981: The Shock of the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow Array System
After Locke purchased that Premium Edition Whomping Willow system, he moved on to the direct-sale shop of an obscure Wizard Academy. This shop was run by a small Wizard Academy formed by rogue wizards called the [Calamity Fire Alliance].
This was clearly a Wizard Academy built together by a group of rogue wizards who drifted outside the established Wizard Academies along the Tianjiang Coast. According to the information hanging in front of the shop's exhibition hall, the entire Calamity Fire Alliance had only three ordinary Second-Ring Wizards in total, and all of them had come to the Rose Building this time to participate in the Rose Building's opening ceremony.
Because it was an alliance of only three rogue wizards, the internal faculty of the entire Wizard Academy was limited. This meant that the Wizard Secret Realm system and the fund system resources corresponding to the faculty system were also limited. Consequently, this type of Wizard Academy received little official support from the White Wizard Association and needed to find more ways to survive on its own.
Furthermore, due to the scarcity of resources, the short time since its founding, and its primitive organizational structure, this kind of Wizard Academy had almost no students or wizard mentors, essentially existing in a state of being top-heavy.
Seeing Locke move toward them, the three Second-Ring Wizards were very excited. They hurriedly introduced the defensive Magic Plant community they had worked together to create this time: the [Lingding Ocean Community].
This was a defense system composed of Solitary Fleabane, Lingding Lotus Leaf, and Weeping Orchid.
All three were placed inside an aquatic plant tank. The Solitary Fleabane looked like a clump of withered grass floating on the water's surface, with only a thin hemp stalk exposed. The Lingding Lotus Leaf had no flower or lotus root, only a single lotus leaf and a small rhizome at its base. The Weeping Orchid was planted on the unique withered vegetation of the Solitary Fleabane that floated on the water.
The three combined into an interesting system. This system was not for reconnaissance but was a pure defense system. Both the Lingding Lotus Leaf and Solitary Fleabane were first-ring Magic Plants, while the Weeping Orchid was a second-ring Magic Plant.
The Lingding Lotus Leaf could gather ice element energy, while the Solitary Fleabane possessed a special energy-locking structure that could transfer part of the energy to the Magic Plant planted on its energy-locking structure, the [Withered Grass on Water]. Thus, this was equivalent to using the Lingding Lotus Leaf to gather ice element energy from the water and concentrating that energy toward the Weeping Orchid, allowing the Weeping Orchid to fire a powerful magic-like ability at enemies—the Glazed Tear Frost Orb.
The reason Locke was drawn over was due to the excellent Magic Plant trait data of this Lingding Ocean Community, as well as its adaptability to the environment along the Tianjiang Coast.
This set of Magic Plant weapons indeed had great prospects along the Tianjiang Coast.
After hearing their introduction, Locke couldn't help but nod.
"It is indeed quite good."
The leader of the Calamity Fire Alliance, a middle-aged ordinary Second-Ring Wizard, immediately smiled and squinted his eyes.
"Thank you for your praise, my lord."
For a Breeder on the Tianjiang Coast, receiving praise for Magic Plant design from an executive supervisor of the Silver-clad Peach Garden was a great honor and professional recognition.
Especially for rogue wizards like them.
The three brothers had only sworn brotherhood because they discovered a special [Magic Spring] resource along the Tianjiang Coast. To keep this secret together and develop this secret realm resource without handing it over to anyone or betraying each other, they founded a Wizard Academy on the spot. Through years of hard work, they finally obtained qualification certification from the local White Wizard Association.
Although the scale of the Calamity Fire Alliance was too small, it was currently very likely to have its qualification revoked by the White Wizard Association due to an insufficient number of students each year. As the founders of this academy, they were constantly overwhelmed with headaches over student recruitment every year.
Locke suddenly looked at the data and said, "However, according to your Magic Plant system, development requires a considerable amount of capital. It needs a specific environment, specific equipment..."
The leader of the Calamity Fire Alliance smiled.
