Chapter 1278: The Great War is Coming
Ice Dragon's Heart, Tier 4 material......
It was the heart of the dragon that the ice dragon Nax had saved before he made up his mind to transform his soul origin.
I have to say that for the parts taken from his body, Nax still saves it very carefully. This can be seen from the cold materials and application methods that seal the heart, all of which are high-end goods.
And the consequences of Nax's doing so are...... Grim undoubtedly harvested a high-grade Tier 4 sorcery material.
It can only be witchcraft material!
If a dragon material such as the Ice Dragon Heart falls into the hands of a high-level alchemist, it is very likely that a treasure such as the Ice Heart can be crafted, which can add ice damage and deep freezing to the user's attacks.
In the hands of the puppeteer, it can be used as a high-quality material for the ice system to be loaded into the high-level construction golem or himself, as a source of power for battle.
In addition, it can be added to the body of an alien beast or witch beast, giving the wizard an unusually powerful sorcery minion.
As for Grim, after the depth calculation of the chip, he felt that it was more cost-effective to directly sacrifice this Ice Dragon Heart as a fourth-order material, and use it to nourish his star beast bloodline.
At this level, Grim has taken advantage of his strengths to the extreme, and the parts that can be strengthened in all aspects have been strengthened. From now on, his strength growth has also entered a plateau.
What can effectively improve his basic strength is a few items such as spiritual power, soul origin and bloodline talent.
Among them, the spiritual power relies on continuous deep meditation every day, although the effect is not great, but at least it is still slowly improving. Deep meditation that used to have immediate results now takes a month or two to see a slight increase.
But now, with the help of the Book of Filthy Darkness, Grim can also rely on constant reading to improve his mental power in addition to meditation. At this point, his progress rate was undoubtedly dozens of times faster than those ordinary rank 4 wizards.
The ascension of the soul origin is a great blessing that can be encountered but not sought.
According to the chip's estimate, Grim only had to collect a sufficient number of Flame Laws and use the method provided by the Flame King to quench them into his own Law Fire. The moment the flame of the law was ignited, it was the moment when he Grim advanced to the 5th rank, and it was also the moment when his soul origin was sublimated again.
There is no other way!
As for the third bloodline talent, there is no other shortcut to its ascension, which is to continuously devour the flesh and blood of those high-level creatures that are rich in the aura of the law of abundance.
Those wild star beasts have spent their entire lives wandering in the boundless sea of stars, searching for every dimensional world that can be attacked. And their only purpose in breaking into the dimensional world is to devour flesh and blood, rob souls, and then absorb the plane origin lost from the dimensional world.
However, in the final analysis, what the star beasts devoured was actually those fragmented plane laws.
Ordinary dimensional creatures regard it as a fragment of the law of life poison, but it is the top delicacy that the star beasts dream of. Not only can they eat, but they can also digest and absorb it, and they can extract the corresponding law power from the broken law fragments, and distort their alienation into strange abilities suitable for themselves.
The reason why star beasts are so powerful is that they belong to a typical law creature from the moment they become adults, and they are far higher than most dimensional creatures above the life level and soul level.
Therefore, if Grim wants to improve his Star Beast bloodline and make the Chaos Physique derived from the Star Beast bloodline stronger, he must often find some high-value, 'high-nutritional' biological flesh and blood to nourish.
And the Heart of the Ice Dragon undoubtedly fits that!
The Blood Sacrifice Ritual prepared for the Quetzalcoatl Dome last time was not used, but this time it was extremely appropriate to use it on the Ice Dragon Heart.
However, while Grim was carefully preparing the special items needed for the blood sacrifice ritual in the secret room of his residence, an urgent message from the outside world forced him to stop what he was doing and retreat from the secret room.
The message came from Emelia.
Gargamel's and Emelia's familiarity with Grim naturally knew that he hated outside interference the most when he was in seclusion. Therefore, Amelia actually chose this time to send an urgent message through the reserved special channel, which undoubtedly indicates that there are some very important matters in the outside world that must be handled by Grim himself.
Therefore, as soon as Grim read the message, a hint of fierceness flashed on his calm and calm face.
“…… Clashes broke out on the border...... Contradictions escalate continuously...... The Denel family began to build up their troops in a big way...... The small border city of Amman has fallen into the hands of the enemy...... The Crimson Grand Duke Antonel was caught in it......"
The Denel family......
Grim couldn't help but groan.
That's a powerful wizard family with a Rank 4 witch, Clara.
Since he advanced to the 4th tier, his relationship with this Clara is also passable. Although there is no close connection, for the sake of each other's fourth-order forces, both sides still retain a trace of restraint and forbearance.
