The Magical Path Of The Wizard With A Biological Chip

It had been more than 300 years since Eclivel had become an official Mage!

Due to his timid and prudent disposition, he hardly participated in any conflicts or battles among the Mages. As a result, the improvement of his overall strength was very slow. In the last 100 years, he had even fallen into the terrifying situation of having his overall strength nearly stopped from progressing.

But a new round of the family's interplanar warfare was going to begin soon. According to statistics obtained from analyzing all of the previous data, the minimum fatality rate of First Grade Mages in interplanar warfare was 50%. For an Mage like him, who was not good at fighting, the rate would be even higher. Therefore, in order to bring his overall strength up another grade before the warfare began, Eclivel had no choice but to take the risk and cast his evil eyes on to the few Pseudo-Mages under him.

Initially, the magical array had only been prepared for Blake and Bleia. But following the debut of Leon and Lucy, Eclivel felt like he might need to give the magical array some modifications so that he could include the latter two in his evil scheme.

By devouring three Pseudo-Mages cultivated by the family in one go, even if Eclivel succeeded in making an advancement, he would still receive punishment from the Sarubo Family. However, as he would be a Second Grade Mage at that point in time, so long as he was willing to give up more of his rights, presumably, the punishment coming from the family would not be that severe.

After all, anyone could easily tell the difference between the value of a Second Grade Mage and three Pseudo-Mages.

Currently, the only high-end Mages owned by Sarubo Family were one Third Grade and one Second Grade Mage. If they could have a new Second Grade Mage, the overall strength of the family would definitely take a huge leap. With that, their position and interests in the Zhentarim Association would also rise accordingly.

Under such circumstances, who would really take action against the wrongdoings of a Second Grade Mage?

After he finished checking the magical secret room, Eclivel wasn't tired, so he continued by checking on the situation of Blake, Bleia, and Leon. As he was the highest authority in the Swampy Tower, he could examine and observe every single nook and cranny within the tower and within a three mile radius of the tower. In addition to that, the subject of his surveillance would not notice his presence at all.

By relying on this method, Eclivel was able to get a detailed grasp of the recent developments among those few apprentices.

Despite that, Leon entered his line of sight only once in awhile, so Eclivel understood him the least among all three Pseudo-Mages of the tower. For the sake of safety, Eclivel felt that he should just devour Blake and Bleia.

As for Leon, once Eclivel gained control over his body, Eclivel would force him to make an advancement. If Leon managed to breakthrough, he would become one of Eclivel's food items. If he failed, then he would be given to Bleia and she would suck his blood, increasing the success rate of Bleia's advancement. Blake was aided by a huge amount of Bleia's source blood, which had greatly increased the success rate of his advancement. Though Bleia's overall strength would suffer major decay because of that, with the nourishment from the blood of Leon and Lucy, she too would have the possibility of making a breakthrough.

If necessary, he could even throw Intermediate and Advanced Apprentices over to Bleia, making them her tonic!

In addition to that, what he needed from them wasn't a normal breakthrough. At that point in time, he could just use some prohibited magical medicine to stimulate them, causing their Spirit to boom, and the success rate of forced advancement would be at least 80%. He just had to devour their blood and flesh before they were killed by the backlash of the magic spell. The path of advancing into Second Grade Mage was still bright and dazzling!

Trying his best to hold down his restless excitement, Mage Eclivel repeatedly pondered every single step and flow of his plot for advancement, thinking carefully about any possible event that might happen during its execution and arduously patching up the loopholes.

According to the news leaked by Master Herbert, the Second Grade Mage of the family, in just one year the founding ancestor of the family would open the door of the plane, sending all the family's Mages, including Eclivel, into the war zone. Therefore, he was only left with a short half year!

Through the mirror, Eclivel covetously ran his eyes over the images of all three Pseudo-Mages, who resided in different locations within the tower. He moved his dried, thin lips and murmured under his breath, "Work hard and grow stronger, my fruits! Once you reach your mature stage, you'll have the right to merge together with me... hehehe..."

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The day after Lucy had her bet with Leon, the Poisonous Witch, Endor, once again appeared in front of Leon.

Leon was pretty sure that if killing him would release Lucy from the bounds of the magical contract, he would be a dead man already!

After Endor gave Lucy's soul a thorough and detailed examination, her face became so dark that one could even squeeze out some black water from it. Under the restriction of that powerful magical contract, Lucy had virtually become Leon's contracted slave and she was the one who was being controlled.

More importantly, Lucy was a descendant of the Northern Witches and the blood flowing through her body was from the clan of Destiny Witches. The attention this clan attached to a contract was heavier than all the other few clans of witches. Hence, the matter had become rather tricky to solve.

