Place the dilapidated wooden golem on a small alchemy table, and all that's left is to dissect it in full detail.

Since it is difficult to decipher the mystery hidden inside the puppet stone from the front, Grim can only change the angle. Starting from the traces left by the white smoke of the puppet fossilization, see what kind of magical changes have happened in this pile of "garbage" after the wooden puppet was born with primary wisdom and turned into Billy.

If the humble body of the wooden puppet is regarded as a piece of computer hardware, then the white smoke is a software operating system that integrates all resources. The only thing Grim is curious about is whether these white smoke with rudimentary wisdom is a witchcraft effect, or a creature soul that has been amnestically cleansed and processed!

Yes, Grim was highly suspicious of the first golemstone test, and the white smoke was likely the soul fragments that the Silver Alliance had extracted from some sapient beings. And to achieve such a level of intelligence, I am afraid that only those humanoids can do it.

For example, the indigenous 'humans' of the secondary planes......

The price of a low-level golem stone within the Silver Alliance is 15 magic crystals, and in some underground black markets, it may have reached 40 magic crystals. And Grim estimated that considering that the strength of the soul of the indigenous human is slightly weaker than that of ordinary people in the wizarding world, a low-level puppet stone may need to extract the souls of 3-5 indigenous humans to be successful.

These indigenous humans are not worth much in the secondary plane, and it is not uncommon for 1 magic crystal to buy thousands of ordinary slaves.

Unfortunately, only those with strange abilities and special talents are worth bringing back to the wizarding world, otherwise they are worth less than the base cost of cross-dimensional teleportation. So in the Wizarding Continent, it is rare to see war slaves from the Otherworld.

But little doesn't mean nothing.

The master builders and blacksmiths of the dwarves, the gourmets of the halflings, the handsome men and women of the elves, the elves of the fairy world, and the five-colored dragons that are most suitable for flying pets...... Even in the wizarding towers of many powerful wizards, there are some 'slaves' such as succubi, lust, and dark elves from the lower planes.

These superb 'slaves' are a sought-after 'commodity' even in the wizarding world. If a wizarding family occupies a secondary plane that can detect these racial creatures with special abilities, they can make a lot of money by selling slaves alone.

However, for those sub-planes, the largest number are still indigenous beings with no long skills. These ordinary creatures are worthless, and if you sell them to the wizarding world, I'm afraid that the magic crystals sold will not be enough to cover the travel expenses. So the usual practice is to force them to mine and create benefits for the wizard family as much as possible.

If it is possible to establish a puppet stone manufacturing factory directly inside the secondary plane like the Silver Alliance, and convert the huge population resources of the heteroplane into alchemy creations that are easy to transport and have higher added value, then the Silver Alliance will inevitably be able to usurp ten times or even a hundred times the benefits from it.

After all, in the wizarding world, mass killing of living beings is strictly forbidden. It is only in the unsupervised sub-plane that it is possible to do such an inhumane thing!

With the chip's powerful data scanning and analysis capabilities, Grim finally found signs of soul invasion in the wooden golem's body. This also confirmed his previous speculation from the side.

The Silver Alliance has been doing brutal and bloody things in the secondary planes it occupies!

However, Grim has no intention of accusing anything of this.

After all, all wizarding families are doing similar things, but to different degrees!

Perhaps it is precisely because of these factors that the wizarding world is classified as evil, and wizards have naturally become evil creatures that the world fears.

The composition and operation mechanism of the golem stone have been thoroughly studied, but it is still of little help to Grim. After all, the puppet stone is just an auxiliary, and the greatest effect is actually the soul white smoke stored in it. As for spirituality, Grim has not studied much. So he still couldn't understand how the mystical wizards did the work of soul extraction, refinement, cleansing, and infusion storage.

These are the things that only necromancers who specialize in soul science seem to be good at!

Could it be that the Silver Alliance has hired a large number of necromancers to work for them, or have they invented some kind of machine capable of doing this intricate work?

There are too many possibilities, and perhaps only those puppet stone fabrication workshops that infiltrate the Silver Alliance's secondary planes will be possible to obtain completely true first-hand information.

However, the major organizations have always been extremely strict in the blockade of the secondary planes under their control, and it is so difficult to infiltrate without joining their families or signing soul contracts!

This can be seen from the Sarubo family's control of the knightly plane.

Grim is already an internal wizard of the Sarubo family, and he has also made great achievements in the conquest of the knight plane. But once he chooses to quit the knight plane, then the plane coordinates where the knight plane is located will also be "withdrawn".

In Grim's mind, even with the assistance of the chip, he could never remember the location of the knight's plane. In this way, the Sarubo family does not have to worry about the leakage of the secondary plane coordinates of their huge interests.

In the last battle in the Dark Forest, Grim killed two wizards and retrieved valuable witchcraft notes and books from them. By scanning, summarizing and organizing the contents inside, Grim once again confirmed his future development path.

He had already elementalized his body, but this was only semi-elemental. If Grim wants to successfully attack a Tier 2 wizard, then Spiritual Elementalization is a preparation that he must complete.

