Age of Adepts

Shani, who was in the middle of a close fight with Grim, quickly noticed something was wrong.

Within her mental perception, the number of shadow creatures in the Class Shadow Realm was drastically decreasing.

This situation should not have reasonably happened.

With the echoes of the Origin Gauntlet in the distance and the Class 4 Phantom Shadow as a power guide in the near distance, those shadow creatures should have been pouring in continuously, flooding the battlefield with terrifying numbers and a fearless fighting style.

But it's only been a short time since the battle started... The distant origin tower suddenly interrupted the transmission path of the shadow creatures, which made the shadow legions in the shadow-like realm less and less to fight, as if they were being annihilated by the enemy.

Damn it, what were those sisters sitting in the rear doing? Did something go wrong?

Shani couldn't help but be suspicious.

Where did she know that the Cersei leader, who was in the Dark Witch line's origin tower in the northern part of the Witch World, was already thunderstruck and vomiting blood three times.

A shadow army that the Dark Witch line had worked so hard to cultivate had inexplicably met its demise. As they projected their darkness to that strange plane that was billions of miles away, their bodies left in the Valley of Shadows were burnt to ashes one by one by a sudden flame.

Such a terrifying discovery made Chief Cerci only order the cutting off of the soul channel between the Shadow Legion and the distant Morian Plane, which barely managed to preserve the remaining 20% of their power.

In the aftermath, looking at the sparse Shadow Legion and the battered High Shadow troops, Chief Cerci could only curse the bastard who had given her wrong information with anger and tears.

The dark witches' pot of gold had saved the last of the shadow legions, but it had also harmed Shani, who was still fighting on the front lines.

The class shadow field shook silently.

After cutting off the soul channel, that 4th class phantom that sat in the dark center guiding the origin tower naturally crumbled silently. And lacking the 4th Order Phantom's Soul Dao Marker, the Origin Gauntlet also lost its ability to continue projecting power.

As a result, even the Class Shadow Realm became precarious!

One had to know that, at this moment, part of Shani's spiritual consciousness had been fused with the Class Shadow Realm. When the Class Shadow Realm collapsed, if her spiritual consciousness couldn't pull away in time, it was highly likely that her soul itself would suffer a huge injury.

Thus, when Shani felt the tremor and power of the Class Shadow Realm recede, she was instantly terrified in the midst of the battle, unable to care about fighting Grim anymore, she desperately fled the battlefield and quickly made her way to the Dark Center.

Unfortunately, Grim, who was also aware that the Class Shadow Realm was inappropriate, couldn't easily let her go and immediately chased after her, never giving her a chance to free her hands and feet to regain control of the Dark Hub.

...........

In the nearly endless dark space.

Grim strode forward, the Fire Coral Wand in his right hand was overflowing with a rich red light, unceasingly shooting out a fireball to scatter the surrounding shadow energy.

The dark witch Shani's elemental breath is looming in front of him, always showing him the direction to go.

Just following that elemental breath into a dark node, Grim's face changed slightly, stepped back, witch staff in hand raised high, and a red glowing flame barrier was quickly formed.

In the next second, hundreds of shadow arrows came from all directions, striking the flame barrier and making it tremble.

However, with the infusion of Grim's powerful flame power, this thin but incredibly tough flame barrier was still able to block the terrifying trap that the dark witch Shani had set for him in the end.

The shadow energy that had been flowing freely around his body had become much thinner and poorer after such a torment. And the suppression of Grim's flame power here was also much less.

Grim coughed slightly and walked out of the explosion circle where the energy breath was disordered, his blue eyes flickering as he scanned the surrounding void.

But unfortunately, the fierce martyrdom just now had obliterated all traces of the place, and it had become unfeasible for him to track that Shani with his elemental breath.

"Chip, can you lock on to the elemental breath?" Grim asked in a deep voice.

"Drops, the elemental atmosphere around the perimeter has been completely disturbed, unable to continue targeting..."

"Is there another way to catch up with her?"

"Drops, after the current battlefield analysis, the likelihood of the Dark Witch traveling to the Dark Hub is 97%, and the location of the Dark Hub is being calculated and simulated..."

"Drip, the Dark Hub's location is locked, please ask the subject to move in the direction indicated..."

Immediately, a light blue illusory arrow was projected on Grim's retina.

Grim flew away without hesitation.

The illusory arrow constantly changed direction, guiding Grim to soar forward.