"Ah, that's how it is, Lord Augustine. Fortunately, we received a very large investment. However, precisely because of that, we three brothers need to work hard, otherwise we won't be able to pay the bills. Our hard work will become someone else's property. Hahaha..."
Sincere smiles appeared on the faces of the three Second-Ring Wizards.
The second brother wizard said to Locke, "Mr. Augustine, if you were to buy this set of Magic Plants, the original price is two million magic stones. But if it's you purchasing them, we can sell them to you at cost, for only one million magic stones."
The three of them glanced at each other.
Then they all nodded to one another, signifying their approval of the second brother's proposal.
Analyzing it from a rational perspective, if the executive supervisor of the Silver-clad Peach Garden approved of their Magic Plants, the significance far outweighed a mere profit of one million magic stones.
This was their first pot of gold, and this first pot of gold would, to a large extent, influence and change their destiny.
Locke nodded and said to the second brother of the Calamity Fire Alliance, "You are an honest person. Among wizards, there are few alliances with such good relationships and high levels of trust as yours."
The three laughed again.
The eldest brother laughed and said, "It can't be helped. We are just a ragtag bunch. If we didn't have a bit of integrity, we really wouldn't have any means or skills to survive."
The third brother looked at Locke with expectation and said, "The three of us all want to become Star Ring Wizards, and even more so, we want to become famous Breeders. Unfortunately, we aren't as talented as you and couldn't become the darlings of advanced Wizard Academies. The three of us, in our original Wizard Academies, carefully calculated the resources we obtained and the time and resources we spent each year, and found that if we continued like that, it would be impossible to gather the resources to become Star Ring Wizards. So, the three of us left our respective Wizard Academies to strike out on our own."
"By a stroke of fate, the three of us united together."
Locke asked, "And how is your current income?"
The three glanced at each other awkwardly.
The eldest brother said righteously, "At the moment, we are only losing money; we haven't made a profit yet. We are still in the early stages of our venture, and the academy has no stable source of students. Lord Augustine, for a small academy like ours, to get even a few students, we have to fight with others—I mean, compete in contests... Sigh."
The three were suddenly full of complaints.
Locke directly took out a hundred Magic Crystal Cards.
"Very well, I'll give you a hand today. I'll buy one of your Lingding Ocean systems, considering it an investment from our Silver-clad Peach Garden into the future of your Calamity Fire Alliance."
The three immediately looked at Locke with gratitude.
In their eyes, they were just newcomers who had just appeared in this industry. Locke's willingness to buy their products already gave them face, and this face could turn into real sales in the future, attracting other wizards' attention to their Magic Plant products.
Locke said, "Give me the aquatic plant tank as well."
The three had no objections.
On the other side, Witch Rose used a magic key to open the dome on the hundredth floor of the Rose Building. As the dome opened step by step like a magic umbrella, revealing the sky, Witch Rose released many [Stone-Winged Evil Birds], magical creatures with various types of [Sealing Chains] magic tools around their necks.
These were a group of raptor-like creatures made entirely of stone. They had sharp claws with spell models from the Force-Energy School; when diving to strike, they could instantly rip open a person's belly with their claws. They also possessed apprentice-level spell models from the School of Conjuration: the Stone Skin Spell, which enhanced their defense. Each Stone-Winged Evil Bird was at the apprentice level, but among the flock was a Stone-Winged Evil Bird Commander, a first-ring magical creature, as well as three Stone-Winged Evil Bird Kings, which were ordinary second-ring magical creatures.
Stone-Winged Evil Birds were quite common in various forbidden zones of the Wizard Lands. They were a very frequent group of magical creatures, and thus were often restricted by wizards using Sealing Chains to be used as model organism testing tools.
Witch Rose snapped her fingers.
"Everyone, I have free Stone-Winged Evil Birds here as model organisms for you to use for weapon testing."
"Additionally, I can also bring out an Abyssal Spine-Sword Giant Dragon to serve as a testing tool. If no Magic Plant weapon can kill this giant dragon today, then it will be slain by my Three-Colored Rose Dart Branch."
