Trials in the Wizarding Age

killer tree

It's a spooky magical swamp.

Even during the day, the warm sunlight cannot penetrate through the heavy fog, so the light here is slightly dim, and the background color of the entire environment is more bleak and earthy.

In such an environment for a long time, even a person's character will become much darker.

When the stone door closed slowly behind them, Tony pulled up his hood and said coldly.

"I'm going over there!"

Without waiting for Grim to answer, he turned and walked down the narrow road on his left, which was covered with small white stones.

When Tony's hulking figure had disappeared in the mist, Grim pulled up his hood and turned onto the path on his right.

As he walked, he whispered, "Pull up this Tony's detection data."

The next, he projected a biochip detection report on apprentice Tony.

Name: Tony

Attributes: Strength 7 Agility 3 Physique 8 Spirit 6

...

Grim surprised skimmed his mouth, have such a physique, why not go to change to be a savage soldier. His strength and constitution were twice his own, which meant that if Grime had fought him close, he might not have been able to hold even one punch and would have been knocked out.

However, as a wizard apprentice, his mental power is only 6 points, 2 points lower than his own, and this essential advantage is no amount of strength and physique can make up for.

So he's probably planning on going the melee wizard route. With a variety of witchcraft efforts to strengthen their own body, and then use witchcraft to assist their melee ability, this is probably the only way he can choose!

Just by being in close proximity to the other person for a period of time, the biochip can detect such accurate data from intelligence such as the movement of the target. This undoubtedly allows Grim to take more initiative in his interactions with others and avoid more unnecessary risks.

And that, of course, is what Grime cares about most!

However, this kind of detection is probably not useful for real wizards, because those formal wizards are always radiating from the body of a strong elemental wave. This is both an instinctive expression of their own enormous energy, and a means to avoid being perceived by outsiders as their true condition.

Under the interference of strong energy radiation, it is unknown how much valuable information bioassisted chips can obtain from them. Even Grim isn't sure they'll notice the biochips, so inside the tower, he has to be cautious about using them.

In front of the gravel path in the fog constantly winding stretch, on both sides of the road can vaguely see the height of the odd plant. Stubby conical trunks, closed leaf surfaces curled together, vines drooping in twos and twos, mysterious flowers with petals as big as a washbasin and bright colors, puddles of damp and foul water...

This scene looks very ordinary and ordinary, but Grim knows that he must not step out of the gravel path.

The animals and plants that can survive in the magic swamp are almost none of them gentle and kind, all of them are terrible monsters that eat people and do not spit bones.

Those shy looking low trees are the dreaded killer trees, and when you get close to them, their curled leaves will suddenly stretch out and embrace you in their arms. At this time, those bloodsucking vines hanging from its body will curl up and Pierce countless sharp tentacles into your body, allowing you to experience the distant death of life in the loss of blood bit by bit.

When your blood is eaten, the flesh and bones that remain are the best fertilizer for the killer tree.

If you have the good fortune to peel away the dark and scarlet soil at the foot of the killer tree, you will find dense white bones, human bones, animal bones. These are the only proofs of the existence of the prey they once hunted!

The reason why the swamp tower keeps these magic objects is to prevent the intrusion of strangers from the outside world, and the second is to harvest some special sorcery materials.

The roots of the killer tree and the blood sacs incubated in the vampire vine are good tonics, and they are also a useful supplement for wizards who have not been very good. At regular intervals, sorcerer apprentices are at risk of being attacked by enchanted plants to gather materials here, so it is also a dangerous task with a high mortality rate.

Perhaps sensing the smell of flesh and blood on Grim's body, the swampy jungle, which had been slightly dead before, suddenly became active. Those demons outside of Grim's senses and vision, are consciously or unconsciously wriggling their bodies, branches, and slowly approaching the gravel path. But when Grim's gaze passed, they would become frozen again, as if they had never moved.

For these small movements of the magic plant, Grim as if not seen, did not care.

No matter how crazy and cruel they are, they still dare not cross the simple and simple gravel path under their feet, as if there was something above them to fear.

"Check the database and archive the magical plants in front of you!"

"Task startup failure... The ontology database is corrupted and cannot be used for species matching... Turn on element vision and re-model..."

As a series of chip cues sound, the image projected on his retina first wobbles, then a huge amount of data cascades down from the top, rendering every object in the field of view colorful with brilliant fluorescence.

