The airship ticket was calculated by the number of people who boarded it.
It was neither too high nor too low, so each person had to pay 200 magic crystals.
This basically eliminated the possibility of ordinary people and low-rank acolytes taking the airship!
When Grim was an acolyte, he could get no more than 10 magic crystals per month. After deducting the basic expenses of borrowing books, renting laboratories, and purchasing magic materials, the magic crystals that could be saved were few and far between.
Wanting to earn more magic crystals? The only way was to accept the apprenticeship missions issued by the Magus Association.
However, such missions usually meant that one had to travel a long distance, and sometimes one had to disregard one's own safety to enter some dangerous places. Whether it was the wild grasslands, the boundless forests, or some hidden ruins, the dangers hidden in them were all fatal to acolytes!
For most low-rank acolytes, 200 magic crystals was an unimaginable amount of money, and only those at the level of a Prospective Sorcerer could afford it. He scanned the deck. Apart from Kaby and Alice, the rest were all Magi dressed in robes of various colours.
Almost half of the Magi had blurred their faces with elemental particles, and one look was enough to tell that they were unsociable fellows who did not like to be disturbed. Most of the Magi who revealed their faces wore cloth robes, and their expressions were peaceful, as if they had nothing to do with the world.
Grim muttered to himself for a moment.
He had also heard of this type of Magi in some books that introduced them.
They did not like to fight and only liked to quietly do their own research, accumulating knowledge bit by bit, and spending most of their lives in laboratories.
That was why they were usually called scholar-type Magi.
Since Grim had chosen to specialize in fire, it would be difficult for him to walk the path of a scholar-type Magus, which was not in line with his personality. Ever since he had awakened the A.I. Chip, Grim had always been strengthening his own combat strength, and the purpose of researching magic was to improve his own abilities.
Although he was very interested in making magic puppets, he was very clear about his true nature. Being a Combat Magus was his main profession, and making magic puppets was only a part-time job to support his combat strength!
However, these scholar-type Magi were the exact opposite.
They rarely studied combat and killing techniques. Instead, they regarded some auxiliary part-time jobs as their main job. As a result, countless non-combat professions such as Pharmacists, Enchanters, Puppeteers, Summoners, Alchemists, and Spell Masters emerged one after another.
These people formed a huge branch of the Sorcerer community, the Arcane Sorcerers.
This group of people shouted "Knowledge is power!" In order to distinguish themselves from those madmen who loved to fight and kill, they all put on silver robes and established a completely different wizard organization in the west of the continent — the Silver Alliance.
Although their individual combat power was not strong, they relied on strange auxiliary methods and large numbers of people to push the Silver Alliance into the ranks of the Sorcerer Continent's three major Sorcerer Organizations.
Grimm was going to visit the core city of the Silver Alliance — Sky City.
It was said that all the Silver Robed Sorcerers had gathered their collective wisdom and combined a large amount of knowledge from other planes. After thousands of years, they had built this magnificent city, a Sorcerer City that floated in the sky!
It was because of this miraculous Sky City that the Silver Alliance had been able to stand tall for tens of thousands of years, becoming the holy city in the hearts of all the Arcane Sorcerers in the Sorcerer Continent.
Every year, new Sorcerers who had just advanced to become Arcane Sorcerers would set the Sky City as their ultimate goal of pilgrimage, and they would personally make a trip there. Many new Sorcerers who went there liked the learning atmosphere and the rich professional resources there, so they simply chose to stay there.
This undoubtedly strengthened the Silver Alliance's talent pool and strength from the side!
In addition, the Silver Alliance's territory was full of talents. There were all kinds of potions, magic artifacts, sorcery equipment, and magic puppets. Therefore, Sorcerer organizations and forces in other regions of the Sorcerer Continent could only travel tens of thousands of miles to Sky City to deal with the Silver Alliance if they wanted to obtain these top-notch resources.
With all these advantages stacked together, Sky City became the Sorcerer Continent's most prosperous and lively trading capital. It was the focal point where talents, knowledge, and resources gathered!
However, it was not easy to go to Sky City.
Currently, the Sorcerer Continent had developed a few large regions. The Scattered Towers Region was located in the middle of the continent, while the Silver Alliance's region was in the west. The distance between the two could be said to be the closest.
However, it was a pity that the two great forces did not realize a true connection.
The Wendu Region in the westernmost part of the Scattered Towers Region was a vast 370,000 kilometers away from the region ruled by the Silver Alliance. Most of the primeval forests that separated the two regions belonged to the unexplored Rank 3 region, so it was impossible to pass through.
