It only took the shortest time for the Alice incident to subside.
Even before most of the apprentices in the tower figured out what happened, the storm passed silently. Not to mention the wizard Anderson who rarely appeared before the apprentices, and even the evil insect Enti who watched the whole process.
Katsuya became taciturn and much quieter.
Regarding Greem's performance, except for Mary who was not surprised at all, the other two were extremely surprised. Especially Entik, it had even reached the point where he was restless.
Although Greem has never openly expressed hostility towards him, as a bloodline apprentice with abnormal development, he prioritizes attacking all potential enemies and strives to create a dominant aggressive position in the circle of his life. This is the right thing to do.
The personal principles that Tik has always adhered to.
In the past, due to the limitations of his personal strength, he had to maintain a relative balance with the other two. However, with this breakthrough in the trial mission, his nature could no longer be suppressed, and he "surrendered" Mad Girl and Eagle early on.
Eye.
If he hadn't witnessed that weird boy's battle, he might still have thought that the balance of victory was more towards his side. Apart from running faster, that Mary was useless in attack and defense, so there was no way she could be his opponent. And that Greem, a mere senior
How big a wave can an apprentice make?
But the battle between Alice and Grim in the birdcage deeply touched Entik.
From that day on, he kept asking himself, if he was the one fighting Greem in the birdcage, could he break through the defenses of the group of elemental puppets and attack Greem? And the answer was obviously that he didn't want to hear it.
Arrived.
From that day on, he became silent!
…………
In a dark secret room.
Entik sat silently in a dark corner wearing a black robe, thinking without saying a word.
The entire secret room only had a magic torch lit on the far wall. The dim and dancing light not only failed to illuminate the space, but instead made the place even more eerie and terrifying.
There is no furniture or furnishings in the secret room, not even common tables, chairs or benches. Even Entik is sitting cross-legged on the cold floor. And behind him, in the dark corner where the light cannot reach, is a bulging mystery.
The cocoon is hanging there.
This place is more like an insect nest than a secret room.
Just beside Entik, countless black beetles were surging on the floor like a tide. Sometimes they ran east, sometimes they ran west, and the sound of their chirping joints rubbing against the floor was endless.
As if affected by these beetles, Entik's body shrouded in black robes also became undulating. It seemed that there were thousands of beetles inside trying to dig out and mix with the same kind outside. Just as these black beetles were making trouble.
When he was speechless, Entik finally raised his head, and two groups of green fireflies lit up under the shadow of his hood.
A sharp hiss sounded in the secret room.
Entik opened his mouth wide, and between his overlapping lips, a strange insect head protruded from it. The insect hissing sound just now came from its mouth.
Hearing this insect hiss, the initially agitated insect tide became calm again. The black beetles gathered around Entik, like subjects worshiping their monarch, crawling quietly, waiting for their master's arrival.
Order.
Entik picked up a black beetle and threw it into his mouth. There was a clear and crisp crunching sound, and the smelly green insect juice overflowed from the opened lips. The pungent smell made the air in the secret room even more polluted.
"Is this the path you chose for yourself? It's really strange!" An old voice suddenly sounded in the secret room.
"Mr. Anderson, you are finally here!" Entik raised his head slightly, seemingly not surprised by the sudden appearance of the voice.
"Did you know I was coming?" The old voice sounded a little surprised, and it turned out to be the voice of Anderson, the owner of the Swamp Tower.
"Of course! As long as you are still the owner of the tower, you will contact me sooner or later!"
"Then you should have guessed the purpose of my coming, right?"
"You want me to help you deal with that Grim!"
"Huh, smart boy, you guessed it right! I really need you to come forward and kill that hateful boy now. I believe this is what you are very happy to do!"
"Then dear Mr. Anderson, may I ask, do you need help from others if you want to kill a senior apprentice? Could it be that if you kill him, what unbearable consequences will it bring to you?" Evil Insect
Entik is obviously not a fool. If he does not understand this key issue, he will not be willing to become a gun in the hands of others!
"That's because I want to continue to control that little vampire. She is the key sample for my next blood research. But with her relationship with that kid, if I take action directly, it will be very difficult for me to control her again.
"Wizard Anderson was silent for a moment, and finally gave his reason.
