Age of Adepts

It was a huge wooden boat.

But unlike other wooden boats, it was not sailing in the river, but floating slowly in mid-air.

The tall mast, the gleaming appearance, and the sharp banging corners in front of it gave it a graceful and splendidly exotic appearance. The most prominent position on the side of the hull, on the other hand, was branded with an eye-catching emblem of the Fabres family.

On the land beneath it, in all directions, front and back, a neatly formed procession could be seen moving slowly forward with the wooden boat as its center.

The ship's cabin, inside a certain chamber.

Seven sorcerers were gathered in front of a sorcery sandbox, whispering in a low voice.

On top of the sorcery sandbox was an undulating display of the topography and iconic landmarks of the entire Alois region. The entire area near the southwest of it had become green, while the rest of it was a patchwork of red, green or yellow.

Green indicates occupied or returned land, yellow indicates territory still belonging to the Crimson family, and red shows territory in the midst of intense competition....

The seven rank 3 sorcerers conferred in low voices, and whenever a decision was made, they would pick up a three-dimensional model of a chess piece from the edge of the table and place it somewhere in the sandbox. And on the top of the chess piece glittered sorcery marks of different colors and shapes.

Whenever there was a change on the sandbox, a special person next to it would record the decision of the family's top brass and pass it out. When the orders reached the specific wizards and teams layer by layer, a number of people in the teams gathered around the wooden boat would undertake the task and head straight to the distance.

And of course, every now and then, a team that had completed their task would return.

Thus, the available pieces at the sorcerous sand table were always in a dynamic state of flux!

However, just as the secret room was busy into a heap, a few clicks came out from the sorcery sandbox, and several chess pieces placed on it suddenly exploded. First, cracks appeared on the surface of the chess pieces, and then the witchcraft markings on them faded after several brightening and fading.

And this usually signaled the death of the family sorcerer performing the task!

If this happened in just one or two insignificant places, the seven high-ranking sorcerers present wouldn't care at all. After all, it was impossible not to have a little casualty in such a fierce and grand witch family war.

However, five places at once with simultaneous mission failures and sorcerers dying, this... couldn't be ignored by them!

Uma among the seven high-ranking sorcerers swept away a glance and couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

Four out of the five failed quests were quests that he had set down himself, and with such a probability it was no wonder that he was secretly annoyed and felt a bit embarrassed.

Looking more closely with fixed eyes, the Cold Wind Collar, Silver Spring Mines, Savia Castle, Ilgala Stone Tower, Ariceston City... were all mundane territories or resource points located outside the Crimson Family's core circle. It was reasonable to say that with the intelligence investigation conducted by the Fabres Family in the early stages, the team sent to each mission point would be several times stronger than the other, the probability of a miss shouldn't be so high.

Uma faithfully picked up the broken pieces placed there at the Savia Castle and immediately discerned their identities from the extinguished sorcery branding. By virtue of his core sorcerer's authority, he also quickly connected to the mental frequency of the sorcerer squad.

"This is Uma Sorcerer from HQ, is there anyone left alive in the Crystal Spear Squad?"

........

The same mental mantra, a breath of wide expanse many times this barely got a little response.

"Lord Uma, come... quickly... save... us... "

The one who returned the message from the mental frequency was an apprentice sorcerer, except that he seemed to be running away at high speed, and the message returned was intermittent and accompanied by strong interference.

"I don't care who you are, quickly tell me, what has happened to you? Why did the mission fail?"

"It's...Worm Witch...it's...ah... "

The sorcerer apprentice was only halfway through his words when he screamed steeply, since he had lost his last connection.

Worm Witch...Crimson Family's core 2nd rank Worm Witch Billis?

Uma's eyebrows immediately twisted together.

If it was really this guy, the Terror follow-up quest would be a bit difficult.

Since it was Uma's war zone that was in trouble, the rest of the 3rd level sorcerers would just laugh and ignore it even if they saw it. Only the Linus Sorcerer, who was closer to Uma, couldn't help but quietly pass on a message, "How about it, do you need help?"

Uma declined with an indifferent face.

It was only a low-intensity battle on the outskirts of the family, but as a veteran 3rd rank wizard of the Fabres family, he had enough wizards under his belt to use, so there was no need to ask for help from other 3rd rank wizards. Otherwise, once it was leaked out, he would incur the shame of the other 3rd rank wizards.

"How is the situation there?" Uma couldn't help but ask rhetorically.

The Irgara Stone Tower among the five failed quests was the Lenas Wizard's war zone, which was why he was asking.

"A rank 2 blood dragon appeared there and took out the guys I sent there... I'm trying to find a way to round it up!" After saying the reason, the Linus wizard was full of annoyance, "What about you?"

