On the shore, a wizard apprentice in blue wizard robes was practicing spellcasting.
The wind has risen. An ordinary wizard apprentice like him with no background or talent must work hard to learn to fly!
Until a bloody tentacle suddenly emerged from the bottom of the sea. With a pop, it pierced his back and emerged from his abdomen. Then the tentacles wrapped around his head in circles, suffocating him.
Whoosh.
The tentacles disappeared without a trace, and the wizard apprentice also disappeared on the coast...
Leviathan's back.
The bloody tentacle left the wizard apprentice here, and then retracted from Levi's hand.
The wizard apprentice obviously hadn't figured out the situation yet and thought he was being attacked by some kind of eight-clawed sea monster.
Until he saw the silver-haired man on the whale's back, his calm eyes were filled with fierce murderous intent.
"Now, I'm going to ask you some questions, and you'd better answer me truthfully." Levi said.
"Who are you? I am from Whale Song Island..."
Phew.
Before the wizard apprentice could finish speaking, the ferocious tentacle appeared again and bit off one of his fingers.
His painful wails and desperate sounds were drowned in the waves.
"What level do you dare to show off with me?" Levi dug out the finger from the alien's mouth and pinched the alien's throat while digging it out.
"How many times have I told you, don't eat randomly? I haven't told you about the eye you ate last time. Now you want to eat your finger again, right?" Li Wei said calmly.
The wizard apprentice was completely dumbfounded when he saw this strange scene.
Why is this person talking to himself in front of his tentacles... Could he be a lunatic?
Or rather, this bloody tentacle is some kind of parasitic organism.
For a moment, he doubted his life.
He knew that he might have been attacked by some kind of monster.
The silver-haired man in front of me is not a human!
After teaching the tentacle a lesson, Levi let it go, and the tentacle hovered in front of the wizard apprentice, revealing circles of sharp teeth and salivating.
Levi continued to ask: "That is the island of the Gray-White Tower. Why did your Whale Song Island occupy this place?"
The apprentice endured the severe pain and said tremblingly: "I said...I said that Whale Song Island defected to Lord Black-Eyed Crow Morty some time ago and joined the Free Wizards Alliance of the Endless Sea. Lord Morty ordered us to return to the island in March. Within the year, we will eliminate or conquer all the wizard organizations in District 9, capture District 9, and support the free wizards in District 8 and District 7. After our people arrived at the Gray-White Tower, we found that it had become a Empty city…”
Levi listened quietly to the apprentice's confession. The so-called Free Wizards Alliance was actually the Dark Wizards Alliance.
It's just that dark wizards are the name of the Tower of Stars. Black wizards themselves don't think of themselves as dark wizards. They think of themselves as free wizards.
After getting the information he wanted from the wizard apprentice, Levi gave him a happy death. For a little guy like him, many things were organized by wizards and moved forward by the times, and he couldn't help it. .
"Black-eyed Crow Morty, the four-ring wizard of the Black Sun Tower, is extremely powerful. He is now the controller behind all the dark wizard forces in the 8th and 9th districts. Morpheus from the Whale Song Island is just him. It’s just a chess piece in my hand.”
But the good news is that although the territory of the Gray and White Tower was invaded, Teacher Mailin and the others seemed to have foreseen that this would happen in advance and evacuated the Gray and White Tower.
I just don’t know where he went, and there is no news yet.
For a moment, Levi was a little confused.
He originally had a home in this wizarding world.
But now, because of this sudden war, he and his family were separated.
Levi looked at the gray-white tower and left here temporarily.
He is now alone. Even if he can kill the wizard stationed on the island, it will be meaningless. It will only alert the enemy and alert Whale Song Island and Morty.
What he can do now is to save his life in this troubled world, practice hard, and improve his strength as soon as possible.
Levi came to the Black Sail Wizard Market and found that this place had also been occupied by the Whale Song Island. All the shops on it, including his own Warhammer Tavern, had been occupied!
The casual wizards who originally gathered at the Black Sail Wizard Market either evacuated the place or joined if they couldn't defeat them.
"Well, fortunately, my choice of Black Fire Island was biased enough." Levi was somewhat grateful for the choice he made.
He collected some information at the Black Sail Wizard Market and returned to Blackfire Island.
