The arrival of Meryl and her party undoubtedly made Wuta lively.
Moreover, they also brought a large amount of living materials and daily necessities, which greatly supplemented the shortage of Wuta.
Letting go of the authority at the bottom level, allowing the disciples and apprentices to slowly transform the first and second floors of the Wu Tower, but Greem hid in the living room on the fourth floor with Kirby and Meryl to discuss the later matters.
In front of Meryl, the goblin Kirby handed Greem a pouch, which contained exactly the 120,000 magic crystals he had mentioned earlier. But this time, it bluntly admitted that it was passed on by Alice through the Witch Chamber of Commerce.
"Alice wouldn't send someone to send such a quantity of magic crystals for no reason. Besides these, what else did she say?" Greem vaguely had a bad premonition.
"The person she sent also told you to be careful of monsters coming!" This time it was Meryl who answered.
Greem was startled by her words, and then he lowered his head and thought deeply.
Monsters are coming
Others may not understand the meaning of these words, but when Greem heard this reminder, some 'interesting' stories mentioned in previous books immediately appeared in his mind.
In the process of the major wizarding forces competing for land with the Black Forest, there are absolutely no shortage of examples of monsters attacking.
It seems that the monsters living in the black forest stubbornly believe that the actions of human beings to open up the forest will deeply affect the environment where they live and bring them various bad effects. So once they find that humans have entered their territory, they will attack unscrupulously, and sometimes even gather together to attack the human gathering points on the outskirts of the Black Forest in a planned way.
In the past, Greem only regarded it as a land struggle between human wizards and monster lords. He thinks that as long as he is careful and does not touch the territory of the surrounding powerful monsters, he will not incur their strong rebound.
But today, after receiving a reminder from Alice, Greem had to reconsider the possibility of a monster attacking him!
Since I came to the sick forest, I have been hiding in the deep underground and rarely go out, let alone invade the territory of the surrounding monsters. So what made the monster lords intolerable for his existence
The answer to this question may not be answered by others, but Greem has a vague understanding.
Wizard Tower!
With the establishment of the Wu Tower, it will inevitably extract the free magic energy in the surrounding environment to maintain its own operation. This also creates an artificial flow of magic power!
The distribution of magic elements also varies. If the Wu Tower draws more, the magic elements in the area around the Wu Tower will be correspondingly thinner. It is difficult for ordinary jungle beasts to perceive this kind of change, but for monsters with their own mysterious abilities, it is as clear as a pattern on the palm of their hand.
Seriously speaking, monsters are also magical creatures born from the infusion of rich magical elements, and they are extremely sensitive to the flow and changes of elemental particles. How could they allow an outsider to frantically plunder the magical elements that they depended on around their territory
So when the elemental altar is activated, I am afraid that this witch tower will become the target of collective resentment and hatred of the surrounding monster lords!
When Greem figured out this truth, he immediately summoned Gargamel and asked him to contact Ava, the forest demon who had been wandering around the sickwood forest. Sure enough, half a day later, the forest demon sent back a message, and the surrounding monsters did change, and they seemed to be slowly approaching the direction of the diseased forest.
It was only then that Greem understood why Alice had to send people to send 120,000 magic crystals. It's not to support his own tower construction, but to support his own tower defense!
So far, the Wuta Elemental Altar has been in operation for a day and a night, but the ** magic energy hoarded in the central element pool has not even covered the bottom of the pool. This is not to mention the lower branch element pool and the lower mana pool. They are still full of aerosol-like magic energy, which is not thick enough to form a magic liquid.
Now most of the free magic elements absorbed by the Wuta every day are used to maintain and transform the space environment inside the Wuta, and only a small part of the remaining energy can be imported into the element pool to settle down. If monsters attack, the Wu Tower must support the entire defense system. At that time... I am afraid that it will not be able to make ends meet simply by absorbing free magic elements.
Greem asked the chip to take charge of the statistics.
If the witch tower closes all non-essential witchcraft facilities and rune witch arrays, then the magical elements gathered in the elemental altar every day can probably be condensed into 27-28 magic crystals. But in this way, it is tantamount to forcing the wizards and apprentices stationed in the tower to endure the invasion of the harsh surrounding environment.
Without air-closed windows, without the protection of the Wu Tower, and without environmental regulation, the underground world where the Wu Tower is located is so dry and hot, but lonely and desolate, I am afraid that it is difficult for individuals to bear it!
And if you run the protection of the witch tower, you need to occupy 12-15 magic crystals in this aspect. If the relevant witchcraft facilities are activated, then the consumption of 20-22 magic crystals becomes indispensable.
