Chapter 0115: The Way Home
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As the flying ship slowly landed on the square, the Dark Crypt Forced Trial Mission was finally coming to an end.
As when they came, it was the muscular man in the golden armor who escorted them.
When he saw Grim and the others, a smile appeared on the muscular man's face.
"Hahaha, little cubs, you're pretty good in the ground, aren't you? let me check it out...... Yes, yes, there are seven of the ten people left, and it seems that the guys in the underground are quite polite to you. Hey, why is there an extra quasi-witch? It seems that someone is really good at mixing! Haha, is that junior little guy the first to hang? A junior little guy dares to run around here, it's like looking for his own death! Hahaha......
Listening to the muscular man's lecture to entertain himself, several people in the audience looked a little embarrassed.
During the Trial Squad's final underground patrol, they were attacked by a premeditated ambush by the Fallen Apprentice, killing Senior Apprentice Bruce and the rest of the group wounded. So hearing the muscular man's teasing, they all lowered their heads to hide the angry fire in their eyes.
Grim bowed with a bitter face and said, "Lord Samir, I am the junior apprentice you mentioned!"
The muscular Samir's heroic laughter came to an abrupt end.
His bronze bell-sized leopard eyes glared at Grim, and only then did he vaguely see a glimpse of the past in Grim's hugely changing form.
"Senior apprentice! Boy, it seems that you are the best in this group! Okay, okay, no matter how you have been in the past, now you will get me on the boat, Lao Tzu is still in a hurry to complete the task and go back to his life!"
Everyone boarded the flying ship without saying a word, and the goblin Kirby, as Grimm's indentured servant, also boarded the ship after symbolically paying 1 magic crystal.
When the flying ship took off after a slight shock, everyone clinged to the side of the boat, looking at the smaller and smaller crowds and buildings under their feet, and their hearts were full of mixed feelings. Like a bird that suddenly escaped from its cage, its mood suddenly relaxed, and several people who knew each other gathered together and laughed happily.
However, the huge deep chasm between the teams remained, and the team of 7 people was divided into two distinct groups.
In the final period of time before leaving the Dark Crypt Wizard Tower, Grim ordered Kirby to sell all the magic gems and materials that he could not use for the time being, and worked hard to acquire a large number of Warcraft ingredients and all the sorcery knowledge and elemental crystal nuclei that could be collected.
He knew that compared to this place, the conditions of the swamp tower were simple and barbaric. Once you return, there will be no magic energy packages, no apprentice markets, and no more resourceful chambers of commerce. At that time, everything needs to be fed and clothed on your own!
A large amount of supplies and resources were purchased to fill the storage belt, and even in order to bring these things back, Grim also bought five or six waist bags in one go. But even so, there were still a lot of materials that couldn't fit in, so the goblin Kirby simply carried them in a large bag, carried them on his back, and was reluctant to throw them away wherever he went.
The flying ship flies in the sky, and it is located in the interior of a well-developed human settlement, so it flies extremely fast. When they came, the Dark Crypt was the last trip, and when they returned, they became the first stop. Therefore, as the flying ship passed through the mission points in different regions one after another, the apprentices who came on board one after another gathered more and more.
Compared with the flying attitude when they came, it can be seen that the apprentices who have been tempered by hardships have been sharpened off their edges and corners, and have become much deeper and more introverted. However, when the number of people on the ship exceeds 100, it still inevitably becomes lively.
The most powerful ones walking around the deck of the flying ship and calling friends are of course the senior apprentices, although the intermediate apprentices are the most numerous, but most of the time they can only be a foil green leaf. But if you want to say that the real stars in the apprenticeship circle still belong to those quasi-witches.
After this experience, these quasi-witches will definitely become the future hope that their family is focusing on cultivating after they go back, so they also want to get in touch with competitors of the same level more when they take advantage of this rare opportunity to get together.
There is only one quasi-witch in the eyes of another quasi-witch!
By the time the ship had passed through the Dagon and Bracada regions, the number of would-be witches had gathered on the ship had reached 10, including Mary, a new lineage of would-be witches and ...... Entic, the evil worm.
Yes, unfortunately, that evil worm Ntik has also successfully promoted to quasi-witch in this trial!
Perhaps pleased with his progress, he did not cover his face with his hood as usual when he boarded the flying ship at the Bracada mission site. His face grew uglier than before. The muscles of the entire face were dark, and a strange circle of small eyes appeared around the purple eyes. When all the eyes blink together, it is dense and quite frightening.
His mouth had now been replaced by the mouthparts of the beetle-like lotus petals, and when the dark lip flaps bloomed and wriggled, he could even see the scarlet flesh cavity and green saliva inside.
