Age of Adepts

Wizard World, White Tower.

Still within a spacious hall on the seventh floor of the White Tower, Witch Meryl was holding a parchment that had just arrived in her hand, silently dazed and stunned.

There was only a short line on the glossy and soft parchment, asking her to immediately transfer control of the White Tower to the Fate Witch Xuefu upon receiving the letter, and then report back to the Flame Throne.

As for the reason for leaving and the time of departure, the letter didn't specify anything.

Such an abrupt letter intended to deprive Meryl Witch of all her family power, it would be impossible for anyone else to do so. But only the person who wrote this letter could!

In the lower right corner of the parchment letter, a unique mark formed by flame sorcery was burning slightly, but it did not damage the parchment in the slightest.

Meryl of course recognized it, it was her teacher Grim's personal sorcery mark.

Touching the still-burning sorcery seal with her fingers, she felt a slight burning sting while at the same time she could also feel a sorcery scent emanating from the seal.

It was the sorcery imprint etched by his own teacher's hand!

If Sensei had something to explain to himself, a sorcery message would suffice to call him over. But now, the secret letter from Sensei in the form of an official letter is clearly asking him to hand over the control of the White Tower, which......has a different flavor.

What's going on within the family? Someone is slandering themselves behind their back? Is this letter a forgery? ........

A series of questions rose from the bottom of her heart, but touching her teacher's unique witchcraft mark, Meryl gradually steadied her mind again.

The White Tower had always been co-ruled by Meryl and that Fate Witch, Snowflake, but with Meryl as the main one, Snowflake was only in charge of some matters related to the Fate Witch. So it was inevitable that the teacher would transfer herself away, and it was a matter of course that the White Tower control would be handed over to Snowflake for the time being.

But after so many years in charge of the White Tower, Meryl had almost dedicated most of her time and energy to this place. One by one, one long and short term development plans were also being carried out in an orderly manner, and by suddenly transferring herself away at this time, Meryl was really worried that her successor would mess these things up.

That Snow Witch was too aloof in personality and not tactful enough, and if she were to put nearly a thousand witches and apprentices up and down the White Tower in her hands, Meryl would be lying to herself if she said she wasn't worried!

"What do you know about this letter?" In the meantime, Meryl couldn't help but ask the Winlier at her side.

A gorgeous nobleman's robe style, handsome face, and upright posture, Winlier replied in a gentle and elegant manner, "The letter was sent over by Lord Mary, and those who handled it were trusted own people, so there is no problem with the letter. Moreover... Lord Mary has sent a message, this time it is a good thing, you must not make any hesitation!"

The letter was sent by the teacher through Lord Mary's channels and did not go through the normal channels of communication between the Throne of Flame and the White Tower. This seems to indicate that Sensei didn't want the Flame Throne side to know this news too early, did something happen to Gargamel?

With deep suspicion and puzzlement, Meryl invited the Fate Witch Xuefu and handed her a fist-sized crystal rune in person. This crystal rune was the core item for controlling the White Tower's spirits, and an important symbol of Meryl's status in the past.

It seemed that the Snow Witch already knew something and didn't ask any questions, but instead asked Count Wenliel to continue to fulfill her current obligations. Within the White Tower, on the other hand, it was announced to the outside world that the Meryl Witch was conducting an important witchcraft experiment and would not be seeing any subordinates in the near future.

Although such a thing was rare, it had happened a few times in the past years, so it did not arouse suspicion or suspicion from the White Tower.

.............

The light from the transmission slowly diminished.

Meryl finally survived the temporal dislocation of teleportation and saw the scene in front of her once more.

This was not a public teleportation formation of the Flame Throne Witch Tower, but a hidden teleportation formation on the fifth floor of the Witch Tower. So as soon as Meryl opened her eyes, she saw a tall flame humanoid standing outside the teleportation formation, silently examining herself.

Meryl knew, of course, that this flame humanoid was actually one of her teacher's flame bilocations, so she hurriedly bowed and saluted.

"Good to be here!" The flaming humanoid nodded at her slightly, "Come with me, you may have to stay here a little longer..."

Led by the flaming humanoid, Meryl arrived in a biology lab on the fifth floor of the Witch Tower. Looking at the large, listening glass vessels full of objects, and looking at a model of a strange specimen floating in it, Meryl was both excited and in awe.

This... was the secret laboratory of a high-ranking sorcerer!

