It is precisely because the existence of the Dark Crypt is of great significance to the many wizard families in the Dagon region that some foreign elite apprentices like Greem are their favorite targets to recruit.
First of all, attracting such outsiders will not cause too much impact on their inherent interest pattern. How dare a wizard apprentice without family support openly offend those formal wizards, so the elite apprentices recruited will only become their most powerful thugs, but they cannot take advantage of the situation and become their competitors.
Secondly, the underground world is not peaceful. The rare resources urgently needed by the surface wizards are also the targets of the underground black cubs. Therefore, every underground exploration and harvesting trip is also the beginning of a melee between the two sides.
Due to long-term exploration and development, the rare resources of underground specialties have been discovered and marked by both parties one by one in the form of resource points. Both parties know when each resource in it will mature and when it needs to be harvested. Therefore, around these resource points, every harvest is a bloody fight to the death.
In this melee, neither side will send official wizards, and the scale of the battle will be limited to the level of wizard apprentices. Only the winners of the battles between the two sides are eligible to enter the resource point harvesting. As for the losers, they may run away with injuries, or even lose their lives there.
And this kind of bloody fighting between you and me has lasted for more than 300 years in the area of the dark crypt, and it has almost become an unwritten rule here. The two sides use strong apprentices as bargaining chips and use them to compete for a fixed monthly resource share. The winner takes all, and the loser dies. It is a great stage for quasi-shamans to show off their skills.
Now Greem has been favored by the training camp led by the bald Afu because of his special ability, so he is fortunate to join it and become a member of the elite apprentices. In this way, he will be even busier. In addition to participating in the apprenticeship mission organized by the Wizard Association every 15 days, he also needs to participate in the underground tour organized by the training camp from time to time.
In this way, Greem's rate of obtaining contribution points will definitely be far faster than ordinary people.
After basically figuring out the situation in the training camp, Greem bid farewell to Kevin and returned to his residence.
After locking the door and making sure the surrounding area was safe, Greem took off the strange objects and witchcraft equipment on his body one by one.
Noble Circlet, Thorn Armor Bracelet, Boots of Swiftness, Screaming Branch, Gnomish Engineering Goggles...
After he confirmed that he didn't have any witchcraft effects on him, he ordered softly.
"Chip, start to detect my current physical condition..."
"Drip, accept the task, start scanning the subject..."
Zizizi...
As the slow and detailed mental waves spread throughout his body, Greem's latest body data was projected very quickly.
Name: Greem
Race: Human
Attributes: strength 4.17, agility 4.36, constitution 4.98, mental power 8.42
Occupation: Wizard's Apprentice (Junior)
Health: 18/18
Professional experience: 765/1000
Status: healthy
Occupational skills: copying scrolls, reading spells, making golems (primary)
Personal skills: Burning Hand (hardened), Flame Arrow (hardened), Flame Spear (hardened)
Looking at the rows of data, Greem couldn't help but smile.
Compared with his weak body before, Greem's various physical statistics have begun to rise in an all-round way. The most prominent among them is undoubtedly the item of physique, which directly jumped by nearly 2 points. You know, a month ago, Greem's physique was only 3 points, and he was considered to be the weakest type among wizard apprentices.
Although the other three physical attributes have not improved much, they have all improved significantly.
Greem browsed through his own body data, and then finished it in the chair. He casually took out a bottle of concentration potion from his storage belt, and held it in front of his eyes to examine it silently.
The light blue potion was gently rippling in the vulcanized vial, and fine blue particles could be vaguely seen inside. It's just that when the breath is isolated, it is difficult for the chip to accurately analyze the witchcraft ingredients in the potion.
Greem gently uncorked the bottle, and immediately a fishy wind unique to the sea entered his nostrils. Without the slightest hesitation, Greem raised his neck and swallowed the potion in one gulp.
As soon as he took the potion, a light blue mist spewed out from his nostrils, condensing into a finger-sized poignant mermaid in front of him. The pocket version of the mermaid withered and aged rapidly in the air. When its illusory body was about to wither, a shrill and sharp howl suddenly sounded in the house.
The howling didn't last long, and soon the phantom of the mermaid disappeared as the mist dissipated, but that sharp voice penetrated a mournful curse into Greem's mind.
"Chip, what happened just now?"
"Drip, the existence of the curse of flesh and blood is detected... Preliminary estimates are the negative effects attached to the potion... If it is removed, the efficacy of the potion will be reduced... Please choose whether to mobilize the mental power to dispel the curse of flesh and blood?"
