The meeting in the teleportation room was rather awkward.

The forest demon seemed to be overly sensitive, and showed considerable hostility towards Bilis, who was shrouded in black robes.

If it weren't for the presence of Grim and Gargamel, I'm afraid she would have been unable to suppress her impulsive nature and attack Bliss directly. Now even with Grim's endorsement, the forest demon still has a bad attitude towards Bilis, and he doesn't want to get close to the other party's side.

As for the forest demon's reaction, Billis, who was hiding under the thick black robe, responded with an eerie sneer, and the strange dark green compound pupils in the shadow of the low-hanging hood made people shudder.

In contrast, Meryl and Gargamel were aware of Bilis's potential danger, but their intuitive senses were not as strong as those of the forest demons. After all, the strength of Billis's mid-level apprentice is still too deceptive!

Yes, in just half a month, Biliss has already jumped a small rank, from a junior apprentice to an intermediate apprentice. It's just that his usual sense of presence is so weak that Gargamel and Meryl rarely notice him, so they can't notice the change in his rank in the first place.

And since the fusion of the mutant worm mother, Billis's behavior has become more and more low-key, more and more weird, and he almost never appears in public. Even today, he was wearing a piercing black robe, hiding in the farthest corner from everyone, silently peeking at everyone present through the shadows under the hood.

"You go to the fourth floor to find yourself a suitable room, I have something to say to you tonight......" Grim saw the awkwardness of the atmosphere in the arena, and turned to Bilisi and ordered.

Billis, who was in black robes, bowed, answered in a muffled and hoarse voice, and left first.

Meryl and Gargamel looked at each other with a deep puzzle in their eyes.

The fourth floor of the Witch Tower is the area where the wizards stationed in the tower live and rest, even those who are more powerful can only live on the third floor, and they are not allowed to set foot on the fourth floor without permission. But now, Grim actually gave this right that belonged to wizards to a mid-level apprentice, which ......

"Go to me!" Grim nodded at the three of them: "The situation outside has changed a lot, and we have to rearrange many specific things......

Gargamel and Meryl nodded silently.

Although the forest demon was not interested in these trivial matters at all, he did not dare to disobey the wishes of the owner of the witch tower, so he could only go with him.

Half an hour later, through Grim's storytelling, Gargamel finally understood everything that had happened in Gilneth City during this time. However, when he heard that Grimm had also been heavily shackled by the family because of the refining of the golem, Gargamel's thin, mouse-like face showed a look of sympathy.

After all, he also became a wandering wizard because he couldn't bear the oppression of his family!

Especially when he heard that Grim promised to hand over two elemental golems with elite wizard strength to the family every year, his frown never relaxed.

As a pharmacist, he has first-hand experience in refining wizard-level witchcraft items.

Those apprentice-level witch potions are also counted, and those who are a little more proficient can basically refine a batch in three or four days. And those wizard-level witch medicines, due to the large number of materials, and each of them needs to go through a series of complex processes such as screening, filtration, processing, purification, and refining, so it often takes ten days and half a month to complete.

And the failure rate is relatively high!

As for the higher quality potions, at the level of Gargamel, they cannot be refined.

His spiritual power is still only 7 points, with such a weak spiritual power, those high-quality witch potions that take a long time and require precise control of mental power throughout the process, he can't hold it up at all.

It was precisely because he knew these very well that he could understand the difficulty of refining two elite-level demon golems in a year!

I'm afraid that this kind of elite-level demon puppet will not be able to take it at all in the entire refining process for two or three months, and once the refining fails, the time will need to be doubled. In this way, even if Grim is smooth, it will take four to six months to complete the tasks assigned by the family. In this way, he can have half a year to improve his strength.

But if one of them fails, he will only have 3 months at his disposal, and if there are two failures, he will wait to soak in the alchemy laboratory for a year!

Day after day, year after year, I spent every day in the cold and quiet alchemy laboratory, doing boring and repetitive tasks over and over again...... Such a life is enough to wear out the passion and blood of most of the Upanishads!

It also makes them the slowest group of people in the wizarding community.

Gargamel hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke his mind. He couldn't understand how the shrewdness that Grim had always shown could not see the methods used by the Sarubo family, but instead promised such 'harsh' conditions to the other party.

