Age of Adepts

After dressing up, the Kesling Castle looks exceptionally enchanting at this time.

The main road to the castle is paved with countless pieces of cobblestones of the same shape and size, sloping upward, along the circling and haunting terrain to the main castle that grand ** before the blue and gold gate. On both sides of the road are full of shops and small fountain squares, each area is very different from the others, presenting a variety of postures and colorful scenes.

The architecture around Kremlin Castle is also diverse, with domes, spires, square roofs, colorful onyx glass walls, and beautiful murals everywhere... The whole castle was decorated to welcome the representatives of wizarding families from all over the world, giving a very pleasing appearance.

The vehicles used by the wizards who came here were also very strange.

In addition to the communal floating airships, some witches arrived on bipedal flying dragons, griffins, Socrates' eagles, two-headed chimera and other flying beasts. As for those with more peculiar tastes, they may have ridden in on land-based beasts such as the Berserk Elephant, the Iron Bear, the Morak Goat, the Magic Claw Lizard, and so on.

These accompanying beasts or demonic creatures could not be brought into Kirthlin Castle, and could only be kept in the several large coaching stations on the outskirts of the square. The ones who were diligently busy receiving the many sorcerers here were elite apprentices cultivated by the association, who were not only well-dressed and elegant in their manners, but also had amazingly strong strength.

With their strength, if they were placed in those small families, they would be the future stars of the family who would be afraid of being dropped in their hands and melted in their mouths, but here, they could only condescend to do the work that ordinary servants had to do.

It couldn't be helped, there were simply too many sorcerers that had come to Kesling Castle during this period of time, and their equivalents were of varying strengths. If we were to use mortal servants to receive those 2nd or 3rd ranked witches, we would have to replace them with new ones every half an hour.

After all, most of the high ranked sorcerers were somewhat eccentric and misbehaving, and if they didn't deliberately restrain their surging sorcery energy, ordinary mortals wouldn't be able to withstand the terrifying elemental radiation.

Most of the outsider sorcerers were obviously not qualified to set foot in Keslin Castle, and could only temporarily seek a residence near the castle to stay and await the arrival of that tournament.

And every day, an imposing floating airship drove down to the air mooring area, and then descended a large number of witches wearing standardized witch robes with the uniform family crest etched on them, led by the Association's witches, clattering to the main castle in black carriages.

These were all those well-known large families or organizations in the Scattered Tallinn region, so naturally, they wouldn't stoop to living outside the main castle. And they were obviously all familiar with the Association Sorcerers, and as soon as they arrived, they gathered together and hid in the secret room to whisper.

Naturally, it was unknown to outsiders what the higher-ups of the association were thinking about this competition.

But if the tournament could eventually select the strongest person to advance to the 4th rank, then getting the information a day earlier would naturally give them a bit of a head start in the subsequent changes to the pattern.

Naturally, a 4th ranked Sorcerer wouldn't see this benefit, but it could determine the ups and downs of small and medium sized Sorcerer Families or Powers. Thus, it was not up to them to be nervous!

Of course, the selection of the Association's 3rd level strongest person had also attracted the attention of the other three major powers.

It was said that the three major powers had sent hidden observers to follow the entire tournament, in order to get a side view of the progress of the strength of the Scattered Earth Tallinn region over the years.

As for the battle ground of the tournament, it was chosen at a secondary level called the Blue Sea.

The four peak Level 3 fighters would be divided into two groups and transported to different areas of the Blue Sea, where they would fight for 15 days. Both participants have half of a positioning crystal on their bodies, and as long as they succeed in capturing the other's crystal, they will be able to return to Kesling Castle.

The one who succeeded in returning to Kraslin Castle would be the winner of the division.

If neither of them can capture the other's Crystal, they will both be eliminated.

As for the finals, they will be held 15 days later, with the same rules and the same way to win, or the winner will be the one who successfully returns with the teleportation crystal.

The rules of the competition were set up in such a way that the guy who wanted to become the strongest Level 3 in the Scatterland Tallinn region needed to defeat two competitors in 30 days. It was a contest of strength as well as a test of perseverance.

Of course, if any guy was able to spend 1 day in the first battle to finish off his opponent and pass back to Keslin Castle, he would not only have an extra 14 days of rest, he would also have the opportunity to observe another battle with his own eyes. Knowing a bit more about his opponent would undoubtedly have a huge benefit for the next duel as well.

But such an idea sounded wonderful, but it wasn't realistic.

After all, the few sorcerers who could be selected to participate in the battle of the mighty were all at the peak of the 3rd stage, and were all extremely experienced in battle. In a situation where their strength couldn't absolutely crush their opponents, no one should be able to defeat their opponents easily.

...........

The Blue Sea Bit.

It was also a small bit of land that covered an extremely vast area and was extremely rich in biological and mineral resources.

