Locke stared at Wizard Sfindis with a cold gaze. Wizard Sfindis was extremely nervous and even involuntarily took a step back, constantly trying to explain to Locke that he truly knew nothing about this matter.
Wizard Sfindis was clearly in the wrong. "I really had no idea about this. I'm furious about it too. If you need me to, I can ask my student to compensate your students."
"And then there's the matter of the bill... Perhaps it really was just a misunderstanding. I can return all your materials to you as well."
The more Wizard Sfindis spoke, the guiltier he felt, because Locke's gaze grew increasingly cold.
Just then, a wizard's voice suddenly came from nearby.
"You two, I sensed the magic pressure of two Formal Wizards in the apprentice district. You're both First-Ring Wizards in the Liquefaction Stage. With your magic pressure released at full strength like this, even the students of those First-Class Wizard Apprentices would suffer soul damage if they remained in such a violently colliding magic-pressure environment for too long."
The newcomer was Alicia Plutarch's father, Wizard Gregory Nick.
He was also a First-Ring Crystallization Wizard of the Plutarch Family's Bloodline School.
As a First-Ring Crystallization Wizard, Gregory's magic pressure exceeded 9,000, while Locke's magic pressure was only slightly above 6,100. There was a qualitative difference between their magic pressure.
Although he could use the Ferocious Beast Panel to double his magic pressure to 9,000, then use Abyssal Energy to externally boost it and obtain magic pressure exceeding 9,000,
no matter what, he still could not use the Ritual Magic unique to First-Ring Crystallization Wizards.
Whenever Locke recalled being hit by the Specter Holy Church's leader's Ritual Magic, dragged into the Styx Plane, and nearly drowned there before becoming one of its substitute water ghosts,