Age of Adepts

Although this place was a small city in the Otherworld.

However, in Grim's spiritual perception, it was not too different from those human cities in the Wizard World. If one had to say what the differences were, it would undoubtedly be the various strange facilities and odd buildings filled with arcane styles.

The smooth and wide streets, the shops that lined the streets, the residents with brightly colored clothes, the clean and beautiful environment, and the small open gardens and lawns that were everywhere....

It had to be said that among the dozen or so different planes that Grim had experienced, the commoners of the Arcane Empire was considered to be the branch of humanity that had the best living conditions and enjoyed the most benefits.

Although there was not a single figure of an Occultist on the entire street, the style and characteristics of the Occult Empire were still evident everywhere.

For example, there was a single tall street lamp placed along the sides of the street.

Even in the most extravagant and luxurious city in the Sorcerer World, the light source used by the street lamps was an inexpensive lighting stone. Here, however, what was stored inside the street lamps was an arcane crystal with excellent magic-conducting properties.

Arcane fountains, arcane squares, arcane gardens, arcane libraries... even in front of those shops, Grim saw arcane puppets that were commanded and controlled by ordinary people carrying goods.

In the Sorcerer World, however, all-metal constructed puppets worth hundreds of thousands of magic crystals were something that only Sorcerers were entitled to own!

Although the turmoil in the Bit World had also inevitably spread to this place, compared to other places, the people here were quite calm and composed. After all, with the Orbital Tower guarding them, even those ferocious otherworldly monsters would have a hard time wreaking havoc here.

When they arrived here, Grim also took off his thick traveler's cloak and took off the slightly gloomy hood, revealing his handsome and handsome face, mingling with the crowd and looking around with a smile on his face.

The small town didn't have a large population.

Even with the influx of fleeing people over the past half year, the total population was only in the early fifty thousand.

And the city had well-equipped relief places, so there weren't too many refugees wandering and gathering on the streets, and the city was still in order.

However, in Grim's overwhelming and pervasive spiritual perception, the two-headed witch had switched to Qiu Lisa personality and successfully blended into the relief place where the refugees were gathering. On the other hand, Holly Witch and Shani Witch had each hid in a noble villa less than 200 meters away from the Arcane Tower, and were peering at the entrance to the Tower from afar.

This sixty-meter tall, possessing nine floors above ground and two underground, the entire tower was radiating a faint arcane light. Even at midday in the middle of the day, the entire arcane tower was still glowing and gorgeous.

And within Grim's powerful elemental vision, this arcane tower seemed to be connected to the arcane facilities of the entire small city, a concealed energy conduit linking them tightly to the arcane tower.

In this way, all of the arcane facilities in this city actually relied on the arcane tower's elemental pools for support!

With such design and intention, there was naturally no problem in times of peace. But in the event of a war, these energy pipes were undoubtedly a huge security risk for the Orbital Tower.

It seemed that those arcane masters had been stranded in a peaceful environment for so long that they had forgotten what danger smelled like!

Grim couldn't help but shake his head and sigh lightly.

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

Ryan Province, Fourth Orbital Tower.

"Your Excellency the Tower Lord, given the increasing influx of refugees from the south, Merkin City's carrying capacity has reached its limit. I think... the refugees should be repatriated to an area a little further north for resettlement." Speaking at this time was one of the three existing three-ringed Olympians of the Fourth Olympian Tower, the young and promising Reinette.

He was a young man with stiff brown hair, and one of the current controllers of this Orbital Tower.

According to the basic configuration of the Arcane Empire, a facility like the Fourth Arcane Tower should have at least one fourth ring arcane master sitting in it. However, as the battles outside the bit barrier became more and more fierce, there was a shortage of manpower, so after many redeployments, this Fourth Arcane Tower was left with only three Third Ring Arcane Masters guarding it.

The invasion of the otherworldly creatures that had occurred in the south some time ago had also made the place windy and tense.

Although those dreaded calamitous creatures had yet to invade so deeply, the huge number of refugees that had been driven here had already made it unsustainable for the Austrian Empire cities everywhere to seek help from the upper echelons of the Empire.

"Reinert, do you think that with the current stormy and stormy situation of the Empire, we can still organize a mass migration of the population?" The tower master was a pale old man with graying temples, a pair of old tortoiseshell glasses clamped to the bridge of his nose, and wrinkles crowding together on his face, a bitter and sad but helpless look, "Besides, people hiding in the city can still rely on the arcane facilities and arcane towers to defend themselves against the onslaught of the calamitous creatures. In case the team encounters those monsters while organizing the migration..."

