Age of Adepts

The Hazen bit.

Only half a day late, Mary and her party, who were far away in the Otherworld, also learned the news of Alice's advancement.

Immediately, the team also came to a standstill, silently waiting for Mary's order.

Mary was standing on top of an ancient tree, looking out over the lush, green, and unending forest sea, her eyes shining with a cruel and violent look that could not be concealed.

For a long time, her personal strength had been under Grim's deathly pressure, and it had caused Mary's heart to be suppressed beyond words. If the other party was not her loving partner, I'm afraid that Mary would have been unable to endure the outburst.

However, now, even Alice had caught up to her to advance to the 4th rank.

This... and how embarrassing it was for her!

For the sake of Grim, although she intellectually accepted Alice's existence, but deep down inside the mind of the good and strong fight to win has never been extinguished. Now suddenly hearing this news, Mary's outward appearance was calm as usual, but deep inside, she was already as furious as waves and as manic as the sea.

"Master, do you think we should rush back to attend Lord Alice's celebration first, or..."

As soon as Solus, who was dressed in blood armor and had a terrifying murderous aura overflowing around his body, opened his mouth, the old fox beside him, Wryll, closed his eyes in pain.

This bastard who couldn't speak....

As it was, as soon as Soros spoke, Mary's crystal clear, ruby red blood pupils shone as well.

"Keep moving! Hmph, what's there to participate in a shitty celebration... This time, we won't turn back until we kill that damn feathered snake!"

With that said, the blood-colored bat wings behind Mary shook, and her entire body transformed into a terrifying blood light that raced forward. As for those blood clans that were lying in wait in the dense forest for news, you looked at me, I looked at you, and shrugged their shoulders helplessly, they also transformed into a black and red bat and dashed off into the distance after Mary.

As Bloods, their ability to move was undoubtedly terrifying!

All vampires can transform into bat demons and glide sharply close to the forest treetops, so the ruggedness of the deep forest is non-existent for them.

Also, being Bloods, they don't need to carry around large amounts of supplies.

The ubiquitous jungle beasts in the dense forest were their food.

In times of emergency, with their blood to draw from, they could even travel frantically for seven days and nights without sleep. When they were hungry and sleepy, all they had to do was to find a beast to suck some blood, and they would be able to maintain their vigorous energy and inexhaustible stamina.

With this powerful mobility, this blood group, which numbered less than 30 people, was slaughtering the troll tribes everywhere inside the Deku Jungle. So far, 5 troll tribes with more than 200 people had become the Blood Tribe's food.

Under the influence of the powerful First Embrace ability, more than a hundred more trolls had been transformed into First Stage Blood Slaves and became cheap cannon fodder for the Blood Tribe's accompanying troops.

Every time they arrived at a troll camp, most of the troll warriors were slaughtered, and only those elite elements with incredible battle prowess were initially embraced by the blood elves as blood slaves. As for the feeble old women and children, they were also slaughtered as well, not for the joy of killing, but to side-cut the base of that 'Feathered Serpent God's' faith.

The divine might of a totem god like the Feathered Serpent God was directly linked to the number of its followers. The more ruthlessly Mary and the others killed, the more they killed, the weaker the opponent would be in the end when they faced this Feathered Serpent God.

This was the most common tactic used by witches against those believing gods!

And in order to deal with the Feathered Serpent God, Mary purposely brought in a helper from within her family, the Poison Spirit Remy who also possessed 3rd stage strength. With the plague of Poison Spirit Remy, Mary intentionally let more trolls go in the next few attacks.

In this way, the fleeing trolls also invariably spread the deadly plague to more troll camps.

With the troll kingdom's crude and inferior witch doctor system, it was almost a fool's errand to widely dispel and rescue such a large number of infected people. Thus, in just twenty days, nearly 1/3 of the Troll Kingdom was enveloped under a terrifying plague cloud.

The frantic killing of Mary and the others had also finally alerted the upper echelons of the troll kingdom, and a team of trolls numbering up to 2,000 were sent out to search the nearby jungles for signs of the invaders.

Unfortunately, the primitive and outdated detection system exposes their every move to Mary.

Thus, a terrible conspiracy against the troll team is born!

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

The quiet, dark jungle is not brightly lit.

Sprawling branches and haphazardly growing vines, thorns, and shrubs could be seen everywhere, and trying to navigate through such an environment would be difficult.

