Even during the day, the bright sunshine cannot penetrate the low clouds and gloomy fog, making this place feel a touch of human warmth.
Muddy, filthy, smelly water pools can be seen everywhere. There is not much water, but there are quite a lot of strange parasitic creatures in them. Whenever a stranger breaks into this place, this silent and desolate place will instantly turn into a scavenging and bloodthirsty creature.
A paradise. Vampire vines, carrion crows, swamp crocodiles and ugly hags that look like drowned people. Each of them is a terrifying monster that business travelers in the past avoid.
However, in the middle of this swamp that no living person can set foot on, a terrifying tower standing a hundred meters high stood strangely.
This is a tall stone tower.
Its tower base is entirely made of thick and dense Qinghui stones. Whenever night falls, the entire tower will emit a cool and quiet light radiant fluorescence, which is particularly favored by ghosts and resentful spirits.
Perhaps due to the lack of necessary maintenance and care, the entire bottom of the tower is entangled with wildly growing demonic vines, which are covered with wooden spikes full of metallic luster. If ordinary people are entangled by such demonized vines,
In less than half a moment, the blood in the body will be sucked out, and it will become one of the thick white bones at the root of the vine.
As soon as it got dark, candles were lit in the tower.
The dim candlelight shines through the narrow window. Not only does it not bring any warmth to people, but it actually makes people feel a chill in their hearts.
Greem, who had just celebrated his 15th birthday, was sitting in front of a dilapidated wooden table. A heavy spell book was spread out in front of him, and he was copying it silently. Although there were already two people who came to this new world.
It's been years, but the discomfort in his soul still makes him have headaches from time to time.
During a period of mental trance, scenes and scenes that had happened on the earth in the past kept flashing before his eyes, making his pen tip pause slightly, leaving a large ball of ink on the simple parchment.
Damn it, failed again!
Greem frowned and couldn't help but clenched his fist fiercely, wanting to shout angrily. But after enduring it for a long time, he finally suppressed the anger.
This place is no longer the earth he is familiar with, and this body once belonged to a wizard apprentice named Greem. To be honest, he is just a time traveler who occupied Greem's nest at the moment of his unexpected death.
With empty hands, he traveled from a low-demon earth to a high-demon world where monsters are rampant and wizards dominate. This difficult adaptation process made Li Xun miserable. But fortunately, the memory fragments left behind in this body allowed Li Xun to fuse with him.
, he has initially acquired basic language and writing skills, otherwise the weird grammatical pronunciation and completely alternative tadpole-shaped characters in this world alone would torture him half to death.
But even so, the headaches that appeared from time to time still bothered him deeply.
Here, he never dared to reveal his true identity, but could only bear the name of Greem and work hard to survive in this wizard tower.
Although being a wizard apprentice under Master Anderson, this glorious status is already worthy of the envy of most people. But only the people living in this tower know that this is not only not an honor, but the most terrifying torture in the world.
and torture.
As wizard apprentices, their basic job is to diligently take care of the daily life of the great Master Anderson, clean the witchcraft experimental equipment, keep the tower clean, take care of the demonized animals and plants outside the tower, and... and become Anderson
The master's experimental subject.
Although this kind of thing is not common, when the convoy transporting slaves or death row prisoners arrives a few days late, Master Anderson, who lacks experimental subjects, becomes irritated and orders an apprentice to serve as his temporary guinea pig.
It is said that Mary, who is from Ant County next door, was "lucky" to be Master Anderson's witchcraft experiment collaborator last month. Although she did not die in that witchcraft experiment, her body was also seriously "contaminated" and caused
Some terrible mutations. Ever since she came out of the laboratory, she had put on a heavy burqa and hid in her room every day, never coming out again.
Many wizard apprentices were talking privately that Mary might have died in the room.
But Grim knew that Mary was still alive.
Because every time it was quiet at night, he could hear the painful and depressing low sound of the next room, as well as the terrifying sound of sharp claws scraping against the rock wall. For this reason, every time it was quiet at night, he would sneak himself back there.
Food is thrown into the next room.
Although Greem's life is precarious, out of a trace of compassion in his nature, he is still willing to do some more humane things within his own ability.
The migraine that happened from time to time today really happened at the wrong time. It happened when he was copying books. It made him unlucky enough to waste a piece of parchment.
