Age of Adepts

Chapter 2: wake up

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This is an eerie magical swamp.

Dense fog and wet.

Even in the daytime, the bright sunlight cannot penetrate the low clouds and gloomy mist, making this place feel a touch of human warmth.

Muddy and filthy pools of smelly water can be seen everywhere. There is not much water, but there are quite a lot of strange creatures parasitic in it. Whenever a stranger breaks in, this silent and desolate place will instantly become a paradise for scavengers and bloodthirsty creatures. Vampire vines, carrion crows, swamp giant crocodiles, and ugly hags that look like drowned dead people are all terrifying monsters that business travelers could not avoid in the past.

However, right in the middle of this swamp where no living person can set foot, a terrifying tower with a height of 100 meters stands strangely.

This is a tall stone tower.

Its tower bases are all made of thick and dense green stones. Whenever night falls, the entire tower will emit a cool and quiet faint radiant fluorescence, which is especially favored by ghosts and resentful souls.

Perhaps due to the lack of necessary maintenance and care, the bottom of the entire tower was entangled with madly growing magical vines, covered with wooden spikes full of metallic luster. If an ordinary person is entangled by this kind of demonized vine, the blood in his body will be sucked out within half a moment, and he will become a member of the thick white bones at the root of the vine.

As soon as it was dark, candles were lit in the tower.

Dim candlelight shines through the narrow narrow window, not only can't bring people a little warmth, but it makes people feel a chill in the bottom of their hearts.

Greem, who had just passed his 15th birthday, was sitting in front of the dilapidated wooden table, with a thick spell book spread out in front of him, and he was silently copying it. Although it has been two years since he came to this new world, the discomfort in his soul still makes him feel headache from time to time.

In a trance, scenes and scenes that happened on the earth in the past kept flashing in front of his eyes, which made him pause his pen, leaving a big ball of ink on the simple parchment.

Damn, failed again!

Greem frowned, couldn't help but clenched his fists fiercely, wanting to shout angrily a few times. But after enduring it for a long time, he finally suppressed this anger.

This place was no longer the earth he was familiar with, and this body once belonged to an apprentice wizard named Greem. Seriously speaking, I was just a time traveler who took over at the moment of Greem's accidental death.

Traveling empty-handed from a low-magic world to a high-magic world where monsters are rampant and wizards dominate, this difficult adaptation process makes Li Xun extremely painful. But fortunately, after the fusion of the memory fragments left by this body, Li Xun initially possessed the basic language and writing skills, otherwise, the weird grammar and pronunciation of this world and the completely different tadpole-shaped characters alone would torture him half dead.

But even so, the occasional headache still deeply troubled him.

Here, he never dared to reveal his true identity, but could only bear the name of Greem, struggling to survive in this wizard tower.

Although being a wizard apprentice under Master Anderson, this glorious status is already worthy of the envy of most people. But only the people living in this tower know that this is not only an honor, but also the most terrible torture and torture in the world.

As wizard apprentices, their basic job is to diligently take care of the daily life of the great master Anderson, clean up witchcraft experiment equipment, keep the tower clean, take care of the enchanted animals and plants outside the tower, and... and become master Anderson the experimental object.

Although this kind of thing is not common, when the convoy transporting slaves or death row prisoners arrives a few days late, Master Anderson, who lacks experimental subjects, will get annoyed and order an apprentice to act as his temporary guinea pig.

It is said that Mary next door from Antshire was "fortunate" to become Master Anderson's witchcraft experiment collaborator last month. Although she didn't die from that witchcraft experiment, her body was severely "polluted" and some terrible mutations occurred. Since she came out of the laboratory, she has put on a heavy burqa and hid in her room every day and never came out again.

Many wizard apprentices were discussing in private that Mary might have died in the room.

But Greem knew that Mary was still alive.

Because every night when it was quiet, he could hear the painful and suppressed moans from the next room, as well as the terrible sound of sharp claws scraping against the rock wall. For this reason, in the dead of night, he would throw the food he secretly brought back into the next room.

Although Greem's life is also precarious, but out of the sympathy in his nature, he is still willing to do some more humane things within his ability.

Today's sporadic migraines came at a really bad time, and it happened when he was transcribing books. What made him even more unlucky wasted a piece of parchment.

