Age of Adepts

The male head who was the older brother was going to open his mouth to say something, but was squeezed hard to the side by the other sister head who opened her eyes abruptly.

Having lost control of his body, the male head's eyes closed and the expression on his face disappeared, as if he had suddenly fallen into a deep sleep. The other sister's head moved to the center of her neck and opened her eyes to carefully examine Grim.

"You're Grim, aren't you! My brother was a little rude just now and has yet to introduce himself. My brother's name is Mangus, and I'm Qiu Lisa, and we are also participants in this 'Mission to Clear the Austrian Empire'!" My sister's voice was soft and gentle, and obviously much gentler in character than my brother's.

"Oh?" Grim's eyebrows rose, and his gaze at the other side was finally much kinder.

"I'm sure Your Excellency is aware that those of us who were pushed out to participate in the mission can almost all be considered cannon fodder. Once we break into the Arcane Empire, not to mention those great arcane masters, there aren't many companions around us worth trusting. So..."

"You want an early alliance?"

"Yes!" Qiu Lisa smiled lightly, "Rather than doing nothing and waiting for our fate then, it's better for the few of us to join forces, so we'll also have some self-preservation. At the very least, we'll be able to deter those Calamity World monsters before them as well, saving them from treating us as prey along with them!"

Grim pondered and could not help but be secretly moved by this Qiu Lisa's proposal.

Although all of them were already at the 4th rank, they were still fragile like a scarecrow in front of those old monsters who had advanced for thousands of years. Especially those arcane masters who had occupied a place and time to fight with them, there wasn't much that the witches could take advantage of.

Under such circumstances, if their group of cannon fodder witches could join forces to defend themselves, at least they wouldn't expend their limited bit of power in a civil war.

"I agree with your proposal in principle, but what kind of alliance do we rely on? I'm afraid it's hard enough for a normal witchcraft contract to bind a 4th rank wizard, right?"

"Oath contracts, you've heard of them, haven't you?"

"From what I've heard, it seems that the several sorcerers involved in the oath each cast a curse-type sorcery. That way, the guy who violated the contract would suffer the backlash of the common curse of the remaining several sorcerers."

"Good! This is the text of the contract we drafted, you can join it if you feel like it and leave your own cursed witchcraft behind."

Qiu Lisa stretched out her hand and with a virtual stroke, a black odd stone slab of unknown material appeared, on which a highly binding contract of sorcery was written in the universal language of witches.

And on the edges of the slate, etched on the corners were the sorcery seal deeds of three witches.

One was Mangus's, one was Qiu Lisa's, and one was Silver Alliance Holly Witch's.

And on several of the names, Grim detected the scent of cursed witchcraft or voodoo items.

Now it seemed that the only participants missing from the top were him and the one from the Northland Witch.

Grim's eyes quickly scanned over the contents of the pact, quickly storing and taking in the contents of the contract in his mind.

And as he closed his eyes and pretended to think, the chip had quickly parsed the contents of the contract and determined that it was a sorcery contract that limited the participants from fighting internally and working together to defend against enemies, and that there were no hidden language traps or sorcery traps in it.

Quickly, Grim opened his eyes and smiled as he stretched out his hand and drew a succession of flaming flame runes in the air. These flame runes didn't dissipate instantly, but gathered together and collided and squeezed each other, eventually coalescing into a bizarre rune formation with a complex structure.

And under Grim's control, the strange runes wrapped around his sorcery seal deed floated and flew in front of the black stone slab, and quickly merged into it. In the next moment, Grim's name also emerged from the stone slab.

"What an intricate and complex flame rune formation! You're not even using cursed sorcery?" Qiu Lisa sighed in surprise.

"I don't have much research on curses, and I can't come up with enough curse items to restrain a 4th level witch, so I'll have to use the Flame Talisman instead. It just contains my Flame Strike!"

"It doesn't matter, it's just a way to maintain trust. As long as we don't want to die together, I don't think anyone would be foolish enough to tear up a contract of oaths that would be of great benefit to them!" Qiu Lisa spread her face and smiled, seemingly not caring about it.

However, if she had been able to detect through the Flame Talisman Formation that the intensity of the flame strike inside had reached 3700 degrees, I'm afraid she wouldn't have smiled so easily.

3700 degrees... Such a terrifying flame strike was even enough to kill a 4th rank witch below the middle rank. Even those bloodline witches or body refining witches who were known for their physique would have to suffer a severe loss if they were unprepared.

