Locke crushed the memory fragment in his hand. Immediately, that Second Circle wizard's memory fragment fell into his mind, and his partial understanding of magic also appeared in his mind.

Locke closed his eyes and carefully digested it once, then opened his eyes and revealed some delighted expression. "I'm really lucky. This memory fragment just happens to be this Second Circle wizard's partial understanding of Grand Magic. Although it's fragmented, just obtaining it is enough to strengthen my understanding of magic and save me several years of accumulation and comprehension."

"No wonder wizards all pursue wizard secret realms. With this wizard secret realm, one can skip who knows how many years of accumulation and study."

"Wizard secret realms can greatly accelerate wizards' progress and growth."

"It eliminates many parts that require painstaking effort from wizards, allowing wizards to focus on research and study in the areas that truly need focus."

After digesting the memory fragment, Locke learned that Wizard Basil was a wizard skilled in using bloodline toxins. He had developed magic spiders to new heights and researched many bloodline poisons.

He was an expert in bloodline toxin studies.

Originally, magic spiders were artificial magical creature bloodlines that leaned toward close combat, but after this Wizard Basil, the Basil family's style completely changed, and they all became experts in using poison.

Although the Land of Six Towers' ancestors included Third Circle wizards, after all, Third Circle wizard ancestors were too distant, while Second Circle Wizard Basil was closest to them. They were essentially all descendants of Wizard Basil, so the Basil family's power system underwent serious changes after Wizard Basil.

"Blood food?" Locke looked toward the poison well. He walked forward.

Next, he walked for about half an hour. Along the way, he also encountered those vassal races hiding in poison wells, attempting to attack him.

However, those vassal races barely had time to react before being smashed to pieces by his mushroom hammer. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

He harvested some memory fragments along the way.

After obtaining these memory fragments, Locke gained quite a bit of knowledge about Second Circle wizards.

Locke discovered that the stronger the monster in this secret realm, the more powerful the memory fragment he could obtain after killing it.

He soon arrived at a ring-shaped mountain area. After entering the ring-shaped mountain, Locke noticed that there were no vassal race life forms inside the poison wells on the nearby ground.

Locke frowned slightly and walked to the largest poison well beside the ring-shaped mountain. That poison well could no longer be called a well—it was fundamentally a small lake.

"There should be something below this lake. Otherwise, there wouldn't be no vassal races in the surrounding poison wells."

Locke walked along the poison lake. He stepped on a pebble. At that moment, the lake water in the center of the poison lake suddenly churned, creating a huge whirlpool. In this whirlpool, an enormously massive serpent appeared. On that serpent's forehead were some differently colored snake scales that combined to form an eight-legged spider.

After that serpent appeared, it laughed loudly. Its body actually had magical pressure levels reaching a First Circle liquefaction stage wizard.

It spat large amounts of poisonous gas at Locke. This poisonous gas had the same root and origin as that mysterious bloodline toxin in the air. Although its energy intensity was completely insufficient, it still caused Locke's Life Force Field to be corroded with a huge gap.

The permanent defensive force field, this kind of defensive magic with super-strong endurance capability, was actually completely suppressed by this massive poisonous snake.

The poisonous snake laughed loudly. "What do I see? Hahahaha... How many years has it been? I haven't eaten a person in almost ten years."

"I didn't expect to encounter another wizard seeking death. I will savor you well, wizard! It's useless. Your permanent defensive force field has no value before my Eight-Legged Death God poison."

"I'm not as gentle as Lord Basil. The toxin in the air doesn't include bloodline regulation factors. My toxin is the completely authentic toxin. Unfortunately, your trial ends here."

That poisonous snake opened its bloody maw and bit down on Locke's defensive force field.

Locke instinctively mobilized abyssal energy to strengthen his permanent defensive force field. This made the poisonous snake feel as if it was biting an incredibly hard eggshell, unable to advance an inch.

That poisonous snake sneered. "So hard, so hard."

"But it doesn't matter. I just need to eat you. In the past, there were also wizards whose permanent defensive force fields were quite troublesome."

