All Chapters of 《The Arcanum Algorithm》 : Chapter 121
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Chapter 121 : The Silent Guardian
Outside Lafey's cottage stood Yoric, Yorkiana, Binson, and Robin, along with several other apprentices Grimm had seen but didn't know well—presumably Crimson Banner members on good terms with Lafey.Grimm "floated" down from the sky, landing. "What happened to Lafey?""Grimm, you should go in and see for yourself. We've never seen Sister Lafey take such a loss and remain so calm. She kicked us all out." Yoric's expression was grim and helpless."Right." Grimm nodded and entered the room, leaving the others outside.Yoric sighed. "Grimm's here now. Let's disperse..."As the crowd slowly left, leaving only Yoric, Yorkiana, Binson, and Robin, Robin suddenly spoke up hesitantly. "Did you notice... Grimm didn't use any spell to fly here just now?"Huh? Now that he mentioned it, the others realized it was true. Grimm had indeed arrived without any apparent spellcasting.Binson's jaw dropped. "Has Grimm advanced to a full Sorcerer? Only full Sorcerers can sense natural forces and float with
Chapter 122 : The War Drum Sounds
Grimm rushed back to Mentor Peranos's laboratory on the seventy-ninth floor of Blackstone Spire. In the room, he found Mentor's wife Alice, Valo, Gahai, and a strange woman completely wrapped in white bandages. Catching his breath, Grimm quietly bowed to Alice.Alice was a gourmet. Aside from the extra mouth on her palm, she appeared no different from an ordinary human woman. Though Grimm had rarely spoken with her, she had always been kind and exuded genuine warmth—a gentle, approachable woman."Grimm, your mentor has stepped out. This is your senior sister..." Alice said gently."You may call me Ysandre. Mentor told me about your creative solution to the physical damage caused by the Repulsion-Attraction Force. It shows remarkable ingenuity." The senior sister's voice was icy, faintly sinister, and sharp. Her eyes, visible between the white bandages, held a deathly gray indifference.Grimm's jaw dropped, staring dumbfounded at the strange woman he'd noticed upon entering. This was t
Chapter 123 : The Forging Crucible
The war drums of the Twelfth District had begun to beat, and every apprentice within Blackstone Spire felt the shift in the air. It was a palpable tension, a thickening of the atmosphere that spoke of imminent conflict and the brutal winnowing that would precede the Sacred Tower Qualification Battle.Grimm stood beside Lafey on a training ground that had seen a sudden surge in activity. All around them, apprentices honed their spells, tested new alchemical concoctions, and formed impromptu alliances. The usual solitary focus of sorcerous study had been replaced by a grim, collective preparation."They're calling it the 'Scythe'," Lafey stated, her voice calm despite the half of her face that remained a desiccated ruin. The tiny green sprouts at the border of the dead tissue continued their agonizingly slow work. "The Nineteenth District's bloated ranks are the wheat, and we are the blade that will cut them down to a manageable harvest."Grimm nodded, his gaze sweeping over the bustlin
Chapter 124 :The Malicious Eye Bloom
The central square teemed with nearly ten thousand Sorcerer's Apprentices, a sea of anxious faces. Upon the raised platform, over three hundred full Sorcerers stood, their collective presence casting a palpable weight over the gathering."Today," a Sorcerer with a thunderous voice roared, his tone viciously excited, "in response to the unwarranted aggression from the nine academies of the Nineteenth District, the six academies of the Twelfth District have jointly decided to accept their declaration! We go to war! Let those incompetent, coddled apprentices of the Nineteenth District learn the might of the Twelfth!"The apprentices who were listening were no longer the foolish, hotheaded novices they had been years ago. Although the exact reasons for the conflict remained unclear, they knew it was more complex than mere provocations. However, none were foolish enough to voice any doubt aloud.After a series of fiery speeches from seven or eight Sorcerers, the three Deans of Blackstone S
Chapter 125 The Fallen Sanctuary
Throughout the journey, Grimm moved like Lafey's shadow, a silent and constant presence behind her. His quiet demeanor wasn't an act for his companions' benefit—among this trusted group, such pretense was unnecessary. Rather, he was multitasking: enduring the lingering weakness from his latest toxin tempering, maintaining their pace, and simultaneously studying fundamental texts on water and lightning elements. He had no mental energy to spare for conversation.Trailing Lafey did make him exceptionally inconspicuous, he mused internally.Binson, however, remained undeterred by Grimm's silence. While the others seemed to accept his quiet focus, Binson chattered incessantly at him, leaping from one trivial topic to another, even speculating about the future marriages of his and Robin's hypothetical children. It was... exhaustive. Grimm found himself thinking that Binson would have gotten along famously with Brutal Bear, Axe, and Hammer from his previous mission—a veritable league of cha
