Age of Adepts

Grim is closed again!

This news was only circulated internally among the Crimson Family's top brass, and was unknown outside.

As for the purpose of the retreat, even more so, only a handful of people knew about it.

And this retreat was eight long years....

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"Lord Mary has returned!"

"Lord Mary has returned!"

A single summons quickly spread throughout the entire Witch Tower.

The apprentices who had remained in the Witch Tower due to personal matters poured out of their dwellings and bowed respectfully to the beautiful red and piercing witch close to the stone wall.

Words like "Welcome back Mary-sama..." rang out even louder and louder.

Mary paid no attention to this and walked proudly in the middle of the welcoming procession.

Eight years might have been a long enough time for an ordinary person.

But for those high-ranking sorcerers, it was just the time spent on one large sorcery experiment.

Thus, a full eight years had passed, yet Mary's appearance had barely changed at all.

If one was forced to say that there was any change, it was that she had become more mature and more beautiful!

Her skin was as white as jade, and her silky crimson hair flowed behind her, swaying slightly with her voluptuous steps.

Her face was exquisite and perfect, with a pair of bright and glittering scarlet blood pupils set on it. From afar, the crystal-clear ones seemed to be a pair of perfect rubies. The corners of her eyes were slightly upturned, and there was always a hint of a smile on her rose petal-like red lips.

She was wearing a bright red, tight leather armor with a pair of black, tight leather pants underneath, a green belt outlining her slender, supple waist.

That amazing curve, that glowing skin, it was insane!

I'm afraid that anyone who saw her at first glance would treat her as a beautiful young girl no more than eighteen*nine years old. Who would have thought that this was a murderous vampire witch who had slaughtered thousands of lives in the foreign realm without blinking an eye!

Behind her, she was followed by the most popular Red Pink Legion of the entire Crimson Family.

Walking in the front, following closely behind Mary, was that strange girl Emelia, whose origins were somewhat mysterious.

After only eight years of not seeing her, Emelia had already grown into a young and beautiful girl. She was wearing a strange robe woven from green vines and plants, holding a short-handled wand in her hand that never ceased to glow with green light, with a light smile on her lips and her eyes sweeping over the welcoming crowd.

Her strength had now reached the peak of the 1st rank!

It could be seen that during these times, this Emelia was quite popular with Mary, which allowed her to be at the forefront of the Pink Legion. And behind Emelia was a number of female blood elves as high as seven.

They were all tall, with long, pointed ears, delicate and beautiful faces, and sexy, graceful bodies. The most notable feature that they revealed was their scarlet blood eyes, giving them a bit more of an evil and austere air on top of their beauty!

This group of blood elves generally possessed 1st and 2nd stage strength, and took into account various professions such as warfare and shepherding and archery, so they had obviously become Mary's right-hand men in the outside world.

Anyone would love to see an eye-catching beauty, not to mention a group of red-pink legions that were both eye-catching and had great strength on their side. Therefore, all the apprentices in the Flame Throne Witch Tower poured out in droves, welcoming Lord Mary's return with the warmest and most sincere cheers and applause.

These days, the Crimson Family had infiltrated every corner of the Alois region with their power.

Under the strong oppression of Lord Billis, the 2-stage Worm Witch, 3 small wizard organizations had already been cut off from their heritage and could only join the Crimson Family in disgrace. If it wasn't for the Scattered Tallinn Association suppressing the Crimson Family from expanding their power at will, it was feared that the entire Alois Region had become the direct territory of the Crimson Family, and there would no longer be any incongruous murmurs or obtrusive 'trash'!

Billis, the Worm Wizard, was pioneering in the Alois region, while Mary chose to take her vampire legion to the Lance bit to fight the fallout.

It only took 3 years for the brain monster Ghazluvi to rebuild a metal megalopolis, Eternal City, in a new territory.

In order to prevent this city from also falling under the aerial assault of the dragons like a metal fortress, Ghazluvi literally went crazy and strengthened its defensive functions at any cost.

The 3-meter-thick magic iron alloy shell, plus 5 magic cannons, and thousands of magic cannons... If one also counted the 70,000 magic weapons army stored inside the Eternal Capital, the price the dragons would need to pay to break through such a steel fortress would be so high that it would make even a 4th-rank dragon cry for pain.

And when the Eternal Capital was built, Mary, Zacha and Tigure became regular visitors here.

During the time that Grim was closed, Mary, Zacha and Tigure led the Dragon Slaying Squad, which was always on the move, slaughtering or capturing those 1st and 2nd ranked dragons alive. And that Dragon Eater, Ollivine, was also heard of, becoming the most deeply hidden dagger in their team.