In the center region of the Mage Continent, when one was referred as a witch, she was usually a female Mage. But in the northern region of the continent, where the heart of the Northern Witches was situated, the title of witch usually referred to those mysterious existences who owned the bloodline inherited from the ancient era. Every single one of them possessed extraordinary power from their bloodline, and the source of their bloodline would always trace back to Salem, a Ninth Grade Witch, and the first existence who had stood at the pinnacle of the Mage World.

With regards to this Ninth Grade female Mage of the Mage World, she was commonly referred to as the Witch Queen. Since she had left the Mage World, she had left behind thirteen different witch clans among her descendants. And through the historical changes of more than ten thousand years, many of them had withered away. Currently, only seven of them remained in the territory of the Northern Witches.

As for the six clans that had withered away, under the influence of the mighty Will of the World, they wouldn't vanish totally. Every once in awhile, some random descendant of the witch would suddenly awake with some special powers, and was able to revive the witch clans that had nearly vanished from the world.

According to some rumors, the reason behind this was because the Witch Queen Salem had an agreement with the Will of the Mage World. The overall strength of someone like a Ninth Grade Mage was too formidable and she was able to cause tremendous distraction in the normal function of the plane. Therefore, in order to kick these 'burdens' from the Mage World, the Will of the World had no alternative but to compromise to their requests.

Since then, anyone who became Fifth Grade Mage or above would be 'squeezed' out of the Mage World. In return, the Will of the World allowed these Mages to include part of their own principles in the functioning system of the Mage World.

Although the Witch Queen had left, she had also left behind thirteen World Principles in the Mage World, all of which carried her unique mark. With that, as long as the system of the world kept functioning properly, it was impossible for her followers to vanish completely! Even if some formidable Mages killed off all of her descendants, as long as the World Principles still existed, as time went by, when a suitable vessel was found, the principle that carried her mark would still light.

Therefore, in the Mage Continent, the Mage Family that possessed a principle inherited from the ancient era was a monument that would never collapse!

Lucy belonged to the clan of Destiny Witches. A few thousand years ago, due to some unique reasons, the clan had withered away. However, in the last few hundred years, a large group of witches from different places around the Mage Continent had awakened with special innate talents. As a result, the leader of the Northern Witches had dispatched many of her subordinates to bring these witches back to their sacred land.

With regards to these newly awakened, some witches took them as a new hope and some looked at them as troublemakers, and neither side could come to a mutual aLeonent. Because of this, the task of bringing them back had become a rather awkward situation.

The Poisonous Witch Endor came from the clan of Dark Witches, and this clan had a very good relationship with the clan of Destiny Witches. That was why, when Endor discovered that Lucy had awakened the bloodline of Destiny Witches, she took initiative and assumed the responsibility of Lucy's return ceremony.

But too bad, before the ceremony was prepared, Lucy had become a contracted slave of someone else. If it was any other witch, perhaps she would have long strangled Leon to death. Even if it might kill Lucy at the same time, the witches would never allow the bloodline of a witch to be contaminated by any outsiders!

Nevertheless, considering the bloodline abilities of the Destiny Witches possessed by Lucy, Endor felt that it was an omen given by the Force of Destiny, which led her to give up the idea of killing Leon. Instead, she dragged him into a secret room and carried out an in-depth discussion.

Endor gave Leon a warning. If he wanted to bind Lucy to his side, the only way was to make her bloodline abilities grow as quickly as possible and bring her to the territory of Northern Witches within ten years, so that she could complete her baptism of destiny. During this round of large scale awakenings, Lucy had not been the only one who had possessed the bloodline of the Destiny Witches, but only one of them could survive after going through the baptism.

If Lucy couldn't make it to the ceremony, once another witch completed her baptism and became the Destiny Witch, then, under the influence of the World Principle, Lucy's power would become a sacrificial offering for that particular witch. In the end, Lucy's existence would be completely wiped away by the Will of the World!

For no apparent reason, Leon had been dragged into an unnecessary conflict, from which he felt tremendous pressure. But, considering that he would need help from Lucy in the upcoming mission of self-rescuing, he had no choice but to accept this 'hot potato' while sighing.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Yet, when he vaguely hinted at the situation with Endor and asked if he could borrow her power in solving a 'small problem' of his, Endor simply turned around and left!

Though Endor didn't embrace Destiny, she still held reverence toward Destiny.

It was because of Leon that Lucy was able to become a Pseudo-Mage smoothly. This also meant that the Force of Destiny had tightly tangled both of them together. Before she could tell whether her help with Lucy was positive or negative, Endor would never get involved in the natural selection of a Destiny Witch.

With regards to the explanation from this 'Poisonous Witch', inwardly, Leon just gave her two huge middle fingers to express his despisement. If you don't want to help, just say so! Why are you giving me such a 'refreshing' reason in order to shirk the burden? Leon couldn't help but admire her excuse!

Therefore, drawn by the mighty Force of Destiny, this future 'Destiny Witch' had come to Leon, like she was supposed to, and become the fourth member of Leon's camp!

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