Chapter 531 - 976: A Brand New Ecological Niche for Magic Plants! The Third Lesson of the Sea Queen Throne!

976: A Brand New Ecological Niche for Magic Plants! The Third Lesson of the Sea Queen Throne!On the Tianjiang Coast, Locke's avatar was flipping through a grimoire he had brought over from Golden Crown Mountain; this grimoire contained a spell model from the Cloud Marsh that had long since gone out of style—Bean-to-Soldier.As he flipped through the grimoire, he traced trajectories in the air with his left hand. As a vibrant green magical radiance lit up the tip of his middle finger, spell runes appeared in the air. Suddenly, all the tables and chairs in the office began to move. Branches began to sprout from the surface of the tables, with green leaves emerging, while tree roots grew from the wooden floor. Even the wallpaper, made of natural biological materials, sprouted grass seeds."I see. Bean-to-Soldier is a typical second-ring spell model supported by spirit breath. By consuming azure spiritual breath, it converts into life force, which is then infused into Magic Plants or biological materials, transforming them into controllable objects. The advantage is that it's not limited to Magic Plants; even ordinary objects can be manipulated accordingly.""The drawback is that in today's increasingly specialized and segmented world, this spell model is considered too generic, resulting in insufficient spell power, which is why it was phased out."Locke flipped through the grimoire. "I have ample experience in developing Magic Plant weapons and Magic Plant Wizard Shoes.""Developing a blue ocean market where no one has stepped foot before can yield massive profits if successful. Nowadays, countless Wizards want to imitate the Augustus Shop Alliance, but the key technical thresholds on the road to success—I don't think they can break through them without thirty to fifty years. The hardest part is solving the cost issue of the imaginary root and enhancing the cost-effectiveness of the Magic Plants.""And to get more income and obtain more resources, I need to develop a new market."It wasn't that Locke hadn't considered continuing to sell traditional Magic Plant weapons on the Tianjiang Coast, but as soon as he discovered that Olaye had also established a presence there, he immediately abandoned the idea.The amount of money this red ocean market could generate was inherently limited.Now that someone like Witch Rose, who is obsessed with competing in this line of work, has joined, it's even more problematic. It's like opening a store in one region where you can live very comfortably, but opening ten stores leads to poverty, and opening a hundred means everyone starves.Sometimes, choosing a location for a store is like metaphysics. Even if you make the best choice in the early stages, if many competing stores target the same area, a good location will turn into a bad one. Therefore, Locke instinctively resisted continuing to compete in this red ocean market; he needed to find a new ecological niche and new demands.As it happened, he had discovered two urgent problems that needed solving on the Tianjiang Coast.And while developing Magic Plant Wizard Shoes, he had also accumulated a wealth of experience in using Magic Plants to solve problems in non-traditional Botany fields. Locke managed to construct a spell model imprint of [Bean-to-Soldier], and then he injected this personal imprint into a Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow placed on the shelf. Immediately, the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow began to move. It floated into mid-air and began to circle around Locke. On this Magic Plant, there was also a purple-black air pineapple parasitic on its pseudostem, about the size of a human thumb, looking very inconspicuous.Locke took a similar air pineapple from his astral ring and placed it before his eyes. Suddenly, a special image appeared in his vision. At the same time, Locke heard someone knocking on the door outside. He stood up, waved his hand, and the door opened automatically.Wizard Terence looked at Locke and said, "Lord Augustine, the Wizards from Aladdin have arrived, and our designers are ready. The technical seminar is fully prepared, and we are just waiting for you to preside over it, as this is your first technical seminar at Silver-clad Peach Garden."Locke nodded slightly, then put down the materials in his hand and headed there with a pile of documents, accompanied by Wizard Terence.In the conference room, there were the fewer than ten remaining designers of Silver-clad Peach Garden, including one second-ring designer and eight first-ring designers. They were generally quite young, and thanks to Locke instructing Terence to retain them with high salaries, they had not left Silver-clad Peach Garden.On the other side of the conference room were the three Crystallized Wizard designers from Aladdin. These were people sent from the Wind-Catcher Holy Land, whom Locke had fought for through earlier negotiations. They were all experienced Alchemists. There were also two Enchanters at the crystallization stage, who had recently been invited from the Golden Dynasty in the Hui-Ming Boundary.Including Locke and Terence, there were a total of sixteen Official Wizards present.This was