Age of Adepts

The Crimson seemed so oddly otherworldly among all the wizarding families!

At full count, it had only been fifty or sixty years since it was first known to the current glory.

And what is fifty to sixty years to a wizard family?

For a mundane territory, perhaps a dynasty had just ended; for a low-ranked sorcerer, he might have just climbed a small rank; but for those high-ranked sorcerers, it might only be enough to complete a large sorcery experiment....

However, for the Crimson Family, it was enough for it to grow from an obscure miniature family to a behemoth that was now second only to those large families.

Such a journey would often take hundreds or even thousands of years for other sorcerer families to complete.

As for the more peculiar, it was that legendary patriarch of the Crimson Family....

Barely becoming a Sorcerer's Apprentice with inferior talent, he suffered day after day in a low-level resource point under the Sarupo Family. However, with the opening of a region-wide mandatory quest in the Scattered Tallinn, this pre-plain sorcerer apprentice surprisingly flew up and grew rapidly.

According to the rumors, he seemed to be a junior apprentice before the quest opened, but when the quest ended, he had grown into a senior apprentice.

Crossing two minor ranks in one mission, even though he was only an apprentice, had already revealed his extraordinary and legendary nature.

From then on, he went from strength to strength, and soon after returning to the resource center, he became a paramour again, and gained the attention of the Sarubo family.

How exactly Grim became a wizard, however, no one can know.

Even though some wizarding organizations had spent a lot of time investigating, they could only find out that something had happened to Grim at the Resource Point, and even the resident witch there had died in an accident. However, Grim, Mary and the other guy who drove out the foreign insects were blessed with a blessing in disguise, and successfully advanced to the rank of Sorcerer.

Less than half a year after advancing to the rank of Sorcerer, the three of them were thrown into a bitter war by the Sarupo family. It was said that that Grim performed exceptionally well, which was why he was favored by the Sarupo Grand Sorcerer, and was able to enter the senior ranks of the Sarupo family.

Since then, this Grim Sorcerer seemed to be somewhat at odds with the senior management of the Sarupo family, and there were often rumors of internal discord.

The two witches, Grim and Mary, also officially left the Sarupo family after the end of the service contract. I heard that this also caused an internal split in the Sarupo family, with a considerable number of witches and apprentices following the two and leaving the Sarupo family.

But from then on, Grim truly stepped into his own legendary life!

In less than a hundred years, Grim founded the Crimson Family with a small private witch tower as the centerpiece, and began to make frequent forays into the different planes. He himself, on the other hand, had also advanced again in less than a hundred years of being a promoted sorcerer, becoming a renowned 2nd rank sorcerer.

It was during this time that the Crimson Family's reputation became known to outsiders!

But it was the existence of the Giant Dragon that really made the Crimson Family famous.

The Crimson Family seemed to have opened up a pathway to the Dragon's Plane, and was able to obtain a steady stream of dragon resources and enviable dragon wealth from it. These two, however, were the source of wealth from which the Crimson Family was able to rise quickly.

With the resources and wealth that they usurped from the Giant Dragon Plane, the Crimson Family immediately multiplied their wealth, and quickly grew from an insignificant miniature family to a small family....

And just because it had risen too fast, it had also attracted a pack of 'vicious wolves' for it.

The five sorcerer clans or organizational forces led by the Kamala family united, and waged a sorcerer's war against the Crimson Family with some random excuse. And the result of the war was so unexpected, Crimson Family even beat back the allied forces of the five wizard forces with a massive amount of metal puppets while the legendary patriarch was not in the wizard world.

And it was by this miraculous reversal of defeat that the Crimson Family also drew on the blood of the defeated to grow rapidly, and instead broke out of the Flame Throne Witch Tower and plundered the land in the Alois region, quite literally leaping into a medium family in one fell swoop.

In order to curb the continued expansion of the Crimson Family, that 3rd rank patriarch of the Kamala Family, the veteran High Sorcerer suing the dead raven Yurga, even chose the family challenge. And it was this incredible battle that forged Grim's status as a legendary sorcerer.

A 2nd rank fire witch, the head of a new rising family, actually killed an old 3rd rank sorcerer by magical means in front of everyone's eyes.

This kind of thing that had never happened before in the history of the wizard world happened just like that!

After annexing several forces such as Kamala, the Crimson Family quickly gained a foothold in the Alois region and began to extend their family power into the territory of the Witches of the North.

