Age of Adepts Chapter 42: Preparation
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Tired to deal with Mary, Grim finally freed up time to prepare for the upcoming task.
In order to better keep his life in the mission, Grim has spent almost all its resources and added various Alchemy items in his waist bag that can respond to various emergencies.
Screaming Branch obtained when you just traded with An Mu belongs to this category.
Screaming Branch, a unique item bred by nature, cut it out and stored it close to the body, it can scream like a woman when Host's Body is attacked by Curse. The Screaming Branch that An Mu trades to Grim's can be used 3 times, which is also an indispensable protective item.
To go out, there are a lot of similar items that need to be prepared.
A hemostatic ointment that promotes rapid healing of the wound, can be connected to the wisteria of broken limbs, an antidote that can eliminate common toxins, can expel mosquitoes and snake ants' absinthe powder when camping in the wild, and can detect spirit creature Amulet ...
Out of the house, apart from those weird and unpredictable magic beast and monster, the most headache is the "similar" with various strange abilities. Be prepared for yourself and save your life at a critical moment. Therefore, when preparing these things, Grim always tries to take all situations into consideration to avoid being helpless when encountering certain situations.
And it is important that the possible location for this mission is underground, Grim specifically consulted the relevant data of Underground Cave, which can be considered as a preliminary understanding of it.
What made Grim unexpected is that the original underground of Adept Continent is not only a solid crust of rocks and soil, but has many deep and tortuous underground tunnels and large and small karst caves and caves. There, densely covered with glow rocks, luminous crystal, and phosphorescent moss, lichens, and fungi. Compared with the surface, weird plants there are very common, and visitors can hardly identify which are toxic and which are edible without Witchcraft.
But what is more terrible there is not alienated plants and animals, but many deformed and evil dark creatures and some Fallen Adept that have left the road of Adept .
Most of them committed a felony in Adept Continent. In order to escape the pursuit of Adept Association , they had to hide in the depths of underground and chose to accompany those ugly and distorted underground creature. It is said that somewhere in the depths of underground, there is also a small-type city established by Fallen Adept , where the evil and rampant sinister capital is simply evil.
Due to the complex terrain and numerous channels of Underground World, several major adept organization and associations of Adept Continent have also organized countless clearing operations. It's a pity that they can't wipe them out every time, but let them grow up step by step. Now, that evil capital already has hundreds of Official Adept , and it can be regarded as an alternative force outside the orthodox Adept System-Fallen Adept .
The Underground Cave that Grim needs to explore is just one of dozens of openings on the surface of Underground World. Although there are Adept Tower and Official Adept buildings there, they still cannot stop Fallen Adept from slipping in and out by various means.
With the apprentice capabilities of Grim, of course, they cannot compete with those of Fallen Adept . Therefore, what they need to do is to explore the distribution of monster in the ten-mile area below the surface, and by the way check whether there are any traces of Fallen Adept .
The previous task is well done, but the latter task is very dangerous. Once really encountered Fallen Adept during the inspection, even those Pseudo-Adept level other apprentice may not be able to escape.
So facing this situation, Grim needs to prepare some special items.
There are rugged and crooked underground cave and tunnels everywhere, and surface creatures is a problem even if you look at it. Therefore, the first thing that I need to solve is this visual problem.
There are two ways to solve this problem.
One is to acquire some Alchemy item with Dusky Vision effect. Of course, it would be better if it could be Dark Vision. However, considering his own net worth, Grim can only consciously lower the demand level.
Dusky Vision allows spell recipient to maintain normal vision in dim light, while Dark Vision takes it a step further and can also allow spell recipient normal vision under dark environment.
The second method is to transplant yourself a Void Changing Eye or Thousand Eyed Insect.
The former uses some of Creature Transformation's technology to replace one of its eyes with a Void Changing Eye transformed with Witchcraft, so that it has the ability to see through invisibility and darkness. However, this method involves Creature Transformation, which can easily contaminate the purity of blood vessels.
The latter is devouring an Thousand Eyed Insect. This will allow it to temporarily parasitize itself, thereby creating a new compound eye on the forehead. After Thousand Eyed Insect is parasitic, Host's Body will reach a symbiotic status/mode with it, and will be able to share its special vision-infrared perception.
This parasitic effect is really good, but there are some annoying sequelae. That is, it is necessary to swallow some grass cocoons that Thousand Eyed Insect likes daily, otherwise the parasitic Thousand Eyed Insect will **** the flesh and essence of the host from time to time. In the description of the book, those grass cocoons are soft maggots that resemble previous life silkworm babies, which can't help but feel retched when reading Grim.