And in these eight years, there had also been two rank 3 witches who had paid for their own magic crystals to come to the Eternal City, and then used the most violent means to kidnap two rank 3 dragons. The Crimson Family received 1.2 million magical crystals and two huge dragon nests filled with all kinds of treasures and resources.

Of course, the Crimson Family's increasingly rampant activities also aroused the vigilance of the Dragon Lords on the throne of Lance, and in the third year after the establishment of the Eternal Capital, the Dragon Warriors, led by five Level 3 dragons, attacked again on a large scale.

And the results of this battle surprised the dragons!

Two of the five Tier 3 dragons were wounded and forced to flee... while the rest of the dragons ran or captured, surprisingly ending up with a huge defeat.

It had to be said that with two Magic Action Cauldrons sitting there, the near infinite magical energy made the thousands of Magic Energy Cannons almost turn the sky of the Eternal Capital into a flying no-go zone. A single attack was equivalent to the full power of a 3rd rank powerhouse, and the incoming dragons were even more injured.

The two 3rd rank dragons that were injured and fleeing away were injured and damaged by these magic cannons!

As a result of the long storage time and longer cooling time of the attack, the brain monster Ghazruvi was forced to build as many as five of them at once. If you encounter a group of dragons, use the Magic Cannon to cover them from a distance, or use the Magic Cannon to take turns when they are close.

Killing the master with random punches!

Such an impregnable metal giant city, coupled with the fierce artillery fire of the city's defense system, immediately made the incoming dragons suffer a Waterloo, losing miserably under the solid city's giant cannons.

This battle also allowed the Crimson Family to capture 7 dragons in one go, including a 2nd rank dragon!

I don't know if it was the luck god that possessed the dragon, or if the 2nd rank dragon was bad enough, but Mary's little attempt at first embracing the 2nd rank dragon succeeded and transformed it into a blood dragon.

In this way, Mary had an additional 2nd Order Blood Dragon under her command, in addition to two 2nd Order Blood Knights and three 2nd Order Blood Elves. This also made the Vampire Legion once again the largest force within the Crimson Family!

To be honest, if it wasn't for the kind of close relationship that Grim and Mary maintained, I'm afraid that anyone else who became Grim would have to feel worried about such an overly powerful 'underling'.

As soon as Mary led the people into the Witchcraft Hall, a mountain of screams and exclamations from the many apprentice witches were heard behind her. Under the concerted efforts of the two blood knights and the blood dragon, a 2nd rank dragon tied into a large dumpling by magical chains was carried into the door of the Witching Tower.

These days, every time Lord Mary led a team to attack the Landside, she was able to make some gains. But most of them were 1st rank dragons, and a 2nd rank living dragon like today was seriously rare. And this also means that the Crimson Family will have over a million magic crystals in their accounts again!

"You you you... take this earth dragon and put it in prison, and keep it in good custody, and see what unsuspecting patron will take a fancy to it in the future... You, send the bag with all the gems and materials to Lanna, so that she can Work overtime to appraise all of them for me... Remember, tell her that if she ever tries to send a 3rd order Morning Star gemstone to Cappy's as a nightstone again, I'll personally hang her up and teach her a lesson..."

The wide bat wings behind Mary's back spread out, holding her afloat at the top of the 5-meter-high hall, which allowed her to see every member of the hall at a glance.

The ones she had named to carry the dragon were all a few of the family's newly trained alchemist apprentices with advanced or quasi-witch strength. Only muscle monsters like them could lift such a heavy 2nd rank earth dragon.

The family appraiser named by Mary, Lanna, rushed into the hall, and immediately blushed like fire when she first heard that sharp and harsh sarcasm. But when her gaze fell on the large stack of one parcel on the blood dragon's backbone, instantly cold sweat rolled down her forehead and she shrieked in a disembodied voice, "This... so... much... ..."

If it was an ordinary item it was fine, with her Sorcerer-level spirit, an apprentice-level 'appraisal' would be easy enough to handle. But if it was a magical item, I'm afraid that every single one of them would need a Sorcerer-level 'Appraisal' or 'Magical Item Detection' to get a vague answer.

But with so many dragon treasures in front of them, how many Sorcerer-level 'Appraisal Arts' would it take to appraise them all?

A few times before the Giant Dragon Treasure, Gargamel, as the Crimson Grand Master, even created a separate magic fountain from between the Witch Tower's energies leading to Lanna's residence, allowing her to drink a sip of magic potion when she was out of magic and a bottle of psychoactive medicine when she was out of spirit, taking fifteen days night and day to complete the task....

But the number of dragon treasures in front of her was clearly two or three times greater than the last one, and the grade and level of magic items were higher than ever before. This... would probably require Lanna to appraise it until she died to get the task done!

In the next instant, this Crimson Family's specially cultivated Sorcerer-grade appraiser was heartbroken and had a painfully sorrowful expression.