Chapter 1028: Source Temptation

"Source essence..."

Grimm silently recited the name in his heart. Although he didn't say anything, his shining eyes betrayed his heart.

Source essence, of course he knew.

This is an extremely rare item, and it is also a top resource exclusive to 4th-level wizards.

Specifically, source essence is a kind of strange resource born from the combination of plane laws and certain substances under special circumstances.

In the general world, the origin of the plane hides behind the world structure and plane laws. It is a part of the world rules that are constantly flowing and running, and it is impossible to capture it.

Only when the plane world suffers a huge blow and it is difficult to maintain its integrity and stability, so that the boundary membrane is broken and invaded by the void storm inside the plane, a part of the plane origin will be dissipated due to the shattering of the law system. And the main reason why those star beasts like to invade the plane world so much is that they want to devour these "sweet and delicious" plane origins.

Star beasts can tear the plane barriers and break the plane balance, thereby devouring those free plane origins.

And this is also an inevitable process for the growth and development of star beasts!

Therefore, it is not without reason that star beasts are called the enemies of the plane and the enemies of all living beings.

In the past, the number of ancient wizards who could cross the rule level was extremely rare. One of the main reasons was that the illusory plane rules were elusive. They could only rely on amazing talent and luck and spend a lot of time to slowly understand them bit by bit.

And this process is the most difficult to grasp!

Even if you are amazingly talented and have superior combat power, once you are stuck in the understanding of the plane rules, the most likely outcome is that there will be no progress after hundreds of years, and eventually your life will be exhausted and you will die with hatred.

In the past hundreds of thousands of years in the wizard world, I don’t know how many geniuses and geniuses were stuck at the top of the 4th level, because they could not master the power of rules for a long time and became a short-lived meteor.

Most wizards are talented and intelligent people. In order to solve this huge problem, they racked their brains and used all means. Finally, in some damaged plane worlds, wizards who were brave enough to explore accidentally discovered the strange resource of source material, and then analyzed the mechanism of their formation.

Since then, those powerful wizards have also begun to consciously destroy some plane worlds, thereby artificially inducing the birth of source material. The emergence of a large amount of source material also makes it a hundred times easier for wizards to understand the laws of the plane than the ancient wizards.

And this ultimately led to the number of great wizards being more than ten times more than in ancient times.

However, destroying a formed plane world and indirectly killing tens of billions of plane creatures in it is just for some source material. After doing too much of this evil, the wizard group has gradually been disgusted and hated by other races.

In many books of the plane world, wizards are classified as evil camps together with the demons of the abyss world and the lords of the disaster world. This is also directly related to the fact that wizards often carry out large-scale blood sacrifices or concoct source material wherever they go.

However, with the continuous emergence of great wizards in recent years, in order to improve the external image of the wizard camp, they were forced to order the prohibition of deliberately destroying the plane world to collect source essence. This has also led to a sharp decline in source resources in the past few thousand years.

In the wizard world, no matter what type of source essence, it is classified as a 4th-level item, and the price is staggering.

And because of the rarity of source essence, it has become a top resource that 4th-level wizards have to compete with each other. Ordinary 3rd-level wizards simply have no way to obtain a single bit.

Therefore, when the wizard Fried suddenly mentioned source essence, Grimm's heart couldn't help but pounding, and he vaguely felt some strangeness.

"It seems that you already know the essence, so I won't elaborate on its function." Wizard Friede showed a sly smile on his face: "Then, Lord Grimm, do you want to get some essence?"

"Lord Friede, please tell me what you want to say! As long as I can do it, I will definitely not refuse!"

"Okay, okay..." Hearing Grimm's answer, Wizard Friede's face immediately smiled: "For hundreds of years, we haven't seen some new 4th-level wizards in Sandi Tallin for a long time. Therefore, the association is going to gather the most popular 3rd-level wizards in the central part of the continent to compete fairly, and then select a winner!"

Speaking of this, Wizard Friede paused for a moment, then squinted his eyes and continued: "The winner's reward is to join the association, enjoy the welfare benefits of a 4th-level wizard, and obtain 500 Sith essence."

Grimm's heartbeat suddenly stagnated, and it took a long time before it started to beat again.

Sith is a unit of measurement for essence.

Due to the special nature of the source material, it has no weight, no volume, and can be attached to any material. Therefore, it can only be absorbed by the crystal without attributes, so as to ensure that its law attributes are not "contaminated" by the plane material.

In the auctions and private transactions of high-level wizards, source materials have always been in short supply.

However, most of the ones that can be auctioned are low-grade source materials polluted by the plane material, and the law attributes inside have been eroded by the ubiquitous magic elements. The real high-grade source materials have always existed only in the private collections of high-level wizards, and they are kept secret and will never appear in public.

