Age of Adepts

Fei Denan City, Mage Tower.

Grimm met five apprentices assigned to him in his residence.

2 associate witches and 3 senior apprentices, all very young.

Essentially able to reach the quasi-witch or senior apprenticeship level by the age of fifty, they all have the potential to become witches. And these are what the Wizards are willing to pay for! As for those apprentices who rely on suffering to forcibly upgrade their spiritual abilities to higher levels, self-aware and hopeless witches, they have abandoned this path early on and have come to the mortal world to enjoy the sacrifices of local nobility.

One woman in each of the quasi-witches and senior apprentices assigned to Grimm is quite beautiful. But with Grimm's elemental vision, it's easy to see the faint fluorescence left behind by witchcraft on their faces.

It can be seen that these five wizard apprentices have long heard of Grimna's horrible Fire Demon name, and one of them stood at the top of his head and dared not breathe a breath. However, the glittering light in their eyes shows that they are satisfied with being able to become disciples of the Fire Demon, and the excitement is hard to hide.

For some reason, even Alice, who has always been my business, came to this meeting.

Her forked waist stood beside Grimm, her unfavourable eyes spinning on two female apprentices, her dripping eyes spinning, seemingly plotting something in the shadows.

“This is the first time we've met, you can briefly report your name and research direction!” Grimm said slowly.

Upon hearing the request of the mentor, the five apprentices looked at each other, or the weaker male prospective witch stood up first.

“Kodal, Talented Affinity: Dark Element, just became a Quasi-Wolf last year. I mainly study biomutation, there is some hunting involved in veterinary transformation...”

“Meryl, a gifted affinity: earth element, became a quasi-witch this year. I'm going to take the Elemental Wizard route, I don't currently have any secondary jobs...”

“Am, Talented Affinity: Fire Elements, Advanced Apprentice, Part-Time Magic Materials Handling...”

“Torrey, talented affinity: illusion, senior apprentice, part-time pharmacist...”

“Lina, Talent Affinity: Water Element, Advanced Apprentice, Currently No Part-Time...”

Grimm calmly listened, her deep eyes hidden blue flashes.

With elemental vision, the physical qualities and mental strength levels of these apprentices have long been captured by him without a trace. Ask them to report themselves to their home to make it easier for them to archive and improve personal information.

Summarizing the horrific intelligence-gathering capabilities of chips, five apprentices have just introduced themselves, and Grimm has harvested further hints of chips in his mind. These five apprentices XXX have the potential to continue to progress, XXX's potential has been exhausted, and the only way to get to this point is with the aid of drugs. XXX has excellent qualifications to move in one direction...

Though these people have been separated from each other in their hearts, Grimm's young Jun-soo's face is still not revealed at all.

“Now that you have all been assigned to me, from this day forward, you will be apprentices of my Grimm. As long as anyone is doing well, I will accept them as true disciples at my discretion.” Speaking of which, Grimm looked around and saw excitement in the eyes of many people: “Besides, this is Alice, my closest maid and your sister-in-law. In the future, if you have any problems, you can ask her for help! ”

When she heard Grimm's words, Alice immediately stacked herself in her chest, looking like I was the big sister.

Several apprentices looked at each other and bowed to Alice at the same time, and the faces of the two young quasi-warriors were more reluctant.

In the land of wizards, there is a difference between apprentices and disciples.

The identity of the apprentice can only indicate that you have studied with a master and, if necessary, you can obtain the Master's blessing as an apprentice. But the identity of the disciples is completely different, more like a covenant of witchcraft, and the parties will have a closer and clearer relationship of knowledge transmission.

At some point, if a wizard dies accidentally, then his disciple has the power to inherit all his personal possessions.

So in many cases, wizards are reluctant to get themselves into more trouble. As a result, they tend to have a large number of apprentices, but there are few, if any, real ones.

“In accordance with the tradition of the Sarubo family, you have become apprentices in my name and you have the right to receive free knowledge from me. Every seven days, you have the opportunity to ask questions for free, the senior apprentice can ask one question, and the quasi-woman can ask two. In addition, the disciplines I have involved in hunting include elemental puppet making, everything, anatomy, neurology, and pharmacology foundations… If any of you would like to be my collaborators in the experiment, he can share the results of the research in the relevant disciplines and also have free access to my lab!” Grimm said with no expression.

