Chapter 0001: Awakening
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Dense fog is wet and heavy.
Even during the day, the bright sunlight can't penetrate the low clouds and gloomy fog, giving a hint of human warmth.
Muddy and filthy stinky pools can be seen everywhere, and there is not much water, but there are a lot of strange creatures parasitic inside. Every time a stranger intrudes here, this silent and desolate place instantly transforms into a paradise for scavenging and bloodthirsty creatures. Vampire vines, scavenging ravens, swamp crocodiles, and ugly ghosts who resemble drowned dead people, each of which is a terrifying monster that past merchants have avoided for their travelers.
However, in the middle of this swamp that no living person can set foot on, there is a terrifying tower with a height of 100 meters.
It is a tall stone tower.
Its base is all made of thick and dense Qinghui stones, and whenever night falls, the entire tower will emit a cold and quiet faint radiant fluorescence, which is especially favored by ghosts and ghosts.
Perhaps due to the lack of necessary maintenance and care, the entire base of the tower was entangled in a frenzied growth of demonic vines, covered in woody spikes with a metallic sheen. If an ordinary person is entangled in this demonic vine, he will be sucked out of the blood in his body in less than half an instant, and thus become a member of the thick white bones at the root of the vine.
As soon as it was dark, candles lit in the tower.
The dim candlelight shines through the narrow window, not only does not bring a trace of warmth, but makes people feel a chill in the heart.
Grim, who had just celebrated his 15th birthday, sat at a shabby wooden table, a heavy book of spells spread out in front of him, and he was silently copying it. Although it has been 2 years since he came to this new world, he still feels headaches from time to time due to the discomfort in his soul.
In a trance, the scenes that happened on the earth in the past flashed in front of his eyes, and the tip of his pen couldn't help but pause, leaving a large cloud of ink on the rudimentary parchment.
Damn, failed again!
Grim's brows furrowed, and he couldn't help but clench his fists fiercely, wanting to shout angrily. But after enduring it for a long time, I finally suppressed this anger.
This is no longer the Earth you are familiar with, and this body once belonged to a wizard's apprentice named Grim. Seriously, he was just a traverser who occupied the magpie's nest at the moment of Grim's unexpected death.
Crossing from a low-demon earth to a high-demon world dominated by monsters and wizards with empty hands, this difficult adaptation process made Li Xun feel painful. However, fortunately, after the memory fragments left over from this body allowed Li Xun to fuse, he initially possessed basic language and writing skills, otherwise the strange grammar pronunciation and completely alternative tadpole-like writing in this world alone would have tortured him half to death.
But even so, the occasional headaches still bothered him deeply.
Here, he never dared to reveal his true identity, but could only use Grim's name and struggle to survive in this wizard's tower.
Although he is a wizard apprentice under Master Anderson, this glorious status is already worthy of the envy of most people. But only the people who live in this tower know that this is not only an honor, but the most terrible torture and torture in the world.
As apprentice wizards, their basic job is to diligently take care of the life of the great Master Anderson, clean the equipment for witchcraft experiments, keep the tower clean, take care of the demonic animals and plants outside the tower, and ...... and being the subject of Master Anderson's experiment.
Although this is not a common occurrence, when a convoy of slaves or death row prisoners arrives a few days late, Master Anderson, who lacks test subjects, gets upset and asks an apprentice to act as his makeshift guinea pig.
Mary, from Anteshire next door, is said to have been "lucky" to be Master Anderson's collaborator on witchcraft experiments just last month. Although she did not die from the witchcraft experiment, her body was also heavily "contaminated" and underwent some terrible mutations. Since she came out of the laboratory, she has put on a heavy burqa and hides in her room every day and never comes out again.
Many of the wizard's apprentices were privately arguing that Mary might have died in the room.
But Grim knew that Mary was still alive.
Because every night was silent, he could hear the painful and oppressive of the next room**, and the terrible sound of sharp claws scraping against the rock wall. For this reason, in the dead of night, he would throw the food he had smuggled back into the next room.
Although Grim's life is precarious, out of a little compassion in his nature, he is still willing to do something more humane within his ability.
Today's irregular migraine came at a bad time, but it was when he copied books. He was even more unlucky to waste a piece of parchment.