Witch Rose had a smile on her lips, as if everything was under her control. "I hope everyone can have a perfect day today." Many wizards at the scene grew excited, whether they were participants, Breeders with exhibition booths, or staff from the Shop Alliance. The scale of Witch Rose's investment this time was shocking; her spending for this event alone looked to be between ten to twenty million magic stones.
This illustrated one thing: Witch Rose had bypassed the local White Wizard Association and the unspoken rules of the various local academies, directly negotiating and obtaining massive magic stone funding from various small and medium Shop Alliances, rogue wizards, and individual Wizard Academies.
Her funds were incredibly ample.
As a genius Breeder herself, she also understood the value of investing in talent. She placed great importance on these Breeders, which was why she provided so many magical creatures for testing, allowing them to be used for free.
The atmosphere at the scene was immediately pushed to a new height.
The attention of most wizards was drawn to the Rose Building and the Olaye direct-sale Shop Alliance. The crowd was discussing Olaye and the changes it would bring to this Wizard Land in the future.
A new retail industry and a new ecosystem meant that the benefit-holding classes would change. Those Shop Alliances that originally monopolized the profits would be the first to be impacted.
And the one directly facing Olaye was the Silver-clad Peach Garden.
Of course, the crowd did not know that there was also a hidden investment bank alliance that was infuriated by Witch Rose breaking away from them to deal directly with a large number of low-level wizards and obtain sufficient funds.
At this moment, the wizards from Joseph Reed Hall were the first to set up their reed forest on the roof of a shop in the exhibition area. Then, after activating the Conjuration School's magic array inside the shop, thousands of Stone-Winged Evil Birds with Sealing Chains around their necks suddenly lunged crazily toward them. In just the first wave, the Sentry Reeds erupted with a series of strange noises. These reeds had sensed the Magic Pressure of the flock of Stone-Winged Evil Birds and amplified the sounds produced by the abnormal Magic Pressure flow through their own internal structures. Then, that noise erupted, triggering the Water-Arrow Reeds, which swayed and shot bolts of water toward the sky.
Those were not ordinary Water Arrow spells, but water magic enhanced with Moisture scholarship, specifically specialized in the pervasive nature of water magic to increase the penetrative power of the Water Arrow spell. Once hit, even stone skin would be invaded by water vapor through every pore. In the first instant, over a hundred Stone-Winged Evil Birds were actually destroyed.
By the time the flock of evil birds dived over the Sentry Reeds, more than half had already been killed or injured under the attack of the Water-Arrow Reeds. After all, this system was capable of repelling a group attack by approximately fifty Official Wizards.
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Even so, the shattered bodies of those Stone-Winged Evil Birds still fell, managing to crush and bend quite a few of the Sentry Reeds.
The wizards of Joseph Reed Hall looked at each other in dismay, not realizing that their Reed Forest system had left such an obvious weakness.
That is, the enemy's corpses can dive from the air; even if they are killed, they can still drop heavy stones toward the ground, launching an attack on the Reed Forest.
The person in charge from Joseph Reed Hall, the senior wizard mentor who came with the Reed Hall this time, a Second-Ring Wizard, suddenly laughed out loud.
"This counts as a common flaw of immobile defensive Magic Plant positions, not a unique defect of our Reed Forest. But it does not matter; as long as we add some defensive Wizard Arrays in front of the Reed Forest, this problem can be easily solved."
"The Reed Forest can repel the joint attack of at least fifty Official Wizards. Of course, what we are demonstrating this time is just a simplified version, but it can still withstand the joint attack of five to ten Official Wizards. It is a powerful defense system, but limited by its inability to move, it is prone to being targeted by specific attacks."
Many wizards nodded one after another.
An old Crystallized Wizard, a rogue, spoke up: "But if you add defensive Wizard Arrays, then wouldn't your Reed Forest system be restricted in terms of orientation when attacking? And if you want to set up a defensive Wizard Array that only defends against specific magic attacks without affecting the Water-Arrow Reeds' attacks, what a high-level Wizard Array that would require."
