In the Land of Six Towers, in Eric's office.

After Eric learned that Locke had won the Cloud Marsh Cup championship, all the thoughts he had entertained before completely disappeared. Instead, he murmured to himself, "Alicia invested in a good target."

"With the success of such a project investment, who in the Plutarch family wouldn't be convinced? Even I am convinced."

"Perhaps that little girl really is suitable to be the family head."

Eric's mind became active. "Her vision is quite sharp. If only she could help me get a championship too. It doesn't need to be a championship in a competition as prestigious as the Cloud Marsh Cup. Just winning championships in competitions like the Light and Shadow Cup or the Golden Cup would be very good." 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Eric looked up at his son and his wife, a witch from the Basil family. Immediately, his son, who had seemed pleasant no matter how he looked at him before, now seemed unsatisfactory no matter how he looked, far inferior to Alicia and that wizard she invested in called Locke Augustine.

"George, you'd better learn from Alicia. Stop mixing with those fair-weather friends all day long doing nothing."

"You should also do some proper work. Alicia is already a First Circle vaporization stage wizard. Her mana grows so fast every day. I think next year, or the year after, she can become a liquefaction stage wizard. Yet you're still just a wizard apprentice, and your wife is already a First Circle wizard."

The witch from the Basil family glanced at the submissive George but didn't defend him. Instead, she said to Eric, "Lord Eric, then my original plan to use my family's help to seize power for us..."

Eric shook his head. "Now that Alicia has just completed such a major project, her prestige has greatly increased. Even if your family fully supported me in attacking her, it would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, not to mention they couldn't possibly fully support us."

"So let's cancel the action." Eric waved his hand. "You don't need to be so nervous either. The one who won the Cloud Marsh Cup championship is one of our own."

"In a certain sense, this benefits us all."

"Our previous conflicts were just minor squabbles among family members, not involving matters of life and death. Since my elder sister's branch is so strong, from now on, we'll accept our position and just wait to receive benefits."

At the same time, the major families in the Land of Six Towers also learned of this result. The various families that had originally developed ulterior motives after Grand Wizard Sulla's death, with only his soul surviving, immediately abandoned their original ideas.

Even the Basil family, which had been ready to make a move, immediately canceled all actions against the Plutarch family after receiving this news.

A crisis was thus resolved invisibly, as if it had never existed.

At the same time, the southeastern quadrant also received the Cloud Marsh Cup results, after all, Halen Vera had been following this competition.

At this moment, Halen Vera was holding a student gathering. He received notification of the Cloud Marsh Cup rankings from other wizards at the banquet and immediately slapped the table, standing up amid the astonished gazes of numerous students.

Those First Circle wizard students all looked at Halen Vera in surprise.

"Teacher, what happened? What matter is worth such excitement from you?"

Halen Vera coughed. "I did indeed lose my composure."

"However, it's also because this news is too surprising and joyful. Your fellow junior apprentice, Locke Augustine, has become the champion of the tenth Cloud Marsh Cup!"

As soon as these words were spoken, many First Circle wizard projections at the gathering revealed astonished expressions.

Many wizards present were potion masters or breeders, so they naturally knew that the Cloud Marsh Cup was a large-scale tactical magical plant competition. They just hadn't watched the Cloud Marsh Cup commercial competition before because they weren't in the Cloud Marsh region.

But they also knew the prestige and difficulty of participating in the Cloud Marsh Cup.

Just the preliminary rounds required twenty to be narrowed down to ten. Twenty of the best First Circle breeders from wizard lands would have half eliminated in the preliminary rounds alone.

And in the finals, every wizard should actually be a strong competitor.

At this moment, these fellow senior apprentices looked at each other. Being able to win the championship of such a competition meant that Locke had produced an indisputable tactical magical plant work.

A First Circle wizard senior apprentice said, "Junior Apprentice Locke is truly remarkable. He's only been a First Circle wizard for less than two years, yet he's already won the Cloud Marsh Cup championship."

"That's the Cloud Marsh Cup."

Another First Circle witch's eyes flashed with envy and admiration. "I also participated in the Cloud Marsh Cup, but I didn't even pass the second round of the internal wizard land competition."

Halen Vera smiled. "Good, good, truly excellent."

"I will send congratulations to Locke on behalf of all of you. Also, in the future when we have fellow apprentice gatherings, we can also invite Locke to participate more."

As soon as these words were spoken, many First Circle fellow apprentice wizards' eyes immediately lit up. Many First Circle wizards participated in fellow apprentice gatherings precisely to exchange information, learn about current events in various wizard lands, and meet promising fellow apprentice brothers and sisters.

At this moment, after learning that Locke had won the Cloud Marsh Cup championship, many First Circle wizards all had thoughts of befriending Locke.

