It took only the shortest time for the Alice turmoil to subside. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even most of the Tower apprentices have not yet figured out what happened, and the turmoil has passed silently. Not to mention the wizard Anderson, who rarely showed up before his apprentice, even the evil insect Ntiq, who watched the whole process, became silent and quiet.

Except for Mary, who was not the slightest surprise at Grim's performance, the other two were extremely surprised. Ntik, in particular, has even risen to the point of restlessness.

Although Grim has never been openly hostile to him, as a deformed Bloodline apprentice, it is Entic's personal code to prioritize all potential enemies and strive to create a dominant aggressive position in the circle of his life.

In the past, due to the limitations of his personal strength, he had to maintain a relative balance with the other two. However, the breakthrough of this trial mission made his nature no longer controllable, and he came forward early to "surrender" Mad Girl and Hawkeye.

If he hadn't witnessed that weird boy's battle, he might still have thought that the scales of victory were more favorable. That Mary was useless for attack and defense except to run faster, and it was impossible for her to be his opponent. And that Grimm, how much of a wave can a mere high-level apprentice make?

However, the battle between Alice and Grim's birdcage deeply touched Ntik.

From that day on, he kept asking himself, if he was the one who fought Grim in the birdcage, would he be able to break through the defenses of that group of elemental golems and attack Grim?

From that day on, he became silent!

…………

In a dimly lit chamber.

Ntik sat silently in a dark corner in a black robe, contemplating without saying a word.

The entire chamber was lit with only a magic torch on the far wall, and the dim and jumping light not only failed to illuminate the space, but only made it even more eerie.

There was no furniture in the chamber, not even the usual tables, chairs and benches, and even Ntik sat cross-legged on the cold floor. Behind him, in the dark corner of the room, where the light could not reach, a mysterious cocoon of a bulging insect hung there.

It's not so much a secret room as a hive.

Right beside Ntik, countless black beetles surged across the floor. One will run to the east, the other will run to the west, and the sound of chirping arthropods against the floor is endless.

It seems that under the influence of these beetles, the body shrouded in the black robe of Ntik has also become undulating, and it seems that there are thousands of beetles inside that want to rush out and blend with the same kind outside. Just as the black beetles were making a fuss, Ntik finally raised his head, and two dark green fireflies lit up in the shadow of his hood.

A sharp beep sounded in the chamber.

Ntik opened his mouth, and a strange worm head poked out of his overlapping lips. The beep came from its mouth.

Hearing this insect hiss, the insect tide that was originally a little restless became stable again. The black beetles gathered around Ntik, prostrate like subjects worshipping their own monarch, waiting for their master's orders.

Ntik picked up a black beetle and threw it into his mouth, creaking and biting crisply, the stinking green worm juice spilling from the open lips, and the pungent smell made the air in the chamber even more foul.

"This is the path you have chosen for yourself, and it is really peculiar!" an old voice sounded abruptly in the secret room.

"Master Anderson, you're finally here!" Ntik looked up slightly, not seeming surprised by the sudden appearance of the voice.

"You know I'm coming?" the old voice was a little surprised, it was the voice of Anderson, the owner of the swamp tower.

"Of course, as long as you're the owner of the tower, you'll be in touch with me sooner or later!"

"Then you should have guessed what I was here for, right?"

"You want me to help you deal with that Grim!"

"Hmph, clever boy, you're right! I do need you to step in and kill that nasty boy now. I'm sure you're more than happy to do that!"

"Then dear Lord Anderson, may I ask if you need the help of others to kill a high-ranking apprentice, and what unbearable consequences will you bring if you kill him?" If he doesn't figure out this key issue, he doesn't want to be a gun in someone else's hands!

"That's because I still want to keep controlling that little vampire. She was a key sample for my next blood study. But with her relationship with that kid, if I shoot directly, I'm afraid it will be very difficult to control her again. Wizard Anderson was silent for a moment, and finally gave his reasons.

"With that kid's fighting ability yesterday, do you think I can win against him?" Ntik didn't care about Wizard Anderson's reasoning, and quickly moved on to the next question.

