Age of Adepts

The Wizarding World.

For some time now, the Crimson Family's situation in the Scattered Earth Tallinn region had been deteriorating somewhat daily.

A 'rumor' spread from nowhere, stating that the legendary Fire Witch who had founded the Crimson Family had died in the Other Side, and that the Crimson Family's top management had chosen to keep it a secret in order not to shake the family's fundamentals.

This rumor seems nonsensical, but it really hits some of the Crimson Family's weaknesses.

If it wasn't for the Legendary Fire Witch who had suppressed all dissenting voices with her own great strength, and the loyal support of Mary, Alice and Winlier, no one would have been able to gather these vampires, goblins, dragons and witches together and condense them into a powerful force to be feared by the outside world.

When Grim hadn't appeared within the family for many years in a row, and Alice, another core member of the Destiny Witch, was also deep in hiding in the Destiny Gauntlet all year round, the entire internal operation of the family was almost entirely supported by the two 1st rank witches, Gargamel and Winrielle.

As for the family's high level warriors, there was only that 3rd rank vampire witch, Mary, left.

Under such circumstances, some unstable factors inside and outside the family tangled together and began to make waves. Whether it was those surrendering witches that were forcibly overpowered in the last witch war, or certain 'ambitious families' on the goblin side, they were all carefully testing the family's weaknesses and looking for ways to escape the family's control.

In the meantime, some well-known large sorcerer families also showed deep hostility towards the newly-emerged Crimson Family, and began to suppress Crimson Family members overtly or covertly.

For a time, there were several vicious incidents of expelling goblin caravans and attacking Crimson Family resource points in the Scattered Tallinn region. The Crimson Family, which had already occupied nearly 80% of the territory in the Alois region, had to start shrinking its power and instead guarded the most important level 1 resource points in the region.

As the head witch, even if Mary was reluctant, she could only take up the task of carrying the family's burden.

For a time, the vampire witches attacked everywhere, fighting tooth and blood, repelling enemy attack after attack with vicious attacks, and even suppressing three rebellions that attempted to subvert the rule of the Crimson Family in the Alois region.

However, the more they killed and the harder they fought, the more difficult the Crimson Family's situation became instead.

Rumors are flying everywhere, there are beacons everywhere, and that powerful black hand behind the stealthy curtain threatens to not stop until the Crimson Family is uprooted.

As a last resort, Mary could only use her family's authority to send the Level 4 Demon Armor Puppet Dragon, who was stationed near the White Tower, to the middle of the continent as the core force to guard the Alois region.

Such a move undoubtedly deterred the mastermind behind the scenes, giving the Crimson Family a chance to breathe.

Through meticulous and detailed investigation, the family executives led by Mary finally figured out that the main promoter behind the conspiracy to subvert the Crimson Family was the Fabreus Family's current patriarch, the 4th stage Body Tempering Sorcerer Declan Fabreus.

To be honest, after hearing that the one behind tossing the Crimson Family was this 4th stage Alchemical Sorcerer, most of the family's top brass were a bit surprised and startled. After all, the Crimson Family didn't have a single true 4th Order of its own, so in its foreign expansion, it had always been respectful of those old witch families and never competed with them for local interests.

Now, that 4th ranked wizard suddenly appeared out of nowhere and dealt a harsh blow to the Crimson Family, which... was really a bit unexpected by the Crimson Family's top management.

However, while the top brass was confused, Mary, who was a Core Sorcerer, vaguely understood something.

The sudden trapping of Grim in a different dimension and the current predicament the family was facing was most likely the work of one person.

Thus Mary, who understood the reason for the situation, gave up the idea of negotiating with the enemy and began to counterattack and defend the family's mundane territories and resource points with all her might. Under her strong leadership, the Worm Witch Billis, the Dragon Zacha, the Gnome Tigure, and numerous vampire sorcerers took turns attacking.

If the enemy dared to overrun one of the Crimson Family's hereditary territories, they dared to attack and kill all the hereditary nobles in the enemy's three territories; if the enemy dared to raid one of the Crimson Family's resource points, they dared to destroy the enemy's five witch resource points....

Historically fearless Crimson witches are like a coiled up snake, viciously counterattacking every attack of the enemy, even if they fight a lose-lose, will not compromise and give in to the enemy.

At the beginning of the war, the Fabreus family was still only inciting and compelling those peripheral forces to fight and harass the Crimson family. But when these peripheral forces had suffered big losses in the Crimson Family's territory and were scared, the Fabreth Family finally started to take the initiative.

As a long-established sorcerer family with a 4th-rank sorcerer sitting in town, the Fabreys family had existed for more than 3000 years, and its profound heritage naturally could not be compared to the Crimson family, which was less than a century old.

