Chapter 0272 - On the Boat
The huge floating battleship slowly floated into the sky like a nimble beast.
Countless looming mysterious witch arrays emerged from the outer wall of the bottom of the ship, spewing out a large amount of wind particles from inside, driving the battleship to quickly streak across the sky like a swimming fish, plunging headlong into the rolling black forest.
And as soon as the floating battleship entered the primeval forest area, the three tall masts erected on the hull of the ship glowed, and together they held up a huge translucent light shield that enveloped the entire hull. The dazzling runes on the light mask swirled and swirled, and strange energy ripples flowed irregularly on it, as if it had some special purpose.
Grim closed his eyes and sensed it.
Light refraction, camouflage, breath shielding, mind avoidance......
Among them, light refraction and camouflage are used to hide the hull, and the breath shielding is to prevent the breath of life on the ship from leaking out, causing unnecessary trouble. Psychic evasion, on the other hand, is a form of sorcery that allows small beings who are too close to each other to unconsciously avoid the airspace where the floating battleship is located, in order to avoid the camouflage ineffective due to collisions.
It's a pity that these witchcrafts are only effective against those low-level beings or low-level monsters, but they have no effect on the powerful monsters in the primeval forest.
Of course, there were other strange runes on the translucent light mask on the outside of the hull, but unfortunately Grim's knowledge of runes was too limited to identify them one by one.
Standing on the side of the boat and leaning down, a small reflective silver river meanders between the black sea of trees.
A flock of blue birds flew slowly underneath the floating battleship.
It has a fiery red crown, pale blue fleshy membranous wings, and a long, slender tail with bright colors. Looking at the appearance, it should be a mutated Peng bird. This kind of Peng bird does not look gorgeous and elegant in appearance, but it is a real carnivorous ferocious bird, fierce and brutal by nature, and has a strong sense of territory.
However, no matter how fierce the mutant peng bird is, it is just an ordinary fierce bird, without any elemental ability, and it cannot pose any threat to wizards.
So when the floating battleship swept past them, the birds didn't even notice it!
The forests here seem to be a little different.
Grim has also overlooked many vast forests stretching for hundreds of miles in the scattered Tallinn area, which seem to be dominated by green. But when I got here, I didn't know why it turned gray and black.
A desolation with an eerie color!
Ever since the floating battleship entered the Black Forest region, Grim had a special sense, as if there was a hint of chaos and tyranny in the aura of energy here. And the whole world is like a kind of extreme emotion that is so dull and depressed that it wants to roar furiously.
This may be what the Wizarding Continent was originally like!
The floating battleship stalked silently high in the sky, not disturbing the fierce birds and beasts of the Black Forest beneath him.
There were many wizards on board, and many of them were familiar with each other, and soon they got together in twos and threes and talked happily. Some of the already talkative wizards took advantage of the opportunity to visit around and make new friends. Although sometimes they will be ruthlessly rejected by the other party, most of the time wizards are still willing to exchange some information and witchcraft experience with others.
Grim was led by the wizard of Angus, and visited some of the wizards he was familiar with one by one, including some powerful wizards who were famous in the middle of the continent.
Grim has no objection to this.
After all, he has been a human for two lifetimes, and Grim knows that many times connections are also a valuable invisible resource, and sometimes they even override personal strength!
The wizards they visited were both men and women.
But all young wizards, although not all of them are handsome men and beautiful women, are not too ugly.
Most wizards apparently don't pay as much attention to appearance as witches. Due to the perennial exposure to some dangerous forbidden experiments, most veteran wizards will have some sequelae left on them to a greater or lesser extent.
One of the wizards Angus brought him to visit was still normal for the rest of his body, except for the flesh and blood of his face, which was all eroded, leaving only a thin layer of wrinkled skin that fell over his skull, looking like a talking skull.
The wizard of Angus secretly sent a message to Grimm that the wizard had become what he was because of a failed witchcraft experiment.
If it's just a few simple flesh damages, wizards have a lot of means to rejuvenate themselves, and the lost flesh can be reborn. However, if some sorcery damage touches the Soul Origin, it will not be so easy to repair.
In contrast, these female wizards are clearly more concerned about their looks and body skin. On their bodies and faces, Grim could detect traces of witchcraft transformation. Of course, such subtle witchcraft transformations can only be analyzed at a glance by a chip with metamorphosis level data collection and comparison capabilities like Grimm.