"Based on that kid's fighting ability yesterday, do you think I can definitely defeat him?" Entik didn't care about Wizard Anderson's reasons, but quickly turned to the next question.
"In my judgment, it's very difficult. If you rely on you alone, you will definitely die. But you seem to have established some kind of evil insect alliance. If you add the power of this alliance, it may be about the same."
"But what's the benefit of doing all this to me? Instead, I will provoke Mary, a would-be witch, in vain!"
"What if I said I could make you stronger?"
"..."
"Your contract partner is that insect mother, right? A carrion beetle insect mother. Haha, such a good opportunity can also come to you. It seems that you have been really lucky!"
"..."
"You are probably worrying about how to improve your strength right now. You have now tied your life to that insect mother. You not only need to bear your own advancement needs, but you also need to bear the advancement needs of the rotting corpse insect mother.
.In this way, the half-insect body will certainly give you an advantage over opponents of the same level, but it will slow you down a lot in terms of advancement speed."
"..."
"Did you swallow one or two quasi-witches in this mission trial? Without such an adventure, you would not have been successfully promoted to quasi-witch. So what happens next? In order to be promoted to a wizard, you are also going to swallow a few wizards.
Can’t make it?”
"Mr. Anderson, I understand what you mean. So do you have any better suggestions for my current situation?"
"Of course you are strengthening yourself!" Anderson's voice reprimanded disdainfully: "Although you and the insect mother are contracted creatures and share life, there is also a problem of dominance. When you become stronger, it will naturally
It is your best servant. But if it evolves faster than you, although you will not have to worry about your life, I am afraid that it will be the real owner of this body for most of the time!"
"So how can I strengthen myself quickly?"
"Jie Jie Jie... Boy, you may have forgotten how I made Mary become what she is today! As long as you join my witchcraft experiment, I guarantee that I can give you a strong body that is by no means weaker than Mary!"
"I agree to this condition. So what do you need me to do?"
"First of all, I need a drop of blood from your insect mother! Only by obtaining its blood can I accurately prepare the alienated blood suitable for your physique."
After thinking silently for a long time, Entik finally nodded in agreement.
As soon as Entik agreed, the Anderson wizard immediately urged him to hand over a drop of the worm mother's blood.
Entik gritted his teeth and opened his lotus-petal-shaped mouth, and the insect head once again exposed half of its body. The insect hissed loudly, and even the black carrion beetles around Entik became violent and agitated.
However, under Entik's pressure, the insect head opened its mouth and spat out a drop of strange, smelly, sticky juice.
The void in the secret room trembled slightly. As soon as the drop of juice left the insect's head, it was supported by a ripple in the void that opened at the right time before it hit the ground. As soon as the teleported light flashed, the juice disappeared inexplicably.
Entik's dense compound eyes shone with light, apparently secretly frightened by Wizard Anderson's tight control over the tower.
"Boy, you are very wise! Well, with this thing, I will be able to prepare alienated blood very quickly. When you also have vampire blood, that's when you will shine!"
Sensing the powerful spiritual power of Wizard Anderson, he slowly exited the secret room, and the evil insect Entik once again covered himself in the boundless darkness. In the shadow where no one could pry into it, the chirping insect screamed.
It didn't stop, and I didn't know what he and the insect mother were having a heated exchange with.
The whole space is filled with an eerie atmosphere!
…………
After returning to his residence, Greem once again entered that closed life circle.
Deep meditation, reading books, witchcraft experiments... these boring activities have become his basic daily routine. Somehow, a deep sense of crisis enveloped Greem's body and mind, urging him to continuously accumulate knowledge.
, strengthen yourself.
He had a feeling that if he didn't run with all his strength, something terrible would happen to him. Although it was difficult to explain where and who this sense of crisis came from, Greem was convinced of it.
And he actually took action.
Moreover, the continuous study of witchcraft for several days also brought him great benefits. The witchcraft books accumulated in the past were summarized and organized by the chip, and they were all transformed into occult sciences that he could understand and call at any time in his mind.
The knowledge filled the basic gaps in his fire witchcraft.
Therefore, unknowingly, the flame shield and high-temperature force field became his possession, and the mastery of the body in flames also increased from 37% to 41%.
Seriously speaking, at this moment, Greem's basic theory of the fire system is in no way inferior to that of any official wizard!