Age of Adepts

The battle has been artificially aborted!

Seeing that the leader could not achieve victory, the Winter Witches, led by Thurlow, immediately intervened in the battle and took away the disoriented Morgana.

According to the agreement, Alice and the others naturally won the battle.

While Morgana was not defeated outright, saving a bit of face for the Winter Witches, the war that took place between the Witches of Destiny and the Winter Witches ended with the defeat of the Winter Witches.

Such a surprising ending had the entire Northlands jaw-dropping for a moment!

But the Crimson family has managed to survive its own identity crisis.

While most Northland witches still resent Grim and Alice's relationship, it's hard to do anything about the Crimson Family's identity.

Of course, the other witch factions may not have lost much in this war, but the Rinse Witches lost big time. Not only did they lose nearly half of their mundane territory, they also lost more than 1/3 of their family's most important resource points.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Winter Witches had saved up a pretty solid family base over the years, there would have been a faction crisis just from this!

Afterwards, in order to ransom the few sisters who had been captured, the Winter Witches were forced to pay out a large number of high-grade witchcraft. This was a side-effect that relieved the embarrassment of the lack of master alchemists within the Crimson Family.

Although Grim had mastered some of the alchemy arts, he had put most of his energy into magic puppet making and magical patternology, and was mediocre at witchcraft refining. The equipment and items seized from the Dragon's Treasure were not many that were suitable for witches, so the arrival of this loot did solve a great problem for the Crimson Family.

The battle, however, seemed to have touched Mary especially greatly, and as soon as she returned from the Tower of Fate, she locked herself inside the secret chamber of the Flame Throne Witch Tower, unaware of what she was secretly preparing.

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Grim heard the news while enjoying his own meal of fire dragon ribs!

For such a big event that could determine the future course of the family, Grim only stopped his knife and fork a little, and after an oh-so-slight, off-handed thought, he continued his unfinished business.

The Crimson Family had grown to its current size, and it was by no means something that could be supported by a 3rd rank wizard. So if the Crimson Family wanted to continue to develop and expand, the family's strength was essential. At the very least, outside of Grim, a large number of Crimson Sorcerers needed to emerge and work for the family's cause.

Only then would the Crimson Family have a future!

If a single pair of fists were to fight the world, then when Grim fell, it would be the time for the Crimson Family to fall apart and the trees to fall apart.

Now, Alice, Mary, Billis, these guys stood up, also have their own glory and pride. This was actually what Grim was most praying for and pleased about!

As the Crimson Family's biggest boss, and now with a high-ranking underling who could share his worries, Grim was naturally able to spare more time to spend on the content he was interested in.

Taking the opportunity to eat, Grim quickly browsed through the chip's recently optimized 3rd level sorcery, and couldn't help but feel a surge of pride deep within his heart.

Berserk Fireball, 3rd level, fire single sorcery, spell chanting time 1-2 seconds, cooldown time 5 seconds, cost 2 points of mental energy, attack power 310-330 degrees, killing range 20-30 meters, with fire poison and ice flame... ...

Lava Armor, Level 3, Fire and Earth defensive sorcery, spell chant time 2-4 seconds, cooldown 45 seconds, costs 3 points of mental energy, 450 degrees of physical defense, 300 degrees of elemental defense, with fire anti-damage magic effects....

Gate of Fire, 3rd level, fire summoning sorcery, spell chant time 8-15 seconds, cooldown 15 minutes, costs 7 points of spirit, can summon fire creatures with a total of 1270 degrees of flame energy (up to 3rd level giant fire elemental)....

Molten Fire World, 3rd level, fire range sorcery, spell chant time 10-16 seconds, cooldown 50 seconds, cost spirit 6 points. It can summon a huge 100m*80m pillar of red flame fire, with an attack power of 450-480 degrees within 30m of the core area, the flame power decreases outwards in descending order, and every 10m, the power decays by 50 degrees....

Meteor Blast, 3rd level, single sorcery of fire and earth, spell chant time 8-12 seconds, cooldown 35 seconds, costs 4 points of mental energy, fire damage 260-280 degrees, physical damage 220-240, kill range 20-30 meters. Comes with 40 degrees of earth splash damage....

Flame Teleportation (Short Range), 3rd level, Fire Mobility Sorcery, spell chanting time 3-5 seconds, cooldown time 25 seconds, costs 3 points of mental energy, can teleport to a pre-deployed area with flame runes at will, teleportation distance up to 3000 meters....

These five sorceries were the 3rd level sorceries that Grim had obtained through the chip's constant deduction and optimization over this period of time, and did not belong to the generic 3rd level sorcery template. So if Grim submitted them to the Free Wind Knowledge Hall, there was a good chance that he would gain the corresponding contribution points.

However, these were combat sorceries that Grim had prepared for himself, and if he made their detailed data public, it would easily allow his enemies to also have the core data of his own combat sorceries.

From this point alone, Grim would not be able to make them public!