Chapter 126 The Light and the Shadow
Two kilometers from the Crimson Crow Mine, Grimm and his squad crouched low among the blackened rocks. The air shimmered faintly with heat and lingering traces of elemental energy. Ahead, Binson had already slipped away into the wasteland to scout, vanishing as silently as smoke.Lafey knelt half-hidden behind a boulder, one eye shifting into a golden hawk’s iris. Through her transformed vision she tracked Binson’s movements until, after a tense silence, she exhaled slowly. “All clear,” she murmured. “Our vanguard seems to have secured the site.”At once, the false vines and bark camouflaging her body sank back beneath her skin, and the bow in her hands folded into an arcane sigil. Grimm and the others—Yoric, Yorkiana, and Robin—rose from cover.Robin grinned, relief softening his face. “That’s good news. Looks like we’ll have competent allies guarding this resource point. Should make our task far easier.”Their group moved out, following Binson’s lead. Before long the desolate terrai
Chapter 127 : The Sailors’ Legion
Within the shimmering barrier of the protective ward, three separate groups—those led by Lafey, Yatz, and Aldas—stood tense and silent, their gazes fixed on the horizon.Beyond the translucent veil, a tide of enemies surged: a vast formation of apprentice sorcerers from the Nineteenth District, more than two hundred strong. Against them, the mere twenty-odd apprentices within the barrier seemed like scattered candles before a storm.Yoric gripped his axe tightly, voice edged with disbelief. “How in the Abyss are there so many of them?”It wasn’t an overreaction. Even across all the academies under the Blackstone Spire banner, there were only seven or eight thousand apprentices taking part in this war. Spread thin over two hundred contested resource sites, few squads could gather more than a handful of fighters. Grimm’s team, as the advance force holding this crimson-veined mine, was lucky to have twenty.Aldas narrowed his golden eyes beneath sharply furrowed brows. Wordlessly, he dre
Chapter 128 : The Madwoman of Crimson Ash
Nearly a hundred bodies lay piled together.Yatz, Aldas, and Lafey’s teams dragged the corpses into a deep pit and covered them with loose soil, sealing away the stench that would otherwise rot the air. The spoils of battle—dozens of low-grade Arcane Artifacts—glimmered dully among the debris, but neither Yatz nor Aldas cared to touch them. For those already standing at the peak of apprenticehood, such trinkets were as worthless as pebbles on the road.Lafey’s group, however, still lingered on the lower rungs of the ladder. None among them had reached a Cognition Power of forty yet. They eagerly picked through the pile, taking whatever caught their fancy. Grimm selected a small ring—its effect simple but precious: it granted a bonus of two points to one’s mental strength, so long as it had not yet reached its natural limit.As they rested amid the fading heat of battle, an uneasy thought began to gnaw at Lafey and her companions.If the apprentices of the Twelfth District were like th
Chapter 129 : The Pride Beyond Fire
A thousand possible strategies flashed through Grimm’s mind, yet he settled on the most prudent and understated one.Under the transformation of his Biomorphic Alteration, Grimm quietly rewove fragments of his life-code, temporarily concealing the essence of the Body of Pyre within his being. The magnetic pull between him and Mina—the maddened sorceress known as the Sun’s Daughter—vanished instantly.But her fury did not.Flames erupted from her, crimson hair whipping in a storm of radiant power. Her eyes burned like twin suns, and waves of searing energy rippled through the cavern until it felt as though a miniature star had descended upon the world.Even stripped of their elemental resonance, Mina still looked ready to incinerate Grimm from existence.Yoric reacted first. With a guttural snarl, his body elongated, bones twisting beneath the skin as he assumed his lupine form. His enormous axe gleamed before his chest, twin eyes glowing with deep green ferocity while curved fangs pee
Chapter 130 : The Gluttonflame Titan
T“I’ll be waiting to see your performance in the Saint Tower Trials. Don’t let me down.”With that single remark, Millie had already ranked Grimm among the top ten apprentice sorcerers of the Six Great Academies—even though she hadn’t even raised a hand.But Grimm merely blinked, taken aback. Expecting my performance?Perhaps she’d been perched on her high pedestal for so long that she’d forgotten how to see the ground beneath her feet.Three months later.“It worked!”Sitting cross-legged in his tent, Grimm opened his eyes in surprise. He raised one finger, channeling the current of magic through his body. A droplet of water formed and hovered above his fingertip, trembling gently like a living thing.Both the elements of Water and Fire now responded to him with exceptional intimacy and control—tenfold amplification, the minimum threshold for his next stage of research: the explosive conflagration spell.He would deal with the Water Element’s amplification array later. For now, he ha