"Furthermore, if you set it to allow water magic to pass through freely, it will leave loopholes in the defense."
The senior wizard mentor of Joseph Reed Hall had an ugly expression for a moment, but he quickly reacted.
"Sir, you are not buying anyway."
The rogue wizard stepped back half a step and said: "Well, I am not buying. I am just pointing out the problem."
At this moment, Witch Rose said to the wizards: "I have purchased the service of the corresponding School of Conjuration's Summoning Book magic artifacts. They have connected me to a lair of Stone-Winged Evil Birds, so you do not need to worry about the quantity of these model creatures used for testing. No matter how many you kill, they will be replenished here. Behind the summoning wizard array, there is an endless supply of model creatures for testing."
The many wizards immediately looked toward the various corners of the 100th-floor exhibition area. They saw a total of ten Summoning Books, and ten Official Wizards were simultaneously driving these Summoning Books, causing them to open summoning magic arrays to summon those Stone-Winged Evil Birds.
Locke looked in the direction of Witch Rose, "In this case, I am afraid she has spent more than twenty million magic stones today. Yes, she wants to show all the wizards on the Tianjiang Coast her sufficient capital chain. Only in this way can she gain trust and completely build this Rose Building."
"Bang!" Locke saw a Stone-Winged Evil Bird King suddenly dive down like a gray flash, tearing apart more than half of the Whomping Willow grove on top of the Dalton Woodland shop.
Dalton Woodland had clearly messed up. They wanted to challenge the difficulty of defending against a Second-Ring creature, so they used the pre-set summoning array in the shop to summon the highest-level Stone-Winged Evil Bird King. As a result, after a brief resistance, their Whomping Willow grove was torn open, creating a hole in their defensive position.
The senior wizard mentor from Dalton Woodland, the Second-Ring Wizard, was clearly a bit panicked because one of the Whomping Willows had actually snapped right on cue.
And that Stone-Winged Evil Bird King was very cunning. It did not attack immediately but accelerated like a gray flash, disappeared into mid-air, then returned to the sky, and then dove toward the second Whomping Willow. The Whomping Willow waved its branches, lashing out toward the gray flash.
But the next moment, the Stone-Winged Evil Bird King disappeared from its original spot. It turned sharply in the air, arrived beside the Whomping Willow, and then snapped it with one claw.
The senior wizard mentor from Dalton Woodland had sweat all over his forehead. In just a short moment, everyone saw the Whomping Willow position being broken one after another. He looked furiously at the Crystallized Breeder in charge of debugging: "What is going on? Didn't you say the Whomping Willow system could temporarily withstand the attack of a Second-Ring creature for a period of time?"
The Crystallized Breeder flushed red: "This... my lord, that was an experiment done using the Earth King Magic Bear on the ground."
"That Magic Bear walks on the ground, while that Stone-Winged Evil Bird King flies in the sky. Its mobility is too high."
The senior wizard mentor of Dalton Woodland slapped his own forehead.
"You don't need to tell me; I already thought of that."
A smile appeared on his face, and he said to everyone: "Everyone, next I will demonstrate a clever use of the Whomping Willow system developed by our Dalton Woodland. As long as a sufficiently excellent Breeder uses the Magic Sun, that is, uses the Magic Resonance Breeding Method on the Whomping Willows, it will be like this..." He adjusted it to the magic frequency that could just stimulate the Whomping Willows, and suddenly, the Whomping Willows on the roof all went crazy, with countless willow branches lashing out like waves one after another.
Under the lashing of these branches, the Stone-Winged Evil Bird King turned into a gray flash in mid-air, dodging left and right, looking quite miserable.
After trying to approach several times, it had no choice but to return directly to the sky, avoiding these Whomping Willows.
Therefore, the Dalton Woodland exhibition area was not damaged.
