While Kabi was busy dealing with the large amount of fire diamonds and gems his master had brought back, Grimm began to seriously examine his gains from the trip to the volcano.
1 rank 2 Molten Core Giant, and 4 rank 1 Molten Core Giant crystal cores.
Even an official Magus would be envious of such a harvest!
With Grimm's current ability to create magic puppets, he could not deal with rank 2 elemental cores. After all, any external changes would cause harm to the core itself. The defensive mechanism of the rank 2 Giant crystal core was enough to give Grimm a hard time. He could not possibly waste his mental energy to control the alchemy table and prevent the core from going berserk at the same time.
A single mistake at a crucial moment could destroy this precious treasure that he had obtained with great difficulty!
Hence, before his strength increased again, he could only keep this rank 2 Giant crystal core and deal with it when he was more confident.
As for the remaining 4 rank 1 Giant crystal cores, they were the focus of Grimm's attention.
Using the most primitive method, Grim carefully scanned each of the cores into his mind. The A.I. Chip's statistics even included the sturdiness of each crystal core, the smoothness of each crystal surface, the growth direction and thickness distribution of each strand of crystal... The most important thing was the surface area that each crystal core could be used for.
Based on this huge amount of data, the A.I. Chip needed to design the most suitable three-dimensional spell formation for each core, and then go through multiple optimisations so that they could be perfectly accommodated by the core.
The Molten Core Giants were creatures of both fire and earth attributes. Using only one of these attributes was undoubtedly a huge waste. Hence, in order to fully tap into their potential, the A.I. Chip needed a long period of analysis and calculations to come up with the best solution.
After handing all this over to the A.I. Chip, Grimm spent his days learning fire elemental spells. Ever since his body had become a body of fire, Grimm could learn fire elemental spells with half the effort. In the past, it would have taken him a month or two to master spells, but now, he could learn one spell a day.
However, Grimm still had to put in a lot of effort to learn spells that required related knowledge and had many different effects.
Grimm's team of Earth Puppets had been wiped out in one fell swoop during the trip to the volcano, and it would take a long time for him to recover the 5 Rock Python Crystal Cores that he had lost. The Swamp Tower didn't have a large number of Life Crystals that Grimm needed, so he could only ask Mary to purchase some when she was out on a mission.
However, they would only be able to purchase Quasi-Sorcerer level Essence Crystals at most, and each one of them was extremely expensive. After all, Grim was more picky about the quality and purity of the Crystal Core. Wanting to collect resources of a Magus rank in the acolyte market was simply wishful thinking!
According to their relationship, if Grimm needed any high ranking wizard resources, the easiest way to get them would be through Wizard Anderson. Unfortunately, Wizard Anderson was a selfish guy. He only cared about his own witchcraft experiments all day long. He didn't care about his apprentices at all.
Therefore, in comparison, the Apprentices from the Swamp Tower were more than half as strong as the Apprentices from the other Wizard Towers.
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The fifth floor of the Swamp Tower.
Late at night, Entik came to this place again.
In a stone hall, a huge magic circle had been drawn on the hard stone floor. It was covered with all kinds of mysterious runes and lines. Even if Entik tried his best to recall, he could only recognize two or three runes that he was familiar with.
These were all mysterious runes related to bloodlines, souls, and fusion. As for their specific uses, he was sorry to say that with the knowledge of an acolyte, he really couldn't decipher them.
However, what shocked Entik the most was the thick smell of blood within the magic circle and the dark bloodstains on the floor that couldn't be washed off. These were the most direct evidence of the torture he had suffered in the past few months. If it wasn't for the crazy desire to become stronger supporting him, even his half-insect body wouldn't have been able to withstand the repeated bloodline refinement and fusion.
Anderson, who was wearing a black Wizard robe, was adjusting the magic circle in front of him. As he murmured, his ten ghost-like fingers danced. Mysterious runes appeared out of thin air one after another, continuously fusing into the magic circle.
Thus, the various energy circuits and nodes of the magic circle were lit up in an orderly manner.
"Take off your clothes and stand in the Wizard Ring!"
Wizard Anderson's instructions were simple and straightforward, but his words were filled with an irresistible majesty.
Entik did as he was told, his face deathly pale.
After taking off the cloth robe covering his body, what a twisted and terrifying half-insect body was exposed to the air!
There were very few parts of his body that belonged to a human, and every part of his body displayed extremely obvious characteristics of an insect. The strange and ever-changing multi-colored pupils, the many small compound eyes surrounding the pupils, the layers of lotus petal-like mouthparts, the hard black carapace that covered the entire body, and the scythe-like appendages that were folded on both sides of the body …
Ever since he turned himself into this strange appearance that didn't look like a human or an insect, Entik had never shown his body to anyone. It could be said that everyone who had seen his original form had been devoured by him, becoming nutrients for the growth of this half-insect body.
