Age of Adepts

Wizarding World, Destiny Gauntlet.

Dragging her tired and weary body, Alice had just stepped out of the Astrological Hall when the oncoming elf Helen came floating over.

"Oh no, no, no, that bad woman is here again..."

Helen circled around Alice's body three times, and finally stayed in front of her with a puff of air, waving her hand to give her 'Life Bloom' and 'Energy Return'. The former was for restoring life and physical strength, while the latter was for restoring mental strength.

With these two enchants, Alice's resting time to recover from her current state of mental exhaustion to her peak state could be fully halved. This was simply perfect for most witches who cherished time.

The reason Elemental Pixies were valued by so many witches, that was what made them valuable!

Bad woman?

Alice was slightly startled and whirled around to realize that it was Mary who had come.

As the master of the tower of destiny, without Alice's permission, Mary was unable to break into the upper floor of the tower.

Therefore, despite being extremely tired, Alice still dragged her sore body to the third floor of the tower to see the Mary who was in full fury.

"What the hell are you guys doing? Where did Grim run off to?" As soon as she met Mary, she couldn't wait to inquire, "Now, the Fabreth family of Scattered Tallinn, the Entom family, the Denel family... One by one, they all came to us, naming Grim to come out and resolve the friction issue in their family territories. They could all have 4th rank wizards sitting within their families, and they must not just fight like before. Whether it's war or peace, it's always up to Grim, the clan head, to come out with an idea..."

These days, Mary sits within the family and is bored by all the treacherous family business. Gargamel and Wenliel have managed to keep their internal affairs in order, and the family is flourishing. However, in the treacherous vortex of power, the external challenges facing the Crimson family have not diminished one iota.

Even with the emergence of several high-ranking sorcerers of the Crimson Family, the external pressure they were under was growing stronger and stronger, giving the appearance of black clouds bearing down on the city.

Not to mention, there were dozens of frictions and disputes that had occurred around the Crimson Family's territory during this period alone. Either a worldly noble of a certain family had been assassinated in the Crimson Territory, or a noble adjacent to the Crimson Territory had started a war over a trivial matter, or a certain power had accused the Crimson Territory of harboring their fugitives....

Although most of such matters were only mundane matters regarding the Crimson Territory and did not yet involve the level of the Witch Family. However, the outbreak of so many disputes and annoyances concentrated in one moment still caused Gargamel and Winelier, who were in charge of the family's affairs, to feel a hint of something wrong.

It must be remembered that not even forty years had passed since the Crimson Family had last waged the Witch War, and that time it had beaten the allied forces of the five family powers to death. Now, there was an outside force that had its eyes on the Crimson Family raw again!

Mary gave the order, and the goblin forces affiliated with the Crimson Family quickly poked back into the information.

This time, it wasn't the small families and forces of the past that were targeting the Crimson Family, but several large wizard families that trembled in the heavens and earth when they stomped on the Scattered Earth Tower Forest.

The Fabreth Family, the Entom Family, the Denel Family....

This one illustrious name, in the middle of the continent's middle scattered area of Tallinn, was simply like a pearl mixed in with a pile of glass, the honor and glory unparalleled.

There were hundreds of witch families in the middle of the continent, but let them rise and fall and fight to the death, the ones standing at the forefront were still the five giants. And the Fabreth family, the Entom family, and the Denel family were three of them.

Now, even they all had their eyes on the Crimson Family, and as the family's only current 3rd rank witch, Mary instantly felt a mountain of heavy pressure.

But Mary was good at fighting and killing, but only not at this kind of private operation of resolving grudges in the middle of a cup of wine, and concluding agreements in the middle of a pith and dance. As a result, the dragon Zacha and the worm wizard Billis were ordered around by Mary, and drank back a stream of inexplicable enemies with their fierce force.

However, those worldly nobles and low-level witch families were, after all, just minions and lackeys sent by the enemy behind the scenes to interfere with the Crimson Family, beating them back but still unable to cut off that black hand behind the scenes.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Crimson Family had that 4th stage Demonic Armament Puppet Dragon guarding it, I'm afraid that certain families would have been eager to declare war on it!

It was with all these hidden worries that Mary was all the more eager to find Grim.

But unfortunately, she only knew that Alice had gone to the Flame Throne some time ago, and then Grim had mysteriously disappeared. As for Grim's real movements, she knew nothing.

That's why, at this moment, she was furiously rushing to the Tower of Destiny to question Alice about Grim's whereabouts.