Hearing him, several apprentices could not help but show hesitation and wandering expression.

While they are all the most precious possessions of the Sarubo Clan here, not everyone dares to experiment with them.

The vast majority of witch experiments involve taboo disciplines, the risks of which are self-evident.

Although the participating apprentices were able to share the results of their experiments at the witchcraft level, the physical and mental devastation of such experiments was also unknown. Generally, apprentices who have confidence in their future will not choose this path. Only those who run out of potential or are shy in their bags will choose to fight to gain the attention and favor of their mentors.

“Dear mentor, what aspects of the experiment are you referring to?” The quasi-woman, Kodal, couldn't help but bow down and ask.

“It's about illusion! ”

The eyes of the apprentices could not help but fall on the senior apprentice Torrey. He is the only one in the crowd who is an affinity for illusion and is obviously better suited to become this so-called "experimental collaborator”!

Feeling the burning but invisible pressure of everyone, Torre took a step forward with his scalp and bowed down to salute him: “Master, I am willing to participate in your illusion experiment! ”

“Oh…” Grimm smiled gently: "Are you volunteering to be my experimental collaborator? ”

“Yes!” Torrey squeezed a uglier smile on his face than he cried: “It's an honor to be part of your experiment! ”

“Good, then let's sign a witchcraft pact! ”

Grimm nodded with satisfaction and grabbed it with his bare hands, agglomerating from the void a purely flame-constituted scroll of witchcraft deeds, slowly floating in front of Tory.

Torrey wiped his eyes and carefully read all the terms in front of the scroll, realizing that the contents were identical to what the Grimm mentor had just said, which carefully left his mark of witchcraft on it.

A slight stab sounded, the witchcraft deed scroll turned into a flame disappearing in the air.

“If there's nothing else, you can go down. Torrey, get ready. Come straight here tonight at 7: 00!” Got an experimental subject on schedule, Grimm was clearly in a great mood and smiled a little more on his face than usual.

Several apprentices bowed down at the same time and slowly retreated out.

Alice's eyes turned and snuck out.

It wasn't until an hour later that Alice came back in high spirits, like a little fox eating hens.

“What do you say?” Grimm dropped the book in his hand and lazily asked, “How many have you defeated? ”

“Five! I beat all five down.” Alice scolded arrogantly: “That's not enough for me to take a spoon of their strength together! ”

Grimm frowned when he heard the words: "You didn't hurt that Torrey, did you? ”

“Of course not!” Alice has been in a great mood these days since she got a void stone here at Grimm: “Knowing he has a job to do tonight, I just locked him in a space cage. If he can't move, he'll give up! ”

“What about those?” Grimm curiously asked.

“I beat the shit out of you. Go back and apply the pills!” Alice pinched her little fist like a violent queen.

Grimm turned his head and could well imagine the powerlessness of the crowd in the face of that indestructible space barrier. To be honest, if it weren't for the crushing of the Powerful Demon Puppet, Grimm was simply dreaming of suppressing Alice with his own fire-based talents!

Alice is incredibly aggressive, defensive, and mobile with her counter-intensive spatial talents. With these three points, the average quasi-witch meets Alice, who really wants to be touchy and can't run away.

The guy who fights Alice is waiting for her to fall into tearlessness and scream God shouldn't!

…………

At night, the senior apprentice Torrey arrived at Grim's residence.

And Grim's experiment with him was simple.

A crystal of knowledge to store spiritual power, with ten very special witchcraft symbols hidden in it. And what Torrey needs to do is write them down one by one, and document the physical changes and mental perceptions before and after writing each symbol.

To that end, Grimm has also opened a special secret room for Torrey to carry out this seemingly simple task. Of course, Grimm has secretly installed a number of surveillance crystals in all corners of the Chamber that clearly convey every move of the list to Grimm in the adjacent chamber.

In order to encourage this senior apprentice, chosen as a guinea pig, Grimm promised him three free pharmacology-related books.

So the Torrey walked into the secret room with no hesitation.