Half a day later, Greem and Mary finally returned to the Wizard Tower.
It wasn't until this time that they realized that the mandatory task team they were in had lost another member, Shila, and the rest of the members were also injured, and the team suffered heavy losses.
And what caused all this was four depraved quasi-witches who suddenly appeared.
After the sudden attack, Sabrina and the other three quasi-witches carried three of them, but the remaining corrupt quasi-witch still killed Shila and the other four and fled in embarrassment. And Sheila died on the way to escape.
Because those corrupt quasi-witches kept claiming that they came to Greem and Mary to seek revenge before they started their actions, so after they fled back to the surface, the shocked team members also blamed them both. Several senior apprentices asked them to be responsible for Shila's death and to take full responsibility for the failure of the mission.
When the Angus wizard who came to evaluate and receive the quest items appeared in the hall, Isaac jumped up and down even more.
"Master Wizard, it's them...it's because they insisted on leaving the team and provoked a retaliatory attack from the other four quasi-sorcerers, which led to the complete failure of our mission this time. You must punish them!"
The rest of Leander and Bruce also yelled loudly, looking angrily.
As for the two male quasi-shamans in the team, they all kept silent with ashen faces. Although they were not yet able to do things that were too much for others, they were obviously dissatisfied with Greem and Mary in their hearts. Due to the difference in level, they suffered countless losses in the fair battle with the underground fallen quasi-shaman, and all of them fled back with injuries.
The only one in the entire team who can escape unscathed is probably that Sabrina.
"Jie, jie, jie..." Wizard Angus sneered, "You don't need to play tricks in front of me anymore. There are not a few apprentices who come to the trial every year to have internal strife. Your little thoughts and small calculations, my lord can't do it. I'm too lazy to care about it. My lord only cares about what you brought back to the wizard's tower?"
Everyone looked at Sabrina in unison.
Sabrina, who couldn't see the expression on her face, spread her hands and handed over the 4 mission props she had mastered. It can be seen that only one of the four mission props has been lit.
"Only completed one quest? What about another quest item?" Wizard Angus' face turned cold instantly.
"Here I am!" Mary stepped forward and spread her palms.
There, a mission prop that has been lit up is impressive.
"You only completed 2 of the 5 missions. According to the prior agreement, you can be exempted from the punishment for mission failure, but don't even think about the mission rewards."
Hearing that they could be exempted from mission punishment, the faces of the senior apprentices in the team couldn't help but feel relieved. But what Wizard Angus said next shocked them on the spot.
"In addition, I will announce an internal decision of the Wizard Tower Committee. In view of the good performance of Greem and Mary during the elite missions of the training camp, this committee has made a special decision to transfer them to the training camp and no longer need to participate in compulsory missions. Trial."
Although Wizard Angus's words were low and hoarse, they fell on the ears of the team members, but they were no less than a bolt from the blue, instantly knocking them out of their minds.
"This...how is this possible?" Isaac yelled in horror: "My lord, this is unreasonable! There are only 8 people left in our team, and if you transfer 2 of them away, what will we do next? We are going to protest…”
Before he finished speaking, a black chain suddenly flew out of the void, and in an instant, he bound Isaac tightly.
"What? Is there anyone here who dares to question the authority of the Wizard Tower Committee? Boy, tell you, never challenge the authority and dignity of a wizard head-on. This is to teach you to be a good boy. Next time, my lord will not be so good I let you go!"
Following Angus wizard's cold words and warning, the black chain suddenly turned red, and instantly turned into a burning hot metal iron chain, burning Isaac's flesh and sizzling. When Angus's tone gradually became high-pitched, the iron chain began to tighten continuously, and the red-hot chain completely sank into Isaac's flesh and blood, squeezing the bones and creaking.
And Isaac's own magic resistance seemed to have disappeared suddenly, and he couldn't resist the fire chain punishment of Angus wizard at all. After screaming a few times, Isaac passed out under the intense pain.
With a snap of the fingers, the chain of fire disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared.
The torch-like pupils of Wizard Angus swept across the crowd, and all the team members lowered their heads with stinging eyes and dared not look directly.
"This is a small punishment for you. The purpose of you coming here is to exercise your strength and complete the task, not to shirk and argue or engage in internal strife! If you are not strong enough to crush those black bastards, then give I will learn to be smart and use your strategy and unity to defeat the enemy and successfully complete the mission. Not enough people? Then go to the lobby on the first floor to recruit! You can see if there are any idiots who are willing to accept your employment!"
