Age of Adepts

Chapter 501 lifting a stone in order to drop it on one's own foot

The hiding place in Billis is underground.

It is a chain cave, 10 metres deep beneath the ground, which involves both the prisoner's cell and the warehouse where the spoils of war are stored, although many more are breeding rooms with temporary stamps.

The air circulation in the hole is not very good because the vent opens too concealed. Plus, breeding warworms requires a lot of fresh blood, so as soon as Father came in, Grimm felt the filth and smell of the air in the hole.

Billis is a bug witch who transforms herself into an immortal body, so things like air, water, and food are not as indispensable as when you're a human being. Billis therefore has little sense of the harsh environment in which he lives.

However, he did not care, but the Goblin prisoners held in prison could not fail.

In such a lack of clothing, humid and dull atmosphere, all slightly weaker sperm will die in the shortest possible time, leaving some extremely strong individuals behind. Unfortunately, the massive deaths of the elite prisoners of war still do not give rise to any concern in Billis.

Dead goblins will be thrown into the nest to become food for larvae to evolve without wasting a penny. If the blood reserves are too low, go to the goblin settlements and pillage some more, there are plenty of them anyway. So he never had to worry about the loss of blood food, and he wouldn't even consider improving the living conditions of the prisoners so that they could live longer.

Of course, prisoners at different levels also enjoy different levels of treatment, and those who are also notorious in the goblins have been singled out by him and held in solitary confinement in the Albatross. Even in order to avoid their premature death, Billis chose several natives to serve them.

This included a senior geotechnical engineer, two mechanics and two lower officers of the 7th Marine Corps, who he had captured in the town of Beta.

As a result of Billis' torture, the goblins also revealed some information on a continuous basis. However, they are limited in knowledge, and the information provided is fragmented, making it difficult to pry into the real secrets within the Empire.

So Billis hasn't disposed of them, so he waits until the master arrives to decide their fate.

Grimm expressed great appreciation for the rigour of Billis and interrogated the goblins from the very first moment they arrived in the secret cave.

As can be seen, these goblins suffered the greatest and most horrific shock of their lives during these days in secret caves. Every day, slaves of all races are seen and heard being taken from their cells and thrown into the nests of horrors filled with death hills.

The cries of slaves before their death and the sound of larvae eating flesh and bones almost never cut off, haunting their ears every moment of every day. Though the images of larvae eating are invisible, they can hear, smell and lift their minds.

Watching one's companion dragged away every day, there was no turning back, listening to the murky horror every day, smelling the dirty air with the smell of heavy blood and acid rotting liquid every day… no sperm could stand such an environment.

Many goblins do not starve or die of boredom, but live to be scared to death by this horrible atmosphere!

So when Grimm interrogated the nobles of these lands, he found that they spoke incessantly and were insanely insane. Even if Grimm mastered the generic language of this topography through witchcraft, he could barely understand what they were talking about.

But unlike Billis, Grimm doesn't really care about so-called top-level secrets. Instead of questioning the origin of the magic battery or the internal secrets of the magic armor, he repeatedly questioned the everyday life of some of the goblins and the ruling structure of the great empire of the sperm, as well as the basic ways in which the State and the army function.

These things, though trivial and too fragmented, have a considerable benefit for the operating system in which Grimm spells out the entire geophysical location. There is no fear that intelligence is too trivial, because under the guidance of the chip, every question Grimm asks is at the core of building a geostationary operating system.

These, too, are commonly known as universal common sense and humanistic ideologies, which are almost never regarded as high-ranking secrets of the precise survival of any relationship.

So when an intelligence becomes data flow into his brain, that strangely magnified empire, which was cloud-shielded, slowly shows its basic contours.

Unfortunately, however, the number of geodesies here is still small, so the vast majority of the contours of this geologically enlarged empire are still in the fog, and only through the fuzzy information of one and a half paws can it be slowly deduced what its core information may be.

The so-called Magic Battery Grimm was also identified as belonging to an energy application system completely different from that of the wizard world. But in it, Grimm still discovered a little something that seemed familiar, elementary character literature!

At the knighthood level, the indigenous people there are able to invent a symbol that combines the power of the Demon Crystal with their own life energy to create a unique system of advanced hunter knights. Of course, the push behind the Dragon Clan is also important.

