Age of Adepts

Chapter 289: Contract and death

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After swallowing three or four bottles of antidote in one go, Greem finally got rid of the poison in his body.

Originally, he believed that he had an elemental body, and he was no longer afraid of the poison, so he could only hold his breath, and never dared to inhale a trace of air in the house.

But completely opposite to Greem, Alice stood on tiptoe, desperately inhaling this "beautiful smell", as if a gluttonous foodie met top-level food. If Greem hadn't pulled her hard, Alice would have been unable to resist running to the crucible to feast on it!

Greem quickly looked around.

The whole house is covered with many black iron hooks hanging from the roof, and bottles of different sizes and colors are hung under the iron hooks. Each of them is filled with dark and muddy liquid, and the liquid is filled with strangely shaped monster eyes.

The eyes of these monsters are big or small, flat or round, and some of them have long eye stems behind them, swimming around in the container...

And in the huge green bottle shaking gently in front of Greem's eyes, what was soaked was a giant's eyeball. The reason why it is called a giant's eyeball is because just this one eyeball almost occupies all the space of the green bottle, which is 1 meter high and half a meter in diameter.

Even when Greem moved closer to take a closer look, this huge eyeball blinked strangely!

"Hey, I found a high-energy monster organ... the initial estimate is level 2!"

"Can you identify what kind of creature's eyeball it is?" Greem and the chip communicated silently.

"Hey, after data query and matching, it is estimated that: Cyclops 63%... Beholder 21%... Evil Giant 4%... The remaining matching probabilities are less than 1%. Can you show all the subjects?"

"No!"

The Cyclops is a terrifying giant with a combination of physical strength and earth power. Compared with the hill giant that Greem and the others encountered in the Black Forest last time, the Cyclops may be inferior in strength and size, but it has a strange power of petrification.

Therefore, it is also an extremely powerful Tier 2 monster!

Greem's gaze continued to roam, and finally saw a messy wooden table in another corner of the room. It was full of overturned ink bottles, scorched scrolls, open volumes, and crooked piles of books that nearly reached the roof...

And on this wooden table, which was no different from a pile of sundries, lay a weird witch with a crooked figure and disheveled hair like a chicken coop. She is not tall, and may even be half a head lower than Alice. She can only show her body from behind the table by standing on a high wooden stool.

She was wearing what appeared to be a black wizard's robe.

But Greem wasn't too sure about it!

Because this crumpled wizard robe was too dirty and filthy, covered with oil, ink and potions of unknown ingredients. The thick gray stains have completely covered the original color of the wizard's robe, and only a trace of witchcraft runes outlined by delicate and smooth golden threads are exposed somewhere in the corner.

When he saw the other party for the first time, Greem once suspected that this Witch Lianna should belong to the branch of the Death Witch. Because here, he saw too many things related to death. But Alice, who had been holding his hand all the time, told him covertly through the telepathic connection that this Leanna turned out to be a witch of despair, and the field she was involved in was hope and recovery.

Well, although it is a somewhat subversive cognition, Greem can only silently choose to accept it!

"Tell me why you came here! You are not the first daredevil who dares to break into my dark swamp without permission, but you are the first one who can set foot here alive. If there is no reason to satisfy me, Jie Jie Jie ..." The old witch smiled sinisterly on her wrinkled old face, revealing her incomplete scorched teeth. But what scares Greem even more is her almost frozen dead fish eyes.

"Dear Lady Lianna, I came here to buy a can of dead soul water. It is said that the entire sky city can only be bought in your mushroom hut, so I can only take the liberty to come here!" Greem could only tell the truth in front of the crazy witch who surpassed him, otherwise the ghost would know if these old guys had some disgusting witchcraft to verify the truth of the words.

"The dead soul water used to protect the separated soul from being harmed by foreign objects?" The old witch stared at the dead fish's eyes, and asked coldly: "It seems that you have made a thorough investigation before coming here. Then you plan to use it again?" What can I exchange for the dead soul water?"

"A top-notch night eye stone, a twig from the tree of life, and a hundred grams of star sand from the void world!" Greem didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately took out all the items he had prepared in advance. Of course, these things are not his collection, but all come from the Byron family.

In terms of surface value alone, the dead soul water belongs to the category of second-level wonders, and the market price should be within 7000 magic crystals. The three items that Greem took out were all worth more than 3000 magic crystals, more than enough to exchange for the dead soul water.

However, the only one who allowed the entire Sky City to refine the dead soul water is this Lady Lianna in front of me, so whether the transaction can go smoothly depends on the mood of the other party. So after taking out three crystal boxes from his pocket and placing them on the wooden table, Greem waited with bated breath for the other party's answer.

