Age of Adepts

Chapter 45: Everything is ready

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Led by the crocodile hunter, Greem quickly shuttled 3 meters below the ground like a fish swimming in water.

Through the dense mist of earth elements, the mental power continuously conveyed everything sensed along the way back to Greem's mind. Curled ancient tree roots, broken sandstone rocks, creeping subterranean insects and reptiles, gophers and cockroaches curled up in small nests, rotting dead tree branches, unknown broken pieces...

It was just a short journey, and Greem had a glimpse of another alternative world that was completely different from his previous cognition. And in this secret world, Greem is like a ruthless emperor overlooking the world, without thinking or self. If he really wanted to, with just one thought, the Crocodile Hunter could turn this place upside down.

Although he also wanted to experience this alternative perspective of traveling around the ground more, but he couldn't stand it after only a quarter of an hour.

This time it wasn't that he was exhausted, but that he was almost out of breath.

As an apprentice wizard who has mastered extraordinary power, Greem's body is far stronger than ordinary people in terms of resistance and endurance. Ordinary people would probably pass out after holding their breath for a minute, but he didn't feel depressed until he persisted for half an hour.

Under his signal, the crocodile hunter's body vibrated with soil elements, separated the thick soil layer above his head, and slowly drilled out of the ground.

The sudden appearance of the crocodile hunter surprised the surrounding monsters. Amidst countless sharp baby cries, negative curses rained down on them.

"Damn it, you got into the baby monster's nest!" Greem cursed in a low voice, driving the crocodile hunter to rush out of the baby monster's encirclement.

Although the "curse" ability of baby monsters is weird and hard to defend, they are just a group of low-level monsters after all. When facing semi-elemental crocodile hunters, their negative curse success rate is not high. Instead, the native hunter on the back of the crocodile threw several spears out one after another and shot and killed two baby monsters, and the rest of them dispersed in a rush, hiding in the grass and not daring to act rashly.

Perhaps it wasn't until this moment that Greem vaguely understood the mentality of Alice and the three of them when they broke into the magic swamp. Once they have the strength and capital of senior apprentices, ordinary low-level monsters are indeed no threat to them. Facing a group of ants and maggots that can be easily exterminated, it is no wonder that they still behaved so unscrupulously even though they knew this was a forbidden area.

To be honest, if Wizard Anderson didn't take action, the wizard apprentices and swamp monsters here alone would not be able to do anything to the three of them.

As for what happened to Alice, it was completely an accident.

It is precisely because Alice's ability is too strong and her strength is too terrifying that the evil insect Entik has to fight her desperately. Coupled with Greem, who is not very strong, but has a poisonous and accurate vision, Alice was deflated one after another, and almost lost her life in the mud swamp.

These nasty baby monsters were a group of terrifying and difficult monsters to Greem before. Once caught in their siege, even with the protection of witchcraft amulets, his fate will be very miserable. But now, with the help of the crocodile hunter, Greem could kill them like a dog, and he no longer felt the fear and panic he had before.

So inadvertently, Greem's mentality also began to change bit by bit.

Bullying the weak, the weak preying on the strong, domineering... These words sound harsh, but if you really want to be the strong one, it's pretty cool to practice.

After driving the crocodile hunter out of the Whispering Garden, Greem jumped off the puppet until he reached the gravel path, dispelled the earth element, and put away the two summoning crystal nuclei again. This place is already very close to the entrance of the swamp tower, and it's time for Greem to return to his original low-key and weak appearance.

Pulling up the hood again to hide his face, Greem quietly slipped back to the tower.

This experiment was very successful, and it greatly boosted Greem's confidence. But at the same time, some problems were exposed, the most serious problem was how to sneak underground for a long time.

Crocodile Hunter may not need to breathe, but Greem does! In the depths of the ground, protected by the earth elements scattered by the crocodile hunter, Greem also has the ability to travel underground. However, there is no air in the ground. If this breathing problem is not resolved, it will still be difficult for him to sneak underground for a long time.

Therefore, after returning to the Swamp High Tower, in the next few days, Greem went back and forth among the apprentices all day long, looking for solutions to the two problems of dark vision and underground breathing. Occasionally, he would sneak out of the tower and look for monsters suitable for making golems in the magic swamp.

It's a pity that even on the last day, he didn't find a suitable monster.