Many wizards present applauded one after another. Regardless, at least this Whomping Willow position truly protected this exhibition area under the attack of a fierce and violent Second-Ring magic creature.
The senior wizard mentor from Dalton Woodland let out a sigh of relief.
But after he deactivated the Magic Sun, those Whomping Willows and Foam Willows immediately went limp, and their movements slowed down.
At this very moment, that Stone-Winged Evil Bird King that had returned to the sky suddenly made a sharp turn in the air, then turned into a gray flash, flashing continuously in the sky, and then rapidly approached the Whomping Willow position on the roof of the Dalton Woodland exhibition area. It screeched, then emitted an angry and shrill sound. Stone-Winged Evil Birds are naturally fond of attacking other creatures, let alone the Bird King. Clearly, the wizard from Dalton Woodland had successfully enraged this King of Evil Birds just now.
This Stone-Winged Evil Bird King turned into a gray afterimage and wove through the Whomping Willow position. As a result, in just a few rounds, one Whomping Willow after another was actually snapped by its wings.
The senior wizard mentor from Dalton Woodland widened his eyes.
"Oh no, quickly use the expulsion wizard array."
The shop deployed the de-summoning wizard array, but as a Second-Ring creature, it could obviously temporarily resist this de-summoning. The Stone-Winged Evil Bird King seemed to be targeting Dalton Woodland specifically; it actually picked up a Whomping Willow, uprooted it from the special flowerpot on the roof, and threw it toward the wizard tourists who were visiting the Dalton Woodland side.
Those wizard tourists were startled because that Whomping Willow, due to the inertia of its attack, was still attacking its surroundings with its willow branches.
Before the willow tree landed, the branches swung first, lashing toward the crowd.
The wizard tourists all scrambled to scatter.
A willow branch struck the street surface, splitting the street in two.
The senior wizard mentor from Dalton Woodland was furious: "How dare you."
He didn't care about demonstrating weapon performance anymore and directly took out a Trident Sea-King Willow from his astral ring. The Trident Sea-King Willow was wrapped in wisps of water vapor, and he immediately gripped this Trident Sea-King Willow and thrust it toward the Stone-Winged Evil Bird King.
"Bang!" The Stone-Winged Evil Bird King's left leg was pierced through directly. The Trident Sea-King Willow looked like a trident-shaped willow tree, wrapped in extremely powerful water magic from the Tianjiang Coast, specialized for penetration, and thus it pierced right through its bird claw.
But the next moment, the Stone-Winged Evil Bird King immediately turned into a gray flash, flashing continuously, and headed toward the sky, escaping.
The senior wizard mentor from Dalton Woodland was furious, seemingly about to rush into the sky to kill that Second-Ring creature, but he was stopped by the staff of the Rose Building.
The staff member hurriedly persuaded him: "My lord, my lord, that is just a model creature used by our Rose Building for weapon testing purposes. According to the rules, you cannot go up and kill it yourself. A Second-Ring model creature is very expensive; this is the asset of our Rose Building." The senior wizard mentor of Dalton Woodland then had no choice but to stop.
He turned his head to look at the crowd, his face somewhat unable to hold up.
"There is no way around it, because Witch Rose used a flying raptor with very powerful mobility, which is also a Second-Ring creature. As a Magic Plant defense community that can only exist in a fixed position, it naturally loses in terms of mobility. Even if the evil bird cannot win, it can dodge by ascending into the air. It can be said that it can attack and retreat, and the rhythm is all in its hands."
"But in actual warfare, this kind of system... cannot be used alone like this. So this is just an extreme situation." This Second-Ring Wizard bit the bullet and explained. After all, this system was developed after they invested a lot of resources, manpower, and time. They absolutely could not admit that it had flaws. If they didn't admit it, there was still room for maneuver, and people would still come to inquire. If they admitted it, then it would be completely finished. So no matter how thick-skinned one has to be, one must find a reason. Anyway, as long as you want to find an angle to win, you will definitely be able to find one.
Life, after all, is just that optimistic.