Ever since it became a sub-domain under the Scattered Earth Tallinn Association, the strongest of the aborigines here had been either killed or captured and had been completely purged. The remaining aborigines had become slaves and miners under the association, busy all day long in the various plantations and dark, lightless mines.

However, just today, this place had become a battle ground for several 3rd level sorcerers who had crossed the border.

In a dense jungle close to the west coast, a dense white light suddenly lit up.

In the meantime, a tall figure walked out of the dense white light door and looked around at this completely unfamiliar world.

As soon as he stepped out of the portal, Grim felt the overwhelming presence of malice.

Under the suppression of the strong bit surface consciousness, the surging and vibrating magical energy atmosphere on his body fell rapidly, and was suppressed to the stage of 2nd rank beginner in an instant.

Like forcing an elephant into a boot, being in such a small and suffocating bitworld, even if he didn't encounter any enemies, Grim could still feel the painful protest from all his limbs.

"It seems that the first contest of this battle revolves around bit suppression... Whoever adapts to the bit environment here first will be able to exert more combat power."

"Chip, start parsing the laws of the bit plane here!"

"Drip, mission accepted...estimated resolution time 11 hours, 29 minutes, 31 seconds..."

11 hours...well, let's use that time to find our opponent first!

But who would one's opponent be?

In Keslin Castle, Grim and the four of them but they stepped through the portal at the same time, but were transported to different regions in groups of two. Therefore, at this moment, even Grim didn't know who his opponent in the first battle was.

"Drop, detecting unknown energy fluctuations..."

As Grim pondered, the chip suddenly emitted a series of prompts, followed by the projection of seven lifeforms harboring strange energy fluctuations in the retina.

Grim looked up and gazed through the canopy of swaying branches and landed on a mountain eagle circling in the azure sky.

In Grim's elemental vision, the mountain hawk's body was overflowing with a dense red mane, clearly belonging to some kind of specially modified witch beast.

After having a squint, Grim turned his head to look in several other directions, and found the same red mane on some elk, squirrels and spotted snakes.

Well, it seemed that these were all modified witch beasts that the Association had reserved in advance to monitor the entirety of the battle.

It could be imagined that at this moment, there were hundreds of shamans watching and observing every move of the participants through the eyes of these beasts in Kesling Castle.

Therefore, it was better to keep some secrets that one did not want to expose hidden!

With a sudden bad smile on his face, Grim raised his right hand to make a pistol-like gesture of shooting at a squirrel hidden in the thick canopy a hundred meters away.

Crack........

With a slight movement of Grim's mouth, the cowering squirrel, huddled among a patch of green leaves, suddenly burst into a small ball of fire that burned away in a flash.

With a small smile, Grim turned his pistol and pointed it at a moose hidden in the scrub forest 120 meters away.

Crack....

With another soft dub, the moose suddenly spewed flames from its eyes, ears, mouth and nose at the same time, barely struggling to get five steps out before it fell headlong, scorching into a pile of charcoal.

As if shaken by Grim's unbridled impunity, the few creatures covered in red light began to run as far away as they could. Unfortunately, no matter how fast they ran, they couldn't stand up to the quickness of Grim's mouth dubbing, pop, pop, pop... Several shots were fired in succession, and five of the seven red dots were choked out.

The mountain hawk moved the fastest, and had already spread its wings and flown 3 miles away, for it, Grim did not kill. After all, this is the surveillance method left by the association, it is not good to extinguish all of them, just need to draw a boundary and drive them all to the periphery.

After chasing away the mountain eagle, Grim turned his gaze and landed on the root of a tall ancient tree.

There, a gopher with red mane hid into the ground, relying on the cover of the soil and not fleeing.

It seemed that the association shamans who were manipulating the witch beasts hadn't figured out how Grim had discovered the anomaly, so they were still thinking of using ground escape to escape Grim's 'pursuit'.

Grim smiled heedlessly, his right hand gathered into a fist and slammed downwards.

A hundred meters away, with the ancient tree as the center, more than twenty meters of the surrounding ground like an invisible iron fist hit hard, Woodland downward collapsed into a two-meter-deep hole. All the ancient trees, branches, vines, and shrubs turned into ashes under the burning of the invisible flame.

And within Grim's elemental vision, that red dot also quickly extinguished.

How could a mere ordinary creature with a transplanted Sorcery Eye be able to withstand Grim's casual strike.

Only after blinding all the 'eyes' within a thousand meters that were watching him did Grim pull out the black crystal from his belt pouch.

The crystal was only the size of a fist, and it was lost in a dense black mist, so it was impossible to see the specific contents.

But just take out, the black crystal has a strange vibration, seems to want to fly out of their control to the northeast in a certain direction.

It seems that that's where the other teleportation crystal is located.

Grim smiled indifferently, and put the crystal back into his belt pouch, before raising his steps and streaking towards the direction he had just sensed.