After all, the Magic Swamp is just an extremely ordinary wizard family resource point. The more planted and cultivated here are just some ordinary monsters suitable for feeding and harvesting, so it is almost delusional to want to harvest monster crystal nuclei here in large quantities. The Simba and the giant crocodile that Greem harvested are also rare advanced monsters in the magic swamp in the past century, otherwise he would not even be able to get such a harvest.

However, although he did not obtain a new crystal nucleus, Greem took the opportunity to collect a batch of monster materials and witchcraft materials. Using these things, Greem took some more practical trinkets from those apprentices.

Among them, what satisfied Greem the most was an exquisite aristocratic headband.

Wearing the aristocratic headband on his head, the clear diamond at the front of the headband was pressing in the middle of Greem's forehead, and what it brought to Greem apart from a gentle and refined temperament was a slight increase in mental power +1.

For advanced apprentices, this headband has lost its stimulating and strengthening effect on mental power, but for Greem, whose mental power is only 8 points, it can bring him a considerable improvement.

The problem with dark vision has also been resolved.

The solution is a kind of gnome engineering goggles!

According to the intermediate apprentice traded to Greem, this should be a crystallization of civilization from another plane. Wearing the goggles formed by the combination of the black leather case and the transparent crystal, Greem could see everything around him clearly in the dim light environment.

After Greem took it back, he had the chip scanned and analyzed. This weird thing should be a product of a mechanical civilization. The existence of elemental fluctuations cannot be felt on it, just like a mortal item. And the reason why it can see things in low light is all thanks to those underground crystals that have been polished with special techniques.

As for the composition of the spar, the chip has also analyzed it. It is not a product of the wizarding world, but should also be a special product of the plane where this mechanical civilization is located.

As a large plane, the wizarding world has also captured and enslaved countless small and medium planes, and this dwarf engineering goggle may come from a sub-plane that was enslaved.

In the general perception of the wizarding world, only official wizards are qualified to travel to other worlds, and below official wizards, even those quasi-shamans with outstanding talents are not eligible to participate in the conquest of other planes. So Greem could only imagine what this mechanical civilization world might look like, while carefully pocketing the dwarf engineering goggles.

As for the problem of underground breathing, Greem also solved it through biological means.

Among the tower apprentices, there is also a guy who is good at biological transformation. He used snake vine grass and rootless purple leaf flowers, together with strange things such as insect oil and toad droppings, to make a breath similar to grass leaf insects. organ. When Greem needs to go into a certain closed environment, as long as he stuffs this respiratory organ into his mouth in time, he will temporarily gain the ability to breathe through his skin.

And when he doesn't need assisted breathing, he just needs to spit out the object, and the ability will disappear with it. Since this is only an auxiliary organ, not an organ replacement, there is no problem of blood contamination.

After solving these problems, Greem finally let go of his worries, and no longer easily stepped out of the door of the residence. He spent the whole day either meditating or studying and understanding the witchcraft books that were just collected.

And on the fifth day after accepting the mandatory mission, Greem finally received the chip reminder that Yanya had completed optimization.

"Drip, Yanya's mental power model has been optimized... May I ask if you want to display the optimized content?"

"Show!" Greem replied impatiently.

Following the appearance of a long series of data streams, Greem's mind projected a large-scale optimized appearance of the long-range witchcraft, Flame Arrow.

If the flame arrow was just a magic arrow before, it now looks like a flame spear. The docile and stagnant high-temperature flame condensed into the form of a spear. With Greem's thought, it can be shot out quickly, causing both physical and flame damage to the enemy.

Flame Spear, a medium-level offensive witchcraft of the fire system, can condense flames into spears to attack the enemy. Physical damage: 11 points. Fire damage: 21 points. Attack distance: 5-300 meters. Cost of magic power: 24 points.

With Greem's spiritual power of 9.37 points after wearing the noble headband, the magic power he possesses is only 94 points. For mid-level offensive witchcraft like Flame Spear, at most 4 of them will be activated and the mental power will be exhausted. Therefore, it is more appropriate to reserve a method like this as a trump card at a critical time.

After all, with the attack power of the flame spear, it is no problem to break through the magic protection of an intermediate apprentice with one blow. Even when encountering senior apprentices with defensive witchcraft, Flame Spear is also an offensive witchcraft that should not be underestimated.

To be honest, until now, Greem has truly possessed a body skill that can be used. With it, Greem's next task and his party can be regarded as a guarantee.

Finally, amidst the uneasy waiting and suffering of many tower apprentices, the day of departure came.