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Leo said, "No time to lose. Let's start adjusting the demonic plants' environment right now. Once we're done here, I still have to visit the other groups."

Edgar looked at Leo in surprise. "Wizard Leo, you're not just supporting our group? You're responsible for the others too?"

Even the Yodelin brothers instinctively looked over.

Leo smiled. "That's right."

Edgar said admiringly, "That's incredible."

But the Yodelin brothers shook their heads.

"Hard to say. Maybe he isn't incredible—maybe he just doesn't know the height of the heavens or the depth of the earth."

Leo paid no mind to their contempt. He laughed and said, "I'm still young. A little confidence is a good thing. Anyway, Wizard Yodelin, Wizard Yodete, Wizard Edgar, let's get on with adjusting the environment."

Leo could tell the Yodelin brothers had little interest in working. He had said that last part to Edgar.

Edgar also wanted to get the environment adjusted as well as possible. "All right, Wizard Leo. I'll take you there."

Yodelin and Yodete exchanged a glance, then spoke.

"We'll come take a look too."

"Exactly. Without us, Group One would be like a Magitech Device missing its most important parts."

The Yodelin brothers were supremely confident of their standing in Group One.

They were not only veterans of Pella Research Lab's research project, but also two of the lab's four Second-Rank Wizard Apprentices.

Neither paid much attention to Leo, a Third-Level Wizard Apprentice.

They would not have cared even if it had been Moben, who had only just become a Second-Rank Wizard Apprentice, let alone Leo.

Whoever came along, they could not erase the brothers' contributions to Pella Research Lab.

Edgar led Leo to the fields.

Group One's fields were much like Group Three's.

Nine Flying Pumpkins had likewise been planted in the center,