At the entrance to Poisonous Valley, Nidhogg Basil, as a wizard in the crystallization stage, led five wizards from the Basil family in the vaporization stage to the entrance of the wizard secret realm.

The ordinary First Circle wizard from the Plutarch family guarding the entrance hurriedly bowed to these six people.

"Lord Nidhogg, hello."

"Are you also entering Poisonous Valley?"

Nidhogg Basil smiled. The Basil family's emblem was a spider. The mainstream bloodline of the Basil family was magic spider bloodline, and Nidhogg Basil was the biggest hawk in the Basil family.

He was also the wizard in the Basil family most eager to seize power early and govern the Land of Six Towers.

Nidhogg nodded and asked seemingly casually, "Kandel, I heard that recently the famous Wizard Locke Augustine also entered Poisonous Valley?"

A trace of doubt appeared in Kandel's eyes. He didn't understand why Nidhogg, as an elder of the Basil family, the second-largest ruling family, would pay such attention to their Plutarch family's honored guest entering the wizard secret realm.

So Kandel confirmed, "Yes, Lord Augustine entered this wizard secret realm just ten minutes ago. This is a reward given by the Plutarch family after he won the Cloud Marsh Cup championship, so it complies with regulations."

Nidhogg nodded. "That's good then."

"I'm going in first."

With that, Nidhogg walked alone through the gate of Poisonous Valley. In just an instant, he entered Poisonous Valley.

Nidhogg swept his gaze around and frowned slightly. Unfortunately, after entering Poisonous Valley, one would be randomly teleported. Otherwise, he could immediately find that eyesore Locke Augustine, then give him a harsh lesson in the wizard secret realm, cripple him, and make him never dare to set foot in the Land of Six Towers again.

In this way, their Basil family could continue attempting to seize control of the Land of Six Towers early.

Grand Wizard Sulla was already half-dead, and a young yellow-haired girl wanted to govern such a large wizard land as the Land of Six Towers—it was simply wishful thinking.

Nidhogg directly removed his permanent defensive force field [Wolf Spider Bristles], allowing the toxins in the air to enter his body.

His pupils therefore turned dark green. "My ancestor's toxins not only pose no threat to me, but can even strengthen me in this secret realm."

He turned to look at a poison well and jumped directly into it. The dark green poisonous liquid inside churned, transforming into bloodline power and entering his body, strengthening the bloodline within Nidhogg.

"Originally, I had no way to deal with him, but as long as he enters this wizard secret realm, it gives me the opportunity to cripple him. Even though wizard secret realms cannot truly kill a wizard, tampering with his soul here is something we Basil family wizards can still accomplish."

"There was originally a one-stage difference between me and that Augustine, and this secret realm is full of weakening effects and terrifying deadly poisons for him everywhere, but for me, it strengthens my bloodline power everywhere."

With the poison well where Nidhogg was located as the center, countless poisonous liquids on the ground surface converged toward him.

Outside Poisonous Valley, after Nidhogg entered, sweat immediately appeared on Wizard Kandel's forehead. Only then did he belatedly realize that the other party came with ill intentions.

And he noticed that five Basil wizards had already stood in all directions around him, blocking all directions he could escape.

Sweat flowed down Wizard Kandel's forehead as he swallowed.

His eyeballs rolled, pretending he hadn't reacted, still showing a smile to the five Basil family wizards. "Everyone, I didn't expect Lord Nidhogg would also enter the secret realm. He's already a First Circle crystallization wizard. Is he preparing to break through to Second Circle wizard? Otherwise, why would he suddenly enter a wizard secret realm?"

"I remember that each major family's allocated secret realm entry opportunities are limited each year, right? I think it's better to leave secret realm entry opportunities for those young wizards."

He secretly crushed the letter paper in his wizard robe pocket.

With the same letter paper, if half was crushed, the other half would automatically shatter as well.

Seeing that his action hadn't been detected, Kandel breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, a Basil family wizard retorted, "Although we should give opportunities to young people, those young people need to live up to expectations. Our Basil family has always had very few male descendants. The direct line is basically all female descendants, and they're not very accomplished either."

"And if we give secret realm entry opportunities to outsiders, that would be too generous to them."

"Our Basil family isn't like your Plutarch family, always thinking about how to give resources to outsiders."

Kandel smiled as if he hadn't detected any hostility, but internally he was somewhat anxious.

'I hope Lady Alicia and Grand Wizard Sulla can see that I crushed the letter paper. This is bad. Nidhogg is a First Circle crystallization stage wizard, while Lord Augustine is only a liquefaction stage wizard.'

'There's a huge stage difference between the two, and this wizard secret realm is also the Basil family's home turf. The [Eight-Legged Death God] poison, the Basil family's most formidable toxin, drifts everywhere in Poisonous Valley. That's a bloodline toxin with Second Circle characteristics...'

'If Lord Sulla doesn't come, this matter may not end well.' Fine beads of sweat appeared on Wizard Kandel's forehead. 'But the problem is, in Grand Wizard Sulla's current state, how can he come handle this kind of thing?'

'If Grand Wizard Sulla doesn't come, who can stop Nidhogg?'

In an instant, Wizard Kandel felt somewhat sorrowful. After Grand Wizard Sulla fell into a half-dead state, their Plutarch family lacked an absolute military force to suppress the Land of Six Towers.

And Alicia, because she was too young, obviously didn't possess such military force.

Usually within the rules it was fine, but now, Nidhogg had seized the opportunity of Locke entering the secret realm and wanted to cause trouble, fully exposing the Plutarch family's current problem—insufficient conventional power.

Using the wizard tower to attack would be too excessive. It was impossible to just use White Dragon Tower to attack Basil family wizards like this. That would trigger a civil war.

At that time, inside Poisonous Valley, Locke used the Executioner's Hammer Mushroom. One hammer strike formed a gravity field, trapping the spider that suddenly jumped out of the poison well in this gravity field. Then that spider with a human face on its back began to scream.

"All blood food belongs to... Lord Basil!"

The next moment, this spider was killed by Locke. At the same time, a memory fragment flew out from it and fell into his palm.

Locke looked at the spider corpse he had killed and thought, "I see."

"Here, every moment I resist that mysterious toxin, my bloodline power can be strengthened. And killing the subordinate races of that deceased Second Circle wizard from the Basil family in this valley allows me to obtain memory fragments of the Second Circle wizard from their bodies."

"To obtain the relevant experience of a Second Circle wizard."

"These subordinate races..." Locke lowered his head to observe carefully. "That's right. These creatures are all alive. They should have been trapped in this wizard secret realm along with the Second Circle wizard's death and the resulting echo."

"Although they're alive, because the Second Circle wizard died, as the vassal race, they transformed into gravekeeper here."