Age of Adepts

Pine Tower City.

Within the floating giant ship.

Gargamel closed the communication with the distant sorcery with a face full of anger, then stood up and left the command hall straight away, walking through the long metal tunnel to the door of a secret room.

Thud.

With a few taps, the door of the all-metal structure cracked open in the center and slid silently into the walls on either side.

Inside the chamber, Grim was shirtless, with Mary and Alice carefully tending to the wounds on his torso.

"What is it that you need to report now? Don't you know that the lord of the house is being treated?" In the meantime, Mary's eyebrows were furrowed and she looked disgruntled and chastised.

Gargamel smiled awkwardly.

"Tell me, what's going on again?" Grim saw a lot in Gargamel's expression and took the initiative to ask.

"All of the magical armor warriors we sent to the border region have been held back..."

"What? Who dares to get in our way at this hour? Who is it, tell me who it is, and I'm going to tear them apart!" As soon as she heard this, Mary's blood pupils immediately lit up and looked as if she was eager to try it out .

"To the southwest appeared the Dennel Family's Dripping Blood Spear Unit, to the northwest appeared the Entom Family's White Ghost Unit, and due north was the Bantam Family's Swamp Flying Dragon Unit... The rest of the sides also saw the appearance of other families' combat units one after another, and the Magic Arms Battle Regiment we were responsible for chasing were all Blocked it back."

"Just blocked it back, no frontal confrontation, right?" Grim trailed off with a frown.

"No!" Gargamel shook his head, "All of the witch family combat units that intervened said they were under orders from the Association to oversee battlefield violations, but they didn't directly attack our family armies."

Grim thought for a moment and turned to look at Alice.

Alice's soft and still face showed a hint of anticipation, and explained to Grim in a low voice, "The fact that they didn't do anything means that the Association's top brass doesn't want to tear us apart for the time being. Keeping our people back is to tell us that there is a limit to the fight and it cannot be crossed. From what it means so far, the Association has given us tacit permission to rule the entire Alois region, but not to extend the war beyond the boundaries."

"He says he's coming to fight us and he runs to fight us, and he says we can't fight back? Hmph, these old bastards, they are so lenient... "Mary's temper was still as hot as ever, and she looked indignant.

Grim sighed and turned to Gargamel, "Inform all family witches that the target of the chase is still mainly the Fabreth family, and for enemies outside the Fabreth family, hold off on the chase for now! But all enemies located in the territory of Alois who have not surrendered by midnight tonight, kill them all!"

"Yes!"

Gargamel bowed in response, which was intended to exit to quickly deliver his orders, but Grim stopped him again.

"I have just listened to Lord Mary recount the events that have taken place within the family in recent times, and you... have done well to live up to my expectations of you!"

"It's what I'm supposed to do! Not worthy of your lordship's praise..." hearing Grim's praise, Gargamel's gloomy and pale face immediately revealed a smile that couldn't be concealed.

"This time, I've also obtained some good things from the Otherworld. Count this as your reward!"

After saying that, Grim took out three strange purple vials from his storage ring and shoved them into Gargamel's hands.

"These three vials, one is a bloodline rejuvenation potion and two are bloodline purification potions. You now also have the advanced strength of 1st rank, but you are still far away from the peak of 1st rank. Now that you have the Blood Vein Rejuvenation Potion, you will be able to obtain the bloodline of the Black Mamba Giant Serpent lineage. They seem to be of the highly poisonous lineage as well, and they can work together with your Sorcerer's talent instead."

"What's more, after converting into a Bloodline Sorcerer, your lifespan will also be extended by a certain amount. Then using two bottles of bloodline purification potions should be enough to allow you to advance to the 2nd rank!"

Grim chirped and warned Gargamel about the many problems that needed attention, but at the moment it was as if Gargamel had been struck by lightning, his entire body was dumbfounded and completely out of control, and he only knew how to hold the three bottles of medicine and giggle vigorously.

Others didn't know about their own affairs, but Gargamel knew very well that he had only eleven years to live!

Since becoming Grim's great steward in the Scattered Tallinn region, he had also worked day and night for the entire Crimson Family, and had almost deserted his career as an apothecary. His talent wasn't good, and being able to become a rank 1 Sorcerer was considered a fluke, so he never expected to be able to advance to rank 2.

The reason why he worked so hard for Grim and the Crimson Family was not for himself, but for the hope that Grim would treat the Forest Demon Eva and his precious daughter Emelia well, for the sake of his hard work.

However, at this moment, just as his life was coming to an end, a great gift hit him on the head. Not only would he be able to continue to live, but he would also be able to live a better and more nourishing life than before, which... such happy news almost overwhelmed him, leaving him dizzy and unsure if what was happening in front of him was a dream or completely real.

