The arrival of Meryl and his entourage undoubtedly made the Wu Tower lively.
Moreover, they also brought a large amount of living supplies and daily necessities, which greatly supplemented the shortcomings of the Wu Pagoda.
After releasing the lower level authority and allowing the disciples and apprentices to slowly transform the first and second floors of the Witch Tower, Greem hid in the living room on the fourth floor with Kirby and Meryl to discuss the later matters.
In front of Meryl, Goblin Kirby handed a belt bag to Grim, which contained exactly the 120,000 magic crystals it had mentioned before. But this time, it bluntly admitted it.
It was passed on by Alice through the Witch Chamber of Commerce.
"Alice would not send someone to deliver such a large amount of magic crystals for no reason. Apart from these, what else did she say?" Greem had a vague premonition.
"The people she sent also said that you should be careful of monster attacks!" This time it was Meryl who answered.
Her words also shocked Grim, and then he lowered his head and thought deeply.
Monster is coming?
Others may not understand what this means, but when Grim heard this reminder, some 'interesting' stories mentioned in past books immediately came to mind.
In the process of competing for land between the major wizarding forces and the Black Forest, there are definitely many examples of monster attacks.
It seems that the monsters living in the black forest stubbornly believe that human beings' actions to open up the forest will profoundly affect the environment where they live and bring various negative effects to them. Therefore, once they discover that humans have entered their territory, they will launch unscrupulous attacks.
Attack, and sometimes even gather together, to attack human gathering points on the outskirts of the Black Forest in a planned manner.
In the past, Greem only regarded it as a land dispute between human wizards and monster lords. He believed that as long as he was careful and did not touch the territories of powerful monsters around him, he would not incur a strong backlash from them.
But today, after receiving a reminder from Alice, Grim had to reconsider the possibility of a monster attack!
Since he came to Sickwood Forest, he has been hiding deep underground and rarely goes out, and he is even less likely to invade the territory of surrounding monsters. So what makes the monster lords intolerable to his existence?
Others may not be able to answer this question, but Greem has a vague understanding.
Wizard Tower!
With the establishment of the witch tower, it will inevitably extract the free magic energy in the surrounding environment to maintain its own operation. This also creates an artificial flow of magic power!
The distribution of magic elements is also very limited. If the witch tower extracts more, the magic elements in the area around the witch tower will be correspondingly thinner. This change is difficult for ordinary jungle beasts to perceive, but for
For monsters with mysterious abilities, it is as clear as looking at the lines on the palm of your hand.
Seriously speaking, monsters are also magical creatures that are born from rich magical elements. They are extremely sensitive to the flow and changes of elemental particles. How could they allow an outsider to plunder crazily around their territory?
To make a living from magical elements?
So when the elemental altar is activated, I'm afraid this witch tower will become the target of the collective resentment and hatred of the surrounding monster lords!
When Grim figured this out, he immediately summoned Gargamel and asked him to come forward and contact Ava, the forest demon who had been wandering around the Sickwood Forest. Sure enough, half a day later, the forest demon sent back a message that the surrounding monsters had indeed appeared.
The strange movements seemed to be slowly moving towards the sick wood forest.
Only then did Greem understand why Alice went to all the trouble to send someone to send 120,000 magic crystals. It was not to support his tower construction, but to support his tower defense!
So far, the Wuta Elemental Altar has been operating for a day and a night, but the liquid magic energy accumulated in the central elemental pool has not even covered the bottom of the pool. This is not to mention the branch elemental pools on the lower level and the mana pool on the lower level. They
There is still a dense mist of magical energy inside, which is not rich enough to form a magical liquid.
Now most of the free magic elements absorbed by the witch tower every day are used to maintain and transform the space environment inside the witch tower. Only a small part of the remaining energy can be introduced into the elemental pool and precipitated. If monsters attack, the witch tower will be destroyed.
The entire defense system must be propped up. By then... I'm afraid that just absorbing the free magic elements will no longer make ends meet.
Greem asked Chip to do the statistics.
If the Witch Tower closes all non-essential witchcraft facilities and rune witchcraft arrays, then the magic elements gathered in the Elemental Altar every day will probably be condensed into 27-28 magic crystals. But in this way, it will be equivalent to allowing the tower wizard and
Apprentices have to endure the harsh environment around them.
Without the air-sealing windows, the protection of the witch tower, and the environmental regulation, the underground world where the witch tower is located is so dry and hot, yet so lonely and desolate that it may be difficult for any individual to endure it!
And if the witch tower protection is running, 12-15 magic crystals will be needed in this aspect. If related witchcraft facilities are enabled, the consumption of 20-22 magic crystals will become essential.
