This is a gloomy magic swamp.
The fog is thick and humid.
Even during the day, the bright sunshine can't penetrate the low clouds and gloomy fog, making you feel a trace of warmth here.
Turbid and dirty stinky pools can be seen everywhere. There is not much water, but there are many strange creatures parasitizing in it. Whenever strangers break in here, this quiet and desolate place will instantly become a paradise for rotting and bloodthirsty creatures. Blood-sucking vines, rotting crows, swamp giant crocodiles and ugly ghosts who look like drowning dead people are all terrible monsters that can't be avoided by past business travelers.
However, in the middle of this swamp that cannot be set foot on by living people, a terrifying tower up to 100 meters is strangely erected.
This is a stone tower.
Its tower base is all made of thick and solid bluestone. Whenever night falls, the whole tower will emit cold and quiet faint radiation fluorescence, which is favored by ghosts.
Perhaps due to the lack of necessary maintenance and care, the bottom of the whole tower is wrapped in crazy magical vines, which are covered with wooden thorns full of metallic luster. If ordinary people are entangled by this magic vine, they will be absorbed in half a minute, thus becoming a member of the thick white bones at the roots of the vine.
As soon as it got dark, a candlelight was lit in the high tower.
The gloomy candlelight, shining through the narrow window, not only did not bring a single warmth, but rather a chill from the bottom of the heart. Grimduan, who had just celebrated his 15th birthday, sat in front of a worn-out wooden table with a thick book of magic spread out in front of him, and he was silently copying it. Although it has been 2 years since he came to this new world, the discomfort in his soul still gives him a headache from time to time.
In a trance, scenes that happened on the past earth kept flashing in front of his eyes, which made his pen tip unable to help but pause, leaving a large mass of ink on the simple parchment paper.
Damn, failed again!
Grim frowned and couldn't help holding his fist fiercely, wanting to shout angrily. But after a long patience, the anger was finally suppressed.
This is no longer the earth I am familiar with, and this body once belonged to a wizard apprentice named Grimm. Seriously, I'm just a time traveler who occupied the magpie's nest at the moment of Grim's accidental death.
With empty hands, he crossed from a low-demon earth to a high-demon world where monsters are rampant and wizards dominate. This difficult adaptation process made Li Xun very sad. Fortunately, after the memory fragments left in this body let Li Xun merge, he initially had basic language and writing skills. Otherwise, the strange grammatical pronunciation and completely alternative tadpole-shaped words in the world alone could torture him to death. But even so, the headaches that appear from time to time still haunt him deeply.
Here, he never dares to reveal his true identity, but can only struggle to survive in the wizard's high tower under the name of Grimm.
Although as a wizard apprentice under Master Anderson, this glorious identity is worthy of the envy of most people. But only the people living in this tower know that this is not only an honor, but also the most terrible torture and torture in the world.
As wizard apprentices, their basic work is to diligently take care of the life of the great Master Anderson, clean up the witchcraft experimental equipment, keep the tower clean, take care of the magical animals and plants outside the tower, and... and become the experimental subjects of Master Anderson.
Although this kind of thing is not common, when the convoy transporting slaves or death row prisoners arrived a few days late, Master Anderson, who lacked experimental subjects, would drink and let an apprentice act as his temporary guinea pig when he became irritable.
It is said that Mary from Antshire next door was "lucky" to become Master Anderson's witchcraft experiment collaborator last month. Although she did not die in the witchcraft experiment, her body was also seriously "contaminated" and some terrible mutations occurred. Since she came out of the laboratory, she has put on a thick burqa and hid in her room every day and never came out again. Many wizards and apprentices are discussing in private that Mary may have died in the room.
But Grimm knew that Mary was still alive.
Because whenever it was quiet at night, he could hear the painful and repressed low moans in the next room, as well as the terrible sound of sharp teeth scraping the rock wall. For this reason, whenever it was late at night, he would throw the food he secretly brought back into the next room.
Although Grimm's life is also in a bad way, out of a trace of love in his nature, he is still willing to do something more humane within his power.
Today, the irregular migraine came at the wrong time. It was when he copied the book. What's more, he was very unlucky and wasted a piece of parchment.