In the past hundred years, the expansion and extension of the Crimson family have deliberately avoided the territory of the Denel family, and even its affiliated forces have not been touched in the slightest.
In such a situation, the other party suddenly attacked, even if Grim did not have any evidence and intelligence, he could smell the smell of conspiracy in it!
It seems that the stimulation brought by the Horton Wizarding Academy to some guys is still very strong, and they are even forced to go from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and they have the courage to tear their faces and fight with the Crimson family.
Moreover, these guys also held a Crimson Grand Duke in their hands, which was also obviously provoking the anger of the Crimson family.
Since the emergence of the vast human kingdom of the Crimson Realm, there have been three successive kings. However, there are still only five Crimson Grand Dukes who have been publicly canonized, and they represent the five subordinate forces that have split from within the Crimson family.
Therefore, these Crimson Grand Dukes are just ordinary human nobles, and they are actually nothing within the Crimson family. But externally, they represent the face and dignity of the Crimson family.
Since the other party has detained a crimson Grand Duke, it is obvious that this is the idea.
Not only did the Crimson family not stay out of the matter and pretend to be deaf and dumb, but there was still room for it not to completely tear their faces. Otherwise, they would have detained a Crimson Rank 2 wizard, and they would have played a much higher role than this Crimson Grand Duke.
What the hell does this Clara want to do? Does she want to be used by a few old guys in the guild to become the blade against the Crimson family and against herself? Hehe, they're only doing it now, don't they think it's a little late?......
With endless speculation, Grim strode towards the teleportation room.
Since these enemies did not intend to let him live in seclusion in peace, it was time for the Crimson family to fight back strongly. He will use the fiercest and wildest flames of sorcery to warn careerists and conspirators that he, Grim, is not something they can provoke by these beam-jumping clowns.
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The small town of Amman.
An obscure border town on the southwestern border of the Elovis region.
The fire had not yet been completely extinguished, and the wolf smoke drifted over the town, turning the sky gray.
The originally quiet and simple town was dead silent at this time, and the doors and windows on both sides of all the streets were closed, and countless eyes full of doubts and horrors were projected from the cracks in the doors and windows, looking at the strange army walking through the streets of the small city covertly.
This is a wizard unit belonging to the Denel family, a sturdy wizard apprentice riding on a tall magic horse, draped in thick armor painted with strange runes, patrolling the streets, coldly scanning the dwellings on both sides of the street.
From time to time, they burst into the dwellings and drove the inhabitants and merchants into the streets, where they knelt like slaves on both sides of the road. Anyone who dares to defy or resist will be summarily put to death.
A corpse nailed to the walls and beams of a house is the only fate for the rebels!
They were hunting for the crimson nobles and the escaped crimson wizards who had taken refuge in the city, and all the suspects were sent to the dungeon in the city lord's mansion to be taken into custody.
And above the sky, wizards riding giant double-headed eagles kept circling and flying, closely monitoring and guarding the entire town.
And in a fine aristocratic manor house half a mile outside the city, a large number of wizards of the Denel family came and went here, apparently making this a core stronghold of theirs.
The main body of the manor is a small three-story wooden building, which has been closely protected by many witch beasts and wizard guards.
Second floor.
In a closely guarded room.
Antonel lowered the wooden window in hatred, withdrew his gaze from peering outside, and paced the room restlessly.
And Wizard Stirling, who was reclining on the sofa and quietly reading a book of witchcraft, couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Lord Duke, don't be upset! ”
Antonel, who was pacing, stopped and listened to the movement in the corridor outside, and then muttered dissatisfiedly: "You can see it, but I can't do it! This time we fell into the trap and fell into the hands of the Denel family, and I don't know how the family will react." Once the war broke out......"
The Crimson Family and the Denel Family are both well-known Tier 4 forces in the middle of the continent, and the Crimson Family is a unique super family. Under such circumstances, if war broke out between the two sides, the terrible consequences would be unimaginable.
Even with his qualifications and identity as the Grand Duke of Crimson, he can't afford this heavy pressure!
As a consultant wizard hired by Antonel, Sterling was obviously much more insightful than this employer, and when he heard this, he said indifferently: "Why, Lord Grand Duke, do you still think that this war was caused by our mistakes?"
"Is there any other reason for that?"
"Hehe......" Sterling chuckled in a low voice, "you really think too highly of you and me! This is a wizard war, not a secular territorial war, and the main body of this battle is not you and me, but ......"
At this point, Sterling closed his mouth, but his gaze looked through the walls and the manor, to the northeast.
There...... It is the sacred place of the Crimson family, and it is also the place where the legendary family master Grim lives in seclusion!