Rise of the Dark Witch

Endless Tower.

In the reward settlement room.

Fist-sized balls of light floated in the air for anyone to pick from.

Roja, Leo and Bellica stared at the floating balls of light and swallowed their saliva.

Each ball of light represents a world.

Every time they choose a ball of light, they can own a world as it really is.

Each of these worlds is a world in the third-level endless tower. Many worlds have huge potential and rich resources, and are the existences that even fourth-level wizards are attracted to.

Generally speaking, wizards can only choose among worlds that have already been challenged and cleared. They have cleared the fifty floors of the Endless Tower, so there should be only fifty worlds.

But the number of light balls floating around them was far more than fifty, as many as tens of thousands.

Because it is mixed with the remaining worlds selected by other wizards.

This is a privilege only possessed by wizards who have cleared the fifty-story endless tower!

As the team leader, Roya makes the selection first.

His eyes passed over the light balls. Whenever he stared at one of the light balls, relevant information about this world would appear in his mind.

"The non-demon planets should be eliminated first!"

In the Endless Tower Challenge, there are many magic-free worlds. These magic-free worlds may have a good environment or high technology, but they are of little use to wizards. If you want them, you can just buy them from the Mead Chamber of Commerce.

"Level 1 and 2 worlds are also excluded."

The reason why these first-level and second-level low-demon worlds appear in the third-level endless challenge is just that by chance, powerful beings with strength comparable to the third-level realm appeared by chance. They do not have the ability to make third-level wizards Resources that catch your eye.

"Don't use resources that are too secretive or too difficult to obtain."

Some worlds have very high theoretical levels and contain so many resources that even true gods can be conceived.

But obtaining these resources is too difficult and time-consuming.

If there is really no better choice, you can choose them. The problem is that there are nearly ten thousand worlds here for you to choose from. There are so many good worlds that there is no shortage of them.

Before long, he had selected twenty or thirty worlds that met his requirements.

After struggling for a while, he selected five worlds among them.

After Roja, Leo and Bellica also followed suit.

After getting a world they were satisfied with, the three people who came out of the Endless Tower were in a very good mood.

After leaving the Endless Tower.

Under Leo's leadership, the three of them came to a store selling resource worlds in the commercial street. This was the place where Roja first met Leo.

Standing in the vast first floor lobby.

Roja looked at the worlds of resources placed on the counter one by one, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

When he first came here, he took a fancy to a golden magic-free resource planet, which was sold for one hundred and twenty attribute-free divine crystals.

Being cash-strapped at the time, he could only balk at the sky-high price of one hundred and twenty attributeless crystals.

Now...

He used the soul fish to exchange for a lot of divine crystals from Li Ti in Black Abyss Witch City. He is considered a wizard with a small fortune. One hundred and twenty first-class non-attributed divine crystals can be purchased in the non-magic resource world for hundreds or thousands. Still no problem.

As for the more expensive world of resources?

There is nothing we can do for now.

The divine crystals he exchanged were not very many.

Leo on the side watched Roja's eyes wandering around the resource planets. He came to Roja's side, looked at Roja with grateful eyes and said: "Wizard Roja, you led us through the fifty-story challenge tower. , you also helped us place ten soul fish in Black Abyss Witch City. Your kindness to us is so great that I feel that the reward we negotiated before is not enough to express my gratitude to you..."

As he spoke, he waved his hand towards all the resource planets in the store.

"I decided to give you 300 first-class planets! 100 second-class planets! And 20 third-class planets!..."

"There are 5 more first-level worlds!"

Facing Leo's boldness, Roja was slightly stunned.

Don't look at it. Most of the planets that Leo sent were magic resource-free planets, but the magic resource-free planets didn't mean that the price was cheap!

Nothing about the planet is cheap!

Some third-level wizards may not be able to buy a third-level planet even if they work hard all their lives.

First-class planets are just planets floating in the void of the universe. They have no atmosphere, life, or water. There may not even be a sun within a few light-years nearby. Ordinary people cannot survive at all. Only formal wizards can operate normally on these planets.

These first-class planets are the cheapest among many planets, with prices ranging from a few non-attributed divine crystals to hundreds of non-attributed divine crystals. Gold mine planets will be a little more expensive, while ordinary iron ore, copper ore, aluminum ore... and other planets will be much cheaper.

A second-class planet has an atmosphere, water, and life, but the environment is extremely harsh. Even wizard apprentices may not be able to survive in this kind of world. But the potential is huge. If you spend some energy and continue to transform it for tens of thousands of years, maybe it can become a planet where ordinary people can live and reproduce.

Second-class planets are much more expensive than first-class planets, with prices ranging from tens of thousands of non-attributed divine crystals to tens of millions of non-attributed divine crystals.

As for third-class planets, ordinary people can thrive and live normally, and they are extremely precious planets with life. The price is very expensive, hundreds to tens of thousands times that of a second-class magic-free planet! Many third-level wizards work hard all their lives but cannot afford one!

