Age of Adepts

Chapter 272: Preparation

Angus Wizard's conversation lasted all night.

Grimm also understands the specific rules of the Puppeteer Competition, which can probably be divided into a mixed mode of winning in quantity and a puppet battle mode of winning in quality.

Each Puppeteer's spiritual power is capped, and the number of puppets that can be manipulated at the same time is subject to mental limitations and cannot grow indefinitely. So the first mode of mixing is more of a test of the Puppeteer's spiritual cap and level of puppet control with limited energy.

And the second puppet versus puppet model is the favorite way most puppet masters compete.

Each of the two puppet masters sent his own well-crafted puppets, just like the battle of the human ring. The sophisticated and powerful winner of the puppet.

Of course, this aspect is tested by the puppeteer's skill and experience in making puppets, and powerful puppeteers are always able to give themselves more and more fighting power to the puppets they make. But on the other hand, it's actually testing the economic power of the family behind the Puppeteer.

A terrible puppet made of underground gold, even if the puppeteer who built it is just a messy rookie with rotten technique, can easily dry and flip a dozen masterpieces made of ordinary magic gold.

And according to Angus, the Gritto family that challenged their family this year was searching everywhere for rare puppet metals a few days ago. It is said that in order to win this competition, the other side is secretly building a very special fighting figure, but specific information is not yet available.

Immediately after sending Angus away, Grimm locked himself in the stone room and started studying the puppeteer as a special professional.

Of course, the Puppeteer is just a more general term. If subdivided, I'm afraid there's still a dozen different branches of the Puppeteer genre. And what they make covers statues, puppets, assemblies, mechanical beasts, alchemy, living creatures, elemental puppets, magical machines...

Differences between them may not be distinguishable at all in the eyes of outsiders, but in the eyes of the puppeteers, there are huge differences inherently.

There is a huge difference between a puppet made by a pseudo-puppeteer named Grimm and an ordinary puppet and statue.

Generally, the most expensive way for a Puppeteer to build a statue or puppet is to use a variety of precious and rare magic metals. They build the inner core of the puppet out of a well-guided magic metal, and then use anaerobic metal to create an indestructible giant body for the puppet.

With human joints, good transmission mechanisms, concealed energy delivery pipelines, and sophisticated control loops… with these, a qualified puppet is created.

The energy source that drives these puppet fights and actions is the energy crystal, the magic crystal, which is embedded in them.

So compared to puppets, these puppets generally have real bodies. What the Puppeteer does more is elaborately design and modify the wizard array inside the puppet to combine it more closely with the puppet, so as to drive such a huge crease of iron that flexibly runs.

And the Demon Puppet, seriously, is just an element puppet.

They did not have a real body at the beginning of the summons, but only one summoning nucleus depicting many sorceress formations. They rely on the free element energy naturally absorbed by the crystal nucleus to extract materials in situ, extract corresponding elemental matter from the surrounding environment, and control them with a witch array to combine them into their own temporary trunks.

If considered solely in terms of combat power, the puppet is certainly not as good as a statue or puppet with a strong body, but the puppet also has an advantage that is difficult for the other party to reach, which is easy to carry.

When not in use, the demon puppet can disperse the temporary body and restore itself to a pigeon egg-sized crystal stone, which can be carried away in his arms. Meanwhile, the statue or magic is a giant metal figure four or five meters tall, weighing more than a dozen tons of terror, and cannot be folded or contracted.

Even if such a puppet is stronger, you can't run around the world with it every day. And driving them to walk, the amount of magic crystals they lose every day is not a small number, let alone consumed in battle.

So battle magic statues and puppets are usually equipped only in fixed witchcraft facilities.

Using them to patrol posts to prevent invasion by foreign enemies is much more efficient than witches or witch guards. You can also rely on the energy pool in your witchcraft facility to recharge when you are free, which can also save a lot of magic crystals.

Grimm has also heard, however, that some of the top puppeteers seem to be able to create a special space witchcraft for storing statues, puppets and calling them puppet amulets. It's just that it's not cheaper to build these doll protectors than it is to build the finest dolls, so it's hard to scale them up and use them only to carry the exquisite, but powerful elite dolls.

Combining these related factors, Grimm still feels the puppet is better suited to him than the puppet.

