No one knew what had happened in the depths of the volcano.
However, the completely berserk Volcano World was no longer suitable for exploration and treasure hunting, this was something that everyone could see. Therefore, Grimm mixed in with the resentful foreign apprentices. After completing his mission, he secretly left Pamela Town.
When Grimm successfully returned to the magic swamp as a quasi-wizard, the whole tower was shocked.
Once upon a time, Grimm's name was so unknown among the wizard apprentices that many people did not even know of his existence. But now, with his strong rise, some of the powerful people that they could only look up to in the past were now left behind. They became the most dejected group of people.
While some people were still doubting the authenticity of this news, Wizard Cogan, who represented the Salubo family, once again came to the swamp tower and summoned Grimm to the 5th floor. Unsurprisingly, Grimm's choice was the same as Mary's. They both chose to serve the Salubo family for 10 years in exchange for the necessary resources to advance.
Of course, if Grimm was confident that he could get all the resources he needed to advance to an official wizard, he could leave the Salubo family and choose to become a drifter. However, with the current development of the Scattered Tower Forest, wandering wizards and apprentices without a family were generally oppressed. Therefore, if Grimm wanted to smoothly pass his apprenticeship, he would inevitably have to join a wizard family.
As for the Byron family badge that Grimm obtained in the dark underground cave, it only meant that the Byron family was willing to protect him in the Dagon area. He did not sign a formal contract to join the Byron family.
After seeing Wizard Cogan, as soon as Grimm returned, he was caught by Mary and brought back to her residence.
"Tell me, what did you do during your mission? How did you suddenly advance to a quasi-wizard? " Based on Mary's understanding of Grimm, this guy had never been able to complete a mission smoothly. Every time, he would make a big mistake.
Grimm just smiled and did not say anything. However, when he wiped his hand on the table, there were 5 mysterious dark red crystals, one big and four small.
"What is this?" Mary curiously reached her hand towards the biggest crystal, but the moment her little hand touched the mysterious crystal, she quickly retracted her hand.
With a sizzling sound, a cluster of flames ignited on the mysterious crystal stone and burned her finger.
Even with Mary's vampire physique, the few fingers that came into contact with the crystal were charred black. However, she didn't care about it at all. With a light wave of her slender hand, her fingers became smooth and white once again as the burn marks disappeared.
Mary did not act rashly. Instead, she focused her mind and tried to recall.
What happened just now was not caused by an outsider, nor was it the effect of a spell formation. It was the crystal's natural defense mechanism. It was as if … as if it also had a consciousness!
"What is this?" Mary asked again. She looked at Grimm with an unfriendly expression, revealing a pair of sharp canines, as if she would bite him at any moment.
"Rank 2 Life Crystal!" Grim revealed a strange smile as he spoke word by word.
Mary's tender red lips repeated the words a few times before she suddenly came to a realization, "Level 2 Essence Crystal? You killed a rank 2 monster? Where is the body? Has the blood been extracted? Hurry … Tell me! "
"Ugh …" Grimm spread his hands, speechless, "If I really met a rank 2 monster, do you think I would be able to come back alive?"
"That's true!" Mary smiled embarrassedly. She was a little shocked at her own loss.
Who asked her to be in the most important transition period of a vampire's life? Who asked her to increase her strength the fastest by sucking the blood of the strong? These two things added together were enough to make Mary crazy. Once she heard about powerful creatures, she couldn't help but become restless and fanatical!
Of course, in Mary's eyes, the current Grimm could barely be considered a strong person. However, no matter what Mary said, Grimm would not allow her to suck his blood. According to the A.I. Chip's analysis, anyone who had their blood sucked by a vampire would have their strength reduced to varying degrees.
And these losses were very likely the key to the Vampires' evolution by sucking blood!
To put it simply, if Grimm allowed Mary to drink his blood, he would most likely lose his attributes, which he valued the most, Constitution and Spirit. The Toriel bloodline acolyte in the Gloomy Crypt was the best example.
That guy had already reached the peak of the acolyte rank and was about to hold the advancement ceremony, but he was defeated by Grimm's magic puppets. He would only need to rest for a week or two at most to recover from this kind of injury. However, the information from his family showed that the Toriel's spiritual force had declined. Although it did not fall below 20 points, it was enough to affect his advancement.
Therefore, Grim had reason to suspect that the vampires were able to absorb the bloodline factors of the body through sucking blood to strengthen themselves and weaken their enemies. Just imagine, in this case, how would Grimm dare to let Mary suck his blood!