When the Fabreth Family's 2nd and 3rd rank witches made their appearance and joined the battle sequence against the Crimson Family, the entire Scattered Tower Forest region couldn't help but boil.

All the witch families and academy forces couldn't help but bet on the Alois region, waiting quietly for the big and small witch families to divide the winners and losers. There were those who were discussing, those who were hilarious onlookers, and those who were therefore pointing fingers in a profound manner....

But no matter how much they discussed and analyzed it, the Crimson Family couldn't possibly be fortunate enough to reason again in this Witch War. After all, on one side, there were 4th stage sorcerers and more than 30 2nd and 3rd stage sorcerers, while on the other side, there were only two 3rd stage sorcerers and a group of 3rd stage dragons who listened to the tune but not the proclamation... The difference in strength between the two sides was simply too big, it wasn't even above a power level.

For a while, those small forces that had previously followed the trend of clinging to the Crimson Family when they saw how powerful it was, either joined the enemy's camp or chose neutrality, also causing the Crimson Family's side to lose momentum.

Summing up the basic strength of both sides, some good people posted comments that the Crimson Family would be completely routed, and at most, they would only be able to retain the Flame Throne, the family's place of origin, with that 4th stage Demonic Puppet Dragon. As for the rest of the mundane territories and family resource points... they simply didn't have the strength to guard them!

However, the real cause of the Crimson Family's collapse was none other than the absence of Grim, the legendary head of the family.

Crimson Family was originally a sorcerer family formed by Grim's strong personal charisma and battle power, and the core of the family was all tied to Grim alone.

If Grim is present, the family is present; if Grim is absent, the family is like a human being who has had his skeleton removed, and it is difficult to gather a real force.

Whether it was the group of brain monsters in the Lance Dimension, or the group of proud dragons, they all disobeyed Mary's orders, listening to the tune but not the proclamation, not putting out their full strength to protect the family's honor and dignity.

Even the slightly weaker goblins were quite critical of the orders given by Mary. If it wasn't for the powerful vampire group that had overpowered them, I'm afraid they would have had to back down and defend themselves.

As a result, only a few core witches and her loyal vampire group remained who could really follow Mary's orders. Relying only on such a few forces, it was simply a fool's errand to defend the vast territory and resource points of the Alois region.

Forced to do so, Mary could only repeatedly shrink her family's power, abandoning the outlying territories and resource points, taking control of her limited manpower in her own hands and quietly waiting for the opportunity to turn back a bite.

The Crimson Family's repeated concessions finally produced some valuable targets.

Seeing the prey, a group of Fabres Family's wizards went crazy and looted one of the Crimson Family's first level resource points located near the Laurel Wasteland, killing the Crimson wizards and family apprentices responsible for guarding it.

And they were led by two 3rd level witches!

Having received the distress message sent back by the family shamans and apprentices before they died, Mary, contrary to her usual norm of ignoring the situation, pounced with all her family's elite and ferociously attacked.

As the Laurel Wilderness was only 600 miles away from the Crimson Family's core territory, the trusty Fabres witches didn't expect Mary to be so fierce, so the raid took too long. By the time they were loaded with loot and ready to return to the family to celebrate, Mary, with her seven 2nd rank vampires, as well as Billis, Zacha and Tigure had blocked their path.

In a bloodbath, the Laurel Wasteland was completely wiped off the map, and both sides paid a heavy price for it.

On the Crimson Family side, two 2nd level Blood Elves died on the spot, Mary was seriously injured, and the rest of the family witches were each injured. On the Fabreus Family side, the two 3rd rank witches leading the group, one seriously injured and one lightly injured, five 2nd rank witches were killed in battle and countless lightly injured witches....

The Battle of Raul's Wastes also completely shook the entire Scattered Tallinn!

In the eyes of the people, the only thing that the Crimson Family could do in the face of the menacing old wizard family was to hold on to the family's place of origin and silently wait for the moment when the enemy's power would run out and retreat.

No one could have imagined that that Blood Queen Mary could possess such bravery, and even dared to bite back, gnawing off a piece of flesh with blood and tendons from the Fabres family. Although the casualties of the five Rank 2 Sorcerers could not shake the Fabreth Family's foundation, it was tantamount to slapping them hard in the face.

For a time, the Scattered Tallinn was shocked, all silently observing how the Fabreth Family reacted.

It was said that the battle at the Raul Wasteland had caused that Fabreth Family's 4th rank patriarch to rush into a rage.

Under his furious roar and repeated mobilization, the Fabreth family gathered an even larger force and began to frantically attack the Crimson Territory.