Time flies by imperceptibly.
Sixty-seven years...
If it were a human being, perhaps most of the life would just disappear. But for wizards whose basic lifespan is as high as two or three hundred years, it is only 1/4 or less of their lifespan.
As for those guys who have alienated their bodies and embarked on the road of blood mutation or elemental body, their life span is as high as four to five hundred years. And it's not surprising that a vampire like Mary even reached a millennium.
Same Fire Throne, same Wizard Tower.
But the wizard apprentices living inside have undergone earth-shaking changes.
...
Horus.
A senior apprentice affiliated to the Flame Throne Witch Tower.
He has a fair face, a tall and strong body, and wears a gray apprentice's short robe all the year round.
As an outsider, he was recommended to the tower by a sojourner wizard twenty years ago. The sojourner wizard is also his only relative in this world.
But unfortunately, in a mysterious expedition invitation, his elder wizard did not return successfully. As a result, Horus, who lost his backer, could only live alone in this mysterious and strange wizard tower.
Fortunately, the owner of this tower is wise and kind. Although the appearance is a bit wretched, he has created a relaxed and excellent learning and living environment for Wuta apprentices. Perhaps because his referee was a sojourner, Horus also got a job as a librarian.
In this way, even if he doesn't have to follow the mercenary team to take risks in the Black Forest, he can easily earn 30 magic crystals and 10 contribution points every month. This is enough for him to live comfortably in the Wu Tower!
In the Flaming Throne Wizard Tower, there are seven or eight guys with similar identities to him, most of them are wizard apprentices who have no other place to go, and simply regard this tower as their eternal home.
It's a pity that an overly comfortable life can easily slow down their witchcraft mastering speed and spell proficiency. Therefore, many of them are stuck in the position of senior apprentices, and have not made any progress for many years.
Many times, Horus couldn't help secretly wondering whether he should give up this comfortable life, and follow the mercenary team deep into the Black Forest like those combat apprentices, under the fangs and claws of monsters. Sharpen your fighting skills.
In the past ten years, only one quasi-sorcerer successfully advanced to the rank of wizard and became the ninth resident wizard of the Flame Throne Wizard Tower. However, there were as many as three quasi-witches who fell in the promotion ceremony, and Horus only attended the funerals of two of them. The third one was unable to see his 'partner' off in person because his family was too far away from the Wu Tower, and he had a part-time job in the Wu Tower.
And this has become one of the main reasons why Horus has been depressed for the past six months.
For a long time, the success rate of apprentices to become wizards has not been high. Out of every four or five quasi-shamans, it is already very good to have one successful promotion.
The Flaming Throne Wizard Tower maintains the rate of one advanced wizard appearing every ten years, which is already a completely astonishing number in the outside world!
The current Flame Throne Wizard Tower has 9 resident wizards and 12 resident wizards. Such a number is enough to crush more than half of the wizard towers in the central part of the continent.
And the many wizards also attracted many wizard apprentices.
The current Flame Throne Wizard Tower has a total of 215 apprentice wizards, including 17 quasi-sorcerers, 78 senior apprentices, and several intermediate and junior apprentices...
Due to the sufficient number of wizards and the various fields of wizardry they are good at, almost all the basic wizardry courses known in the wizarding world are offered in the wizarding tower. And every two or three days, there will be a master lecture that is completely open to the public.
These masters are all powerful wizards with enviable achievements in certain fields. For example, the witch Mary, who is good at melee combat, talked about the attack skills of combat wizards. Magic and poisonous science, such as entomology described by the strange wizard Billis, such as the gentle and beautiful witch Meryl, who described instant witchcraft skills, such as the mechanical wizard Sabrina whose body has been mostly alienated. What is more is the magical structure...
And Horus was very fortunate to be able to get in close contact with all the wizards of the Wuta, and was deeply grateful for the strength of the wizards.
However, recently, there was one thing that deeply troubled Horus.
That is, wizard Ava who was in charge of teaching magical botany suddenly stopped teaching, and turned down several open classes in the academic hall, and disappeared without a trace. This undoubtedly attracted the attention of several apprentices who were learning this knowledge.
And Horus was apparently one of them.
The Gargamel wizard hadn't shown up for several days. Maybe ask about Wizard Ava next time I see him...
Horus was tidying up the library diligently while daydreaming silently.
However, how did he know that at this moment, on the 5th floor of the Wu Tower, a strange event that has almost never appeared in the world of wizards is being intensely 'in progress'...
...
The Wu Tower has 5 floors.
