Age of Adepts

Inside Molten Fire City.

A small welcome banquet was in full swing....

Grim and the newly arrived seal master undoubtedly became the protagonists of the banquet, receiving a warm welcome and hospitality from the senior management of Molten Fire City.

Unlike previous banquets, this welcome dinner was held in a huge stone hall, and the participants were almost all 2nd and 3rd rank power sorcerers.

The three vice-masters of Melting Fire City also all showed up, but one of them was clearly an illusionary body using projection.

Kerak, male, 3rd rank, elemental sorcerer (venomous)...tall and lean, with a dark green gemstone embedded in the middle of his forehead.

Linus, male, 3rd Order, Alchemist Sorcerer...this is a large, strong, bald, giant man with a large golden sword on his back.

Dorian, male, 3rd rank, Rune Formation Master...his face was scrambled and deep, and the surface of his exposed body was tattooed with brightly colored and strange magic patterns.

That Linus Sorcerer was clearly not in Molten Fire City, but had only condensed a body with a projection technique to attend this banquet.

As for the 3rd rank sealer who had arrived from the southern Eracia region, he was a middle-aged witch with a gloomy and wooden face, triangular eyes and a garlic nose, and his entire appearance was simply unbearable. This was also particularly surprising to Grim.

You know, with the wizards' methods, neither organ transplants nor limb reanimation was much of a hassle. Changing one's body shape and appearance was even more trivial, it was simply a matter of handy.

Therefore, the male and female witches that Grim had met so far, there were hardly any that were particularly ugly in appearance.

Only those guys whose bodies had suffered severe sorcery contamination and injured their soul origins were likely to show some unacceptable looks.

In the case of this 3rd rank sealer, Grim, however, did not perceive any artificial sorcery transformation.

This also meant that her current appearance was her original appearance.

But Grim had no prejudice against this, after all, there were far too many maverick characters among sorcerers. The more guys like this, the more powerful they were actually frightening.

This was a clear indication that all of the other party's successes so far had come from their own efforts and strength, and there was nothing opportunistic about it.

Pfft....

Wizard Kerak tapped his palms a few times, and all the witches in the entire banquet hall stopped talking and gathered their eyes on him.

"Today, we are privileged to have the legendary sorcerer Grim and the powerful sorcerer Unid from the Aelasian region... let us welcome them with a round of applause!"

The hall immediately resounded with thunderous applause.

Grim took a step forward with a smile on his face, looked around the circle, raised his wine glass and drank it all, before returning to his original position.

The Unid Witch did not have a smile on her face, and raised her glass only to dip her lips slightly, which also counted as a greeting.

Within the hall, the number of 2nd ranked witches on the side of Melting Fire City was also as high as twenty to thirty, each of them silently examining the two 3rd ranked witches who had come from afar with astonishment on their faces. Especially on that legendary fire witch Grim, their eyes lingered for the longest time.

Although the Alois region was more than 100,000 kilometers away from Molten Fire City, the other party had killed a 3rd rank wizard in the arena with a 2nd rank body, and such rumors were heard by almost everyone present.

To put it bluntly, I'm afraid that at this moment, this 3rd rank legendary fire witch's name was even hotter and more surprising than some 4th rank wizards!

Now that this guy has even advanced to Level 3, what will his strength reach now?

To be honest, the many witches present were truly very curious and simply couldn't wait to find out.

However, at such an occasion, no one dared to come forward and ask in person in disgrace, so they could only press their curiosity into their hearts and wait to slowly see the outcome later.

The gatherings of high ranked witches were far more concise and straightforward than those of lower ranked witches....

After the brief introductions and exchanges, each of them could go about their own business.

Some of the witches who were concerned about their sorcery experiments, or who had specific positions within the Molten Fire City, left without a word. As for Grim and Eunid, they also turned to another, more quiet and secluded chamber at the invitation of the Kailak wizard.

Here, the two were briefed in detail and comprehensively by Sorcerer Dorian on some of the Flame Tiger's intelligence.

When Sorcerer Dorian's intelligence was finished, Sorcerer Kerak couldn't help but turn his face towards Grim.

"Sir Grim, you already trampled the Lava Sea yesterday, do you think it is suitable as our battlefield?"

Grim's eyes couldn't help but narrow, and after a moment of thought, he gently shook his head.

"The sea of lava that Witch Fraina took me to, the temperature inside has reached over three thousand four hundred degrees, and the lava fluid pressure is as high as 212 degrees. I might have no problem moving around in there, but if it were anyone else, even the few of you here, I'm afraid it wouldn't last an hour..."

Hearing Grim's words, the three Melting Fire City Vice Lords exchanged glances.