But today, he could only humiliatingly reveal his body!
The cold, gloomy air and the bone-chilling stone floor made him feel extremely uncomfortable, but he still stood perfectly straight in the middle of the magic circle that could only accommodate one person.
"Good … Very good …" Wizard Anderson's cold voice sounded illusory in the spacious hall. "Although your body's functions have decreased a little, the effect of the bloodline fusion is not bad! Brat, if you can survive this witchcraft experiment, you will definitely become the one and only blood-sucking giant insect in this world! "
"Hehehe …"
Following Master Anderson's shriek that was close to madness, the surging energy in the spell formation gradually converged into the Witchcraft Circle. The intense magical energy even illuminated Entich's body, penetrating through his internal organs and bones. In this strong light, a hazy, illusory, and fragmented soul shadow stood where Entik was, blankly observing everything around it.
Above the magic circle, a crack appeared in the ceiling, and a fist-sized, sparkling, and translucent soul diamond slowly descended from it. Through the light of the magic circle, one could see a sparkling, translucent, blood-colored crystal rolling at the core of the soul diamond.
Step by step, it slowly controlled the soul diamond, allowing it to attach itself to Entik's forehead. Following a scorched smell, the soul diamond emitted a high temperature, scorching Entik's forehead until black smoke came out, forcefully embedding itself there.
The blood-colored crystal rotated, and with every rotation, a strand of blood-colored gossamer shot out. Under the guidance of the soul diamond, this strand of blood-colored gossamer slowly fused into Entik's body. At first, this transformation was not very obvious. As more and more blood-colored gossamer fused into Entik's body, Entik's body also began to turn dark red, and the blood-colored magic patterns were faintly discernible.
To Entik, this kind of body modification was no different from a terrifying torture. How could his half-insect body, which had already taken over the dominant position in his body, allow the contamination of a foreign bloodline? In the depths of his bloodline, where outsiders could not pry into, a battle of life and death was unfolding, and the situation could be said to be extremely tragic!
Under the suppression of the magic circle, the advantage of the half-insect bloodline's home ground was constantly being weakened. However, the weakened vampire bloodline, with the support of the tower's endless energy, seemed to be able to move with ease. It continuously expanded its territory in Entik's body, taking over cities and seizing territory.
His own body had become a battlefield of life and death for the two bloodlines. At this moment, Entik was like an ordinary human who had been stripped of all his mysterious abilities. Even the cold air in the hall made him shiver, unable to withstand the cold.
Both bloodlines were extremely powerful, and both viewed the other as contaminating their own bodies. There was absolutely no possibility of compromise and coexistence. In every corner of Entik's body, the genes of the two different bloodlines were locked in a fierce battle. Every time one of the bloodlines weakened, it would try to invade the body's genes that were still considered normal, and then assimilate and infect more of its comrades, endlessly joining the battle.
Yes, this was a battle! A battle of dominance between the half-insect bloodline and the vampire bloodline! Unless one side completely overwhelmed the other, or the host's body became too weak to continue, this battle would continue forever.
As the battle progressed, Entik's eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and even other parts of his body kept seeping out a black, pungent, sticky liquid, which slowly flowed down his body.
These were the life factors that had died in the bloodline war.
Entik's life force was also starting to become feeble.
Sensing that the host's body was already extremely weak, and that he could die at any moment in this battle that went deep into the bloodline and soul, the two different bloodlines finally retreated and compromised. They curled up in their respective Source Domains, slowing down the squeezing of the host's body, and constantly keeping an eye on the movements of the different bloodlines.
The half-insect bloodline, which used the Insect Queen as its host, curled up in Entik's brain, while the vampire bloodline modified Entik's heart and placed itself in it. Although the initial wish of the bloodline fusion wasn't realized, the coexistence of the bloodline had basically been realized.
Wizard Anderson, who had been wholeheartedly monitoring the movements within Entik's body, finally let out a sigh of relief. With a slight movement of his power of the Will, a hidden wave of the Will was triggered.
Taking advantage of the fact that Entik's soul, body, and bloodline were at their weakest, the Soul Blood Contract embedded in the Soul Diamond also took the opportunity to fuse with his body.
"You …" Entik still had the power of the Will of a quasi-wizard, after all. Although he was weak, he wouldn't be completely ignorant of the approaching danger. However, before he could plan a counterattack, that Soul Blood Contract had already been branded into his soul.
Therefore, in the next second, he who was naked once again became docile and obedient.
"I await your orders, great Master Anderson!"
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