And the chip's assessment of this matter is that Grim can only complete the spiritual elementalization after nearly a hundred years of precipitation. And this long journey must also rely on certain special environments in nature, such as lava volcanoes......

So during this time, Grim has been constantly flipping through the maps of the scattered Tallinn area, looking around for a suitable place to retreat. But before that, he still needs to take care of Alice's affairs first.

After all, Alice's Destiny Witch talent is also an ability that he values very much. If successful, Alice will also occupy a very important place in his life plan in the future!

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Out of the lab, Grim receives a message from the wizard Kogan.

All the resources for Alice's promotion to the wizard have been allocated, and as long as Alice is ready, the promotion ceremony can be held at any time. And all of this, of course, needs to be paid for by Grim!

It didn't take long for there to be a knock on the door of the dwelling.

Grim opens the door and discovers that the person who has come is a male quasi-wizard under Wizard Kogan, Maiguta.

Behind him were a group of ordinary apprentices, carrying wooden boxes of all sizes.

"Lord Grimm, this is the advancement resource that Lord Kogan ordered me to send you. Please check!"

Holding the long list of resources, Grim felt his eyes moisten a little.

Fate, that's what it fucks up!

Thinking back then, his promotion was simply in dire straits, and if he was a little unlucky, he might become the object of someone else's blood sacrifice. And now, Alice only needs to stay in the room to eat and drink well, raise her body for nothing, and take care of the rest by Grim, the 'master'.

This is probably the difference in fate!

Secretly sighed in his heart, Grim stabilized his mind, carefully and meticulously counted the list of resources and items, and then smoothly signed the letter and sent the other party away.

With such a big stroke, the witchcraft mark was imprinted on it, and Grim's net worth instantly shrank by 1/3. Whoever kept Alice alive belonged to his personal 'belongings', so the Sarubo family was not obligated to bear the expensive promotion fee for him.

Besides, even if Wizard Kogan wanted to pay for Alice's promotion, Grim wouldn't agree.

Alice must be his 'man' first, and second, to be among the sorcerers of the Sarubo family.

This is something that Grim must insist on at all times!

At this time, the apprentices belonging to the Grim family also rushed to hear the news.

They arrived just in time, and Grim handed over the post-processing of these resources to them.

Salo fruit, a special fruit from the wild forest. After being processed and consumed, it can enhance the physical vitality of the living individual in a short period of time, and there are no sequelae.

Protozoa, a bizarre insect that has been cultivated through witchcraft. Devouring before advancing can significantly improve mental toughness, and it is also a rare auxiliary resource for advancement.

Foul-smelling potions, a sorcery potion that uses the method of burning life potential to enhance mental power.

The water of life, a strange thing from the otherworldly elves, can nourish the vitality that is seriously lacking after the promotion ceremony.

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The resources sent by the Sarubo family are full of Linglang, each of which is a very targeted and precious resource, which has a huge auxiliary effect on the promotion of wizards.

However, these resources are sealed in a special witch circle to avoid the loss of their effectiveness. So if you want to use it, you can only temporarily unblock them, and then deal with them according to the fixed process.

These tedious tasks were handed over to his apprentices.

And he wholeheartedly began to calculate Alice's promotion ceremony!

Summing up all aspects of intelligence and information, and then taking into account the effects of various auxiliary resources, the success rate of the promotion projected by the chip in his mind was 67.71%.

Even if Alice has extraordinary talents that are difficult for outsiders to match, even if Alice has many precious resources, even if Alice has the aura blessing of the Witch of Destiny...... But all of this adds up, and the probability of her promotion success is barely more than half.

From this, you can see how difficult it is to successfully advance from a quasi-witch to a wizard in the wizarding world!

When everything was ready, Alice also adjusted her mind and spirit, and prepared to enter the secret room with the resources and ritual items that Grim had prepared for her.

In order not to be noticed by herself, Alice had to put on a robe to cover up the half-cut body that had lost her physical form.

At the door, she received the blessings of Kodar, Meryl, Am, Torre, and Linna.

"Senior sister, you will definitely succeed!" Kodar, as one of the two quasi-witches under Grim, was the first to step forward to express his blessing.

"You're going to be a beautiful witch!" Meryl whispered into Alice's ear.

The promotion of quasi-witches to wizards is a sublimation of the essence of life. Taking this opportunity, Alice also has the opportunity to break through the seal of fate and get herself out of the state where her body was forever sealed at the moment of awakening at the age of eight.

"Senior Sister, I'll call you Master Wizard the next time we meet......" Amber grinned.

"I have faith in you......" Torret cried as he spoke.

"It must be successful!" Lena had a burning look of envy in her eyes.

He was followed by Kirby, a goblin who hurried in.

This guy actually brought Alice a wood carving that resembled a mother goblin, and insisted that it was a lucky gift from the goblin clan.

After all, promotion is a big thing, and any unknown items that may affect the ceremony cannot be brought in, so the wood carving was directly confiscated by Grim.

Alice stood in the doorway and looked around before her eyes fell on Grim.

"I'm waiting for you!" Grim's blessing was simple and straightforward.

Alice nodded, turned and walked firmly into the secret room.