"In my judgment, it's hard and hard. If you were alone, you would surely die. But you seem to have formed some kind of evil insect alliance, and if you add the power of this alliance, maybe it's about the same. ”

"But what good will it do me to do all this?

"What if I said I could make you stronger?"

“……”

"Your contract partner is the worm mother, right? a carrion beetle's worm mother, hehe, such a good opportunity can also be encountered by you, it seems that your luck was really good!"

“……”

"You're probably struggling to improve your strength right now. Now that you have your life tied to the worm mother, you not only need to bear your own promotion needs, but also the promotion needs of the carrion worm mother. In this way, although the body of the halfworm will give you the advantage of your opponents of the same level, it will drag you down a lot in terms of advanced speed. ”

“……”

"Did you devour one or two quasi-witches in this mission trial? If you hadn't had such an adventure, you wouldn't have been able to successfully advance to quasi-witch. In order to be promoted to wizard, how many wizards are you going to devour?"

"Lord Anderson, I understand what you mean. Do you have any better advice for my current situation?"

"Of course it's to strengthen yourself!" Anderson's voice reprimanded disdainfully, "Although you and that worm mother are contract creatures and share life, there is also a problem of dominance in this. When you are strong in yourself, it is naturally your best servant. But if it evolves faster than you, although you don't have to worry about life, but the true master of this body, I'm afraid it will be dominated by it for most of the time!"

"So how can I strengthen myself quickly?"

"Truly...... Boy, you've probably forgotten how I got Mary into what she is today!

"I agree to this condition. So what do you need me to do?"

"First of all, I need a drop of your worm mother's blood! Only by obtaining its blood can I accurately blend the alienated blood that suits your physique. ”

After a long moment of silent thought, Ntik finally nodded in agreement.

As soon as Ntick agreed, the Anderson wizard immediately urged him to hand over a drop of Mother Worm's blood.

Ntik gritted his teeth and opened his large lotus petal-shaped mouth, and the worm head once again revealed its small half of its body from it. The insects hissed so violently that even the black carrion beetles around Entik became furious. However, under the persecution of Ntik, the head of the worm was still a worm's mouth, and spit out a strange drop of fishy and sticky juice.

The void of the secret room trembled slightly, and as soon as the drop of juice broke away from the worm's head, before it could hit the ground, it was supported by a ripple of the void that opened at the right time. As soon as the light of the teleportation flashed, the juice disappeared inexplicably.

Ntik's dense compound eyes shone brightly, and he was clearly secretly frightened by Wizard Anderson's tight grip on the tower.

"Boy, you're wise!, well, with this thing, I'll be able to concoct the blood of alienation in no time. When you have vampire blood, that's when you'll shine!"

Sensing Anderson's powerful psychic power slowly exiting the chamber, the evil insect Ntik reluctantly buried himself in the infinite darkness. No one could peek into the shadows, and the chirping insects screamed non-stop, and he didn't know what he was exchanging with the mother worm fiercely.

The whole space is filled with an eerie atmosphere!

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Back in his home, Grim once again entered the closed circle of life.

Deep meditation, reading books, witchcraft experiments...... These boring activities that cannot be touched by thunder have become his basic daily routine. Somehow, a deep sense of crisis enveloped Grim's body and mind, urging him to continue to accumulate knowledge and strengthen himself.

He had a feeling that if he didn't run with all his might, something terrible was going to happen to him. It's hard to explain where and by whom this sense of crisis comes from, but Grim is convinced of it and does it.

Moreover, several days of witchcraft study also brought him great benefits. The witchcraft books that had accumulated in the past were all turned into occult knowledge that he could understand at any time in his mind, filling in the basic gap in his fire sorcery.

So, before he knew it, the Flame Shield and the High Temperature Force Field had become his possessions, and the mastery of the Body of Fire had increased from 37% to 41%.

Seriously speaking, at this moment, Grim's basic theory of the fire system is in no way inferior to that of any official wizard!