Chapter 18
The Gloom Tree Sea is a small wizard resource site on the west coast of the old land continent, with a total area of about 100,000 square miles, which is roughly equal to the size of a half province of Blue Star.
There are countless large and small wizard organizations in the Dark Tree Sea, and among these, the largest one is undoubtedly the Tower of Shadows. It is located in the area with the richest elements in the Dark Tree Sea. They have the final say.
At this moment, Tower of Shadows, at the entrance.
Walking on the path of the sheep farm piled with thick dead leaves, Heath turned his head and looked at the surrounding scenery.
The criss-cross trees covering the heavens, shielding the sun, the weeds that grow wildly above the knees undulate, the light is very dim, only a few sunlight can penetrate the thick leaves and shine down in the air Intertwined into several beams.
Depressed and dull, giving people a sense of suffocation.
After walking forward for more than half an hour, the road ahead suddenly became clear, and the entire group came to an empty valley.
This is still a very gloomy and depressing valley.
A thick layer of dark clouds drifted right above the valley, covering up the sky that finally appeared.
In the middle of the valley stands a tower, tens of meters high, built with large black bricks.
Heath looked at the dark cloud above his head, and suddenly felt that it was a bit familiar, which was very similar to the dark cloud above the demonized forest.
The Ender next to him probably saw his doubts and said: "It looks familiar, doesn’t it?"
Heath nodded: "There is a dark cloud in my hometown. Very similar."
Ender said: "The enchanted forest of Rodin Kingdom, right? You guessed it, this is a dark cloud of enchantment. It is actually a kind of enchanted life, with a gentle and obedient personality. Staying in one place for a long time without moving anything, is very easy to manage, and has a good combat capability. So wizards like to keep one on top of their wizard tower."
" It is said that a wizard lived in your demonized forest before, and that dark cloud of demonization was raised by that wizard."
Ender was cultivated as a wizard since he was a child, and his adoptive father collected it for this. There are countless materials about the wizard world, so he knows more about the wizard world than the ordinary person.
Heath suddenly realized: "Oh."
A young man in his twenties sits on the grass at the entrance of the valley, his eyes closed as if he was sleeping in a fake sleep.
When the entire group approached, he immediately opened his eyes like a vigilant wild beast. After seeing Salado, his tight face eased.
He got up and walked over here, and gave Salado a salute: "Wizard Salado."
Salado took a cigarette and pointed at Heath behind him. The three said: "These three are the innate talents I found in the Forgotten Lands. You take them in and arrange them. I will not go in if there is something else."
"Yes."
paused, Salado turned his head and said to the three of you: "You three, each of you give him a magic stone, if not, please write a promissory note, then just ask him if you have any questions."
"Oh, okay." The three of them did so.
Wizard Salado is gone.
The young man kept looking down and waiting for Wizard Salado to walk away. Then he turned to face the three of them and said: "I am Pierre, a middle-level apprentice of Tower of Shadows, welcome to join Tower of Shadows, I will take you Go through the entry procedures, you can ask me directly if you have any questions."
Probably because of the collection of magic stones, Pierre looks very enthusiastic.
"Okay."
"Thank you."
After some simple politeness, Ender first started asking questions. He looked at the tower in front of him. Said: "Wizard Pierre, are there many people in Tower of Shadows?"
"Just call me an apprentice. The title can't be messy." Pierre corrected.
paused, Pierre replied with a proud tone: "Of course, our Tower of Shadows is the most powerful wizard organization in the entire Dark Tree Sea. Wizards, formal apprentices, informal apprentices, plus If you get up, there are thousands of people."
Ender's eyes widened and said: "Thousands? There are really that many innate talents?"
Pierre said: "Nothing to be surprised. , The old land continent is not an element-exhausted land like the Forgotten Land. The probability of nurturing elemental physique is much greater than yours."
Aike continent where there is no wizard is also called the Forgotten Land. .
"It is much easier for us to detect innate talent physique than you have forgotten. More than a dozen human countries around you will continuously send apprentices every year."
Ender realized. : "So that's the case."
Heath asked: "I just heard you say, formal apprentice, informal apprentice? What does this mean?"
