Chapter 0426: Change
The birth of the Flame Throne has obviously changed the development of this part of the Black Forest.
The residents of Songta Town, 300 miles away, felt it the most.
Once upon a time, as a fringe town in a human settlement, they lived in the shadow of monsters. Whenever a large tide of beasts broke out in the Black Forest, they had to desperately ask for help from the nearest city to the town, Baldan, because there was a wizard tower there.
The wizard family that has some interests in Songta Town will also send family wizards and apprentices in due course to help the townspeople resist the impact of the beast tide. But there are limits to this help, and once the danger faced by the town exceeds expectations, these foreign wizards and apprentices will never live with the town.
Therefore, from the beginning of its establishment to the present, Songta Town has been attacked by migrating beasts twice. And after each tragedy, a new batch of immigrants will be drawn here by the wizards.
So, it's a terrifying place to love and hate!
But now, with the appearance of a mysterious witch tower in the Black Forest, this mountain forest has suddenly become more peaceful and cold than ever.
The monsters that used to ravage the mountains and forests have disappeared, and even the large jungle beasts and ferocious birds have plummeted in number. A number of mercenary adventure teams relied on their courage to go deep into the Black Forest for almost two or three hundred miles, but they found no trace of the monsters.
Some known monster nests have been abandoned, and places that were once considered Jedi and dead have become safe places to come and go. These adventure-making mercenaries began to explore crypts and caves one after another, looking for nests abandoned by the monsters.
For a while, the mercenaries in Songta Town became unprecedentedly active, and every time they went out on an adventure, they could return with a full load and bring back a huge harvest. The wizard apprentices with simple pockets have also become sweethearts, and they are present in the team, bringing back more and bigger loot every time they explore the abandoned monster lair.
At first they didn't know how it all happened. However, as some of the mercenary squads extended to the location of the once Sickwood Forest, and had the privilege of visiting the Witch Tower apprentices who were maintaining order in the forest, they learned that a 'great' Witch Tower had been erected at the bottom of the Sickwood Forest.
It is no longer called the Sick Wood Forest, but has become a cave of fire that has been passed down by all mouths. As for the depths of the Flame Cavern, that's where the 'great' Flame Throne Witch Tower is located!
As soon as the news was transmitted back to Songta Town, it immediately caused a great sensation.
Not only did the townspeople become ecstatic, but even the wizard apprentices who were trying out in the vicinity of the town were excited.
Intrigued by the mysterious Witch Tower, several apprentices from wizarding families hurried to the Flame Cave and visited the Flame Throne.
According to the general rules of the Wizarding Continent, they were also fortunate to stay in the Witch Tower for one night and came into contact with the apprentices in the Witch Tower. As a result, they learned that the Flame Throne belonged to the private tower of the Grim Wizard of the Sarupo family.
The Salubo family, as if I had heard of it before, is an inconspicuous medium-sized family in the middle of the continent.
Wizard Grimm?I'm sorry, but that name seems extremely unfamiliar!
Grim's title of Fire Demon is actually a bit loud in a few areas around Ferdinand City, a little farther away, and wizarding families in many areas have never even heard of it.
However, the speed at which news spreads in the wizarding world is still amazing!
When the apprentices brought the news back to the family, rumors about the fire demon quickly became a household name.
A newly promoted wizard fought against a powerful enemy and killed a veteran wizard in a one-on-two...... Later, in a family conflict, he forcibly killed an elite-level bloodline wizard......
As soon as these rumors were discovered, they immediately aroused the interest and attention of many wizarding families.
This...... No matter how you look at it, a powerful wizard is rising!
As a result, more wizard apprentices flocked to the town of Songta, and then diverted to the mysterious Witch Tower, the Flame Throne.
According to the general law of the Wizarding Continent, except for a few regions where the Witch Towers are completely enclosed, most of the Witch Towers actually adhere to the principle of openness to the outside world. Each tower will open up a specific area for wizards and apprentices to rest and replenish their supplies.
And this is also one of the means for Wu Tower to earn magic crystals!
Of course, only wizards and apprentices can enter the tower to rest and replenish, and ordinary adventurers and mercenaries who want to buy enchanted items can only transfer through familiar apprentices. Therefore, the prosperity of the Wu Pagoda has also led to a circle of apprentices in disguise, allowing these marginalized people to form a peripheral market around the Wu Pagoda.
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Biliss is a wandering wizard apprentice.
Due to his poor talent, he is already 35 years old, but he is still only a junior apprentice. And he only has two more witchcraft, the probe and the low light.