the largest number of Wizard designers Silver-clad Peach Garden could summon at the moment, and it was their greatest asset.The remaining Wizards were mostly scattered across various retail stores, acting like local minor warlords. Even the stores that remained might not necessarily listen to headquarters; they were just less corrupt and still profitable, but to say they were thriving was not entirely true.Silver-clad Peach Garden had existed for far too long and had accumulated far too many problems. Even though Locke had cut away the rotten flesh, the remaining parts were still inextricably linked to that rot.Even in this headquarters, many designers were likely still in contact with the likes of the previous Jinx Wizards.Locke spoke up: "During this period, Silver-clad Peach Garden has indeed made significant changes and streamlined many personnel." Many Wizards smiled knowingly.No one had expected the new administrative director to have such great courage; the entire Shop Alliance had essentially been dismantled by his actions. In reality, even if others wanted to do this, they would not have been able to.This was something only core members of the Red Dragon Lineage had the qualifications and ability to do.The last second-ring designer was also an Official Wizard instructor from the Tide Great Wizard Tower. She was quite young, a witch. In her youth, she had received multiple study grants from Silver-clad Peach Garden, so she felt an attachment to it. That was why she hadn't left, participated in excessive corruption, or been poached by Olaye and other Shop Alliances with high salaries.At this moment, Witch Biki glanced at Locke. There was a scar on her face. "Lord Augustine, there is no problem with the reforms. But the issue is that they must be done well and be profitable. You have sold too many stores recently. Our cash flow has increased, but our influence will decline. Our stores have now shrunk to twenty-one."Wizard Terence coughed."There are only fifteen left. Lord Augustine recently sold another six, all to Olaye."Witch Biki was speechless."Olaye? Isn't that our competitor? And it's a store that hasn't even been established for ten years.""If we hand over the Magic Plant weapon retail industry on the Tianjiang Coast to people like them, that would really be…""Olaye doesn't even have enough experience to handle after-sales issues. They are like bamboo shoots that sprouted suddenly after the rain; they look lush, but in reality, they are full of internal problems.""They haven't even had contact with those… groups on the Tianjiang Coast."Witch Biki said, "They will make a complete mess of this place, then leave, leaving the mess for us on the Tianjiang Coast, while they can take their liquid assets and leave this Wizard land, returning to their hometown. Lord Augustine, Silver-clad Peach Garden is a two-hundred-year-old store; you must take full responsibility for these actions."Locke nodded. "Yes, I know."Wizard Terence laughed it off, "Everyone should trust Lord Augustine's decision. And recently, our monthly net profit has indeed increased."Locke said, "Biki, and other colleagues, how is your research on the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow going?"Witch Biki's expression softened slightly. Through that Magic Plant, she had sensed the genius-like thinking behind the developer. Those plant factors and those Plant Essences were like the most perfect works of art in the world in her eyes. The fact that she could stay and not leave was largely due to that very Magic Plant.Witch Biki said, "We have carefully studied the relevant Magic Plant traits of the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow and have reviewed the two design drafts you gave us. Currently, we have already made some breeding plans and initial breeding work. This is the result achieved by the team I lead. Please take a look." Witch Biki handed the materials to Locke.Locke flipped through them quickly, finishing the development materials in just five minutes, and he nodded."I must still thank everyone for their recent work.""Currently, these two projects are the development priorities of our Silver-clad Peach Garden. The traditional Magic Plant weapon retail industry will be slowed down for now, maintaining the current status quo and current income. As for the ninety million magic stones obtained from selling the stores, I announce that they will all be injected into the plan I have currently proposed.""I have already reported this point to my teacher and received her approval.""She is the only Wizard shareholder of Silver-clad Peach Garden, and thus authorized me with the right to do so.""At the same time, in addition to developing the two Magic Plants I ordered you to work on previously, I am also preparing to develop a new Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow Magic Plant subspecies. I have also conducted some related experiments on the three subspecies of Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow and have made some progress. You can look at the materials I have distributed to you," said Locke.An Aladdin Wizard asked Locke if they could also see these materials.Locke nodded, "Of course, Mr. Terence."Wizard Terence immediately gave them a prepared copy of the materials.The two