Chapter 0488: Kirby's Troubles
Kirby was in a bad mood today.
After more than sixty years of separation, the owner finally summoned it again.
Of course, the meeting was still so enthusiastic, but after returning to his goblin shop, Kirby suddenly became depressed and depressed.
After briefly inspecting the store, looking at the clerk apprentice who nodded in front of him and didn't dare to breathe, and looking at the three wizards who had been waiting in the store for a long time, the goblin Kirby suddenly lost the glory and smugness of the past.
After a few words sent them away, it returned to the secret room at the back of the store, and lay down on its favorite large chaise longue, silently staring at the ceiling in a daze.
More than 60 years later, the master's face is still the same as it was 60 years ago, as if the passage of time has not left any trace on him at all.
And it'......
Kirby scrambled to his feet, ran to a mercury mirror in the corner of the room, and examined his face again.
The rough green skin was loosely piled up on the body, and the skin that was once green was now dull. The ugly face of the past is still ugly, but in addition to the ugliness, there are faint traces of aging and weakness.
The Greenland Essence is so ugly that all the humans around it don't look at it so closely. Even those sorcerers who wanted it were full of contempt and disdain in their hearts while talking to it with a pleasant face.
In their eyes, goblins are often associated with the words stupidity, slaves, and experimental materials, and are not worthy of being called intelligent creatures at all. If it weren't for the fact that they would have gotten the wizard-level golems that the shop regularly launched as soon as possible, these arrogant wizards would not even be willing to approach its side, let alone make a request to it in a low voice.
In the past, the goblin Kirby enjoyed the scene of being on an equal footing with these wizards, always squinting his eyes, crossing Erlang's legs, and quietly listening to each other's stiff and dry praise and praise.
But today, somehow, Kirby, the goblin, suddenly loses interest in all of this!
Lying in front of the mercury mirror that fully reflected its face, Kirby looked left and right, and finally had to admit that he was old.
As a lowly goblin, its base lifespan is much shorter than that of humans, at best 60-80 years. In the cruel living environment of nature, most goblins can live to be 30 years old, which is already considered an advanced age!
Most goblin tribes can't afford to raise elderly goblins who have lost their ability to fight, so once the goblins are over 30 years old and enter the middle and late stages of their lives, then they are not far from being abandoned by the tribe!
In the past, his unbridled and happy life made Kirby almost forget that he was a goblin. But after meeting the master today, in the face of the master's almost ageless face, the goblin Kirby realized this again.
Although it is a strange spirit that has been transformed by wizards with witchcraft, in terms of life qualifications alone, it is already a first-order monster. This will undoubtedly double its base lifespan. But the base life of the goblins is too low and too low, even if it is doubled, it will only be one hundred and forty or fifty years.
And it'......
To put it mildly, with the owner closing it once, it is already halfway through its life. In most goblin tribes, they are already on the verge of elimination.
A hint of sadness and fear floated for no apparent reason, and Kirby, the goblin, began to spin around the chamber irritably.
This is the High Wizarding World!
This is the world of wizards who can do anything!
Could it be that here, as a great goblin merchant, you can't find a way or means to continue the life of a goblin?
After frantically flipping through countless witchcraft books, and calling in a few apprentices who served him, Goblin Kirby finally painfully discovered that even in the wizarding world, extending life is a costly luxury.
As for the life extension rituals that are more popular among wizards, they can also be divided into three different grades: low, medium and high, which can be extended by 50 years, mid-range by 300 years, and high-end by 1000 years. As for their price, naturally, it is just as effective as their effect, which makes people feel so sad that they can't go directly to rob a witch tower.
In addition to the price, the Life Extension Ritual requires the use of numerous rare resources, most of which are difficult to find in the wizarding world. Just collecting resources is probably another terrifying astronomical amount. Even if the resources are collected by luck, a high-level wizard needs to be invited to preside over it, which is another huge amount that ordinary wizards dare not imagine.
Therefore, according to Kirby's understanding, the low-grade life extension ritual will cost about 70-800,000 magic crystals, the mid-range one will cost about 5 million magic crystals, and the high-end ones are almost priceless......
With Kirby's savings over the years, in addition to working hard for the owner of Grim, it has also accumulated some 'private money', which is about 150,000 or 60,000 magic crystals.
In the past, it was proud of its hard work and ability. But now, compared with the two, it has suddenly lost the motivation to struggle. I always feel that everything in front of me is like a bubble, and as long as I poke it lightly, it will turn into nothing.
