"Wizard, you've taken your joke too far!"
Team leader Celt seemed quite concerned about Locke's situation and sent him a message asking, "Be careful. If anything happens, tell me."
"Is there anything you need me to help with?"
Locke replied through the Water Gourd System, "No."
"Thank you, team leader Celt."
He had no desire to get involved in this sort of thing. He was not even officially affiliated with the White Wizard Association.
There was no benefit to him, so there was no need for him to wade so deeply into this mess.
However, Lilith's Cottage was, after all, his alma mater. If he could protect Lilith's Cottage along the way, he would do so.
The solution was simple. After this Black Wizard Alliance meeting was dismissed, he would follow the so-called workgroup leader and kill the leader elected by these black wizards, along with several of the candidates.
After that, he would follow the Specter Holy Church, capture Witch Stefania, and ask her about the Spell Model she had used to drag him into the Styx River back then.
Once he completed all of this, the local Black Wizard Alliance would find it difficult to launch any major attacks for at least a short period.
However, Locke was still curious. Team leader Celt did not seem very busy lately.
"Team leader, you seem to have a lot of free time lately."
Team leader Celt replied, "It's not just seems. I really do."
"I recently submitted an application for a Second-Ring Fund project, but it was killed by the Academic Committee during the preliminary screening."
"The number of applications for Second-Ring-level funds is limited. To prevent indiscriminate applications, the White Wizard Association allocates each academy a yearly number of applications according to the number of Second-Ring Wizards it has.