"I just need to eat you. My stomach is full of Eight-Legged Death God poison. No matter how high your magical pressure is, no matter how powerful your permanent defensive force field is, as long as I eat you, your digestion is only a matter of time."

That poisonous snake actually opened its giant mouth, expanding it at least ten times its original size. It directly bit Locke's permanent defensive force field, preparing to swallow Locke whole and eat him completely.

"Eat, eat!"

Locke frowned. He took out the Hydra from his astral ring, and immediately chains coiled around his body.

The Hydra had already been infused with magical pressure by him in advance, so he could use it for half an hour without too much pressure.

At this moment, Locke borrowed the Hydra to merge his three defensive force fields—Life Force Field, Withering Force Field, and Harvest Force Field, converging them into Nature Force Field. At the same time, he highly compressed the Nature Force Field into an axe. Locke held this axe and merely moved it lightly. That incredibly arrogant poisonous snake immediately screamed. Its snake scales exploded and fell off piece by piece, and its body developed a huge gap.

The poisonous snake screamed and twisted its body painfully in the poison lake, causing the poisonous liquid to splash like waves. Large amounts of poisonous liquid splattered out.

"You... what did you do? This lord's snake scales are comparable to your wizards' permanent defensive force fields. How could your axe split open my snake scales with one strike!"

Locke glanced at that poisonous snake's scales. Each of its scales was inscribed with some kind of special rune. Having already mastered large amounts of Wizard Basil's memory fragments, Locke immediately realized that this guy's snake scales should have all been specially treated by Wizard Basil, thus forming scales with defensive power comparable to permanent defensive force fields.

However, the most formidable aspects of permanent defensive force fields were their endurance and recovery abilities.

So just temporarily comparable hardness didn't have much significance.

Locke raised his left hand and swung the giant axe condensed from Myst's Power. That poisonous snake raised its head to see this scene. Immediately, its pupils suddenly contracted, wanting to shrink into the depths of the poison lake, but it was already too late. One snake head was thus chopped off by Locke using the axe condensed and compressed from Myst's Power.

That snake head was full of unwillingness and still spat poisonous gas at Locke, trying to kill Locke before dying.

But because of the power of the Nature Force Field, its so-called Eight-Legged Death God poison completely couldn't invade.

Five minutes later, the poisonous snake died. After the poisonous snake's death, its body rapidly rotted into a pile of white bones. Inside its skull was actually a Poison Pearl.

Locke waved his hand, and an extra-large memory fragment and a Poison Pearl both fell into his hand. "So the Five Poison Pearls are inside these powerful vassal race creatures' bodies."

"Although I still haven't figured out the principle of that unknown toxin's wizard defense, fortunately it seems unable to break through the Nature Force Field. After all, the Nature Force Field and that toxin both have Second Circle characteristics. The two belong to the same level."

"Moreover, weapons condensed from the Nature Force Field seem to have characteristics specifically for breaking defensive magic." Locke looked at the axe in his hand condensed and compressed from highly concentrated Myst's Power and frowned. "Lady Myst's power is very powerful and domineering."

"I just don't know whether she relied on an alternative method to advance to Second Circle wizard."

...

In the distance from the ring-shaped mountain, a woman with a spider mark on her forehead and silk glands on her wrists made an amazed sound. "That wizard is so powerful. Even the poison lake's poisonous snake Babar in the ring-shaped mountain is no match for him."

"He killed the guardian so easily. What do you all say, can we ask him to help our clan escape this cage?"

"Our clan has been gravekeepers for Wizard Basil for far, far too long."

Another spider woman said, "Don't be foolish. Those wizards will immediately kill us when they see us."

"The guardian needs a year to be reborn. I think we should wait for the guardian to be reborn, then find a way to kill it and obtain the Poison Pearl from its body."

"Unfortunately, five Poison Pearls can only send one person out. Besides the guardian's body having a one hundred percent chance of producing a Poison Pearl, the probability of Poison Pearls appearing from killing other poisonous creatures is very low, and it's all random."

"We people trapped in this cage are truly too pitiful. We haven't even seen the so-called Wizard Basil. We only heard from our ancestors that we are Wizard Basil's vassal race..."

"Freedom—when will we have freedom!"