After all, there are many witchcraft secret doors, protective witch formations, warning runes and exploration crystals in the tower. These things also need to consume the magic energy inside the witch tower when they are in operation. If you take into account the witch beasts, golem constructs and witchcraft gardens that you may have in the later stage, the energy consumption of the witch tower will be even more terrifying!
The idea of relying on the Wu Tower to slowly hoard magic crystals for profit is simply childish and ridiculous.
This is also one of the main reasons why most Wu Towers only open the minimum level of Wu Tower protection in peacetime!
Once a war breaks out and Wuta's defense system is fully activated, then... that Wuta will instantly become a big gold-swallowing household. The speed at which it devours the magic crystal can make the wizard of the tower master cry bitterly.
The situation that Greem is facing at the moment is that other Wu Towers may still have dozens or even hundreds of years of magical energy reserves. But his Wu Tower is poor and empty, and the clean warehouse can starve to death mice. As for the most critical reserve of magic crystals, Greem has nothing, and the entire Wu Tower has been in a state of 'running away'!
Such a Wuta can also fight
Holding the magic crystals Kirby brought in his hands, Greem instantly understood their weight.
This is not a magic crystal, it is clearly the life of Wuta under his feet!
If he was the only one in the room at the moment, he would have the urge to hug each other and cry. But at the moment, the two direct subordinates were staring at him closely. No matter how much resentment and grievance he felt, Greem could only hold it in his heart and slowly digest it.
Greem smiled lightly. (Actually he wanted to cry!)
"Things are not that bad!" Greem put his hand on his forehead and thought seriously: "First of all, this witch tower is not on the surface, so it will not be so easily besieged by wild beasts. In this way, even if the monsters drive a large number of wild beasts, they will It's also easy to get lost in the dark and well-connected underground labyrinth. It's easy to build a first line of defense there!"
"Secondly, this is only the edge of the Black Forest, and there is little possibility of Tier 2 monsters appearing. If it's just a group of Tier 1 monsters, with the defense of the Wu Tower, we may have some extra gains if we defend well and counterattack."
"The most important point is that there is a sea of lava under our feet. If you anger me and mobilize the power of Wuta to extract the magma and pour it into this cave group, how much combat power will the attacking monsters have left?"
Through rational analysis and battle situation research and judgment, Greem listed the pros and cons of the battle one by one, and unexpectedly discovered that he did not seem to be in a situation where he was completely beaten. It was also at this moment that Greem suddenly realized that Alice strongly supported his purpose of coming here to build the tower.
This is indeed an excellent area that is completely suitable for my own development!
First of all, there are no large wizard families in the surrounding area, and there are no too terrifying monsters, which avoids the troubles in the process of Greem's rise. Secondly, there really is a hidden volcanic lava sea under the sickwood forest, which is of great significance to Greem's future growth.
As long as he can resist this wave of monsters, then when the Wuta's light shines on the nearby forest, this black forest will become his territory. If the monsters couldn't drive him out, then they could only leave here sadly and go to a farther place to resettle their homes.
And there are not many safe territories for them to migrate in the Black Forest, so even for the sake of their own group, this group of monsters who are usually not in harmony will gather together and attack Greem's witch tower madly.
So Greem will soon face an extremely difficult battle of protection!
...
Stone Hammer Ruins.
In a weathered stone forest 30 miles east of the diseased wood forest.
The forest demon Ava stood alone on a tall stone pillar, and the surrounding weathered and damaged stone pillars were thick or thin, tall or short, and so on.
Standing on the stone pillar and looking around, the surrounding is a monotonous world composed of yellow and black. Countless canyons, stone forests, and caves are covered by black forest seas, forming extremely complex terrains, and becoming the best habitat for monsters.
In the darkness, I don't know how many dangerous guys are hiding in the shadows and caves, silently watching here.
Called by Tula, the oldest demon hunter spider, all wizard-level monster leaders in the nearby forests have gathered here, discussing fiercely the group of human wizards that appeared in the manticore territory in recent days.
They all have a deep understanding of the recent magic changes around the diseased forest.
The abnormal shock and loss of that magic element has already posed a serious threat to all the monsters present. Even many veteran monsters can insist that human wizards have built a witch tower there, otherwise the abnormal changes in magic power in the Black Forest cannot be explained.
Wuta!
Mentioning this name, all the monsters couldn't help but change their expressions slightly.
This... is a name that all monsters hate and fear!
Because hearing it means that the monsters will have to pay a huge price for it.
Territory, hunting grounds...even life!