Age of Adepts

The Flame Throne.

An exceptionally lavish and grand celebration banquet was taking place in the Molten Flame Hall.

Hundreds of official sorcerers belonging to the Crimson Family were crowded here one by one with smiles on their faces, waiting for the appearance of several senior family members in the midst of the festivities.

The first to arrive at the banquet was naturally the Goblin Great Sage Cappy who held the most connections and resources.

Along with it, there was also the head of the Goblin Organ Warlock 'Tyranny Blood Crew', Doucilla Lazare, who commanded a number of more than three hundred people.

And as soon as they arrived, they went straight to a corner of the hall, where they found the demonic goblin leader, Dean Gunga, and the goblin princess, Winnisha, and the five of them gathered together to talk warmly.

If you added the goblin Tigure, who was in the ranks of 2nd rank wizards, the five giants of the entire Crimson Family goblin camp would have a rare gathering!

What they discussed the most, apart from the losses of the goblin camp in the Sorcerer War, also included how the goblin major chambers of commerce could take advantage of the business opportunities in the family's massive territory rebuilding after the war, and how to respond to the challenges and opportunities in the outside world.

Privately, however, it was the Crimson Family's possible commendation that concerned them the most!

Through various covert means, several goblin giants had already been informed that the one who had done the most painstaking work in this war, the Crimson Butler Gargoyle Witch, had received an internal reward from the Lord of the House.

Gargoyle Witch's Bloodline Rejuvenation Potion and Bloodline Purification Potion!

With these things, even if Gargamel's innate sorcerer talent was low, there was still an 80% chance of successfully advancing to the 2nd level and converting his bloodline talent into the Noble Serpent bloodline.

To Gargamel whose life was nearly depleted, this was no less than plastic birth, and also extended his life by another one to two hundred years. The profound implications of this also made the several goblin giants present envious, yet unattainable.

After all, Gargamel had worked day and night for the Crimson Family for the past few decades, and his achievements were evident to all, and no one could erase them. As for the other Crimson Giant, Wendyl Witch, she was herself a disciple of the family master and loyal to her mentor, thus also acquiring a powerful fire dragon bloodline.

The reason why the two of them had been forcefully promoted by the house master was naturally also greatly related to their status, achievements and loyalty. Even if others were envious and jealous, they would only be drooling while being unable to compete with them for anything.

To be honest, a core witch whose life expectancy might boil over at any moment, it was also hard to feel comfortable running a long-term, healthy and stable family operation model with them as the central structure.

And having extended the lives of Gargamel and Winelier, it also effectively stabilized the core tier of the Crimson Family.

As for raising their equal rank strength, it avoided the embarrassment of the family's core witch having only 1st rank strength, but dictating to a group of 2nd and 3rd rank powerhouses. As a family proprietor, having a 2nd order strength would be sufficient. If one were to forcefully promote to 3rd rank, it would instead be a huge waste of battle power and resources.

Of course, before making these decisions, Grim might not have thought things through so deeply and long term. However, a hundred years of experience and the vision of a superior also made him handle such matters with ease and comfort.

Moreover, the entire Crimson Family had been created by him. Within the family, he was the absolute authority who said one thing or the other. There were many things that didn't require that much deliberation, as long as they were done as one wished, one would be able to get a not bad result.

After all, the main measure of a family's strength was the top level of battle power within the family. As for the number and development of middle and low ranked sorcerers, it was just the icing on the cake.

Even if Grim left the Crimson Family, he was still a feared 3rd rank legendary fire witch everywhere he went. If he wanted to create a family or a power, he could easily reach a level that those low ranked witches couldn't even accumulate for hundreds of years by simply putting out the word.

And if the Crimson Family didn't have Grim, its own grade would fall in no time. Even if there were still two 3rd stage sorcerers to support them, it would be difficult to reach the current situation and level.

The role played by a powerful 3rd rank shaman was beyond the reach of even three or five ordinary 3rd rank shamans of the same rank!

And this was one of the main reasons why Grim had been given the title of 'legend' and enjoyed a reputation in the Scattered Tallinn.

After enviously admiring Gargamel, several of the goblin giants could not help but all begin to ponder the current hidden dangers of the goblin camp.

Like Gargamel, all the goblins present had the same problem, except for Princess Winnisha, who had converted into a mechanical witch.

On average, a goblin's lifespan was half that of a human's!

Even though they had raised and devoured many rare witch resources over the years, they were still unable to essentially change the shackles of their inferior goblin bloodline.

The Goblin Great Sage Cappy was better off, having taken the route of witch advancement, so as a 1st rank goblin wizard, it also had a life span of over a hundred years. With the addition of some sorcery rituals, its life width had been increased to the limit, and it was barely over 170 years.

And after so many long years of torment, it had less than twenty years of life left.