So far, nearly half of the second-ring wizard organizations in District 9 have been eliminated or annexed by Whale Song Island.
Although Morpheus is a three-ring wizard, it is impossible for him to have the strength to do all this in such a short period of time.
He definitely has Morty's back. This four-ring black wizard has a good status and strength even in the Black Sun Tower where there are many powerful people, and he has many powerful people under his command.
As for the Great Expedition of the Five Realms, there has been no new news about the expeditionary groups heading to the five major federations. They should be still marching in the endless darkness.
The entire wizarding world seems to be facing a real disaster, with internal and external troubles coming at the same time.
This is not limited to the Endless Sea, but includes all realms of unbelievers.
Compared with this disaster, the original tide of sea monsters could only be regarded as playing tricks.
Levi looked at the sky. At this moment, he deeply felt his own insignificance.
"Reinforce the defensive array of Black Fire Island, and at the same time, hurry up and advance to the second-level wizard!"
After Li Wei returned to Black Fire Island, he began to refine a new magic circle.
The magic circle he wants to refine this time is no longer the zero-ring magic circle. He is going to start trying to refine the shadowless trace formation! A true one-ring magic circle.
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Shenghui calendar year 1039, the original month.
The fourth year of the Great Crusade.
The Crazy Witch of Beasts went to an ancient wizard ruins, broke one of the seals, and released a terrifying demon that could make the entire endless sea tremble.
The high-ranking demon lord on the 108th floor of the abyss, "Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord Tidus", is also known as the "Light of Destruction" and the "Multi-Eyed King".
This is a demon lord whose strength is equivalent to the peak of a high-level soul wizard, that is, an eighth-ring wizard.
Of course, that was its strength at its peak, and it may have declined somewhat now, but its strength is still terrifying.
Tidus was just one of the demon lords who invaded the wizarding world the last time the abyssal civilization invaded the wizarding world.
In the last invasion war, the wizard civilization paid a heavy price, repelling the abyss army, killing and severely injuring dozens of demon lords, and Tidus was one of them.
The one who defeated Tidus was the tower master of the Tower of Stars at that time, the nine-ring wizard Morsol.
Tidus is different from ordinary demon lords. It may not be particularly strong, but it is extremely difficult to deal with.
The difficult part is that Tidus can only seal it, but cannot kill it. Because of the special ability of the Hundred-Eyed Demon King [Eternal Destruction], once he dies, his true spirit will return to the abyss, and then the beholder demons in the abyss plane will Returned from the midst of rebirth.
Historically, this demon lord who was comparable to the Son of Destiny was killed dozens of times by various powerful men, and eventually came back again and again.
So Mosol chose to use the nine-ring spell, "Gargamel's Great Seal" to seal Tidus in an ancient wizard ruins, hoping that in this way, he would be permanently trapped in the Endless Sea and unable to be reborn.
Gargamel is a famous ancient wizard who is extremely good at sealing spells. The five-ring witchcraft Gargamel's sealed book that Li Wei saw was the nine-ring holy Horcrux "Gegewu" used by this ancient wizard during his lifetime. A replica of "Witch's Fairy Tale World".
After sealing the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord, the Tower of Stars has been sending people to guard this sealed place to prevent Tidus from unsealing it and bringing disaster to the Endless Sea.
However, the Tower of Stars still underestimated the strength of the Beast Witch. He single-handedly defeated the four high-level wizards guarding the sealed land, and even tore apart Gargamel with a nine-ring spell scroll. The great sealing technique released the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord.
And all of this is a step planned by the dark wizards in advance.
With the cunningness of the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord, it was impossible for him not to see that this was the Wild Witch of All Beasts taking advantage of him.
But so what? As long as it can bring destruction, that's enough.
The meaning of the existence of abyss civilization is destruction and killing.
If we say that wizards are a group of egoists who do whatever it takes to pursue the truth.
The devils are a group of thugs who are born to destroy the world and pursue extreme violence and killing.
Among the multiple planes, more civilizations have been destroyed by the abyss than colonized by wizards.
Destruction is far easier than colonization.
After the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord was born, it also meant that in the Endless Sea, another chaotic and evil camp was added to the original black and white wizard camp.
Although this may backfire on the dark wizard himself, in the view of the Hundred Beasts Madman and the others, releasing the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord will do more good than harm.
