On the other side of Poisonous Valley, Nidhogg, who had transformed into an eight-legged spider, walked faster and faster. He saw the disturbance on the ground and his expression changed slightly, because the scale caused by the anomaly on the ground obviously shocked Nidhogg somewhat.

"How can there be such a big commotion?"

"What bloodline is in that wizard's body? Even the most excellent magic spider bloodline of our Basil family, or the scorpion woman bloodline of their Plutarch family, couldn't possibly cause such a big commotion..."

"And it was three times."

Nidhogg placed his palm on the ground and sensed three violent tremors. "This means the other party consecutively endured three deadly poison body cleansings. Astonishing willpower. Among wizards of our Land of Six Towers, there are quite a few who cannot even endure the first deadly poison body cleansing. Whether it's the potential to trigger three deadly poison body cleansings or the willpower to endure three times, both are astonishing."

The expression on Nidhogg's face was gloomy. "No. This wizard's potential is truly too great. With him around, it's impossible for our Basil family to seize power early."

Every hundred years, the Land of Six Towers would have numerous prestigious families vote to re-elect a ruling family to govern the Land of Six Towers.

Because Grand Wizard Sulla was too powerful, for three hundred years, the Plutarch family had forcibly taken control. Although there were still forty years until the next hundred-year period, because the Basil family had been out of touch with governing the Land of Six Towers for over two hundred years consecutively.

Their ruling family status had therefore been severely affected. So a group of bloodline wizards in the Land of Six Towers, headed by Nidhogg, all harbored thoughts of seizing power early.

Originally, all this could still be suppressed by Grand Wizard Sulla's personal prestige, but now that Grand Wizard Sulla was half-dead, it gave these ambitious people an excuse, a reason.

But Locke winning the Cloud Marsh Cup once again stabilized the situation in the Land of Six Towers and greatly increased Alicia's personal prestige. So naturally Nidhogg felt that Locke was blocking the path of their Basil family.

Therefore, without the Basil family's knowledge, he led his trusted subordinates into the wizard secret realm, wanting to destroy Locke.

At this moment, Nidhogg's eyes were cold. "But even if you triggered three deadly poison body infusions, it's useless. Because at this moment, I can destroy you."

"The waters of the Land of Six Towers aren't so easy to muddy."

A sun and moon ritual pattern appeared behind Nidhogg. In the sun and moon ritual pattern were two rare magical creature bloodlines, respectively the bloodlines of Akroma's Horse and Dracula's Deer. At this moment, the two vials of bloodline evaporated, becoming sacrifices for ritual magic.

A blood river appeared behind Nidhogg. That blood river seemed to come from the void, pouring back into his back, strengthening his body and bones. This blood river came from the Blood River Plane.

Under the enhancement of the Blood River Plane's power, Nidhogg's body grew larger again, like a moving small mountain. Every step he took could trigger a small earthquake.

He used eight spider legs to climb over ridges and arrived at the peak of a mountain. He swung his spider legs, directly attacking the poison lake at the mountain peak's summit.

One spider leg swung out like a blade, wanting to kill Locke in the lake, but it directly pinned a First Circle liquefaction stage poison toad in the lake to the bottom of the lake. Then he pulled that poison toad from the lake bottom, extracted the Poison Pearl from inside the poison toad's body, and placed it in his own mouth.

After all, the poison lake contained ten thousand deadly toxins. Even the Basil family bloodline couldn't withstand it.

Nidhogg looked at the huge toad corpse on the mountain peak's flat ground. His expression changed dramatically. The toxins flowing down from that corpse could even turn stones into black viscous substances.

"How can it be a guardian?"

"Where is Locke Augustine who should be in the poison lake? Could it be..."

Nidhogg looked at the two sacs at the poison toad's mouth. Besides possessing special deadly poison, the two sacs at the poison toad's mouth could also emit huge sound waves, creating small earthquakes.

That is to say, the earthquakes he just sensed all came from the poison toad!

Nidhogg looked at the shores around the poison lake and discovered green fireflies that could provoke the poison toad.

But this kind of firefly shouldn't appear here.

"This is bad. It's those spider women!"

"Why would they help an outside wizard! They're clearly my ancestor's vassal race, gravekeepers!"

Nidhogg's expression then changed, as if remembering something. "But that's not right. The earthquake tremor sensation can be simulated using the guardian's special ability."

"But how could they deceive my spider intuition?"

"This group of frogs at the bottom of the well sealed in this valley couldn't possibly master Divination School magic."

The expression on Nidhogg's face was uncertain.

Then there was only one last possibility—that wizard, Locke Augustine, possessed some magic on his body that interfered with his spider intuition sensing.

Given the Eye Demon Wizard's background, it was more likely some kind of magical plant that interfered with divination abilities, possessing anti-divination capability.

But this kind of magical plant was extremely rare, because even for First Circle magical plants, to possess First Circle level divination abilities required paying enormous costs.

"Either reproductive defects, losing the ability to flower, or root system degeneration, unable to survive autonomously in natural environments, or it might be loss of chloroplasts, requiring other plants to provide nourishment." Nidhogg began thinking carefully about which magical plant interfered with his spider intuition. "To obtain divination abilities, we spider demon bloodline bloodline wizards even paid the price of our eyes fearing light."

"To obtain this extraordinary intuition, one must pay an equivalent price—the weakening of vision."

"Every bit of increase in divination ability is a geometric multiplication of burden on oneself."

Nidhogg said, "Is it Shadow-Reflecting Fan Palm? Although that magical plant can't be purchased in Sunshade Peninsula, there's still a chance to obtain it. No, the Eye Demon Wizard doesn't have Sunshade Peninsula background."

"Southeastern quadrant... I heard Virdantia University has a First Circle magical plant with divination-like magic capabilities called [Delusional Thistle]."

"But the Delusional Thistle's function should only be that after being wounded by it, within twenty-four hours, this special thistle magical plant arranges a death crisis."

"To obtain this ability, the Delusional Thistle is very fragile and easily broken, so it's very difficult to use it to wound a wizard of the same level. But once it wounds someone, it can definitely coordinate with botanical magic to guide the opponent into their most unfavorable situation within twenty-four hours."

Nidhogg placed his thumb at the corner of his mouth and fell into contemplation. He wiped the corner of his mouth with his thumb. "Actually, I don't need to think so much. I remember that First Circle level magical plants' divination abilities all have one common flaw—they can only divine linear futures."