Age of Adepts

This ending was a bit unexpected.

When Grim played with the strange red pupil in his hand and strode out of the arena, there was silence outside the arena.

Many witches were silently watching him with complicated eyes, and no one even came forward to congratulate him for a while.

In the end, it was Mary and Billis who embraced Grim and offered their blessings with a joyful smile.

That Laurien wizard finally had a smile on his face, and strode over to Grim's side, saying loudly, "Very good! I didn't expect Your Excellency to have such a bizarre method hidden in his hands... good... very good..."

Grim knew that the other party was not sure how to curse himself at the moment, so he stopped being polite to him.

"Lord Laurion, according to the dueling contract..."

"You don't have to say anything, everything is executed according to the contract!" Hearing Grim mention this, the smile on the Laurean wizard's face was hard to see, "The Crimson Family, as the victorious side, has the power to take a considerable amount of war reparations from the Kamala Family. As Yurga has died, this reparation will be shared by all members of the Camara family."

With that, Laurion pulled out a yellow parchment from his bosom and handed it to Grim.

Grim took a look at it, and on it was a densely packed list of all the Kamala Family's immediate territories and resource points.

With the aid of the chip, Grim found a bit of a problem in this list with just a quick glance of his eyes.

"Lord Laurion, as far as I know, the Kamala Family seems to have two more level 1 resource points, why aren't they on top of this list?"

"Hmph, those two level 1 resource points were already pledged by Yurga to our Scatterland Talin Association before the agreement was signed. What, you still want them back from the association elders?" Laurion had a stinky look on his face.

He didn't operate well this time, and hardened the brat in front of him to make a big flip. This was going to go back to the Scatterland Tallinn Association, and he would ironically be blamed by the Association Elders, so it was no wonder that he had to put on this ugly expression.

The ones who could become association elders could all be renowned 4th rank wizards in the Scattered Earth Tallinn region, and Grim immediately shook his head knowingly.

Seeing that the other party was still pretty much on their way, Laurien's face finally eased.

"Three Tier 2 resource points and seven Tier 3 resource points... Plus a few rolling Viscount Collars, the initial territory area is also at two hundred square kilometers... Kid, don't be too greedy! "

Since the Kamala family was also located in the Alois region, many of their family's hereditary territories were not far from the Flame Throne, so after pocketing these resource points and territories, the Crimson Family immediately jumped to become one of the most powerful wizard families in the Alois region.

With the Flame Throne as the family residence, the Crimson Family's basic power extended to the Black Forest in the north, to the Iron Stone Highlands in the south, to the Stopwater Lake in the west, and to Morgan's Stone Castle in the east. This large expanse of land, minerals, lords and resources of a full three hundred kilometer radius would become the Crimson Family's immediate territory.

Moreover, all these places were already very maturely developed, and as long as they exchanged formalities with the Kamala family and replaced a number of local noble agents, the Crimson Family could easily take control of them in their hands.

Those local nobles, except for a few that were too close to the Kamala family and needed to be cleaned up, the rest of them actually didn't need to worry at all. They didn't have any so-called loyalty to the Kamala family either, they were just a bunch of lapdogs who survived by looking up to the wizard's nose.

Just throw a bone or two at random, and they would immediately change sides and become 'loyal' subjects of the Crimson Family's subordinates!

After getting the dueling agreement, Grim casually handed it over to Billis to go to the Kamala family to complete the whole handover. The only 3rd rank of the Kamala family had died in Rayne City, the remaining group of 1st and 2nd rank wizards were fine if they were honest. If any of them still dared to bare their teeth, Grim didn't mind cleaning them up along the way as well.

The duel under duress was a great victory for Grim, but it had also depleted the reserves of high-ranking magic puppets he had worked so hard to accumulate over the past hundred years. At the moment, he only had 1 Terrifying Inferno's Summoning Crystals left on him.

So, if he didn't get this loss back from the Kamala Family, Grim would definitely have trouble sleeping soundly.

The Kamala family had become a toothless tiger, and the only remaining 2nd rank wizards couldn't hold down the Worm Witch Billis, so Grim never worried about the other party breaking the contract.

After the matter of Rayne City was finished, Grim returned to the Flame Throne with Mary, while Worm Witch Billis diverted to go straight to the Kamala Family's residence.

The moment Grim returned to the Throne of Flame, all the Crimson Sorcerers and Apprentices gathered in the first floor hall to wait, shouting 'Long live the Clan Leader' upon seeing Grim and bowing one by one.

Even those surrendered sorcerers who had just recently 'joined' the Crimson Family were also behaving leaps and bounds.

