Chapter 0408 Bad News
The arrival of Meryl and his party undoubtedly made the Witch Tower lively.
And they also brought a large amount of living supplies and daily necessities, which greatly supplemented the shortcomings of the Witch Tower.
Let the bottom-level authority be released, allowing the disciples and apprentices to slowly transform the first and second floors of the Witch Tower, while Grimm, Kirby and Meryl hid in the reception room on the fourth floor to discuss the later matters.
In front of Meryl, the goblin Kirby handed a waist bag to Grimm, which contained the 120,000 magic crystals it had mentioned before. However, this time, it bluntly admitted that this was passed on by Alice through the Witch Chamber of Commerce.
"Alice would not send people to deliver such a large number of magic crystals for no reason. In addition to these, what else did she say?" Grimm had a vague bad premonition.
"The person she sent also said that you should be careful of the monster attack!" This time it was Meryl who answered.
And her words also made Grimm startled, and then lowered his head to think deeply.
Monster attack?
Others may not understand the meaning of this, but when Grimm heard this reminder, some "interesting" stories mentioned in past books immediately emerged in his mind.
In the process of the major wizard forces competing for land with the Black Forest, there are definitely many examples of monster attacks.
It seems that the monsters living in the Black Forest stubbornly believe that human beings' actions to open up the forest will profoundly affect the environment of their living place and bring them all kinds of bad effects. So once they find that humans have entered their territory, they will launch attacks unscrupulously, and sometimes even gather together and attack human gathering points outside the Black Forest in a planned manner.
In the past, Grimm only regarded it as a land dispute between human wizards and monster lords. He believed that as long as he was careful and did not touch the territory of the powerful monsters around him, he would not provoke their strong rebound.
But today, with Alice's reminder, Grimm had to reconsider the possibility of monster attacks!
Since he came to the Sick Forest, he has been hiding deep underground and rarely goes out, let alone invade the territories of surrounding monsters. So what makes the monster lords unable to tolerate his existence?
Others may not be able to answer this question, but Grimm has a vague understanding.
Wizard Tower!
With the establishment of the wizard tower, it will inevitably extract the free magic energy in the surrounding environment to maintain its own operation. This also creates a kind of artificial flow of magic!
The distribution of magic elements is also more or less. The more the wizard tower extracts, the more the magic elements in the surrounding area of the wizard tower will be correspondingly thinner. This kind of change is difficult for ordinary jungle beasts to perceive, but for monsters with mysterious abilities, it is as clear as reading the lines on the palm of your hand.
Seriously speaking, monsters are also magical creatures born from the rich magic elements, and they are particularly sensitive to the flow and changes of elemental particles. How could they allow an outsider to frantically plunder the magic elements they rely on around their territory?
So when the elemental altar was activated, I'm afraid this witch tower would become the target of collective resentment and hatred of the surrounding monster lords!
When Grimm figured this out, he immediately summoned Gargamel and asked him to contact the forest demon Ava who had been wandering around the sick forest. Sure enough, half a day later, the forest demon sent back a message that the surrounding monsters did move abnormally, and seemed to be slowly moving towards the sick forest.
Grimm then understood why Alice went to so much trouble to send 120,000 magic crystals. It turned out that they were not used to support her tower construction, but to support her tower defense!
So far, the witch tower elemental altar has been running for a day and a night, and the liquid magic energy stored in the central elemental pool has not even covered the bottom of the pool. Not to mention the branch elemental pools and the mana pools below, they are still full of mist-like magic energy, not dense enough to form magic liquid.
Now most of the free magic elements absorbed by the Wu Tower every day are used to maintain and transform the space environment inside the Wu Tower. Only a small part of the remaining energy can be introduced into the element pool and precipitated. If the monster attacks, the Wu Tower must support the entire defense system. By then... I am afraid that absorbing free magic elements alone will not be enough.
Grimm asked the chip to do some statistics.
If the Wu Tower closes all unnecessary witchcraft facilities and rune witch arrays, the magic elements gathered in the element altar every day can be condensed into 27-28 magic crystals. But in this way, the wizards and apprentices stationed in the tower have to endure the invasion of the harsh environment around them.
Without the air-tight windows, the Wu Tower protection, and the environment adjustment, the underground world where the Wu Tower is located is so dry and hot, but lonely and desolate. I am afraid that it is difficult for anyone to endure it!
If the Wu Tower protection is activated, this aspect will require 12-15 magic crystals. If the relevant witchcraft facilities are activated, the consumption of 20-22 magic crystals becomes indispensable.