Looking at Gargamel, who had bounced straight up in pain after a hard bite on the back of his hand, Grim shook his head in a bad way.

"Looks like I'll be the one to give the orders! I think this Gargamel kid has gone crazy..."

As soon as Mary's words were out of her mouth, Gargamel sobered up and hugged the three bottles of medicine as tightly as if they were the most important thing in her life.

"I'm going...I'm going...I'm going..."

With that, she left the chamber at a trot.

When the door to the chamber was closed again, Mary returned and smiled sweetly at Grim.

"You seem to have gotten a lot of goodies from your trip to the Otherworld. You've got a present for that silly wizard, so where's mine?" Mary said as she gently ground her little tiger teeth, acting like you don't have a gift and I'll take a bite.

Mary was now a 3rd rank vampire witch, and even Grim would be mentally damaged if she took a hard bite.

"Don't don't don't don't... let's do it without moving our mouths! Don't you just want a gift, there's...there's..."

Grim hurriedly took out two tightly sealed earthenware jars from his storage ring and handed them to Mary.

Mary took them over, looked at the clay seal on the mouth of the jars, which was painted with mysterious runes, and then took a closer look at the jars, which were full of otherworldly style and somewhat roughly made. The pot was obviously handmade by someone, but due to the rush, the body was not rounded, and even the colors on the patterns had mostly peeled off.

When she lifted it up and shook it, it was obviously filled with some kind of thick and astringent liquid, which made Mary's ruby red blood pupils shine. Piercing the mud seal with her sharp fingertips, she dipped a bit of the black and red sticky liquid and tasted it, and Mary nearly screamed.

"3rd rank... it's the blood of a 3rd rank creature after quenching! Are you sure these are all for me?" Mary was so excited now that even her blood pupils were shining.

Grim nodded his head as a matter of course.

If it wasn't for Mary, why would he have gone to such great lengths to lead a group of 3rd Order Gold Knights into a trap in the Enwick Plane. That astonishing battle had left Grim, Tess and Italiel seriously injured at the same time.

However, that group of Paladins were even worse!

First, they were ruthlessly trapped by the witches' sorcery traps buried beneath the poisonous swamp, and then, taking advantage of their moment of confusion and panic, the three witches teamed up to break each of them, and in a fierce attack at all costs, they left the seven rank 3 Golden Knights in the poisonous swamp forever.

The blood of the Golden Knights was extracted and quenched and sealed into earthenware jars, a job done by the Tess Witch herself. Their holy light souls were then all taken away by Grim, leaving the witches with only the utterly broken remains of their bodies.

Some of the remaining fraudulent witches were apparently also adept at concocting witch beasts or corpse puppets, and using the high-quality corpses of the Paladins, they were enough to concoct a terrifying team of witch beasts.

With this team of witch beasts to protect them, their bottom line was undoubtedly much thicker as well.

As long as they didn't run into those two 4th rank holy knights, the witches' chances of surviving in the Enwek's Plane were still very high!

As for whether or how to rescue them, that was an internal matter for the fraudulent witches, and Grim didn't care about it. Therefore, once they returned to the Wizarding World, Grim also parted ways with the Itariel witch and went their separate ways.

These old things Grim simply explained a few words to Mary and Alice, and then they were all forgotten.

Mary immediately went to find another secret room with two pottery pots, and left Grim and Alice in the room.

When the room is left with only himself and Alice, Grim smiled unkindly and patted his thigh. Alice didn't have a good look at him, and sat on his lap with a red face and twisted.

A embrace Alice into his arms, the face into its satin silky smooth long hair, sniffing the light fragrance of the fragrance of the elegant body, Grim only then long sigh, feeling a trace of fatigue and tired from the inside out.

In the five years of running around in the foreign world, Grim had almost never had a good rest or sleep, spending almost every moment fighting or on guard. Even when he was trapped alone within an underground volcano, he never dared to let go of everything to sleep soundly in the past, and could only meditate instead of sleeping.

The repeated battles, the successive injuries... Although most of the injuries had healed, the accumulated fatigue and tiredness had almost etched deeply into his spirit and soul.

And after returning to the family, he didn't even have time to settle down and rest, and then went right into the battle against the 4th rank wizard.

The list of things stacked up against even a cast-iron man of steel!

Therefore, burying his face into Alice's hair, sniffing the fragrance of the beauty in his arms, and saying something to her in a blurred consciousness, Grim fell into a deep and sound sleep.

At this moment, his sleep was unusually deep and sweet, just like a fetus returning to its mother's **, peaceful and carefree.......