And in this geological position, the weak little goblins of the body actually rely on the accumulation of knowledge and technology to invent more primitive sperm guns. This has led to their initial liberation from the status of weak and small races and their emergence into the top ten intelligent races.

And it is the birth of magic that makes the finest of the earth stand out and forces other races to become dominators!

Early spells were simple, coarse, semi-metal puppets that were driven by a small number of magic stones in the face. Release the energy inside by burning magic stones and drive the steam unit so that it drives the mechanical gear so that these big guys can move.

Of course, there are many problems with this approach, so early magic actions are slow and foolish, and the technology is simple and crude enough to be invisible. But with such primitive magic, supplemented by a staggering number of guns, the goblins laid the ground for their son.

Although the sperm surface is low, some natural magic stones may still exist in some local environments. So the goblins beat the mighty clans one after the other with their powerful legions of magic, and then forcibly enslaved them to mine for themselves, to dig for metal ore, to dig for those rare magic stones.

As for the advent of magic batteries, which has been happening for almost a hundred years, some engineers of the Enlightened Empire seem to have been guided by mysterious figures from outside the realm to apply some of the mythical knowledge gained to the magic.

As a result, a huge space furnace was built near the capital of the Empire, capable of continuously extracting magical energy from the void and encapsulating it into special crystal prisms. And that's where Grimm got these magic batteries.

Although these magic batteries are too harsh and wild to be more dangerous than magic stones, there is no quantitative limit. So with magic batteries, the Enchanted Empire was freed from its dependence on magic stones, thus giving the Enchanted tribe an inexhaustible source of energy.

And with the advent of magic batteries, the Empire of Geodesy has begun to emerge more and more new types of weapons and equipment associated with it, and overall strength has climbed wildly at an unprecedented rate. However, the 7th Army Corps that Grimm is currently exposed to remains a local guard unit and is therefore not equipped with the latest magic.

To be honest, the more you hear from these spells, the more ominous Grimm has a feeling.

Especially when a senior geotechnical engineer named Beirut painted a sketch of a magical mechanic on paper, Grimm's ominous hunch reached its extreme point. In storing magic, drawing magic, and applying magic in the Great Empire of the Magnificent, Grimm sees too much of the same or similar content as witchcraft symbols.

This undoubtedly made him unable to help but begin to think together.

You know, two completely different worlds, without interconnected channels, can't have exactly the same magic rune.

In terms of the chivalry facade characters that Grimm once acquired, the characters that represent the flames, while functional identical or similar to the flame characters of the wizard world, are completely different in character writing. The inscriptions of every world exist in a form that conforms to the ordinance of position.

So the laws of the world are different, and the symbols of the laws are different!

But Grimm saw too many symbols from the world of witches in the sketch of the project outlined by Beirut. Although they have all been slightly altered by artificial distortions, many iconic origin symbols still exist and are so clear.

Especially when Grimm heard that Beirut spoke of Prince Gazruwi, the ‘father of magic’ of the great empire, in a super admirable tone, his face couldn't help but twitch a little.

Gazruwi... Gazruwi... Gazruwi...

Who knows that name better than Grimm?

He was able to break in here with Billis and Mary, thanks to the ‘Grand Duke’ of Gazruwi. No, it is no longer the Grand Duke, but the noblest, greatest geotechnical engineer and alchemist and inventor of the Enlightened Empire, and the only prince of the Enlightened Empire without royal blood.

Legend has it that this goblin prince, with his intelligent mind, suddenly invented these magical symbols that could change the fate of the empire. Had it not been for the tradition of the Goblin, only royal blood would have climbed the throne of the King, otherwise it would have been unknown that this Gazruwi would have become the Lord of the Great Goblin.

Damn...... Damn...... Damn......

Grimm asked Billis to bring the goblins back down, and he walked back and forth restlessly in this tiny cave.

It was only at this point that he understood why, after promotion to the ranks of wizards, exchanging knowledge with the heretics was a top taboo in the Wizards' Code issued by the Wizards' Association. In the past, he, 'childhood ignorance’, only knew that elementary character literature in the world of witches belonged to the basics of shitty streets, which was not a top secret.

That's why Gazruwi was traded 'fairly’ through Kabi.

This exchange seemed undoubtedly ‘cheap' on one side at the time, but now it seems really stupid!

And more importantly, I actually created a huge problem for myself 70 years ago!

Super big trouble!