Considering these circumstances, Grim feels that it is still a priority to consider the auxiliary Alchemy item. If it cannot be collected, I am afraid that if I am disgusted, I will be forced to take the Thousand Eyed Insect parasitic path.
After considering the problem of viewing objects, Grim then began to consider the issue of traffic.
It's in underground, and the surrounding area is full of wet dirt and hard rocks. Any fierce battle may cause a terrible landslide. How can I help myself if I am buried in a closed cave?
The Grim is also worried about this problem, but in the end the chip helped him find the answer. That's Earth Magic Puppet!
Grim elemental affinity is Fire Element, but the two Earth Magic Puppet he masters are earth attribute, and earth attribute creature is a good hand for underground. With Earth Magic Puppet, it should be true that no region can trap Grim.
But this is only a theoretical situation after all, and you need to verify it yourself to get first-hand data. Therefore, Grim first went to Danny and released the information for Dusky Vision talisman, and then slipped out of Adept Tower again.
To be honest, since the announcement of Forced Assignment, a large number of Apprentice Adepts have been busy preparing for the task, and the regular inspections outside the tower have been suspended, so Grim never worried that someone would come to disturb their skills drills.
Shumen came to the periphery of the mud swamp, and found a flat ground there. Grim intends to practice the attack mode he envisioned. The reason why I chose this is because the Ghost Matron leader Simba has been killed here. With no leader in the Ghost Matron group, no one dared to run out to find their own trouble.
Throwing two Earth Magic Puppet Summoning Crystal Core to the ground at will, after contaminating the ground and moisture, two different forms of Earth Magic Puppet appeared in front of Grim. The Simba Crystal Core summoned a humanoid Magic Puppet close to 2 meters, but the Giant Alligator King Crystal Core just made out turned out to be a crocodile. Except that it is slightly smaller than the real Giant Alligator King, it is almost the same in appearance.
Grim squinted and thought.
These two Crystal Cores are almost all taken from the skull of a living monster, and it is not surprising that some soul information remains on it. When Summoning Crystal Core used the condensed Earth Element to shape itself, the ideology of life had already determined their acquired form.
Of course, this body is formed by Earth Element. After all, as long as Grim passes the accurate and clear instructions through the conscious branding, they can also mobilize Earth Element to transform the body into the form required by Grim. However, this process obviously needs to consume a certain amount of elemental energy reserves.
Grim looked at the two Magic Puppet men standing in front of each other, and couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement. Three days ago, I was still alone and alone, but now, it has begun to draw up a faithful Magic Puppet squad. Although the number is a little bit less, but after all, I have taken the first step to develop and grow.
The previous data of the clay figurine Magic Puppet has been collected, so this time Grim focuses on the data of the new Magic Puppet.
Clay Alligator Magic Puppet.
battle-type half summons Puppet Creature.
Strength assessment: Advanced Level apprentice (medium)
basic attribute: strength16 Agility3 Constitution17 Spirit8
Innate Skill (active):
Earthquake, the range of influence is less than 5 meters, the vibration intensity has a significant effect on small-type creature, the normal effect of medium creature, large-type and above creature is invalid. Cooling time: None.
Marsh Spell (range), earth attribute restraining-class ranged magic, forms a quicksand swamp on the side of the body, limiting the enemy's ability to move. magic Scope: 10X10 meters. Cooling time: 120 seconds.
Slowing Beam (single), earth attribute offensive magic, can inject pure Earth Element into the opponent's body through the line of sight, causing precipitation and deposition of Earth Element, slowing down the enemy. magic attack range: 10 meters. Cooldown: 15 seconds.
Innate Skill (passive):
Earth Repair, triggered earth attribute passive ability, can extract Earth Element from the soil under the foot to make up for its own loss. Can repair 10% of body injuries every 1 minute.
Sure enough, it is a lot more Giant Swamp Alligator King than Simba. The Clay Alligator Magic Puppet processed by its Crystal Core alone is basic attribute, which has surpassed the clay figure Magic Puppet (except Agility). And its combat skills are complemented by their own abilities, at first glance is the violent Magic Puppet approaching Melee Path.
But Grim brought them out today, but not to show muscles, but to practice the first tactics they envisioned.
Stabilizing the mood, Grim finally howled to give them combat instructions.
"Magic Puppets, use your bravery and fearlessness to clear the way to victory! Now I command, fit!"