A first-class world that is theoretically more precious than a third-class planet...

Price fluctuations are very large.

Some first-class worlds where life cannot survive are even cheaper than third-class planets. And some of the better first-class worlds are far more expensive than third-class planets.

"300 first-class planets?"

There is nothing to worry about on first-class planets.

Gold mine planets, iron mine planets, copper mine planets, coal mine planets... Roya selected 300 planets in one breath.

Then he came to the second floor of the store.

The first floor sells first-class planets, and the second floor sells second-class planets.

For second-class planets, you have to choose carefully.

"This planet is a bit close to the sun. The entire planet is made of magma, but life can actually be born in magma? Is there life that can survive in magma in a magic-free environment? It's interesting."

"Is this planet minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius all year round? There are many cold-resistant animals and plants living on it. I feel like I can choose."

"This planet is of a good size, and its distance from the sun is also very good. However, the earth's crust is still in a state of constant motion... It seems to have great potential. In a few hundred million years, it may become a planet that ordinary people can thrive in. planet?"

Not long after, he successfully selected 100 second-class planets.

Then he came to the third floor.

Facing the third-class planets displayed on the third floor, Roja's expression suddenly became extremely focused.

Third-class planets can also be called living planets, which are extremely valuable worlds where ordinary people can thrive.

Although third-class planets are life planets without magic power, life itself is an extremely precious resource!

Many wizard rituals require the use of massive amounts of life!

Magical planets can certainly make wizards more powerful, but due to the existence of magic, it is extremely difficult to increase the population.

Planets without demonic life are different. They can easily reproduce a population of tens to tens of billions.

Many wizarding powers will have many planets without magic life to reproduce the population, and then harvest them every few decades or hundreds of years, like cutting leeks, one after another.

These extremely precious life planets, no matter how grateful Leo was to Roja, he could only give him 20 of them.

After selecting the last 20 third-level planets and 5 first-level worlds, Roja received all the rewards. His cooperation with Leo's Endless Tower has come to an end for the time being.

"Here you go." Leo took out a strange dagger made of jade and handed it to Roja.

Roja took the dagger and played with it carefully.

An unedged stone sword?

There are many exquisite lines on it and it looks quite delicate.

"This sword is the Sky Contract Sword, a space prop used to open space passages..."

"In addition to the rewards from the Endless Tower and the planets I gave you, you have space wedges from three to four hundred planets, right? If you want to go to these planets, you need to use the space wedges you get to build space gates after you go back."

"And now that we have this Kongqimen Sword, we don't need to go through so much trouble."

"Just put the space wedge into the sword, and you can open the passage to the corresponding world, which is convenient and fast."

"But it can only be used in the six gathering places of wizards."

"And the space channel is small and cannot exist for a long time. If you want to develop the resource world on a large scale, you still need to build a space transmission gate."

After giving Roja the last gift, Leo patted Roja on the shoulder and said:

"If you have time, you can go to the Meade Chamber of Commerce. I have opened your teleportation authority. You can directly reach our Meade Chamber of Commerce through the teleportation gate of Magic Machine Academy."

"If you are interested in traveling around the universe and looking for planets with various resources, come to our Mead Chamber of Commerce and I will not let you down."

“Looking forward to our next cooperation.”

Leo and Bellica left.

Looking at their leaving figures, Roja suddenly felt a sense of reluctance in his heart.

The reason why he kept leading them through the Endless Tower, but didn't abandon them until they were no longer of any use, was not only to obtain the reward from the resource planet that Leo promised, but more importantly, his feelings.

The three of them spent decades together in the Endless Tower.

It would be an understatement to say that he is the person he has spent the longest time with in his life.

I miss him, he is over 300 years old, but has anyone stayed by his side for so long?

No!

"Friends?"

"If I were really only over three hundred years old, you would have become my best friends, right?"

"After all, they are just partners who come together temporarily because of interests."

"but……"

Roja recalled what Leo said to him when he left.

"Traveling in the void of the universe in a spaceship?"

"Traveling between different planes?"

"Looking for various worlds?"

Did he have a chance to experience something like this that only existed in fantasy before?

It's quite exciting when I think about it.

“I must try it if I have a chance in the future.”

"Before that..."

"What needs to be done next..."

He took out his magic machine token and read the information on it.

He has very few friends in Magic Machine Academy, and even fewer friends who will send him messages.

"Etta Crist..." He squeezed his hand with excitement, "I have finally waited for this moment!"

…

Inside the Magic Machine Academy.

In a luxurious restaurant.

The dining table, which is hundreds of meters long, is filled with all kinds of delicious food.

The food here is different from the food in Black Abyss Witch City that was transformed using illusions. These foods are real.

Most of the food is free.

Some foods that are made with precious materials or have special functions need to be purchased with magic crystals.

There are cheap ones and expensive ones.

It’s cheap, so cheap that you can eat hundreds of tons of it a day.

It's so expensive that even a fourth-level wizard would feel heartbroken for a long time just eating every dish.