"The price is fair! But..." A sinister smile suddenly appeared on the old witch's face: "I'm in a bad mood today, so I choose to reject the deal you proposed!"

"..."

Greem felt speechless for a while.

But facing a terrifying second-level witch, he didn't have the guts to argue with her.

"Hey, old woman, don't go too far!" Alice couldn't help interjecting dissatisfiedly: "The value of the few items we have produced is far higher than your dead soul water. What do you have? Why not sell it?"

Greem's expression changed, and he quickly pulled Alice behind him.

"My lord, the child is young and ignorant, please don't blame her!"

"What are you afraid of?" Alice was still stubborn behind him: "She is a witch, and I am also a witch candidate. With this status, she can't kill me! Why are you afraid of her?"

"Jie Jie Jie... Interesting, very interesting..." The old witch sneered again: "After so many years, this is the first time someone dared to be so arrogant in front of me. Young man, I will make an exception and give you a chance, as long as you take this Transfer the little guy’s witchcraft contract to me, and I’ll give you a bottle of dead soul water as a gift. How about it, isn’t this condition superior enough?”

Alice, who was hiding behind Greem, trembled slightly, and tightly grasped his arm, not daring to speak again.

Greem forced a smile and slowly started to retreat: "Master Lianna, this Alice is just my traveling companion, we..."

Before he could finish speaking, the old witch Lianna stretched out her wrinkled right hand like a ghost claw and scratched at them. At the same time, the souls of the two were stabbed slightly, and an illusory and hazy witchcraft contract unexpectedly emerged out of thin air, floating in midair.

"Slave contract!" The old witch Siyu's eyes showed a terrifying red light: "You are so courageous! You actually want to enslave a candidate for the Witch of Destiny. Are you going to humiliate all the Northland witches with this behavior? Today If you quickly cancel the slave contract and hand over this loser, I will allow you to walk out of here alive and take away the lost soul water. Otherwise, don’t blame me for purging some losers for the entire group of witches!”

As soon as the old witch finished speaking, the entire dark swamp suddenly trembled slightly.

A thicker fog began to rise, making the already dimly lit cabin even darker.

Greem could feel that at this moment, the eyes of the monsters soaked in the bottles and jars in the hut turned to him strangely, and a terrifying feeling of imminent death arose in his heart.

"Say it! Do you want to hand over the contract and leave with the dead soul water, or do you want to die here quickly? Say..." The old witch's sharp and terrifying voice echoed in the quiet hut, making one's hair stand on end.

rattling rattling...

A slight click of teeth came from behind.

Alice, who had always been fearless, finally felt afraid.

The hidden void vibrations began to become more and more frequent, perhaps with only one finger, Alice could open a space crack that was enough for two people to pass through, and escape from here.

Unfortunately, in front of a second-level witch, there are not so many "maybes" in the world!

The space crack disappeared at the same time as it appeared.

There was a muffled sound like a stinky fart, and the black crack that had just opened turned into a puff of green smoke before it stabilized, leaving a blue scorched mark in the void.

"Just thinking about running away now? Jie Jie Jie... It's already too late!" The old witch stretched out her hand, and a grimace condensed by gray smoke suddenly appeared beside Greem, sinking into his body with a sinister sneer.

The next moment, Greem felt his body froze, and the fire element, which was originally inseparable from his spirit, suddenly lost his sense. It's as if... It's as if he was suddenly placed in a forbidden magic barrier, and there were no more fire element particles around him to drive.

Greem's tall body shook a few times, and he almost fell down.

After completing the elementalization of the body, the fire element is him, and he is the fire element. At this moment, the connection between the fire element and the spirit was suddenly blocked, and he almost lost the strength to support his body.

Damn it, why does the elementalization of the body still have such disadvantages? Why have I never heard of it in any books? Could this be where the abilities of high-ranking wizards lie? Can cut off low-level wizards' sensitivity to elemental particles

Without the fire element, Greem's power loss was particularly serious. He held on to the crooked and twisted upright with his hands, so as not to let himself fall to the ground.

呲味…

A strange sound came out, and a black python as thick as a teacup snaked down the column, wrapping around Greem's arm. The black triangular snake raised its head high, approaching Greem's face bit by bit.

Even when it hissed the snake letter, Greem could already feel the stench blowing on his facial skin.

The voice of the old witch sounded again.

"Give you one last chance to choose! Surrender the contract, or..."

"die!"