As for the first elemental magic weapon, after these days of polishing and optimizing, it already had the initial battle capabilities. It only lacked the support of the magical movement furnace, and the ordinary 2nd stage elemental magic puppet crystal core could only sustain it for 5 minutes of full battle.

It was through the energy resonance sequences of the 3 Tier 2 Elemental Demonic Puppet Crystals that Grim was able to barely sustain a quarter of an hour of combat.

This also made Grim all the more eager to obtain a new batch of Quillus Alloys.

The first puppet hydra built by the goblin bit that brought together most of the goblin engineers was also about to roll off the assembly line, but there was still no sign of the magical melting pot that served as the energy core.

This made Grim haunt the trading halls of the Free Wind Spiritual Illusion more frequently these days.

However, the terrifying prices of Quiras alloys or ores could only deter Grim from doing so.

Perhaps it was because for more than a year Grim had continuously inquired and inquired about Queras Alloy, and finally attracted a person who had an interest in it.

On this day, Grim had just finished his daily meditation and once again entered the spiritual illusion. In the trading hall of Gate One, he was stopped by a very young looking tall and thin man.

"You are... Flame?" The tall and thin man carefully examined Grim.

Flame was a special codename Grim had given himself, after all, in this mental illusion, he also needed a false identity that he could communicate and trade with others.

"I am Flame! What do you want with me?"

"I have a mission here that you might be interested in..." the tall, thin man smiled mysteriously.

"A mission? Shouldn't those things be in the mission hall?" Grim couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

In the mental illusion, his form was a humanoid flame and his face was covered with a golden mask, so it was difficult for outsiders to detect his true identity through these features.

"You don't need to worry about that... you should look at this mission first!" With a flick of the tall, thin man's finger, a purple and black mass of light floated in front of Grim.

"Drip, odd data stream detected...subject's instructions on whether or not to access?"

"Access!"

A strange data took shape in his mind as a bone-chilling coldness surged into his consciousness body.

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Molten Fire City Xenomorph Expulsion Mission (Level 3)

Mission initiator: Lord of the Molten Flame

Mission Details: The city of Molten Fire in the region of Scytis has been invaded by exotic fire creatures for the past two years, resulting in the deaths of one 2nd and three 1st rank witches, as well as several sorcerer apprentices. The underground mines of Molten Fire City have also been severely affected....

Mission Reward：50,000 magic crystals +1200 contribution points

Mission Requirement: Recruit 2 3rd level Sorcerers

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Grim briefly browsed through it, whirling and shaking his head in disinterest.

These days, he was still in the period of consolidating his strength after advancing to Level 3, and it wasn't suitable for him to go on any dangerous missions away from his family. Therefore, he rejected it without hesitation.

That tall and thin man seemed to have been prepared for this and whispered to Grim, "I heard that Your Excellency is going around collecting Quillus Alloy..."

Grim stopped in astonishment at the news.

"You have news of Quillus Alloy?"

"I won't lie to you, the underground mines of Molten Flame City produce Quillas Alloy. It's just that the main production there is constant gold ore, and the Quillas ore is just a companion ore!"

Grim narrowed his eyes.

"You're the Lord of Molten Fire?"

The highly skilled man smiled faintly, "The Lord of the Molten Fire City is a 4th rank wizard, and I, on the other hand, am just a hired wizard begging for a living under him."

Grim sensed carefully, although he didn't know the exact identity of the other party, the identity of a 3rd rank wizard was real.

"Do you have more you can divulge about this mission?" Grim hesitated for a moment, but finally managed to ask a question.

"That exotic beast broke into Molten Fire City 2 years ago. It has a very odd history, it seems to have snuck into Molten Fire City by following the underground passages of the Lava Sea. Once it arrived, it took over the Lava Sea near the underground mines and harassed the mining witch beasts at every turn. So far, Molten Fire City has lost untold numbers of people and equipment."

"Didn't you guys take measures to capture and kill it?"

"It seems to be a sentient flame creature, excessively cunning, almost never going deep into the Lava City, just devouring the constant gold ore near the mines. The city lord originally wanted to capture it, but as soon as the city lord approached, it would hide in the depths of the lava sea and never show itself again. And as soon as the city lord left, it returned to its old ways and came to cause trouble... These days, we've suffered a lot from it!"

"Has its strength been determined?"

"3rd-rank intermediate or advanced, we've already sent people to confirm it. If the environment there wasn't particularly suitable for it, any other rank 3 flame creature would have been captured and killed by us..."

After hearing this, Grim couldn't help but bow his head in thought.

It seemed that the other party had found him in order to also be his own fire wizard.

The tall and skinny man couldn't help but add to the mix when he saw Grim's heartbeat.

"I heard that Your Excellency is searching around for Quillus Alloy. As long as you can banish that foreign beast and get the mines back to normal, our city lord has said that you can add a portion of Quillas Alloy to the quest reward list..."