Most of the witches are gorgeous, and their bodies are even hotter and fuller, and they often get together to chat with the wizards, and they are often the focus of everyone's attention. And they don't care about the unbridled gaze of the wizards, and sometimes even take the initiative to make provocative remarks, as if they have completely regarded their body and beauty as a tradable resource.
Especially a new wizard like Grim, who is tall and strong, and full of heroic spirit, has become the target of their wanton hunting. Some hot eyes, explicit words, and debauched manners made Grim cry out that he couldn't stand it.
Although he already knew that after becoming a sorcerer, many people did not care much about worldly laws and customs, and preferred to show their temperament and indulge their selfish desires. But such a "free and open" relationship between men and women still makes Grim find it difficult to accept!
And behind him, Alice, like a fart, pouted, angrily looking at the charming witches who deliberately chose to approach Grim, and kept thinking in pieces. Because the voice was so quiet, the people around her couldn't hear what she was muttering.
Although Alice is arrogant by nature, her talent is indeed amazing, and she has a strong confidence in becoming a wizard. But in front of these official wizards, she still didn't dare to act too offensively.
In the group of apprentices, she may indeed be terrifyingly talented, an excellent future witch with unlimited development potential. But potential is only potential after all, and before potential is converted into real strength, any setback may make her, the future "witch of fate", die halfway.
In the Wizarding Continent, there are countless examples of self-restraint that leads to the enemy's plot and the destruction of the soul because of the lack of self-restraint. All of these dead hapless ghosts were gifted!
So even if it's just for the sake of her own life, Alice doesn't have the guts to provoke a group of unscrupulous and terrible witches head-on. It's just that for some reason, seeing a group of charming witches there who are either innocent, noble, or debauched to show their charm to Grim, the anger in Alice's heart swells up.
A group of shameless old women! They will seduce men with the two taels of flesh on their chests all day long, and they have simply lost the face of the witches, and they deserve to be the vassals of the wizards......
Sensing the dark tide behind him, Grim greeted Angus Wizard with a wry smile, and returned to the cabin with Alice, who couldn't help but think about it.
For the next few days, Grim lived in his room barely an inch, working day and night on how to incorporate these otherworldly runes into the golem crystal nucleus. When you are tired from researching, you will replace sleep with meditation to regain your mental strength as soon as possible.
And in his body, the fire demon heart's twice-per-minute burst of energy had gradually become acceptable. It was just that with the power of the flames, there was also a faint and almost imperceptible abyssal aura. If Grim hadn't been fine enough to deeply monitor the genetically level chips of the body's cells, I am afraid that he would not have been able to detect the existence of this wisp of abyssal aura, and of course, it would be impossible to detect that they were slowly and firmly eroding and transforming his body.
It had only been a dozen days, and some of the organs in his body had already faintly shown a hint of demonization.
The news is both good and bad for him!
The good thing is that it has made his physique stronger and stronger. Since transplanting this second-order Flame Demon Heart, his physique has grown faster than his mental power, giving him a plan to simply change his career to become a body refining wizard.
The strong body and the ethereal evil aura all give Grim a touch of alternative charm!
But the downside is just as obvious.
Once the demonization of his body organs exceeds the level he can control, his origin camp will probably deviate from the wizard path and move closer to those demons in the lower realm!
On the one hand, he was greedy for the growth of his strength brought by the abyssal breath, and on the other hand, he was afraid that he would degenerate into an abyssal creature, so Grim ordered the chip to closely monitor every change in his body.
On the fifth day after boarding, when the demonization level of a certain organ in his body exceeded 11%, Grim took out a bottle of potion from his storage belt and swallowed it without hesitation.
As soon as the purple-black sticky potion slid into the esophagus, a pungent fishy stench filled the room. From the mouth to the stomach, an indescribable strange sensation spreads and gradually spreads to the entire body.
In reality, Grim raised his hands and watched as wisps of dark red smoke seeped out of his skin and slowly melted into the air.
Since he already knew that the heart of the fire demon might bring harm to him, of course, Grim had prepared a witchcraft potion early on, which could slowly and continuously remove the abyssal aura from his body. Of course, these potions could not be refined, but he had traded them from Ferriel with a fist-sized deep sapphire.
Every time he drank the potions, he needed to precisely control the amount of potions, so that they could not only pluck out the abyssal aura, but also not cause a decline in his physique. And one of the most direct consequences of this is that he is now simply a "stinky" person.
The whole body is emitting a pungent and unpleasant stench!