Greem sighed secretly.
It has long been heard that the concentration potion has strong side effects, and now it seems to be completely true. If you want to improve your spiritual power, you can only silently endure the ravages of the curse of flesh and blood.
"No. Only keep dynamic monitoring!"
"Accept the order. The effect of the medicine is starting to work..."
On the body monitoring data projected in front of Greem's eyes, the series of numbers belonging to mental strength began to slowly increase, and simultaneously, the physical fitness also began to drop significantly.
8.43… 8.44… 8.47… 8.53… 8.62…
4.98… 4.97… 4.95… 4.92…
Fortunately, the earth fire dragon's flesh and blood that just had a full meal yesterday gave Greem far more blood than usual, and it relieved the pain in his internal organs that was like being eaten by thousands of ants and insects, otherwise even he himself would have died. Not sure if I can sustain this painful process.
Feeling the heart-wrenching pain coming from all parts of his body, the only thing that can make him feel happy is the constantly rising mental power.
8.98…
9.03…
9.08…
Greem grinned grinning when he saw his mental power finally surpassed 8 points and successfully rose to 9 points.
In the end, the mental power data was fixed at 9.27 and stopped increasing, so Greem snorted.
"Chip, dispel the curse of flesh and blood!"
"Accept the order! Start releasing fire elemental particles..."
As waves of warm heat continued to rush through his body, the feeling of soreness, numbness and pain finally began to subside and disappeared completely. At this time, Grimm's physical data has become: strength 4.12, agility 4.36, physique 4.21, mental strength 9.27.
Uh... This bottle of concentration potion brought Greem a 0.85 increase in mental power, but at the same time, his constitution dropped by 0.77 points, and his strength also declined by 0.05 points.
Greem stood up and moved around. Although the sense of emptiness brought about by his physical decline was present, it was not as strong as expected. It seems that the big meal he enjoyed yesterday still brought him many hidden benefits! However, the increase in spiritual power brought Greem a comprehensive strength improvement. Both the quickness of mental thinking and the depth of spiritual perception have been greatly improved compared to the past.
Feeling itchy, Greem hesitated for half a second, then took out a bottle of concentration potion from his storage belt, uncorked the bottle and poured it with his head up.
The same journey, the same curse of flesh and blood, with strong expectations, Greem endured the huge side effects of the potion, and tried to focus his energy on the continuously rising mental power data.
9.29…
9.33…
9.46…
9.52…
…
In contrast, there was a slight alarm from the chip.
"Warning, the flesh and blood tissue damage of the subject's body has exceeded 17%."
"The damage has exceeded 19%."
"The damage has exceeded 21%."
"Drip... Warning, the damage has exceeded 25%. If left unchecked, the subject will enter a short-term weakened state. Would you like to intervene?"
Greem gritted his teeth slightly, and said in a deep voice, "No!"
The original tingling pain has now turned into a sharp pain like piercing the heart. Beads of sweat rolled down Greem's forehead. Despite not fainting. If he really fainted, then he lost his control, and the curse of flesh and blood could only be allowed to dissipate on its own. And this will undoubtedly bring him more physical loss!
So even if it's just to reduce the loss of 0.01 of his physique, he must tenaciously stay awake.
9.87…
"The damage has reached 22%."
9.93…
"The damage has reached 23%."
9.99…
"The damage has reached 24%."
"The damage has reached 25%."
Greem finally yelled loudly after sensing that the mental power data was no longer changing.
"Start expulsion!"
When the warm torrent surged in the body again, the pain finally began to subside completely.
Greem supported the armrests of the seat with both hands and tried twice in a row but failed to stand up. His painful and almost numb body no longer listened to his command. And at this time, his body data was finally refreshed.
Strength 4.02, Dexterity 4.28, Physique 3.17, Mental Power 10.03.
Finally broke through 10 o'clock!
From this moment on, Greem has been honored to be an intermediate apprentice.
It only took Greem one and a half months to upgrade from a junior apprentice with 8 points to an intermediate apprentice with 10 points, but it took him 6 years to upgrade from a junior apprentice with 6 points to 8 points. There is a big difference between having resources and not having resources, which can be seen at a glance.
But for this, Greem also paid a huge physical price.
Mental strength has increased from 9.27 to 10.03, a small level has been crossed, but physical fitness has shrunk from 4.21 to 3.17, and the drop is astonishing. Along with it, Greem's strength also faded by 0.1 points, and his agility faded by 0.08 points.
The damage to the body caused by the concentration potion is indeed cumulative!