Time flies before you know it.

Sixty-seven years......

If you were a human being, most of your life might have disappeared like this. But for wizards with a basic lifespan of up to two or three hundred years, it is only 1/4 or less of life.

As for those who have alienated their bodies and embarked on the path of bloodline mutation or elemental incarnation, their lifespans are as high as four or five hundred years. And it is not surprising that a vampire like Mary even reaches a thousand years.

The same Flame Throne, the same Wizard Tower.

But the wizard apprentices who lived in it had changed dramatically.

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Horus.

A high-level apprentice attached to the Flame Throne Witch Tower.

His face was fair, his body was tall and strong, and he wore a gray apprentice's robe all the year round.

As an outsider, he was recommended to the Tower by a sorcery twenty years ago. The sorcerer was his only relative on this earth.

But unfortunately, during a mysterious expedition, his wizard elders did not succeed in returning. As a result, Horus, who had lost his backer, was left alone to live alone in this mysterious and strange wizarding tower.

Fortunately, the owner of this tower is wise and benevolent, although the appearance is a little obscene, but it has created a relaxed and excellent learning and living environment for the apprentices of the tower. Perhaps for the sake of his recommender, who had been a sorcerman, Horus also mixed up the pros and cons of a librarian.

In this way, even if he doesn't have to go on adventures in the Black Forest with the mercenary team, he can easily get 30 magic crystals and 10 contribution points every month. That's enough for him to live comfortably in the Witch Tower!

In the Flame Throne Witch Tower, there are as many as seven or eight people with similar identities to him, most of them are wizard apprentices who have nowhere else to go, and simply regard this tower as their eternal home.

Unfortunately, an overly comfortable life can easily slow down their sorcery mastery and spell proficiency. As a result, many of them are stuck in the position of senior apprentices, and they have not improved for many years.

Many times, Horus couldn't help but secretly wonder if he should give up this comfortable life and follow the example of those combat apprentices, follow the mercenary team into the Black Forest, and hone his fighting skills under the fangs and claws of monsters.

In the last ten years, only one would-be wizard has successfully promoted to wizard, becoming the ninth resident wizard of the Flame Throne Witch Tower. However, there were as many as three would-be witches who fell in the promotion ceremony, and Horus only attended the funeral of two of them. The third was born from a family that was too far away from the Witch Tower, and he had a part-time job in the Witch Tower, so he could not personally see off his 'partner'.

And this has become a major reason why Horus has been depressed for half a year.

For a long time, the success rate of apprentices to become wizards has always been low. Out of every four or five would-be witches, it's already good to have one who can be successfully promoted.

The Flame Throne Witch Tower, on the other hand, maintains a rate of one advanced wizard every ten years, which is already a completely amazing number in the outside world!

At present, there are 9 resident wizards and 12 resident wizards. This amount is enough to crush more than half of the wizard towers in the middle of the continent.

And the many wizards have also attracted many wizard apprentices.

At present, there are 215 wizard apprentices in the Flame Throne Witch Tower, including 17 quasi-wizards, 78 senior apprentices, and several intermediate and junior apprentices......

Due to the abundance of wizards and the myriad of wizarding fields they specialize in, almost all known basic witchcraft courses in the wizarding world are offered in the Witch Tower. And every two or three days, there is a master class that is completely open to the public.

These masters are all powerful wizards with enviable achievements in certain fields, such as Wizard Mary, who is good at hand-to-hand combat, who talks about the attack skills of combat wizards, such as Wizard Endor, who is good at mixing poisons, who talks about voodoo and poison, such as the strange Wizard of Bilis, who talks about entomology, such as the gentle and beautiful Meryl Wizard who talks about witchcraft instantaneous techniques, and for example, Sabrina, a mechanical wizard who has been half alienated, talks about magic machine construction......

Horus, on the other hand, was fortunate to have close contact with all the wizards of the Witch Tower, and deeply appreciated the strength of the wizards.

However, in recent times, there has been one thing that has deeply troubled Horus.

That is, Wizard Ava, who is in charge of teaching magical botany, suddenly stopped teaching, and canceled several public classes in the academic hall, and disappeared without a trace. This undoubtedly caught the attention of several apprentices who were studying this knowledge.

And Horus was apparently one of them.

The Gargamer hadn't been seen for days. Maybe the next time you see him, stop by and ask about Eva Wizard......

Horus diligently tidied up the library while silently reverating.

However, how did he know that at this moment, on the 5th floor of the Witch Tower, a strange event that had almost never appeared in the wizarding world was in full swing......

