Amiro Parasite

Chapter 94 Amiro Parasite

Green's vision went black, and the next moment, he found himself in an unfamiliar place.

Bright, gentle magical light surrounded him, and a gentle, orderly flow of elements filled the air. Beneath his feet were clean stone slabs, with countless runes surrounding them, forming a basic magic circle pattern with a six-pointed star within a large circle. Grimm stood at the very center of the magic circle.

This is……

"You lasted for more than two hourglasses, not bad. What did you gain inside?" A familiar voice came from behind. Green turned around and found that the magic circle under his feet was a huge platform with a diameter of more than 30 meters. The person speaking to him from below the platform was none other than his mentor, Peranos.

Green quickly bowed and asked, "Master, where is this?"

"The Black Tower has ninety-nine floors," Peranos replied to Grimm, then chuckled. "The Black Tower is quite different from the Wizarding World, isn't it? I've been there a few times, and each time I discover something interesting."

So that's how the Black Tower has ninety-nine floors.

Green breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Yes, it is indeed very different from the Wizarding World, especially the natural rules and world rhythms. Obviously, because it is just a fragment of a world, it does not have the rules and rhythms that a world should have. It is completely silent, but at the same time, it seems to be influenced by the rules of the Wizarding World."

As he spoke, Green landed next to Peranos and began to recount his gains in the secret realm.

After a moment, Peranos pondered and said, "Mutant creatures are quite normal. After all, the rules of the world are different. You should ask your second senior brother about this; he's very interested in it. As for that Bald Kiron Stone, it's not very useful for arcane wizards, but you might have a chance to use it when you become a demon hunter wizard at the Holy Tower. And that golden fruit you mentioned should be the extremely precious Golden Ginseng from the Black Tower Secret Realm. It's a rare and valuable item specially cultivated by the Tower Master. I once obtained one myself, and its nourishing effect on the physique was very noticeable; it's an extremely precious item."

If Professor Peranos described it as something precious and remarkably nourishing to the body, then this Golden Ginseng must be a truly valuable item.

Green was delighted, but he immediately became even more eager to hear his mentor's evaluation of the "ruins".

Peranos shook his head and said, "Although I haven't seen it... what you're talking about shouldn't be any kind of ruin. I don't know much about alchemy either. The Tower Master has been ruling the secret realm for so many years, he has already explored every ancient ruin. The so-called ruin laboratory you found should be a temporary laboratory of some ancient wizard. There are quite a few creatures known for their enormous size, so a few hundred meters is nothing."

Green opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say; a hint of disappointment crossed his face.

Such a massive laboratory, so many enormous vessels, such wondrous biological skeletons, and the legendary alchemical material, Alien Marrow—how could it possibly be a temporary laboratory of an ancient wizard? Even an ancient wizard wouldn't be so extravagant as to build such a temporary laboratory, would they?

Moreover, it is very likely that I have only discovered a small part of the ruins!

Thinking this, Green suddenly recalled the shocking scene he had witnessed through the crystal window. He was about to retort when he saw Peranos's face darken. (It was a feeling, not a sensation; Green couldn't see Peranos's darkening expression because his face was stitched together, devoid of color.)

"You idiot, how can you be so stupid? If you really discover ruins, they're your private property. You'll have plenty of opportunities to explore them in the future. Do I, your mentor, have to spell it out for you?" Peranos sternly lectured the unworthy Green.

Green was taken aback. He had been completely unguarded around his mentor, which was indeed against some of the rules among wizards.

Maybe……

Unbeknownst to him, Green had already come to regard his mentor Peranos as someone like Old Ham. A wizard's heartfelt emotions could indeed melt away someone's defenses, perhaps because of that one experience...

Just then, the magic circle on the platform suddenly flickered and hummed. Then, under an indescribable powerful magical pressure, space distorted, and a figure appeared in the center of the magic circle on the platform.

Grimm narrowed his eyes. "The Sword of Light, Aldas?"

Peranos glanced at the man and said calmly, "Alright, you are the last wizard apprentice to return. This trip to the Black Tower Secret Realm is now over."

Ardas saw the legendary Dean of the Black Tower Academy and quickly bowed. However, when he saw Grin, wearing a pale mask, standing beside the academy master in a rather "intimate" manner, he was taken aback. Recalling their past interactions during the mission at the Crimson Crow Mine, countless startling thoughts flashed through Ardas's mind, but he dared not say anything. He gave Grin a solemn look, nodded slightly as a greeting, and strode out of the room.

Once again, only Peranos and Green remained on the ninety-ninth floor of the Black Tower.

Peranos turned and left the room with Grin, saying as they walked, "How was it? Did you feel the energy of this wizard tower just now?"

Green nodded, saying in awe, "It's unimaginably vast. It's as if I was standing in front of an ocean made entirely of magic. At that moment, I even felt that the natural laws around me were changing because of this vast magic."

With a smile, Peranos said, "This energy is the amplification that level four and above Saint Mark wizards gain through the Wizard Tower. This is also the insurmountable gap between level three Grand Wizards and level four Saint Mark wizards."

