Chapter 0071: Concentration Potion

It is precisely because the existence of the Dark Crypt is of great significance to many wizard families in the Dagon region that some foreign elite apprentices like Grimm are their favorite targets for recruitment.

First of all, recruiting such outsiders will not cause too much impact on their inherent interest structure. How can a wizard apprentice without family support dare to openly offend those formal wizards? Therefore, the elite apprentices recruited will only become their most powerful thugs, but it is impossible to take advantage of the situation and become their competitors.

Secondly, the underground world is not peaceful. The rare resources urgently needed by the wizards on the surface are also the targets of the underground black cubs, so every underground exploration and harvesting trip is also the beginning of a melee between the two sides.

Due to long-term exploration and development, the rare resources of the underground specialty have been discovered and marked by both sides in the form of resource points. Both sides know when each resource is mature and when it needs to be harvested. Therefore, around these resource points, every harvest is a bloody fight of life and death.

In this melee, neither side will send out formal wizards, and the scale of the battle will be limited to the level of wizard apprentices. Only the winner of the battle between the two sides is qualified to enter the resource point to harvest. As for the loser, he may escape with injuries at the least, or even lose his life there.

And this bloody fight has lasted for more than 300 years in the dark cave area, and it has almost become an unwritten rule here. Both sides use powerful apprentices as bargaining chips to compete for the resource share at a fixed time every month. The winner takes all, and the loser dies. It is a great stage for prospective wizards to show their skills.

Now Grimm has been favored by the training camp led by Bald Afu because of his special abilities, so he has the honor to join it and become one of the elite apprentices. This will make him even busier. In addition to participating in the apprentice mission organized by the Wizard Association every 15 days, he also has to participate in the underground tour organized by the training camp from time to time.

In this way, Grimm will definitely get contribution points much faster than ordinary people.

After basically figuring out the situation in the training camp, Grimm said goodbye to Kevin and returned to his residence.

After locking the door and making sure that the surroundings were safe, Grimm began to remove the strange objects and witchcraft equipment on his body one by one.

Noble headband, thorn armor bracelet, swift leather boots, screaming branches, dwarf engineering goggles...

When he was sure that there was no witchcraft effect on him, he whispered.

"Chip, start detecting my current physical condition..."

"Ding, accept the task, start scanning the main body..."

Zizizizi...

As the slow and meticulous mental band extended throughout the body, soon, Grimm's latest physical data was projected.

Name: Grimm

Race: Human

Attributes: Strength 417, Agility 436, Constitution 498, Mental Strength 842

Occupation: Primary Wizard Apprentice

HP: 1818

Occupational Experience: 7651000

Status: Healthy

Occupational Skills: Copying Scrolls, Spell Reading, Primary Magic Puppet Making

Personal Skills: Burning Hands Solidified, Flame Arrows Solidified, Flame Spears Solidified

Looking at these lines of data, Grimm couldn't help but look happy.

Compared to his weak body before, Grimm's physical data has now begun to rise across the board. The most prominent one is undoubtedly the constitution, which has directly jumped by nearly 2 points. You know, a month ago, Grimm's constitution was only 3 points, which was considered to be the kind of weak among wizard apprentices.

Although the increase in the other three physical attributes is not large, they have all been significantly improved, and they are no longer the same as before.

Grimm looked through his body data, then sat down in the chair, casually took out a bottle of concentration potion from his storage belt, held it in front of his eyes and examined it silently.

The light blue potion rippled gently in the sulfide bottle, and fine blue particles could be vaguely seen in it. However, in the case of isolation of breath, the chip could not accurately analyze the witchcraft ingredients in the potion.

Grimm gently opened the bottle stopper, and immediately a unique fishy wind from the sea surface came into his nose. Without any hesitation, Grimm raised his neck and swallowed the potion in one gulp.

As soon as the potion entered his mouth, a light blue mist sprayed out of his nostrils, condensing into a finger-sized sad mermaid in front of him. The pocket-sized mermaid quickly withered and aged in the air. When its illusory body was about to wither, a shrill and sharp howl suddenly sounded in the house.

The howling didn't last long. Soon, the mermaid's shadow disappeared as the mist dissipated, but the sharp voice sent a sad and resentful curse into Grimm's mind.

"Chip, what happened just now?"

