The True Nature of the Special Project

In the institute corridor, Locke took out a Great Green Owl Plantain from his Astral Ring. This magical plant had only a pair of plantain leaves. Its trunk had already withered and degenerated into a section no larger than a palm, with many exposed aerial roots resembling ginseng tendrils constantly absorbing energy from the air.

Locke sprinkled some Advanced Nutrient Solution over the Great Green Owl Plantain's roots. During battle, magical plants often needed nutrient solution to maintain their condition.

After all, magical plants were living beings. Although their Mental Power Grafting had been integrated into his Mana, they still required nutrients to sustain their functions.

Next, Locke used Flight Mimicry: Raptor. The pair of Great Green Owl Plantain leaves on his back automatically sensed the changes in the airflow and began adjusting their direction. The wings formed from overlapping broad plantain leaves transformed into the wings of a raptor, driving the airflow and sending Locke flying swiftly ahead.

At the same time, Locke controlled two Tomb Spirits. Taking advantage of his increased base movement speed and the Tomb Spirits' own increased base movement speed when they had not parasitized anyone, he continued directing them to search for enemies ahead of him.

As he flew, he held the Magic Painting Map in his hand and checked his relative position on it, avoiding countless enemies and magical traps.

About twenty minutes later, Locke passed through the institute tunnel and arrived before an ordinary-looking passage that was actually filled with invisible Curse Magic traps.

Many upside-down beast-head ornaments hung within the passage.

Powerful Curse Magic was hidden inside those beast-head ornaments. The most insidious part was that the Curse Spell Formulas had been concealed. An ordinary wizard would only think this was a normal tunnel upon seeing it.

However, when Locke read