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Wizard Trajan took out a document. Once the Fairy Dragon had stamped it, he led Locke out of the flower room. Locke caught the meaningful look in her eyes.
He had spoken up to help her mainly for his own sake.
After all, if a Third-Ring Level Fairy Dragon had mysteriously suffered brain death during his identity check and become lost in her own Fate Ocean, he would have missed his chance to enter the Key Laboratory. That would have been true even if her death was later blamed on a backlash from her Divination School magic.
For safety's sake, the Key Laboratory would probably have refused him entry.
Besides, he really had sensed that the Fairy Dragon's power was remarkably close to the World Tree's.
She already possessed powerful Life Magic. Had the World Tree's power still been intact, a Third-Ring being like her would have found it easy to gain its favor.
Of course, the crucial factor was the Second-Ring Magic Artifact on his wrist: the Angel's Tear Bracelet.
Locke glanced down at it. Without its boost to his resistance against divination magic, he could not have spoken up at that critical moment.
Locke turned to Trajan. "Senior, I can enter the Key Laboratory on Golden Crown Mountain now, right? I'd love to see the whole place. What are the other people working there like?"
Wizard Trajan gave it some thought. "The laboratory is enormous. I doubt you'll manage to see all of it. Come with me, and you'll understand."
They passed through a themed corridor, winding around several bends, then stepped into a room. When they pushed open its door, Locke saw darkness ahead, broken only by a path of glittering starlight and magical radiance.
"This is..." Locke's pupils contracted. Before him lay something like the