Chapter 0483 - Soul Armament
Five months later.
The first elite-grade elemental golem has been sent back to the Sarubo family.
Feedback from Wizard Vergen shows that the family hierarchy is satisfied with Grim's 'well-behaved' and does not suspect that he has done anything inside.
After all, it is difficult to hide the periodic violent explosions of Grim's private alchemy laboratory, so through the eyeliner planted in the Flame Throne, the family can still grasp Grim's whereabouts and the basic success rate of his refining elemental golems.
The violent explosions that occur every two months, as well as the quasi-witch-level and wizard-level golems that appear in the Witch Tower's mission system from time to time, show that this once powerful Battle Fire Witch has now devoted all his energy to refining elemental golems.
This can be seen from the quantity and quality of the magic golems he refines.
Although it is a pity that some of the golems have fallen into the hands of wandering wizards and apprentices through the quest system, most of them are still held in the arms of the Sarubo family through various means.
For this, that Grim is also well aware, but he is very knowledgeable and does not interfere, and will still invest a certain number of low-level demon golems in the task system of the Witch Tower at a fixed time every month.
After half a year of good operation, the wizard apprentices attached to the Flame Throne have almost reached the point of having one elemental golem in their hands. This kind of super-thug who pays off without spending money has also skyrocketed the strength of the Wuta apprentices, and there is no longer a need to be as careful as before when entering and exiting the surrounding Black Forest.
As the two hounds placed on the periphery of the Flame Throne, the three-headed demon dogs Anguga and Medusa Dana firmly guarded the perimeter of the Black Forest for Grim. The monsters that can enter the Witch Tower within 600 miles of their territory have been carefully screened.
Groups of monsters that were too fierce or potentially threatening were kept at bay. If anyone dares to break in without long eyes, then Anguga and Dana will jointly send troops to clear it out. If the opponent is too strong, they can also call out to Mary, who has been leading people around the Black Forest.
Three pseudo-2nd order blood knights and a powerful vampire wizard, plus a quasi-witch Billis, are enough to eat any group of monsters that have not established themselves.
If it weren't for Grim's strict prohibition of Mary and the others from stepping out of the circle of influence, I'm afraid Mary would have led people into the depths of the Black Forest long ago.
Mary is the ignorant and fearless, not understanding the real horror of the Black Forest!
Seriously speaking, the nearly thousand miles of influence in the north of the Flame Throne that they now control still belongs to the edge of the Black Forest. Here, the most living and inhabiting are all kinds of strange monsters, and their strength level is also to the level that the Flame Throne can still handle.
If you go a little deeper, there is a high chance that you will encounter those terrifying Tier 2 monsters.
And with the current strength of the Flame Throne Witch Tower, it can't handle the second-order monsters. Once Mary scrambled and lured the second-order monsters to the perimeter of the Flame Throne, I am afraid that the entire Witch Tower would only be able to shrink back into defense and no longer dare to go out casually.
This is not really alarmist, but it is very likely to happen.
Just as human wizards like to regard the monsters of the Black Forest as some kind of inexhaustible resource, how can the indigenous monsters of the Black Forest not be hostile to human wizards? If those high-level monsters discover that human wizards have infiltrated the Black Forest, then they will definitely chase and kill them to the death, and they will want to get rid of them as soon as possible!
Therefore, after Mary, who was strictly restricted, trampled on the entire circle of influence within a thousand miles, she became bored and had nothing to do.
In order to prevent Mary from getting into trouble, Grim's mind turned to her, and he threw Sabrina, the apprentice of the Witch Tower, to her.
When I took Sabrina before, I once heard her mention an ancient ruin, which seemed to have some good things in it. It's just that because Grim has been busy running around, he can't find time to go there at all, so he simply leaves it to Mary now and asks her to lead the team to complete the first expedition to the Flame Throne Witch Tower.
After some selection, the team members mainly consisted of Mary, Endor and Meryl, and by the way, Sabrina and Billis. It may seem that the personnel are a little thin, but their hidden strength is far beyond the imagination of outsiders.
Mary has 3 pseudo-2nd order blood knights under her command, and she is also a powerful vampire wizard, and her combination accounts for more than half of the team's overall strength. And Poison Lady Endo and Meryl, as wizards of the Witch Tower, are of course indispensable to elite-level demon puppets.
Not to mention them now, even Billis and Sabrina, who are still quasi-witches, each have a wizard-level golem in their hands.
Therefore, if the entire expedition team goes all out, it is enough to be worth a ten-person wizard battle team.