Pierre explained:" There is a big difference between the two. Formal apprentices have a mentor to teach carefully, knowledge does not cost money, and there is a magic stone allowance every month. You only need to concentrate on cultivation."
"And informal Apprentices have to rely on themselves for everything. Spell model, cultivation resources, test materials, wizard equipment, and even board and lodging expenses have to be paid by themselves. In addition, there are no specific tutors and professors to explain, and they can only learn in the open classes held occasionally by the tower. , And most of them take magic stones to listen to."
Three people looked at each other in blank dismay.
Ender asked: "So are we formal apprentices or informal apprentices?"
Pierre said with a smile: "What did you say?"
Three Everyone's complexion looks a little unpleasant.
Pierre said with relief: "It's nothing, I am also an informal apprentice. The apprentices who join the tower are all informal apprentices, but as long as they perform well and are favored by a certain instructor, they can be accepted as formal apprentices."
"In addition, you don't have to worry about cultivation resources. Everyday all has a lot of tasks in the tower. As long as you work hard, it is easy to earn magic stones."
Everyone's expressions have only eased a little now.
Heath asked: "Then how many formal apprentices does Tower of Shadows have?"
Pierre thought for a moment and said: "Well... I haven't calculated it in detail, there are probably six Ten, it seems that the Karan wizard only accepted three apprentices last year."
Heath frowned: Only more than 1,000 apprentices out of more than 60 are formal apprentices... this ratio is too small. Come on...
Ender then asked: "What about the wizard? How many wizards are there in Tower of Shadows?"
Pierre said: "The official-level wizard that belongs to us There are more than 30 people, but most of them have followed the Master Wizard to explore a Secret Realm. Now there are only six wizards in the tower."
paused, he said with a smile: "Don't think that this is very small. Our number of wizards is already the largest among the wizard organizations in the entire sea of dark trees. It is not that easy to become a wizard. You will know this later."
"In addition, our Lord Sorcerer is still a Level 2 wizard, the most powerful wizard in the dark sea of trees."
Ender asked: "Is the Wizard Salado that brought us one of them?"
Pierre shook the head: "Wizard Salado is the free wizard in the dark sea of trees. He is not one of our Tower of Shadows."
Ender was surprised: "Is the wizard also Divided into formal and informal?"
Pierre nodded: "Almost, this will be known after you are promoted to the official wizard. Simply speaking, reaching the level of the official wizard does not require too much organization, so Some official-level wizards don’t join the organization much, but act as free wizards. At most, they just hang a name in a certain organization. Wizard Salado is like this..."
, A few people quickly entered the tower.
The tower looks a bit dilapidated from the outside, and the internal facilities are the same after entering, and few people seem to clean it. There are spider webs and weeds on the corners, and many stone steps are also Covered with moss.
Looking at a strange weed in the corner, Heath became curious:'speaking of which, these plants look weird, should they belong to extraordinary matter? Can it be extracted? '
Thinking about this, he tore off the weed, and at the same time he meditated in his heart: Extract.
"Drip, extraction is successful, spirit +0.01."
Heath was surprised: It is really possible!
Feeling the pure energy pouring into his mind, Heath suddenly became happy: If the plants here can also be extracted, can the plants outside can also be extracted?
Along the way, he saw many strange monster species that he had never seen before.
At this moment, Pierre stopped in front of a stone chamber.
Pierre said to Karina: "Take off your mask, Miss. We have to register here. Wearing a mask is okay."
Karina hesitated for a moment, and then started to do it. Take off the mask.
Suddenly, Heath and Ender couldn't help but become curious, and looked towards Karina one after another.
From the first meeting at White Water Port to the three months of wandering at sea, Karina has always been wearing a mask and a mysterious and secretive look, so that they have been together for so long. No one has seen this girl's true face.
Everyone is very curious about what the beauty Scarlet Princess, who is known as the rare Aike continent in a thousand years, looks like.
Karina didn't wait long, she quickly took off her mask, and the true face that had been hidden for a long time was finally exposed.
And at this moment, whether it is Ender or Pierre, or even Heath from Blue Star.
All eyes shined ...