The huge floating warship was like a nimble beast, slowly rising into the sky.
Countless faintly discernible, mysterious magic formations emerged on the outer wall of the ship, spurting out a huge amount of wind particles, propelling the warship to streak across the sky like a fish, plunging into the undulating black forest.
The moment the warship entered the primordial forest, three tall masts on the hull glowed with fluorescent light, working together to form a translucent barrier that enveloped the entire ship. The dazzling runes on the barrier flickered, and strange energy ripples flowed irregularly on it, as if it had some special purpose.
Grimm closed his eyes and sensed it.
Light Refraction, Disguise, Aura Shield, Spirit Evasion …
Light Refraction and Disguise were used to hide the hull, while Aura Shield was used to prevent the life auras of the people on the ship from leaking out and attracting unnecessary trouble. Spirit Evasion was a spell that could make small lifeforms that were too close to the warship unconsciously avoid the airspace it was in, preventing collisions that would cause the disguise spell to fail.
Unfortunately, these spells were only effective against low-grade lifeforms or low-ranked magical beasts, and had no effect on the powerful magical beasts in the primordial forest.
Of course, there were other strange runes on the translucent barrier, but Grimm's knowledge of runes was limited, and he couldn't identify them one by one.
Standing at the edge of the ship and looking down, he saw a reflective silver river flowing through the black sea of trees.
A flock of blue birds flew slowly beneath the floating warship.
They had a fiery red crown, light blue membranous wings, and a gorgeous, long tail. From the looks of it, they were mutated rocs. These rocs might look beautiful and elegant, but they were actually carnivorous birds. They were ferocious and violent by nature, and they were extremely territorial.
However, no matter how ferocious the mutated rocs were, they were just ordinary birds without any elemental abilities, and posed no threat to Magi.
That was why when the floating warship streaked across the sky above them, the rocs didn't even notice it!
The forest here seemed to be somewhat different.
Grimm had also looked down at the vast forest that stretched for hundreds of miles in the Scattered Pagoda Forest. It seemed that the forest was mainly green. But now that he was here, it had turned grey for some reason.
It was a kind of desolate and strange color!
Ever since the airship entered the Black Grove, Grimm had sensed something special. It felt as though the energy here was somewhat chaotic and tyrannical. The entire world was filled with an oppressive and oppressive mood that made one want to roar violently.
Perhaps this was the original appearance of the Sorcerer Continent!
The airship flew silently over the horizon, not disturbing the beasts in the Black Grove below.
There were many wizards on the ship, and some of them were familiar with each other. Soon, they gathered in groups of two or three and chatted happily. Some wizards who were already talkative took the opportunity to visit and make new friends. Although they would sometimes be mercilessly rejected by the other party, most of the time, Wizards were still willing to exchange information and witchcraft experiences with others.
Wizard Angus brought Grim to visit some of the wizards he was familiar with. Among them, there were many powerful wizards that were famous in the central continent.
Grim did not object to this at all.
After all, he had lived two lives, so he knew very well that connections were a precious resource. Sometimes, it was even more valuable than a person's personal strength!
There were both men and women among the wizards they visited.
Although not all the young wizards were handsome or beautiful, none of them were too ugly.
Most wizards did not care too much about their appearance compared to witches. Since they had been exposed to dangerous forbidden experiments all year round, most old wizards would more or less have some side effects.
Wizard Angus brought him to visit one of the wizards. The rest of his body was still normal, but the flesh on his face had completely disappeared. Only a thin layer of wrinkled skin was left on his skull. It looked like a talking skull.
Wizard Angus secretly transmitted a message to Grim. This wizard had become like this because of a failed witchcraft experiment.
If it was just a simple flesh injury, wizards had a lot of methods to restore their youth and regrow their lost flesh. However, if some witchcraft had damaged the origin of the soul, it would not be easy to recover.
In comparison, these female wizards were more concerned about their appearance, body, and skin. Grim could sense traces of witchcraft modification on their bodies and faces. Of course, only Grim, who had the A.I. Chip's crazy ability to collect and compare data, could analyze such minute changes in witchcraft.
