Age of Adepts Chapter 1: Awakening
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This is an eerie magic swamp.
Dense fog is heavy.
Even in the daytime, the bright sunlight cannot penetrate the low clouds and gloomy fog, making it feel a warmth of the world.
muddy Poor smelly puddles can be seen everywhere, not much water, but there are a lot of weird creature parasitic inside. Whenever a stranger breaks into this place, this silent and desolate place will instantly become a paradise of scavenger bloodthirsty creature. Blood Sucking Demon Vine, Scavenger Crows, Giant Swamp Alligators, and Ghost Nannie, which resemble drowning dead people, are each a terrible monster that business travelers have been able to avoid.
However, in the center of this swamp, which is not accessible to living people, a horrible Tower with a height of 100 meters is erroneously erected.
This is a stone Tower.
Its tower bases are all made of thick and dense augite. Whenever night falls, the whole Tower will emit a cold and quiet light radiation dazzling light, which is especially favored by ghosts and resentments.
Maybe it lacks the necessary maintenance and care. The bottom of the whole Tower is entangled with crazy growing Magicked vines, which are covered with wooden spikes full of metallic luster. If ordinary people are entangled by such Magicked vines, they will be absorbed by the blood in the body within half a minute, and become one of the thick white bones at the roots of the vines.
As soon as it fainted, a candle was lit in Tower.
The dim candlelight is transmitted through the narrow and narrow window, which not only can not give people a hint of warmth, but makes bottom of the heart feel a chill.
Grim, who has just passed his 15th birthday, sits at a shabby wooden table, a thick magic book spread out in front of him, and he is silently copying it. Although it has been 2 years since he came to this new world, the discomfort in his soul still makes him feel headache from time to time.
In a burst of Spirit, the scenes that happened on the earth in the past, and the scenes continued to flash in front of his eyes, making his nib unable to stop for a moment, leaving a large mass of ink on the simple parchment.
Damn, it failed again!
Grim frowns tightly, can't help but hold his fist fiercely, want to shout a few times angry. But after a long period of patience, he finally suppressed the anger.
Here is no longer the earth he is familiar with, and this body once belonged to a Grim's Apprentice Adept. Seriously speaking, he is just a the magpie made a nest, the turtledove dwells in it passerby in Grim unexpected death moment.
both hands crosses emptyly from a low magic Earth to a monster running and Adept dominates the high magic world. This difficult adaptation process makes Li Xun anxious. Fortunately, after the memory fragments of this body fuse with Li Xun, they will initially have basic language and writing skills. Otherwise, the world's weird grammatical pronunciation and completely alternative crickets will torture him. Half dead.
But even so, the headaches from time to time still deeply trouble him.
He never dared to reveal his true identity here. Instead, he could only struggle to survive in this Adept Tower under the Grim's name.
Although as Apprentice Adept of Master Anderson, this glorious identity is worth envy of most people. But only people living in this Tower know that this is not only a glory, but the most terrible torture and torture in the world.
As Apprentice Adept, their basic work is to diligently take care of the life of the great Master Anderson, clean up the magic experiment equipment, keep the inside of the tower clean, take care of those magical creature outside the tower, and ... become the experimental subject of Master Anderson.
Although this kind of thing is not common, when the caravan transporting slaves or death row comes a few days later, Master Anderson, which lacks the test subject, becomes annoyed and will drink a certain apprentice as his temporary mouse.
It is said that Ante Country's Mary next door "fortunately" became a magic experiment collaborator of Master Anderson last month. Although she did not die from that magic experiment, her body was seriously "polluted" and some terrible Variation occurred. Since coming out of the laboratory, she has put on a heavy burqa, hiding in her room every day and never coming out again.
Many Apprentice Adept are talking in private, Mary may have died in the room.
But Grim knows that Mary is still alive.
Because every night of silence, he can hear the painful and depressed ** of the next room, and the terrible sound of sharp minions scratching the rock wall. For this reason, every night when he was quiet, he would throw the food that he had secretly brought back into the next room.
Grim's Although life is not guaranteed, but due to the faintness of nature, he is still willing to do something more humane within his ability.
It's really not the time for this migraine that happened from time to time. It happened when he copied the book. What made him unlucky wasted a piece of parchment paper.