This wasn't so much an indication that the Dark Hub was constantly moving, but rather a certain characteristic that this Class Shadow Realm possessed.

The entire Class Shadow Realm covered Maplewood Town and the surrounding thousands of meters of land, such a huge area was naturally more than enough as a battlefield for an ordinary person. But for the two 4th rank witches, this battlefield space was too small.

Even with a flicker or a jump, the two sorcerers could rush out from inside the battlefield.

Therefore, in order to trap Grim here, the Class Shadow Realm also added the strange spatial feature of the Sorcery Maze Lock. This way, even if Grim turned the world upside down, he wouldn't be able to get out of the Shadow-Like Realm.

Within the Class Shadow Realm, even if you flew or ran with your eyes closed, you were just following a bizarre arc that you were bumbling around in. The sense of space and time within is almost entirely disorienting, allowing one to always be circling around a bizarre core without realizing it.

And this field characteristic is powerful in that it affects not your sense of sight, hearing, touch and taste, but your soul consciousness. Even if you've been spinning around in it for tens of thousands of years, you won't realize that you're not walking in a straight line, but a bizarre arc.

So while Grim was following the chip's instructions in an ever-changing direction, his body was actually just walking out of a really straight line, straight towards the dark witch Shani's room.

Yes, that dark hub wasn't hidden, it was simply set up within Shani's room. It was only due to the existence of the domain characteristics that Grim was always unaware of its existence. Of course, it was even less likely to come the slightest bit closer to the place.

Grim's blue eyes flashed.

The chip projected two distinctly different fields of vision in his left and right eyes based on its powerful computing power.

In the vision of the left eye, Grim was standing in a dark emptiness, as if he was blind and wandering haphazardly. But in the right vision, he was in the stone square of the Maplewood town, surrounded by the bleak and tragic scenes after the rampage of flame sorcery.

One left and one right, one true and one false, if it wasn't for the presence of the chip and not being disturbed by the power of the realm, Grim would only be able to passively endure the attacks of the dark witch in the class shadow field.

Grim followed the stone streets that had been scorched by the flames towards the small wooden building in the distance that towered over the endless darkness. The only building that remained intact in the entire town of Maplewood was the only one left.

Crossing the street and arriving in front of the small building, the two thick door panels were open on the left and the right, on which the life energy scent of that Shani Witch could be faintly perceived.

It seemed that that Shani had pushed them open viciously with her hand when she drove back here.

Grim stepped into it in faith and stood in the middle hall of the first floor, with the winding staircase stretching to the second floor in front of him. To the left, the door to the dining room also opened wide, and the Kewliza witch was sitting in a chair full of anxiety, not stopping to tilt her head to listen or perceive the elemental changes around her.

The distance between the two sides was only twenty meters, but the Qiu Lisa Witch was clearly unaware of Grim's presence.

Twenty meters... this distance was literally breathable for the 4th rank witches!

Perhaps the gaze that Grim was betting over took on a hint of power, and that Qiu Lisa witch who was waiting anxiously in the middle of a sudden body shake, turned her head blankly to look at Grim's location. But the focus of her gaze swept through the empty first floor middle hall several times, but she did not notice any abnormality, much less see Grim's figure.

Thus, she could only attribute this to her own paranoia.

In fact, with the power of Qiu Lisa and Mangus, it was impossible for this restaurant to trap them.

It was just that they were concerned about that Shani's 'brutality', and they never dared to extend their power beyond the restaurant.

After all, right now, the entire Maplewood Town had become the battlefield where that Dark Witch and the Legendary Fire Witch fought. If they recklessly extended their power out, it was likely that they would cause some unforeseen changes in the situation.

To be honest, even that Holly Witch wouldn't want to confront Shani head-on if it wasn't necessary. Therefore, they could only lock themselves up within the room and restrain their power, demonstrating with this practical attitude that they would never take part in a fight between two 4th rank wizards.

Of course, the Holly Witch and the Two-Headed Witch weren't just staying here to die, but were merely retreating to a region with their own power.

If that dark witch dared to extend the power of the shadow to their side, they would naturally have additional means to protect their own safety. But then, the Dark Witch's thoughts of trying to single out the Legendary Fire Witch would be doomed to fail.

So, even though Grim and Shani were fighting to the death, the room of the Holly Witch and the dining room of the two-headed witch were still quiet as before, without the slightest hint of abnormality being detected.

Grim smiled slightly, didn't disturb the 'neutrality' of that two-headed wizard, and raised his steps up the stairs leading to the second floor.