At this time, Wizard Anthony's projection appeared in the gathering hall. Wizard Anthony raised a glass of wizard liquor and said to Halen Vera, "Teacher Halen, do you know? Our Junior Apprentice Locke actually won the Cloud Marsh Cup championship this time, in the capacity of a research team from the Land of Six Towers."

"Because he won the Cloud Marsh Cup championship, my status in that family has become much more stable."

Halen Vera had already calmed down at this point. He nodded slightly. "For a super genius like Locke to achieve such accomplishments is actually quite normal."

"Also within my expectations."

"His future should go much further."

Wizard Anthony smiled. "Indeed."

"Fellow senior and junior apprentices, if any of you also want to come to the Land of Six Towers, you can contact me. Just like Junior Apprentice Locke."

"The Land of Six Towers has many resources but no talent. They'd rather give resources to outside wizards than to internal commoner wizards."

For a moment, interest flashed in many wizards' eyes.

...

In the Land of Six Towers, after landing, Locke quickly returned to the White Dragon Tower to confirm the situation of the Plutarch family. At the same time, he also received congratulatory messages from Teacher Halen Vera, and Locke quickly replied to Teacher Halen Vera.

Inside the White Dragon Tower, in Alicia's office, Locke looked at Grand Wizard Sulla with a strange expression.

"Grand Wizard Sulla, you're not dead yet?"

Grand Wizard Sulla, who had been full of smiles, immediately twitched at these words, and the smile on his face disappeared. He coughed. "What do you mean I'm not dead yet? However, I am indeed already dead. I just used a magic portrait work from a Second Circle wizard speed painter to temporarily protect my soul, in a special state of neither living nor dying."

"This kind of state indeed cannot be called still being alive."

Grand Wizard Sulla explained briefly. "Congratulations, Locke."

Grand Wizard Sulla's face showed a smile again. "Our Plutarch family held an overnight meeting to discuss this. To show our commendation, we've prepared special rewards."

Hearing this, Alicia immediately walked over and said to Locke, "It was proposed by me at the family meeting."

"Our Plutarch family, as your financial backer, is very grateful that you competed for our Land of Six Towers and won the Cloud Marsh Cup competition in the name of the Land of Six Towers. As thanks, I've decided to permanently gift you the Scorpion Woman Ring and the Primordial Fire."

Grand Wizard Sulla's soul, hearing this, immediately waved his hand. First, the Primordial Fire placed on Alicia's side automatically flew up. All the hidden contingencies and restrictions within it automatically disappeared, then fell toward Locke in a completely clean state.

At the same time, the soul brand in the deepest part of the Scorpion Woman Ring on Locke's right middle finger also disappeared.

The Scorpion Woman Ring emitted faint magical radiance. Because the restrictions disappeared, the Scorpion Woman Ring, as an advanced magical artifact of the Plutarch family, finally revealed its true appearance and abilities.

The Scorpion Woman Ring itself was a special bloodline inheritance family magical artifact. Its greatest function was that it could provide bloodline wizards with an additional spell pool formed by true blood.

And this function had even greater significance for non-bloodline wizards.

Locke sensed and discovered that inside the Scorpion Woman Ring, there were actually six bloodline universal spells forming a skill tree. As Grand Wizard Sulla removed the hidden restrictions, this magical ring finally opened all its functions to him.

Locke checked and found that the Scorpion Woman Ring contained universal Bloodline School spells, three low-level and three high-level, very complete.

The three low-level universal bloodline spells were Bloodline Fury, Beast Body, and Blood Flame, while the three high-level universal Bloodline School spells were Blood Flame Arrow, Coagulation Regeneration, and Boiling Blood.

Using the Scorpion Woman Ring, he could use each high-level bloodline universal spell once per day and each ordinary bloodline universal spell three times per day.

The function was extremely powerful.

Alicia brought Locke a chair, and the two sat down to exchange information. From the exchange, Locke learned about the functions of these six Bloodline School universal spells.

Bloodline Fury was just an ordinary single fury curse.

Beast Body activated the bloodline power hidden within the body to strengthen physical power. If the bloodline power itself had the effect of strengthening physique, then it could strengthen the body again on this basis.

Blood Flame was also a bloodline universal spell Locke had encountered before, while Blood Flame Arrow was an advanced spell of Blood Flame. Locke had seen Grand Wizard Sulla use it before.

Boiling Blood made all the blood in the body boil, strengthening physique again in an extremely short time.

Coagulation Regeneration burned the bloodline energy within the body to achieve rapid wound recovery, and could even use this magic to regenerate severed limbs.

It could be said that the entire bloodline wizard system essentially consisted of close combat masters. Everyone had a large number of bloodline universal spells to enhance physique, increase injury recovery ability, and spells like Blood Flame to burn the opponent's bloodline power.

Locke said, "But this way, two of the three drops of true blood in my body overlap with the bloodline spells in the Scorpion Woman Ring."

Alicia said, "That's simple. I can help you replace them with two types of true blood you want."