"After reaching a mission agreement with the two of you, we had also made a hunting plan..." said Kairak slowly.

"Oh? Then you might as well tell us!" Unid's sharp voice rang out.

"We plan to arrange a trap near the underground mine to lure that Flame Tiger into an ambush... Once the other party enters the doom, Lord Dorian will be able to instantly dispel all the power of flame within a two-mile radius using the Rune Witch Formation planted in the mine. At that point, Lady Unid will be able to take advantage of the opportunity to seal the other party..."

"So what do I do?" Grim frowned and asked.

"Your Excellency certainly needs to ambush into the Lava Sea beforehand. Once the Flame Tiger is ambushed, we are responsible for capturing and killing it, while Your Excellency needs to block the other party's escape route and never allow the Flame Tiger to escape into the Lava Sea!"

Grim's brows knit together again.

The other party was the master, and had placed the few people already on the other side together to have a look out for each other. That Unid was also hiding in the shadows, waiting until there was no escape for the Flame Tiger before stepping in. In this way, all the risks seem to be on his head.

Once the Flame Tiger is ambushed, he will try his best to escape into the lava sea.

Blocking the bullet holes myself... hehe, what a good mission!

Grim fought his chin, a hehehe sneer, his face full of dissatisfaction.

"Your Excellency Grim, if the mission is successful, we can do the Lord's work to add an extra 100 kilograms of Quillas Ore to your mission rewards."

100 kilograms of Quillas Ore? If it was refined into Quillas Alloy, I'm afraid that it wouldn't even be possible to create half of a Space Furnace, let alone a costly Magical Motion Furnace.

Grim finally put away his smile and said with a straight face, "Lord Kailak, that's a 3rd rank Flame Tiger! Forcing a tiger into a poor alley, I'm afraid it would be hard for me to bear alone if it were to fight back... If it escapes, I can't afford that charge!"

Kerak also looked a little embarrassed, his lips moved lightly to confer with the other two Vice City Masters before turning back to Grim.

"How about this... we, Melting Fire City, will send you two more 2nd rank fire witches, so that they can act completely at your command. If the deed is done, we...we are willing to pay 170 kilograms of Quillas ore!"

The matter had come to a head, and Grim knew that this was already the other side's psychological bottom line, so he could only nod reluctantly in agreement.

"The time, it will be set for the day after tomorrow. Lord Dorian will arrange the Rune Witch Formation as soon as possible, and once the trap is set, we'll act according to plan and see if that Flame Tiger will fall for it..."

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The Flame Tiger Sindar's lair.

While the specific details were being plotted in the distant Molten Fire City, that Lord Kerak might not have imagined that everything that happened in the chamber had already been projected one by one by the flame billet with the soul branding.

Sindar was lying on top of the piles of metal ores, watching the scene of the Chamber projected by the Flame Splitters with great interest, and listening to all the discussions of the sorcerers.

Although he was full of confidence in his flame abilities, Flame Tiger Sindar's heart was filled with fear after listening to the arrangements of those human sorcerers.

If... if it didn't know all of this and was led into a trap by the other party using the ore as bait, the chances of escaping the siege of five rank 3 witches was honestly almost zero!

It wasn't five cabbages, it was five 3rd level wizards!

To be honest, that one rune maker alone had wounded Sindar with his strange sorcery abilities last time.

This also filled Xindar, who had always looked down on human sorcerers, with horror.

It had to admit that human sorcerers were much inferior to powerful elemental creatures in terms of physical qualities and control of elemental power, though. But when it came to fighting techniques and sinister means, it was enough to throw the elemental creatures more than ten blocks.

At this moment, suddenly hearing about the other party's grim plan, even this strange flame tiger that was not afraid of the sky or the earth could not help but want to slip a little.

"You also heard that those guys arranged such a terrifying trap there at the mine. I see... our plan of action should be cancelled for now! I...I can run away somewhere else for a few years first, and then when they run out of patience, I'll run back!" Flame Tiger Sindar said hesitantly.

Hearing his temporary ally's demoralizing words, the flame billet was speechless for a while.

However, he had a new understanding of how difficult flame creatures could be!

Admittedly, the response Sindar had come up with was undoubtedly the most economical and dumbfounding. But it clearly wasn't in Grim's interests, so it had to be vetoed.

"Sindar, don't you trust my mind? Don't worry, I'll come up with a perfect plan that will defeat their plans. And we... will be able to make a huge profit and then fly away!" Grim could only drum up three inches of his tongue to lobby the cunning flaming tiger as best he could.

"Your plan better be as good as your tongue...or don't try to get me killed at the mine!"