And the source materials that the wizard Fried is talking about must be those high-grade source materials!

According to Grimm's understanding, 500 Sith essence is not a lot.

According to the statistics of the wizard world's past data, the amount of essence consumed by a 4th-level wizard who wants to use essence to comprehend and master the rules of the world is affected by individual talent and talent. For those with strong talent potential, 7,000 Sith essence may be enough, while those with poor talent may need to consume 20,000 to 50,000 Sith essence.

And the total amount of essence that wizards can obtain by forcibly destroying a small plane is only 100,000 Sith!

Therefore, if you want to cultivate a great wizard who crosses the 4th level, the resource cost required is simply amazing, and it is not something that ordinary wizard families can afford.

500 Sith essence may not be enough for a 4th-level wizard to upgrade to the 5th level, but for a 3rd-level wizard who has reached the peak state, it is enough for them to successfully cross the threshold and become a popular 4th-level strongman!

With Grimm's confidence in himself, even without these essences, he is confident that he can successfully advance to the 4th level within one or two hundred years. But with these essences, his promotion time will be shortened to an incredible level.

Therefore, the temptation of these 500 Sith essences is still huge!

Competition... essence...

Grimm listened carefully and tasted silently, always having some doubts about the association's motives.

The 4th-level wizards of the association must have more or less essence reserves. These are the guarantees for their promotion and improvement. It is not enough to use them all for themselves. Who would be so kind to take out the essences that they have worked so hard to collect as gifts to reward their juniors?

This is not in line with the selfish nature of wizards!

Therefore, the association must have some ulterior motives behind the 3rd-level wizard competition this time. It's just that with Grimm's current identity and status, there is no way to understand and dig out the inside story.

"Who are the people participating in the competition this time?" Grimm asked in a deep voice.

"Originally there were only three veteran 3rd-level wizards, Garo from the Denel family, Dante from the Anemdo Academy, and Sanaza from the Salubo family... In view of your outstanding performance in the last wizard family war, many elders in the association proposed to add you to the competition list. What do you think, little guy, are you willing to participate in this competition?"

At this moment, even with the high-frequency calculation of the chip, it is impossible to fully calculate all the pros and cons. Everything can only rely on Grimm's personal analysis and judgment.

Crisis definitely exists.

But the existence of crisis can only indicate danger and opportunity.

For those who are prepared, crisis is opportunity, a good time to break the routine and take the opportunity to surpass the enemy. But for those who are not prepared, crisis is a real danger, and it will push oneself into a dilemma and a situation where one cannot help oneself.

And the reason why he is here is undoubtedly very important to Alice's attitude.

From Alice's vague hints before departure, Grimm vaguely understood something.

Grimm raised his head, met the eyes of Lord Fried, and nodded heavily.

"Lord Fried, I am willing to join this competition!"

"Okay, very good..." Wizard Fried nodded with satisfaction, turned back and ordered: "Laurion, you have heard Grimm's answer, go down and make arrangements!"

"Yes, sir!" Lauren glanced at Grimm with a complicated expression, turned around and left.

"Okay, you can rest and adjust in Keslinburg during this period. The association will notify all wizard families or organizations in Sandi Tallinn of the competition in the form of an announcement, and invite them to send representatives to participate in this event. It is expected that the competition will start in three months. In this way, even wizard families in the most remote areas will have a chance to arrive!"

President Fried explained many problems in bits and pieces, and then waved to let Grimm leave.

When Grimm's figure disappeared from the room, President Fried smiled and twirled his beard, pondering in silence.

As the light and shadow in the room changed, the figures of two wizards, a man and a woman, emerged.

"How is it? You have also observed this Grimm. What do you think of him?" Fried seemed not surprised by their appearance and asked directly.

"His physical data is a bit strange, it seems a bit too high..." The newly appeared male wizard was thin and vigorous, and he was also an elderly wizard. He was the vice president of the association, Milva Wizard.

As for the other witch, it was the 4th-level wizard Clara, who was also the current patriarch of the Denel family. The broken-faced wizard Garo who participated in the competition was a family member under her.

"In addition to the physical data, I think there are some problems with his soul fluctuations. It seems that there are some strange things mixed in it..." Witch Clara said coldly.

President Fried and Vice President Milva thought about it, and couldn't help but nod at the same time, silently agreeing.

Yes, this kid's soul wave has a trace of something completely unique to humans, which is very elusive...

"No matter how weird his soul is, as long as it doesn't affect this competition, it's fine. Don't forget, that time is less than 30 years away. If you don't choose a scapegoat, then you and I will be the unlucky ones!" Wizard Fried bit his teeth lightly and squeezed out these cold words from between his teeth.

The other two wizards frowned slightly and could only nod silently.