Chapter 0269 - Flying on the Boat

Tickets for flying boats are calculated on a per capita basis.

Say high or not, say low or not, 200 magic crystals per person.

This basically eliminates the possibility of ordinary people and low-level apprentices riding flying ships!

When Grimm was an apprentice wizard, he basically couldn't get more than 10 magic crystals per month. Aside from the basic expenses of borrowing books, renting labs, and buying materials for witchcraft, very few magic crystals remain.

The only way to get the magic crystal into the project faster is to take on the apprenticeship mission issued by the Wizarding Guild.

But such a task often means a long journey, and sometimes a dangerous part of the journey. Whether it's a savage grassland, a barren jungle, or a hidden ruin, the dangers hidden inside are very deadly for wizard apprentices!

The price of 200 magic crystals is an unimaginable amount of money for most low-level apprentices, and only quasi-witch-level apprentices can afford it. So I glanced at the deck, and except for Kirby and Alice, the rest were almost all wizards in various robes.

Nearly half of the wizards had blurred their faces with hazy elemental particles, revealing at first glance withdrawn people who didn't like to be disturbed. Most of the wizards who showed their faces were dressed in cloth robes, with a calm expression and an indisputable appearance.

Grim groaned.

He had also heard of this type of wizard in some books about wizards.

They don't like to fight by nature, but only like to do their own research silently, hoarding knowledge little by little, and spending most of their lives in the laboratory.

That's why they are often referred to as scholarly wizards.

And since Grim has chosen the Flame Specialization, it is difficult to follow the path of a scholar-type wizard, which is actually not in line with his personality. Since awakening the chip, Grim has been strengthening his combat power, and the purpose of studying witchcraft knowledge is only to transform his abilities.

Although he is also very interested in the creation of demon golems, he is still very clear in his heart. Fighting wizards are his job, and golem creation is just a part-time job to support combat power!

But these scholarly wizards are the opposite.

They seldom study the techniques of combat and killing, and instead make some part-time support jobs their own job. As a result, countless non-combat professionals such as apothecaries, enchanters, puppeteers, summoners, alchemists, and array mages have emerged one after another.

These people constitute a huge branch of the wizarding community, the Wizards of the Octane.

In order to distinguish themselves from the madmen who like to fight and kill, these guys who shouted "Knowledge is power!" put on silver robes and established a completely different wizarding organization in the west of the continent, the Silver Alliance.

Although their individual combat power is not strong, with their strange auxiliary means and huge number of groups, they have pushed the Silver Alliance into the ranks of the three major wizarding organizations in the wizarding continent.

And what Grim needs to visit on this trip is the core city of the Silver Alliance, Sky City.

According to legend, it was a magnificent city that all the silver-robed wizards gathered the wisdom of the group, combined with a lot of knowledge of the alien plane, and spent thousands of years to create a magnificent city, a wizard city floating in the sky!

And it is precisely with this almost miraculous sky city that the Silver Alliance can stand for thousands of years and become the holy city in the hearts of all the arcane wizards in the entire wizarding continent.

Every year, those new wizards who have just advanced to the ranks, as long as they want to become Upanishads, will make the city in the sky their ultimate pilgrimage and go there in person. Even after many new wizards go, they simply choose to settle there because they like the learning atmosphere and the abundance of professional resources.

This undoubtedly also continuously strengthens the talent reserve and strength of the Silver Alliance from the side!

In addition, the area of the Silver Alliance is full of talents, and all kinds of potions, demonic items, witchcraft equipment, and magic puppets are all available. Therefore, if the wizarding organizations and forces in other regions of the wizarding continent want to obtain these top-level resources, they can only travel thousands of miles to the sky city to deal with the Silver Alliance.

The combination of these advantages has also made Sky City the most prosperous and lively trade capital in the Wizarding Continent, the focus of talents, knowledge and resources!

But it's not easy to get to the castle in the sky.

The Wizard Continent has currently opened up several major regions, the scattered Tallinn region is located in the middle of the continent, and the area ruled by the Silver Alliance is located in the western part of the continent, and the distance between the two can be said to be the closest.

Unfortunately, the two forces have not been connected in the true sense of the word.

The westernmost region of Tallinn is 370,000 kilometers away from the Silver Alliance. Most of the primeval forests that separate the two belong to level 3 areas that have not yet been explored, and are simply impassable.

The so-called Level 3 areas specifically refer to those terrifying areas where even Level 3 wizards are dangerous to enter.