Enchanters looked like they were about to doze off. They were originally peripheral figures in this Shop Alliance and were hired from outside, so these matters had nothing to do with them; they were just listening on the side. They only needed to take care of their own enchanting work.After reading the materials, the three Wizards from the Wind-Catcher Holy Land whispered to each other, nodding continuously. As Alchemists, they didn't understand Botany, but just by looking at a few key flight indicators, they could already tell what the general future market for this thing would be, as well as the potential of this flying Magic Plant.Locke had designed three subspecies for the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow: one was a bombardment-type Magic Plant with an enhanced pseudostem, improved carrying capacity, and increased bombardment capabilities; another was an annihilation-type with enhanced leaves and improved flight speed; and the third, which Locke had just added, was a reconnaissance-type that maintained the standard Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow.Because there were two subspecies and one standard type, Locke had previously asked the Breeders of Silver-clad Peach Garden to see if they could first cultivate the two subspecies, but to be honest, their efficiency was simply too slow.Witch Biki was very surprised to see that Locke had already completed the tasks originally assigned to them all by himself and had successfully cultivated the relevant subspecies.She and the eight first-ring Breeders blushed slightly.Combined, the strength of the nine of them was actually no match for Locke's efficiency alone.Is this the gap between them and Locke?Locke said: "I have observed that the terrain along the Sky River is narrow and long, connected only by waterways. This means the fastest means of transportation is by magic ship. However, due to the bursting of the Tianhan River, boat traffic is inconvenient, so internal travel along the Sky River takes almost a month. This severely affects the economic development within this wizard territory.""And the internal academic exchange.""Since the bursting of the Tianhan River, there has been a delay in injecting funds to repair it. Therefore, I believe we can introduce a new way to transport goods and people. This Bombing-type Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow has thickened flower stems, so even if it is not used for combat, it can be used for production—whether for transporting goods or people. As for the Annihilation-type Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow, it has reinforced leaves, enhancing mobility and flight speed, but at the cost of carrying capacity.""Furthermore, I have noticed that the Sky River coast experiences a large amount of cold, humid rain and related mist at all times. This leads to rampant plagues. Combined with the dense rainforest wetlands, visibility is low, and the diffusion of magic power is naturally restricted. A reconnaissance spell model released... might freeze within a kilometer due to the cold, humid rain."The local wizards present could not help but nod.Wizard Terence said: "Previously, my Reconnaissance Eye could travel several kilometers away from me. Because of the Tianhan River bursting, my spells cannot even leave a one-kilometer radius around me. Lord Augustine, your observation is very precise. Because the winter magic in the air causes our spell models to gradually accumulate frost whenever they move away from us, eventually leading to them losing their effect prematurely, or even worse, causing our spell models to lose their proper control.""The Sky River coast has always had the problem of high transportation costs, as well as the problem of high contact costs within the wizard territory. The time we spend visiting each other within the wizard territory is likely similar to the time it takes to go directly to the Yunze Wetlands. As a result, our wizard territory is bound to be impoverished and weak.""Besides that, the bursting of the Tianhan River has caused drastic environmental changes, and many things have not changed along with the environment, so many things have already developed maladaptation."Locke nodded slightly.Witch Biki said: "The White Wizard Association along the Sky River simply does not have enough funds to start the repair project, and outside wizard territories do not want to support us for nothing.""I don't think this breach will be repaired for fifty years."Wizard Terence said: "Therefore, environmental changes will lead to new needs. The drastic environmental changes caused by the Tianhan River bursting have turned some original problems into major problems. Reconnaissance methods along the Sky River are in urgent need of new solutions."Locke said: "In addition, the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow can also serve as a weapon platform.""Whether it is enchantment scrolls or parasitic Magic Plants, they can be placed on it.""For the Annihilation-type Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow, I have prepared an Attila Lightning Chain Enchantment Scroll, and for the Bombing-type Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow, I have prepared the Diamond Succulent Magic Plant that I developed during my