Age of Adepts

Damn it, it's a 2nd rank wizard of the Fabres!

If it was just an ordinary wizard, perhaps Billis had nothing to fear. But that brief eye contact just now gave Billis a sudden bad feeling that he might be in bad luck if he matched up with them.

Wizards have always been trustworthy about their intuition.

The thought of that cold, bone-chilling gaze, even with Insect Witch Billis's ferocious nature, he couldn't help but shiver with cold spirits. Without hesitation, climbing onto a particularly large Demonic Mantis, Billis led his personal bodyguard into a frenzy, racing towards the Crimson Core.

And at his summons, the swarms of insects that had been ambushed in several nearby areas rushed out and surged in the direction where the Savian castle was located. Although they couldn't threaten the two 3rd rank wizards, they could delay the other party's pursuit speed.

As for the loss of some of the insect army, it was not taken care of by Billis at all.

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Among all the Crimson Shamans, there were only a few who were as daring as the Worm Wizard Billis, who would let go when released.

The rest of the Crimson 2 rank also successfully completed the task assigned by the family, but in the process of retreating, they were all hunted by the Fabreus family's powerful shamans.

Dragon Zacha was in charge of cleaning up the Silver Spring Mine.

It is a very important exotic metal digging site, accounting for nearly 40% of the Crimson Family's exotic metal resources. The Dragon Man Zacha was here to supervise the resident sorcerer to temporarily close the mine, and then bring back to the family the exotic metals extracted in the past three months.

The Fabres family sent four 1st rank witches to sweep the Silver Spring mine, dealing with the only one 1st rank Crimson Witch there was simply a handful. Unfortunately, they crashed into the hands of the draconians, thus one dead, one seriously injured and two lightly wounded, and barely escaped back.

As for the sorcerer apprentices and black-armored guards they brought with them, all of them died in the hands of the Dragonman Zacha.

And when Dragonman Zacha led the mining guard troops back to the family core, they were blocked at a windward path by the pursuing Fabreth family sorcerers.

In order to take down Zacha the Dragon, the other side also put in a lot of effort, sending in three 2nd level sorcerers.

The two sides fought a bloody battle in the Windward Trail, which ended with Crimson's defeat!

The Crimson side's low-level shamans and apprentices all perished, and the Dragon Zacha broke out and fled back to the family core at the cost of serious injuries.

At the same time, the family shamans sent by the Crimson Family to various territories and resource points also suffered sniping and ambushes from the Fabres Family shamans. Most of the battles ended in victory for the Fabreth family due to the enemy's strength and abundance of personnel.

In order to pick up the people and resources trapped on the outskirts, the Crimson Family had paid a heavy price for this as well!

A 2nd rank blood dragon, a 2nd rank vampire, and seven 1st rank witches... Even though the Crimson Family had had an explosive growth in family power over the years, it still felt like it was going to hurt to the marrow when it suddenly suffered such a heavy blow.

The Vampire Group in particular had become the hardest hit in terms of human losses!

Vampire witches, such a strange and long-lived species, were simply unkillable terrifying monsters when placed in the ordinary worldly class. But for the wizards who knew the ropes, they had dozens of ways to cleanly and completely kill them.

Due to the huge disparity in strength between the two families, the Crimson Family had lost four 2nd class since the start of the war, all from the Vampire Group. On the other hand, although the number of sorcerers lost by the Fabreus family was higher, they were all peripheral 1st stage sorcerers, and the core 2nd stage sorcerers had not lost a single one.

Mary, who had suffered heavy losses at hand, immediately became furious, and personally killed two Fabreus Family's Tier 2 witches with a sneak attack. However, her whereabouts were also immediately locked by the Fabreth Family.

As a result, the four Fabreth Family 3rd Classes joined forces, ambushed and severely injured Mary on her way back.

As a result, the Crimson Family's current only 3rd ranked witch had also lost her combat power, and the power to resist the Fabreth Family's invasion had weakened further and further.

If it wasn't for the scruples of the terrifying Tier 4 Demonic Puppet Dragon and the two floating giant ships in the core area of the Crimson Family, it was feared that the Fabres Family would have attacked the Crimson Family's core area the moment Mary fled with her injuries.

However, with the return of the Crimson Family's distributed defensive forces, the nearly 500-mile area centered around the Flame Throne and Pinnacle Town was almost imperviously guarded by the Magical Armament Army.

The Fabreth family had repeatedly attempted to send wizard squads in to scout the area, but they were beaten back by the ubiquitous Magic Arms patrols. Both sides had suffered casualties, but it was clearly the Fabreth Family that had suffered more losses.

After all, they were trading their precious wizard lives for those cheap and powerful metal magic weapons!

The number of the latter had undoubtedly reached a breathtaking level.

It was widely rumored that the Crimson Family held a goblin location that had a large amount of metal veins. There were both resources and cheap technicians there, which allowed for a constant flow of metal magic weapons to the family.

