Age of Adepts

The Alice storm will subside in the shortest possible time.

Even most Takata apprentices have not yet figured out what happened, and the storm is silent in the past. Not to mention the Anderson wizard, who rarely appeared before the apprentice, even the evil bug Ntik, who watched the whole process, became silent and much quieter.

Except for Mary, who was not surprised at all by Grimm's performance, both of them were extremely surprised. Especially Ntik, who has even risen to restlessness.

Though Grimm has never publicly shown hostility towards him, as a deformed bloodline apprentice, he has prioritized all potential enemies in an effort to create an aggressive position of superiority in the circle of his life, which is the personal norm that Ntik has always followed.

Previously, he had to maintain a relative balance with the remaining two because of his personal capacity constraints. But the breakthrough in this trial mission made his nature no longer suppressable, and he “surrendered” the Mad Girl and Eagle Eye early on.

If he hadn't witnessed that bizarre boy's battle, he might still have thought the balance of victory was more skewed. Apart from running fast, Mary had nothing to defend against attack, and could not have been his opponent at all. And that Grimm, the senior apprentice of a district, how much of a wave can he turn?

But Alice fought Grim's birdcage, and it touched Entique deeply.

From that day on, he kept asking himself, if it was Grim who was fighting in the cage, could he break through the defenses of that group of element puppets and attack Grim? And the answer is clearly something he doesn't want to hear.

From that day on, he became silent!

…………

Dark Chamber.

Ntik dressed in a black robe sat silently in the dark corner, silently contemplating.

The whole chamber lit only a magic torch on the distal wall, and instead of being able to illuminate the space, the dimly leaping light rendered it even more gloomy and scary.

There is no furniture in the secret room, not even a common table and chair bench, and even Entik sits on an icy floor with a tray leg. Behind him, the dark corners of the light were out of reach, and a swelling mysterious cocoon was hanging there.

Rather than saying it's a secret room, it's better to say it's a wormhouse.

Just beside Ntik, countless black beetle tides float on the floor. Running to the east, running to the west, the sound of rubbing your limbs against the floor kept ringing in your ears.

Seems to be influenced by these beetles, and the body beneath the Ntick black robe has become volatile, as if there are thousands of beetles inside trying to dig it out and mix it up with their peers outside. Just as these black beetles were making a scene, Ntik finally raised his head and lit up two gloomy fireflies in the shadow of his hood.

A sharp bug hissed in the secret room.

Entique opened his mouth wide, and in his overlapping lips, a strange wormhead came out of it. That whistle just came out of its mouth.

When I heard the bug hiss, some of the agitated bug tide settled down again. Those black beetles gathered around Entique, like the subjects worshipping their own monarchs, quietly crawling awaiting orders from their masters.

Ntik picked up a black beetle and threw it in the mouth, squeaking and scratching crisp sound, stinking green insect juice spilled out of the open lips, and the stinking smell of the nose made the air in the Chamber even more dirty.

“Is this the path you chose for yourself? What a strange thing!” An old sound burst in the secret room.

“Lord Anderson, you're finally here!” Ntik raised his head gently and did not seem surprised by the sudden appearance of the sound.

“Did you know I was coming?” That old voice came with a little surprise, and it was the voice of Anderson, the owner of the Marsh Tower.

“Of course! As long as you are the owner of the tall tower, you will contact me sooner or later! ”

“So you must have guessed why I'm here, too, right? ”

“You want me to help you with that grim! ”

“Huh, smart boy, you got a good guess! I do need you to come out and kill that damn kid now. I'm sure that's what you'd be happy to do! ”

“Dear Lord Anderson, may I ask, do you need help to kill a senior apprentice? What other unbearable consequences would you have if you strangled him?” The evil worm Ntik is obviously not a fool either. If he doesn't figure out this key question, he won't be the gun in someone else's hand!

“That's because I want to keep that little vampire under control. She's the key sample for my next blood study. But in her relationship with that kid, I'm afraid if I do it directly, it's going to be hard to control her again.” The Anderson Wizard silenced for a moment and finally gave his reasons.