First-Ring Wizard stage.""For the reconnaissance prototype Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow, I have prepared the [Hostility Detection] Enchantment Scroll created by Wizard Terence.""Besides that, I also plan to make a parasitic Magic Plant called [Multi-Eyed Air Pineapple]."Locke placed these Magic Plants on their table and let them pass them around. Witch Biki was slightly amazed; this was data far exceeding the results of their nine people's work over the past few months.This is the huge difference between a genius and an ordinary wizard.Witch Biki even felt a sense of frustration.She felt as if she had returned to the Silver-clad Peach Garden of the past...In the past, when the Silver-clad Peach Garden was still thriving, most wizards seemed to exist to serve that small group of wizards. Only the design plans and finished products created by that small group of wizards could truly dominate the market.I don't know when it started, but ordinary wizards also gained a place in this Shop Alliance and had their own say. Everyone began to feel that if you didn't do it, someone else would, and it didn't matter who did it. The quality could be a little worse, but when employees had to follow the rules of the Silver-clad Peach Garden, from that moment on, this Shop Alliance started to go wrong.Something had changed, and it could never come back.Eight First-Ring Wizard designers started whispering and discussing the Multi-Eyed Air Pineapple. Looking at the data, they were very surprised by Locke's technical imagination and his super ability to turn this imagination into concrete things.This represented Locke's incredible attainments in Breeding Science.Witch Biki looked at the purple-black pineapple in front of her. The leaves of the Multi-Eyed Pineapple twisted automatically, winding into a circle, which made it look like it had grown many eyes.In fact, this was a Magic Plant that Locke had discovered while collecting Abyss Pineapples and crossbreeding them in the parallel world laboratory on the 78th floor. Its origin was an Abyssal Magic Plant, but it possessed a very powerful characteristic.That is, this Abyssal Magic Plant would parasitize a larger Magic Plant and influence the parasitized Magic Plant through a complex [Allelopathy].Original allelopathy is when a Magic Plant directly or indirectly affects the growth and development of other plants and organisms by secreting natural magic structural components into the environment. However, there are indeed a few Magic Plants that directly affect magical creatures through allelopathy, such as rose-type Magic Plants. Because this can enhance fertility.And this Multi-Eyed Air Pineapple is even more powerful. It can influence the various decisions of the parasitized Magic Plant by secreting a variety of natural magic structural components, that is, it can manipulate flying Magic Plants.And Locke brought it out of the Abyssal environment and carried out corresponding crossbreeding, replacing its internal chloroplasts with Abyssal Eye-bodies, which suppressed its characteristics as an Abyssal Magic Plant and instead enhanced its control over this Magic Plant.Locke said: "This Multi-Eyed Pineapple has another characteristic: once a mental connection is established with a living organism, the wizard can see the environment around the pineapple through this connection, and can even manipulate the pineapple in turn, and influence the Magic Plant it parasitizes.""I am not yet quite clear on the reason why this can be done. I am doing related research, or you can do it. This is not urgent, because not knowing the specific principle does not affect its prior application. I discovered this Magic Plant by accident while using Abyss Pineapple-type Magic Plants for crossbreeding. It is located on the 78th layer of the Abyss, but it is about to go extinct on the 78th layer of the Abyss. The quantity is extremely scarce, and I don't know if it exists elsewhere in the Abyss."Locke looked up at these wizards in surprise."Is there any problem?"Witch Biki swallowed her saliva and immediately shook her head: "No... no problem. It's just that the Abyss is a forbidden zone starting from the 30th layer, full of danger. Although the first 30 layers are dangerous, they are still within a manageable range. Starting from the 30th layer, it is known as the Life Forbidden Zone. If living organisms from ordinary planes enter, it is like entering purgatory. You actually have a way to go deep into the 78th layer."The wizards of the Silver-clad Peach Garden whispered to each other.Three Alchemists from the Dragonfall Land were fine with this.Because they were wizards from a big place, they had naturally seen the world. Entering the Abyss was not an amazing thing, but for the wizards along the Sky River, entering the Abyss below the 30th layer felt like a fantasy.This is not a question of magic level.It is a question of environmental resources.This is every aspect of a wizard territory, gathering all the advantages from small to large, which allows a wizard like Locke to think that entering the Abyss is a daily occurrence. But for wizards in a wizard territory with a slow pace like the Sky River coast, this is something that sounds like only wizards from a Great Wizard territory could do.Locke