Age of Adepts

Ice Wind Collar, White Tower.

Although the White Pagoda is located in the north, it is impossible to know exactly what happened in the family headquarters, but private gossip is still spreading rapidly.

Most of the family wizards inside the Wu Tower have been transferred back to the Crimson Throne, where they are desperately resisting the invasion of foreign enemies. But judging from the news sent back so far, the situation is not optimistic.

As a result, even the White Pagoda has become panicky and anxious!

Fortunately, Wizard Meryl, the person in charge of the Wu Tower, is still there. Under the joint suppression of her and the Ice Maiden Xuefu, some turmoil that had just shown signs of turmoil subsided quickly.

These days, Meryl has been so busy.

On the one hand, she has to diligently handle all the daily affairs of the White Tower, on the other hand, she has to keep an eye on the news from the Throne of Flame, and provide it with the greatest material and manpower support anytime and anywhere.

Of course, Meryl still needs to allocate part of her energy to keep an eye on the movements on the ninth floor of the White Tower!

Just before the Flame Throne crisis broke out, Bliss, the most famous worm witch among the first-level wizards of the Crimson Family, suddenly returned to his residence on the ninth floor of the White Tower to retreat. According to Meryl's knowledge, the family has already sent all the necessary resources to advance to Tier 2 to Billis, and Billis chose to retreat at this moment most likely in order to hit Tier 2 in a short time.

At a time when the front line of the battle is in dire straits, if the Crimson Clan can have an extra Tier 2, it will be extremely beneficial in every respect. So after hearing the news, Meryl sent the old fox Wenlier to the door of Billis' residence, trying to get the news as soon as he left the customs.

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Inside Billis' residence.

The turmoil of the outside world has not affected Billis's state of mind.

In this magical secret room that was completely sealed off by witchcraft, Billis took off the thick black robe that had been covering his body all year round, and completely revealed his evil and ugly insect body.

After nearly a hundred years of bloody killings, Billis could no longer see the appearance of a human being on his worm body.

The black carapace with deep luster, the ugly lotus petal-shaped mouthparts, the dense compound eyes densely embedded in the front of the insect's head, the huge and clumsy chelicerae...

Billis lay prone on the floor like a real big bug, his abdomen rapidly swelled and shrunk, and his body made dense crackling sounds, as if the current bug body could no longer bear the enormous power he devoured.

Countless cracks suddenly appeared on the dark black carapace, and the cracks became wider and wider. From the cracks in the carapace, one can even see the translucent abdominal sac that has swelled to the limit. Inside, thick yellow and viscous unidentified body fluids were rolling, and some strange tadpole-shaped eggs could be seen every now and then.

As a worm witch, Billis's advancement method is definitely completely different from that of ordinary wizards.

His situation at this time is not at all like the advancement of a normal human wizard, but more inclined to the evolution of an insect monster.

Billis was rubbing and writhing on the floor in pain, his ferocious mouthparts constantly swallowing thick and sticky acid mist, completely covering his body inside. As soon as the acid mist touched the air and the floor, there was a strange rustling sound of corrosion. However, as soon as Billis's shattered insect body came into contact with the acid mist, the shrill and painful hissing dropped a bit.

It was as if this terrible acid mist could act as a nourishing and lubricating effect, relieving the pain of part of the insect shell being cracked!

As the core wizard of the Crimson family, Billis can also enjoy many unique benefits.

After experiencing the war on the Faen plane, the Crimson family captured a large number of life system crystals. These crystals are now swallowed up by Billis, and they have become the biggest support for him to complete this evolution.

However, in the process of evolution, Billis once again faced a difficult choice.

The process of advancing to the second level is actually a node to re-select the path of insectification. Now Billis must choose between strengthening the insect body and strengthening the insect swarm.

If he chooses to strengthen the insect body, he will change his previous weak appearance and increase the hardness and magic resistance of his insect shell by a hundred times. At that time, he would be able to resist the attacks of ordinary level 2 wizards only with this worm body that was stronger than fine steel.

This is clearly a choice that puts him on the path to fighting Zerg!

If he chooses to strengthen the swarm, his own defense and magic resistance will only increase slightly, and more advanced abilities will be added to the swarm he leads. And the sorcery abilities he has learned and mastered can benefit all the bug swarms through the amplified aura.

And this choice undoubtedly made him the lord of the swarm again, and also became a brood that relies on the sea of ​​insects to fight!

After much deliberation, the worm witch Billis, who had always been timid and afraid of death, and didn't like to fight head-on, finally chose the evolution path of the brood.