In order to maintain the original ecology of the wizard continent, and in order to maintain the enterprising spirit of the wizards, the great wizards who chose to leave once joined forces to clean up all the creatures above the 5th order in the continent. This maintains a delicate ecological balance between wizards and ferocious monsters.

However, looking at the entire wizarding continent, the settlement area developed by humans only accounts for 12% of the total area of the continent. Therefore, compared with humans, the living space of monsters is huge, and the number and variety are also more numerous.

The pristine area near the human settlement has been trampled countless times by wizards, and it is mostly safe. However, as long as any primordial area is more than 10,000 miles deep, even a first-order wizard who is there will not dare to say that he can save his life. And once it exceeds 100,000 miles, a wizard below the 2nd order will die if he enters!

Therefore, in order to connect the existing human settlements, from ancient times to the present, countless wizards have gone one after another and died in the depths of the wild jungle that no one knows. It was also through their continuous progress and slow exploration that they were able to find a barely passable air corridor from the reckless jungle.

And a large number of flying ships built by the Silver Alliance also pass through this sometimes safe and sometimes dangerous air corridor, continuously transporting the resources and material resources of the major regions to the city in the sky, and then selling the top resources created by the city in the sky to all corners of the continent.

The flying ship Grim is now flying on is relatively safe due to its location in the airspace of the Tallinn area. But once you arrive in the Wendu area, if you want to venture through the 370,000 kilometers of primeval forests, I am afraid you will have to take a certain risk!

After a few more moments of browsing the strange scenery under the ship, Grim finally felt a little tired and turned and entered the narrow cabin entrance.

Like a normal cabin, descending ten steps, you will be greeted by a narrow, dimly lit corridor. There are five portals on each side of the corridor, each with a bronze plaque engraved with a basic witchcraft rune.

There are those that represent "plants", those that represent "the sun", and those that represent "knowledge......

The runes on the bronze plaque are not repeated, apparently to allow the wizards to distinguish the rooms!

The runes on some of the bronze plaques have been lit, and it seems that a wizard has moved in.

Only wizards are allowed to live on the first and second floors here, and Alice's quasi-witch status can only barely get a cabin on the third floor, a floor with the human magnates, while an alien wisdom slave like Kirby can only huddle in the darkest and most damp fourth floor.

During the flight, the lowest minions were not allowed to enter the upper floors, so as not to disturb the good mood of wizards and noble lords. All their eating, drinking, and lazing can only be done there, and even if they are bullied, they can only endure in silence, otherwise the guardian wizard in charge of the safety of the flying ship has the right to throw anyone who does not obey the command from the ship.

Although she already knew about these situations, it was still impossible for Alice to be happy when it was her turn to enjoy this differential treatment. She pouted, disgruntled and Kirby walked to the end of the corridor, for the steps leading to the lower level were there.

After all, this is a world where wizards are respected, and even if Grim has the intention to keep the two of them by his side, it will cause the displeasure of other wizards. In many places, there are privileges that are only available to wizards!

This is actually a kind of hierarchical atmosphere deliberately created by wizards, and no one is allowed to break it easily.

Grim picked a random room with no one and pushed open the wooden door.

Perhaps the runes on the bronze medal sensed the aura of magic and began to emit a faint fluorescence.

The so-called room is a small cabin, and at the end of the corner there is a wooden bed fixed there, and the bedding on it is still clean. Other than that, the only furnishings in the cabin were a small table and chairs, mahogany, which looked sturdy.

In the bulkhead above the head of the bed, there is a washbasin-sized window, inlaid with a colorless transparent crystal glass. Looking at the material, it should be a vulcanized crystal with high hardness. Such a crystal glass is not very thin, and it is difficult for ordinary swords to cut it.

Grim briefly inspected the room, but did not notice any hidden witch circles or special energy fluctuations, and then closed the door and sat down in a chair.

After groping in his waist bag for a while, Grim took out a heavy parchment book with a black shell and gold leaf trim, opened the pages and read it carefully.

And in the lower right corner of the page he opened, a line of small words stood out:

The soul is above the material, and the mind is the product of the union of the material and the spirit—Kane.

This...... It turned out to be a witchcraft note written by Kane, the wizard in Two-Faced Wizards.

Whispers of the Heart!

I have to say that the fire witchcraft mastered by Grim himself is more powerful and lethal than the other. In this way, it is natural to take advantage of the enemy, but it is difficult to have any decent loot.

It's this 'Secret Words of the Heart', if it weren't for Grim's quick eye to rescue it from the other party's pocket, I'm afraid it would have been destroyed in the same raging flames as other items!