Wizard's Journey

Chapter 167 Activating the Heart

As soon as Gulini and Victor entered the room, they saw a brightly feathered myna bird with a red bow tie around its neck, holding a small wooden mallet, and solemnly performing a wizard's ritual towards the two of them.

Huh?

As a sorceress, Guli Ni was naturally susceptible to such beautiful creatures. Upon seeing Xiao Ba, her aged face suddenly revealed a hint of interest from a young girl.

This performance is one of the outward manifestations of a wizard apprentice with wizarding abilities, as Peranos described.

"Grin, is this your soul servant?" Gulini asked Grin, pointing at Hachi, a slight smile playing on her lips.

Green glared at the myna bird and said calmly, "Not a servant, but my partner." Then he gestured for the two to sit down.

partner!

Both Guinea and Victor were taken aback, finding it hard to believe that Grimm had actually released his primal soul fire. If this was the case, once the seemingly defenseless myna bird died, Grimm's soul would forever lose the chance to grow again.

This news is quite surprising.

Immediately, the way Gulini and Victor looked at the myna bird changed.

Wizards have absolutely no feelings for their soul servants. Soul servants are essentially treated like commodities or mechanical puppets, merely a resource. Wizards don't experience any extra emotions from them.

However, if one is a wizard's original soul servant, their status will immediately undergo a qualitative change.

Primal soul servants are the lifeblood of a wizard, an exposed weakness, and a true partner whom the wizard absolutely acknowledges. The relationship between a wizard and their primal soul servant even surpasses that between a wizard and their partner; therefore, if another wizard sees another wizard's primal soul servant, it is essentially no different from seeing that wizard himself.

"Caw caw, esteemed sir and madam, welcome to Grimm's Demon Hunter Castle." The myna bowed slightly, actually adopting a wizard's etiquette, looking quite respectable!

Those who don't know the true nature of this myna might actually think it's...

"Wow, beautiful myna bird, what's your name?" Guli Ni asked in surprise.

Cough!

Green couldn't stand it any longer. He glanced at the one who kept winking at him while the other acted like a hypocrite, and coughed twice to interrupt Gulini, saying, "Its name is Ba... uh... Ba Nijimivichi."

Green made up a name out of thin air.

Green didn't notice that the myna, who had been polite to Victor and Guinevere but grinning at Green, suddenly trembled, as if touched by something.

After saying this, Green waved his hand from under his robe, signaling the henchmen beside him to leave, and sat down with Guinea and Victor at a long table laden with abundant fruits.

All three wizards wore loose robes, but because they belonged to different factions, they each exuded a different aura.

As dark wizards, Green and Victor sat down politely even on the soft sofa, looking as if they might suddenly erupt at any moment; it was even debatable whether they were actually sitting down.

In the master's room, neither of the two dark wizards' cloaks concealed their faces, yet it always seemed as if there was an invisible veil over their faces, making it impossible to see their true features.

In contrast, Guli Ni, wearing a top hat, leaned lazily on the sofa, peeled a grape and put it in her mouth, exuding an indescribable sense of ease, naturalness and authenticity.

It gives the impression that, among the three people present, only Gulini is truly showing herself and is a truly living person.

Both Green and Victor couldn't help but secretly observe the true self of this sorcerer, but after observing for only a moment, Victor turned to look at Green.

In fact, this was the first time Victor had ever truly seen Green's true face beneath his pale mask.

"I never expected that Lord Grin, who was rumored to be the nightmare wizard apprentice in this year's Holy Tower Qualifying Tournament, would have such a handsome appearance." Victor's voice had no pitch variation, and was completely mechanical.

Green ignored the other person's flattery.

Since there were no real benefits, and the other party's position wasn't worth Green's concern.

On the other hand, although Green was only secretly observing Gulini, it still made Gulini frown.

"The interaction between light wizards and dark wizards is indeed somewhat difficult." Thinking this, Guli Ni nodded to the myna bird, who was dressed in a respectable manner and also looking at her, and slowly turned her head to ask, "Lord Grin, what about that Mech Heart?"

Victor didn't speak, but the look he gave Green conveyed the same meaning.

"Ahem, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, since my master, Lord Grim, is not suitable to participate in this transaction, the right to handle this matter concerning the second-generation worker ant-level mech heart of the wizarding world has been entirely entrusted to me as his agent," the myna bird interjected at the opportune moment.

Boom, boom, boom!

After tapping the mallet, the myna bird's head completely disappeared into the dimensional gap to the astonishment of Guli and Vic. The next moment, it picked up a small metal ball with its mouth.

This metal sphere is a mech heart that Green accidentally found in the ancient ruins of the Black Tower Mystic Realm.

blah blah blah!

