If you were a human being, perhaps half of your life would disappear like this. But for wizards with a basic life span of two to three hundred years, it would only be 14 or less of their life.
As for those who have alienated their bodies and embarked on the path of bloodline mutation or elemental transformation, their life spans can be as long as four to five hundred years. And it is not surprising that vampires like Mary can even live for a thousand years.
The same throne of fire, the same wizard tower.
But the wizard apprentice living inside has undergone earth-shaking changes.
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Horus.
A senior apprentice affiliated to the Witch Tower of the Flame Throne.
He has a fair face, a tall and strong body, and wears a gray apprentice robe all year round.
As an outsider, he was recommended to the tower by a sojourn wizard twenty years ago. The sojourn wizard was also his only relative in this world.
But unfortunately, during a mysterious expedition invitation, his wizard elders did not return successfully. Therefore, Horus, who lost his supporter, could only live alone in this mysterious and unfamiliar wizard tower.
Inside.
Fortunately, the owner of this tower is wise and kind. Although he looks a little wretched, he has created a relaxed and excellent learning and living environment for Wuta apprentices. Perhaps it is because his recommender used to be
For the sake of a sojourning wizard, Horus was also a librarian.
In this way, even if he does not have to follow the mercenary team to adventure in the black forest, he can easily get 30 magic crystal income and 10 contribution points every month. This is enough for him to live comfortably in the Witch Tower!
In the Flame Throne Witch Tower, there are seven or eight other guys with similar status to him, most of them are wizard apprentices who have no other place to go and simply regard this tower as their permanent home.
Unfortunately, an overly comfortable life can easily slow down their witchcraft mastery speed and spell proficiency. Therefore, many of them are stuck in the position of advanced apprentices and have not made progress for many years.
Many times, Horus couldn't help but secretly wonder whether he should give up this comfortable life and follow the example of the combat apprentices, following the mercenary team deep into the dark forest, under the fangs and claws of the monsters.
Sharpen your fighting skills.
In the past ten years, only one quasi-witch has successfully been promoted to wizard and became the ninth tower-resident wizard in the Flame Throne Witch Tower. However, as many as three quasi-witches died during the promotion ceremony. Horu
Si only attended the funerals of two of them. The third one's family was too far away from the Wu Pagoda, and he had a part-time job in the Wu Pagoda, so he could not go to see his 'partner' off in person.
And this has become one of the main reasons why Horus has been depressed for the past six months.
The success rate for apprentices to be promoted to wizards has always been low. For every four or five would-be wizards, it is already very good if one can be successfully promoted.
The Flame Throne Witch Tower maintains a rate of one advanced wizard appearing every ten years. To the outside world, this is already a completely amazing number!
The current Flame Throne Witch Tower has a total of 9 resident wizards and 12 resident wizards. This number is enough to overwhelm more than half of the wizard towers in the central part of the continent.
And many wizards also attracted many wizard apprentices.
The current Flame Throne Witch Tower has a total of 215 wizard apprentices, including 17 quasi-witches, 78 senior apprentices, and several intermediate and junior apprentices...
Due to the sufficient number of wizards and the various fields of witchcraft they specialize in, almost all known basic witchcraft courses in the wizarding world are offered in the witch tower. And every two or three days, there will be a master class that is completely open to the public.
These masters are powerful wizards with enviable achievements in certain fields. For example, the Witch of Mary, who is good at close combat, talks about the attack skills of combat wizards. For example, the Witch of Endor, who is good at mixing poisons, talks about voodoo.
Witchcraft and poison science, such as the strange-looking wizard Billis tells about entomology, such as the gentle and beautiful Meryl Witch tells about instant witchcraft skills, such as the mechanical wizard Sabrina whose body has been mostly alienated.
The other one is a magical machine structure...
Horus, on the other hand, was fortunate enough to have close contact with all the wizards of the Witch Tower, and was deeply grateful for the power of the wizards.
However, recently, something has been deeply troubling Horus.
That is, Wizard Ava, who is responsible for teaching magical botany, suddenly stopped teaching, canceled several open classes in the academic hall, and disappeared without a trace. This undoubtedly triggered several apprentices who were studying this knowledge.
Notice.
And Horus was obviously one of them.
The wizard Gargamel has not shown up for several days. Maybe I can ask about wizard Ava next time I see him...
Horus was diligently organizing the library while thinking silently.
However, little did he know that at this moment, on the fifth floor of the Wizard Tower, a strange event that had almost never appeared in the Wizarding World was being fiercely 'underway'...
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5th floor of Wu Tower.