At this moment, that Stone-Winged Evil Bird King flew in mid-air and let out a mocking bird cry. It grabbed an ordinary Stone-Winged Evil Bird, using it as stone ammunition imbued with Stone Skin, and threw it toward the shop on the ground. Immediately, the Dalton Woodland exhibition shop, having lost its protection, was smashed through, creating a hole.
The senior wizard mentor leading the team was so angry that he almost couldn't help but kill the King of Evil Birds directly.
Witch Rose undoubtedly used a batch of high-level model creatures for testing purposes, so the test results at other shops were not very good either. Only a few Shop Alliance members that lowered the test difficulty and reduced the number of summoned Stone-Winged Evil Birds achieved decent demonstration results with their displayed Magic Plant weapons and won some attention.
President Fura looked at the exasperated Dalton Woodland and couldn't help but shake her head.
"The Magic Plant defense systems created by the local institutions' joint efforts are still not very good, just at this level."
"Sure enough, in planar wars, it is still necessary to purchase some Magic Plant defense systems from the superior wizard territories so that they can be deployed in that world to prevent demons from attacking the wizard cities we have worked so hard to build. But..."
President Fura shook her head, her two white ponytails swaying. The association had no money.
The entire Tianjiang Coast has always been very poor.
For some reason, most of the White Wizard Association's industries have been losing money year after year. In any case, audits cannot find anything, law firms cannot see any problems, and even when brute force is used to investigate, it is completely useless.
This has led to the White Wizard Association on the Tianjiang Coast mostly having to borrow money. As a result, the more they borrow, the more they owe, and more and more industries and qualifications are being mortgaged. She is even almost unable to pay the salaries of the White Wizard Association's employees for next month.
If this continues, she will be forced to touch the Wizard Secret Realms under the White Wizard Association. Wizard Secret Realms are public and cannot be sold, but the profits generated by the Wizard Secret Realms are hard currency and can be anchored as fixed assets.
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President Fura bit her lip; sometimes she felt like a beggar, worrying about the lack of money every day and unable to find a way to fill the deficit. Meanwhile, the Tianjiang Coast needed development, infrastructure required maintenance, and support had to be provided to the major wizard academies... There was likely no Association President more miserable than her.
At times, she wanted to apply for the association's bankruptcy to Mysterious Heaven and simply request that Mysterious Heaven take over management directly for a hundred years...
But if she did that, the direct management rights of the entire Tianjiang Coast wizard territory would be handed over to others. Even if she were willing, the White Wizards of this region would not be.
The next moment, President Fura was stunned for a second. She turned her head toward Joseph Reed Hall. It turned out that the wizards there wanted to challenge the Stone-Winged Evil Bird King. As a result, though they challenged it, the reed forest was indeed broken through by that arrogant magic creature just now. The Stone-Winged Evil Bird King grew even more insolent and, bolstered by its success, began to ram the load-bearing pillars on the hundredth floor of the Rose Building, attempting to shatter the sealing chain magic tool around its neck. The entire Rose Building began to shake.
Seeing this scene, President Fura was instantly disappointed in the local Magic Plant defense system of Joseph Reed Hall.
Why choose a Magic Plant defense system? Because in plane wars, if a large number of magic tools are used to form a defense system, it requires sufficient magic energy batteries or energy storage facilities, which the poor Tianjiang Coast White Wizard Association did not have.
Therefore, they preferred using Magic Plant defense systems. After all, as long as an area with planar principles close to the Wizard World was adjusted locally, a Magic Plant defense system could be set up there. Then, through the Hybrid Breeding Method or Grafting Cultivation Method, subspecies adapted to the planar principles of that world could be gradually created.
In this way, it was actually much more cost-effective than the complete energy storage facility systems required by magic tool defense systems.
Energy storage facility systems were low-cost and high-value for wealthy wizard territories, but for poorer ones, they were high-cost and low-value products.