The mech heart landed on the table, and Grimm stretched out his arms to Grilini and Victor, who were looking at him, and said, "This is an ancient mech heart that I accidentally discovered while exploring a ruin."

Da da da.

The metal ball rolled on the wooden table, making a crisp "tap-tap" sound. After catching the metal ball, Guilini's green eyes suddenly turned into two vortexes, and a pair of elf-like creatures appeared.

Green's eyes flickered.

"It really is the fluctuation of some kind of strange sealing technique. Is it my talent as a sealing vessel, or... a gift from another high-level wizard, or even an experiment?" Green pondered in his heart.

Of the two sprites, one of the green sprites saw the Mech Heart in Gulini's hand and immediately showed an extremely excited expression. It swallowed a metal needle-shaped magical artifact in its hand and then rushed directly towards the Mech Heart.

When Green saw the metal needle in the elf's hand, he couldn't help but recall the thrilling moment when the Pale Mask was shattered.

"Yoyo Green, how is it? Are you satisfied?" Guli Ni asked the little elf who was now fully dressed in a miniature metal mecha.

At this moment, the little sprite named Youyou Green, thanks to the super-extendability of the Mech Heart, was wearing the mech originally designed by the ancient wizard for humans, and it also shrank.

After whispering excitedly to Yoyo Green for a while, the other little sprite flew to Roseline's ear and whispered something to her.

A moment later, Gulini nodded, the two little sprites disappeared, and the mecha reverted to the Mecha Heart, which Gulini gently handed to Viktor.

After receiving the Mech Heart, Viktor's magic surged, causing it to rapidly expand and instantly cover his unmechanized body. He then narrowed his eyes and carefully experienced the full capabilities of the mech.

Green was slightly surprised. Partial mechaization?

It turns out that the Mech Heart can change like this under the control of the Mechanical Wizard.

A moment later, Vic glanced at Green, but at Green's prompting, he handed the Mech Heart to Hachi.

"Hehe, alright, now we'll begin the most exciting moment: bidding for the ownership of this Mech Heart." The myna bird looked extremely excited.

After exchanging a glance, Gulini smiled confidently and took out a sealed container filled with green liquid. Inside the green container was a constantly beating heart!

"This heart is a rare, activated biological heart, the most crucial item for crafting chimeras. According to tests, this heart retains an energy frequency between 158 and 390 degrees even after the organism dies. If it were a professional dark wizard crafting chimeras, it might be possible to create a level 2 chimera through special means..."

Boom boom boom!

Xiao Ba suddenly tapped the mallet, interrupting Guilini's introduction.

"Ahem, not to mention the massive amount of precious active flesh and blood needed to refine a synthetic beast and the enormous energy required for the corpse refining array, the value of just one elemental soul in the process of refining a synthetic beast is no less than that of an active heart. Moreover, this heart was only the core of a level two organism before, and now it is only suitable for the frequency fluctuations of a level one synthetic beast."

After saying that, the myna shook its head and bargained sarcastically, "Level 1 synthetic beasts? The effort spent is less than buying soul servants directly. As for synthetic beast forging materials, parts below level 3 are nothing more than wizards' experiments."

Soul servants are limited to level three. The number and quality of soul servants a wizard can obtain through soul seeds have an absolute upper limit, unless they become a wizard's soul servant in their weak period and then advance to the next level.

Therefore, for most wizards, the most loyal fighting partners are activated elemental creatures.

Of course, a small number of elite wizards choose to learn the chimera crafting techniques of dark wizards.

On the other side, after thinking for a while, Victor took out a small bottle a little slower than Gulini. Inside, a red, thread-like lightning crystal flickered.

This……

Victor remained silent, while Green let out a soft exclamation and moved slightly closer to observe the lightning within.

Xiao Ba glanced at the red lightning thread in the bottle and said, "Melting lightning into threads has a very strong restraining effect on vengeful spirits. However, if it's only this one thread, I'm afraid even slightly stronger vengeful spirits won't care."

Without making a sound, Victor took out another small ball of witch essence, about six pieces in total.

Shaking his head, Viktor said in a deep voice, "This is the highest price I can pay for this Mech Heart."

Little Eight turned to look at Guilini: "Ahem, are you sure this is the highest price you can bear? Hmm? Are you sure? As a Steel Emblem Myna that has lived for a long time, I must kindly remind you that the materials used for this ancient mecha have been completely extinct in the wizarding world..."

…………

Half an hourglass later, a heart soaking in green liquid was placed on Green's table, along with three witch spirits.

"Hehe, Young Master Green, the goal has been successfully achieved! Time for the dividends, dividends, dividends..."

No sooner had Gulini and Victor left than Hachiko revealed its true nature, eagerly flying onto Green's shoulder, having long since tossed aside its bow tie and mallet.

(End of this chapter)