Twenty years...it still sounded like a long time, but it was very short in terms of the time span of witches.

So over the years, Cappy had been searching around for resources or means that could essentially change the shackles of his life, and the Bloodline Reconstruction Potion that had appeared within the family this time was undoubtedly one of the safest and most reliable of them all.

Although Kabi considered itself to be the 'old man' of the Crimson Family, over the years, as Grim's footsteps continued to advance, the gap in status between the two sides had widened, and it had become difficult for Kabi to enter the decision-making ranks within the family anymore. It was even so difficult to even want to see Grim's side in many cases.

The remaining few goblin giants also faced a similar situation to Cappy.

The head of the Goblin Orgone Warlock Tyranny Blood group, Duhira Lazare, was forty-eight years old this year, which translated to human age, and was considered to be a dying man of nearly a hundred years old.

The demonic goblin leader, Dean Gunga, was seventy-three years old this year, already far beyond the life limit of an ordinary goblin, and how long its demonic body could last, no one could know.

The Goblin God of War, Tigure, was only forty-five years old this year, almost the youngest in the Goblin hierarchy. With its status and position, it would easily have no problem extending its life for another decade or two. However, even if it used the best and most expensive life extension rituals, it would not be able to allow itself to live for another hundred years.

Therefore, the issue of life extension was also a big issue that it was extremely concerned about!

While a few goblin giants were hiding in a corner of the hall whispering, there was a commotion at the entrance.

The Crimson Family's current hot core sorcerer, Winrielle, stepped into the Hall of Molten Fire surrounded by a group of sorcerers.

After all these years of nourishment from the bloodline and cultivation from the fires of war, Wen Li'er had changed from her previous gentle and elegant appearance, and had become imposing and powerful.

A large red dragon skin soft armor was carefully cut and treated to perfectly fit her youthful and hot body, with her breasts and hips up, showing off her perfectly curved body. The violent and fierce breath of the Fire Dragon's bloodline made her body extremely hot and voluptuous.

If she wasn't unusually familiar with her, I'm afraid Cappy and the others would have thought that she had changed into a different person.

And as Wen Li'er walked into the molten fire hall with her head held high, the temperature inside the hall increased by as much as five degrees.

One had to know that this was an underground molten fire hall more than two hundred meters from the surface, and below the floor where everyone was standing was the terrifying sea of lava that was tossing and surging. As the Crimson Family Master was a Legendary Fire Witch, in order to create an atmosphere that was consistent with the family's attributes, the temperature inside this Lava Fire Hall had been maintained between sixty and seventy degrees Celsius.

Ordinary humans couldn't survive here, and even those with low strength like Cappy and Dean Gunga could only move freely with the help of the Anti-Fire Pendant and the Cooling Ring.

As for other sorcerers, although the vast majority of them didn't like this overly hot and sulfur-filled environment, as a rank 1 sorcerer, they still had no problem enduring this kind of heat.

After becoming a Fire Dragon Sorceress, Wen Li'er's bloodline was obviously perfectly suited to this environment, which was why the fire element in the molten fire hall was also provoked to become extremely restless and active by the sympathetic breath.

Cappy and the others could tell that although the sorcerers surrounding Wenliel were all smiling, their foreheads and cheeks were sweaty, obviously unable to withstand the fire energy that the Fire Dragon Witch couldn't stop emitting.

What was rare was that despite this difficulty, they still acted as if they were under a cloud, and their faces did not show any discomfort.

With the Crimson Family once again defeating a strong enemy, the family's power and scale was clearly about to explode a bit more. At this time, whoever could gain the favor of the family's top management and occupy the best position in advance would undoubtedly be able to rise quickly.

Therefore, even though it was already so hot inside that they were crying out to their fathers, there was still no witch willing to stay away from this core wizard of the Crimson Family.

Just as the crowd gathered around Wenliel and whispered, there was another commotion at the entrance of the Molten Fire Hall, and several family 2-steps of different forms walked in one after another.

Zacha the tall and imposing draconian, Tigure the goblin who was only as tall as a draconian's calf, Billis the worm wizard who hid himself in a heavy pair of robes all day long, the two blood knights Solus and Winsal, the three blood elves Issa, Lelia, and Spara, and Grew the split-brain who still remained in the family after the war....

Their arrival also made the atmosphere of the banquet warm again.

The shamans who knew each other well greeted each other, gently clinked a glass of wine and drank it all down, and the banquet hall was filled with laughter and joy, filled with loud praises of the great clan leader's toast.

Just at this time, there was a sudden silence at the entrance of the hall, and everyone held their wine glasses and turned their heads, betting their eyes distantly on a certain sorcerer who was striding towards them.

Sensing the strange and mysterious change in the other party, all the witches couldn't help but feel their hearts burning and their eyes glowing.

Gargamel....

The guy who's been in hiding for ten days has finally shown up!