Of course, Grimm had no idea about these external secrets.
He was currently experiencing pain and happiness at the same time.
He had thought that he had plenty of time to develop himself, but today's events had reminded him that things might not develop as smoothly as he had expected.
The peaceful life he had led before had given him the illusion that his apprenticeship would continue peacefully. However, after today's thrilling encounter, he had long since understood the unreachable gap between a Junior Acolyte and a Senior Acolyte.
Looking at the Senior Apprentice's unique innate abilities and the witchcraft methods that complemented his innate abilities, Grimm felt that he was lagging behind.
If he followed his original path, he would need another three to four years to advance to an Intermediate Apprentice with the accumulation of daily meditation and witchcraft knowledge. In order to become a Senior Apprentice, Grimm would need another ten years to become an Intermediate Apprentice. As for becoming a Quasi Sorcerer? With Grimm's current innate abilities, there was not much hope.
As a Sorcerer's apprentice, every bit of spiritual force growth was precious and difficult. If one's innate abilities were not as good as others and wanted to improve faster than others, the only way was to obtain more resources and enough witchcraft knowledge.
Apart from this, there was no other way.
If he wanted to improve his witchcraft strength, the first thing he had to do was to improve his physical fitness. No matter what kind of witchcraft spell it was, no matter if it was a support attack or a long-range attack, it would always be supported by the body. Only with a perfect physique could witchcraft be more effective in unleashing its destructive power.
After returning safely from the tower, Grimm immediately locked himself in his room and began to think hard.
Grimm weighed the pros and cons of the four major Sorcerers' paths of development, and combined it with his own situation, he silently chose a path for himself.
Physique Refinement Sorcerer.
To become a Physique Refinement Sorcerer, one must first have an indomitable and strong will. In order to stimulate and strengthen their bodies, Physique Refinement Sorcerers would do anything.
For the sake of tempering their bodies, some immersed themselves in poisonous jars all day long. Scorpion venom, snake venom, spider venom, Seven Deadly Flowers, Nightmare Dream Grass, Zombie Powder … In short, whether it was biological venom or plant venom, they used whatever poison they could find. From shallow to deep, from weak to strong, he used different types of terrifying poisons to repeatedly stimulate every cell in his body, forcing his body to release its potential and strengthening his body bit by bit.
Of course, when they did this, they would definitely take precautions and accurately calculate and speculate the limits of their tolerance to avoid poisoning themselves to death.
Moreover, with the progress of the Body Refining Technique step by step, after crossing the threshold of the primary level, they would have resistance, and ordinary poisons in the secular world would no longer be effective on them. If he wanted to progress further in the future, he could only search for more precious Voodoo Poisons.
Therefore, as an Anatomy Refinery Sorcerer, almost half of the first half of his life would be wasted on repeatedly measuring his endurance and searching for various effective voodoo poisons.
Of course, in order to strengthen his body, some Anatomy Refinery Sorcerers would specially search for items with terrifying radiation abilities, using the stimulation of radiation to temper their body. Some Anatomy Refinery Sorcerers would even search for especially harsh natural environments, using the terrifying force of nature to stimulate their progress.
In short, there were many and many. As an Anatomy Refinery Sorcerer, he would always have to suffer in all kinds of pain, only then could he obtain a terrifying body that far surpassed ordinary people.
If he wanted to become an Anatomy Refinery Sorcerer, he would first need to obtain a complete set of body tempering methods, then collect various poisons from all over the place, in order to get through the long period of tempering. Moreover, in the process of body tempering, he would become very weak, and he would also need better, more refined food to nourish his weak body.
Moreover, when he reached the initial success of body tempering, he would also need to find some suitable Body Refining Techniques to cultivate, so that his greatly increased physique and strength would have greater attack power and methods.
Based on this basic analysis, Grim's heart was still somewhat against becoming an Anatomy Refinery Sorcerer. Not to mention the difficulty of obtaining the secret Body Refining Technique, he was afraid that he would even find it difficult to obtain the rare ingredients for body tempering. Therefore, as expected, he directly ruled out the path of Anatomy Refinery.
Bloodline Sorcerers were obviously the easiest choice for Sorcerers to obtain short-term combat power.
Speaking of the path of Bloodline Sorcerers, one had to mention the most popular method among Sorcerer-Apprentices, Biological Modification. With just a "small" witchcraft ceremony, one could transplant a powerful high-energy organ from a powerful monster, thus giving one some strange abilities.
It could be said that most Sorcerer-Apprentices could not refuse such a simple method of strengthening. As long as the conditions allowed, they would carry out a certain degree of modification on themselves. However, this kind of thing was always easier said than done! Consuming one's own vitality, risking the danger of bloodline contamination, and transplanting a useless garbage organ was definitely not something that could make up for the loss.