In the Northlands, in the extremely cold Northlands ruled by the witches, the Crimson Family somehow got on that big ship of the Witch of Fate and even occupied a piece of Norse territory in a place called the Ice Wind Territory. It was heard that the Crimson Family was also flourishing there, no less than the Alois region in the middle of the continent.

In private, there were many witches who were rumored to have some seemingly dubious relationship between this legendary fire witch of the Crimson Family and Alice, the Fate Witch leader of the Witches of the North. This could be seen from the depth and breadth of the cooperation between the two sides.

To this point, many of the old guys in the middle of the continent's middle scattered land, Tallinn, were clearly dissatisfied!

To them, it was a sign that the Crimson Family had become a vassal and front-runner for the Northern Witch, and would introduce the Northern Witch power to the entire Scattered Tower Forest.

So, over the years, the Crimson Family's power has been limited to the Alois region and some newly created territories. Attempts to expand their power into other territories would be met with heavy blows from local witch organizations or families.

As a result, the goblin camps belonging to the Crimson Clan can only extend their power to some neutral cities, despite all their efforts. As for those private territories, they were not welcomed.

There were even incidents in many regions where goblin caravans were half-robbed and wiped out.

It was just that as the Crimson Family's power grew stronger, the more secretive and clean hands they did such things.

Unfortunately, with the aid of the Fate Witches, the Crimson Family was able to successfully find the main messenger and the murderer, no matter what method the sneak attackers used to erase the trail. With several medium sorcerer forces falling at the hands of the cruising motherships and overwhelming armies of magical weapons sent by the Crimson Family, there was no longer any force that dared to extend an easy black hand!

Just as some rank 4 witches were gradually shifting their attention to the Crimson Family and putting out the word that they were ready to take care of it, that legendary fire witch actually brought back a huge metal puppet dragon with a strength of rank 4 from the secondary plane.

This instantly calmed the storm that had just been making noise again!

Although there were dark currents swirling underneath the entire Scattered Tower Forest, at least in the open, there was no witch power that dared to openly deal with this Crimson Family anymore.

It was fine that the Crimson Family didn't have a 4th stage, and it was just fine to clean up. But now that a 4th stage puppet has suddenly appeared from the Crimson Family and is powerful, those 4th stage sorcerers have ceased to think about casually stepping on it.

Even though those 4th stage wizards had a considerable chance of winning against a stiff and dull 4th stage puppet, they were not willing to take this inexplicable risk.

With their strength, with their prestige, as long as they were still sitting in the family, the power of the witch family or organization they represented would always be standing. No 4th rank witch would make an enemy of a fellow witch, and no amount of lucrative profits would tempt them to fight another 4th rank witch.

This is because once a feud is made, no wizard family or power can afford to be struck by a torn 4-stage wizard. Even if there was another 4th rank wizard guarding it.

When a Sorcerer advanced to the 4th rank, the difference in personal means and abilities had become so great that outsiders could not understand. A bloodline curse and a death sorcery could cause a family to fall apart and die in an instant.

Therefore, even those 4th stage sorcerers would not be willing to mess with another 4th stage sorcerer just for the sake of a small amount of resources and benefits if they didn't have to.

Although the Crimson Family's 4th stage puppets were not up to the terrifying power of a 4th stage witch, but hell knows what kind of terrifying cards that guy named Grim was hiding in his hands. Therefore, with the long age and old age of the 4th rank witches, as long as the Crimson Family didn't mess with their heads, they wouldn't be willing to touch this hard nail.

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Northland, White Tower.

An exquisitely styled cigar-style cruiser mothership was slowly drifting through the skies near the White Tower.

Due to the use of magical energy as a power source, this cruiser mothership didn't have the metallic clanking of other mechanical ships with their gears constantly clinking together.

Like a fine silver-white cigar, the Kiva cruising mothership silently crushed the flocculent clouds, drifting gracefully above the sky. On the other hand, the goblin magician, Little Rock, stood with his feet up on the edge of the ship's side, excitedly overlooking the dark forests, tall ancient trees, and undulating mountains and lakes rapidly passing below him.

As a newly promoted ranked Family Sorcerer, with its seniority and strength, it was naturally not qualified to control such a powerful mothership filled with magical technology. However, considering its goblin background, the Meryl Witch still transferred it to the Kiva, where it was on duty under that 2nd ranked Solus Knight.

The Solus Knight was the captain of this Kiva mothership, while Little Rock was just one of the 3 wizards accompanying the mothership.

And they were tasked with patrolling this Black Forest between the White Tower and Doverland City.

Of course, the supply of life and building supplies for the newly built Doverland City was also the responsibility of the Kiva.