Age of Adepts

Pamira Town is the nearest supply point to Katopaxi Volcano.

This is also where foreign apprentices report to.

When Grimm arrived here on a leisurely station carriage, it was dinner time of the day.

Pamela Town, a remote but not chilly town. Small town with only one central street. It belongs to the kind of little place that stands on the street and sees the whole town at a glance.

Along the side of the street there are more than a dozen wooden houses, which at first glance are ordinary houses. Besides that, there's a tavern, a grocery store, a humid little inn, and a hundred households, and that's the whole town!

As soon as he got off the wagon at the station, Grimm heard a loud and dull rumble coming from the distant mountains. This is not an occasional sound, but has existed since Grimm's proximity to the mountains. On the outskirts, the sound may not be so obvious, like a dull thunder in the winter wilderness, but when he came to the town, he immediately perceived the magical power of nature.

This is probably the sound of the ongoing underground activity of the volcano!

The thought of the inhabitants of small towns living in this environment for many years makes Grimm a little curious, what makes them willing to endure such a harsh environment and stay here?

You know, it's almost time for the Kotopashi Volcano pause, but it's still spraying heavy columns of smoke and dust from the far, high tip of the volcano. The town is at the foot of a mountain less than seven miles from the volcano, affected by the volcano, and the sky is always gray. There is a thick layer of volcanic ash inside and outside the town, both on buildings and on gravel roads.

A senior apprentice named Ivan awaits Grimm in the small hotel, and the badge he wears on his grey robe should belong to the local Zubbel family. This Kotopashi volcano belongs to their family resource point, where idle foreign wizards cannot enter the volcano without their permission.

Seeing Grimm's hierarchy is only superior, that Ivan obviously has some difficulty believing, and can't help but cold-air: “Inside the volcano, even during a pause, it's not safe, it's full of horrible hot air currents and lava monsters. Are you sure you can survive in there? ”

Grimm glanced around the hotel lobby indifferently, and the believer dashed through the air for a few moments, and a witchcraft symbol that burned an elemental flame floated in the air. Of course, his move attracted everyone's attention, and all the people in the hall beside the six or seven wooden tables had to turn their heads and look at it.

To be honest, since Grimm crossed the threshold of the body of the bath fire, and then poured his energy through the underground lava, his body almost 2 meters tall has become quite eye-catching. And his long dark red hair and his constant and intense momentum condensed his distinct momentum, which was remarkable.

“Well, you're a fire apprentice! Then the impact of the underground environment on you will be much smaller, just avoid those nasty lava monsters and you may be able to go deeper!” That Ivan nodded and took out a white stone to Grimm.

This is even his pass to the inside of the volcano in a few days!

“Go talk to them! The people in this lobby are foreign apprentices who come here to do their work, and if you can form a team, the task will be easier!” Evan has clearly gained a lot of enthusiasm since Grimm was found to be a fire apprentice.

Grimm nodded and walked slowly to the lobby, slowly sweeping through the many strange faces that were gathered at the table to chat in a low voice, finally choosing to sit alone at the table.

On this underground trip, he was more interested in completing his own body of fire and was not enthusiastic about the rewards of this task, so he did not have the mind to team up with others. So as soon as we get here, we create an indifference that no one is close to, just to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Witchcraft apprentices are intelligent, and since Grimm has put such a foothold, no one will naturally harass him again. And Grimm took the opportunity to slowly take a look at the situation, and did what he had in mind.

The lobby of the small hotel is also not large, and the lights are even darker, with about 17 wizard apprentices sitting, only two of them at the quasi-witch level, and the rest at the same senior level as Grimm. This also corresponds to the characteristics of the task.

In order to collect resources in underground volcanoes, one has to endure the effects of extreme environments, on the one hand, and deal with elemental organisms such as lava monsters and fire spirits that inhabit them, on the other. So the senior apprentice is already the minimum threshold for this task!

Grimm dares to conclude that the elemental affinity of these senior apprentices must be the majority of the fire department, and that the rest, if not the fire department, are very confident in themselves. And the reason why there are so few quasi-watches is simply because tasks such as collecting resources are quite facial.