Uma put down a few more of the remaining broken pieces, his face so gloomy he could almost squeeze out the ink.

"Damn, it's the Worm Witch, the Dragonman and that Goblin... several of the Crimson Family's Core 2s are on my side..." no wonder he had to be so resentful of such a vast and huge family battlefield... It was hard to swallow the bad breath that the opposing side's core warriors had all gone inside his war zone to cause trouble.

"Worm Witch Billis? You be careful, this guy is very difficult to deal with. Ordinary 2nd stage sorcerers can't even compete with his Worm Army, it's easy for 3rd stage like you and me to defeat him, but it's a bit difficult to kill him..." hearing Uma's reply, even Linus, who was just in a rage, couldn't help but feel fortunate.

Against a guy like Worm Witch who could split his body countless times, it was better to find a Soul Witch to deal with him just right. With the soul sorcerer's profound attainments in soul searching and locking, finding out Billis's real soul from the thousands of insects' army would be the only way to kill him in one strike, leaving him with no chance to escape with his body.

However, Uma didn't have any rank 2 soul sorcerers under her hands, so hesitatingly, she could only whisper to her other 'partners' for help.

Borrowing a 2nd stage soul sorcerer from another 3rd stage sorcerer, and pairing it with a 2nd stage elemental sorcerer under him, with two against one still so targeted, there must be an 80% chance of victory.

Thus, in the 67th second after the failure of the last mission, Uma placed a new pawn at the location of the Savia Castle, and a series of fine and subtle orders were passed out layer by layer.

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

Savia Castle.

The once serene and beautiful castle had disappeared.

From the crumbling walls to the devastated main body of the castle, twisted corpses lying in pools of blood could be seen everywhere. Some were the castle's original guards, others were sorcerer guards in black armor, and still others were sorcerer apprentices in short grey robes....

They had died from different causes, but right now they were all a kind of strange beetle hatching place.

The abdomens of all the corpses were raised high, and the epidermal skin was stretched thin like a piece of paper, almost as if you could see a red solution of blood inside. When the blood water turned between them, some dense, beehive-like bizarre insect eggs could also be seen at regular intervals.

Faintly, some chattering strange gnawing sounds could also be heard!

Boom boom boom....

As the hatching ended, one by one, the abdomen of the bloody corpse began to burst, scarlet and sticky blood flowed all over the ground, and a large number of black larvae emerged from it like a tidal wave.

These black larvae were only the size of a fingernail, trembling their bodies, shaking off the sticky flesh and blood stains on their bodies, spreading their metallic hard plate armor, poking out two pairs of strange sheath wings one long and one short, and then flew up in a buzzing noise.

For a time, the black beetles soaring above the ground were too too dense, surprisingly forming a huge black smoke cloud on top of the ruins of the ancient castle.

With an invisible spiritual shockwave coming from within the castle, this huge black smoke cloud split in two, one part flew into the castle and hid in various dark and damp corners, and one part fell to the ground and disappeared in an instant.

After all this, Insect Witch Billis did not stay in the castle, and left with his own personal guards, 7 Tearers of 2nd rank and 30 1st rank Demonic Mantis.

As for the group of insect armies hatching in the ancient castle, Billis didn't have any intention of taking them away, but let them lurk inside the castle. Before leaving, the final order Billis gave them was to annihilate all life forms that broke into the ancient castle.

It was certain that those Fabres Family lackeys would send someone to check out the situation here, and at that time, these Worm Army would treat them well for a trip.

However, Worm Wizard Billis had just left the castle for less than half a quarter of an hour, and the Worm Army he had left there had been touched.

Sensing the large group of spirit nodes that were quickly extinguishing 3 miles away, Billis Wood stopped and looked back at the battlefield in the distance.

There were only two of them, a male and a female, both powerful Fabreus family sorcerers.

One of the male sorcerers was a cold and stern-looking wizard with a faint frost condensed on both his brows. The reason why Billys' insect army had been wiped out so quickly was all thanks to this elemental sorcerer. The other female sorcerer, on the other hand, had a graceful and picturesque figure, with a pair of pupils imbued with powerful spiritual power that one dared not look directly at.

Originally, Billis was still surreptitiously examining and sizing up the two sorcerers with the eyes of the insects, but when his gaze collided with that female sorcerer's gaze, even from a distance of three miles, Billis couldn't help but feel his eyes stinging and his head spinning.

What was even more frightening was that the female witch also seemed to have locked onto Billis' soul scent directly through the double-eyed stare, and puffed at him coldly, "You can't escape!"

Whirling around, the mental connection between Billis and the distant swarm of insects broke Ug!