The ancient wizard ruins where the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord was located soon became a forbidden land in the endless sea, known as the [Hundred-Eyed Demon Realm].
Under the erosion of the demon lord's "demon energy" that was more terrifying than nuclear radiation and represented corruption, many low-level sea beasts or wizards were contaminated and turned into monsters. They began to spread radiation around the ruins of ancient wizards. .
This brings more crises to the already chaotic Endless Sea.
To this end, the Tower of Stars sent many high-level wizards to destroy the monster lair. Unfortunately, as the lord of the 108th floor of the abyss, Tidus, although not as powerful as he was at his peak, was not comparable to ordinary high-level wizards.
In the end, these high-level wizards returned home in vain and almost stayed in the monster's lair.
The situation outside is becoming more and more chaotic day by day.
District 9, meanwhile, isn't much better.
Whale Song Island launched a wizard war against Sighing Sea Breeze. Sighing Sea Breeze suffered heavy losses. Mason Sage suffered heavy losses and escaped with serious injuries. Other wizards and wizard apprentices in the Wizard Tower also died and ran away.
After sighing that Hai Feng also suffered a murderous attack, other wizard organizations formed the belated Ninth District Self-Defense Alliance, and gathered all the remaining forces in the Ninth District into the second-ring wizard organization [Monsoon Tower].
The Tower of Stars also took the opportunity to dispatch the supervisory envoy Riemann from the eighth district to the Monsoon Tower, integrating the white wizard forces from the eighth and ninth districts, gathering them together, and being coordinated by Riemann.
In this way, the white wizards in District 9 finally managed to withstand the first few waves of menacing attacks from the black wizards.
The situation outside is deteriorating, and Blackfire Island is peaceful for the time being.
Blackfire Island.
Li Wei refined his first set of one-ring magic circle, the Shadowless Tracing Array.
The effect of this magic circle is very powerful. After it is hidden, even the spiritual perception of a second-level wizard cannot detect it.
Li Wei stood on a medicine field, and the array flags fell into it in different orders and directions.
Then as Li Wei chanted the spell, the medicine field covered by the Shadowless Tracing Array completely disappeared in front of Li Wei.
At the same time, the Shadowless Tracing Formation automatically transformed into the color of the Fire Dragon Peak's surface, just like the mimicry. This made it indistinguishable from a high altitude to see no difference between the disappearing medicinal field and the surrounding red soil, and it would not be too abrupt.
"Very good. This can cover up all traces of Black Fire Island's habitation and turn this island into a desert island to avoid being discovered by passing dark wizards."
"Moreover, I can continue to refine more magic formations in the future during my practice. Eventually, these small shadowless trace formations will be combined into a super large-scale shadowless trace formation. Let the entire island, They all disappeared into this sea. This place will become my secret base in troubled times."
Levi already had a plan in mind.
In addition, he can also refine some other one-ring defensive arrays, early warning arrays, trap arrays, etc., all of which are deployed on Black Fire Island.
Let Skine, tyrants, extraordinary creatures, and the living dead hide in the formation and guard the key places.
Once an enemy enters it by mistake, he will never return, and he will die without knowing how.
After refining several sets of Shadowless Tracing Formation, he covered up his cave and everything else.
Li Wei continued to practice meditation.
Although he now practices a lot of meditation methods.
But he majored in the Burning Faction's sun meditation method.
He now has two fire element affinity special effects: [Fire God Dance] and [Son of Karmic Fire].
Plus the proficiency panel.
Levi's training speed in the Burning Sect's spells is already infinitely close to that of the Son of the Fire Element.
This allows Levi's practice speed not to be too slow even without meditation aids.
Of course, in order to advance to the second ring as quickly as possible, potions are still indispensable.
Levi has never stopped cooperating with Greenwater.
For Levi today, time is money.
The increasingly chaotic situation gave him a growing sense of urgency.
Now that the knight realm has entered a bottleneck period, the Golden Snake Breathing Method will take a long time to enter the next realm.
During this period, what Levi can do is, on the one hand, to continuously improve more breathing techniques to the twelfth level from the horizontal dimension and enhance his polygonal ability. For example, Levi's Blood Beast Breathing Technique now uses Skine's blood as a secret medicine. The speed of practice is so fast that Levi could not even imagine it before. I believe it won't take long to advance. Level 12.
