Chapter 0742: Development of the Territory
Before you know it, the once lonely and cold Ice Wind Collar is lively again.
Races and intelligent beings from all over the world come together here, and then work hard for a common goal.
The wizard apprentices of the Crimson family, the witch apprentices of the Destiny Witch line, the goblin apprentices selected by the goblin plane, and the wandering apprentices who came to admire it...... For them, the upper echelons of the Crimson family showed rare kindness, fairly allowing them to share the witchcraft facilities of the White Tower.
Spacious and comfortable living environment, peaceful and friendly learning atmosphere, powerful wizard instructors, systematic and comprehensive library, and sufficient witchcraft laboratories...... These have become the most attractive magnets, firmly absorbing the hearts of the apprentices here, and becoming the most loyal support of the Crimson family.
After several months of trial and study, the apprentices quickly divided into different groups. According to their respective talent potential and progress speed, a small circle with powerful apprentices as the core has also quietly appeared.
And the core figures of these circles are undoubtedly quasi-witch-level apprentices!
Within any family, these quasi-witch apprentices belong to an extremely special group. Although they are still essentially apprentices to wizards, they have begun to enjoy the treatment of new wizards in many ways.
Even some of the wizards' apprentices are taught the basics.
This also made them erect a tall and glorious image in the hearts of most apprentices, and became the idol of many apprentices and the forerunner of chasing.
As an outsider, Locke succeeded in joining her small group under the introduction of the female apprentice Eco, a learning promotion association built around the quasi-witch Pontar.
Pontar, human, 37 years old, quasi-witch, gifted affinity for the dark elemental, was born in a small human realm in the Vikas region of Tallinn. According to the customs of the human kingdom, he still seems to have the status of a prince, but he was only sent to the wizarding tower because he was found to have wizarding talents since he was a child.
He is also one of the first free apprentices to choose to take refuge after the establishment of the Crimson Family, and his strength can only be regarded as midstream among the current 6 quasi-witches in the White Tower. However, with his ability to summon a powerful Shadow Assassin, he also belongs to the type that other would-be witches are least willing to provoke.
Before becoming full-fledged wizards, would-be wizards often lacked strong defensive sorcery. So in the face of a shadow assassin who came and went without a trace, no opponent wanted to taste its shady and sharp shadow dagger.
Originally, with the strength of Locke's junior apprenticeship, he was not qualified to join this learning organization, but due to Eco's recommendation and his own strange status as a goblin mechanic, he still aroused the interest of the pontar and took him to his side.
After two months of study, in addition to mastering the basic meditation technique, Xiao Locke also unexpectedly awakened the talent of a goblin mechanic. This gave him a strange ability similar to the power of the bloodline, which was able to maximize the combat power of precision magic weapons.
It's a pity that he came to the wizarding world empty-handed, and there is no powerful metal magic weapon for him to control. Moreover, with the numerous mechanical components and magic parts in the metal magic machine, it was really impossible for Xiao Locke's weak mental power to support such a vast and subtle operation.
Therefore, in desperation, Xiao Locke could only learn some knowledge of magic weapon transformation at his own expense, and built an eyeball fighter with the cheapest metal materials.
It is said to be an eyeball fighter, but in fact it is just a simple metal ball that cannot be more simple.
It is the size of a human head, and relies on high-pressure air jets from tiny blowholes scattered throughout its body to propel itself through the air. In order to minimize weight, the inside of the metal sphere has been completely hollowed out, and a series of wind witches have been carved into it.
The most direct consequence of this is that the physical defense of the metal ball is drastically reduced, but in exchange for the agile and agile flight speed.
The only way this eyeball fighter can attack is a ruby shard embedded in a metal groove. Using the free elemental energy absorbed by the Gathering Witch Circle, the Eyeball Fighter was able to excite scorching rays of energy intensity of up to 11 degrees through the ruby fragments.
Since the fire element impregnated in the ruby shards was not pure enough, this was already the maximum attack strength that Locke could achieve after desperately improving it. If you want to increase the attack power of the Scorching Ray, you can only replace that ruby fragment with a higher level of Split Ruby.
But the price of a ruby shard is only 3 magic crystals, and the price of a cracked ruby is as high as 20 magic crystals. The huge price difference made Locke, who was shy, have to choose the cheapest and easiest materials.
