Advanced Meditation Method

Locke chose to place his standard First-Class Wizard Apprentice three-piece set beside Sophia's cabin, together with his Plantation.

That would be much safer.

After being attacked by a group of Wizard Apprentices from the Blood Curse Court last time, Locke no longer felt that Knockturn Alley was so safe. There were too many people there, too many prying eyes, and too many Wizard Apprentices.

It was better to live together with Sophia.

There were fewer people here—only the two of them—but living near a Formal Wizard was actually much safer.

Inside the small laboratory of the standard three-piece set was a workbench equipped with distillation apparatuses, dissection and extraction equipment, as well as a complete set of basic tools for brewing potions and extracting Magic Plant seeds. It was likely designed with his identity in mind.

Or perhaps this was simply the standard equipment for First-Class Wizard Apprentices at Lilith's Cottage.

There was also plenty of empty space in the laboratory, with only simple decorations. He would likely need to purchase and add whatever equipment he required himself.

Locke carefully placed a batch of Shadow Leeches into a glass tube, then used a dropper to drip in an extract from Wood Hellebore, a plant with anesthetic properties.

The Shadow Leeches, which had been struggling and trying to crawl out of the glass tube, began to twitch one after another, their bodies no longer under their control.

They stopped wriggling.

Shadow Leeches were extremely dangerous magical worms.

The precautions flashed through Locke's mind. The eggs of these worms could enter the body through skin contact and reproduce within it. Once they matured, they would burrow out through the skin, enter the host's shadow, and parasitize the area covered by that shadow.

For that reason, their Bloodline Essence was often used to