On the other hand, it is time to improve your wizarding realm. Now Levi's mental power has reached 40 points, and he is not far away from the first-ring wizard limit of 50 points.
There are no years of practice, only one year later.
Year 1040 of the Holy Calendar, the Month of Flowers.
Li Wei's will-o'-the-wisp body finally reached the sixth level limit.
The sixth-level will-o'-the-wisp body finally achieved Levi's goal of becoming elemental.
He can turn into a green will-o'-the-wisp after casting a spell, thereby avoiding some deadly attacks.
This improved Levi's life-saving ability.
This also means that all the spells that Levi has mastered now have been practiced to the extreme.
In addition, in terms of rune language, Levi also advanced the power rune to the second level.
Levi——————
Power Rune: Level 2 (1/5000), special effect: Power of the Horned Ox and Constellations (Level 2).
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[Power of the Horned Ox Stars (Level 2): The language of runes communicates with the Horned Ox Stars, and the power of the stars increases your power. The current power increase is 15%. 】
In the cave, Levi looked at the changes in the proficiency panel.
The second level Horned Ox Constellation can increase the power by 15%.
Levi felt it was time to give it a try.
He planned to try it out with the Sword Mantis first, so that even if it broke, he wouldn't feel bad.
After successfully trying it on the swordsman Mantis, Li Wei tried it on the tyrant, and finally tried it on himself.
Just do it.
Li Wei randomly caught a Swordsman Mantis from the medicine field, and then turned off the Swordsman Mantis.
Levi began to follow the introduction of the Book of Casting Star Runes, meditate on the power runes and stars in his mind, and then began to solidify the power runes step by step...
The next day.
It took a day, when Li Wei's current 43 points of mental power was almost exhausted, the power rune was finally solidified on the swordsman Mantis.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the swordsman in front of him.
Now, on the back of Swordsman Mantis, there is a pattern that is exactly the same as the power rune in his mind, shining and looming.
Li Wei activated the Swordsman Mantis, and then took out the other uncured Swordsman Mantis as a comparative experiment.
He gave the order to let the two alchemical creatures pull each other.
Accompanied by the wrestling between the two swordsmen.
Before long, the victory or defeat was decided.
Swordsman Mantis, who had solidified the runes of power, easily dragged the unsolidified ones over.
This fifteen percent increase in strength is indeed real.
This made Levi ecstatic.
Swordsman Mantis is not good at strength, so a fifteen percent increase may not be very effective. But the power of the Corpse Digger is extremely huge to begin with, and is only a little worse than his own twelfth-level Honglian.
If this power rune is added, the corpse digger's power will not be weaker than his own, and may even surpass his own.
The Power Rune is different from other solidification spells in that it is removable.
After Levi drank the potion and meditated again to regain his mental strength.
Then he recited the incantation, and the pattern of power runes on Sword Mantis' back slowly separated from Sword Mantis and floated in the void, very dreamy.
Then this rune came to the body of the corpse digger under the control of Levi.
After solidifying the power runes, Ace entered the corpse digger's body, and the corpse digger stood up burning with red flames.
With a bang, it hit Levi directly.
Levi laughed loudly and suddenly used his strength to collide with the corpse digger.
The two muscle monsters clashed with each other, and the cave seemed to be shaking. Levi and the corpse digger each took a few steps back.
"Yes, yes, this 15% increase has a significant effect. I will try to solidify it on myself later."
Levi felt that if used properly, the detachable function of Rune Language would play a huge role.
However, now Levi still doesn't dare to try to solidify the power runes on himself. After all, it is not written in the book at all. If it goes wrong, it will not be worth it.
He planned to wait until his breathing technique advanced to the thirteenth level before trying it again.
During this time, in addition to practicing.
Levi was also inquiring about the whereabouts of Mai Lin and the others, but there was still no news.
Levi felt that with Teacher Mai Lin's character, in order to prevent him from worrying when he returned to the wizarding world, she should leave some news for him.
Judging from the current situation, Mai Lin and the others may not be out of the crisis, so they have no time to contact themselves, or... do not want to contact themselves, for fear of hurting themselves.
