Grimm, who had successfully returned from the underground world, was once again busy.
However, it was different from his usual routine. Now, he had more goals when he was busy, and he was more focused.
The first thing he did after returning was to visit the Lothar Chamber of Commerce again. When he left, he had 5 high-grade wind crystal cores in his waist pouch. However, such a large purchase also brought a lot of magic crystals to Grimm.
More than half of the 3000 magic crystals he had won from the duel had been spent in the blink of an eye. Now, Grimm's magic crystal reserves had fallen below 800. Considering that he and Mary had become big eaters, they had to keep the magic crystals to support their daily consumption. Therefore, it was urgent to obtain a large amount of magic crystals in a short period of time.
After returning from the underground, the three of them, who had temporarily formed an alliance to snatch the treasure, gathered together for a meeting. When Grimm told them about what he saw at the Wizard Tower ruins, Mary and Kabi fell into an inexplicable fear.
Wizard-level monsters!
Was … Was this something that their small team could handle?
Although Mary thought highly of herself, she was still just a high-grade Vampire. If she really fought against that terrifying flower spirit, she would probably be killed in seconds. Grimm was still an intermediate Apprentice. Although his spiritual force was growing rapidly every day with the help of the magic meal and the spirit concentration potion, he was still an intermediate Apprentice. If they really encountered a Wizard-level monster, not only would he not be able to help, even the aftermath of the battle could cause fatal damage to it!
As for the great Gnome Merchant Kabi, his unique concealment ability was worth watching, but it wasn't related to combat at all. Therefore, other than the past memories in its mind that could help a little, it really couldn't help with anything else.
Seeing the fear on the two's faces, Grimm smiled understandingly and began to calmly analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the enemy. With his guidance step by step, the two gradually overcome their fear of Wizard-level monsters and began to carefully plan a plan to defeat the terrifying flower spirit.
First of all, the three were certain that if they allowed the flower spirit to maintain its Wizard-level strength, the plan to seize the treasure would simply be suicide. Thus, he had to think of a way to weaken that terrifying flower spirit's power.
In order to achieve this, there were two ways. One was a witchcraft curse, and the other was the Flower Spirit itself.
As for curses, Grimm could find a way to purchase some cursed wands or single-use magic scrolls. However, it was still unknown whether these inferior goods made by Sorcerer-Apprentices could penetrate the flower spirit's magic resistance, so he could not place too much hope on it.
While talking about this, Grim secretly said that if he could get in touch with Wizard Angus, he might be able to get some wizard level spell scrolls from him. However, in order to get his hands on an official Magus, Grimm had to offer something that could tempt the other party.
That was why Grim had to solve this problem by himself!
According to Grim's speculation (which was actually the A.I. Chip), the main body of the flower spirit was actually the A.I. Chip.
It was highly likely that it was hiding near the broken Elemental Pool. Hence, at this moment, Kirby's usefulness became apparent. Relying on its familiarity with the Wizard Tower, it quickly drew the internal structure and clearly pointed out the location of the Elemental Pool.
According to Kirby's description, the Elemental Pool was located on the second underground floor of the Wizard Tower ruins. Along the way, it would need to pass through many secret witchcraft doors and spell formations. Although most of these things might have lost their effectiveness, if there were one or two that were still working, it could cause immeasurable damage to Mary's infiltration. Therefore, Grim requested that Kirby follow Mary into the Wizard Tower ruins.
Grim was very firm on this point, so Kirby could only agree while trembling with fear.
In order to achieve the above two points, the first prerequisite was that Grim had to have the strength to fight or deal with the terrifying flower spirit. However, this was extremely dependent on the Lightning Giant that was about to take shape. Perhaps only when the Lightning Giant reached the expected height, would Mary and Kaby have a little confidence in this treasure snatching operation!
In the following days, Grim, Mary, and Kirby all became very busy. Grim spent day and night in the alchemy laboratory, busy creating his new magic puppet. Mary also went out early and returned late, and every time she did so, she would be covered in scars. Even with the outstanding ability of the Vampires to suck blood and revive, she still had so many scars. It was clear that the intensity of her training had reached the limit of what her body could withstand.
As for Kabi, who was content with a little bit of wealth and was determined to become the greatest goblin merchant, he rarely appeared in the hall on the first floor. Instead, he wore a set of old and tattered Thief equipment and spent every day in the Witchcraft Training Room practicing his special skills of hiding himself. As for his original shiny magic equipment, he could only lock it in a wooden box with tears in his eyes.