“With that kid's ability to fight yesterday, do you think I can steadily beat him?” Instead of caring about the Anderson Wizard's reasons, Ntik quickly turned to the next question.

“In my judgment, it's hard. If you are alone, you will surely die. But you seem to have formed an alliance of evil bugs, which, with the power of this alliance, might be more like it. ”

“What good would it do me to do all this? Instead, it would make me jerk off with Mary as a witch! ”

“What if I said I could make you stronger? ”

“ …… ”

“Your pact partner is the Bug Mother, isn't he? A rotten beetle's worm mother, huh, such a good opportunity to meet you too, looks like you've had some really good luck! ”

“ …… ”

“You are probably worried about how to improve your strength. You have now tied your life to the mother of that worm, and you not only need to cover your promotion needs, you also need to cover the promotion needs of the mother of the deceased. In this way, the half-worm body, while letting you take advantage of your opponents in the same order, can drag you down a lot in the speed of advancement. ”

“ …… ”

“Did you swallow one or two quasi-watches for this mission trial? Without such an adventure, you would not have been able to successfully promote a prospective witch. What about the back? How many wizards are you going to eat to promote a wizard? ”

“Lord Anderson, I see what you mean. So, do you have any better suggestions for my current situation? ”

“Strengthen yourself, of course!” Anderson's voice scolded with dismay: “Though you and the mother of the worm are contractual creatures, life sharing, there is also a dominance problem here. You're strong yourself, and it's naturally your best servant. But if it evolves faster than you, you don't have to worry about life, but the true owner of this body, I'm afraid it's going to dominate most of the time! ”

“So how can I quickly strengthen myself? ”

“Boo-hoo... Boy, you probably forgot how I made Mary look like this today! As long as you join my witchcraft experiment, I promise to give you a strong body that is never weaker than Mary's! ”

“I agree with that condition. So what do you need me to do? ”

“First, I need a drop of your worm mother's blood! Only by getting its blood will I be able to accurately formulate the isomerized blood that suits your physique. ”

After a long silent thought, Ntik nodded and finally agreed.

And as soon as Entique agreed, the Anderson wizard urged him to hand over a drop of the mother's blood.

Once Ntik bit his teeth, he opened his large, lotus petal-shaped mouth, and that wormhead revealed a small body from the inside again. The bugs hissed so hard that even the black corpse beetles around Entik became furious. However, under Ntik's pressure, the wormhead was still a wormmouth, spitting a drop of strange, stinky juice.

Secret chamber void microfibrillation, as soon as the liquid drops off the head of the worm, it has not yet landed, it is held by a timely open void ripple. The light flashed and the juice disappeared somehow.

Entique's dense re-eye sparkled with light, apparently in the shadow of Anderson's wizard's tight control of the tower.

“Boy, you're smart! Well, with this thing, I'll soon be able to blend the alienated blood. When you have vampire blood, that's your moment to shine! ”

The strong mental power of the Anderson Wizard was perceived as slowly retreating from this Chamber, and the evil bug Ntik reclaimed himself into the infinite darkness. In the shadows that no one can spy on, the whimpering bug hisses, and doesn't know what he and the mother are communicating intensely.

The whole space is filled with a dark and strange atmosphere!

…………

Upon returning to his residence, Grimm re-entered that closed circle of life.

Deep meditation, reading books, witchcraft experiments… these thunderous and tedious activities become his basic daily routine. Somehow, a deep sense of crisis engulfed Grimm's body and mind, prompting him to accumulate constant knowledge and strengthen himself.

He had the feeling that something terrible would happen to him if he didn't do his best to run. While it is difficult to explain where and from whom this sense of crisis originated, Grimm is convinced of it and has actually acted.

And days of witchcraft studies have brought him great benefits. The accumulated books of witchcraft in the past, summarized and collated by the chip, were transformed into mystical knowledge in his mind ready to understand the call, filling the basic gaps in his fire witchcraft.

Unconsciously, the fiery shield and the high temperature force field became part of his sac, and the mastery of the body of the bathing fire advanced from 37% to 41%.

Seriously, Grim, the basic theory of the fire system is no worse than that of any official wizard at this moment!