Age of Adepts

To be honest, in all the time it had taken to advance to the 4th rank of Sorcerer, Declan had never been in a situation where he had been oozed dry of physical strength.

He was a Body Refining Sorcerer!

An elite body of flesh and blood had also already been hardened into a powerful existence similar to a witch's weapon.

The super strong flesh*body defense coupled with a perverted level of flesh*body recovery also made Declan a rather difficult body refining sorcerer in the Scattered Earth Tower Forest. His physical strength would be oozed dry by someone else? This kind of thing was usually heard as a joke.

But today, something so ridiculous was actually happening!

Drinking all the healing potions in his body, using up the number of uses of his healing wand, exhausting the sorcery energy in his body... Declan was no longer able to sustain himself.

But across from him, the 3rd rank Fire Witch and the 4th rank Magic Puppet Dragon he was riding still seemed to be alive and well, as if there was still a constant flow of magical energy to support them in battle.

And this was especially puzzling to Declan.

According to his understanding, any metal weapons need the support of magic energy in order to function properly, depleted of magic energy, metal weapons can only turn into a rigid lump of iron, losing all combat ability.

Therefore, most of the Sorcerer Families have metal puppets, but most of them can only be used to guard the core places such as Sorcerer Towers and Secret Realms. To put them outside the Witch Tower, the loss of magic crystals alone would be enough to bankrupt most witches.

And the large and heavy size of the one in front of us, the amount of magic energy that needed to be depleted every moment was even higher. And what did the Crimson Family rely on to power it? It's not like the metal dragon's body is filled with magic crystals!

Such a high-intensity battle, the hundreds of magic energy cannons that were constantly roaming at all times, and the three terrifying magic energy cannons... all of these required massive amounts of magic energy as support. But Declan, as a 4th rank Body Tempering Sorcerer, had all been boiled down to the sea, and this Magic Armament Puppet Dragon was still so powerfully powered.

This... this was simply unbelievable!

By the time Declan reached the midway point of the battle and realized that he must not drain the Puppet Dragon's energy reserves, his own stamina reserves had dropped to an extremely dangerous level. This also left him with no choice but to risk a surprise attack on the rank 3 Fire Witch.

Unfortunately, the other party seemed to be able to anticipate his intention to attack.

Whenever he broke into a position where he could launch an attack, three thick energy pillars would be there waiting for him to throw himself into the net. In order to avoid being caught in the energy pillars, Declan could only try his best to dodge them, which often meant a lost opportunity to attack.

Having endless magical energy to wield at will allowed the 3rd rank Fire Witch to fire at any attacking position that could threaten him, and also kept Declan in the midst of a dense barrage of artillery fire.

Dripping water through stone, cutting wood with rope.

Declan started out unconcerned with the artillery fire, then dodged as best he could in the middle stages, and then became clumsy in the later stages. He finally realized that not clearing these artillery guns early was simply his biggest mistake!

In the later stages, with the protection of the three energy pillars and the fire witch's strange sorcery, it was becoming a luxury for Declan to try to demolish the guns one by one.

As the energies waxed and waned, there were some interesting changes in the combat roles on both sides!

When the battle had just begun, Declan was the hunter who occupied an absolute advantage, and the only worry was facing a porcupine covered with prickles, not knowing how to do it, he could only repeatedly wander around to test it.

And in the late stage, Declan physical strength gradually exhausted, no longer no longer the previous fierce fight, began to quickly wandering battle. But at this time, the Demonic Puppet Dragon and Grim were unnaturally active, and began to chase after Declan, desperately attacking and consuming him.

At this moment, Declan had become the prey, while the Demonic Puppet Dragon and Grim had instead become the hunter, and the positions of the two sides began to swap!

Thus, the eagle that was flying high above the clouds with its wings spread out was seeing such an absurd scene. And what the eagle saw was simultaneously transmitted back to Keslin Castle, startling all the secretly peeping 4th rank wizards there.

"Shame..."

"Scum..."

"Declan the soft-legged crab is a disgrace..."

A roar of anger filled with rage was simply going to break through the secret room's sorcery restriction and topple the castle.

But after the anger was over, when they thought of the situation that Declan was in, the 4th rank sorcerers present couldn't help but feel sympathy for him.

Forcefully stepping in to destroy that Crimson Family was certainly not Declan's own idea, but an order passed back from the Fabreth Family's Grand Sorcerer located outside the Domain. It was said that this ancestor of the Fabreus family was also instructed by another great sorcerer to give such an order.

Apparently, this order had now harmed Declan.

