Thirteenth level of the White Tower.
As a high and mighty Level 2 Wizard, the lowly affairs at the bottom of the Wizard's Pagoda could no longer affect Grimm's daily life and studies.
Grimm had completely become a hands-off shopkeeper, delegating the daily management and maintenance of the two Wizard's Pagodas to him.
Of course, Grimm told the public that this was to nurture the experience and training of his family's Wizards. But in reality, this was just a way for him to shirk his responsibilities.
To be honest, when a Level 2 Wizard looked back at the daily life at the bottom of the Wizard's Pagoda, he felt like a cold chess player silently looking down at the chessboard in his hands. The future of the Crimson Clan, the hard work of the family's Wizards, as well as the countless students and citizens gathered like ants, were no longer living creatures in Grimm's eyes. Instead, they were just insignificant dots.
It was just that some of the dots were smaller, while others were larger!
At that moment, one or two dots could no longer attract his attention. Only when those small dots converged and collided with each other on the chessboard would he be able to focus a little bit of his attention. Furthermore, there was a certain degree of randomness and chance in his bets, and it was not that urgent or timely.
He was like a lazy farmer looking at the sky for a harvest. He was only in charge of planting the seeds at the right time, and then investigating the next time he remembered to do so. The length of time he had to investigate was also related to the duration of his experiments.
If the seeds failed, he could just plant them again. If he succeeded, he would happily harvest the part he needed. As for the rest, it would naturally become the reward for the hard work of the Wizards at the bottom.
Hence, many of the things that Meryl tried her best to do were just random experiments and ideas in Grimm's eyes.
This was how beings of different dimensions looked at things from different perspectives!
To Grimm, as the leader of the Crimson Family, he naturally had the responsibility to make the newly established territory of his family prosperous and prosperous. However, Grimm only had to pass down his intentions to his subordinates, and there would naturally be Wizards like Meryl who would carry them out.
In this process, Grim didn't even need to do anything himself. He only needed to pay attention to and push things forward when the time was right. That was why the training in the Black Forest was nothing but an insignificant part of the actual combat training for the family apprentices in Grimm's eyes.
Even if a large number of apprentices accidentally died in the Black Forest, it would only delay the rise of the family for five to six years.
For Locke and the others, an accident might mean the end of their lives. However, to a Tier 2 Sorcerer with an upper lifespan of 400 years, it was nothing more than a lengthy witchcraft experiment.
Even if he failed, all he needed to do was to wipe out these failures and replace them with a new batch of 'experimental subjects'. Then, he would continue the family's development process of constant exploration and trial and error!
While trying and correcting his family's strategy, Grimm spent most of his energy on the experiments at hand. What he paid the most attention to was undoubtedly the creation of the two pieces of the Blazing Flame Monarch.
For this, he even hired a sewing master from the Northern Witches at a high price. Using the skin, tendons, and fire marrow crystals of the Fire Dragon as the basic materials, he sewed a pair of Fire Dragon Boots of the perfect size and style for himself. Grimm then personally completed the final step, using a special method to draw out the flame spell formation that had been engraved into the Fire Dragon Boots.
With a bright yellow flame burning on the pair of boots, all the impurities on the boots were incinerated, leaving behind only the purest and most basic material. Subsequently, the mageweath and rune lines engraved inside the boots were faintly visible, forming a series of mysterious and mysterious patterns on the surface of the boots.
At this point, Grimm had spent hundreds of thousands of magic crystals and three months to create the first piece of the Blazing Flame Monarch set, the Ash Boots!
As Grimm's first grade 2 equipment, the Ash Boots not only gave him higher magic resistance, but also allowed him to cast the 'Path of Burning' without wasting his spiritual force. This way, wherever Grimm passed through, a one-metre-tall, two-metre-wide Path of Burning would form behind him.
Any creature that stepped into the Path of Burning would suffer 60 degrees of fire damage every second, and the Path of Burning would last for three minutes.
This meant that Grimm could easily set up an environment that was most beneficial to him on the battlefield. In addition, Grimm's recovery rate would increase by several folds within the flames, which would undoubtedly be advantageous for him in a prolonged battle.
As an unexpected surprise, the Ash Boots also gave Grimm a 1 point increase in spiritual force. Even the A.I. Chip did not predict this beforehand. Grimm guessed that it should be related to the materials of the Fire Dragon that were used to create the Ash Boots.
