Lin Li placed the broken Wood Puppet on the small alchemy table, and the only thing left to do was to dissect it in detail.
Since it was difficult to decipher the secret of the puppet stone from the front, Grimm could only change his approach. Starting from the traces left behind by the white smoke of the puppet stone, he wanted to see what kind of magical changes happened to the pile of "garbage" after the wooden puppet gained basic intelligence and turned into Billy.
If the wooden puppet's crude body was a piece of computer hardware, then White Smoke would be the software operating system that integrated all the resources in it. Grimm was only curious about whether the white smoke with basic intelligence was a witchcraft effect or a creature's soul that had been erased and processed!
Indeed, Grimm had a high suspicion that the white smoke was a soul fragment that the Silver Alliance had extracted from some intelligent beings during the first test. In order to reach such a level of intelligence, perhaps only those humanoid creatures could do it.
For example, the native humans of the Secondary Plane …
A low-grade puppet stone was worth 15 magic crystals in the Silver Alliance. In some underground black markets, it could reach as high as 40 magic crystals. Grim estimated that the souls of indigenous people were slightly weaker than the souls of ordinary people in the Sorcerer World. Therefore, he would need to extract the souls of three to five indigenous people to successfully create a low-grade puppet stone.
These native humans were not worth much in the Secondary Plane. It was common for one magic crystal to buy thousands of ordinary slaves.
Unfortunately, only slaves with special abilities and special talents were worth bringing back to the Wizard World. Otherwise, their value would not even be enough to cover the cost of long-distance teleportation. That was why it was rare to see war slaves from other planes on the Wizard Continent.
However, it did not mean that there were none.
The dwarven master builders and blacksmith masters, the halfling gourmets, the elven handsome men and beautiful women, the fairies of the Fairy World, as well as the Pentashade Dragons, which were the most suitable flying magic pets … In fact, there were even some powerful wizards who raised succubi, lustful demons, dark elves, and other 'slaves' from the lower planes.
Even in the Sorcerer World, these top-grade slaves were highly sought-after commodities. If a wizard family could find these creatures with special abilities in the Secondary Plane, they could make a lot of money by selling them as slaves.
But for those secondary planes, the majority of them were still the natives who had no special skills. These ordinary creatures were not worth much at all. If they were sold to the Sorcerer World, the magic crystals sold would not even be enough to cover the travel expenses. Therefore, the usual method was to force them to mine and create as much profit as possible for the Wizard family.
If they could be like the Silver Alliance and directly set up a puppet stone manufacturing factory in a secondary plane, converting the massive population of another plane into alchemy products that were easy to transport and had higher added value, then the Silver Alliance would definitely be able to reap ten times or even a hundred times the profits.
After all, in the Sorcerer World, large-scale killing of living creatures was strictly forbidden. Only in an unsupervised Secondary Plane could such an inhumane thing be done!
With the help of the A.I. Chip's powerful data scanning and analysis abilities, Grimm finally discovered signs of a soul infiltration within the Wood Puppet. This also indirectly confirmed his previous guess.
The Silver Alliance had always been doing cruel and bloody things in the Secondary Planes that they occupied!
However, Grim had no intention of blaming them.
After all, all Magus families were doing similar things, just to varying degrees!
Perhaps it was because of these factors that the Sorcerer World was classified as an evil faction, and the Sorcerers naturally became the evil creatures feared by the world.
He had studied the composition and operating mechanism of the Puppet Stone, but it was still of little help to Grim. After all, the Wood Puppet Stone was only a support, and its greatest use was in storing the white smoke of souls within. Grim did not have much research into the study of souls. That was why he still could not understand how the arcane Magi extracted, refined, cleansed, and stored souls.
Only the necromancers who specialized in elven studies of the soul seemed to be good at this!
Could it be that the Silver Alliance employed a large number of necromancers to work for them? Or perhaps they had invented some sort of machine that could complete such complicated and meticulous work?
There were too many possibilities. Perhaps only by infiltrating the Silver Alliance's Wood Puppet Stone manufacturing factory in the secondary plane would he be able to obtain accurate first-hand information.
However, the large organisations had always sealed off the secondary planes that they controlled. Without joining their families or signing a soul contract, it would be extremely difficult to infiltrate!
This could be seen from the Sarubo family's control over the Knight's Plane.
No matter what, Grim could be considered an internal Magus of the Sarubo family, and he had also made great contributions in the conquest of the Knight's Plane. However, once he chose to leave the Knight's Plane, the coordinates of the Knight's Plane would be 'retrieved'.
Even with the help of the A.I. Chip, Grim could not recall the location of the Knight's Plane. This way, the Sarubo family would not have to worry about the location of the Knight's Plane being leaked.
During the battle in the Dark Forest, Grim had killed two Magi and found some valuable magic notes and books on them. After scanning, summarizing, and organizing the contents, Grimm once again confirmed his future development path.
