Age of Adepts

"What's the problem?"

Seeing the other party's faces turn so strange one by one, even Grim was a little baffled.

"No... nothing..." the wizard hurriedly covered his disposition with an embarrassed smile and changed the subject, "We're Esorda The fifty-third squad of the camp, responsible for patrolling this area. I wonder what your Excellency is doing about it?"

Grim smiled faintly.

"Open up a compound!"

"Open a compound?"

"My family also wants to participate in some of the extra-territorial trade, which is why I need to open a suitable family compound here. Are there any special rules regarding the camp that prevent this?"

The male wizard went pale and hesitated, "That's not true! However, most of the wizard families that are new to the outside of the domain will try to keep their family residences inside the Esoda camp. Like your Excellency, those who have another residence outside the camp... I'm afraid that wouldn't be too safe, right?"

In the midst of the conversation, the 3rd rank witch behind the male witch suddenly shouted in alarm and reminded in a low voice, "My lord, you see..."

The male witch was slightly startled and leaned down to look, only then did he realize that the Steel Capital had undergone some strange changes again in a short period of time.

A metallic war fortress had risen up on the outskirts of the Steel City, with cannon muzzles lining the outside of the fortress, the blue tiled metal cannon bodies shining in the dim light of the sky. And groups of tall metal magic weapons stepped out from inside the metal hall with neat steps, and began to move into the outer war fortress one after another.

The fixed magic energy cannons coupled with the mobile metal magic weapons, the entire Steel Capital was like a heavily armed hedgehog, displaying a frightening and terrifying defensive power.

Looking at the scene in front of him, the male witch could not help but nod inwardly.

"It seems that Your Excellency has indeed had full confidence in choosing to build a family residence here. According to the rules of Camp Esoda, any sorcerer family that enters the camp will have to submit a direct application to Lord Kaelph, and will only be implemented after His Excellency's approval. However, considering that Your Excellency has placed the family station outside the camp, it is no longer restricted by the rules of the camp. I will report for you when you return!"

Grim was naturally delighted with how cooperative the other side had shown.

The two sides floated in the air and talked for a few more sentences before waving goodbye to each other at this point.

The patrol returned to the camp, and once the situation here was reported up, it naturally caused a considerable amount of turmoil. However, Grim completely ignored these and stayed inside the Steel Capital to continuously improve the defenses of this place.

At this moment, although Grim was making rapid progress, the enemies he had overtly or covertly offended were not few.

If those guys knew that Grim had established roots outside of the region, they would be scrambling to come here and cause trouble. So, Grim, thinking of victory before defeat, asked the foreign brain to build the steel fortress first priority is the ultimate sturdiness.

He had a feeling that without a few ruthless fights with the enemy in this place outside the domain, the Crimson Family would be delusional to open their doors for business.

He, on the other hand, was waiting for those 'self-inflicted' enemies right here!

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Vilnin.

The seat of the Northland Witch Council.

Within the side hall of the council hall, there were eight witch leaders sitting sparsely on either side of the long table, and that dark witch leader, Cersei, was making an impassioned declaration of war.

"...Shani's death was a conspiracy by those male witches, we must act immediately to put pressure on the Scattered Earth Tarin to hand over that culprit Grim..."

The death of Shani of the Dark Witch line had been heard of by everyone.

However, when everyone heard that Cersei had once again linked Shani's death to that legendary fire witch Grim, all of the cognoscenti couldn't help but drop their gaze and look at that Alice who was sitting with a smile on her face.

The dark witch leader, Cersei, also leaned down and pressed her hands against the long table, shocking the other with a kind of above-and-below fierceness that was ferociously forced.

"Alice, that Grim is very close to you, and you're harboring him against all the witches at this time?"

Alice smiled slightly and said calmly, "That's heavy-handed, Sister Cersei! If he is at fault, why should I shield him!"

"That's fine. I propose..." sulked Cersei, thinking Alice had finally backed down.

"Don't be in a hurry to state your position just yet, I have a few more questions I'd like to ask my sister." Alice directly interrupted Cersei's statement, making the latter's face instantly turn ugly.

"What are the questions? Ask!"

"Shani's death is deplored by all of us. However, since Sister wants to avenge Shani's death by waging a foreign war and tying all the witch factions to your chariots. Then please also present your so-called evidence, Sister!"

"Shani died in that Morion bit, what proof do you want me to come up with?" Cersei couldn't help but fidget, and her hands that were pressed against the long table couldn't stop trembling softly while her body soared with a lingering black mist that nearly flooded the small half of the conference room.