As for Grim, he is either in the midst of a double 'decline' of body and spirit, and eats the great supplements of Hesai every day, or he is almost exploding physically and mentally, and is preparing for the next concoction of the Elemental Demon Cave.
The lava fire under the Flame Throne needs to be tempered once a month, and for ten days and a half after tempering, Grim's spiritual space will continue to shake and shrink. But this is only temporary, as long as the conditioning and nourishment are done properly, when the shock of the mental space is eliminated, Grim's spiritual power will increase by 0.04 points.
Although this number seems insignificant, if it weren't for the meticulous statistics of the chip, I am afraid that Grim would not have been able to detect his progress by self-test alone. But this kind of progress is real, as long as Grim puts in hard work, then over time, one day he will be able to completely elementalize his mental power.
At that time, the elementalization of the body and the elementalization of the spirit will reach a balance, and the basic conditions for him to advance to the second level will be satisfied.
And in order to make the most of his time, Grim will use voodoo to temper his body during the period when he is weakened after mental refinement.
Although his body had been elementalized, the Body of Flame made him no longer have to suffer damage from elemental flames in the future. However, this only improved the compatibility of his body with the elemental flames, but it did not fully tap the part of the power that was hidden in his body.
Therefore, Grim desperately used voodoo to stimulate his body to continuously release its potential, and then used a carefully blended magical energy feast to consolidate this part of the foundation little by little.
Under the precise control of the chip, his mental power and the basic value of his body are also slowly and firmly increasing.
As a result, time passed slowly in such a cycle of reincarnation day after day......
The Witch Tower team that went out to explore the ancient ruins narrowly escaped back to the Flame Throne, and the area they went to was actually the burial place of the bones of a wizarding sect in ancient times. After tens of thousands of years of transformation, it has become a strange place where ghosts and ghosts are wreaking havoc.
If it weren't for the experienced Poison Lady Enduo who discovered the mistake early, I'm afraid that the entire team members would inevitably be bent over by the spirit body and become half-dead people wandering in the dim crypt.
Relying on the ferocity of firepower, the team used the elemental demon puppet to open the way, and only then did they escape from the forbidden land of death. And their reckless behavior also caused nearly half of the spirits in the burial place to escape, setting off a small 'ghost disaster' in the local area!
In order to avoid being blocked by the wizards of the Scattered Tallinn Society, the team members withdrew from the area that night and returned to the Flame Throne.
This expedition also caused several witches to be polluted by spirits of varying severity, and it took a lot of effort to eradicate them one by one afterwards.
However, the expedition was not all for nothing, and in the first few tombs they had explored, they had found and brought back some strange rune stones. Inside, Grim successfully extracted some ancient inscriptions and witchcraft runes.
Of course, most of them are the so-called tomb owner, the personal biography left by an ancient wizard, which naturally includes praise for his exploits and power. However, after getting rid of this flashy 'garbage', Grim also found something useful for himself in it.
Companion Witch Weapons, as wizards now call soul weapons, were far more numerous in ancient times when they were in vogue than they are now.
However, concocting soul armaments will often hold blood sacrifices of thousands of people, and if the ancient wizards are allowed to act recklessly, I am afraid that the already weak human race will not be able to withstand their abuse. And this, too, is a huge disservice to the wizarding world!
So a serious conflict broke out between the ancient wizards and the will of the world at that time.
The will of the world has finally further improved the rule system and rejected the wizards' direct manipulation of the rules of the world, which also weakened the power of the ancient wizards from one side.
This conflict between the ancient wizards and the will of the world lasted for tens of thousands of years, causing a lot of damage to the entire wizarding world.
In order to avoid triggering a further backlash of the world's will, the powerful people among the wizards can only leave the wizarding world one after another, step out of the territory, and go to other dimensional worlds to find a new place to stay.
Almost since then, there has been an unwritten rule in the wizarding world that all great wizards who have crossed the 4th rank must leave the wizarding world and go beyond the territory. In this way, the powerful power possessed by the Great Wizard himself can be prevented from harming the essence of the wizarding world.
The departure of these great wizards has also caused many witchcraft systems and witchcraft genealogy to sink and disappear within the wizarding world, and soul armament is undoubtedly one of them.
Almost all of the soul weapons that can be found in the wizarding world today are remnants from ancient times. And now the wizard has lost the method of concocting soul weapons and constantly strengthening them.
Luckily for Grim, however, he found a clue to strengthen his soul armament in the inscription autobiographies left behind by these ancient wizards.