But now, when he needs to fight an orthodox puppeteer, transportation, prices, etc. can be neglected, and more to consider is their strength.

Both contestants are first-level wizards, and it is not possible to create witchcraft beyond their ranks. At this point, the puppet does not have a sturdy body defect, which is undoubtedly revealed in the confrontation with the metal puppet. So fight each other and avoid touching hard is the only way to win!

Although Grimm has great confidence in his fiery tyrant, he thinks it would be better to prepare some strategic tactics for the fiery tyrant in advance, given the unexpected circumstances. Otherwise, in case you do encounter a horrible golden statue on the field, then the fiery tyrant faces a stubborn, untouchable goose, I'm afraid there is a real possibility of falling into the gully.

Skilled, afraid of knives!

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Wizard time is always precious!

Three days of waiting may be long for ordinary people, but not enough time to take a nap for a wizard immersed in his own research.

Three days later, a new ship arrived, bringing 15 wizards.

So enough floating warships with the right number of wizards set sail without hesitation!

The space inside the buoyancy warships is much larger than on the previous one, but most of the space is reserved for huge quantities of cargo, and the rest needs to carry some of the necessary war witchcraft, so the living space reserved for the witches remains so small.

For the wizards aboard the buoyancy, they are both passengers and protectors of the ship.

Only five wizards from the Silver Coalition are on each floating battleship, and most of them are responsible only for maintenance and management. Once buoyant warships are attacked by monsters as they cross the channel, it is incumbent upon the wizards on board to kill or expel them together with their responsibilities.

In this regard, every wizard aboard has signed a witchcraft contract beforehand.

Silver Union Wizards have the right to expel any Wizard who refuses to contribute when needed. No matter how powerful the wizard is, if he gets thrown off the boat halfway, waiting for his fate is doomed!

When it came to these boarding instructions, Alice muttered with dissatisfaction: "These silver league wizards are way too sophisticated. This is not the same as charging foreign wizards for their boats, but treating them as free bodyguards! ”

Goblin Kabi also nodded vigorously beside him, agreeing.

Grimm laughed, "This is their territory, and of course everything needs to follow their rules. You two need to be careful. When you get to Sky City, you can't just say something offensive. Otherwise, I won't be able to save you if I mess with the Silver Robe Enforcer! ”

The Angus Wizard looked at the threesome in curiosity.

A wizard, a quasi-woman and a strange green goblin!

It is also difficult for such heavenly and earthly hierarchies to come together.

In the world of wizards, only wizards of the same status as themselves deserve equal association. Everything else, either servants or available human resources, does not exist at all.

A wizard may care twice as much for a quasi-witch and a color of pleasure. And this, either the prospective witch is his disciple, or the prospective witch is his immediate blood relative. Other than that, there is no other possibility.

As for the words of a wizard to a green goblin and a color of pleasure, the only possibility is that he doesn't want to frighten the other party and influence his ongoing witchcraft experiment!

But the scene before him is clearly not within his common sense.

The new Grim wizard was apparently communicating with the quasi-witch little girl and the green goblin in a more equal way. This needs to be seen by most wizards, but it is an act of humiliation.

After all, this Grimm has just become a wizard and may not be free from past habits and attitudes of hospitality. When he lives a while and adapts to the life of a wizard, it may change!

Angus was so comforting that he did not take the initiative to correct the Grim's "mistake”.

The cargo required for the floating warships was already ready, and when the number of wizards reached the sailing standard, the wizards who had been waiting for many moments at the airport were boarding the warships.

For the first time in his life, Grimm met so many wizards.

Even in the last frontal war, the Salubo family almost leaned out and could see only twenty or thirty wizards on the battlefield. But today, dressed in all kinds of robes, or leather armor, or special armor, a strange-looking wizard assembled in front of him, quietly and methodically stepped onto a floating warship through a boarding board.

This... brings Grim a shock, which makes his tongue a little dry!

When you live in a small, narrow area, the status of a wizard allows you to enjoy a * * * luxurious life far beyond the aristocracy. In a banquet hall with red, wine and green lights, you are the host of many rivalries, big and small. You are also the object of many delightful ladies and gorgeous ladies.

Drinking beauty, absolute power, it all makes you think you really are the master of the world.

But when you step out of the cage that you weave yourself into, you come here and you realize that you're still as small as you just became an apprentice to witches.