Levi also got in touch with Dinos from the Loess Continent in District 9. From Dinos, Levi learned that Emperor Mu had become a member of the Golden Lion Family as the teacher of Dinos before the Black and White Wizards War. After that, he basically stayed in the Golden Lion family.
Therefore, Emperor Mu's own safety is not bad. After all, with the strength and background of the Golden Lion Family, there is no force that can shake it in the outer sea area for the time being.
Of course, this does not mean that the Golden Lion family can sit back and relax. In fact, on the Loess Continent, the Flame King Esidi family launched an attack on the Whale Song Island almost at the same time, joined the black wizard camp, and began to sweep away the small wizards on the Loess Continent. organize.
The Waum family, which had always been relatively neutral, sized up the situation, immediately formed an alliance with the Golden Lion family, and took on the first wave of attacks from the Flame Prince Lehman Esidi.
Levi also asked Dinos in the letter to use the power of their family to help Levi check the whereabouts of Mai Lin and others.
At this time, the benefits of having a wizard family became apparent. Levi, who was alone, was not as efficient as the wizard family in doing many things.
In this tense atmosphere, another year has passed.
The sixth year of the Great Crusade.
Shenghui calendar year 1041, the month of vitality.
Levi has been back in the wizarding world for more than two years.
In the past two years, the entire Endless Sea has turned into a mess.
More and more monsters and monsters are appearing one after another. Under the high-pressure rule and management of the pan-dimensional wizard council, some wizards with ulterior motives are afraid of the world being unstable and adding fuel to the chaotic situation in various ways.
In the past two years, the Tower of Stars has been in dire straits and has repeatedly requested the headquarters of the Pandimensional Wizards Council to dispatch great wizards or legendary wizards to suppress the rebellion.
However, the Wizards Council is also suffering terribly. The Great Expedition has taken away nearly half of the legendary wizards, and now they are halfway there, and it is impossible for them to turn back.
In other plane federations, signs of unrest have also begun to emerge, and the Wizards' Council must coordinate the overall situation.
At this time, they discovered that after successfully conquering one plane after another in the past, it seemed that everyone was accustomed to the power of wizards and had forgotten very simple and simple truths.
It is easy to conquer a country, but difficult to defend it.
Today's wizard civilization is so big that it is like a seriously uncoordinated train, pulling the federal planes forward one after another, and inside the carriage, there is already chaos.
At this time, the rulers of the Wizards' Council also realized that the entire wizarding civilization, from the wizarding world itself to the subordinate civilizations below.
They all need a strong man to cut off their wrists and a thorough cleansing!
Of course, when the sky falls, the tall man holds it up.
These things are not something a little person like Li Wei should worry about.
However, judging from the battle reports coming from the front lines, he realized that the next hundred, or even thousand years would be the end of the world.
The Wizards' Council, which has been stable for too long, will face a huge test. The years of relatively stable and peaceful practice will never return.
Order began to gradually collapse. In the future, illegality and crime would become the norm, and the Wizards' Council would have even less power to protect the safety of low-level members like Levi.
The only thing Levi can rely on is himself!
In the past year, Li Wei continued to refine more and more shadowless trace formations, trying to completely hide the entire Black Fire Island in the vast ocean and live a life of seclusion.
On the other hand, his practice has not fallen behind. He has completely given up sleeping and other rest activities, relying on meditation and medicine to keep himself operating at full capacity.
After this period of hard work, Levi's sun meditation method has reached the fifth level limit.
This also means that Levi's current mental power has reached the limit level of a first-level wizard, 50 points.
"Mental Power: 50 points"
"Spell power: 820 points"
Next, if he wants to advance to the second level, Levi still needs to slowly increase his magic power, and then build a second-level spell model, as well as prepare a boundary-breaking potion for breaking through the second level, the Beholder's Gaze.
The most difficult thing here is the refining of the beholder's gaze potion, because so far, Levi has not obtained the core main medicine, the beholder's eyeball.
As for the second-level spell model, according to Li Wei's character, he will definitely use the second-level defensive spell as his first model. However, Li Wei has not yet decided which one to use for this second-level defensive spell, but there is no doubt that What is important is that this spell should belong to the earth faction or the ocean faction.
