Chapter 0979 Gambling on Life

The reason why the wizard war in the Gunsas volcano did not cause too many horrific casualties is mainly related to the sparse population near the volcanic area.

However, since the wizards broke into there, the Gunsas volcano exploded every three days and erupted every five days. The thick volcanic ash spewed out covered the sky and the sun, making the area hundreds of miles away a dead place where life was extinct.

The Gunsas volcano is located in the central part of the Zambes Empire. It is impossible for the movement there not to alarm the upper echelons of the empire.

However, the Zambes Empire was like blind, turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to the wizards who turned the place upside down. Even a large number of regular troops of the empire, under the command of the paladins, moved some people near the Gunsas volcano and completely marked it as a restricted area.

Of course, what they announced to the outside world was that the Gunsas volcano accidentally entered an active period, and in order to avoid casualties among the people of the empire, the local villagers were moved out. As for what happened in the Gunsas volcano, only a few high-ranking empire officials and some high-level paladins could truly understand what happened there.

Although it sounds a bit shameful to let a group of foreign wizards fight to the death within their own rule. However, considering that the evil witches in the southwest have not been eliminated, the high-level officials of the Empire and the Paladins unanimously agreed that it is not appropriate to involve these wizards in the plane war.

So, the days passed one by one...

Five days...Ten days...One month...Two months...Three months...

On November 25, half a year after Grimm and others crossed the wormhole and arrived at the Envik plane, the witch tower standing on the Dabire Highlands in the southwest of the Zambes Empire finally collapsed!

Grimm got this news through the wandering plague spirit Remi.

Since Grimm gave it the order to move freely, Remi chose to wander around the edge of the Zambes Empire, looting and cleaning an imperial village every now and then to maintain and replenish the number of his plague corps.

In the past six months, Remi has raised a plague corps of thousands of people. But unfortunately, a tall tree attracts the wind, and soon attracted a large group of paladins to attack.

Remi, who was not suitable for frontal combat, met the paladins who were best at "purification", and was scared to flee without even the third-level gold knight. It fled into the wilderness jungle with the remaining hundreds of elites in one breath, and went to wreak havoc on the indigenous monsters of the Envik plane.

There were no guys as good at "purification" as the paladins among the indigenous monsters, so Remi was like a fish in water, and the number of plague legions swelled again.

With an inexhaustible source of soldiers, Remi used the vast wilderness jungle as his base, and from time to time he rushed out of the jungle to harass the surrounding human villages and towns, and sharpened his men bit by bit. It took only two months for Remi to create his own second-level plague subordinates-the plague messenger.

This is a strange creature that is good at mixing, manufacturing, and spreading plague. Their individual combat power is not very strong, and they are not even as good as low-level poisonous corpses. However, they have the ability to continuously produce plague spores, and can also amplify or adjust the magical properties of plague spores according to different enemies.

This ability makes them the best helpers for Remi to manage and expand the plague army!

Many times, if a level 2 plague messenger is thrown into an area rich in biological resources, Remi doesn't need to intervene at all, and the plague messenger can quickly pull up a considerable plague army for it.

From the appearance, these plague messengers are extremely ugly.

Dark blue morbid skin, full of sticky and slippery body fluids, terrible bubbles that are constantly bulging all over the body, and yellow and green plague virus bacteria can be seen in them. Every time a bubble bursts, it will release a deadly plague with terrifying lethality into the air.

It can be said that wherever the plague messenger passes, there will always be a group of terrible yellow clouds in the air that will never dissipate. All life forms infected by the yellow cloud must be forced to undergo plague transformation. Those with weak constitutions are decomposed and assimilated into more plague spores and released into the air. Those with more unusual life forms may be transformed into carriers if they survive the plague transformation.

That is, low-level poisonous corpses!

The plague creatures, which were sacrificed with thousands of indigenous lives as a furnace, became stronger and more elite as the killings continued. The Paladin Squad, the Imperial Regular Army, the local militia, the mercenary squad, and various local armed forces... The plague corps created by Remi and these deadly enemies launched a life-and-death crazy killing in various towns, villages, wilderness, woodlands, and swamps.

Eliminate the weak and keep the strong, kill and evolve!

It can be said responsibly that any plague creature that can survive in this environment has become an extremely terrifying elite leader, and there are even lord-level plague creatures that have evolved four or five times.

