Minar Valley.

Bright sunlight makes it difficult to penetrate the dense canopy of trees, shrouding the forest in a mysterious darkness. A faint mist filled the forest, and the whole forest was silent, so that even the most common insects and birds could not be heard.

In the midst of this dead silence, a black shadow suddenly emerged from the shadow cast by a poplar tree, and quickly transformed into a hazy and illusory human form.

There was a thud of mist spreading, revealing the mysterious wizard inside who was wearing a sky-blue wizard's robe and had a handsome and cold face.

After the mysterious wizard appeared, he glanced around, but did not notice anything unusual, and then he stomped his foot slightly, and an eerie cold air penetrated the ground, touching a certain rune array there.

Silently, a thick snake-necked flower suddenly emerged from the dirt of a glade, and the petals opened one after another, spitting out a strong leather-armored man wearing a golden ring on his head, holding leopard claws in his hand, and a rough face.

"Hey, haven't you heard any news yet?" Seeing his companion's silent expression, the strong man immediately became irritable: "It's been four days, that bastard has to come here to take a look no matter how timid he is!

"I'm going to ask Lamir!" the blue-robed wizard grumbled with displeasure on his face, "She took it upon herself to carry out a sneak attack, and not only did she not catch that guy, but she also made him more vigilant." ”

"It can't be that Ramier's slut who sold us, right?" The rough man's mind turned, and his eyes gradually turned fierce: "Ramiel, you come out for me...... I know you're here, get out of here......"

With the roar of the rough man, the entire forest was buzzed, which made the blue-robed wizard frown, and with a wave of the short-handled wand in his hand, a colorful translucent water barrier sealed off the place.

This place is still too close to the enemy's iron ring excavation site, and if the vigilance witch array inside discovers the anomaly here, it will be difficult for them to carry out their follow-up plans.

Squeak squeak......

A strange ape cry came from the depths of the woods, and four or five gibbons came over the canopy over the flying edge tree, and finally stopped on a large tree in front of them, staring at them with intently fixed eyes.

"Ramiel, you still dare to come out...... Say, did you betray the information we were coming? Or how could that kid be so shrewd, there is already a lot of trouble here, and he can honestly squat in the city and not come out......"

The originally cloudy and sluggish pupils of the gibbon in front of the two of them suddenly emitted a trace of essence from the bottom of the pupil, and then the whole 'person' became smart and agile.

"Sicha, you brute, I'm too lazy to talk to you...... I also have a part in this mission, so what good will it do me if the mission fails?" the gibbon suddenly spoke, and a female voice came out.

"Hmph, that's a possibility. Everybody knows that you and Flender have never dealt with each other, and who knows if you are going to do some kind of conspiracy behind your back?"

"Okay...... Okay" The blue-robed wizard Flender, who had been on the side with a cold face, cut off the confrontation between the two: "Regardless of whether that guy hears anything or not, we have to lure him out." The Iron Ring is the most suitable place to ambush people, and there is no need to worry about disturbance when fighting, so we still arrange this place as the first battlefield. ”

"Hmph, the environment here is indeed the best, and it is the most suitable for ambush raids. We know that, and I'm afraid that kid knows it too. It's been a few days since the mine had an accident, and he didn't even want to come to investigate, I'm afraid he had given up on the hoop excavation site in his heart. "Although Sicha is a body refining wizard and a muscular man, in terms of intelligence, his mind is not inferior to Flender, who is known for his mental strength.

"There's also an apprentice of his in the mine, or I'll lure him out too. Maybe you can force that bastard to show up!" the gibbon said, rolling his eyes.

"Lure it out and close it first, and see the effect!" Flender, the blue-robed wizard, frowned and thought hard.

Although he knew that this Ramilcan had an idea, he must not have a good heart, but after thinking about it, he couldn't detect what kind of conspiracy was hidden in it.

"Let's wait another day, and if that guy doesn't come out yet, we'll demolish that level 2 resource point for him. I don't believe that under such circumstances, he can still squat in the stone tower without coming out. Sicha, you work harder, find a suitable ambush position near the resource point, and wait for me there after setting up the talisman array......"

"Then you ......"

"I'm going to look at Gilneth City. The blue-robed wizard Flender gritted his teeth: "If that kid really doesn't plan to come out, we can only raid his stone tower if necessary." It's a good thing it's just a rudimentary defensive witch array, not a war witch tower, otherwise our mission would be a bit difficult!"

This is going to step on the other party's lair.

The specific details, Sicha will no longer ask, after all, that Ramil is also here. Whether it was her leaked secrets or not, it is better to keep her personal whereabouts confidential.

After a brief exchange, the three broke up again and went in different directions.

The forest, near the Hoop excavation site, soon fell silent again.

…………

Bluestone Tower.

Grim was in a bad mood.

He had just received a message from Meryl from Ferdinand that Kodar's funeral would take place in three days at a small place called Molloy.

It was also the burial place of his original family!

Kodar had died in a failed promotion ceremony ten days earlier.

It is said that when the clan lifted him out of the chamber, all the flesh and organs in his body were sucked away by the promotion ceremony, and his body was already thin and withered like a skeleton.

