2 months later.
As the flying ship slowly landed on the square, the mandatory trial mission in the dark crypt was finally coming to an end.
Just like when they came, the one who escorted them was still the muscular man in golden armor.
When he saw Greem and the others, an incomprehensible smile appeared on the muscular man's face.
"Hahaha, you guys, are you doing well underground? Let me check... Not bad, there are seven out of ten people, it seems that those underground guys are quite polite to you. Eh, why? One more quasi-sorcerer? It seems that someone is really doing well! Haha, is that junior guy the first one to hang up? Even a junior guy dares to hang out here, he is looking for death! Hahaha... "
Listening to the muscular man's lecture for self-amusement, the faces of several people in the arena were a little ugly.
During the last underground inspection of the trial team, they were ambushed and attacked by the fallen apprentices in a premeditated manner. The senior apprentice Bruce also died underground, and the rest of them escaped with injuries. So when they heard the muscular man's ridicule, they all lowered their heads to hide the angry flames in their eyes.
Greem bowed with a bitter face and said, "Master Samir, I am the junior apprentice you mentioned!"
The heroic laughter of the muscular Samir stopped abruptly.
He stared at Greem with his leopard eyes the size of copper bells, and only then could he vaguely see a trace of the past from Greem's hugely changed figure.
"Senior apprentice! Kid, it seems that among this group of people, you are the best! Okay, okay, no matter how you have been in the past, get on board now, and I have to hurry to finish Go back to the task and return to life!"
Everyone boarded the flying ship without saying a word, and Goblin Kirby, as Greem's contracted servant, also boarded the ship after paying 1 magic crystal symbolically.
When the flying boat soared into the air after a slight shock, everyone clung to the side of the boat, watching the crowds and buildings getting smaller and smaller under their feet, feeling extremely complicated in their hearts. Like a bird that has escaped from a cage suddenly, the mood suddenly relaxed, and a few people who were acquainted with each other gathered together to chat and laugh happily.
However, the huge and deep gap between the teams still existed, and the team of 7 people in total was divided into two distinct groups.
During the last period of time when he was about to leave the Wizard Tower in the Dark Crypt, Greem ordered Kirby to sell off all magic gems and materials that were temporarily unused, and worked hard to acquire a large amount of magic beast ingredients and all the knowledge of witchcraft that could be collected. Elemental nuclei.
He knew very well that compared with this place, the conditions in the swamp tower were so crude that it could be called a wild place. Once they return, there will be no mana package, no apprentice market, and many chambers of commerce with a lot of resources. At that time, everything needs to be well-fed by oneself!
The large amount of supplies and resources purchased filled the storage belt to the brim. In order to bring all these things back, Greem even purchased five or six belts in one go. But even so, there were still a lot of materials that couldn't fit, so Goblin Kirby simply put them in a big bag and carried them on his back, and he was reluctant to throw them away wherever he went.
The flying ship is flying in the sky, and it is inside a well-developed human settlement, so the flying speed is extremely fast. When they came, the dark crypt was the last journey, but when they went back, they became the first stop. Therefore, as the flying ship passed mission points in different regions one after another, more and more apprentices boarded the ship one after another.
Compared with the high-spirited attitude when they came, it can be seen that the apprentices who have gone through hard work have all lost their edges and corners, and have become much deeper and restrained. However, when the number of people on board exceeded a hundred, it inevitably became lively.
Of course, the most noisy ones walking around on the deck of the airship and calling for friends are the senior apprentices. Although the number of intermediate apprentices is the largest, most of the time they can only become the green leaves of the foil. But to say that the real stars in the circle of apprentices still belong to those quasi-witches.
After this experience, these quasi-shamans will definitely become the future hope that their family will focus on cultivating when they go back, so taking advantage of this rare opportunity to get together, they also want to get in touch with competitors of the same level.
A quasi-witch only has eyes for another quasi-witch!
When the airship passed through the Dagon and Bracada regions, the number of quasi-witches gathered on the airship had reached 10, including Mary, the newly promoted bloodline quasi-witch and... the evil bug Entik.
Yes, unfortunately, that evil bug Entik was also successfully promoted to a quasi-sorcerer in this trial!
Perhaps because he was satisfied with his progress, when he boarded the airship at the Bracada mission point, he did not cover his face with the hood as usual. Compared with before, his face became uglier. The entire facial muscles are dull, and there is a circle of strange small eyes around the purple pupils. When all the eyes blink together, the dense crowd is quite scary.
At this moment, his mouth has been replaced by the beetle-like lotus petal mouthparts. When the black lips bloom and squirm, one can even see the scarlet meat cavity and green saliva inside.
