritual breath.
Meanwhile, Locke sat in Serenity Garden, with an assortment of bottles and jars laid out on the table before him.
These Time Gold Crystal bottles contained branches and leaves of Heart-Piercing Lotuses that Locke had asked Elk and Lion to gather from Despair Valley. There were many magic plants of the Andrographis genus inside Despair Valley, ranging from apprentice magic plants to first-ring and second-ring magic plants.
All these magic plants contained some heart-piercing toxin. Only their specific particle structures differed slightly. Higher-grade heart-piercing toxin had a more complex particle structure, but its basic structure remained the same.
Locke lit a candle on the table. It was a Triumph Tulip Scented Magic Candle, made using a special magical process. Triumph tulip petals could even be seen suspended in its white soy wax.
Once Locke lit it, the curling haze it released enhanced the visibility of components within quasi-natural magical structures.
Combined with the second-ring Focus Spell Monocle Locke wore, it allowed him to see the components of a quasi-natural magical structure directly.
Wearing the monocle, Locke held his hadron magic plant specimen between his fingers and used his