The following words, although he didn't say them, the few Olympians present couldn't help but make up that kind of picture in their heads, and then they all looked extremely ugly.

"Your Excellency the Tower Lord, in my astrological observations a few days ago, I noticed some unusual magical shifts there on the west coast of the continent of Kantos as well. I'm very concerned that it's those otherworldly invaders sneaking in. So I suggested that it would be a good idea to dispatch an Arcane Observation team to check out the frailty. If the enemy really intends to invade there, we can also promptly inform the 'Ruijing Garden' Floating City to bring the main force over, so that the Ryan Province won't be overrun by the enemy like the Garland Province, thus causing millions of civilian casualties.... "This time the speaker was the most astrologically adept Soth Olympian in the Fourth Arcane Tower.

And what he said made several of his colleagues in the room look increasingly ugly.

"The Garland Province has been overrun by the enemy...it's become a battlefield where exotic monsters and arcane puppets are fighting madly. If...if everything Soth just said is true, I'm afraid...this Ryan Province of ours will be in danger as well!" The Tower Lord sighed grudgingly.

"It's better if we don't jump to conclusions so early. After all, the Bit World is in violent turmoil, and it's possible for some disturbance to occur in the magic tides. Therefore, it would be only right for us to send an observation team there as soon as possible to make sure."

"Since both of you agree that this is necessary, let's dispatch the thirteenth squad over there!"

"Agreed!"

"I agree!"

As the three three-ringed arcane masters were discussing the current situation with a serious face, an arcane crystal on the table in front of them suddenly turned red and flashed rapidly.

Alert...this was an alert message from the Orbital Tower detecting an unexpected event.

The old-faced tower master's eyes turned sharply sharp and pressed the arcane crystal, and in a swirl, an urgent male voice was transmitted from it.

"Lord Douglas, Lord Douglas, it's not good, it's not good... those refugees have revolted!"

Refugees? Revolt?

Coming up with such a sentence without a head or tail, the three Aurors were filled with fog.

However, as long as there wasn't an invasion of otherworldly creatures, then the situation couldn't be too bad.

The three Aurors in a semi-loose mood immediately communicated with the on-duty Auror in the monitoring room and quickly figured out what was going on.

Whether it was because of fear or because of the food factor, a violent clash had broken out between the residents of the small town and those foreign escapees, which then led to a huge chaos.

Those foreign escapees were so angry that they were moving down the street, beating and looting shops and pedestrians in a frenzy. And the direction of their advance seemed to be towards the Tower of Ordeal.

"Bastards, these restless fellows, don't they know what a tremendous war pressure the Austrian Empire is under? They...they even came out at this time to cause trouble!"

"It seems we need to treat them with harsher means and methods. Drive them out of the city as soon as possible, so they can't affect the confidence of the local residents and cause more panic..."

"Let me go! I'll lead a team of arcane puppets and drive them all back!"

"Okay, we'll split up, we can't let them spread the chaos across the city..."

Thus, under the control and command of a few arcane masters, the doors of the arcane tower opened wide, and the transparent arcane barrier slowly disappeared after a few brightening. A troop of tall and powerful arcane puppets stepped out of it with neat steps under the command of a dozen or so arcane masters, and entered that spatially enormous arcane square.

And in the dark, that Holly Witch and Shani Dark Witch who were waiting for their chance, received Grim's sorcery message in their minds at the same time.

"Do it! Remember to prioritize destroying the elemental pools..."

"Hehe, there must be a lot of good stuff in this arcane tower too. Whoever gets it first is the one who gets it, you guys don't want to be gluttonous when you get there..." the Holly Witch ho-ho-laughed and rushed out without hesitation.

As for the nearby Shani Witch, her figure also disappeared so suddenly that no trace of her could be found.

There was a loud, earth-shattering thud.

As soon as the striding out Holly Sorcerer appeared in front of the arcane square, mysterious astral matter continued to emerge from the void, transforming into a piece of shining blue lustrous metal parts spliced on top of his body.

The Holly Wizard strode forward.

His body grew higher and thicker as he walked.

In the end, when he strode in front of the group of arcane puppets, his entire body had transformed into a tall metal giant that was 6 meters tall and covered in thick and dense star construct components.

And under the terrified gaze of those arcane masters, the Holly Wizard ho-laughed and killed straight into the line of arcane puppets....