nodded, tapped the table with his finger and said: "Using this Abyssal Multi-Eyed Air Pineapple, an ordinary wizard can even directly manipulate our Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow.""We will redefine what a flying Magic Plant is and what a Magic Plant weapon is."The technical seminar fell into silence.Locke's thinking was too advanced, so everyone had to take some time to digest it.An Alchemist from the Dragonfall Land spoke first: "Lord Augustine, does this mean that your Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow series of Magic Plants will conflict with current magic artifacts? It sounds like you don't want to be limited to selling Magic Plant weapons to Botanical Wizards, but want to open the market to ordinary wizards."After weighing his words, this Alchemist at the crystallization stage said: "But does this conflict with the positioning of ordinary magic artifacts, because wizards usually buy ordinary magic artifacts for these purposes. Your description makes me feel that it is very similar to the combination magic artifacts of our Dragonfall Land."Another Alchemist whispered: "It's also like the Scarab series of magic artifacts from our Dragonfall Land."Locke glanced at the two of them and said with a smile: "These two things are not common in the Yunze Wetlands, so I don't know much about them, but they are also relatively rare in the Sky River coast wizard territory. Secondly, Magic Plants are living organisms, they are plants. How can one say they are positioned as magic artifacts? I think this is more like the positioning of magical creature pets created by the School of Summoning."Many wizards showed a sudden realization.Locke said: "However, the Magic Plant flying weapon platform I defined, since it occupies so many ecological niches, it means that it is a brand-new ecological positioning itself. Moreover, there have been precedents for Magic Plant weapons being sold to non-Botanical Wizards in the Yunze Wetlands. These precedents are not few, they exist in every aspect, and they themselves have not completely overlapped and conflicted with the ecological niche of magic artifacts."Witch Biki said: "Supervisor, this is a very novel point of view, so is our current task to continue developing it? You seem to think it's possible to use this flying Magic Plant as the main body, mount more parasitic Magic Plants on it, and use the Abyssal Multi-Eyed Pineapple as a coordinator.""General parasitic Magic Plants, even if you mount more Magic Plants, are just a stacking of quantities. But if combined with the allelopathy of this Abyssal Multi-Eyed Pineapple, these Magic Plants can be organically combined to truly achieve systematic coordination. Furthermore, it allows both Botanical Wizards and ordinary wizards to operate them simply."Witch Biki saw the advantages of the Multi-Eyed Air Pineapple, because if this Magic Plant did not exist, even if a Botanical Wizard wanted to manipulate so many Magic Plants, he would still need to form Mana Grafting with them, and still need to cast universal botanical spell models one by one. But with the Abyssal Multi-Eyed Pineapple, he only needs to control this one Abyssal Multi-Eyed Pineapple.And ordinary wizards can completely control the entire Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow by controlling the Abyssal Multi-Eyed Pineapple with pre-set botanical spell models.This allows ordinary wizards in the past, who do not know botanical spells, to use this Magic Plant weapon platform.Witch Biki's eyes were full of enthusiasm."I believe this is a very promising direction. The most crucial point is that even if it fails, the Magic Plants obtained during the development process can be separated and sold as traditional Magic Plant weapons. The fifteen shops we currently have remaining are all high-quality establishments, fully capable of undertaking such a task and reinvigorating our traditional Magic Plant retail."Witch Biki clearly still couldn't forget the original business of Silver-clad Peach Garden, so she emphasized this point.The eight first-ring designers also had their eyes light up with excitement.They discussed among themselves, as they still had many parasitic-type Magic Plant weapon plans developed in the past.This was also the reason why Locke chose this for the future development of Silver-clad Peach Garden, because Silver-clad Peach Garden had always been skilled at developing parasitic-type Magic Plants. It was just that in the past, they were used as some kind of hidden weapon, whereas now, it was for use as a weapon platform, with the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow serving as an integrated platform.Witch Biki looked at Locke and said, "Supervisor Augustine, I believe the direction you have proposed is very feasible."Witch Biki had originally been watching Silver-clad Peach Garden shrink smaller and smaller, and she had felt somewhat desperate and disheartened. Anyone who saw the originally vast Silver-clad Peach Garden industry reduced to this state would have a feeling that it was finished. However, Locke was clearly confident, and he did not believe that the original scale had any advantages to speak of.Reducing the scale was for the sake of better development.The eight first-ring designers