Recaps

Locke won the Golden Cup, joined Wizard Bruce’s flying-vehicle alliance, and pursued Golden Magic research while searching for Wizard Maxwell. After surviving Supernatural Purgatory and learning fragments of the Historical Records War, Locke returned to his research and business plans, leaving his Golden Incantation experiments poised to strengthen Atavistic Evolution.

• Barrett’s Great Radiant Dragon Sparrow won the Golden Cup for Locke, and Locke agreed to join Wizard Bruce and Leon Newman in a flying-vehicle alliance.
• Russell Throne showed Locke the Golden Incantation, and Locke accepted a joint research project on Golden Magic and Atavistic Evolution.
• Locke investigated a travelogue tied to the Black-and-White Grimoire and entered the Black Hole Witch-Peach Chamber with Douglas, rescuing him from the Dark Great Evil King.
• Locke and Douglas returned with a World Tree Leaf, prompting Dark King Roroya to declare war on Golden Crown Mountain, while Locke began seeking Maxwell’s identity.
• With Douglas’s help, Locke completed three research papers and earned enough contribution points to enter Supernatural Purgatory in search of Maxwell.
• Locke used Historical Reenactment to meet Maxwell, who revealed details about the Black-and-White Grimoires and the Historical Records War before destabilizing the realm and forcing Locke out.
• Locke entered a mural world, retrieved a Heaven-Piercing Jujube, and later planned new business ventures and aerial weapons with Terence and the shop alliance.
• Locke tested the Golden Incantation on Green Dogtail Grass, discovered it could temporarily make the plant golden, and modified the spell to support his Atavistic Evolution research.

Locke defended Atavistic Evolution, broke through to become a Star-Ring Wizard, and fought off the Black Sun Tower’s assault with help from his allies. The Demon Dragon Wizard’s avatar was shattered, and Locke learned that his Special-Grade Funding application had passed.

• Locke escaped the Evil Chessboard Plane, returned to the Wizarding World, and began pursuing Special-Grade Funding while advancing his research into Atavistic Evolution.
• Locke brought Julian to the Wizarding World, planted the Golden Tree and Temporal Sequence Stele in the Three-Cave World, and helped Orian and later Gerant Nika guide the Forest Rangers’ future.
• Locke recreated Big Spring Cannon Corn, then demonstrated Atavistic Evolution at his funding defense by restoring lost possibilities in Sea Golden Sand and presenting further evolved plants.
• Locke’s Star Ring cracked and reformed as he realized his path toward Summer Prosperity had confined him within the Second Ring, and he became a Star-Ring Wizard by forging the Great Magic again.
• The Black Sun Tower attacked Golden Crown Mountain, and Locke fought alongside Witch Catherine, the Red Dragon Witch, Wizard Trajan, Patrick Finch, Edgar, and other allies.
• Edgar advanced to Star Ring and joined Locke in battling the Demon Dragon Wizard, while King Otto and the Red Dragon Witch helped turn the fight against him.
• Locke’s Peachheart Curse and the allies’ attacks shattered the Demon Dragon Wizard’s Half-Body, and Witch Catherine later confirmed that Locke’s Special-Grade Funding application had passed.

Locke entered Golden Crown Mountain’s Key Laboratory, learned from the Golden Dragon Wizard’s memory, and developed plants adapted to abyssal energy while building his research and business teams. After confronting divine forces in the Abyss, he returned to the Heaven River Coast, where Witch Catherine assigned him new research and an investigation into a hidden group.

• Witch Catherine brought Locke to the Purification Spring, where he purged several lingering influences and learned of a wizard’s advancement in the Ostia Great World.
• Locke perfected his Demon Dragon Bloodline with Abyssal Energy, rebuffed competing recruitment offers, secured research funding, and helped Douglas escape the Dark Great World’s Treasure Grounds.
• Locke and Douglas fled through the Bottomless Abyss, where Locke claimed the Crown of the Chaos Child and recruited Red Orcs before returning to Heaven River and driving off the Dark Great Evil King’s forces.
• The Fairy Dragon examined Locke’s fate and became a Type Four Natural Guardian after merging with a World Tree Leaf, while Locke entered the Key Laboratory’s parallel-world trial and helped develop Silver Wheat.
• Locke bred Abyss-adapted plants, accepted Planknia as his student, and brought Moromota onto his team as he expanded the Silver-Clad Peach Garden’s research and weapons projects.
• Locke’s experimental plants and Name Potions disrupted the battle between Ouse Terra and the Supreme Beholder, and Locke later reorganized the Silver-Clad Peach Garden and launched plans for an integrated flying magic-plant weapons platform.
• Witch Catherine assigned Locke an Iron Tree project and a hidden-group investigation, offered him a Great Magic inheritance, and Locke negotiated to buy a Fire-Element Authority Gem from Witch Zoe.

Locke established the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow as a successful Magic Plant platform while pursuing new research, teaching, and alliances along the Heaven River Coast. After his attempts to treat the Mountain-River Wanderer failed, Witch Catherine summoned him to the Golden Crown Mountain Truth Institute and warned him about the undead.

• Locke bought the Fire-Element Authority Gem from Witch Zoe, then helped launch the Rose Building and its Three-Colored Rose Dart Branch with the Rose Witch.
• Locke unveiled the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow battle array, defeated the Stonewing Vilebird flock, and drew wizards’ attention to his Magic Plant platform.
• Gaius attacked the Rose Building with the Pale Pilgrimage Black Wizards, but Wizard Jikongyue froze their forces and Locke began negotiating service-station partnerships.
• Locke investigated Witch Heidi’s laboratory, killed the necromancer possessing her, and later joined the Tidal Grand Wizard Tower as a guest mentor while opening a service station.
• Locke won the Sea Queen Throne’s potion lesson with the Nero Potion, which created a hostile duplicate inside the Mountain-River Wanderer before being absorbed.
• Locke explored the Cold Sky River, found Wetland Corn and a chained dragon skeleton, while the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow proved its battlefield strength against White Ice Tower wizards.
• Locke expanded sales and planned more service stations as he researched spiritual-breath extraction, received a Dragon Crystal for his Iron Tree, and faced criticism over the undead matter.
• Locke’s second Nero Potion also failed to provide a lasting solution for the Mountain-River Wanderer, and Witch Catherine summoned him to the Truth Institute while warning him about the undead.