Age of Adepts

While the two sorcerers, Fugen and Corgan, gathered together to whisper, a young sorcerer standing at their side was silently out of it.

Seemingly stirred up some memories by the name repeatedly mentioned in the two witches' words, the young wizard stood there lost in thought and frustration.

"Amb...Amb..." the Vogon wizard called softly twice in succession before waking the young wizard up.

"Oh, Lord Vogon, you called for me? I was just thinking about things a bit too much..." the young wizard, Amm, forced a smile and hurried to bow to the 2-step Fugen wizard.

"It's nothing, I'm just giving you a heads up. I heard that your partner who advanced with you, Meryl, has also arrived at Kirthlin Castle, and we might meet up with them there, so you better be prepared. Damn it, even this little girl has already advanced to rank 2. What the hell is wrong with this world..."

Amu shuddered at the words and hurriedly bowed his head in response.

The eyes of Fugen and Korgen wizards dripped on him and moved elsewhere, but there was a hint of sympathy and vigilance in the depths of their brows.

In terms of status, this Amm was the older brother of that hot fire dragon witch Meryl, both had been apprentice sorcerers under Grim himself, but there was a huge disparity between the two's trajectories.

Meryl, an ordinary female apprentice with mediocre talent, was able to advance to Level 1 by a fluke, draining all of her life's luck. In contrast, the talent of the upper middle Ammu to advance to the 1st level after the development potential is definitely much higher than Meryl.

With Meryl's head-shaking wizard talent, surviving until death to be able to mix to intermediate is already considered a good development. If you're lucky, you'll be able to make it to the top of the 1st rank before your life expectancy is up, and you'll have a chance to make it to the 2nd rank.

So, in every way, Amm's development should be better than Meryl's!

Unfortunately, the trajectory of life never goes as smoothly as one would predict.

Meryl was able to advance to Level 1 and was naturally grateful to her mentor, thus defending it all the time and showing loyalty in every way. Even if there was a slight disagreement between Grim and the Sarupo family hierarchy at the time, she did not hesitate to choose to side with her mentor.

And Amm...chose a different path.

Under the persuasion and enticement of the Fugen Wizard, it was clear that Amm also did not look favorably on Grim's separation from the Sarupo Family, and thus willingly became a traitor and undercover agent. It was because of his betrayal that the information inside the Flame Throne flowed continuously to the Vogon Wizard.

The first crisis of annihilation suffered by the Flame Throne was when the 3rd rank vampires led a large number of family members in a massive attack.

Given the circumstances at the time, the Grim line was almost immune.

Amb took advantage of that crisis to formally leave the Grim camp and rejoin the Sarubo family, and was rewarded by Vogon the Sorcerer to take him as his disciple.

However, the next change of events was clearly beyond everyone's expectations.

Not only did the Grim line not wipe out, but they used one crisis after another to rise strongly.

Slaughtering the Vampire Clan, beating back the allied forces of five witch families, killing the 3rd stage wizard Yurga in a fair fight... Recently, the Crimson Clan had also madly thwarted the attack of the Fabreth Clan, one of the five superclans of Scattered Tallinn, and his former teacher had even defeated the 4th stage alchemist wizard Declan with a mighty show of strength.

This series of changes was simply dazzling, yet thrilling!

Especially when Amm heard that, in order to reward Meryl for her constant loyalty and hard work, Grim had 'wasted' that precious and extremely valuable Fire Dragon bloodline on her.

Honestly, the moment he heard this news, Amm's heart tore!

He locked himself in his abode, smashing and breaking all the items in the house, including the Collector's Edition Alchemy Experiment Table that he had purchased with enormous resources. The insane Amm also summoned a few female apprentices he had brought with him and 'foot ravaged' them for three days and three nights, which was how he calmed himself down again.

Of course, afterwards, Amm spent another batch of resources to cover this up.

But from that day onwards, his heart was turned upside down.

You know, when he was an apprentice sorcerer, he was the only one of the five apprentice students under Grim who had the fire attribute. If... he had imagined over and over again that if he was still beside that Grim right now, could there be anyone other than himself who could inherit the Legendary Fire Witch's powerful fire talent?

It was this unrealistic fantasy that deeply tormented Amm.

He thought about it day and night, almost to the point of going off the deep end!

No way, he couldn't not want to....

His identity, what he had done before, was already well known to the family members. Therefore, even if the distant Crimson Family made a little commotion, the Sarupo Family members would look at him with a strange look in their eyes.

He hated this look!

He didn't need the pity of others, didn't want to see the gloating faces of others, and didn't want to hear anything related to Crimson.

