Half a day later, Grimm and Mary finally returned to the wizard tower.
Only then did they know that their compulsory mission team had lost another member, Shilah, and the rest of the members were also injured. The team had suffered heavy losses.
The cause of all this was the sudden appearance of four fallen Quasi Wizards.
After the sudden attack, Sabrina and the other two Quasi Wizards fought against three of them, but the remaining fallen Quasi Wizard still managed to kill Shilah and the other three and forced them to flee. Shilah died on the way to escape.
Since the Fallen Quasi Sorcerers claimed that they were here to seek revenge on Grimm and Mary, after they returned to the surface, the members of the team who were still in shock pushed all the blame to the two of them. Several senior apprentices had asked them to take responsibility for Shilah's death and take full responsibility for the failure of the mission.
When Wizard Angus, who was here to evaluate and receive the mission items, appeared in the hall, Isaac was jumping up and down even more.
"Sir Wizard, it's them … They insisted on leaving the team and caused the four Quasi Wizards to retaliate, which caused our mission to fail completely. You must punish them! "
The remaining Liandre and Bruce also cursed loudly, looking indignant.
As for the two male Quasi Wizards in the team, they all had a pale face and did not say a word. Although they would not do anything to hurt others, it was obvious that they were also dissatisfied with Grimm and Mary. Due to the difference in level, they had suffered countless losses in the fair battle with the fallen Quasi Wizards, and all of them had escaped with injuries.
The only one in the whole team who could escape unscathed was probably Sabrina.
"Hehehe …" Wizard Angus sneered, "You don't have to play these tricks in front of me. Every year, there are many apprentice teams who come to the trial and have internal conflicts. I don't care about your little tricks. I only care about what you brought back to the wizard tower. "
Everyone looked at Sabrina at the same time.
Sabrina, whose expression was hard to read, opened her hands and handed over the four mission items she had. It could be seen that only one of the four mission items had been lit up.
"Only one mission item was completed? Where's the other one? "Wizard Angus's face instantly turned cold.
"It's here!" Mary stepped forward and opened her palm.
Over there, a lit up mission item came into view.
"You've only completed two out of the five missions. According to our agreement, you'll be exempted from the punishment for failing the mission, but don't even think about the reward."
Hearing that they could be exempted from the punishment, the high-ranked Apprentices in the team couldn't help but relax. However, what Wizard Angus said next shocked them.
"In addition, I will announce an internal decision of the Wizard Tower committee. In view of Grim and Mary's good performance during the elite mission in the training camp, the committee has decided to transfer the two of them to the training camp. From now on, they will no longer have to participate in the compulsory missions. "
Although Wizard Angus's voice was deep and hoarse, in the ears of the team members, it was no less than a bolt from the blue. In an instant, a few of them were shocked out of their wits.
"This … How can this be?" Isaac shouted in horror, "My Lord, this is unreasonable! Our team only has eight people left. If you transfer two of them away, how are we going to complete the mission? We want to protest … "
Before he could finish, a black chain suddenly flew out of thin air and tied Isaac up tightly in an instant.
"What? There's someone here who dares to question the authority of the Wizard Tower committee? Kid, let me tell you, no matter what, do not directly challenge the authority and dignity of a Wizard. This is to teach you a lesson. Next time, I won't be in the mood to let you go so easily! "
Following Wizard Angus's cold warning, the black chain suddenly turned red. In an instant, it turned into a scorching hot metal chain, burning Isaac's skin and flesh until it sizzled. When Angus's tone gradually turned high-pitched, the metal chain began to tighten. The red hot chain had completely sunk into Isaac's flesh, squeezing his bones until they started to creak.
Isaac's magic resistance seemed to have suddenly disappeared. He had no way to resist Wizard Angus's Fire Chain Punishment. After a few screams, Isaac fainted from the intense pain.
With a snap of his fingers, the fire chain disappeared just as suddenly as it had appeared.
Wizard Angus's torch-like eyes swept across everyone. Everyone in the team lowered their heads in pain, not daring to look straight at him.
"This is a small punishment for you. The purpose of you coming here is to train your strength and complete the mission, not to shirk responsibility and cause internal strife! If you're not strong enough to crush those black bastards, then learn to be smarter. Use your schemes and unity to defeat the enemy and successfully complete the mission. Not enough people? Then go to the hall on the first floor and recruit! You can see if there are any idiots who are willing to be hired by you! "
After finishing his rare long speech, Angus turned his gaze to Grim.