After the rare long speech, Angus turned his attention to Greem again.
"Boy, I heard that your ability to hide your strength is very good! Haha, it seems that you also know that keeping a low profile is the first element of life-saving. However, it is not a good thing to hide too deeply. A strong person should have the bearing of a strong person He Weiyan, if you show your skills earlier, maybe this team will become your little brother, and all the women in the team will become your slaves. Isn't this more interesting than your low-key self-protection? Come on, show your this time Let me see the harvest!"
Uh... It seems that this Angus wizard was not a quiet guy when he was an apprentice.
While complaining angrily, Greem and Mary took out the spoils of this underground trip. The two people, the heads of the two fallen apprentices, were both senior apprentices.
The faces of the team members who had been watching from the sidelines became extremely ugly, and only the Angus wizard laughed out of satisfaction.
"Not bad! I went to the underground twice and brought back 2 human heads. It really is the most suitable witchcraft talent for dark crypts. Boy, you have a bright future, and I am very optimistic about you! Tell me, you plan to exchange these heads for What reward?"
Greem's heart filled with resentment for his escape from death during this underground trip. A quasi-witch-level rock python just obtained was destroyed in the hands of the enemy in vain, which undoubtedly deeply stimulated him!
"Elemental crystal nuclei with a breath of life, preferably earth-type, quasi-witch-level." Greem gritted his teeth, and was no longer going to hide his talent in refining puppet creatures. After all, the appearance of the rock python earlier, in the eyes of those who are interested, is enough for them to guess something.
If I keep keeping a low profile like this, I'm afraid I won't be so lucky in my next underground trip.
"Jie Jie Jie... two human heads, you can exchange for two quasi-shaman-level earth crystal cores, here..." Angus grabbed the two heads and stuffed them into a washbasin-sized space rift that suddenly opened in front of him. Then, two earth-type crystal nuclei flashing with bright fluorescence were taken from it and thrown to Greem, then turned and left.
The master left, and the rest of the people looked at each other, with unprecedented embarrassment on their faces.
Greem nodded towards Sabrina, and pulled Mary straight back to the residence.
This trip underground also made Greem and Mary deeply realize their shortcomings. So in the next period of time, the two of them were busy in their own way, trying their best to make up for their own shortcomings.
All Greem can do now is to eat and drink every day, build a solid foundation of physical fitness, and then take a bottle of concentration potion every three days, trying to improve his mental strength. As for the two quasi-witch-level earth system crystal nuclei, they quickly turned into two rock python puppets.
Mary, on the other hand, deeply felt her lack of attack power and lack of resistance, so she spent a large sum of magic crystals to acquire a pair of "cruel claws" to enhance her attack power.
This pair of cruel claws is divided into left and right hands, which are a pair of finger-shaped melee attack witch weapons. The additional effect of the left hand is tearing, and the additional effect of the right hand is bleeding, which can be considered to complement the Mary attribute. If during the battle, Mary pours the energy of her own bloodline into her finger cuffs, she will also get an additional +2 sharpness effect.
And Mary also took great pains to enhance her magic resistance.
It would be too long to exercise her magic resistance ability a little bit now, so Mary mainly bought some trinkets that increase resistance. Like that time when she went through the lightning trap, if she had a lightning resistance necklace with +2 electric resistance on her body, she wouldn't end up being burnt on the outside and tender on the inside.
This time, Greem handed over all the magic crystal cards to Mary, and then released all the magic crystal cards. Marie waved the magic crystal and bought a lot of resistance jewelry and witchcraft potions in one go. While Mary was squandering the magic crystal crazily, Greem had a "warm and friendly" conversation with the Snorlax in the residence.
At this time, Snorkel still looks like a green-skinned goblin, probably the only change is that there is a magic collar with hidden runes around its neck. This magic collar is also a special witch weapon, which is specially used to imprison those subspecies that do not obey orders.
There is a circle of witchcraft runes etched on the inside of the magic collar, and through three thin needles piercing the target's neck, it slowly absorbs the magic power in the target's body to maintain its own operation. Any act of breaking the magic collar will cause a strong lightning strike, and the same effect will be caused by being too far away from the caster.
The only way to remove the collar is through witchcraft spells invoked by the caster in a specific order.
So when he came back, he put a magic collar on Snorkel, and Greem really let go of his worries.
And this extremely clever Snorkel was obviously used to the life of being enslaved and imprisoned, and did not show any resistance to Greem's behavior.