Roja, who had not had a good meal in the Endless Tower for decades, couldn't help but eat.

He was sitting at the dining table, and plates were flying around.

Empty plates disappear.

New plates filled with dishes kept appearing.

While Roja was immersed in the delicious food, a small blond figure walked towards him.

Etta Crist!

After more than a hundred years of absence, Aita looked no different from the last time we met. He looked like he was in his early tenth year with a small body and a trembling attitude when facing him.

Looking at Aita who looked like a cute little squirrel, Roja smiled and said: "You are still the same as before. We have known each other for so many years. Do you still tremble when you see me?"

"I, I don't want to either?" Aita pouted dissatisfiedly, "I originally thought that after entering the third level, I would never be like this again."

Aita is a timid wizard with super intuition.

She is timid by nature. Except for those closest to her, she will be instinctively afraid of anyone who is stronger than her.

She is afraid of Roya because she instinctively feels that Roya is stronger than her, and much stronger, so powerful that if Roya wants to kill her, she will not be able to escape!

She originally thought that after she entered the third level, she would no longer be afraid of Roja.

Unexpectedly, when they met again, she felt that the gap between her and Roja not only did not narrow, but actually widened!

"Your intuition is really powerful." Roja said with a little envy.

In his opinion, Aita's intuition, which can sense the opponent's strength at a glance, is already powerful beyond common sense, much more powerful than many witchcraft and bloodline talents.

He ate and chatted with Aita.

"How many years have you been practicing?"

Nearly one hundred and fifty years have passed since they last parted. But the reason why Roja asked this was because he noticed the huge change in Aita's age.

Aita looks the same as before, but the feeling is completely different.

It's not a question of strength.

It’s the traces of time!

"...It's been almost a thousand years." Aita squinted her eyes and stared at Roja, "Compared to me, have you abused the power of time a little too much? I feel that you are almost at the end of your life at the third level. ”

In the wizarding world, there are very few wizards who know time witchcraft, but it is not impossible.

Every major force can produce a person with time talent in hundreds of thousands of years, and a third-level and fourth-level time wizard can be produced in tens of thousands of years.

With a third-level or fourth-level time wizard, you can naturally build a time training room.

In the time training room, the passage of time is different from that outside. It may be three to five times different, it may be more than ten times, or it may be dozens of times.

Although time training rooms like this are very rare, basically every powerful wizard with a fifth-level wizard in charge and a time period of more than 10,000 years will have one.

As a powerful force that has produced sixth-level wizards, the Crist family in which Aita lives naturally has a time training room.

The reason why there is no time training room in Magic Machine Academy is because...

The Magic Machine Academy is a place used by the Master of the Magic Machine Domain to screen and cultivate talents. The existence of the Time Training Room will greatly affect the classification and judgment of talent levels.

They are all five hundred years old, some are really five hundred years old, and some are five hundred years old who have practiced in the time training room for thousands of years. The latter is stronger, does it mean that the latter is more talented? ?

This is the reason why there is no time training room in Magic Machine Academy.

However, Magic Machine Academy does not prohibit using the time training room outside.

Although it is not prohibited, even if many wizarding forces have time training rooms, they still will not allow wizards below the third level to use them.

If you use the time training room in advance, you may be able to save dozens or hundreds of years of time.

But for those powerful wizards, does the time saved really make sense?

Does it have much impact if the maturity time is hundreds of years slower?

Compared with saving hundreds of years of time, the harm of abusing time in the practice room is even greater!

It seems that Aita's breakthrough to the third level this time only took more than a hundred years. In fact, she has been practicing for thousands of years with the help of the time training room.

During this "thousand years", she successfully raised her cultivation level to the top of the third level. She learned level 3 witchcraft, she inscribed multiple level 2 witchcraft, and her strength underwent earth-shaking changes.

But Roja's improvement was even greater than hers!

But the price is...

Even though Roja is only in his early 300s now, due to his abuse of Jenga of Time, his actual age is already close to 3,000 years old.

The basic lifespan of a third-level wizard is three thousand years!

If you want to continue living after reaching three thousand years old, you can only use life extension rituals and life extension potions. However, once you use these life extension methods to extend your life, it will reduce the success rate of reaching higher realms in the future.

"You have abused the power of time too much. You are already close to three thousand years old. If you cannot enter the fourth level in the next few hundred years, you may regret it for the rest of your life." Aita said solemnly.

"Do you think I can't become a fourth-level wizard before I'm three thousand years old?" Roja asked.

"It's too extreme. It's better for people to leave a little margin for themselves."

"……you're right."

To be honest, Roja felt quite regretful about his misuse of the power of time.

If something really happened, for example, if he was trapped during an adventure and couldn't leave for hundreds of years, and there were no items that could extend his life, wouldn't he die of old age and aggrievedness?

Although this possibility is low.

But as Aita said, it is too extreme, the error tolerance is too low, and it is not something a smart person should do. (End of chapter)