He had already converted his body into an elemental essence, but this was only a semi-conversion. If Grim wanted to successfully break through to become a rank 2 Magus, elemental essence conversion was something he needed to complete.
The A.I. Chip's assessment was that Grim would only be able to complete his elemental essence conversion after nearly a hundred years. Moreover, this long process would require the help of some special environments in the natural world, such as lava and volcanoes …
Hence, Grim had been constantly looking through the map of the scattered tower forest, looking for a suitable place to live in seclusion. However, before that, he had to settle Alice's matter.
After all, Alice's talent as a Destiny Witch was also an ability that he valued. If he could succeed, Alice would occupy a very important position in his life plan in the future!
… …
As soon as he left the lab, Grim received a message from Wizard Kogan.
The resources for Alice's advancement had all been allocated. As long as Alice made the necessary preparations, the advancement ceremony could be held at any time. Of course, Grim had to pay for all of this!
Not long after, someone knocked on the door of his residence.
Grim opened the door and saw a male prospective Magus under Magus Corgan, Majuta.
Following behind him was a group of ordinary acolytes, who were carrying wooden boxes of various sizes.
"Lord Grim, these are the resources that Lord Corgan has asked me to deliver to you. Please take a look! "
Looking at the long list of resources, Grim could feel his eyes turning moist.
Fate, it's so f * cked up!
Back in the day, his advancement was like an abyss of suffering. If his luck was just a little bit worse, he could have become a blood sacrifice. Now, all Alice needed to do was to stay in her room and eat and drink well. Everything else would be taken care of by Grimm, the 'master'.
This was probably the difference in fate!
After sighing inwardly, Grim calmed himself down and carefully checked the list of resources and items. After that, he signed the contract and sent the other party away.
With just a single stroke, Grim's net worth had shrunk by 1/3. After all, Alice was his personal 'item', so the Sarubo family had no obligation to pay for this expensive advancement fee.
Besides, even if Wizard Cogan was willing to pay for Alice's rank up fee, Grim would not allow it.
Alice had to be his' person 'first, and only then could she be a Sarubo family wizard.
This was something that Grim had to uphold at all times!
At this moment, the Acolytes from Grimm's faction rushed over after hearing the news.
They came just in time, so Grim handed over the processing of the resources to them.
Saro fruit, a special fruit from the wild forest. After processing, it could increase the vitality of an individual in a short period of time without any side effects.
Protozoa, a strange insect that was cultivated using witchcraft. If eaten before advancing, it could significantly increase the toughness of one's power of the Will. It was also a rare resource for advancement.
Stench potion, a magic potion that burned one's life force to increase one's power of the Will.
Water of life, a miraculous item from the elves of another world. It could nourish the life force that was severely depleted after the advancement ceremony.
… …
… …
The resources sent over by the Sarubo family were numerous, and each of them was extremely valuable. They were extremely useful for advancing.
However, these resources were all sealed in special spell formations to prevent their effects from being lost. If one wanted to use them, they would have to temporarily unseal them and then process them according to a set procedure.
Grim handed over these complicated tasks to his acolytes.
He, on the other hand, began to wholeheartedly calculate Alice's advancement ceremony!
After gathering all the information and information, and taking into account the effects of the various supplementary resources, the A.I. Chip projected the success rate of advancement in his mind as: Even if Alice had extraordinary talent, even if Alice had many precious resources, even if Alice had the blessing of a Witch of Destiny … Adding all of these together, the success rate of her advancement was barely more than 50%.
From this, it could be seen how difficult it was to advance from a quasi Magus to a Magus in the Magus World!
Once everything was prepared, Alice adjusted her mental state and spirit. She prepared to enter the secret room with the resources and ritual items Grim had prepared for her.
To prevent others from noticing her strange state, Alice had to put on a long robe to hide the half of her body that had lost its physical form.
At the door, she received the blessings of Kodar, Meryl, Amu, Torley, and Lina.
"Senior, you'll definitely succeed!" Kodar was one of the two quasi Magi under Grim, and he was the first to give his blessings.
"You'll definitely become a beautiful Magus!" Meryl whispered into Alice's ear.
Advancing from quasi Magi to Magus was a sublimation of one's life force. Using this opportunity, Alice would have the chance to break through the seal of fate, freeing herself from the state where she had awakened at the age of eight.
"Senior, I'll have to call you Lord Magus the next time we meet …" Amu grinned foolishly.
"I have faith in you …" Torley shouted from the side.
"You have to succeed!" Lina's eyes were filled with envy and passion.
Behind them was the goblin Kabi, who had hurried over.
This fellow had brought Alice a wooden sculpture that looked like a female goblin, and insisted that it was a gift from the goblins.
After all, advancing to a Magus was a big deal. Anything that could affect the ritual could not be brought in, so Grim had confiscated the wooden sculpture.
Alice stood at the door and looked around before her gaze landed on Grim.
"I'll be waiting for you!" Grim's blessing was simple and direct.
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