In a conference room at White Dragon Magic Gem University, located 10 kilometers above White Dragon Tower No. 2 in the Land of Six Towers.
Because White Dragon Tower lay directly beneath their feet, the Elemental Fission Well inside it generated an astonishing amount of magical energy every moment. As a result, all four walls of the conference room, including its ceiling and floor, were covered with special magical paintings created by the Illusion School.
As Locke moved his fingers, the scenes in the magical paintings shifted as well.
Locke sat in his seat and addressed the three First-Ring Wizards he had recruited. "The Plutarch Family has assigned this conference room for our use."
"If you have any materials, you can first find the Plutarch Family's Speed Painters and have them transfer the materials into the magical paintings. Then you'll be able to display them freely in this conference room."
The three First-Ring Wizards before him all nodded.
One of the three wizards was Montgomery, the genius Breeder Locke had recruited earlier. He was Eric Plutarch's ghostwriter, while the other two were also ghostwriters for Eric's papers.
It wasn't that Locke was deliberately targeting him. Rather, Eric was so eager to advance that he swallowed up family funds in order to publish papers. The commoner wizards he kept as ghostwriters were each more capable than the last.
In fact, for commoner wizards, this was also a path to rapid advancement. It simply meant that their future had a limit. At most, they could reach the First-Ring Wizard realm before reaching the end of the road.
Eric would never let them advance another step.
That was why Montgomery had previously wanted to take the risk of going to the Spiral Basin to become a Black Wizard, thereby cutting himself off from