After this, there would be no more wizard families in the entire Alois region that could compete with the Crimson Family! From there, the Crimson family would step into an explosive phase of history.

The diminished Andorian families, the Senas, the Layton Academy, and the Magic Forest Lodge, which had just merged into the Kamala family, would all face the Crimson family's aggressive offensive posture.

They would either give up all their mundane territories and resource points and drag all the witches and apprentices back to their family residences, where they would hang on for a chance to make their mark again, or they would have to go far away and give up everything they had in the Alois region and find a way to put down roots in some public wizard city, barely preserving their wizard heritage....

Either of those two paths is so hard and rocky!

Once the key figures in the family couldn't control the entire situation, a family member's defection could occur at any time.

As expected, when the news of Yurga's death spread throughout the entire Alois region, Layton Academy was the first to announce that it would no longer get involved in any outside affairs, choosing to close its doors and move into a semi-secluded state.

As for those resource points and mundane territories controlled by the Layton Academy, although they didn't explicitly say so, they have also severed their last contact with them, and acted as if they would come and take them if they wanted.

The Andorian family that had the most trouble with the Crimson Family could only roll up their shop and move their family location to within the city of Rennes. The mundane territories and resource points that couldn't be moved were also empty, becoming an untended and unclaimed land.

Only the Kamala family, which relied on the annexation of the Magic Forest Lodge, was able to make a dent in the family.

However, before they could get over it, the family's only 3rd rank patriarch, Yurga, inexplicably died in the hands of the 2nd rank Crimson Patriarch. Such a heavy blow had sent the entire Kamala family into a state of collapse.

After a 2nd rank sorcerer with the highest power became the Kamala family's patriarch, he could only suppress his anger and humiliation and hand over most of the family's properties to the Worm Witch Billis who had come to harvest them. In particular, as soon as those resource points that had been developed and matured were handed over, the Kamala Family's strength was immediately trimmed by 70% to 80%, and from then on, they were reduced to a small, unimpressive family in the Alois region.

Now protected by an agreement contract, they didn't have to worry about the continued destruction of the Crimson Family for the time being.

But when the entire Alois region became Crimson Family territory, it would be extremely difficult for the Kamala Family to continue to survive in the other side's power clutches.

Losing the resource points would mean losing the source of wizard resources; losing the mundane territory would mean losing the supplement of wizard apprentices; both of these things were the foundation and guarantee for any wizard family to be able to stay afloat for a long time.

Now, the Kamala family had neither!

So, right after the Layton family, the Kamala family also announced that they were retreating from their family quarters and would no longer be involved in all the local affairs of the Alois region.

So, with one wizarding family and organizational force after another retreating, the Crimson family was really starting to rise!

As soon as Grim returned to the Flame Throne, he hid in his dwelling and was no longer seen, so under the joint order of Mary and Gargamel, more than thirty witches of the Crimson Family walked out of the Witch Tower and were stationed at resource points all over the Alois region.

At one time, one level 1 resource point, seven level 2 resource points and 16 level 3 resource points were pocketed by the Crimson Family. And those mundane territories and human cities were even more innumerable.

After 5 years of busyness, the Crimson family has initially completed the layout of all the secular territories and the replacement of agents. The mundane territories owned by the Crimson Family occupied nearly 60% of the land in the Alois region, covering an area of 2000 square kilometers, which was divided into 1 Duke's territory, 3 Margraves' territories, 4 Earls' territories, as well as several Viscounts and Barons' territories.

In this huge territory, there were 17 large and small human cities, 263 towns and villages, nearly a million direct lords, and as many as 7 mines and mines.

After annexing these, the Crimson Family's own sorcerers were far from enough, and they hired and gathered a number of wandering sorcerers in a big way, which barely managed to hold up the huge field.

If only in terms of the number of witches and territorial scope, the Crimson Family had already surpassed its old owner, the Sarupo Family, and had become a large wizard family that was 'not worthy of its name'.

However, the only flaw in the Crimson Family was the lack of high ranked sorcerers that could be used.

It was good that there was a rank 3 Thunder Dragon and a rank 3 Emerald Dragon sitting in the city, which made the Crimson Family's high-end power not so thin. Otherwise, such a 'bloated and fat' body would easily attract the covetous eyes of the outside world.

And during this period of turmoil and turmoil, the Crimson Clan Chief Grim, who had created the first ever victory in the Sorcerer's World in a cross-order battle, had honestly hid in the Sorcerer's Tower and never showed his face to outsiders again.

Thus, time passed quickly, year by year....