Once the direction of evolution was determined, under the influence of the strange power of evolution, some surprising changes appeared in Billis's strange worm body stretched into a ball.

The color of the dark and deep carapace on the surface of Billis' worm body is constantly changing, and his thick chelicerae have also become stronger and more powerful. However, these changes were not as obvious as the changes in his abdominal sac.

In the abdominal sac of the evolved worm body, the digestive and excretory organs are no longer visible, and all the intra-abdominal space is divided into cystic cavities of different sizes, which can be arranged as Billis wishes. Some special zerg.

After the evolution, Billis can no longer accumulate life energy by devouring food and flesh and blood as before. Without the stomach pouch and digestive juice, he has lost the ability to feed and digest himself, and can only rely on swarms to plunder life energy to sustain one's own life.

Therefore, the evolved Billis is not so much a wizard as a hive of worms that can walk freely!

After the difficult evolution was completed, the first thing Billis did was to summon the previously concocted demonized praying mantis to his eyes. A total of twenty-three first-level intermediate demonized mantises surrounded him like a group of loyal bodyguards, bowed their bodies slightly, and silently offered their loyalty to him.

The appearance of Billis before and after evolution does not seem to have changed much, but if someone can examine his body carefully, he will find that he has undergone tremendous changes.

Billis carefully examined the group of demonized mantises serving as personal guards in front of him. When he extended his spiritual power to their soul imprints, the group of mid-level demonized mantises whose strength was no more than 1st level were in agony. Hissing began a sharp mutation.

Their bodies are stretching, their wings are stretching, their bones are growing, and the terrifying sickle-shaped forelimbs in front of them have become even sharper and sharper, with a strange magical luster faintly flashing on them.

In front of Billis, in front of him, 5 demonized praying mantises successfully advanced to become 'Void Predators'.

This is a ferocious monster of level 2 primary!

Although they maintain the appearance of demonized mantises, they are far more ferocious and powerful than demonized mantises.

Traveling through the void gave them the strange ability to briefly enter the space between layers. This ability is also extremely suitable for penetrating obstacles or dodging enemy attacks. With their current strength, they can only maintain the void travel ability for 3 seconds, and the cooldown time is only 18 seconds.

And they can also temporarily attach this part of their abilities to their sickle-shaped forelimbs, giving them the ability to kill regardless of defense.

It's just a pity that their evolved physiques are still in the lower reaches of the second-level monster group, and they belong to predatory monsters with thin skin, brittle blood and strong attack.

Once the alienation advancement of the war bugs is completed, their biological levels will be slightly different.

5 Void Predators flapped their strong wings and crouched at the place closest to Billis, while the other demonized mantises shrank back to the distance, lying quietly on the ground, not daring to fight with these Void predators fight for front position.

As for the dense swarm of insects, they spread farther away and gathered into a wriggling ring, silently guarding the evolution of the lord of the swarm.

Billis looked at this group of new void predators with joy, and felt the power of the Worm Witch for the first time. If five 2nd-level junior void predators join forces to attack a 2nd-level wizard, Billis doesn't think that the other party has any hope of escape and survival.

If there is any flaw in the Void Reavers, it is that they cannot use scrolls, potions, or magic wands like human wizards, and almost rely on their powerful bodies to fight. Otherwise, with the protection of such a group of handy and fearless insect generals, Billis has the confidence to confront three or four second-level wizards head-on and win a big victory.

After all, wizards are not afraid of death, but generals are not afraid of death!

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As soon as Billis stepped out of the residence after the promotion was completed, Wizard Meryl rushed over after getting the news.

Standing in front of Billis in a strange black robe, although he couldn't see any skin on his body, Meryl firmly believed that the other party had successfully advanced.

Because in front of him, Meryl, who possessed a level 1 primary strength, even felt a strange feeling of fear and shrinking from the depths of her heart. If Billis hadn't cleverly suppressed his ferocious Zerg aura, Meryl might not even have the chance to stand in front of him.

The mental coercion brought about by the suppression of the same level, together with Billis' unique ferocious aura, mixed together, made him no longer the dewormer that everyone hated in the past!

"Billis... Your Excellency..." Meryl bit her lips tightly, trying to suppress the crazily surging fear in her heart: "Congratulations...you have become a...second-level wizard!"

"Hiss..."

Billis tasted the other party's fear intoxicatedly, and finally couldn't hold back the joy in his heart, and screamed as much as he wanted.