Most of the witches were beautiful, and their bodies were hot and voluptuous. When they chatted with the wizards, they were often the focus of attention. They did not care about the unscrupulous gazes of the wizards. Sometimes, they would even take the initiative to flirt with them. It was as if they had completely treated their bodies and beauty as a resource that could be traded.
This was especially true for newly advanced wizards like Grim, who had a tall and sturdy body and was brimming with heroic spirit. He had become their target. Some hot gazes, explicit words, and debauchery were unbearable for Grim.
He already knew that after becoming a wizard, many people did not care much about the laws and customs of the secular world. They were more willing to openly show their temperament and indulge their own desires. However, such "free and open" love between men and women was still hard for Grim to accept!
Behind him, Alice was like a shadow. She pouted and looked angrily at the seductive witches who deliberately chose to get close to Grimm. She kept muttering to herself. Since her voice was too soft, the people around could not hear what she was muttering.
Although Alice was arrogant, her talent was indeed shocking, and she had a strong confidence in becoming a wizard. However, in front of these official wizards, she did not dare to do anything too offensive.
Among the group of apprentices, she was indeed terrifyingly talented. She was an outstanding future Witch with unlimited potential. However, potential was only potential. Before she could convert her potential into real strength, any setback could cause this future "Witch of Destiny" to die prematurely.
In the Wizard Continent, there were countless examples of people who did not know how to restrain themselves and were plotted against by their enemies, resulting in their deaths. These unlucky people who died were all people with outstanding talent!
Therefore, even if it was just for the sake of her own life, Alice did not have the guts to directly provoke a group of fearsome witches. However, for some reason, when she saw a group of seductive witches, whether pure, noble, or slutty, using their seductive magic on Grim, the anger in Alice's heart kept surging.
A group of shameless old women! They only know how to shake their breasts to seduce men all day long. They were simply a disgrace to the witches. They deserved to be the vassals of the wizards …
Sensing the undercurrent surging behind him, Grim forced a smile and said goodbye to Wizard Angus. He then brought Alice, who could not stop muttering, back to the cabin.
In the next few days, Grim almost never stepped out of his room. He spent day and night researching on how to fuse these foreign runes into the magic puppet crystal core. When he was tired from researching, he would meditate instead of sleep to quickly recover his spiritual force.
In his body, the energy of the Flame Demon's Heart that could explode twice a minute had gradually become acceptable. However, along with the flame energy, there was a faint, almost undetectable aura of the abyss. If Grim did not have the A.I. Chip that could monitor the cells in his body, he might not even be able to sense the existence of this aura of the abyss. Of course, he would not be able to sense that it was slowly but surely eroding and transforming his body.
In just a dozen days, some of his organs had already shown signs of being demonized.
This news was both good and bad for him!
The good thing was that his body had become even stronger. Ever since he had transplanted this rank 2 Flame Demon's Heart, the growth of his body had almost surpassed the growth of his spiritual force. He even had the intention to change his profession to become a Physique Wizard.
His strong body and illusory demonic aura gave Grimm a different kind of charm!
However, the disadvantages were also obvious.
Once his organs were demonized beyond his control, his origin faction would probably deviate from the path of a Magus and would have to lean towards the demons in the lower realms!
On one hand, he coveted the increase in strength brought by the aura of the abyss. On the other hand, he was afraid that he would degenerate into an abyssal creature, so he ordered the A.I. Chip to closely monitor every change in his body.
On the fifth day after boarding the ship, when one of his organs had been demonized past 11%, Grim took out a potion from his storage belt and swallowed it without hesitation.
The moment the purplish black and sticky potion entered his esophagus, a pungent stench filled the room. From his mouth to his stomach, an indescribably strange feeling spread, gradually spreading throughout his entire body.
In reality, Grim raised his hands and watched as strands of dark red smoke seeped out of his skin, slowly dissolving into the air.
Since he knew that the Flame Demon's Heart could harm him, Grim had naturally prepared a potion that could slowly and continuously remove the aura of the abyss from his body. Of course, Grim could not refine these potions, but he had traded a fist-sized sapphire for them from Felicia.
Every time he drank the potion, he had to carefully control the amount of the potion so that it could remove the aura of the abyss without causing his body to deteriorate. The most direct consequence of this was that he had become a 'stinky' person.
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