Don't underestimate this simple piece of crumpled parchment. Its basic value is 2 silver coins. In today's magical world, the most commonly used currency is of course wizard gold coins. One wizard gold coin can be exchanged for 10 silver coins, and one wizard gold coin can be exchanged for 10 silver coins.
A silver coin can be exchanged for 10 copper coins, and 5 copper coins can provide a commoner with food and clothing for a day.
So in this conversion, a piece of seemingly ordinary parchment can already be regarded as a huge sum of money for the civilian class. But here, it is just garbage that the wizard apprentice can throw away.
Nothing is free in the Wizard's Tower.
Greem had to earn his daily food and drink, including the cost of learning witchcraft, on his own, and the only way to make money was to go out of the wizard tower, feed those ferocious and cruel demonized creatures, and take care of those eerie and weird demonized plants.
, to collect some witchcraft materials specified by the wizard and clean up some dangerous witchcraft areas in the tower.
Although when doing these tasks, they will wear witchcraft amulets handmade by the wizard, which can avoid touching the witchcraft circles around the tower. However, in this mysterious and strange world, no work can be absolutely safe. Every job cannot be absolutely safe.
Every one or two months, there will always be a few unlucky people who are devoured by demonized animals and plants while taking care of them, or die of witchcraft radiation for no apparent reason while cleaning a certain witchcraft area.
Therefore, many times, the relatively leisurely and comfortable jobs in the tower are monopolized by the experienced wizard apprentices. The remaining weak wizard apprentices can only choose more dangerous jobs in order to earn money and knowledge points with difficulty to continue.
Your own witchcraft learning.
Of course, money is used to purchase some biological supplies, and knowledge points are a value system specifically formulated by the wizard to purchase knowledge. In the library inside the tower, every witchcraft book is clearly marked with a price.
Different knowledge points are received, while borrowing books only accepts knowledge points, but not money.
Apprentices can only borrow the books they need for a short period of time if they work hard to earn knowledge points. This time is definitely not enough for apprentices to master all the knowledge in the books, so most apprentices develop the habit of copying books.
habits.
For every witchcraft book borrowed, the apprentices will try to copy down the knowledge they need in the shortest possible time for continuous study in the future. Copying requires ink and parchment, but these are not free.
, they require money to purchase.
Of course, if a wizard apprentice has a good family background, then he can exchange a lot of money for knowledge points. The conversion ratio between them is 1 knowledge point = 100 gold coins.
The book "Devilized Creatures" that Greem borrowed today requires three knowledge points, and the borrowing time is only half a day. With Greem's copying speed, he wants to completely write the book.
, it is initially estimated that it will be possible to borrow it at least 3 times.
This adds up to 9 knowledge points, and these 9 knowledge points require Greem to leave the tower for 2 consecutive weeks to earn them.
So it was not a pity for him to waste a piece of parchment due to a migraine attack, but it was a pity that he wasted two hours of copying time. This was the main reason why he was so angry!
Just when Greem was trying hard to mobilize all his strength to suppress this angry emotion and prevent it from affecting his subsequent transcription, a familiar "beep" sound suddenly sounded in his mind.
"Hey, the biological energy has reached the standard, and the biological auxiliary chip number zxj9521 has started..."
Grim exclaimed in surprise.
"Bio-assisted chip!"
Once upon a time, during the difficult years at the beginning of time travel, Greem fantasized more than once that he could become a great god who could travel through other worlds with an artifact in hand. He punched Nanshan Nursing Home, kicked Beihai Kindergarten, and knocked down everyone under one meter.
, in the morgue, he stamped his feet and said, "Stand up if you don't accept it!" No one dared to breathe...
It's a pity that this damn chip that has been integrated with him has no movement except for giving him occasional migraines. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly... it finally started today!
After the noisy debugging sound passed, a beautiful androgynous female voice echoed in Greem's mind.
"Host detected, data modeling in progress... Please wait..."
Hey, it can also energize the current body? This is something worth looking forward to!
After all, we are now in a high-demon world, and the plane space is filled with a kind of magical substance called elemental particles. These elemental particles are divided into earth, fire, water, scenery, light and darkness according to the different basic elements of the plane.
and other basic particles.
A wizard usually has varying degrees of affinity for these basic particles, which results in many different factions. And precisely because the power system here is completely different from that on Earth, how to standardize and quantify the known data?
This has become the biggest problem that troubles Greem the most.