The moment he opened his eyes, Grimm quickly stood up and looked around vigilantly.
Hm?
Where were the corpses of those otherworld beings? Even the bloodstains were gone.
However, the two otherworld creature organ specimens beside Grimm told Grimm that everything in his memory was real. He really did have a fierce battle.
Frowning, Grimm threw the two otherworld creature organ specimens into his space pocket. He suddenly discovered the translucent ring of light above his head. He touched it with his hand in surprise, but it passed through. He couldn't even feel any traces of energy fluctuations.
What is this?
That's right!
Grimm suddenly looked up at the sky. It was still dusky, without the slightest abnormality. Grimm quickly ran to the edge of the competition stage. Below him was still a blur of gray, as if the competition stage he was in had pierced through the clouds.
Slowly, Grimm sank into contemplation.
His fainting was absolutely not due to a lack of physical strength. Although Grimm had fought against three otherworld beings that were equivalent to the guardian level of the academy, on one hand, those three otherworld beings all had considerable injuries. On the other hand, the Greedy Flame Giant's strength had greatly increased after devouring the hate, and there was also the Bloodlust Doll's long term corrosion from the radioactive stones …
Overall, after Grimm had successfully dealt with the first otherworld being, the rhythm of the battle afterwards had always been under Grimm's control.
Thus, Grimm didn't have another opportunity to use the Friendship Key of the Black Iso Tower.
But later, as the battle ended, Glenn, who was gasping for breath, suddenly felt an indescribably terrifying pressure descend upon him. Glenn, who was extremely weak, only had enough time to raise his head and look at the eyes that slowly opened behind the hundreds of meters long pitch-black crack before he completely fainted from exhaustion, weakness, and terrifying pressure.
Under the Ashen Mask, Grimm's eyes lost focus and sank into his memories.
Could it be …
That enormous eye behind the pitch-black crack was the Seven Rings Holy Tower's Celestial Sorcerer? If this was really the case …
Sure enough, to such a great existence, he was only a creature in a small bottle?
The opponent could only observe him through the mouth of the bottle, but a weak little creature like him had already fainted from the opponent's terrifying power.
If that was the case …
When Sorcerer Norris challenged the Tower of Destruction alone in the Black Isotta Sorcerer Academy, he had said that the Tower of Destruction's illusory realm was a permanent boundary left by the master of the Black Isotta Sorcerer Academy. Apart from the various illusory realms inside the Tower of Destruction, which could stimulate the mind power of all unknown sorcerer-apprentices and help them advance to an official sorcerer after passing all of them.
But before entering the Tower of Ruins, that huge eye in the sky, could it be that the Level-6 Stigmata Sorcerer Tower Master was trying to tell him something?
In the eyes of those great and noble Necromancers, Sorcerer-Apprentices were just bugs in a bottle?
Rumble!
Suddenly, after a series of violent noises, mechanical puppets, or perhaps mechanical puppets with a standard human body, rose from the competition stage. The guards of the seventh to eighth floors of the Black Iso Tower had two of these high level mechanical puppets.
It was said that this kind of puppetry technique was passed down from ancient sorcerers. However, in the current sorcerer world, only the Sky Holy Tower, which specialized in mechanics, still preserved this kind of knowledge.
On the Sorcerer Continent, even if there were sorcerers who occasionally researched mechanics, they would only use it as a supplementary modification for themselves. As for mechanical puppets, mechanical battle armors, and those legendary aerial fortresses, they simply wouldn't touch upon them.
(The Sky City and the Sky Holy Tower are very important places to the sorcerer world. They involve the ancient history of the sorcerer world as well as the evolution history afterwards. The second stage of the work will slowly unveil the mysterious veil of the sorcerer world's long history.)
Eh?
There were approximately 700 to 800 mechanical puppets. About half of them were still in perfect condition, while the other half had varying degrees of damage and lost their effectiveness.
At this moment, in the center of the competition stage, space distorted and an undamaged mechanical puppet appeared out of thin air. However, it was bound by a fire attribute light barrier.
* Ding … *
Within Grimm's soul, a few messages appeared after the crisp sound of a bell.
"Every apex sorcerer-apprentice on the competition stage has the opportunity to fight a worker-ant level mechanical puppet alone."
(Note: Sorcerer-Apprentices who have not obtained the apex reward on the competition stage do not have this opportunity. Mechanical puppets are divided into worker ants, soldier ants, and general ants.)
"Worker-ant level mechanical puppets are immune to body information curse sorcery and perception-disrupting illusions. Their defense against beheading type physical attacks is 220-250 degrees. Their defense against shock type physical attacks is 150-200 degrees. Their defense against negative energy type attacks is 120-350 degrees. Their defense against positive energy type attacks is 170-210 degrees. They can cause 120-250 degrees of standard physical attacks, corrosive ray attacks are 230 degrees, and disintegrating light waves are 270 degrees. "
"Worker-ant level mechanical puppets are the lowest level puppets used by ancient sorcerers for expeditions. They are also known as cannon fodder puppets. Because of their high cost and other shortcomings, their position has already been replaced by modern sorcerers' low-level soul slaves."