whispered among themselves."The Solas Cherry Bomb I developed previously seems applicable to this weapon platform. The combination of the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow and the Multi-eyed Air Pineapple is truly brilliant.""Indeed, the Supervisor's creativity is excellent. We won't compete with others in traditional Magic Plant retail anymore; we will develop multi-purpose Magic Plant integrated platforms. These miniature platforms can be sold, whether for use as weapons, for public livelihood, or for other purposes."Locke looked at these wizards with satisfaction. Clearly, these wizards who remained to the end were worthy of being the elite left at Silver-clad Peach Garden; they quickly grasped his meaning.The Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow was not just a weapon integrated platform.It was a multi-functional integrated platform.He was like someone selling cars. The car's chassis was the core; it could move and run. As for what to mount on top, that depended on everyone's needs.Mounting a truck cargo bed was fine, and mounting a rocket launcher was also fine.Locke was even preparing to open up development rights in the mid-to-late stages, giving the platform development rights to all Breeders, allowing them to help him complete the mounting of parasitic-type Magic Plants, while he would only collect the corresponding fees.In this way, he would effectively transform from a Magic Plant retailer into a seller of small development platforms.However, this ambition was too grand; it could be delved into later.Moreover, Locke noted that there were other Breeders with similar ideas to his own.The Alchemist from Dragonfall Land believed that this thing had a niche conflict with magic artifacts, but clearly, he had not recognized that this was a completely new niche. It only had some overlap with many existing traditional niches, but it possessed its own special positioning.Witch Biki and the other designers were once again full of energy.Witch Biki looked up at Locke and said, "But Lord Augustine, if that is the case, we will need more manpower. Why was there a major layoff before? After all, the industry is one aspect, but talent is the foundation of our Silver-clad Peach Garden."Locke said, "But this foundation was already covered in mold and pests, making it difficult to clear. As for people... we can re-hire. Those who are willing to return can naturally be re-hired; everything will be done according to the original market rules. The Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow is my unique Magic Plant, the accompanying Abyss Multi-eyed Air Pineapple is also my unique Magic Plant, and the integrated platform is my idea.""Therefore, I will follow the contract between Silver-clad Peach Garden and the designers; I will split the net profit 50/50 with Silver-clad Peach Garden.""Does everyone have any objections? It seems there are no objections, so it is passed."Locke looked at the three Alchemists."As the owner of the Aladdin Shop Alliance, I also hope that Aladdin can work with Silver-clad Peach Garden to complete this project."The three Alchemists naturally stood up and bowed to Locke."Of course, thank you, Lord Augustine, for inviting us to join such a promising endeavor.""Once the sales volume for our first order of Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow aircraft comes back from Dragonfall Land, if the results are good, it will be even more helpful for our joint development work.""We can even suggest that they operate a large Wizard aircraft test transport point here; your proposals just now also happened to move us."Locke smiled and didn't say anything, because the three people in front of him were just small fry from the Wind-Catcher Holy Land. Within Aladdin, their status was even lower than his, and they had to listen to his orders. They were so excited right now because they believed that the Tianjiang Coast was truly lacking large aircraft. But the problem was, even if they really summoned the Wind-Catcher Holy Land, the Wind-Catcher Holy Land might not let the Aladdin Shop Alliance operate here.His own status was currently not high enough.Such a big piece of fat, the Wind-Catcher Holy Land obviously wouldn't let it go to him.But he didn't care about this matter. Firstly, because these three had insufficient say over there; even if they passed the message on, no one would care. That was the high-probability outcome.Secondly, his appetite was only so big right now. Money could never be earned in full; if you don't let others earn, you won't be able to earn either.Being too stingy, having too small a capacity, would only lead to having nothing.Locke smiled at the three of them.Wizard Terence didn't expect the situation to turn out like this. Looking at everyone's harmonious appearance, he thought of his own despair from half a year ago. Half a year ago, although there were many people in Silver-clad Peach Garden, everyone had their own ulterior motives, and everyone wanted to protect their own interests, leading to a scene where Silver-clad Peach Garden was full of deathly stillness. Wizard Terence couldn't help but admire Locke.Wizard Terence said to Locke, "Now that everyone has decided on the future development path, that's great; we can work hard