Thanks to the mighty rank 2 Fire Dragon Bammu, not only had it contributed the best piece of Fire Dragon skin, it had also contributed a three-metre-long Fire Dragon tendon and a Fire Marrow Crystal formed from the Fire Dragon's spinal cord. Of course, the remaining items were not wasted. They were all devoured by the Dragon Devouring Maiden Ollie, becoming nourishment for her growth.
It was a pity that Ollie did not allow Grimm to use the A.I. Chip to scan her body and soul, so Grimm could only estimate her improvement from her external appearance.
Ollie, High Grade 2, Female. Race: Unknown. Occupation: Dragon Devourer. Stats: Strength > 10.
Vitality > 12.
Agility > 21.
Spirit > 20. Bloodline ability: Reverse Draconic Aura, the bane of dragons …
When Ollie faced a dragon, her magic resistance would be doubled, and most attacks would be able to ignore the magic and physical defences of the dragon. This special Profession ability was simply too awesome for slaying dragons!
Grimm could not help but think of stealing a portion of the Dragon Devourer's bloodline ability.
However, after understanding the weaknesses of the Dragon Devourer, Grimm dispelled this senseless idea.
Firstly, the Dragon Devourer's strength only targeted the dragon race.
Against other races, most of the Dragon Devourer's abilities would be useless, and it would immediately become a weakling.
Secondly, the Dragon Devourer was the common enemy of the powerful dragon race.
Even though the relationship between the lightning dragon Armes and Grimm was very close, the moment it discovered that Grimm had a Dragon Devourer hidden under him, it would probably turn against Grimm at any moment.
There was no helping it. The Dragon Devourer's bloodline was too terrifying. It was practically a slaughterer that was born to deal with the mighty dragon race. If any Dragon Devourer was allowed to grow stronger, it would pose a huge threat to the entire Lance Plane and even the dragon race.
Once Grimm stole a portion of the Dragon Devourer's bloodline, his relationship with the entire dragon race would be locked in a state of 'blood feud'.
At that time, wherever he went, all the dragons would be eager to destroy him.
The mighty dragon race was a race that could stand shoulder to shoulder with powerful Magi in the universe. If he was targeted by them, would he have a good ending?
Because of this, Grimm could only look on helplessly and let the Source Stealing Bug in his hand continue to remain dormant.
After more than ten years of research and nurturing, Grimm had already nurtured three generations of this strange bug with the innate ability to plunder. Based on his experiments on the bloodline, Grimm discovered that most lifeforms could only withstand 15% of the power of their bloodline.
If the Magi were to be measured according to their biological ranks, this meant that the degree of bloodline change could not exceed two ranks.
In other words, a beginner rank 2 Magus could at most plunder a portion of the innate ability of a high-rank 2 lifeform. Once this range was exceeded, the target would not be able to withstand the power of the bloodline, and their body would collapse and their genetic strands would break.
This kind of injury would directly affect the target's soul, and there was no way to save it.
At this moment, Grimm finally understood why Dragons had such strong physiques. If they didn't have such a strong physique, perhaps even their own bodies wouldn't be able to withstand such a powerful bloodline power!
Grimm had been nurturing Source Stealing Bugs for three to four years. Apart from occasionally using them to transfer their innate abilities during bloodline experiments to accumulate the necessary data, the rest were still being nurtured at the highest level of the Crimson Throne.
The reason Grimm did not dare to use it on himself was that it was easy to change a bloodline's innate ability, but once he realized that he had gone down the wrong path, it would be extremely difficult to turn back.
Although his innate ability was not the best, his Balrog Body that specialized in fire allowed him to have terrifying dominance and destructive power on the battlefield. If he accidentally 'polluted' his bloodline and didn't get the desired result, Grim wouldn't be able to cry even if he wanted to.
Of course, apart from himself, Grimm could also use this Source Stealing Bug on his subordinates to build a foundation and accumulate more experience in transferring bloodline innate abilities.
However, after searching with his fingers, Grimm could not find the most suitable subordinate.
Those with suitable strength had questionable loyalty, while those with good loyalty had heavy responsibilities and could not leave to cooperate with his bloodline experiments. Those with weak strength did not deserve to waste a Source Stealing Bug on them, which was difficult to nurture.
The current Crimson Family was like a carrot in a hole. Almost every Magus in the family had a difficult task on their shoulders. If one or two core Magi of the family fell because of his bloodline experiments, the Crimson Family's operations would immediately come to a halt, and there might even be a terrifying decline.
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