Chapter 0257: Alice Returns
Masilan is dead!
A veteran wizard with great strength died inexplicably on a humble battlefield!
Such a shocking fact became a little unbearable for both warring sides.
The territory of the Kartia Hills is no more than 120 miles in circumference, and it has three cities, one middle school, two small cities, and seven or eight human villages and towns. Even if these manors and villages are crushed into powder and converted into magic crystals, they can't withstand the true value of an old wizard.
Therefore, the tripartite joint attack is more on behalf of the forces and organizations behind him to test the strength of the Sarubo family. If the Salubo family is really weakened in the plane war, it will inevitably adopt a strategic contraction and give up some benefits. Then exchange space for time to fight for the recovery of their own strength.
It can be said that in the entire scattered Tallinn region, such border wars occur almost every day, and there are not a few wizard families and wizard organizations involved in them. But the death of a wizard for this makes such a thing very rare.
As a party to the invasion, Carlos of the Micain family could only reluctantly announce that the defeat had been defeated, and the two sides sat down again and negotiated the follow-up compensation.
The occupied cities had to be spit out one by one, the looted villages had to be compensated for double, and the Micain family even had to come up with a large amount of rare resources to compensate for the substantial losses of the Salubo family. As long as the Micain family doesn't want to escalate the conflict between the two sides into a full-scale family war, then today's matter is over.
As for how the Micain family will compensate the Mafia Association to which Masilan belongs, that's another matter.
And after Grim and Kogan hastily settled the matter here, they returned directly to Ferdinand.
However, after this battle, Grimm's terrifying reputation as a fire demon also spread.
With one enemy and two enemies, he can also kill an old wizard strongly, such strength is a miracle for a new wizard!
It is said that a few days after the two sides ceased fighting, many wizards rushed to Lokol Castle to check the traces of the battle there. Every wizard who has seen the battlefield has a solemn face and a solemn expression!
In all seriousness, it has become devastated and no longer inhabitable.
It's as if a raging volcano once erupted there, and the battlefield is littered with terrible lava left behind by the mumping and cooling of lava. Breaking open and smashing some strange towering blocks of lava will reveal some largely well-preserved metal armor inside, and the flesh inside the armor has become muddy with the molten iron, making it difficult to disassemble.
The castle of Lokol, which was closest to the battlefield, had endured the terrifying witchcraft blows, and most of the castle buildings had softened into mud before solidifying into a strange form.
But fortunately, with the compensation of the Micain family, the Viscount Donner was more than enough to rebuild five castles.
And after this battle, those overt and covert turmoil against the Sarubo family naturally disappeared. Many families or organizations that originally wanted to find a bargain on the Sarubo family also died down one after another and became a wait-and-see return.
However, Grim also successfully harvested the hatred of the Mafia Association!
When Grim returned to Federnand, he learned that the Mafia Society was just a small organization with seven wizards. Aside from the fact that their leader was a Rank 2 wizard, that Maxlan was already the most powerful Rank 1 wizard in their organization.
Knowing such information, Grim smiled and put the other party's hatred behind. With the family behind him, it is impossible for the second-order wizard on the other side to take the initiative to come to him for trouble, otherwise the third-order wizard of the Sarubo family will slaughter his Black Hand Association in minutes.
As long as it is a fair duel with open guns and arrows, the murderous Grim really has never been afraid of any first-order wizards.
In view of Grim's contribution to the Battle of Lokol Castle, Wizard Kogan took a portion of the Micain family's war reparations to make up for his battle losses.
20,000 magic crystals, 5 family contributions, a large number of wizard resources, and 3 wizard-level elemental crystal nuclei.
With this, it is logical for Grim to hide in the wizard tower in Federnand City, and he is trying his best to recover his strength day and night.
I have to say that Maxlan's weird black smoke and Carlos's powerful curse still had a big impact on him. It wasn't until the 7th day after the war that he expelled all the negative witchcraft from his body and readjusted his body to its best condition.
Through this battle, Grim also clearly saw his strengths and weaknesses, and began to plan for the future path of witchcraft.
On the battlefield, fire sorcery is undoubtedly the most powerful, and this has been fully proven. However, in the midst of small battles between wizards, the immense power of fire sorcery may not be fully unleashed.
It can be said that without the Flame Lord's self-detonation, and without the powerful instantaneous sorcery of the Voodoo Scroll, it would have been almost a luxury for Grim to win with one enemy and two enemies!
Therefore, if Grim wants to continue to maintain his combat advantage, then strengthening his own strength is the only way out.