Furthermore, because the Tianjiang Coast had to maintain its waterways, waterway Botany was very developed. The two top local academies and over a hundred related wizard academies all conducted relevant research. Consequently, their accumulation in the field of Breeding Science was not weak, and they had a corresponding supply chain and industrial chain. This was why President Fura placed such importance on the opening ceremony of the Rose Building.
Unfortunately, to her disappointment, these things were only at this level.
Of course, if more time were spent, she believed they could still develop further, but the investment in the plane war was constantly increasing. The wizards at Joseph Reed Hall were busy discussing and shifting responsibility.
"That's right, that second-ring magic creature's mobility is simply too strong. We used ground-walking and aquatic magic creatures during testing, so our reed forest system was unadapted. But during wartime, it's impossible to use just one set of reed forests, so this can't be considered a true defect. Everyone needn't worry too much."
"Indeed. If a No-Fly Wizard Array could be added, it would be perfect. It's just that it would be slightly more expensive."
On the other side, Locke received a message from Terence.
"Lord Augustine, we are ready on this end. The Magic Plant weapons you asked us to mount have also been installed. Shall we activate the summoning wizard array now to summon the Stone-Winged Evil Bird flock?"
Locke said, "Alright. No need to follow the summoning wizard array levels of the shop step-by-step; let's follow our own pace and logic. Summon a thousand Stone-Winged Evil Birds simultaneously, then the Stone-Winged Evil Bird Commander flock, and finally the Stone-Winged Evil Bird King. We will test the performance of our Magic Plant weapons realistically. If possible, try to test the combat power of our Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow array to the maximum extent, so you can activate the summoning array as much as possible later to call in more Stone-Winged Evil Birds."
Witch Biki laughed during the call, "Even our Silver-clad Peach Garden headquarters didn't have such good testing conditions. I didn't expect our rival Olaye to go to such trouble, actually setting up such a large venue for our test."
Terence the wizard was somewhat nervous.
"I wonder what the result will be."
Elsewhere, Witch Rose and the wizard Joshua observed the situation. She discovered that the Magic Plant weapons designed by those famous Shop Alliances were not even at the level of Olaye's first-class designers. This indicated that Olaye had already subtly surpassed the overall level of the Tianjiang Coast's Breeding Science by a generation.
Witch Rose had a relaxed smile on her face.
"Joshua, according to your data calculations, is now the best moment for us to conduct the weapon test?"
"Let our Magic Plant weapons wipe out all these test model creatures in one go. With my Three-Colored Rose Dart Branch and the Magic Plants designed by our excellent designers, we shall announce the true arrival of our era."
"Within less than half an hour of starting our test, these magic flying creatures filling the sky will fall in an instant. Just like we tested before, including that Abyss Spine Dragon!"
"Joshua, can we start? I can't wait anymore."
Joshua the wizard was constantly calculating formulas in his hand.
"Wait, we need to wait. According to my calculations, a large number of Magic Plant weapons from other shops have not finished testing yet. Now is not the best time to strike. Wait a bit longer. Just a bit longer."
The Stone-Winged Evil Bird King, having gained repeated advantages and unable to break the magic chain around its neck, began to mock the wizards from the sky, let out cry after cry.
Just as many wizards were feeling quite speechless and at a loss, a beam of lightning as thin as a hair suddenly pierced the Stone-Winged Evil Bird King. Immediately following, countless bolts of lightning fell, following that hair-thin beam directly onto the Stone-Winged Evil Bird King's body. Before the Stone-Winged Evil Bird King could react, it was struck by an unknown number of Attila Lightning Chains. Its body became paralyzed, and it fell straight from the sky.
Every wizard present was startled because many had not even realized what happened before the Evil Bird King was knocked down. At this moment, the wizards saw one hundred and ten Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows appear in the sky. Since the opponents were primarily in the air, one hundred of these Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows were the Annihilation Type mounted with enchantment scrolls of Attila Lightning Chain, while ten were mounted with [Hostility Detection Scrolls] made by Terence. Simultaneously, they were all mounted with [Multi-Eyed Pineapples] and used the allelopathy of the [Multi-Eyed Pineapples] to control some of the Magic Plant weapons purchased on-site.