Unfortunately, what the Crimson family had done was all too shocking and unimaginable!

When the Fabreth family made a great and mighty assault on the Crimson family territory, and the Crimson family was defenseless and could only barely retreat to the last isolated city, all the Sarubo wizards came running to praise Amb for his excellent vision and jumping out of that terrible fire pit early.

And for a while, Amm was glad.

However, when that legendary fire witch showed up and fought off the 4th level wizards and killed the Fabres family, all the Sarupo wizards fell silent and looked at Amb again as if he was the biggest, dumbest fool in the world.

During that period of time, Amb had also lost a lot of weight.

To be honest, this time when he heard that the Legendary Fire Witch had made another big news and had even entered the Scatterland Tallinn Association's Level 3 Powerful Selection Competition, Amm's heart was incomparably calm.

Originally, Vogel and Korgen Wizard didn't plan to bring Ammu with them when they went to Keslin Castle, but for some reason, Ammu even begged his teacher to bring him along.

As for the reason, in fact, even Ammu himself could not say clearly.

The rightness or wrongness of his past choices, he didn't want to go back and judge anymore.

At this moment, he only wanted to see that former teacher and his former companion with his own eyes... As for why he was looking, and what he was doing afterwards, to be honest, Amm couldn't make any sense of it.

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

Five days later, the floating airship finally arrived at Kirthlin Castle.

As the crowd of people stepped off the airship, there was a beautiful huge square in front of you, paved with fluorescent white moon white stones, glowing in the warm sunlight. If it's nighttime, the moon white stone, which has stored the element of light for a day, will emit a soft, hazy, illusory light, making the place even more mesmerizing and beautiful.

In the center of the square stood an incomparably huge stone statue of a hundred meters tall, wearing a witch's robe, with a hale and hale old face, the Old Witch. The statue of the old shaman was carved from a huge stone, and the details of his eyebrows, eyes, skin, and clothes were all exquisite and vivid.

The first time you look at it, anyone will think of this giant stone statue as a living wizard, who is ** incomparably* examining every outsider who comes to Kesling Castle.

"This is Wizard Jonard, the first president of the Scattered Earth Talyn Association..." said Wizard Fugen with infinite emotion as he looked up to examine the wizard statue.

Of course, both Kougan and Amb, who were following behind him, knew that what Wizard Fugen was really lamenting was not this Jonard President's great achievements, but his regrets. No matter how amazingly talented this Jonard President was, he still hadn't crossed the 4-step threshold to become a true Grand Sorcerer.

Therefore, he was also destined to be immortal, and died of old age inside Kirthlin Castle after living for 1,173 years.

It was just that this was Kirthlin Castle, and the latter half of his words would be offensive to the Association if he said it, so the Fugen Witch could only lend his lyricism to the statue's admiration.

"The Fire Dragon Witch... is the Fire Dragon Witch..."

Suddenly, for no apparent reason, there was a commotion from the witches who were slowly browsing the scenery of Kirthlin Castle in the square, and a muffled scream rose and fell.

Meryl, the fire dragon witch?

The three Fugen witches were slightly startled and hurriedly turned their heads to look in the direction of the sound.

Near a stone archway on the west side of the square, two radiant young witches were standing side by side, distantly greeting a group of witches who had just stepped off the airship.

Over the past ten years or so, as the Crimson Family had been silently labeled as a 4th rank power by the outside world, there had been more and more witch families willing to ally with it. In particular, those small and medium-sized families that were not strong enough on their own were more than willing to lean towards emerging families like the Crimson Family in order to wing their power to resist the covetousness of the surrounding forces.

Therefore, as one of the Crimson Family's powerful sorcerers, Fire Dragon Sorceress Meryl had to maintain close interaction with some family allies even if she traveled to another region ten thousand miles away.

No, today several Crimson Family allies arrived at Keslin Castle to help out, so Meryl ran to the air berth to meet them.

In addition to a few family allies, to those witches who came up to show their friendship, Meryl pulled Emelia to smile back one by one. The two beautiful sorceresses with different shapes and postures stood side by side, giving people a refreshing sense of beauty.

In the past, Meryl could not be considered a great beauty, she could only be called gentle and beautiful.

But now she, under the nourishment of the Peelan Fire Dragon bloodline, the arms and legs and waist are particularly slender and elongated, and her pink skin is overflowing with a layer of surging energy, giving people a sense of expansion full of powerful power.

Mundane beauty had lost its past value in the wizarding community, only unmatched power was the beauty that wizards recognized!

Through the crowd, looking away at the beautiful figure that was lightly laughing in the distance, Amm's heart tore once again....