After all, there are many witchcraft secret doors, protective witch formations, warning runes and detection crystals in the tower. When these things are running, they also consume the magic energy inside the witch tower. If you take into account the witch beasts and demons that may be possessed in the later stage,
Like constructs and witchcraft gardens, the energy consumption of the witch tower will be even more terrifying!
The idea of relying on the Witch Tower to slowly accumulate magic crystals to make a profit is simply childish and ridiculous.
This is also one of the main reasons why most witch towers only activate the lowest level of witch tower protection during peacetime!
Once a war breaks out and the defense system of the witch tower is fully activated, then... the witch tower will instantly become a gold-devouring powerhouse. The speed at which it swallows up magic crystals can make the tower owner, the wizard, cry bitterly.
The situation that Greem is facing at the moment is that other witch towers may still have dozens or even hundreds of years of magical energy reserves. But his witch tower is so poor that even a clean warehouse will starve to death. And the most critical thing is
Greem has no magic crystal reserves, and the entire Witch Tower has been in a state of "Feng Guo Run"!
Can such a witch tower also fight?
Weighing the magic crystals brought by Kirby in his hand, Greem immediately understood their weight.
This is not a magic crystal, it is clearly the fate of the witch tower under his feet!
If he was the only one in the room at this moment, he would have the urge to cry. But at this moment, the two direct subordinates were staring at him closely. No matter how much anger and grievance he felt, Greem could only hold it in.
I slowly digested it in my heart.
Grim smiled lightly. (Actually, he wanted to cry!)
"Things are not that bad!" Greem held his hand on his forehead and thought seriously: "First of all, this witch tower is not on the surface and will not be so easily attacked by wild beasts. In this way, even if the monsters drive away a large number of wild beasts, they
It’s also easy to get lost in the dark underground maze that extends in all directions. It’s easy to establish the first line of defense there!”
"Secondly, this is just the edge of the Black Forest, so it is unlikely that level 2 monsters will appear. If it is just a group of level 1 monsters, with the defense of the witch tower, we may be able to counterattack well, and maybe we can get some additional gains."
"The most important point is that there is a sea of lava beneath our feet. If I are angered and the power of the witch tower is mobilized to extract the magma and inject it into this cave group, how much fighting power will the incoming monster have left?"
Through rational analysis and judgment of the battle situation, Greem listed the advantages and disadvantages of the battle one by one, and surprisingly found that he did not seem to be completely beaten. It was also at this moment that Greem suddenly woke up, Alice
I strongly support my purpose of coming here to build the tower.
This is indeed an excellent area that is completely suitable for your own development!
First of all, there are no large wizard families in the surrounding area, and there are no overly terrifying monsters, which avoids troubles during the rise of Greem. Secondly, there is a hidden volcanic lava sea under the Sickwood Forest, which is very important for Greem's future growth.
The significance is absolutely extraordinary.
As long as he can resist the attack of this wave of monsters, then when the light of the witch tower shines on the nearby mountains and forests, this dark forest will become his territory. If the monsters cannot drive him out, then they can only leave sadly.
Here, go further to resettle your home.
There are not many safe areas in the black forest for them to move to, so even for the sake of their own tribe, this group of monsters who usually don't get along will gather together to attack Greem's witch tower crazily.
So Greem will soon face an extremely difficult battle for guardianship!
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Stone hammer ruins.
In a weathered stone forest 30 miles east of the Diseased Wood Forest.
The forest demon Ava stands alone on a tall stone pillar. The surrounding weathered and damaged stone pillars are thick or thin, tall or short.
Standing on the stone pillar and looking around, the surroundings are a monotonous world composed of yellow and black. Countless canyons, caves, and stone forests are covered by the black forest sea, forming extremely complex terrains, which have also become the natural habitat of monsters.
place.
In the darkness, there are countless dangerous people hiding in the shadows and caves, silently peeping here.
Under the summons of Tula, the most senior demon-hunting spider, all the wizard-level monster leaders in the nearby mountains and forests have gathered here to discuss intensely the group of human wizards who have appeared in the Manticore territory in recent days.
They are all deeply aware of the magical changes that have occurred around the Sickwood Forest recently.
The abnormal vibration and loss of magic elements has posed a serious threat to all monsters present. Even many veteran monsters can insist that human wizards have built a witch tower there, otherwise they cannot explain the magic in the black forest.
abnormal changes.
Witch Tower!
At the mention of this name, all the monsters' expressions could not help but change slightly.
This... is a name that all monsters hate and fear!
Because hearing it means that the monsters have to pay a huge price for it.