A small secret room was isolated as a temporary 'delivery room', and the heart-piercing screams affected the emotions of several people present at all times.
Like an ordinary human husband, Gargamel, who was thin and haggard like a big mouse, twirled his beard and hurried around outside the secret room.
At this moment, the one who is hiding in the 'delivery room' is the forest demon Ava who has been pregnant for 69 years, that is, the glamorous, beautiful, but mysterious wizard Ava in the eyes of Wuta apprentices.
At this moment, it was the female wizards in the Wu Tower, Mary, Meryl, Endor, and Sabrina, who were busy in and out of the delivery room.
However, although they all have witchcraft knowledge far surpassing human polymaths and fierceness far surpassing bloody butchers, they can only be helpless when facing the strange half-human, half-demon fetus in the body of the forest demon Ava, even In many cases, she was more flustered than Ava who was hoarse and screaming in pain.
The fetus in Ava's body has obviously exceeded the scope of normal life. The basic characteristics of half-human and half-demon make it a strange life form that is difficult for outsiders to define. Therefore, what method should be used to deliver the baby has become the most troublesome problem for several 'midwives' witches!
But what makes them even more troublesome is that this strange little life seems to be in a stage of crazy growth. When it was about to fall out of Ava's abdomen, it pulled out more than a dozen fleshy filaments from its long and narrow body like a pod and pierced into the forest demon Ava's body, frantically absorbing the opponent's vitality.
Seeing that the forest demon Ava's vitality continued to drop and her life was in danger, Mary immediately proposed to forcibly disembowel her to take out this 'troublesome' little guy. But this proposal was directly rejected by the painful Lin Yao Ai Wa.
As the mother of a strange life form, she can perceive that this kind of life backlash is crucial to the future development of small lives. Whether it is to suspend or interrupt this process, it will have a huge and irreparable impact on its future.
So... out of the desire to give birth to offspring, the forest demon Ava stopped everyone from intervening, and even called Gargamel into the delivery room, and began to explain the funeral.
Faced with this embarrassing situation where they couldn't be beaten, scolded, and couldn't help, the few female wizards could only keep fetching bottles of life potions, trying their best to maintain the life of the forest demon Ava.
But the effect is very little.
So, substitute dolls, false life potions, damage reduction rings... These various witchcraft items were all used in one go, but they still couldn't stop Ava's vitality from declining.
For this scene, although Gargamel was extremely distressed, he also understood Ava's feelings. So I didn't dare to mention the forced abortion anymore, I could only keep beating my head, and from time to time, I dug out some strange potions or plants from my waist pocket for Ava to swallow.
Watching one's lover die slowly with one's own eyes is simply the most terrifying torture in the world!
Billis, who had been watching coldly, was now an elite wizard. As a bloodthirsty and cruel insect wizard, he was obviously very puzzled by the irrational behavior of everyone.
Is there any value in keeping a descendant of Lord Devourer
There is simply no second answer to this question in his mind!
In his eyes, all creatures in the world are either his prey or his slaves. How could it be possible to give up oneself to others and give up one's life to a descendant who is completely strange!
This has completely exceeded the scope of his thinking and understanding of the bugman wizard!
As for Am and Desera, who later joined the ranks of Wuta wizards, they could only wait for the result silently, and were not qualified to interfere with the decisions of these veteran wizards.
Amu was promoted to the rank of wizard 50 years ago, and she was also the second quasi-sorcerer of Greem's disciples after Meryl. As for the other two quasi-witch disciples from Greem's older batch, Tolie and Linna, one died directly due to failure in promotion, and the other also lost nearly 80% of its vitality after failing, and there was no news after returning to the family sadly.
Since Greem had completely sealed himself off, after Amu and the others, he almost never accepted any apprentices. So Wizard Desera, who was promoted by accident, was actually a disciple of Wizard Meryl.
Counting like this, this wizard Desera can already be counted as the third generation wizard of the Throne of Fire!
"No, we can't keep procrastinating like this!" After simply estimating the speed at which Ava's vitality was shrinking, Meryl couldn't help but anxiously said: "Master Mary, you should inform Teacher Greem! Maybe... maybe he What can be done to…”
Gargamel, who was about to tear off the goatee under his chin, suddenly raised his head, and his pupils the size of soybeans shone with hope.
Yes, if you go to the master, maybe, maybe... he will come up with some feasible solutions!
However, just as Mary opened her mouth to prophesy, a deep and deep voice suddenly sounded in the secret room.
"Don't shout, I'm already here..."