Chapter 449: Ten Months and the Super First-Ring Magic Plant: Nine-Headed Snake Magic Plant!
Inspired by his previous encounter with the Black Wizard, Locke found the subspecies in his research group that showed potential for developing layered Permanent Defense Fields and began cultivating a new batch.
With the genius Breeder Montgomery as his assistant, and now that they had found the right direction, their research progressed extremely quickly.
Meanwhile, after the dormitory-smashing incident, Barnaby Cooper was stripped of his family-heir status by the Cooper Family for five years. Even though he would still inherit the family after those five years, he would fall from the first position in the succession to the last among more than a dozen candidates.
The resources available to him plummeted, and he received the punishment he deserved.
All his accomplices were punished by the Plutarch Family. Their resources were reduced, their access to the laboratory was restricted, and their library privileges were lowered. All these were necessities for a Wizard's career.
Even their mentor, Wizard Sfindis, had half his research funding cut because he had failed to discipline them properly.
After this incident, the open and covert exclusion targeting their research group immediately decreased.
The tragic examples of Wizard Sfindis and Barnaby Cooper intimidated all the Wizards and stopped those harboring resentment from continuing to secretly ostracize the students in Locke's research group.
Meanwhile, after the intense discussion of the Black Wizard incident in the small Cloud Marsh Cup group, the group fell quiet for a time, as every participant was busy conducting experiments.
Ten months passed in a flash.
Inside the White Dragon Tower's special-grade laboratory, Locke, Montgomery, and the others were cultivating a mimetic Chain Magic Vine with nine heads beneath the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome. Each head was a crocodile head mimicked