The former is not a bizarre witchcraft of divination, but a simple witchcraft to find out whether food is poisonous and what effect an item has. As for the latter, it creates a slightly dimly lit area around the caster, reducing the enemy's line of sight.
Yes, neither of these witchcraft belongs to attack witchcraft, nor does it belong to defensive witchcraft, but to ...... A low-level type of sorcery that supports it.
It is for this reason that Billis's family is just an ordinary aristocratic family, and it is obvious that he cannot bear to continue to consume the family's resources, but he cannot provide any return for the family. As a result, three years ago, the family cut off his resources and financial support, and Bilis had to regretfully leave the Wizard Tower, where he had lived and studied for 27 years, and became a wandering wizard apprentice.
Of course, if he is willing to return to the family, there is still a chance to become the head of the chamber of commerce or a local nobleman, but Bilis, who has already made up his mind to dedicate himself to the cause of wizarding, still dreams of becoming a great wizard one day.
Therefore, he would rather wander and experience in various regions than return to the family to be a marionette who follows the rules.
When he stumbled upon a trip to the Elovies region, he heard of a new wizard's tower in the town of Songta. With the simple idea that the other party might recruit some foreign apprentices, Bilis immediately changed his itinerary and made a beeline for the legendary Flame Throne.
The former town of Songta has now become bustling, with adventurers and mercenaries with bows and swords on their backs, and when they see Billis's apprentice robes, they excitedly surround him one by one to recruit him.
At this time, in Songta Town, even if a wizard apprentice is poor, as long as he has a wizard's waist, he can attract countless teams to recruit him. After all, the opening and storage of a wizard's waist bag requires a certain amount of mental power, which is simply unusable for ordinary warriors, and only apprentices who have mastered a certain amount of elemental power can do it.
Therefore, if the expedition team wants to bring back more loot, the wizard apprentice must be recruited.
It's a pity that Billis has other plans in mind, so he did not hesitate to decline all invitations to join the team. After hiring a familiar local guide, Bilis also made his way through 300 miles of dense forest to the rumored entrance to the Cave of Fire.
In fact, before he could get close to the pile of rocks where the Flame Cave was located, Biliss was shocked by the bustle and noise of the place.
A mile or twenty away from the end, Bilis encountered a number of small groups that were rushing to the Flame Cave. Their teams were large or small, ranging from hunting teams of a dozen people to expeditions of three or four people. And like Billis, there is no team like him, the guide, and the only two.
The further he went, the more mercenaries Biliss encountered. Carrying huge prey on their shoulders or huge blood-stained backpacks, they strode happily through the dense and difficult Black Forest.
After many teams meet, they will shout and greet each other, and from time to time they will ask "how was the harvest today" and "where did you find a hidden nest...... And so on and so forth.
As they walked through the jungle to a vast glade, Biliss was completely stunned by what he had seen.
This is the Black Forest!
It's a dangerous area almost 300 miles into the Black Forest!
But in the huge glade in front of Bilis, rows of simple wooden houses and improvised tents were erected crookedly. There are three or four hundred, mercenary adventurers in different costumes and costumes walking around this makeshift camp at will, and everywhere you can see stalls buying live beasts and beast skins, and everywhere you can see guys in apprentice robes haggling with mercenaries......
Over here...... It has become a makeshift camp, a bridgehead and supply ground for mercenary adventurers to explore the surrounding area. And the camp's stewards are the wizarding apprentices who have come out of the Flame Throne.
In one corner of the camp, in a huge wooden cage made of thick logs, there are more than a dozen large jungle beasts, including ironclad rhinos, razor-like boars, and berserk apes.
Under Bilis's gaze, a number of mercenaries hurried there with the beasts in full binding, handed them over to a wizard apprentice in a short green robe who was in charge of the beast pen, and then received the heavy little cloth bags from him.
"Your Excellency, the Cave of Flames you spoke of has arrived!" The guide who led the way was an honest villager who looked at Bilis with a look of interest.
Billis took out a small cloth bag from his waist bag and threw it to the other party.
50 coins!
If it were in the past, no matter how much gold and even magic crystals Bilis took out, it would be impossible for these guys who didn't have any combat ability to go deep into the Black Forest. But now, with the advent of the Flame Throne Witch Tower, this black forest has become a very safe back garden, allowing most adventurers to walk, explore and hunt in it safely and worry-free.
After sending him to the guide, Bilis mustered up his courage and walked briskly to the huge hole in the middle of the camp. Even at a distance of two or three hundred meters, Bilis could feel the strong aura of the fire elemental coming to his face.
Throne of Fire, I'm coming!