"Then there's no proof...my sister can't produce any, so she wants to gather the entire Northland witch force to make a fool of that Grim, to make a fool of the Scattered Tarin. Don't you think that's too much of a brute bully?" The more furious the other party was, the more Alice behaved lightly, and her bright eyes were even inching away from the gaze.

The two witch chief's words are becoming more and more intense, the old and serious death witch chief Krsuna couldn't help but speak up, "Cersei, don't you have any evidence in your hand? If that Grim was just a lone man, fighting and killing would be fine, and we Northern Witches have never been afraid of anyone to come. But now, he's one of the elders of the Scattered Earth Tallinn, and if you can't produce any proof, how do you want us old men to pressure them?"

Having the wind in her sails, Alice took the opportunity to nail a few more sentences.

"Don't forget, Sister Cersei, at the last witch conference, you gave me your word that you would never take a shot at that Grim again. So what about this time with Shani's death? What makes you so sure that Grim killed Shani? Could it be... that you're not doing anything behind the scenes?"

Even her entire body began to tremble as Cerci began to tremble.

It wasn't so much fear of dread, but berserk rage to some extreme.

The reason why Shani was involved in the Orbital Empire mission, but she had arranged it herself. It was also equivalent to her personally sending a clan helper who was close to her to her death.

Moreover, Shani's death was a minor matter, the loss of the Shadow Jewel was a major matter!

But with all this inside information about the face of the Dark Witch clan and the many behind-the-scenes deals, how can she cry in front of some of the other chiefs?

"Alice, don't you forget, you're a Northland witch too! Aren't you afraid of people talking about you when you open and close your mouth like that to speak for a male witch?" Cersei finally gritted her teeth and put away her resentment, squeezing a dark word out of her teeth.

"If he were just an outsider, I wouldn't be partial to him. But Ceci-san, it's Alice's husband you're trying to deal with now!" Speaking of which, Alice's face was also flushed red and looked shy.

Alice was happy, but the rest of the witch leaders were shocked at the same time.

"Alice, there are some things you can't say nonsense. What husband or no husband...what are you talking nonsense about?" As soon as Death Witch Chief Krsuna glared at her, a tyrannical aura of death instantly filled the entire council hall.

"Sister Krsuna, I'm not talking nonsense. I've decided to marry that Grim, and a formal ceremony will be held in the near future. I hope to receive your blessing then!" Alice withdrew her smile and made a dignified statement.

Dead silence....silence....

The entire council hall was instantly silent, and all the witches became unpleasantly pale with deep frowns.

"Alice, think it over again! According to our northern witch tradition, there's never been a precedent of a marriage between a high-ranking witch, especially a witch leader, and those male witches!" Death Witch Chief Krsuna warned in a stern voice.

"Sister, are you saying that the Council of Witches will never allow this to happen?"

"That's not so absolute, and there are no clear rules governing the Witch Council. However, it's usually an unspoken rule to not marry male witches from other organizations in order to maintain the independence and purity of the Witches of the Northlands."

"Independence of the Northland Witches?" Alice smiled coldly, "The various factions of the Northern Witch will not attack each other, and will not harm each other's interests... This should be considered a default rule in everyone's heart!"

"Yes!"

"So I'd like to ask, how many of the thirteen witch factions inherited from the ancient past are still remaining? Those factions of witches who have broken their heritage, where is their territory?"

Hearing Alice's hoarse question, the several Witch Chiefs present could not help but remain silent.

"Since I, Alice, became the head of the Destiny Witches, how many of you have upheld the principle of faction independence and not interfered with the inheritance of the Destiny Witches? Ceci, what did you detain my grandmother Endor for again? Isn't that what you're trying to blackmail me with?" Alice was now like a fried kitten, standing up equally and returning the same fierce glare to that Cersei.

Cersei snorted.

"Endor is a witch in our line of dark witches, I have my reasons for how I deal with her, I don't need a little girl like you to tell me how to do things!"

The Death Witch Chief Krsuna's face grew colder and colder, her eyes shifting unceasingly between Cersei and Alice, with a strong dissatisfaction inside.

But as an outsider, it was difficult for her to govern the two increasingly conflicted witch chiefs in front of her.

Alice didn't look like she was only 3rd stage, and was the weakest among them.

But no matter how weak she was, she was still a witch chieftain who had equal power with them in the witch council! No one would be able to deprive her of her chief's power, and no one would dare to kill or overpower her by force, otherwise, the scene of unity and harmony that the Northland Witch had always displayed outwardly would become a joke.

The entire witch faction would immediately fall into a situation where they would each take their own side and gang up on each other!

And that was the last thing Krsuna wanted to see....