After all, the tower has many secret doors, protective magic arrays, warning runes and exploration crystals, all of which consume the magic energy inside the tower when in operation. If we consider the witch beasts, golems and witch gardens that may be available in the later stage, the energy consumption of the tower will be even more terrifying!
The idea of relying on the tower to slowly hoard magic crystals for profit is simply naive and ridiculous.
This is also one of the main reasons why most witch towers only activate the lowest level of witch tower protection during peacetime!
Once a war breaks out and the Wu Tower's defense system is fully activated, then... that Wu Tower will instantly become a big money eater. The speed at which it swallows up the magic crystal can make the tower master wizard burst into tears.
The situation that Greem was facing at the moment was that other witch towers might still have dozens or even hundreds of years of magical energy reserves. But his Wu Pagoda was so poor that even a clean warehouse would starve to death. As for the most critical magic crystal reserve, Greem has nothing left, and the entire Witch Tower has been in a state of 'Feng Guo Run'!
Can such a witch tower fight?
Weighing the magic crystals brought by Kirby in his hand, Greem immediately understood their weight.
This is not a magic crystal, this is clearly the fate of the witch tower under his feet!
If he was the only one in the room at this moment, he would have the urge to cry. However, at this moment, the two direct subordinates were staring at him closely. No matter how much anger and grievance he felt, Greem could only hold it in his heart and slowly digest it.
Grim smiled lightly.
"Things are not that bad!" Greem held his hand on his forehead and thought seriously: "First of all, this witch tower is not on the surface and will not be so easily attacked by wild beasts. In this way, even if the monsters drive away a large number of wild beasts, they It’s also easy to get lost in the dark and well-connected underground maze, where it’s easy to establish the first line of defense!”
"Secondly, this is just the edge of the Black Forest, so it is unlikely that level 2 monsters will appear. If it is just a group of level 1 monsters, with the defense of the witch tower, we may be able to counterattack well, and maybe we can get some additional gains."
"The most important point is that there is a sea of lava under our feet. If I are angered and the power of the witch tower is mobilized to extract the magma and pour it into this cave group, how much fighting power will the incoming monster have left?"
Through rational analysis and judgment of the battle situation, Greem listed the advantages and disadvantages of the battle one by one, and surprisingly found that he did not seem to be completely beaten. It was also at this moment that Greem suddenly realized that Alice strongly supported his purpose of coming here to build the tower.
This is indeed an excellent area that is completely suitable for your own development!
First of all, there are no large wizard families in the surrounding area, nor are there too scary monsters, which avoids troubles during the rise of Grim. Secondly, there really is a hidden volcanic lava sea under the Sickwood Forest, which is of absolutely extraordinary significance to Greem's future growth.
As long as he can resist the attack of this wave of monsters, then when the light of the witch tower shines on the nearby mountains and forests, this dark forest will become his territory. If the monsters cannot drive him out, then they will have no choice but to leave here sadly and resettle their homes further away.
There are not many safe areas in the black forest for them to move to, so even for the sake of their own tribe, this group of monsters who usually don't get along will gather together to attack Greem's witch tower crazily.
So Greem will soon face an extremely difficult battle for guardianship!
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Stone hammer ruins.
In a weathered stone forest 30 miles east of the diseased wood forest.
The forest demon Ava stands alone on a tall stone pillar. The weathered and damaged stone pillars around it are thick or thin, tall or short.
Standing on the stone pillar and looking around, you will see a monotonous world composed of yellow and black. Countless canyons, caves, and stone forests are covered by the black forest sea, forming extremely complex terrains and becoming natural habitats for monsters.
In the darkness, there are countless dangerous people hiding in the shadows and caves, silently peeping here.
Under the summons of Tula, the most senior demon-hunting spider, all the wizard-level monster leaders in the nearby mountains and forests have gathered here to intensely discuss the group of human wizards who have appeared in the manticore's territory in recent days.
They are all deeply aware of the magic changes that have occurred around the Sickwood Forest recently.
The abnormal vibration and loss of magic elements have posed a serious threat to all monsters present. Even many experienced monsters can insist that human wizards have built a witch tower there, otherwise they cannot explain the abnormal changes in magic power in the black forest.
Wu Tower!
At the mention of this name, all the monsters' expressions changed slightly.
This... is a name that all monsters hate and fear!
Because hearing it means that the monsters have to pay a huge price for it.
Territory, hunting ground...even life!
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