Once he fled from the battlefield in defeat, then that 3rd ranked wizard would definitely drive a 4th ranked magic weapon puppet dragon in a mad pursuit of the Fabreus family's team. Those high ranked sorcerers might be able to escape, but the Fabres Family's sorcerer team and foreign legion might have to lose most of them.

This cut was so severe that even with the Fabreth Family's mighty power, they would probably have to spit out three liters of blood!

Thus within the chamber, President Freed's voice immediately rang out.

"Elder Nicholas, your family's territory is closest to the Alois region, so you will be the one to send a team to rescue the elite of the Fabres family. Remember, don't get into any more head-on confrontations with that fire witch, and focus on rescuing people!"

"Clara, you will inform Laurion of Raine City and have him contact the Crimson Family immediately. Tell them that the Association has recognized their right to rule in Elovis, and that this family war has ended with the defeat of the Fabreth family. Any losses suffered by the Crimson Family during the war will be repaid ten or a hundred times by the Fabreth Family, but they are required not to slaughter witches and apprentices indiscriminately."

"As for the secular and foreign armies, let them do as they please!"

A series of orders were quickly conveyed, and the several witches nodded to receive the orders, their bodies directly exploded into a scattered black mist and disappeared within the chamber.

It turned out that the bodies they appeared in the secret room of Kesling Castle were all illusions shaped by projection, and of course, they were all staying in the secret room of their own witch tower.

Almost in the blink of an eye, half of the 4th level witches in the chamber disappeared, leaving only President Fried and Elder Milva who were pondering over the matter. And the two of them attending the meeting were their own bodies.

"What do you think of today's events?" President Freed suddenly asked.

"If I look at it right, that Fire Witch named Grim has more than a 40% chance of advancing to Level 4... Such a character is worth pulling together and befriending!" Elder Milva replied thoughtfully.

"But Matthew and Alfred's side..." chimed in Fred.

"Hmph, their two opinions are not enough to mention! That Crimson Family was not doing well in the North, I heard. Although it has hooked up with the Witch of Fate, it has been ostracized by other witch factions as well. Not too long ago, it even went to war with the Winter Witch faction, and it's said that the one who lost was even the Winter faction, it's really, really unbelievable!"

"Oh, and something like that?" As the president of the Scattered Tallinn Association, Freed controlled the sorcerer power in the middle of the continent, taking up most of his time with daily complicated matters, so how could he care about this kind of faction conflict in the far north.

However, since this matter involved the Crimson Family in front of him, it was impossible for him not to care.

"You send someone to investigate more carefully what the relationship is between this Grim and the Northland Fate Witch. If it's not a nail planted in the middle of the Northlands, you can consider pulling him into the association. Heck, we haven't had a new face in our Scatterland Talyn Association for over two hundred years, have we? And it's time to get some fresh blood..."

As the two executives who were in charge of the Scattered Earth Tallinn Association left the chamber, the place became silent and claustrophobic once again.

And how could the sorcerers and apprentices of the Fabres Family who had stepped onto the battlefield have imagined that their fate would be decided in a few words by a few 4th rank sorcerers tens of thousands of miles away.

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

When the Declan Sorcerer's stamina dropped to an extremely dangerous level, he finally put aside his dignity and glory as a 4th rank Sorcerer, turned around and began to run away.

The tens of thousands of witches, apprentices, exotic warriors, and high-level mercenaries who witnessed this scene were all dumbfounded.

By the time they realized that something was wrong, the ecstatic Crimson Family Sorcerer on the other side had already led the Magic Armament Legion to kill them.

It was still the same two teams, still the same fierce and brutal warriors, but when the offensive and defensive posture shifted, the mentality of both sides was naturally completely different.

Earlier, the Fabreth Family had attacked and the Crimson Family had defended; now the Crimson Family was attacking and the Fabreth Family was defending!

When the massive Demonic Armament Puppet Dragon led the mountainous metal Demonic Armament over, the Fabres Family Sorcerers had not yet snapped out of their extreme shock and trepidation. By the time they realized it, the overwhelming energy fireballs and the energy beams fired out by the Magic Puppet Dragons had already overturned the location of the Fabreus Family's witch team.

In the midst of the earth-shattering wave of magic, the broken limbs of the witches and apprentices were blown up in the air, and pieces of flesh and blood were spattered everywhere.

The team of witches who had lost the will to resist barely returned two rounds of fire before abandoning their positions without hesitation and fleeing into the distance. The foreign legions and alien beast troops, as well as the mundane army, were left behind to intercept the Crimson Family's pursuers.

The two sides fought and scuffled with each other in between chasing and fleeing, spreading the battle to a farther and wider area.

At the same time, the news of the defeat of the Fabres family spread rapidly in all directions like a plague....