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Three days later, in Varo's private laboratory.

This was Green's first time in his second senior brother's room, and he couldn't help but look curiously at the strange plants, fossils, bones, alien decorations, bizarre little creatures, and other trinkets whose purpose he couldn't discern. All these things had one thing in common: they were all labeled as belonging to another world.

On the other side, Senior Brother Varo was excitedly studying the several alien creature specimens that Green had brought, occasionally flipping through some ancient books and some notes, constantly muttering excitedly to himself, looking like he was completely absorbed in it and couldn't control his madness.

Green didn't bother his senior, Varo.

With this senior brother who specializes in studying otherworldly creatures around, Grimm was able to save a lot of time to analyze and summarize his gains. After all, Grimm still had to receive some instruction from Peranos and race against time to study the explosive flame magic.

Time is really too tight.

Furthermore, there will be another mandatory mission from the academy a year later. Instructor Peranos will not care about Green's sorcery research, because Instructor Peranos has no idea about the preparations Green is making in secret, so it will definitely be another mission that is quite far away.

Of course, Green will definitely not train as slowly as he did last time.

With nothing to do, Green toured Varo's collection one item after another. Finally, Green's gaze fell upon a solitary "shadow" standing in a crystal vessel, and he looked surprised. This shadow, like a pool of black liquid, kept flowing around the vessel, seemingly tireless, moving in circles.

Feeling the faint life force emanating from the shadow, and confirming that this "thing" was indeed a living being, Green couldn't help but feel that the endless world was truly wondrous. No wonder those high-level wizards were constantly fighting to gain more knowledge...

Thump, thump.

Varo strode over to Greene's side and saw Greene staring at the shadow in the vessel. He explained, "This is a low-level life form called the Flat Moon Shadow World. You can think of it as an elemental life form. This life form is very strange. It can only move along the surface of an object. Perhaps in their minds, the world is just a crumpled piece of paper. And their food is light. To humans in the wizarding world, this is a very strange life form."

Green smiled. He dared not share his limited knowledge of this other world with his senior brother Varo, otherwise it would be embarrassing. This is what they mean by specialization.

Maybe……

Senior Brother Varo is the kind of arcane wizard that Mentor Peranos mentioned, one who is not suitable to become a demon hunter wizard.

As for the power of arcane wizards, perhaps with a sudden inspiration or a qualitative leap in their accumulated knowledge, they might one day achieve astonishing accomplishments in a particular field. After all, to put it simply, so-called demon hunter wizards are nothing more than a group of wizards who desperately develop their combat abilities using magical knowledge.

"Grin, of the otherworldly creature specimens you brought, I haven't seen any similar creatures recorded before. But I've observed their life characteristics and mechanisms, and so far I haven't found anything special. Their only research value is probably the evolutionary comparison between them and similar creatures in the wizarding world."

After labeling all the small biological specimens in Green's bottle, Varo also categorized some materials that Green had occasionally collected on the road that did not exist in the wizarding world. Except for a soft, unknown jelly-like substance that was identified as a rare material for making a precious adhesive, the rest were classified as worthless waste.

Finally, Varo pointed to the incredibly long horsehair worm on the experimental table and said, "This Amiro parasite is so long; it's something never seen in records. It's probably some kind of evolution. After all, according to the ancient scroll I saw, since the extinction of a life form called the Mutant Myxosome in ancient times, this parasite has been unable to find a suitable host and has begun to exist as an independent life form in nature. Hmm, I just checked, and the Amiro parasite's bodily functions haven't changed much. What's most important to the wizard is still that Doom Thread."

Aminoparasites? A variant myelopathic life form?

Green's mouth dropped open in surprise. "Isn't this called a horsehair worm? How come it's also called an amiodarone parasite? And what is that mutated myeloid life form?"

Varo scratched his head and said, "Uh... 'Horse worm' is what modern wizards call this creature. Ancient wizards called it the Amiro parasite. The scroll I once saw recorded that many wizards in ancient times even cultivated this parasite as a companion insect. As for what the alien marrow-like life form is, I don't know. The scroll only recorded that this life form produces a top-grade alchemical material called alien marrow, and that the life form is very large, with a very high level of life form after adulthood."

Green's pupils contracted, and he exclaimed in horror, "It's that alien experimental subject?"

If it were said that such "enormous" horsehair worms were parasites of alien experiments in ancient times, that would be plausible. But to say that ancient wizards cultivated such "enormous" symbiotic worms within their bodies is something Green finds hard to believe. Did the ancient wizards cultivate a special breed?

Moreover, why would ancient wizards cultivate such symbiotic worms in their bodies?

What is the connection between these fragmented clues?

Knowing he couldn't get any more information from Senior Brother Varo, Green shook his head and decided to put the matter aside for now. At this moment, everything should focus on the Holy Tower Qualifying Tournament. Later, when he was stronger and had more time, he would definitely explore the "ruins" he had discovered in the Black Tower Secret Realm.

Thinking this, Green thanked his senior brother Varo, paid him the appropriate reward for the identification, and left with the biological specimen.

(End of this chapter)