With the magic power of the ruby shards, it can only maintain the attack frequency of 1 shot per 5 seconds. Once this frequency is exceeded, there is a high chance that the witch circle and the precious ruby fragment inside the eyeball fighter will be burned.
But even so, an auxiliary magic assistant that didn't need to be controlled much by himself quickly made Locke Jr. one of the strongest 'people' among the junior apprentices. After all, with the strength of a junior apprentice, it is already very good to be able to trigger an apprentice-level witchcraft with an attack strength of 15 degrees in 5-7 seconds.
Other junior apprentices who want to fight little Locke need to be on guard against a small metal monster that nimbly flies around the sky and shoots a red ray from time to time. With two against one, there are really not many newcomers who can defeat Little Locke!
In order to train the actual combat ability of wizard apprentices, almost every week, the White Tower will organize some wizard apprentices to go deep into the Black Forest within a hundred miles to hunt some apprentice-level beasts or monsters. Of course, every time the White Tower operates, a formal wizard will be sent to lead the team, and after bringing the apprentice team to the appropriate area, let them split up.
I have to say that the management of the White Tower of the Crimson Family still has a very comprehensive consideration for the trial apprentice.
If the apprentice team encounters danger in the jungle, it is entirely possible to call for help from the wizard who leads the team. However, in this way, all the gains of the team will go to the wizard who leads the team. As a result, apprentices prefer to gather around a certain would-be wizard in order to gain some extra protection in times of danger.
After all, with the strength of a quasi-witch apprentice, it is still possible to cast a Tier 1 witchcraft beyond the ranks!
This is particularly important in the marginal areas of the Black Forest. A quasi-wizard who has mastered Tier 1 sorcery is invincible, but most of the area is safe for him.
This is also the best way for them to deeply reflect their value!
As for the apprentices' captures in the Black Forest, they all belong to individuals or their small teams. When they returned to the White Tower, they could sell the captives to the family's trading houses, or auction them off themselves. In this way, the gold coins and magic crystals earned will be enough to support them to continue to survive in the White Tower.
The trading houses or auction houses under the White Tower divide the prey into three, six, nine and so on, among which the apprentice-level beasts and monsters are sent directly to the processing factory, where the hired goblins process them into tightly sealed metal cans, and then bind them into boxes and ship them to the central part of the continent.
There, a 'Happy Gold' trading house established by the goblin Kirby will be responsible for selling them to every human noble manor and city.
Of course, the flesh and blood of ordinary beasts could not arouse the interest of human nobles, but the flesh and fur of low-level monsters were still very sought-after.
After all, everyone knows that these magical objects are impregnated with some more or less elemental energy. If the daily diet can be continuously consumed for a long time, it can obviously enhance the basic quality and energy fit of the human body.
In other words, this little change may not be seen by wizards, but for those human nobles who have enjoyed all the glory and wealth and just want to live a few more years, it has a huge and far-reaching significance!
If these nobles can ingest the flesh and blood of monsters over the years of adulthood, it will be second best to strengthen their physique, and more importantly, it will give their offspring a little more chance of having wizarding talents.
And this is what they value the most!
Of course, this change in probability may only be a small change in the third or fourth decimal place. But beneath the terrifying mouth of the goblin Kirby, who can tell the dead to live, is exaggerated to become the flesh and blood of a divine beast that will change the fate of their family from then on.
After a strong operation and sales, Goblin Kirby successfully set off a new trend of insisting on a healthy diet and using monster flesh and blood to improve his physique in the middle of Tallinn. And this trend cannot be replaced by other families!
Although each wizard family has its own hunting team, it is constantly hunting monsters and finding rare strains for wizards. Naturally, they also have an advantage over the goblin Kirby. However, the number they hunted was still too scarce to satisfy the appetite of the huge human aristocratic group. Second, the preservation of monster flesh and blood is also extremely difficult, requiring the use of a lot of rare materials.
If it is used to provide it to wizards, wizards who spend a lot of money will naturally not be stingy with the price, and they can make the hunting team make a lot of money. But the same price wants to be offered to the middle and low-level human nobles, even if they are rich, they can't afford to enjoy such a luxurious monster feast.
The metal airtight lunch box specially created by the goblin engineers under the White Tower solves this problem perfectly and cheaply. This also makes it possible to sell high-energy monster flesh at a low price!
It is with this means that the White Pagoda has also successfully found a way for the incoming territory to survive. They only need to learn the simple operation of the metal factory assembly line under the training of goblin technicians, and a qualified worker is born!