But the speed of spiritual growth is impatient, and it can only be improved by hard meditation day after day. Of course, searching for some suitable mental power potions or ingredients with good tonic benefits is also a way.
But this is obviously an extremely long process!
Therefore, if you want to strengthen and improve your strength in a short period of time, magic golems and otherworldly runes are the most promising directions to strive for. And he promised the wizard of the dark crypt a trip to Sky City, and it will be there in half a year.
So after thinking about it for a while, Grim decided to prioritize the Otherworldly Runes and use them to strengthen the sorcery tattoos and golems on his body before thinking about anything else.
Moreover, he has also gained so many resources and strange things from his trip to the other world, and he also needs a period of precipitation and accumulation to consolidate his foundation and make up for the lack of witchcraft knowledge.
So, for the next month, Grim hid in the wizard's tower, lived in a shallow place, soaked in the witchcraft laboratory all day, and never showed up again.
Of course, during this time, Grim was not completely isolated from the world, but remained in contact with the outside world. On the third day of his retreat, little Lori Alice, who ran out to do a task, ran back and met with him.
I haven't seen each other for three or four months, and I have to say that the progress of Alice's strength has made Grim feel sideways. At this rate, it may only take a year and a half of hard work for Alice to reach the standard of a high-level wizard.
"Bring it!" Alice spread her little hands as soon as she broke into Grim's room.
"What?" said Grim, confused.
"Of course it's my gift!" Alice rolled her eyes angrily, "You went to the other world, you can't bring back any gifts, right?"
Grim was speechless for a moment.
"This ...... Alice, it seems like I'm your master, and you're a maid who wants to get a good deal from me without doing anything, I'm afraid ......."
Hearing this, Alice, who was still puffing up her face just now, immediately became smiling.
"Dear master, dear master, I wonder what you need lovely Alice to do for you?"
Seeing Alice's fearless look, Grim couldn't help but have a headache, and immediately sneered: "Since you also grew up in a wealthy family, don't you know what a maid can do?"
"Waiter?" Alice cheered, "Wow, wow, wow, what do you think tonight? Lovely Alice will come to warm your bed tonight!"
Grim put his hand on his forehead, completely speechless.
Although he knew that Alice in front of him was just a flower, but in the face of a 7-year-old little Lori whose body and face were solidified, Grim really couldn't advance and retreat as freely as he faced the enemy.
Pinching her fingers, this Alice is almost 17 years old. But this Lori body, this immature childlike face, is really difficult to treat her as a peer!
If her talent was ordinary, then with such an unruly character, Grim would have thrown her aside to eat dirt. However, after witnessing the magic of a top-level "magic stick" in the alien plane, Grim couldn't help but be curious about the name of "Witch of Destiny" on Alice's body.
If...... Being able to cultivate a prophet of one's own will be of great significance for the future.
It is precisely because of this idea that Grim also has strong expectations for Alice. If there is a chance to get closer to her, then Grim will definitely not be stingy.
Grim looked up and thought about it, he could be useful to her, and it wasn't too shabby, it seemed that there was only that thing!
Thinking of this, Grim waved his hand to open the witchcraft protection of the residence, and a faint fluorescence appeared on the four walls of the residence, the floor, and the ceiling. That way, even those who have the highest authority in the wizarding tower will not want to peek into the secrets of his residence without touching Grim's senses.
"You...... Do you want to do ...... What?" Alice took a step back, her hands clutching her collar, her panicked eyes glancing around, a look of panic and cringe.
"Hmph, with your bean sprout-like figure, the ghost is interested in beating your idea!" Grim said angrily: "Don't you want a gift?
With that, Grim took out a dusty cloth bag from his storage belt and handed it to Alice reluctantly.
"What kind of gift is this?...... it looks so ugly," Alice pinched her nose as she gently picked up the cloth bag with her fingertips.
The cloth pocket was obviously not a magical item, it was just an ordinary pocket sewn from linen coarse cloth, which was not only old and tattered, but also smelled of decay and decay as the mouth of the bag opened.
Seeing the gift wrapped in such a shabby way, Alice instantly lost confidence in the contents.
She choked on her nose and fought back her nausea, pulling out an eerie gray fist-sized stone from within.
"This is the gift you brought me back from the Alien Plane, a broken stone!"
Alice rolled her eyes, and then threw the stone away.
But as soon as the gray stone left her palm, it outlined glowing silver threads in the air. Before the stone could hit the ground, the silver thread began to vibrate, and the void in front of him vaguely opened a small opening. And that stone seemed to have its own spiritual intelligence, and in the blink of an eye, it was about to disappear into this void hole and disappear into this plane.
Alice's piercing scream finally rang out.
"Void Stone!"