After all, most of the beginner-tier sorcerers had base attacks between 1100-2000 degrees, and the middle-tier sorcerers had base attacks between 2000-3000 degrees. And with the 3,900 degrees that Grim's strongest strike could reach, it was already comparable to those advanced sorcerers who were nearing their peak state.

And yet he was now just a 4th rank Junior Sorcerer who had just advanced for over a decade!

Since Grim has signed the oath contract, the two sides have also become allies as well, and it is much easier and more natural to speak and act.

"This time, helping Lord Anremus with his errands is something we've actively earned, so we need your help in covering up the exchange of items. How about this, if you're not satisfied with any of Lord Anremus' several items, I still have a Seven Hearts Grass here, how about it as an addition?" The Qiu Lisa Witch was obviously very good at socializing, and the reason she gave was obviously something that Grim could not easily refuse.

Thus, Grim hesitated and finally exchanged the one person's share of potent magical essence for the rank 4 Fire Coral Wand and the Seven Hearts Grass once again.

The Seven Hearts Grass was also a wizard resource that could barely squeeze into the 4th rank.

When a wizard's original body was severely damaged by the Dismembered Body class, the Seven Hearts Grass could be used to reattach the severed limbs back together without compromising base combat strength.

Having gathered another ally and incidentally completed the task assigned by the Great Witch, this Qiu Lisa Witch couldn't help but have a smile on her face.

After exchanging sorcery contact details with Grim, she also left directly overjoyed.

When silence returned to the abode, Grim said quietly, "Chip, how's the analysis of their data going?"

"Drops, there is a powerful life force field on the target creature, chip detection and deep scans are blocked... By analyzing the manner and extent of its distortion of the life force field, this two-headed sorcerer should belong to an elemental sorcerer who forcibly advanced after half fusing his soul..."

"A half-fused soul?"

"Both of their souls are not strong enough to advance to the 4th rank, and in order to force their advancement they had to fuse a part of each other's souls and bodies, which is why they barely exist in the form of a two-headed sorcerer."

"What about their strengths?"

"A single strength is only at the peak of 3rd rank, and when combined it's 4th rank beginner..."

"In other words, the battle power they normally exert is still below 4th rank, and only by borrowing sorcery methods to combine the strength of two people can they reach 4th rank beginner... No wonder they're so eager to gather some allies, it has something to do with the fact that their strength is at the bottom of all mission participants! With this kind of strength to participate in the mission, if they don't have an oath contract, I'm afraid they'll be one of the first to be eliminated!"

After putting away the Seven Hearts Grass, he took the Fire Coral Wand in his hand and repeatedly fondled it to make sure there were no suspicious marks or traces left on it, before putting it inside the Elder's Power Ring.

The reason why he chose this scepter was to better fit his identity.

Since the other party wanted to team up with him, Grim's position of himself was that of an elemental sorcerer who was only good at flame sorcery, taking a wand was precisely in line with his own identity. This was also a logical way to avoid the more dangerous close quarters fights.

After all, it was a good idea to hide some of your strength within a team of unfamiliar sorcerers!

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

Outside the Witch Tower.

The brother and sister two-headed witches were flying fast in the sky while communicating with each other by special witchcraft means.

"How do you feel about that Legendary Fire Witch's strength?" The one who spoke was that older brother, Mangus.

"Far more powerful than us...and most importantly, he doesn't seem to care much about alliances or not!" Sister Qiu Lisa calmly analyzed.

"This might have something to do with the fact that he's been developing smoothly, otherwise, how could he alone be able to defeat those off-world competitors in such a dangerous mission? By the way, do you think we still need to contact that Northland witch?"

"According to the information we have now, the one sent by the Northlands to carry out the mission is a 4th rank dark witch. And the other party is also the only mid-ranked strong one among all the participants, do you think that with their arrogance and ego, they will accept the terms of our alliance?"

At his sister's retort, Mangus had to curse.

"Those damned madwomen...I curse her for running into those calamity creatures as soon as she went in!"

"Whether she'll run into those calamitous creatures, I don't know. But I definitely know that we will meet them. Because in their eyes, I'm afraid we're the biggest piece of their trip!"

Mangus, who was the elder brother, also sighed lightly and remained silent.

In such a terrifying and dangerous mission, I'm afraid that those self-assured and powerful guys wouldn't be in a hurry to carry out the mission in the first place, but would first eliminate the weak 'contenders'. Regardless of which way one looked at it, the team sent by the Sorcerer's camp, which consisted purely of 4th rank novices, was a brisket that was perfect for the job.

And as the brisket of the fish, their siblings naturally couldn't escape the pursuit of a powerful enemy.

It was no wonder why the two of them had to be so worried!