A small secret room was isolated as a temporary 'delivery room', and the heart-rending screams constantly affected the emotions of the people present.
Like an ordinary human husband, Gargamel, who was thin and gaunt and resembled a large mouse, twirled his beard and hurriedly walked around outside the secret room. He raised his foot several times to break in but put it down hesitantly.
At this moment, the person hiding in the 'delivery room' was giving birth to the forest demon Ava, who had been pregnant for 69 years. She was also the cold, beautiful, yet mysterious Ava wizard in the eyes of the apprentices of the witch tower.
At this moment, the witches in the witch tower, Mary, Meryl, Endor and Sabrina, were busy coming in and out of the delivery room.
However, although they all have witchcraft knowledge that far exceeds that of human savants, and they are far more ruthless than the Bloody Hand Butcher, they are helpless when faced with the strange half-human, half-demon fetus in the body of the forest demon Ava, and even
Many times she was even more panicked than Ava, who was screaming in pain at the top of her lungs.
The fetus in Ava's body has obviously gone beyond the scope of normal life. The basic characteristics of half human and half demon make it a strange life form that is difficult for outsiders to define. Therefore, the method of delivering the baby has become a matter of several questions.
'Midwives' The biggest headache for witches!
But what gave a few people even more headaches was that this strange little life seemed to be in some kind of crazy growth stage. When it was about to mature and fall out of Ava's abdomen, it actually pulled out more than a dozen pod-like bodies from its long and narrow body.
A fleshy filament pierced into various parts of the body of the forest demon Ava, frantically absorbing the opponent's life force.
Seeing that Ava's vitality continued to decline and her life was in danger, Mary immediately suggested a forced caesarean section to take out this 'mischievous' little guy. However, this proposal was directly rejected by Ava, who was in great pain.
As the mother of a strange life form, she can sense that this life backlash is crucial to the future development of the little life. Whether it pauses or interrupts this process, it will have a huge impact on its future that is irreparable.
So... out of the desire to give birth to offspring, the forest demon Ava stopped everyone from intervening, and even called Gargamel into the delivery room and began to explain the funeral arrangements.
Faced with this embarrassing situation of being unable to hit, scold, or do anything to help, several witches and wizards could only continue to fetch bottles of life potions, trying their best to maintain the life of the forest demon Ava.
But the effect was minimal.
Therefore, stand-in dolls, false life potions, damage reduction rings... these various witchcraft items were all used at once, but they still could not stop the decline of Ava's vitality.
Although Gargamel was extremely sad about this scene, he also understood Ava's mood. So he never dared to mention the forced removal of the fetus. He could only beat his head and take it out of his waist bag from time to time.
Ava takes some weird potions or plants.
Watching your lover slowly die with your own eyes is simply the most terrifying torture in the world!
Bliss, who had been watching with cold eyes, was now an elite wizard. As a bloodthirsty and cruel insect wizard, he was obviously very puzzled by the irrational behavior of everyone.
Is there any value in preserving a descendant of Lord Devourer?
There is simply no second answer to this question in his mind!
In his eyes, all the creatures in the world are either objects that he can prey on, or slaves that he can drive. How could he sacrifice himself to others and give up his life to a completely stranger descendant!
This is completely beyond the scope of his insect wizard's thinking and understanding!
As for Amn and Desera, who later joined the ranks of Wuta wizards, they could only wait for the results silently and were not qualified to interfere with the decisions of these veteran wizards.
Amn was promoted to wizard 50 years ago, and he was also the second quasi-witch among Grim's disciples to be promoted to wizard after Meryl. As for the other two quasi-witch disciples in Greem's older batch, Torre and Lin
Na, one died directly due to the failure of promotion, and the other also lost nearly 80% of his vitality after the failure, sadly returned to the family and there was no news after that.
Since Greem had completely sealed himself off, he almost never accepted any apprentices after Am and others. Therefore, the unexpectedly promoted wizard Desera was actually a disciple of wizard Meryl.
With this calculation, this wizard Desera can already be regarded as the third generation wizard of the Throne of Fire!
"No, we can't drag it on like this!" Meryl briefly estimated the speed of Ava's vitality shrinking, and couldn't help but said anxiously: "Ms. Mary, you'd better inform Teacher Grim! Maybe... maybe...
What solution can he come up with..."
Gargamel, who was almost wiping off his goatee under his chin, suddenly raised his head, and his pupils as big as soybeans shone with hope.
Yes, if you go to the master, maybe, maybe... he will come up with some feasible solutions!
However, just as Mary opened her mouth to prophesy, a deep and deep voice suddenly sounded in the secret room.