Of course, during this period, Grim and Mary also took the time to participate in an underground raid organized by the training camp. However, after experiencing the painful failure last time, the Fallen Apprentices had obviously strengthened the defense of the various resource points. This caused the team led by Kevin to fall into an extremely difficult battle.
In this battle, when the two Quasi Sorcerers in Kevin's team were locked in a fierce battle with the Fallen Quasi Sorcerers, Grim had no choice but to send out a Rock Python Puppet to defend against the attacks of an extra Fallen Quasi Sorcerer.
In a situation where the number of Quasi Sorcerers was not as great as the opponents, and the strength of the High Apprentices did not have much of an advantage, Kevin could only helplessly give up on the raid in order to avoid being flanked by the enemies.
Facing such an ending, the members of the team were very calm. This was because in their past battles of attrition, this was the normal result. As for Grim's performance in the battle, no one had any objections. With the strength of an Intermediate Apprentice, he was able to defend against the crazy attacks of a Fallen Quasi Sorcerer for 15 minutes. Such an achievement would definitely make people speechless.
It was also because of his persistence that Kevin's team did not collapse due to the lack of Quasi Sorcerers. Otherwise, once the team was broken up, how could those High Apprentices dare to guarantee that they would be able to escape? In the dark and gloomy underground tunnels, there were many talented acolytes with wild ambitions.
Every year, there would always be more than ten High Apprentices who would silently die in some dark corner of the underground tunnels. Even the death of Quasi Sorcerers would occur from time to time. The cause of the destruction of the Blissful City by the Sorcerers on the surface was that a team of six people on the surface had coincidentally encountered a Fallen Sorcerer while patrolling underground.
No one knew the cause of the incident, as two Quasi Sorcerers and four High Apprentices had silently died underground. The furious Sorcerers on the surface had rushed underground with the help of the Sorcerers sent by the scattered Sorcerer Association in the Tower Forest, forcibly destroying the enemy's stronghold, Blissful City.
Unfortunately, the enemy's Tier 2 Sorcerer, Prideka, had tactfully detonated his Sorcerer Tower and escaped from Blissful City with a portion of the Fallen Sorcerers, avoiding this disaster. Thus, in a few years, a new Blissful City was built.
The more they understood about these situations, the more vigilant the elite acolytes were towards large-scale conflicts. Once one side went overboard, it was extremely likely that it would trigger a violent backlash from the other side.
In the special environment of the Dark Underground Tunnels, no matter how talented or powerful an acolyte was, once they provoked a Sorcerer from the other side, they would only meet their end. Thus, when they had taken the heads of three High Level Fallen Acolytes in one go, Kevin's team was already somewhat jittery. This time, they had been disgraced, which made the two Quasi Sorcerers in the team heave a sigh of relief.
As a passer-by in the Dark Underground Tunnels, it was impossible for Grimm to stay here for too long. Thus, he had no way of understanding these thoughts. The reason why he had concealed his strength this time was purely due to his lack of stamina and spiritual force.
Over the past few days, Grimm had once again taken the Concentration Potion. This time, his spiritual force had only increased by 0.51 points. On the other hand, his vitality had fallen below 3 points. This caused the A.I. Chip's evaluation of his body to change from healthy to weak.
Left with no choice, Grimm could only stop taking the Concentration Potion and focus on adjusting his body. With his vigorous vitality at the age of 15 and the stimulation of his physical body by his spiritual force, it was normal for his vitality to be around 4 to 5 points.
However, this was a common problem for all acolytes who walked the path of the Elemental Path. Usually, they would only focus on training and cultivating their spiritual force. If they were not meditating, they would study and study magic, or spend long periods of time copying magic books. For the sake of magic experiments, they would spend long periods of time in contact with magic materials that were harmful to their bodies. These bad habits also caused all Elemental acolytes to look the same, sickly and skinny.
If they could successfully advance to become a Sorcerer, they would naturally have a lot of time and methods to find some strange items to fill the gap in their bodies. But now, they could only grit their teeth and endure it bitterly. They even sacrificed their bodies time and time again in exchange for a slight improvement in their mental strength.
The failure of the mission did not affect Grimm at all. After returning from the underground tunnels, he continued to dive into the alchemy laboratory. He spent most of his time there, carefully polishing the number one Magic Puppet that he was looking forward to the most — the Lightning Giant.
Finally, after more than ten days of suffering, Grimm waved his hand to extinguish the magic flames on the alchemy table. He raised the Main Crystal Core that acted as the carrier of the Magic Puppet's consciousness and squinted his eyes to carefully examine it.
At this moment, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief, because …
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