It is precisely because of this group of plague subordinates that Remi has become a huge hidden danger in the northwest border area of ​​the Zambesi Empire. If the fraud witches had not tied up most of the empire's strength, I'm afraid that a high-level paladin would have led a team to encircle and suppress it.

However, on November 25, Remi's good days finally came to an end.

The witch tower that had always stood on the Dabire Highlands was breached by the 4th-level holy knights, and the large group of fraud witches there also fled in all directions, becoming a group of stray dogs.

After receiving this news, Remi first passed it to Grimm through soul connection, and then led a large group of men into the deep mountains and forests and never showed up again. If it dared to cause trouble in the territory of the Zambes Empire at this time, I am afraid that the terrible 4th-level holy knights would appear in the team that encircled it next.

This is a powerful guy that even the master dare not provoke, and it... It's better to stay away from it honestly!

And in the past six months, Grimm was very sadly blocked in the Gunsas Volcano by four hunting wizards. With the volcano backing him up, the four hunters did not dare to rush in to find trouble with him, and Grimm did not dare to leave the volcano easily.

So, the two sides confronted each other angrily!

Hearing the news that the witch tower was knocked down, Grimm, who had been restless and wanted to repel the four hunting wizards, finally calmed down and hid in the depths of the volcano and lived in seclusion.

Since he couldn't beat the enemy and didn't dare to leave the volcano easily, it would be meaningless to continue fighting. It would be better to calm down and see how long these damn guys were going to stay here.

However, what Grimm didn't expect was that these four hunting wizards were unexpectedly tenacious.

They kept guarding the crater, and at least one wizard was on duty there every day, while the rest of the wizards either hid in a small camp to rest or ran to the human town outside to buy some food and water.

Although the demand for these things for level 3 wizards has been incredibly low, food and water are still an indispensable physiological supplement.

Originally, the four hunting wizards wanted to use these to force Grimm out of the volcano, but what they didn't expect was that Grimm actually carried a lot of fire dragon meat in his storage ring, which was enough for Grimm to last for ten years if he ate sparingly.

As for drinking water, Grimm actually carried a water-making magic wand with him. Although there was little clean water condensed in the extremely rich Molten Fire Cave, it was enough for him alone.

So, the two sides were in a stalemate, one inside and one outside!

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Since the outside road was cut off, Grimm no longer thought about it.

Taking this rare opportunity of "seclusion", Grimm hid in the Molten Fire Cave dug out under the lava pool. With the help of simple facilities and poor resources, he once again completed the soul cutting and put part of his soul into the soul crystal.

And this action also made his soul breath suddenly weak!

According to the evaluation of the chip, Grimm's soul has shrunk by more than 1/3, which has also seriously affected his combat power.

However, the risk is great, and the reward is also huge!

The soul crystal was filled with hundreds of souls whose consciousness was already in a daze. The soul that Grimm split out rushed into it like a tiger into a flock of sheep, and could devour and dissolve the ownerless holy light power at will.

Grimm's split soul first consciously devoured the holy light of the black iron knights, and waited until its own power grew and strengthened, then slowly launched an attack on the holy light of the silver knights. And its ultimate goal, of course, was the only golden holy light in the soul crystal.

While the split soul devoured the holy light power, in order to cover up his suddenly weakened 1/3 soul, Grimm even took the initiative to provoke a war again, using a large number of stored fire creatures to attack the opponent's camp.

And Grimm's "abnormality" naturally could not be hidden from the powerful perception of the psychic. The four hunting wizards obviously had some disagreements about the sudden weakening of the fire witch's mental power.

Katie the Swordsman and Beneja the Psychic both thought that the Fire Witch might have been meditating carelessly and causing a backlash, which caused their souls to become weak, and this was a good time for them to take advantage of the opportunity to attack. However, Natagu the Giant Snake Witch and the Old Poison Lady agreed that this was a trap set by the Fire Witch to lure them into trouble.

Otherwise, how could a Level 3 wizard's soul suddenly become weak!

It's not Natagu's fault that they were suspicious and thought too much, but no wizard dared to play the soul-cutting game like Grimm when surrounded by enemies.

If he encountered a few reckless and irritable guys and rushed into the lava pool, it would be extremely difficult for Grimm to repel the enemy's attack when his soul was weak.

However, after six months of "contact", Grimm, who has always been daring, has gradually become familiar with and understood these four hunting wizards. Therefore, after deeply evaluating their personalities through the chip, Grimm boldly made this almost 'suicidal' move.

Fortunately, he made the right bet!