together."Wizard Terence paused, because saying that everyone had decided on the future development path together was simply Locke's decision alone. However, his decision alone was better than the collective decision of the group.Wizard Terence said, "Lord Augustine, regarding the invitation to the Rose Building in a month, according to the news I received and the information passed over from Rose's side, we can display our Magic Plant weapons when we go to that building. I have looked at your data; it seems you can already piece together a complete, mature product.""Should we make a sample within a month and take it there to display at that time?"Suddenly, everyone looked at him.Locke smiled. Although that so-called exhibition a month later was completely unimportant to him—it was Witch Rose's home field, her dance.He wasn't too clear about what she wanted to do either.However, right now, these people seemed to have hearts that could be used, and morale that could be utilized, so he had no reason to refuse.Locke said, "The most important part right now is adjusting the'Sowing Beans to Form Soldiers' spell; this is a spell model I use to run the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow and the Multi-eyed Air Pineapple."Locke said, "I will assign the work now. Others can develop some accompanying parasitic-type Magic Plants that can be mounted, or enchantment scrolls.""Good, since everyone has no objections, the meeting is officially passed.""Meeting adjourned."After Locke ended the meeting and walked out of the conference room, Wizard Terence followed him. Locke pondered that taking over the teacher's Silver-clad Peach Garden was quite beneficial.Because when taking over an industry, being given different levels of authority represented different natures of the matter.If he were given no authority but still had to take it over, that would mean having to consume his own resources to compensate for this Shop Alliance. But now the teacher had given him the highest authority, which meant that if he could bring this Shop Alliance back to life, he could utilize the funds of this Shop Alliance during the process to provide corresponding feedback to his own projects.And he was clearly enjoying this current benefit.Locke pondered, "But there is clearly a special latent rule force composed of investment banks on the Tianjiang Coast that I was previously unaware of.""Because everything is not laid out in the open, they do not exist on the surface. I can call them the Invisible Men. These Invisible Men exist in the White Wizard Association, exist in the Wizard Academy, and exist in the Shop Alliance.""The last time that wizard made contact with me was the first contact between this Invisible Men group and me, and it will definitely not be the last. The water in this place is indeed deeper than I originally thought; it cannot be underestimated. Even a lion hunting a rabbit must use its full strength.""If the invisible group in this place is so serious, then will my academic lineage's interests here, Golden Crown Mountain's interests here, and Yunze Wetlands' interests here also be subject to the coercion of this Invisible Men group? This is unknown."Wizard Terence followed by Locke's side, "My Lord, do you want to recruit an assistant to convey your opinions?"Locke said, "Not for now."If there were an Invisible Men group whose background was unknown, then any act of recruiting an assistant would be quite dangerous.This Invisible Men group... Locke furrowed his brows.Locke looked at Wizard Terence and said, "For now, just let your clone be my assistant. It wrongs you."Wizard Terence smiled, "It can't be considered a grievance. Being able to watch this Shop Alliance get better is already very worthwhile. This Shop Alliance once did me a great favor. People say that good people don't get good rewards; indeed, in times of crisis, many wizards who had received fund subsidies from the Red Dragon Witch chose to leave, but there remain those like me and Witch Biki who still remember this kindness."Wizard Terence said seriously, "I don't know what you are worried about. You seem not to want to recruit an assistant because you fear something. Is there anything I can help you with?"Locke asked, "Terence, I ask you, do you know about the Tianhan River Investment Bank? Do you know if there is an Invisible Men group, an illegal product, within the Tianjiang Coast?"Wizard Terence looked confused, with even a hint of fear in his eyes."What? What are you talking about? I completely don't understand what you are saying.""These things... are you talking about the Tianjiang Coast?"Locke did not speak.It seems that this Invisible Men group is indeed hidden very deeply.Locke said, "Terence, it's nothing. Just pretend I didn't say anything."On the Wizard Airship from Dragonfall Land to the Yunze Wetlands, Locke's clone looked at the lingzhi magic plant in his hand."My main body is officially starting the Atavistic Evolution experiment in the laboratory to improve the precision of Atavistic Evolution, but the Sea Queen Throne seems to be holding her third potion class. I don't know if my clone can make it in time. If the main body leaves the Key Laboratory, it would be too much of a waste of resources.""However;... I should be able to make it."