After advancing to the second level, Levi can choose a second-level defense spell to build his own second-level defense field. This will be the distinguishing feature of second-level wizards from first-level wizards.
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After possessing the second-level defensive force field, coupled with Levi's own twelfth-level golden snake defense and his powerful physique, he will transform into a complete human shield and blood cow, as long as he does not encounter a big-level crush like a third-level wizard A powerful person who can suppress Li Wei's third ring cannot be said to be invincible, but he is almost there.
In addition to the wizard's practice, the breathing techniques and skills that Levi learned when he was in the human world have also made progress. The Dragon Breathing Technique is getting closer and closer to the eleventh level limit. I believe it won't take long to be able to compete with the immortal. The bird breathing method merges and mutates into a new physical breathing method.
And Maiya, Musk Ox, Jade Dragon, Mountain Ape Breathing Technique are also making rapid progress.
According to Levi's plan, in less than a year of seclusion, he should be able to improve the Blood Beast Breathing Technique to the twelfth level, so that his own strength can be greatly improved.
Unfortunately, God didn't have his way.
Just when Li Wei thought he could cultivate to the level of a second-level wizard without fighting against the world, news came again on his membership card.
[Panplane Wizards Council member number...9527, Li Wei, according to the "Panplane Wizards Council Military Service Plan", you are hereby notified to report to Bass Island in District 9 within one month. In view of your special status as a first-level pharmacist, You will be sent to the rear of the Sixth War Zone in the inner sea area, as a military pharmacist, to refine medicines needed in wartime.
This recruitment is compulsory. Wizarding civilization is facing a crisis unprecedented in millions of years. We hope that every wizard can put the safety of civilization first and consciously obey the management of the Pandimensional Wizards Council. Violators will be blacklisted. Wizards List, wanted by all wizards. 】
He looked at the announcement above with a solemn expression.
The second round of recruitment for the Black and White Wizards War in the Endless Sea began, and Levi, unfortunately, was selected.
The good news is that Levi was only selected as a support staff to carry out potion refining work, and did not need to go to the front line of the battle.
"Alas, it's a blessing, not a curse. It's a curse that can't be avoided. What's supposed to come has come." Levi sighed.
During the first Great Expedition to the Five Realms, Li Wei lost money and avoided disaster and escaped being called up.
The second time, he happened to be in the human world and escaped.
He didn't expect that this third time would come so soon.
There is no way to escape this. As long as he wants to practice in the wizarding world, Levi will eventually have to face it all.
"The Sixth War Zone of the Inner Ring Sea." Levi muttered to himself.
The sixth war zone in the inner ring is the inner sea area adjacent to the seventh zone in the outer ring, but its area is many times that of the outer ring.
The announcement asked Levi to go to Bass Island within a month. There will be a witchcraft airship from the Tower of Stars military to bring all the recruited wizards in the ninth district to the military camp in the sixth theater of the inner ring.
The enemies that Li Wei and the others will face are not conventional dark wizards, but monsters that spread from the [Hundred-Eyed Demon Realm].
Levi looked at the information this time, and at the end, he suddenly realized that this sixth war zone could actually be visited.
Because, in this place.
It seems that you can find the beholder you need.
"The Hundred-Eyed Demon King is the demon lord of the 108th level of the abyss. This demon lord evolved from the lowest beholder, and eventually became the common master of all beholder demons in the abyss."
Of course, with Li Wei's strength, he naturally wouldn't dare to attack the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord, who could kill Li Wei in one breath. But under the command of this Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord, there should be ordinary beholder demons. Soldier.
If you can hunt one, you will be able to solve the problem of advancing to the second ring by yourself, the last main medicine.
Considering that I am only in the logistics department, relatively speaking, there should be little danger.
After being recruited, Levi's wartime merit system will also be opened. If he successfully refines the potion and turns in the potion, he will receive points rewards from the military. When the time comes, he can buy his favorite potions at the military exchange store. Spell books and other knowledge inheritance, or some rare materials.
Moreover, the materials and formulas for refining pharmaceuticals are provided by the military, which means that Levi can use the military's resources and pharmaceutical skills for free.
Thinking about it this way, Levi suddenly felt that this recruitment was also an opportunity for him to become stronger.
With this in mind, Li Wei began to make intensive preparations.
And a month later, they arrived at Bass Island.