Even if one was a disciple of the other, one could not take half a step into it without a good reason. And everything that had appeared here was a tangible indication of the solid steps that the teacher had taken in his biological and bloodline experiments.

As for the topic and direction of the teacher's research, it was difficult to discern with Meryl's knowledge and higher-order learning. But she also had her own unique set of discernment methods, which was to look at the equivalency of the experimental targets.

Of the up to hundreds of living biological specimens in the entire biology lab, she was able to identify less than eleven. And the only specimen creatures that she could identify were all terrifying demons of 2nd or 3rd order at every turn.

The most conspicuous of the demonic specimens, which Meryl recognized clearly, was precisely the Tier 3 Eye Demon that the White Tower had encountered seven years ago during its external expansion. At the moment, the Eye Demon has become a living specimen in the teacher's private laboratory, floating in a glass jar filled with brown liquid, sinking and floating, life and death unknown.

Similar to the Eye Demon, there are as many as four specimens that possess a powerful air of power.

Although they had been dead for a long time, the powerful and hideous breath that was imbedded in their bodies could not be easily taken away even by death!

Led by the flaming humanoid through the rows of strange and hideous-looking, creepy creature specimen areas, Meryl finally met her teacher in front of a small, elaborate lab bench.

The flaming humanoid took a step forward, touched Grim's body lightly, and became one with him again.

And only then did Grim straighten up and turn to Meryl.

"Did you ask me to come, Teacher?"

Every time she saw Grim's young and handsome face, Meryl sighed heartily.

Obviously, the teacher was older than himself, but in terms of looks and appearance alone, it was his own disciple who was even older than the teacher.

Although Meryl's face was beautiful and delicate, but between the eyebrows and eyes had already revealed a kind of old age and vicissitudes after experiencing the world. But the other party was still so handsome and tough, with a straight nose, deep and restrained black pupils, and a youthful breath of life so thick that it could be smelled all over his body.

With the short two or three hundred years of life of a 1st rank wizard, Meryl, who was now in her 140s, had indeed entered the mid to late stages of her own life. While the teacher had become a 3rd rank wizard, and the basic lifespan of a 3rd rank wizard was 700-800 years, with the teacher being no more than 160 years old, she was indeed still in the golden growth period of her life.

That's why the teacher Grim looked younger and more energetic than his disciple Meryl. Of course, such a scene was very common in the witch community and was a situation that wizards were accustomed to.

"Well, I've called you here specifically for this one. You'll live here for the time being, and don't have any contact with the outside world. I have a special sorcery experiment that I need you to stay here and cooperate with to complete!" Not caring at all about the suspicious look in Meryl's eyes, Grim directly set things in motion.

"But...Teacher, all the affairs there at the White Tower have just gotten on track. There are still many matters to be dealt with in Doverland City and Musante City... That Princess Winnisha is also messing around in the White Tower... The collection of resources for this quarter's resource points will also have to be arranged immediately... ...A deal with the dark witches..." as Grim's disciple, Meryl was clearly a bit more intimate and indulgent than an outsider, and couldn't help but complain softly.

But her words were quickly interrupted by Grim.

"Meryl, what is the most important thing for a wizard?" Grim's tall form stood in a pivot, his black pupils gazing at her blandly.

"Knowledge, right? Seems like a lot of witches believe that knowledge is power! But over the years, I've come to think that power is important too. Having the power to gather resources faster and better seems like power would be nice! But in general, there are many more witches who believe in talent and that it can determine everything..." thought Meryl seriously, her look becoming blurred and shifting as she pondered.

"Meryl, the most important thing to a witch is actually power!" Grim cut him off.

"Power?" Meryl couldn't help but murmur and repeat.

"Power is what a witch should truly pursue. Only by mastering power can a witch stand proud of the crowd and become a powerful race that rules and harnesses all things in the world." Grim paused a little: "As for what you call knowledge, power and talent, they are all just a way for witches to gain power. With knowledge, if you can't turn them into powerful sorcery abilities, then knowledge is also weak!"

"Power is a derivative born of attachment to power, a marginal effect of power manifestation, and should not be the goal of a powerful sorcerer's quest!"

"Talent, on the other hand, determines how easy it is for a wizard to acquire power! If one possesses a remarkable talent, it will no doubt speed up one's progress, making one's path to advancement smoother and shorter ."

"However, in the end, they are all derivatives created for power, and as sorcerers, we should not pursue the finer points, instead we should go straight to the source and grasp the source of the sorcerer's power..."