The metal magic weapons were the Crimson Family's main battle force that had been at the forefront of their expansion over the years!

It could be politely said that nearly half of the Crimson Family's resources and territories were captured by relying on the Metal Armament. Otherwise, with the number and quality of the Crimson Family's current sorcerers, it would be a fool's errand to survive such a brutal and intense witch war.

It only took the Crimson Family thirty to forty years to catch up with the hundreds of years of accumulation and sedimentation of those large sorcerer families, and what did they rely on? With these metal magic weapons that have no regrets and faithfully follow orders!

And now, the Crimson family is facing an extinction, with all the family witches and apprentices shrinking back to the Flame Throne, fully armed like a hedgehog. Well, topping off the outside and deterring the enemy from approaching easily were precisely these fearless, loyal and reliable metal magic weapons!

The Crimson Family was on the defensive, and the Crimson Family was waiting for the return of that legendary figure and the exhaustion of the Fabreth Family.

The Fabreth family was powerful, but not entirely without enemies.

As they deployed most of their family's strength to fight the Crimson Family in the Alois region, their own family headquarters' defenses were somewhat weaker.

For a short period of time, under the deterrence of the Fabres family's prestige, no enemy dared to find an easy advantage on them. But once the family's main force was held out by the Crimson Family for a long time, there was no guarantee that nothing would happen to the rear.

Seemingly having learned the lesson of the last Witch Family's allied army's fiasco, this time the Fabreth Family steadily fought. The Crimson family was forced into the lair with a brilliant momentum like thunder, which was only 70 miles southwest of the small town of Songta built a sturdy temporary stronghold, with the taste of the Crimson family besieged in the land of origin.

What worried the Crimson Family's top brass even more was that after building the temporary stronghold, the Fabreth Family had worked overtime, hoarding a large amount of supplies and resources, seemingly with the intention of building another Sorcerer's Tower.

If the Fabres Family had only built a temporary stronghold, the Crimson Family's reaction might not have been so great. But building a wizard tower, that was a bit of a bully!

Once the opponent's Witch Tower was allowed to operate smoothly without interference, I'm afraid that it would be extremely difficult for the Crimson Family to fight their way out of the Land of Origin again. Therefore, even though they knew they were defeated, the Crimson Family still organized a group of Demonic Armament legions and killed the enemy stronghold in the night.

That 4th stage Demon Armor Puppet Dragon also joined the battle sequence.

Unfortunately, the Fabreth family seemed to have anticipated this and used the temporary stronghold as a defensive line and fought a beautiful defensive counterattack, annihilating the nearly 1,000 metal magic weapons sent by the Crimson family. In the end, the sorcerer sent by the Crimson Family to command the battle was able to return under the cover of the Magic Puppet Dragon.

However, although the Crimson Family suffered heavy losses, they managed to use the power of the Magic Puppet Dragon to destroy the Sorcerer Tower that had just completed its construction. The time it took for the Fabres Family to resupply the necessary supplies and personnel from the rear to rebuild the Sorcerer's Tower was inevitably extended by more than a month.

And this, in turn, created favorable conditions for Grim's smooth return!

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The Enwik bit.

With the thorn in the heart of the witch hunt removed, Grim has finally gained a rare 'freedom*!'

After staying in Remy's lair for eight days, in addition to the initial healing of his severe injuries, Grim had dissected that Blade-Katie thoroughly**.

The power of the elemental magic weapon hadn't reached the expected heights, and Grim was trying to enhance its fighting ability. The flexibility that Knife Katie's bizarre half-flesh, half-mechanical body possessed was obviously also envied by Grim, so Grim couldn't wait to understand and explore the roots of the mechanical sorcerer's power.

Therefore, after comparing the internal structure of Blade-Katie and the Elemental Demonic Armament, Grim's doubts were initially answered.

If the two sides were analogous, then the Elemental Demonic Armament was like an original machine, with all internal components and energy systems integrated together in a coordinated and comprehensive manner, and it was almost impossible to find any loopholes or flaws that were too obvious. On the other hand, Blade-Katie's mechanical body was like a large platter of flesh, blood and machinery, pursuing not balance and comprehensiveness, but the strength and efficiency of local organs.

Most of the time, the attacking power of the Blade-Katie was not as powerful and long-lasting as that of the elemental magic weapons. However, when these mechanical organs functioned in a way that exceeded their limits, they were able to explode with an attack power far greater than that of an elemental magic weapon in a very short period of time.

Of course, this explosion was done at the expense of sacrificing or consuming the 'lives' of the mechanical organs!

So often, mechanical sorcerers had to carry large amounts of metal on them in order to readily repair their own organ wear and tear.

One was powerful and stable, the other incredibly explosive, and it was hard to run down which of the two different modes of power operation was better or worse.

However, the mechanical heart dug out of Blade-Katie's body had aroused Grim's great interest!