Currently, the ten reconnaissance-type Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows were exchanging information through the allelopathic network formed by the Multi-Eyed Pineapples, sharing the specific aerial coordinates of all detected hostile targets in the vicinity. The remaining hundred Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows were frantically firing Attila Lightning Chains at the surrounding Stone-Winged Evil Bird flocks.
One after another, Attila Lightning Chains exploded in mid-air, turning into lightning spells that jumped between the aerial units of the Stone-Winged Evil Bird flock.
Stone-Winged Evil Birds fell from the sky one by one.
Locke's Attila Lightning Chain enchantment scrolls had been optimized by Douglas, making the effect of the Attila Lightning Chain much stronger than before. Furthermore, they had a lock-on mode: first firing a lightning beam as thin as a hair to pierce the opponent using its high speed and low consumption, then using the gathering property of lightning magic to lock onto the target, ensuring a hundred percent hit rate thereafter.
The Evil Bird King just now had been caught off guard precisely because of this; after being locked onto by the first move, it was impossible to dodge the subsequent hundred Attila Lightning Chain attacks.
This was the gathering property of lightning magic.
At this point, the fierce Stone-Winged Evil Bird flock clearly hadn't expected the situation to flip. Originally, they held the rhythm of the attack, and the weapons of the wizards below were clearly defensive. Even the offensive ones were on the ground, posing little threat to the sky, and there were few Magic Plant weapons that could fly. But now, the situation was reversed.
Locke, through a Multi-Eyed Pineapple Monocle Controller, steered the hundred Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows to trace a graceful arc across the sky. They bypassed the numerous but low-value Stone-Winged Evil Bird groups and, with their exaggerated maneuverability, used a smaller turning radius to cut in behind the protected Stone-Winged Evil Bird Commanders while the flock was turning. The Stone-Winged Evil Bird Commanders shifted their avian eyes, only to discover in panic that the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows had appeared behind them, releasing Dragon Might. Flying like green birds or green dragons, they terrified the bird flock into losing their will to fight before the battle even began.
The next moment, Attila Lightning Chains were fired, and all those Stone-Winged Evil Bird Commanders were shot down.
It is worth mentioning that during this attack, three Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows were not using Attila Lightning Chains. Since each Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow could only carry ten charges of Attila Lightning Chain, they had already been exhausted during the previous attacks.
Therefore, three of them were instead carrying the reed forest system.
These three Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows were each mounted with a Multi-Eyed Pineapple. A Multi-Eyed Pineapple has five eye slots; because it had to connect with the Multi-Eyed Pineapple Monocle Controller, the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow itself, and the Multi-Eyed Pineapples on other Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows, three eye slots were already occupied.
The remaining two eye slots could be connected to two Magic Plants.
Thus, Locke simply connected two sets of Magic Plant defense systems to these three Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows respectively, mounting the reed forest system using those eye slots. Immediately, the Sentry Reeds vibrated continuously to confirm the enemy's position, and then the Water Arrow Reed Forest fired water arrows directly, shooting down a Stone-Winged Evil Bird Commander.
This time, because the reed forest system was mounted on the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows, it directly eliminated the drawback of only being able to stand still and take a beating, capable only of passive defense.
Only then did the wizards notice that these Magic Plants all came from the Silver-clad Peach Garden.
That Shop Alliance, once the largest Magic Plant retail alliance in the Tianjiang Coast, which had left a deep memory in everyone's minds.
And today, this Shop Alliance left a new, profound impression on everyone.
Locke controlled these Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrows through the monocle controller worn over his right eye. In truth, this controller was not enough to manage so many Magic Plants, but since he was a Botanical Wizard, he alone could replace ten wizard operators.
Locke said to the wizards, "Everyone, our Silver-clad Peach Garden has returned. We have never abandoned the Tianjiang Coast; this remains our most important region.