"Kid, I heard that you're quite good at hiding your strength! Haha, it seems like you also know that keeping a low profile is the most important thing to protect yourself. However, hiding too much is not a good thing. A strong person should have the temperament and dignity of a strong person. If you had shown your strength earlier, maybe this team would have become your underling, and the women in the team would have become your exclusive property. Isn't this more interesting than keeping a low profile? Come on, let me see what you've gotten this time! "
Ugh … It seemed like this Wizard Angus was not a quiet guy even when he was an acolyte.
Grimm cursed angrily as he and Mary took out the spoils of war from this trip. Two people, two heads of fallen acolytes, both of which were advanced acolytes.
The faces of the team members who had been watching from the side turned extremely ugly. Only Wizard Angus laughed out loud with satisfaction.
"Not bad, not bad! You've gone underground twice and brought back two heads. It's indeed the most suitable talent for spells in the dark underground cave. Kid, you have a bright future. I have high hopes for you! Tell me, what reward do you want to exchange these heads for? "
Grimm was filled with resentment after narrowly escaping death in this underground trip. A rock python that he had just obtained was destroyed in the hands of the enemy. This was undoubtedly a huge blow to him!
"An elemental crystal core with life energy. It's best if it's an earth element, a quasi-wizard." Grim clenched his teeth. He no longer wanted to hide his talent in making puppets. After all, the appearance of the rock python was enough for people to guess what was going on.
If he continued to hide his strength, he might not be so lucky in his next trip to the underground.
"Hehehe … two human heads, you can exchange them for two Quasi Magus level earth magic cores, here …" Angus grabbed the two human heads and put them into a basin-sized space crack that suddenly opened in front of him. He then took out two glowing earth magic cores and threw them to Grim, then turned around and left.
After the main character left, the rest of the team looked at each other with an awkward expression.
Grim nodded at Sabrina and pulled Mary back to their residence.
Grimm and Mary were deeply aware of their own shortcomings during this trip to the underground world. Therefore, in the following period of time, the two of them were busy with their own things, desperately trying to make up for their shortcomings.
What Grim could do now was to eat and drink well every day to build up his body's foundation. Then, he would take a bottle of concentration potion every three days to try his best to improve his mental strength. As for the two quasi-wizard earth element crystal cores, they were quickly turned into two rock python magic puppets.
Mary, on the other hand, was deeply aware of her lack of attack power and resistance. Therefore, she spent a large amount of magic crystals to purchase a pair of "Cruel Claws" to increase her attack power.
This pair of Cruel Sharp Claws was divided into the left and right hands. It was a pair of close-range attack tools. The left hand had the additional effect of tearing, while the right hand had the additional effect of bleeding, which complemented Mary's attributes. If Mary infused her blood energy into the gloves during a battle, she would gain an additional + 2 sharpness effect.
Mary also spent a lot of time and effort on increasing her magic resistance.
If she were to train her magic resistance now, it would take too long, so Mary mainly bought some small accessories to increase her magic resistance. For example, if she had a lightning resistance necklace with + 2 lightning resistance on her, she wouldn't have ended up in such a pitiful state of being barbecued.
This time, Grim gave all of his magic crystal cards to Mary. She waved her magic crystals and bought a large number of resistance accessories and witchcraft potions in one go. While Mary was squandering her magical crystals, Grimm was having a 'warm and friendly' conversation with the Kabi Beast in his residence.
At this moment, the Kabir still had the appearance of a green-skinned gnome. The only change was that there was a magic collar with faint runes around its neck. This magic collar was a special tool used to imprison subspecies that didn't listen to orders.
There was a circle of witchcraft runes etched on the inside of the magic collar. Through three thin needles pierced into the target's neck, it slowly absorbed the target's mana to maintain its operation. Any damage to the magic collar would trigger a strong lightning attack, and if the target was too far away from the spellcaster, it would trigger the same effect.
The only way to remove the collar was for the spellcaster to activate the witchcraft incantation in a specific order.
That was why Grim put the magic collar on the Kabir as soon as he returned. Only then did he feel relieved.
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