Recaps

Locke advanced his meditation, secured a major Crystal Palmfire Lotus contract, and became involved in the Academy’s fight against the Blood Curse Court. With approval for his Plantation and Personal Potion Laboratory, he prepared to expand his cultivation and potion business as the Breeder Competition finals approached.

• Locke signed the Non-Proliferation Agreement, learned the Advanced Meditation Method, and broke through his magic-power bottleneck while realizing he needed income for his research.
• Locke presented the Crystal Palmfire Lotus to Yuli Burns, began helping Sophia at the Healing Hand Clinic, and stopped Hassan Quinn’s disguised apprentice from poisoning a patient before fighting the attackers with the clinic assistants.
• Sophia arranged for Locke to treat cursed patients and share the fees, while Locke recruited Pierre and Tali Calvin for his Personal Potion Laboratory.
• Locke signed Zack’s contract to supply four thousand Crystal Palmfire Lotuses for at least twenty thousand Magic Stones, then spent his funds on research supplies, equipment, a weather instrument, and slaves for his Plantation.
• The competition committee ranked Locke’s Crystal Palmfire Lotus fifth in the preliminaries, while Howard prepared Blood Curse Court apprentices to hunt high-ranking Breeders and Potion Masters using Blood Devouring.
• Francis approved a botanical garden for Locke and considered securing Sophia’s Academy contract, while Harlan Vela arranged special training for his Breeder students ahead of the finals.
• Locke received Academy approval for his Plantation and Personal Potion Laboratory, installed the Weather Control Instrument, and chose a low-cost renovation plan for the laboratory.
• Locke planned to mass-produce cultivation supplies and potions, develop Emerald Lichen as his fourth Magic Plant, and use it to strengthen Bear Spirit Bile Potion against curses.

Locke rescued Pierre and Lorne from the Blood Curse Court, captured Howard, and turned the Vampire into a valuable research subject. As he pursued income and investigated his bloodline, he treated another Magic Plant curse and negotiated a major Crystal Palmfire Lotus contract with Zack.

• Locke and his colleagues weakened Ruixing’s cursed Tifro Rootvines with the Radiation Cauldron and replaced them with Super Mandrake Vines, lifting her curse.
• Locke declined Zack’s invitation to develop a spell system for Crystal Palmfire Lotuses and warned his apprentices about the Blood Curse Court’s attacks.
• Locke rescued Pierre and Lorne from Blood Curse Court apprentices, defeated and captured Howard, and used Lesser Emerald Potion to free the forest’s bound souls.
• Locke tested Howard, documented the Vampire Baron’s weaknesses, and arranged to keep him in Sophia’s magical creature breeding room for research.
• Locke earned 50 contribution points for a B-Class article and studied Ancient Creature bloodlines while planning ways to increase his income and advance his research.
• Locke, Aixi, and Anglu treated a patient whose Lightning Bamboo had fused with his arm, clearing most of the curse but failing to stop the plant from producing more.
• Zack offered Locke a contract to supply two thousand Crystal Palmfire Lotuses and maintain a hundred mu of production capacity, but Locke refused the extra fields and accepted a ten-thousand-Magic-Stone contract.

Locke passed the Formal Breeder examination, established a market for Memory Ointment, and used a surge of Magic Plant Curses to develop Perseus’s Eye Lichen. He finished the arc by creating two new curse-targeting potions and planned to test one on patients before seeking a production license.

• Locke passed the Breeder examination as its only successful candidate, received a golden Formal Breeder badge, and rejected Lancaster’s offer to join Green Sprout Studio.
• Locke signed a contract with Anglu and Aixi to sell Memory Ointment through Owl Cauldron Potion Shop, then bought Beholder Potion and Fission Potion to strengthen his magic power.
• Locke experimented with cursed plants and lichen, while his public dismissal of Seflin’s curse enraged her and led her to order more apprentices cursed.
• Locke handled a growing number of Magic Plant Curse cases and used the attacks as experimental data while racing to finish a creation for the Custom Magic Plant Competition.
• Locke grafted Super Mandrake Vine onto Emerald Iris Lichen and created Perseus’s Eye Lichen, which resisted and reflected curses.
• Locke tested Perseus’s Eye against Vampire Howard, whose curse was reflected back and left him unable to fight, though the lichen suffered damage after several uses.
• Locke brewed two versions of Bear Spirit Bile Potion and found that the Perseus’s Eye version destroyed cursed blood while the Emerald Iris version suppressed curses with less damage to the blood.
• Locke named the improved potion Bear Spirit Emerald Gallbladder Potion and planned to test it on Magic Plant Curse patients before applying for a production license.

Locke earned recognition for his curse-curing potion and became an Outstanding Apprentice while pursuing Archaeology and preparing for Sophia’s operation against the Blood Curse Court. He recruited a Black Wizard informant and selected Great Greenleaf Plantain seeds to strengthen his mobility before the infiltration.

• Locke studied Archaeology with McCarthy, borrowed the Tombstone Grimoire, and agreed to join Sophia’s operation against Rashid Tariel.
• Locke cured victims of the Magic Plant Curse with his Bear Spirit Emerald Gallbladder Potion, earning Academy support and treatment referrals.
• Seflin faced Rashid Tariel’s reprimand and confinement after he ordered her to stop researching Magic Plant Curses.
• Aul awarded Locke the Outstanding Apprentice title, and Locke exchanged Contribution Points for Shooter Peas before buying a Three-Eyed Tiger-Eyed Cat fossil.
• Locke studied the fossil through Archaeology and saw a vision of the ancient creature killing a unicorn before a catastrophe interrupted it.
• At the clinic meeting, Locke reported on his trials and received approval for both Academy Fund projects, while an injured Black Wizard Apprentice offered him Seflin’s research materials.
• Locke recruited Leonie Murphy as a scout and informant, then told Sophia about him and the materials he had obtained.
• With Ruby’s guidance at the Germplasm Bank, Locke exchanged for Great Greenleaf Plantain seeds to improve his mobility and went with her to seek a parasitic plant for Mayfly Firework.