After exchanging information, Mary hurriedly rushed into the mission hall to find a suitable acolyte mission for her. Grimm returned to his residence and began to listen to the goblin merchant Kabi's report.
In the three months that Grimm had been away, the Swamp Tower had become lively with the influx of external information and resources. It was no longer as lifeless as before. With Mary's support, Kaby opened the first Gnome shop in the high tower.
The shop did not have many products to choose from, but they were all rare resources that were hard to find in the outside world. In addition, Kabi had recently set his sights on the group of low-level acolytes and began to purchase magic materials and ordinary resources that they could not use at the moment at a low price.
However, for a small shop like this to be fully operational, it would require an endless supply of high-grade goods. Otherwise, it would be difficult to attract acolytes.
After listening to Kabi's report, Grimm nodded in satisfaction and took out a large pile of magic gems and materials from his storage belt. Most of them were Underground Fire Diamonds. After all, compared to the acolytes who wandered around the periphery of the Volcano World in search of treasures, Grimm had ventured into the depths of the lava countless times. His chances of finding high-grade magic gems were much higher than theirs.
Most of the Fire Diamonds and magic gems in the periphery were washed out from the lava when the volcano was active. They had also been captured and filtered by the Flame Creatures, so of course they would not be of good quality. The Fire Diamonds that Grimm brought back from the Lava Sea were all fist-sized Fire Diamonds of the highest quality. There was even a giant Fire Diamond that Grimm had thrown to Kabi and asked him to find someone to carve it into the shape of a jade pillow.
This way, Grimm could use it to meditate in the future, and the effect would be even better!
After Kabi happily left with his waist bag, the smile on Grimm's face gradually faded. He began to seriously think about an extremely important piece of information.
In the three months that Grimm had been away, Wizard Anderson had publicly announced that he had accepted the Evil Bug Entik as his disciple. According to Kabi, the Evil Bug Entik had been spending most of his time on the fifth floor of the Wizard Tower. Who knew what he was doing there with Wizard Anderson!
Faced with the possibility of two enemies joining forces, Grimm's joy of becoming a Quasi-Wizard disappeared. He once again felt the urgency of not having time for him. After becoming a Quasi-Wizard, with the protection of the family contract, Wizard Anderson might not dare to do anything to him in the open, but it was possible for him to do something in the dark.
Since he was so close to that Evil Bug Entik, could it be that he wanted to use him to deal with him?
Grim let out a bitter laugh.
Ever since he had thoroughly understood the conflict of interests between Wizard Anderson and Mary, he knew that sooner or later he would arouse Wizard Anderson's hatred. However, he did not expect the enemy to act so quickly and so urgently!
In the eyes of these sinister and cunning Wizards, all acolytes were just a bunch of walking materials. If it was not for the higher-ups of the Wizards restricting their actions, this group of selfish fellows would not allow a new Wizard to appear and compete with them for scarce resources.
However, no matter how the enemy planned, as long as his speed of improvement exceeded their expectations, any dangers and traps would disappear, and it would be difficult to change his direction.
After analyzing all of this, Grimm immediately drew up a long work plan for the following period of time. Under his arrangements, for the next half a year, his time would probably be full every day, and it would be difficult for him to find a single bit of free time.
In this mysterious foreign world, in order to protect his own life, Grimm also put all of his energy and time into learning and studying magic.
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Goblin Kaby's room.
After returning from his master's residence, Kaby fell into a limitless frenzy!
Every time he took out a magic gem from his bulging waist pouch, he would happily dance for a while, kissing it repeatedly before taking out his magic wand to check the gem's attributes and quality.
Looking at the pile of gems in front of him that was getting higher and higher, Kaby's heart was filled with joy. At this moment, he could not wait to run to his master again and passionately kiss the tip of his master's shoes. Perhaps this was the only way for his master to truly experience Kaby's passion and loyalty!
However, in this joyous process, there was a small setback.
Kaby found a mysterious white stone the size of a fist in the pile of gems that his master had thrown over. No matter what method he used to check it, he could not find out its attributes, nor could he confirm what kind of magic gem, material, or magic beast egg it was!
Even after using the magic wand to check it, the feedback in his mind was simple information such as "unknown object from another world". Since the magic wand said it was an object and not a living creature, it meant that it was not a magic beast egg. Since his master had placed it in the pile of gems, it definitely meant that it was not a magic beast egg.
What Kaby was most concerned about was the "foreign world" mentioned in the information.
Could this be a mysterious gem from another world?
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