Don't underestimate this crumpled and humble piece of parchment, its base value is 2 silver coins. And in this magical world now, the most commonly used currency is, of course, wizard gold. One Wizard Gold coin can be exchanged for 10 silver coins, while one silver coin can be exchanged for 10 copper coins, and 5 copper coins can provide a civilian with enough food and clothing for the day.
So in this conversion, a seemingly ordinary piece of parchment can be regarded as a huge amount of money for the common class. But here, it's just rubbish that wizard apprentices can throw away.
Inside the Wizard's Tower, there's never anything free.
The only way to earn money is to get out of the wizard's tower to feed the ferocious and brutal demonized creatures, to take care of the eerie demonic plants, to pick up some witchcraft materials designated by the wizard, and to clean up some dangerous witchcraft areas in the tower.
Although they do this, they wear sorcery talismans made by the wizard master himself, so as to avoid touching the sorcery circles around the tower. But in this mysterious and strange world, no job can be absolutely safe. Every month or two, there are a few unlucky people who are devoured by demonic plants and animals while tending to them, or who die in the magic radiation while cleaning a certain witchcraft area.
So many times, the relatively quiet and comfortable work in the tower was monopolized by those old wizard apprentices. The rest of the weak wizard apprentices can only choose those more dangerous jobs in order to earn money and knowledge points to continue their witchcraft studies.
Of course, money is used to buy some biological supplies, and knowledge points are a value system specially formulated by wizards to buy knowledge. In the library inside the tower, each witchcraft book is clearly marked with a different knowledge point, and the borrowed books only accept knowledge points, but not money.
Apprentices can only borrow the books they need for a short time by working hard to earn knowledge points. And this time is definitely not enough for the apprentices to master all the knowledge contained in the books, so most of the apprentices will develop the habit of copying books.
For each borrowed book on witchcraft, the apprentices will strive to transcribe the knowledge they need in the shortest possible time for future study. Ink and parchment are indispensable for transcription, but these are not free, they require money to buy.
Of course, if an apprentice wizard comes from a good family, he can exchange a lot of money for knowledge. And the conversion ratio between them is 1 knowledge point = 100 gold coins.
Like the "Demonized Creatures General Book" that Grim borrowed today, it needs 3 knowledge points, and the time that can be borrowed is only half a day. With Grim's speed of transcription, it is initially estimated that it will take at least three borrowings to fully complete the book.
This adds up to 9 knowledge points, and these 9 knowledge points need to be earned by Grim walking out of the tower for 2 consecutive weeks.
So it was not a pity for him to waste a piece of parchment for a migraine attack, but it was a pity that he wasted two hours of transcription time in vain. That's why he's so angry!
Just as Grim was trying to mobilize the strength of his whole body to suppress this angry emotion and prevent it from affecting his subsequent transcription, a familiar "drip" sound suddenly sounded in his head.
"Drop, the bioenergy has reached the standard, and the bio-assisted chip number ZXJ9521 has started to start......"
Grim exclaimed in surprise.
"Bio-assisted chips!"
Once upon a time, during the difficult years at the beginning of the crossing, Grim fantasized more than once that he could also become a bull x god who crossed the other world with an artifact in his hand. Punched the Nanshan Nursing Home, kicked the Beihai Kindergarten, all the people below one meter were put down, and they stomped their feet in the morgue, "Stand up if you are not convinced!" No one dared to gasp......
It's a pity that this damn chip, which has been integrated with him, has not moved at all, except for giving him migraines from time to time. Unexpected, unexpected...... Today it's finally launched!
By the time the noisy tuning sound had passed, a beautiful neutral female voice echoed in Grim's head.
"Host detected and data modeling...... Please wait for ......"
Hey, it also incarnates its current body?
After all, I am now in a high-magic world, and the dimensional space is filled with a magical substance called elemental particles. These elemental particles are divided into basic particles such as earth, fire, water, scenery, and darkness according to the different basic elements of the plane.
A wizard will often have a high or low affinity for these basic particles, which will lead to many different factions. And it is precisely because the power system here is completely different from that of the earth that how to normalize and quantify the known data has become the biggest problem that bothers Grim the most.