It can be seen that the evil insect Ntik is getting deeper and deeper into the transformation of his own body, and now he can be called a "half-worm man"! Although he is not interested in this kind of behavior of completely abandoning the human body, Grim still has to admit that this evil insect Ntik is the most ruthless and cruel to himself among the apprentices he has ever seen!
The strong strength also gave Ntik a strong confidence, so that he didn't have to care about the eyes of outsiders at all. This can be seen from the way he stepped on the flying ship with his toes high. However, when his purple compound eyes swept through the lively crowd and landed on Mary and Grim, several of his fellow senior apprentices who followed him felt a trace of solemnity and anger at the boss who was not afraid of heaven and earth.
When they followed the boss's gaze and saw Mary proudly isolated in a red dress and red armor and a red bow on her back, everyone showed a look of surprise and intoxication on their faces. However, when they sensed the deep and restrained strong mental fluctuations on Mary's body, they were shocked at the same time, and quickly put away their squinting appearance, and bowed slightly to Mary to show respect.
Such a beautiful and arrogant beauty turned out to be a quasi-witch, and everyone couldn't help but secretly sigh in their hearts about the eccentricity of the world's will.
Ntik stared at Mary coldly for a long time, then pulled up his hood again to cover his face, and silently walked to the side. During the whole process, his gaze never rested on Grim at all.
"It seems that there will be a fight after I go back! This Ntik seems to have gained a lot. Grimm didn't care about the evil insect's contempt, but joked with a smile.
"Hmph, no matter how deep he hides, he can't hide as deep as you. You're the best guy I've ever seen! You have such a strong means, but you insist on pretending to be harmless to humans and animals, just waiting for some stupid person to crash into your head and die in front of you. Are you addicted to masochism!" Mary retorted dissatisfiedly.
She wasn't entirely sure now! Whether the damn bastard had pushed himself into the position of quasi-witch for his own good, or whether he habitually wanted to push himself to the fore to cover up his bad taste for the shady people behind him.
At the last mission point in the Bracada region, Mad Girl also boarded the flying ship.
Several people suddenly saw each other, not only did not have the slightest sense of joy and joy, but made the atmosphere more solemn and weird.
Mad Girl is still at the level of a high-level apprentice, and although she has also increased her strength in the mission trial, it is obvious that she lacks some opportunities compared to Evil Worm and Mary.
When she came, in order to fight against Mary, an "outsider" who suddenly rose, the relationship between the madwoman and the evil insect Ntik was quite harmonious. But now, as the evil insect has also become a quasi-witch, the mad girl suddenly became separated from him, and walked to the side alone to find a place to rest, and did not talk to him about congratulations.
This made Grim curious, and began to think about the real relationship between them.
Soon, when the flying ship moved into the Erathia region, the number of wizard apprentices on board had reached more than 260. And those who didn't board the flying ship probably died in the mission.
There were a total of 11 quasi-witches when they came, but when they returned, the number of quasi-witches on the ship had reached 14. This also means that in the trial mission, there are 3 high-level apprentices with good fortune who have also become the pride of the sky. Everyone's eyes fell on them, full of inexplicable envy and deeply hidden hatred.
After more than ten days of long-distance flight, and when they entered the central area of Tallinn, these apprentices left the flying ship one after another, and Grim and the others also arrived at the swamp tower smoothly.
Since they were on their way to the Dagon region, which was located at the very edge of Tallinn, they were the last of them to return. As a result, standing at the gate to welcome their apprentices represents almost all of the current full-fledged apprentices in the Swamp Tower.
Still on the flying ship, Grim swept his eyes, and the chip counted the number of people below, 37 people. If you add the 9 people on the flying ship, the total number of people is only 46, compared with the previous 62 people, a reduction of 1/3.
This attrition rate is estimated to be the highest of any wizarding tower. And the reason why this is so is obviously related to the inaction of Wizard Anderson of the Swamp Tower. In the previous years, Grim and the others were trapped and locked in this magical swamp, with scarce materials and resources, and they usually needed to collect materials and exchange resources by themselves even to do a witchcraft experiment.
And the most direct consequence of this is that the apprentice strength of the Swamp Tower is simply weak compared to other wizard towers, and it is staggeringly poor. With such strength, to participate in an apprentice trial with a certain degree of danger, almost casually have some accidents, and it is a catastrophe of life and death for them!
Even those apprentices who successfully survive the trial of the mission are mostly completed with the worst grades, so they do not improve much. On the contrary, it was the ten left-behind apprentices led by Allen, all with smug smiles on their faces. Faced with the apprentices who risked their lives but gained little, they felt more and more that they had chosen to be far-sighted and wise.
However, as the last batch of 9 apprentices on the flying ship walked down, the faces of everyone in the field finally changed drastically!