The so-called Rank 3 region referred to those terrifying regions that even Rank 3 Sorcerers would be in danger if they entered.
In order to preserve the Sorcerer Continent's original ecology, as well as to maintain the Sorcerers' spirit of forging ahead, the great Sorcerers who chose to leave had once joined forces to clean up all the creatures that were Rank 5 and above. This allowed the Sorcerers and the ferocious magical beasts to maintain a delicate ecological balance.
However, looking at the entire Sorcerer Continent, the inhabited areas that humans had developed only occupied 12% of the total area of the continent. Hence, compared to humans, the living space of the magical beasts was much larger, and their numbers and species were also much greater.
The primeval regions near the human inhabited areas had been trampled by the Sorcerers countless times, so they were basically safe. However, as long as one ventured more than 10,000 kilometers into the primeval regions, even a Rank 1 Sorcerer might not be able to survive. If one ventured more than 100,000 kilometers, any Sorcerer below Rank 2 would die!
Hence, in order to connect the existing human inhabited areas, since ancient times, countless Sorcerers had died wave after wave in the depths of the primeval forests that no one knew about. It was by relying on their continuous efforts and slow exploration that they found a passageway in the dense forest that they could barely pass through.
The Silver Alliance had built a large number of airships that traversed this passageway, which was sometimes safe and sometimes dangerous. They continuously transported resources and supplies from various regions to Sky City, then sold the top-grade resources produced by Sky City to every corner of the continent.
The airship that Grim was currently on was located in the airspace of the Scattered Towers Region, so it was relatively safe. However, once he reached the Wendu Region, he would have to take a risk if he wanted to cross the 370,000 kilometers of primeval forests!
After looking at the strange scenery below the airship for a while, Grim finally felt a little tired and turned around to enter the narrow cabin.
Just like any other cabin, after descending ten steps, a narrow and dim corridor appeared in front of him. There were five doors on each side of the corridor, and on each door hung a bronze plate with a basic rune engraved on it.
There were runes representing "plants", "sun", and "knowledge" …
The runes on the bronze plates were not repeated, so it was obvious that they were used to differentiate the rooms of the Sorcerers!
Some of the runes on the bronze plates had already lit up, so it seemed that there were Sorcerers living in the rooms.
Only Sorcerers were allowed to stay on the first and second floors. Even with Alice's status as a Quasi-Sorcerer, she could barely get a cabin on the third floor, which was the same floor as the nobles. Intelligent slaves of other races like Kabi could only hide in the darkest and most humid fourth floor.
During the flight, the servants at the lowest floor were not allowed to enter the upper floors to avoid disturbing the mood of the Sorcerers and nobles. They could only eat, drink, and defecate there. Even if they were bullied, they could only endure it silently. Otherwise, the Sorcerers in charge of the airship's safety had the right to throw anyone who did not obey their orders off the airship.
Although she already knew about this, when it was her turn to enjoy this kind of differential treatment, Alice still could not be happy. She pouted and walked to the end of the corridor with Kabi, because the stairs leading to the lower floor were there.
After all, this was a world where Sorcerers were respected. Even if Grim wanted to keep the two of them by his side, it would cause other Sorcerers to be unhappy. In many places, there were some privileges that only Sorcerers were allowed to enjoy!
This was actually an atmosphere created by the Sorcerers, and no one was allowed to easily break it.
Grim randomly picked an empty room and pushed open the wooden door.
Perhaps the runes on the bronze plate sensed the presence of Sorcerer Power and began to emit a faint fluorescent light.
The so-called room was a small cabin with a wooden bed fixed at the end of the wall. The bedding on it was clean. Other than that, the only decoration in the cabin was a small table and chair made of redwood, which looked very sturdy.
On the wall above the head of the bed, there was a window the size of a washbasin. It was inlaid with a colorless transparent crystal glass. Judging from the material, it should be a very hard vulcanized crystal. This kind of crystal glass might seem thin, but it would be difficult for a normal sword to cut it.
Grimm did a simple inspection of the room and did not discover any hidden spell formations or special energy waves. He then closed the door and sat down on a chair.
After searching in his waist pouch for a while, Grim took out a thick sheepskin book with a black cover and golden edges. He flipped it open and read it carefully.
On the bottom right corner of the book, he saw a line of small words.
The soul is above the matter, and the mind is the product of the combination of matter and spirit. Cain.
This … This was the magic notes written by Wizard Cain, one of the Dual Sorcerers.
Mind Whisper!
It had to be said that each of Grimm's Fire Element Spells was more powerful than the last, and they had great destructive power. Although he had the upper hand against the enemy, it was difficult to get any decent loot.
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