Don't underestimate this crumpled and simple parchment, its basic value is 2 silver coins. And in the current magical world, the most commonly used currency is of course wizard gold coins. A wizard's gold coin can be exchanged for 10 silver coins, and a silver coin can be exchanged for 10 copper coins, and 5 copper coins can make a commoner's food and clothing for a day.

So in this way, a seemingly ordinary piece of parchment can already be regarded as a huge sum of money for the common people. But here, it is just garbage that apprentice wizards can throw away.

In Wizard's Tower, nothing is free.

Daily food and drink, including the cost of learning witchcraft, must be earned by Greem on his own, and the only way to make money is to step out of the wizard tower, feed those ferocious and brutal demonized creatures, and take care of those eerie and weird demonized plants , to pick some witchcraft materials designated by the wizard and clean up some dangerous witchcraft areas in the tower.

Although when doing these tasks, they will wear witchcraft amulets made by the wizard themselves, which can avoid touching the witchcraft circles around the tower. But in this mysterious and strange world, no job can be absolutely safe. Every one or two months, there will always be a few unlucky ones who are swallowed by demonized animals and plants while taking care of them, or die in the witch power radiation for no apparent reason when cleaning a certain witchcraft area .

So in many cases, the relatively leisurely and comfortable jobs in the tower were monopolized by those veteran wizard apprentices. The rest of the weak wizard apprentices can only choose those more dangerous jobs in order to earn money and knowledge points with difficulty to continue their witchcraft learning.

Of course, money is used to buy some biological supplies, and knowledge points are a value system specially formulated by the wizard to buy knowledge. In the library inside the tower, each witchcraft book is clearly marked with a different knowledge point, and borrowing books only accepts knowledge points, but not money.

Only by working hard to earn knowledge points can apprentices borrow the books they need for a short period of time. And this time is definitely not enough for apprentices to master all the knowledge in the books, so most apprentices will develop the habit of copying books.

For every witchcraft book that is borrowed, the apprentices will try to copy down the knowledge they need in the shortest possible time for future continuous study. Ink and parchment are indispensable for transcription, but these are not free, they need money to buy.

Of course, if a wizard apprentice has a good family background, he can exchange a lot of money for knowledge points. The conversion ratio between them is 1 knowledge point = 100 gold coins.

For example, the "General Guide to Demonized Creatures" that Greem borrowed today requires 3 knowledge points, and the time to borrow it is only half a day. With Greem's copying speed, if he wanted to write the book completely, he would need to borrow it at least 3 times.

This adds up to 9 knowledge points, and Greem needs to walk out of the tower for 2 consecutive weeks to earn these 9 knowledge points.

So it was not a pity for him to waste a piece of parchment when he had a migraine, but it was a pity that he wasted two hours of transcribing time. This is the main reason for his fury!

Just as Greem was trying to mobilize all his strength to suppress this anger and prevent it from affecting his subsequent transcriptions, a familiar "beep" sound suddenly sounded in his mind.

"Drip, the biological energy has reached the standard, and the biological auxiliary chip number ZXJ9521 has started to activate..."

Greem exclaimed in surprise.

"Biological auxiliary chip!"

Once upon a time, during the difficult years at the beginning of time travel, Greem fantasized more than once that he could also become a great god who could travel through other worlds with an artifact in his hand. He punched Nanshan Nursing Home, kicked Beihai Kindergarten, knocked down everything below one meter, and stomped his feet in the mortuary, "Stand up if you are dissatisfied!"; No one dared to breathe...

It's a pity that this damn chip that has been integrated with him has never made any movement other than giving him migraines from time to time. Unexpected, unexpected... It finally started today!

After the noisy debugging sound was over, a beautiful neutral female voice echoed in Greem's mind.

"Host detected, data modeling in progress... please wait..."

Hey, it can also quantify the current body? This is something to look forward to!

After all, we are now in a high-magic world, and the plane space is filled with a kind of magical substance called element particles. And these element particles are divided into basic particles such as earth, fire, water, scenery and darkness according to the basic elements of the plane.

A wizard will usually have varying degrees of affinity for these fundamental particles, hence the many different factions. And precisely because the power system here is completely different from that on Earth, how to standardize and quantify the known data has become the biggest problem that bothers Greem the most.