Without Kodar, a quasi-witch, his family would inevitably decline for a while. Although there are still some talented seedlings in the younger generations of the family, it takes time and resources for them to grow up.

So when Meryl faced the weeping old patriarch, she was obviously not good at dealing with such a scene as a wizard at the beginning. So when she returned to Ferdinand, she had a little girl named Mona by her side.

Mona, 18 years old, junior apprentice......

This short amount of information is simply good, but it is enough to sentence this Mona to death!

She is already 18 years old, and she is a junior apprentice, which is enough to show that her talent potential is very low. If you want to train such a junior apprentice, the resources consumed are enough to train 3-5 guys with outstanding talent and potential.

Meryl: This is just asking for trouble for herself!

As a new wizard, she doesn't have much of her own resources, and she has a group of family apprentices waiting for her to cultivate. Now there is another half-sister of Kodar, a big burden that will most likely slow down her own development plan.

Although he didn't approve of Meryl's actions, Grimm thought about it for a while, and sent messages to Goblin Kirby and Gargamel of the Fire Throne respectively, and the amount of resources allocated to Meryl was increased a bit.

As a member of the Grim faction, in order to maintain a close relationship between them and himself, in addition to the nominal mentor-disciple relationship, Grim will also give them a huge discount when purchasing resources and teaching knowledge. This can also help them save a lot of resources, so that they can use these resources to strengthen themselves and their knowledge reserves, and can also improve their personal strength in disguise.

Therefore, if you want to gather a group of people, the resources that need to be spent are huge, and it is almost unimaginable for outsiders.

To take the simplest example, what are so many wizard apprentices willing to accept harsh witchcraft contracts and sharpen their heads to a wizarding family or witchcraft organization?

In order to get a certain share of the resource subsidy, and when you reach the threshold of quasi-witches, you can get a free wizard promotion ceremony funded by the family. And if the witchcraft materials and resources consumed in this wizard promotion ceremony are converted into magic crystals, the basic value should be 10,000 magic crystals.

And 10,000 magic crystals, let a wandering quasi-witch rely on his own strength, I am afraid it will be difficult to make up for seven or eight years. If you consider that many of the resources needed for the promotion ceremony cannot be collected in the market at all, most of them are monopolized by wizard families.

This makes it even more difficult for them to obtain promotion ceremony items in disguise!

Many wandering apprentices who are forced to do so can only take the risk of breaking into the resource points of a wizard family, in order to be able to steal some rare resources that cannot be obtained on the market. But there are not a few guys who have been killed because of this.

So that's how the hatred between wandering wizards and apprentices and wizard families comes from.

Just as Grim was silently distracted by this, Sabrina came to report again.

The two apprentices, Yuri and Morse, are here again!

This...... It's the twelfth time they've visited Wizard Grimm in five days!

It can also be seen from the expressions on their faces every time they arrive that the situation at the front is becoming more and more urgent. In the past, it was only some hired handymen and guards who had accidents, but in the past two days, the missing people have spread to the group of wizard apprentices.

In just two days, 2 intermediate apprentices and 1 senior apprentice were missing from the Ring Excavation Field, and an intermediate apprentice was also missing from the Level 2 resource point.

The disappearance of these guys was very strange, and there was no trace of a fight at the scene, as if they had slipped out of their residence and stepped out of the range of the defensive witch array.

Of course, Grim knew the inside story here, but he didn't reveal anything to these 'subordinates'. After all, it was difficult for him to distinguish which of these people could be trusted and which could not be trusted, so for the sake of secrecy, he simply didn't see anyone, and every time he asked Sabrina to send them away.

In the hall on the first floor, the two apprentices fidgeted and frequently looked up at the door.

When they saw that only Sabrina walked in, and there was no Wizard Grim, they couldn't help but show a look of despair and resentment on their faces.

Once upon a time, they still regarded this famous Fire Demon as their personal idol in their hearts. Can ...... now

"Lord Grimm is still busy with his own witchcraft experiments, so I don't have time to see you for a while. Sabrina paused, her scarlet mechanical eyes flashing a few times, "He asked me to tell you that this is just an enemy harassment tactic, as long as you ......"

Yuri, who was under the most pressure from "harassing and harassing ......", was the first to hold on: "In order to avoid the invasion of the enemy, several of our wizard apprentices have moved to a room to live, but there are still apprentices who are disappearing. It's my job to protect the hoop excavation site, but Lord Grimm also bears some of the responsibility. If the adults don't come forward, we can only ask the family for help......"

Without looking at Sabrina's face, she turned around angrily and left the stone tower.

And the Morse apprentice also sighed secretly, and walked out silently with his head down.

On the upper floor of the stone tower, Grim stood in the shadow by the narrow window, silently watching the figures of the two leaving, silently communicating with the chip.

"How long will it take for the chip, the data model to be completed?"

"Drop, 36 hours, 49 minutes, 52 seconds......"

If you add in the time it takes to make the Wind Dragon Golem yourself, it means that it will take at least 48 hours to make a move.

Grim couldn't help but squint his eyes, and the cold glow at the bottom of his pupils became colder and colder.