Could it be that he was dazzled by the reward of the second-order elemental crystal nucleus?

Hearing Gargamel's suggestion, Meryl looked at Grim with the same concern.

This time she resolutely came to the Flame Throne, and she also drew a line with the group of people in her family. If Grim's suppressed strength is difficult to advance, then the fate of their followers may not be much better. So she was also extra concerned about Grim's answer.

"Don't worry!" Grim knew the mood of the two: "I know this matter in my heart, and I have enough ways to deal with it. And ......"

At this point, Grim paused slightly.

“…… I have figured out the way and method to advance to Tier 2, and it will take a long time to settle and accumulate. So, this matter is only good for me, not bad!"

Advance to Tier 2?

Hearing Grim's answer, Gargamel and Meryl both had shocked expressions on their faces.

Although Grim, as their master (teacher), has a strong strength that they can convince. Can...... But he has only been promoted to wizard for eleven years. Now, he had already begun to think about advancing to the second rank.

This...... How can this not make them feel that the world is spinning, and the sky and the earth are not light!

In particular, Gargamel, who has been promoted to a wizard for more than 70 years, feels that his faith is collapsing. Is there such a big gap between people and people? Have you lived with dogs all these years?

"It's not as exaggerated as you think, I just know where I'm headed. Grim didn't expect his casual words to make the two right-hand men show such exaggerated expressions, and couldn't help but explain: "Although the direction is clear, there is still a long way to go. I don't think I've been able to reach the threshold of Rank 2 at all!"

I see!

But when he thought about it, Grim was able to find his way so quickly, and Gargamel still had a terrible feeling that everything was lost, and he had been abandoned by fate.

"Okay, okay, you're done asking, it's time for me to ask......" Lin Demon was already waiting impatiently: "Ge...... Master, what was the matter with that black-robed fellow just now, and why did I feel the urge to destroy him when I saw him?"

The forest demon's question immediately dragged Gargamel and the two of them out of their thoughts, and they looked at Grim again one by one.

"His name is Billis, and he used to be a junior apprentice, and you personally introduced him to the tower by Gargamel......" Grim said slowly.

"Billis......" Gargamel muttered as he twisted a few wisps of goatee under his chin.

To be honest, the name did feel somewhat familiar to him. It's just that the guy I saw today and a certain image in my memory are always difficult to coincide.

"Was ......he the first apprentice who wanted to join the Witch Tower? His breath ...... "Gargamel had already thought about it, but he couldn't be sure.

With the mental power of wizards, things like memorization and memory retracking are simply pediatric. However, when wizards identify a person, in addition to the basic physical appearance and body characteristics, they rely more on the soul breath.

Each person's life and soul are mixed together to create a completely different personal atmosphere. This aura can be strengthened, weakened, or changed with the change of the soul origin. But in such a short period of time, it is almost impossible to completely change one's soul aura.

At the very least, a wizard apprentice shouldn't have such a strange trick at his disposal!

"Some time ago, Mary returned from the Alternate Plane...... She killed the evil worm Ntik, erased his soul mark, and gave me the mutant worm mother who fused with him...... So, I let Bilis merge with it!"

A few short sentences, but there is a thrilling story hidden inside. The twists and turns of the plot inside are difficult to describe even in a book.

Meryl still knew a little about the conflict between the three wizards, Grimm, Mary, and Ntik, and when she saw the confused looks on the faces of Gargamel and the forest demon, she could only whisper what she knew.

"So...... Then Marie is our mistress?" Gargamel blurted out what was in his heart when he heard it for the first time.

Grim's face froze.

Meryl was already chuckling softly, "This is not necessarily, the teacher also has a sister Alice, and that is not a good stubble." This time, Lord Mary is looking for it, and I don't know if the two of them will fight fiercely!"

"How can there be an Alice?" Gargamel, who was obviously also a keen voyeur, asked with a twinkle in his eyes, "Who is this Alice......? Tell me about ......"

Grim quickly interrupted the gossip enthusiasm of several 'subordinates', and asked with a smile: "Gargamel, you haven't reported to me about the situation near the Flame Throne! Are those monster leaders still quiet?

Hearing Grim's question, Gargamel remembered something.

"Oh no, master, I almost forgot to tell you. The Gergamer's face turned solemn: "There is another big incident in the Black Forest......"