Don't look wrinkled and simple parchment paper. 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, while one silver coin can be exchanged for 10 copper coins, and 5 copper coins can make a civilian settle for a day's food and clothing.
Therefore, in this way, a seemingly ordinary parchment paper can be regarded as a huge amount of money for the common people. But here, it's just garbage that wizards and apprentices can throw away casually. There is never anything free in the Wizard's Tower.
The daily food and drink, including the cost of learning witchcraft, must be earned by Grimm on his own, and the only way to make money is to get out of the wizard's tower, feed those fierce and cruel demonized creatures, take care of those sinister and strange magic plants, pick some witchcraft materials designated by the wizard, and clean up the tower. Some dangerous witchcraft areas.
Although when doing these tasks, they will wear witchcraft amulets made by the wizard himself, which can avoid touching the witchcraft array around the tower. But in this mysterious world, no job can be absolutely safe. Every month or two, there will always be a few unlucky people who are swallowed up by them when taking care of magical animals and plants, or die inexplicably in the radiation of witchcraft when cleaning a witchcraft area.
Therefore, in many cases, the relatively leisurely and comfortable work in the tower is monopolized by those veteran wizard apprentices. The rest of the weak wizard apprentices can only choose those more dangerous jobs, so that they can struggle to earn money and knowledge to continue their own witchcraft learning. Of course, money is used to buy some biological supplies, and knowledge points are a value system specially formulated by wizards to buy knowledge. In the library inside the tower, each witchcraft book is clearly marked with different knowledge points, and borrowing books only accept knowledge points, but not money.
Apprentices can only borrow the books they need for a short time by working hard to earn knowledge points. And this time is absolutely not enough for apprentices to master all the knowledge in the book, so most apprentices will develop the habit of copying books.
For each borrowed witchcraft book, apprentices will strive to transcribe the knowledge they need in the shortest time for continuous study in the future. Ink and parchment paper are indispensable for transcription, but these are not free. They need money to buy.
Of course, if a wizard apprentice has a good family background, he can exchange a lot of money for knowledge points. And the conversion ratio between them is 1 knowledge point = 100 gold coins.
Like the book "Demonized Creatures" borrowed by Grimm today, it requires 3 knowledge points, and it can only be borrowed for half a day. With Grimm's transcription speed, if you want to write the book completely, it is estimated that you need to borrow it at least 3 times.
The sum of this is 9 knowledge points, and these 9 knowledge points need to be earned by Grimm out of the tower for 2 consecutive weeks.
Therefore, it is not a pity that the migraine attack makes him waste a piece of parchment paper, but it is a pity that he wasted two hours of transcription time in vain. This is the main reason why he is so angry!
Just as Grimm tried to mobilize his whole body's strength to suppress the anger and not let it affect his subsequent transcription, a familiar "drip" sound suddenly sounded in his mind.
"Drip, the biological energy has reached the standard, and the biological auxiliary chip number ZXJ9521 is starting to start..."
Grimm exclaimed in surprise.
"Bio-assisted chip!"
Once upon a time, in the hard years at the beginning of the time travel, Grime fantasized more than once that he could also become a cow X god holding an artifact to cross the alien world. Punch the Nanshan Nursing Home, kick the Beihai Kindergarten, and put them all down below one meter. He stamped his feet in the morgue, "Stand up if you are not satisfied!" No one dares to breathe...
Unfortunately, this damn chip, which has been integrated with him, has no movement except for occasional migraines. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly... It finally started today!
When the noisy debugging sound system was over, a beautiful neutral female voice echoed in Grimm's mind. The host has been detected and is in the process of data modeling... Please wait..."
Well, can it also quantify the current body? This is something worth looking forward to!
After all, what we are in now is a high demon world, and the plane space is full of a magical substance called elemental particles. And these elemental particles are divided into basic particles such as earth, fire, water, scenery and darkness according to the basic elements of the plane.
A wizard usually has varying affinity for these basic particles, resulting in many different factions. And it is precisely because the power system here is completely different from that of the earth that how to standardize and quantify the known data has become the biggest problem that bothers Grimm the most.