Alice only had a vague idea of Grim's predicament in the Enewick Dimension. But even with such some simple information, she didn't dare to divulge it to Mary.

For no other reason than for that 'powerful enemy' that was always watching her closely!

Without a clue, it would certainly be difficult for Alice to learn about everything that happened in the Enewick Plane, and it was impossible for that 'woman' to know more and probe deeper than she did. But if Alice casually leaked out the situation there, even if she had covered it up with Fate Witchcraft afterwards, it still wouldn't be able to stop the other party from understanding the cards in her hand through the side of the 'world line' development.

That was the strange and treacherous part of the Fate Witch Struggle!

So Alice can only tell Mary with a vague tone, Grim is temporarily trapped in a different place, but safe, just need to wait patiently for a period of time to return naturally.

So crude information naturally difficult to meet Mary that urgent burning heart, but considering the Grim has always trusted and respect Alice's choice, Mary also forced down the inner irritation of the gas rushing away.

And Alice silently stood frozen in the parlor for a moment, before returning to her own residence with a ghostly sigh.

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

To be honest, the length and hardship of this confrontation was completely unexpected by Grim.

Five years...five long years, but it was consumed in this remote and desolate foreign land.

During these five years, Grim had broken out of the Lava Fire Pool countless times and fought to the death with the four Witch Hunters.

However, despite all of his tricks, he was unable to seriously injure any of them. In contrast, the four Witch Hunters had no choice but to try to kill Grim.

The two sides faced each other in this way, from the previous three or five days to erupt in a fierce battle, to the middle of the semi-monthly fight, and then later month after month.......the taste of the two sides f*cking less and less, as if they both knew that they could not do anything against each other, so the later battles were not so much a fight, but more like a really bored run out to move their muscles.

Grim was trapped under a volcano and had to open up a small laboratory there. Sometimes when he got busy and forgot the time, and didn't show up for a month or two, the four witch hunters would come to visit him.

This was how they came and went, and before they knew it, they had been hanging out in the Gonsas Volcano for five years!

The past five years had certainly been torturous for Grim, but the four Natagoo Hunters had not had an easy time either.

For a bloodline sorcerer who boasted of great potential, the five years trapped and bound in the Enwek's Plane had been an enormous ordeal.

The magical energies in the environment here were simply not comparable to the Wizard World or Extra-Territory. Meditating here day in and day out, aside from barely being able to recover from the loss of his own sorcery power, it was simply a fool's errand to try to progress spiritually.

It was the same as if the five years of Natagoo and a few others had been wasted for nothing!

Besides, trapped in the Gonsas Volcano unable to get away from it, they couldn't gather any useful wizard resources and there was even no way to talk about witchcraft experiments. So, while Grim was physically and mentally exhausted, Natagu and the other four were suffering as well.

However, as they were entrusted by that 'lord', and they were not happy about not being able to capture and kill a humble fire witch, they could only endure it day by day.

But as time went by, the situation within the Envik Continuum apparently changed in ways that they had not expected.

Those Paladins who had been saving their energy for a long time became somewhat eager to try again!

For five years, the Paladins toppled the Sorceress Gauntlet and then hunted down the remaining Sorceresses all over the world.

Thanks to their hard work, it could be said that they were fruitful and successful, and most of the escaped fraudulent witches were either captured or killed by them and cleaned up. Even the occasional fish that escaped the net disappeared into obscurity somewhere, never daring to come out and make waves again.

Once the pressure brought by the witches was removed, the group of foreign witches entrenched near the Gonsas Volcano became extremely conspicuous.

Although Natagu and that 4th rank divine knight had once had a cooperation agreement, with the disappearance of the fraudulent witches, it seemed that there was no need for this agreement to continue. As a result, during this period of time, there were suddenly a few more traces of people near the Gonsas Volcano, and five groups of adventurers had already broken into the area and died under the old witch's voodoo.

On this day, the mind warlock Benija, who was responsible for going out to buy living supplies, surprisingly returned to the camp covered in blood, and she also brought back a bad news.

Due to the constant eruption of the Gonsas Volcano, the surrounding towns and villages had been deserted. Benigia had run in disguise to a small town 170 miles away to buy supplies.

However, right there, a small, remote, deserted town with a population of less than 7,000, there was a group of high-ranking holy knights stationed there, and they also conducted strict interrogation and divine magic detection on the people entering and leaving.

If it was just a group of Black Iron Knights, with Benija's mind sorcery, it would be enough to play tricks on them without even knowing it. However, what she also didn't expect was that there... was a 3rd rank Gold Knight sitting there!