Elemental vision? This is the chip's special means of incorporating his current body powers?

The green base indicates the vegetative nature of the creature, while the clusters of red, yellow, blue and purple indicate where their energy is concentrated. In addition, the ambient humidity, temperature, wind, particle concentration of toxic substances, distribution and flow of elemental particles are constantly changing. All the data changes that the chip can detect are presented to him in the form of a dynamic color map.

Grim frowned.

Such colorful and overly complex projection of the event horizon has seriously affected his normal vision, which makes him how to see things in the future?

"Removing ineffective chromatography... Remove diffuse fluorescence... Focus elemental vision only on a few common energy lineages..."

With the step by step transmission of Grim's orders, the colored light that had just been shining like blind finally dimmed bit by bit, and all the matter in the horizon once again returned to their original appearance. However, under the perspective of the powerful elemental vision of the biochip, the edges of all substances show signs of translucency, and even the particles of elements flowing in the air become faintly visible.

What had been a thick, pale mist before, now appeared to Grim as clumps, threads, patches of slow-moving water particles. They are bound by a mysterious force, unable to disperse, but can only be shrouded in the magic swamp for months and years.

Grim stood still, his eyes shining in the shadow of his hood, staring unblinkingly at the demonized plants by the road. Under the new visual perception, the other side of the other side hidden under the camouflage is finally revealed.

Under the shrivelled and wrinkled bark, there were clusters of ghastly faces, the souls of the killer tree. On the gray torso of the killer tree, the curled edges of its leaves, and the tips of its needle-like spines, Grim also "saw" turquoise energy fluorescence. This should be the spectral energy radiation of the killer tree's paralyzing venom.

And the bloodsucking magic vine parasitic on the killing tree, under the element vision of Grim, is the whole red terrible demon. Pure blood flowed beneath its twisted, grassy skin, and in the hollow cavities where it joined the killer tree, fist-sized blood sacs swelled and contracted in a regular rhythm that looked like a human heart.

croak

With a few raspy hisses, a flock of scavenging crows flew in from a distance and landed on a branch, staring at Grim with blinking scarlet eyes.

To be honest, being watched by such an ominous group of demons made Grime feel uncomfortable from top to bottom.

For such a group of uninvited swamp demons, Grim also dare not be careless. Although scavenging crows are not powerful monsters, the pair of scarlet blood eyes also have a slight "disheartening" power, and there have been horrific examples of sorcerer apprentices being blinded by them.

Seeing that the scavenging crows were a little eager to try, Grim raised his right hand and whispered a magic spell he knew well in his chest. With the completion of the five-second spell, a large bright red magic flame burst into flames in Grim's hand, gushing and twisting.

Grim's entire right hand was wrapped in magic flames, but he remained unscathed.

Burning hand!

This is the only magic that Grim learned in the Tower of Wizards for six years.

With Grim's current means, he can barely extend the fire of the burning hand beyond five steps, and there is nothing more he can do. So it's still a close-up witchcraft.

The magical flame that colored the surrounding fog was raging, and the strong wave of the fire element finally made the demon in the swampy jungle realize that the humans in front of them were not easy for them to capture.

And those who have slowly gathered around Grim's demons seem to have been greatly frightened, and one by one, they fled from both sides of the path. The group of scavenging crows were even more croaking into the sky, a little circle and disappeared into the depths of the fog.

Grim let out a long breath, relieved at last.

These creatures would never dare to set foot on this gravel path, but this did not prevent them from luring or intimidating the apprentices out of the path in their own way. Once Grim is frightened by the terrifying scene of their swarm, he runs out of the path in a panic, and even if there is a magic charm, it is difficult to protect his life.

The soul and flesh of a sorcerer's apprentice are undoubtedly far more delicious than those of ordinary humans and beasts, and this does not violate the pact between the demons and the Wizard of the Tower. Therefore, every inspection outside the tower is a profound test of the spiritual will, once there is a spiritual hole caught by these demons, the end of the wizard apprentice can be absolutely no better.

"Write down all the information about these monsters!" Grim said calmly.

"Oh... The record is complete! Please name it."

"The killer tree... Bloodsucking magic vine... The scavenging crow..."

"Naming finished! The new information has been added to the database."