It can be seen that the evil insect Entik has deepened his physical transformation more and more, and now he can almost be called a "half insect man"! Although he didn't like this kind of behavior of completely abandoning the human body, Greem still had to admit that this evil bug Entik was the most ruthless and cruel to him among the apprentices he had ever seen!
Strong strength also endows Entik with strong confidence, so that he doesn't have to care about the eyes of outsiders. This can be seen from the way he stepped on the airship proudly. But when his purple compound eyes swept across the lively crowd and landed on Mary and Greem, the senior apprentices who followed him felt a bit of solemnity and anger at his fearless boss.
When they followed the eyes of the boss and saw the proud and isolated Mary in the red dress, red armour, and back with a red bow, everyone showed amazement and intoxication on their faces. However, when they sensed the deep and introverted powerful mental fluctuations in Mary, they were startled at the same time, quickly put away their lewd looks, and bowed slightly to Mary to show their respect.
Such a glamorous and arrogant beauty turned out to be a quasi-shaman, and everyone couldn't help but secretly lamented the eccentricity of the world's will.
Entik stared at Mary coldly for a long time, then pulled up the hood again to cover his face, and walked to the side silently. During the whole process, his eyes never stayed on Greem at all.
"Looks like there's going to be more to fight after going back! This Entik seems to have gained a lot." Greem didn't care about the evil insect's contempt, but joked with a smile on his face.
"Hmph, no matter how deep he hides, he is not as deep as you. You are the best pretender among the people I have ever seen! You have such a strong means, but you pretend to be harmless to humans and animals, just waiting for some The idiot bumped his head to death in front of you. Are you addicted to self-abuse!" Mary retorted dissatisfied.
She's not entirely sure now either! This damn bastard pushed himself to the position of a quasi-witch. Was it really for his own good, or was he habitually trying to push himself to the foreground to cover up his evil taste of liking behind-the-scenes people.
At the last mission point in the Bracada area, Mad Girl also boarded the airship.
When several people met suddenly, not only did they not have the slightest sense of joy and reunion, but it made the atmosphere more dignified and weird.
Crazy Girl is still at the senior apprentice level. Although her strength has grown a lot in the mission trials, compared to Evil Bug and Mary, she obviously lacks some opportunities.
When they came, in order to fight against the sudden rise of Mary, the "outsider", the relationship between the crazy girl and the evil bug Entik was still harmonious. But now that the evil worm has also become a quasi-witch, the mad girl suddenly became estranged from him, and she walked to the side to find a place to rest alone, without congratulating him.
This made Greem curious and began to think about the real relationship between them.
Soon, when the flying ship was transferred to the Elasia region, there were more than 260 wizard apprentices on board. And those guys who didn't board the flying ship probably died in the mission.
There were 11 quasi-sorcerers when they came, but the number of quasi-sorcerers on board had already reached 14 when they returned. This also means that in the trial mission, three lucky senior apprentices also became the favored ones of heaven. Everyone's eyes fell on them, full of inexplicable envy and hidden deep hatred.
After more than ten days of long-distance flight, these apprentices left the airship one after another when they entered the central area of Sandi Tower Forest, and Greem and others also successfully arrived at the Swamp Tower.
Since their group went to the Dagon area located at the outermost edge of Sandi Tower Forest, they are also the last batch of high tower apprentices to return. Therefore, the apprentices standing in front of the gate to welcome them almost represent all the current official apprentices in the swamp tower.
Still on the flying boat, Greem glanced wide, and the chip counted the number of people below, 37 people. If you add the 9 people on the flying boat, there are only 46 people in total, which is a reduction of 1/3 compared with the previous 62 people.
Such attrition ratio is estimated to be the highest among all wizard towers. The reason for this is obviously also related to the inaction of the swamp tower wizard Anderson. In the past years, Greem and the others were trapped and locked in this magical swamp. Materials and resources were scarce. Usually, even doing a witchcraft experiment required hard work to collect materials and exchange resources.
And the most direct consequence of this is that compared with other wizard towers, the strength of the apprentices in the swamp tower is ridiculously weak and staggeringly poor. Participating in a certain dangerous apprenticeship trial with such strength, almost any accident, is a catastrophe for them!
Even those apprentices who successfully survived the mission trial mostly completed the mission with the worst grades, so they didn't improve much. On the contrary, the ten left-behind apprentices headed by Alan had smug smiles on their faces. Facing those apprentices who risked their lives but gained little, they felt more and more that their choices at that time were far-sighted and wise.
However, as the last batch of 9 apprentices on the flying boat came down, the faces of everyone in the venue finally changed drastically!