With good luck, you may be able to crash the upper volcano into the fire diamond areas exposed after the lava fades, but you should be unlucky, and there are many people out there who have nothing to gain from the three-month mission.

Not only was the mission reward not received, but I was afraid I would have to pay my share of the mission back.

So if it wasn't for their special needs, the quasi-witches would never be willing to go to underground volcanoes to try their luck.

After grasping the general situation of the mission apprentices, Grimm hurriedly filled his stomach and stuck his head in his room and never went out again. He arrived fairly early, five days before the volcano hiatus, so in those days he had not stepped out and even had three meals a day served directly into the house.

Taking advantage of his spare days, he studied the flame boundary diligently. He felt that this subsequent defensive witchcraft was best suited to his body of fire. If he mastered it early, he would most likely form a protective flame similar to the Abyssal Flame Demon. Anyone who wants to attack him at that time must first endure uninterrupted flame damage, more in line with his insidious attitude of killing invisible enemies.

In the meantime, two or three witch apprentices came to visit and tried to pull him into their own expedition, but they were all rejected by Grimm Wan. So one by one, all the senior apprentices who wanted to go underground volcano expedition knew about this guy and actually planned to go underground alone.

Being able to mix up with advanced apprentices is not a simple life. They all understand that the guys who dare to do this are tough hands who have great confidence in themselves, so nobody says anything about it. But there are still a handful of Grim Fun waiting in the dark!

Soon the day will come when the people will wait!

On that day, the loud rumbling that haunted everyone's ears finally came to an end.

The grey smoke column that runs through the sky in the distance begins to scatter, and the ashes that fall from the ocean all day long begin to diminish and eventually cease.

In the room, Grimm, who read the book in silence, perceived the change, pushed open the wooden window next to the street, looked at it, and immediately packed everything around him and walked out of the room. Many more apprentices, prepared like him, gathered in the lobby of the hotel after nodding their heads in the corridor.

Ivan, who is in charge of the team, is already waiting here.

A minute later, after all 20 mission apprentices arrived, the mermaids came out and followed Ivan to the foot of the volcano.

Seventy-eight miles away at the feet of these sorcerer apprentices is nothing, and in less than a minute, the crowd came to a natural stone hole at the half-way point of the volcanic cone. And the Quasi-Wipes of the Jubel family have been waiting here to put them in after they have checked the passes of many people.

The stone hole is not large, it is just over 20 tsubos, and it is filled with rocky peaks and limestone with staggered canine teeth. Perhaps it's a lava passage directly into the depths of the volcano, where you can't see any mossy lichens, and on either side of the rock walls, there are thick cracks and deep trenches, spraying hot air streams that can instantly burn people.

Perhaps the underground lava has just retreated, even the ground here is still hot, and the tunnel is full of stinging sulphur. Without special means, ordinary people who stay in such filthy air for half an hour are invaded by horrific fire, turning tracheal alveoli into blood filled water sacs.

But of course, the environmental test cannot help but the apprentices who came here, a colorful shield covering them inside, isolating the outside world from interference. Grimm did not reveal his body of bath fire, but rather added a high temperature field to himself.

He looked around silently, taking up almost half of the 20 apprentices, eight apprentices who, like himself, held fire defenses. The rest were either earthly or windy, and no water system was seen. I'm sure the water relatives are also reluctant to come and suffer in this environment.

Compared to other elemental lineages, water systems in this environment not only make it extremely difficult to bring together water elements, but also reduce the power and effect of witchcraft by 70%. As long as they don't have a problem with their brains, they'll never come here for abuse!

By the time we got here, everyone was basically looking at each other.

A group of apprentices, united by fire apprentices, took elemental protection and entered the corridor silently. Remaining temperatures in the corridor have not dissipated, and there is also a considerable risk to the lives of senior apprentices once a narrow environment encounters an unexpected eruption of hot air currents.

So people treasured each other, and threefold into different passages, disappeared deep into the ground.

Grimm noticed that the wizard apprentices of the Jubel family did not follow them into the corridor with the outsiders. It seems that they are more familiar with the terrain and have more convenient places to go without having to collide with luck like outsiders.

Grimm shook his head and sighed, then bowed down into a lava passage.