When you are young, no one thinks directly about death.
But after enjoying the honor and prosperity, the goblin Kirby feels that he can't live without it all.
Patrolling his own goblin shop every day, enjoying the nods of the wizards' apprentices, and listening to the whispers of the wizards, such a day is simply blissful.
Can ...... now
Kirby always had a sense of fear that he was dying step by step.
I must be a useful person to the host!
Kirby swore by a vicious curse......
That night, the goblin Kirby contacted the goblin Grand Duke Gazruvi, who was far away in the other plane, and then a large number of magic stone mines were teleported to the goblin plane in the form of a trade.
Of course, in this batch of magic stone mines, there is also a small silver ore that seems to be inconspicuous, and the silver ash in it is covered by thick ore.
And its faint energy fluctuations were mixed with the rich energy aura of the magic stone, which was impossible to detect with the shallow magic perception of the goblin creature.
The bait has been spilled, and all that remains is to wait slowly for the other party to take the bait.
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Grimm didn't feel any surprise at Goblin Kirby's enthusiastic offer.
It is a green land spirit, and the Gazluvi, who is far away in the heterogeneous plane, is also a green land spirit, although the two are of the same species, they do not have any blood and family ties, so there is no psychological burden of betraying their compatriots.
Besides, with the goblins' usual unsympathetic habits, Goblin Kirby thought about it for so long before taking substantive action, and Grimm was already surprised.
But whatever Kirby's original motives were, the only thing he cared about was the delivery of the mixed 'gifts'. As for Kirby's dream of immortality, Grim also agreed to it.
What's the hurry, Kirby has at least seventy or eighty years to live, and it's not too late to think about this issue after the goblin plane falls into the bag. The Life Extension Ritual is too expensive, and it often requires strange objects such as dragon bones, dragon grass, and hydra eggs, and even Grim is not sure to find them.
So, when Kirby is dying, it's not bad to directly transform it into a spirit or a witch beast, and the lifespan is definitely extended. Of course, it would be okay for Mary to embrace it and transform it into a vampire goblin. But goblin blood stinks, and it's a question of whether Mary is willing to bite it......
After dealing with the many matters at hand, Grim walked into a secret room.
The secret room was empty, and only a mysterious and mysterious witch array was carved in the center.
As soon as Grim stood in it, the Witch Tower immediately summoned a huge amount of energy and poured into the Witch Circle. As countless witchcraft runes and magic lines quietly emerged in the void, a magnificent and vast witch array enveloped the entire secret room.
The chamber immediately became dark and lightless.
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Meanwhile, inside the Tower of Northland's Destiny.
The astrological platform at the top of the Tower of Destiny suddenly overflowed with a dark and lightless mist, encroaching on the entire space with lightning speed.
A plump and slender figure was standing silently in the darkness, looking up at the twinkling stars in the sky.
The stars are shining and the stars are dotted.
In this beautiful world of stars, Alice's slender figure seemed so lonely and so bleak, that even her face was wet with rows of tears.
A tall figure hugged her from behind and gently wiped away the two lines of tears that had just rolled down.
"What are you feeling sad again? If you want to be more gracious, you can teleport directly to the Flame Throne! Don't always hide here alone and grieve ......" The voice of Grim came from the tall figure, but this body was obviously not a real entity, but some kind of strange sorcery such as a projection of consciousness.
Alice squeezed backwards, letting 'Grim' hug her tightly and not speak.
Over the years, she has always been the ice-cool, god-like unpredictable prophet in front of outsiders, and Alice, the witch of fate forever wrapped in a veil of mystery! But only she knows that every time she stands on this astrological platform, she can clearly perceive the mighty and endless torrent of fate.
In the eyes of outsiders, the Witch of Destiny is a great existence that controls the long river of fate. Even herself, when she first came into contact with this, was lost under the mysterious power of fate.
However, the deeper she immersed herself in the long river of fate, the more she perceived her powerlessness and vulnerability. Every quest for destiny is no less than an adventure, and it is an adventure for which you are completely unprepared.
Destiny is not static.
In the vast wizarding world, there are many strong people who can have the ability to reach out to the long river of fate. And their existence is a disaster for Alice!
These guys rely on their own strength to unscrupulously set off one torrent after another in the long river of fate, intercepting the long river of fate as they want, and directing it in the direction they want.
Even from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles, Alice could feel the angry roar and roar of fate.