"You now have an hourglass of time to observe the historical imprints left on the worker-ant level mechanical puppets by past apex sorcerer-apprentices. Afterwards, you can choose whether or not to fight the worker-ant level mechanical puppet. You can leave the secret plane at any time without deducting points. You can also defeat the worker-ant level mechanical puppet and directly teleport to the Seven Rings Holy Tower. "
"After a year, all apex sorcerer-apprentices in the sorcerer world will receive the sorcerer world's world-core fragment as a reward based on their accumulated points. After the world-core fragment is used, it can be exchanged for sorcerer essence at any holy tower in the sorcerer world. "
The sorcerer world's world-core fragment …
Sure enough, it was like what mentor Norris had said …
Grimm sighed silently. He only glanced at the puppet that was bound in the center of the competition stage and then began to slowly walk around the competition stage.
Among these puppets, half of them only had some scars and imprints left on their bodies. Their internal structures were not damaged. It was obvious that as long as they activated their energy, they would immediately be able to fight again.
In other words, even though half of the previous apex sorcerer-apprentices on the competition stage were able to use their own strength in another world, they didn't even have the qualifications to become cannon fodder for the ancient sorcerer world's expeditions in another world.
As for the other half of the puppets that were destroyed, Grimm began to observe them one by one.
Some used high penetrative methods to destroy the puppet's core, some chopped off the puppet's limbs, some used mysterious methods to cause the puppet's interior to explode, some used various elemental methods to cause the puppet to be damaged in a strange manner, and there were even some that were cursed in a strange manner.
Grimm observed them one by one.
There was a fist imprint on the puppet's chest, and it actually directly destroyed all of the puppet's internal machinery …
Eh?
This puppet's four limbs were all broken, but it didn't seem like a brute force technique. Was it the tearing force of a hurricane? Or perhaps the compression of an earth element? It couldn't be a curse or something like that, right? Eh? What's up with these ligature marks? Could it be that they used the principle of some threads expanding and contracting when they cooled …
Eh?
This puppet's skull actually exploded, and it also showed the characteristics of melting and corrosion? But the puppet's energy source was at its chest. Could it be that the puppet's own energy attack was blocked?
Eh?
A petrified puppet …
Grimm walked in front of one damaged puppet after another, only observing the puppets that were damaged. If there were no damage, he didn't even look at them. Suddenly, Grimm seemed to sense something. He retreated tens of steps and returned to the front of a puppet that he had previously overlooked.
This puppet seemed to be a little different.
Although there was no damage, its volume seemed to be a little bigger?
Thinking like this, under the Ashen Mask, Grimm's eyes slightly narrowed. Then, he slowly extended a hand in an attempt to feel whether there was any problem within the puppet.
However, as Grimm's hand unexpectedly passed through the puppet in front of him without the slightest hindrance, Grimm's pupils suddenly shrank!
Illusion! This was actually an illusion! There were no puppets here at all!
In a split second, Grimm only felt that he was drenched in cold sweat. Among the previous Apex Sorcerer-Apprentices, there were indeed some super geniuses that he himself simply couldn't understand. There were even nightmarish Sorcerer-Apprentices that were even more terrifying than Grimm. (The time Grimm entered the academy was relatively late. The level of his own knowledge mastery was already at the top of the Sorcerer-Apprentices.)
Soon after, under Grimm's even more meticulous observation, there were two other mechanical puppets that made Grimm feel a wave of unease.
One of the puppets only had a layer of metallic sand remaining. The other puppet's hands were perfectly placed on its legs, while its legs were perfectly placed on its hands. Its head, however, was completely gone.
If it was the first mechanical puppet, Grimm only felt that the unknown methods of the Sorcerer-Apprentice were terrifying. However, the second mechanical puppet made Grimm feel an indescribable pressure. A Sorcerer-Apprentice that could forcefully disassemble a mechanical puppet for research purposes, and even take away its head as a spoil of war?
Time flowed on.
Following the passage of an hourglass, the mechanical puppet in the center of the competition stage finally lost its restraints. It opened its mouth and a terrifying black ray of light violently shot towards the sky.
However …
Following the stifling silence of the competition stage, a similar dark red ray of light flashed in the sky. Immediately, a terrifying wave of flames submerged the mechanical puppet that had just obtained its freedom in an instant.
Space distorted as Grimm crushed his badge and disappeared from the competition stage.
The competition stage slowly regained its tranquility.
At the same time, among the puppets destroyed by previous Apex Sorcerer-Apprentices, there was an additional empty spot. There was nothing there. Including the one that Grimm had just appeared in, there were a total of three such empty spots. It was just that even Grimm himself had not discovered anything special about these empty spots.
No, in history, there should have been Sorcerer-Apprentices who had discovered these special places and left behind a permanent spiritual force illusion spell.
They were also the history of this competition stage and the footprints left behind by those Apex Sorcerer-Apprentices.
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