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5 floors of the Witch Tower.

A small secret room was isolated as a temporary 'delivery room', and the heart-rending screams touched the hearts of several people present at all times.

Like a normal human husband, Gargamel, who was thin and withered like a large mouse, twisted his beard around the secret room, and raised his foot several times to break in, but hesitantly let it go.

And at this moment, hiding in the 'delivery room' to give birth is the forest demon Ava, who has been pregnant for 69 years, that is, the cold and beautiful, but mysterious Ava wizard in the eyes of the apprentices of the Witch Tower.

At this moment, it was the few witches in the tower who were busy in and out of the delivery room, Mary, Meryl, Endor, and Sabrina.

However, although they all have a knowledge of witchcraft that far surpasses that of human polymaths, and a ruthlessness that far surpasses that of the bloody hand butcher, they can only be helpless in the face of the strange fetus that is half human and half demon in the body of the forest demon Ava, and they are even more flustered than the hoarse and exhausted Ava.

The fetus in Ava's body is obviously beyond the scope of normal life, and the basic characteristics of half-human and half-demon make it a strange life form that is difficult for outsiders to define. So what kind of way to deliver the baby has become the biggest headache for several 'midwife' witches!

But what makes several people even more troublesome is that this strange little life seems to be in some kind of crazy growth stage. When it was about to ripen and fall out of Ava's abdomen, it actually pulled out more than a dozen fleshy filaments from its pod-like body and pierced all over the body of the forest demon Ava, frantically absorbing the other party's vitality.

Seeing that the vitality of the forest demon Ava continued to fall and her life was in danger, Mary immediately proposed to forcibly disembowelment the 'mischievous' little guy out. But this proposal was directly rejected by the painful dead and alive forest demon Ava.

As the mother of a strange lifeform, she can sense that this kind of life backlash is crucial to the future development of the little life. Either suspending or interrupting this process will have a huge and irreparable impact on its future.

So...... Out of a desire to conceive offspring, Ava stopped everyone from intervening, and even called Gargamel into the delivery room to begin to explain what happened.

And in the face of this embarrassing situation of not being able to fight, scold, and not be able to help, several witches could only keep taking bottles of life elixirs, trying their best to maintain the life of the forest demon Ava.

But it didn't work very well.

So, the stand-in doll, the false life potion, the damage reduction ring, ...... All these various witchcraft items were used in one go, but they still couldn't stop Ava's vitality from declining.

Gargamel, though extremely saddened by this scene, also understood Ava's feelings. So he didn't dare to mention the forced fetus retrieval again, so he could only beat his head vigorously, and from time to time he turned out some strange potions or plants from his waist bag for Ava to take.

Watching your lover die is the most terrible torture in the world!

Billis, who had been watching from the sidelines, was now also an elite wizard, and as a bloodthirsty and cruel insect wizard, he was obviously very puzzled by this irrational behavior of the people.

Is there any value in preserving a descendant of the Eater?

There is simply no second answer to this question in his mind!

In his eyes, all the creatures in the world are either objects of prey or slaves that he can drive. How could he give up his life to a completely strange descendant!

This is completely beyond the comprehension of his Zerg Wizard's thinking!

As for Amm and Desella, who later joined the ranks of the wizards of the Witch Tower, they could only wait for the results silently, and they were not qualified to interfere with the decisions of these veteran wizards.

Amm was promoted to a wizard 50 years ago, and he is also the second wizard to be promoted to a wizard after Meryl among Grim's disciples. As for the other two quasi-witch disciples of Grim's old batch, Torre and Linna, one died directly because of the failure of the promotion, and the other also lost nearly eighty percent of his vitality after the failure, and there was no news after returning to the family.

Because Grim had completely closed himself off, he had hardly accepted any apprentices since Amm and the others. So the wizard of Desella, who was unexpectedly promoted, is actually a disciple of Wizard Meryl.

If you count your fingers like this, this Wizard of Desira can already be regarded as the third generation wizard of the Flame Throne!

"No, we can't continue to drag on like this!" After briefly estimating the speed of Ava's vitality atrophy, Meryl couldn't help but say anxiously: "Lord Mary, you better inform Teacher Grim...... Maybe he can come up with something to ......"

Gargamel, who was almost about to wipe out his goatee under his chin, suddenly lifted his head, and his soybean-sized pupils shone with a glint of hope.

Yes, if you go to the master, maybe, maybe...... He'll come up with something that works!

However, just as Mary opened her mouth to prophesy, a deep voice suddenly sounded in the secret room.

"No need to shout, I'm already here......"