For Sorcerer-Apprentices like Grim who lived in the Magic Swamp, what kind of powerful monsters could they obtain? With their strength and status, it was simply impossible for them to touch those truly terrifying monsters. Therefore, Sorcerers who could transplant a high-level Sorcerer-Apprentice level monster's organ were already overjoyed.
One of the three strongest Sorcerer-Apprentices, Eagle Eye Crusar, was said to have transplanted the eyeball of a Red-Eyed Raven King, which gave him the ability to control ravens.
However, Grim didn't care about his short-sighted behavior.
Red-Eyed Raven King!
Such a high-energy monster's organ could perhaps allow him to reach the top in a single step, stepping into the ranks of high-level Sorcerer-Apprentices and becoming one of the best Sorcerer-Apprentices in the Tower. However, at this step, the potential increase brought by Biological Modification would also reach its limit. If he was lucky, he might be able to become a Quasi-Sorcerer in five years, preparing to become an official Sorcerer in the future. However, if he was unlucky, he might not be able to become an official Sorcerer for the rest of his life.
After all, the difficulty of becoming a Sorcerer would increase exponentially if his bloodline was contaminated!
Therefore, compared to Bloodline Sorcerers, Biological Modification was purely an evil path. It would only become narrower and narrower, indirectly cutting off one's own path.
However, compared to Biological Modification, the path of Bloodline Sorcerers was much more difficult.
In order to become a Bloodline Sorcerer, one must find an ancestral creature with a strong enough bloodline source, then purify a large amount of blood to obtain the power hidden in the bloodline inheritance.
There were many obstacles if one wanted to walk this path.
First of all, there were currently many known powerful bloodlines in the hands of Sorcerer families.
The so-called Sorcerer families, in fact, usually had a powerful Bloodline Sorcerer in the past. As the descendants of powerful bloodline owners, their bloodline naturally inherited the good genes of their ancestors. In order to maintain the continuation of the family bloodline, they refused to marry outside the family, using a closed circle to maintain the purity of the family bloodline.
Apart from these known powerful bloodlines, other Sorcerers who wanted to walk the path of Bloodline Sorcerers could only try their luck and try the unknown monster's bloodline.
If the monster they inherited the bloodline from was a rank 3 creature, then under the influence of the diminishing of generations, the bloodline inheritors might not even be able to reach rank 2. If the bloodline wasn't pure enough, then even advancing to rank 1 would be very dangerous.
Therefore, if the descendants of powerful Bloodline Warlock families didn't have enough strength, once they walked out of the family, they would become the best prey in the eyes of others. Some wandering Sorcerer apprentices wouldn't mind capturing them and extracting the essence of their bloodline to give themselves the power of some powerful creatures.
However, this required a large amount of blood from Sorcerer apprentices, so the success rate wasn't high. On the other hand, it was taboo for Sorcerer families.
With the powerful strength of these Bloodline Warlock families, how could they sit back and watch their clan's bloodline leak out? Even if they had to pay a heavy price, they would still kill the main culprit. Therefore, in the history of Sorcerers in the Sorcerer Continent, there were many cases of bloodline descendants of powerful Warlock families being stolen, resulting in great turmoil.
Seriously speaking, the snake-headed apprentice that broke into the magic swamp today was probably a descendant of a Warlock family, otherwise he wouldn't have such distinct characteristics of a monster. Unfortunately, Grimm didn't have the opportunity to obtain his blood.
Regarding this, Grimm didn't have any regrets.
A descendant of a Bloodline Warlock who was at the rank of a high-level Apprentice could have such a strong ancestral bloodline. In order to help Grimm steadily advance to the rank of a Quasi-Sorcerer, he would need at least a dozen of such descendants to meet the frightening requirement of blood.
This level of difficulty was no less than asking Grim to challenge a giant dragon!
Moreover, according to Grimm's understanding from the books, the current most active Bloodline Warlock families in the central part of the Sorcerer Continent had only reached rank 7. There was a huge gap of 2 ranks between them and the peak of the Sorcerer System, rank 9 Sorcerers.
As a Bloodline Warlock, they didn't need to train and accumulate too much knowledge. They only needed to continuously purify their bloodline, and then they would naturally be able to obtain power from their ancestral bloodline.
An inheritor of a rank 5 bloodline could advance ten or even a hundred times faster than other people. This allowed him to advance without looking back in the first half of his life and enjoy limitless glory. Moreover, Warlocks with special bloodlines could also have special abilities, which gave them an even greater advantage when fighting against people of the same rank.
However, the peak of the bloodline source was also the end of their Sorcerer Path.
Once they reached rank 5 with their strength and luck, they would painfully find that their path forward was completely cut off. After reaching rank 5, there was no longer any possibility of advancing.
This was the greatest sorrow of Bloodline Warlocks!
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