"Ding, the flesh and blood curse was detected... Preliminary estimation is that it is a negative effect of the potion... If it is expelled, it will reduce the efficacy of the potion... Please choose whether to mobilize mental power to dispel the flesh and blood curse?"

Grimm sighed.

I have heard that the concentration potion has strong side effects, and now it seems to be completely true. If you want to improve your mental power, you can only silently endure the ravages of the flesh and blood curse.

"No. Just keep dynamic monitoring!"

"Accepting the order. The effect of the drug is starting to take effect..."

On the body monitoring data projected in front of Grimm, the string of numbers belonging to mental power began to rise slowly, and at the same time, the physical fitness began to drop significantly.

…………

……492……

Fortunately, the earth fire dragon flesh and blood that Grimm had just eaten yesterday brought him more blood and qi than usual, which relieved the pain in his internal organs that was like being bitten by thousands of ants and insects. Otherwise, even he himself was not sure whether he could support this painful process.

Sensing the heart-gnawing pain from all parts of his body, the only thing that could make him feel a little happy was the rising mental power.

898……

903……

908……

Seeing that his mental power finally crossed 8 points and successfully rose to 9 points, Grimm grinned.

Finally, the mental power data was fixed at 927 and no longer increased. Grimm groaned.

"Chip, dispel the curse of flesh and blood!"

"Accept the order! Start releasing fire element particles..."

As waves of warm heat continued to flow through his body, the sour and numb feeling with pain finally began to subside and disappeared completely. At this time, Grimm's physical data had become: strength 412, agility 436, constitution 421, and mental power 927.

Uh... This bottle of concentration potion brought Grimm a 0.85 increase in mental power, and at the same time, his physical fitness decreased by 0.77 points, and even his strength declined by 0.05 points.

Grimm stood up and moved around. Although the feeling of emptiness brought by the decline of physical fitness existed, it was not as strong as expected. It seems that the feast he enjoyed yesterday still brought him a lot of hidden benefits! The increase in mental power brought Grimm a comprehensive improvement in strength. Both the swiftness of mental thinking and the depth of mental perception have been greatly improved compared to the past.

Unable to bear the itch, Grimm hesitated for half a second, then took out a bottle of concentration potion from his storage belt, opened the cork and drank it.

The same journey, the same flesh and blood curse, Grimm endured the huge side effects of the potion with strong expectations, and tried to concentrate all his energy on the rising mental power data.

929...

933...

946...

952...

...

In contrast, the chip sounded a slight alarm.

"Warning, the subject's body's flesh and blood tissue damage has exceeded 17."

"The damage has exceeded 19."

"The damage has exceeded 21."

"Ding... Warning, the damage has exceeded 25. If left unchecked, the subject will enter a short-term weakened state. Do you want to intervene?"

Grimm gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "No!"

The original tingling pain has now turned into a heart-wrenching pain. Beads of sweat rolled down from Grimm's forehead. He twisted his body in pain in the seat, and with his strong will, he resisted fainting. If he really fainted, then he would lose his control, and the flesh and blood curse would have to be allowed to dissipate on its own. And this would undoubtedly bring him more physical damage!

So even if it was just to reduce the loss of 001's physical fitness, he had to stay awake tenaciously.

987...

"The damage has reached 22."

993...

"The damage has reached 23."

999...

"The damage has reached 24."

1003...

"The damage has reached 25."

Grimm finally shouted loudly after sensing that his mental power data was no longer changing.

"Begin to expel!"

When the warm torrent surged in his body again, the pain finally began to subside completely.

Grimm supported himself with his hands on the armrests of the chair and tried to stand up twice in a row. His body, which was almost numb with pain, no longer listened to his command. At this time, his physical data was finally refreshed.

Strength 402, Agility 428, Constitution 317, Mental Power 1003.

Finally broke through 10 points!

From this moment on, Grimm has the honor of becoming an intermediate apprentice.

It only took Grimm one and a half months to upgrade from a junior apprentice with 8 points to an intermediate apprentice with 10 points, but it took him 6 years to upgrade from a junior apprentice with 6 points to 8 points. The difference between having resources and not having resources can be seen at a glance.

However, Grimm also paid a huge physical price for this.

His mental strength increased from 927 to 1003, leaping a small level, while his physical fitness regressed from 421 to 317, a staggering decline. In addition, Grimm's strength also decreased by 0.1 points, and his agility decreased by 0.08 points.

The damage to the body caused by the concentration potion is indeed cumulative! chapter;