Don't underestimate this crumpled piece of rough parchment paper. Its basic value is 2 silver coin(s)s. In this magic world, the most commonly used currency is of course Sorcerer's Gold. One Sorcerer's Gold can be exchanged for 10 silver coin(s), one silver coin(s) can be exchanged for 10 copper coin(s), and 5 copper coin(s) can allow a civilian to solve a day's food and clothing.
So in this way, a seemingly ordinary parchment paper can already be regarded as a huge sum for the civilian class. But here, it is just garbage that Apprentice Adept can discard at will.
In Adept Tower, there is never anything free.
Everyday food and drink, including magic study, must be Grim self-reliant to earn, and the only way to make money is to go out of Adept Tower, feed those fierce and brutal magical creature, take care of those spooky magical plants, and pick some Lord Adept designated magical material as well as cleaning some dangerous magic area inside the tower.
Although they do magic talisman made by Lord Adept when doing these tasks, they can avoid touching magical array around Tower. But in this mysterious world, no job can be absolutely secure. Every one or two months, there will always be a few unlucky eggs or they are swallowed up while taking care of magical creature, or they will die in magical energy unclearly when cleaning a certain magic area.
So many times, the relatively relaxed and comfortable work in the tower is monopolized by those experienced Apprentice Adept. The rest of the weak Apprentice Adept can only pick those more dangerous jobs, and can hardly earn money and Knowledge point to continue their magic study.
Money is of course used to purchase some creature supplies, and Knowledge point is a value system specially developed by Lord Adept to purchase knowledge. In library in Tower, each Witchcraft book is clearly marked with a different Knowledge point, and borrowed books only accept Knowledge point, but not money.
Apprentices Only by earning Knowledge point can you borrow the books you need for a short time. And this time is definitely not enough for Apprentices to master all the knowledge in books, so most of apprentice will develop the habit of copying books.
For each Witchcraft book borrowed, Apprentices will strive to transcribe the knowledge it needs in the shortest possible time for future continuous study. Ink and parchment are indispensable, but these are not free, they need money to buy.
Of course, if a Apprentice Adept has a good family situation, he can use a lot of money in exchange for Knowledge point. The conversion ratio between them is 1Knowledge point = 100gold coins.
Like this "Glossary of Magical Creatures" loaned by Grim today, you need 3 Knowledge points, and you can only borrow them for half a day. At the speed of Grim's transcription, if you want to write the book completely, it is estimated that you need to borrow at least 3 times to make it possible.
This adds up to 9 Knowledge point, and this 9Knowledge point requires Grim to go out of Tower for 2 consecutive weeks to earn it.
So it was not a pity for him to waste a piece of parchment on the onset of migraine. Unfortunately, he wasted two hours of copying time. This is the main reason for his anger!
Just when Grim worked hard to mobilize strength in the whole body to suppress this anger, so as not to affect his subsequent transcription, a familiar *Beep* sound suddenly sounded in his mind.
*Beep*, Bioenergy has reached the standard, Biological Assistance Chip number ZXJ9521 started to start ... "
Grim exclaimed in surprise.
"Biological Assistance Chip!"
In the past, in the difficult period of the beginning of the crossing, Grim imagined more than once that he could become a cow X **** who held artifact across Other World. I punched Nanshan Retirement Home, kicked Beihai Kindergarten, and all fell below one meter. I stomped in the morgue, "Stand up!" No one dared to breathe ...
Unfortunately, in addition to the **** chip that has been integrated with him, in addition to giving it a migraine from time to time, there is no more movement. Unexpected, unexpected ... Today it finally started!
By the noisy debugging sound, a beautiful partial neutral female voice echoed in the mind of Grim's.
"Host detected, data modeling ... please wait ..."
Well, can it quantify the current body? This is something to look forward to!
After all, it is a high magic world, and there is a **** unique item quality called elementium everywhere in the plane space. These elementium are divided into basic particle such as earth, fire, water, wind, light and darkness according to the different basic elements of plane.
A Adept usually has different affinitys for these basic particles, so there are many different factions. And because Power System is totally different from the earth, how to standardize and quantify the known data has become the most difficult problem for Grim's.