But none of this was a problem for the troll hunter!

Their nimble and strong bodies allow them to move freely through the dense forest without being blocked by any bushveld. The surface of their thick-skinned skin is covered with a thin layer of moss, giving them a skin color that is just like that of the surrounding jungle.

This, along with their agile and silent forms, and their long, sharp snouts, also make them some of the most fearsome trackers and hunters inside the Draco jungle.

Steelde plucked aside an obstructing vine and slowly walked through a forest of bushes filled with dense thorns. The bushes grew haphazardly, with wrist-thin branches that were pale gold in color, and were densely covered with sharp and poisonous wooden thorns that would have been scratched and bruised by any ordinary creature passing through them.

But Gunde, with his thick skin and naked body, came straight through the thickest part of the scrub thorns. The wood thorns scraped and snapped against his strong and powerful body, but it was hard to do anything about it.

Steeler stopped in a forest clearing.

It lifted its nose and sniffed a few times, detecting a hint of something other than jungle in the decaying, muggy air.

Outsiders....

Steelde pulled out the wooden spiked spear from his back and held it in his left hand, and touched two hardened pike darts made of strange metal from his waist, carefully and guardedly tracing the direction of the scent a little bit forward.

There were no footprints on the ground, the intertwined branches and vines had no traces of having been chopped, and the special scent remaining in the forest was even thinner... From these circumstances, it could be judged that the intruders it was tracking were also some guys who were extremely good at jungle combat.

However, as a troll hunter, it was the master of this jungle. However, as a Troll Hunter, it was the master of this jungle, so it was not only not afraid of the upcoming battle, but also somewhat eager to try it out.

Steelde was slowly moving through the jungle.

His wary eyes scanned the jungle for any possible hiding places for his enemies, but he found none. Yet its slightly tingling skin was a clear indication that some enemy was peering around it in a hidden and mysterious way, only it was difficult to discern the location.

Steelde squinted his eyes tighter, becoming increasingly cautious.

The jungle had become quiet, the usual birdsong and insect singing had disappeared, and the entire world was silent.

However, Steelde was at a loss as to what to do, when a beeping sound suddenly appeared from the depths of the jungle, and an alien on a strange mount suddenly appeared in front of him.

Steelde swept away with a glance and shuddered in fear.

What a terrifying monster this was!

The visitor was a human boy with dark green skin, covered in strange and bizarre patterns. He was sitting on top of a skinned toad-like beast, staring at him with a pair of pale green pupils, staring coldly at him.

Behind the other party, on top of the toad-like foreign beast's back, there was also a skinny and withered ugly woman without much flesh and blood on her entire body, also staring at herself with green pupils.

Although he couldn't discern the other party's true identity, the eerie terror of the other party's pressing face caused Steelde to feel a million and two hostile!

Therefore, Steelde did not hesitate to take action.

The two metal darts turned into two streaks of cold light and stabbed the two people on the back of the Toad Beast, and Steelde, holding a 3 meter long wooden spear in both hands, launched a swift charge.

The spikes on the metal darts pierced into her hands and infected them with a strange toxin.

The ugly woman was unaware of the damage to her flesh, and had no fear of the toxin.

She raised her hands and held the shuttle dart tightly, the light green poisonous fumes lingering in them corroded the all-metal shuttle dart to a thunderous noise. It didn't take more than a few fingers, but the metal shuttle dart was riddled with corrosion, and with the woman's grip, it crumbled into powder and debris.

The troll-hunter Steelde's attack was also blocked by the strange toad beneath the two men.

The other party opened her mouth wide, and a long, sticky, flexible tongue flicked out unceasingly, surprisingly blocking Steelde from five steps away.

The ugly woman used this opportunity to wave her hands, and a large yellow-green poisonous cloud swept towards Steel Demeanor.

Steelde hurriedly retreated, narrowly escaping from the poisonous cloud.

Unfortunately, under the command of the ugly woman, the poisonous cloud seemed to be alive, and with a single swirl, it caught up with Steelde's form and enveloped him.

A moment later, Steelde stumbled out of the poisonous cloud while coughing violently.

In just a few short strokes, its original grass-green mossy skin had been infested with red, living as if it had been skinned.

Breathing rapidly and with difficulty, its throat and chest stung as if there were thousands of small worms gnawing at it, its eyes were red and swollen with tears, and the skin of its entire body was as if it was burning with fire....

Steelde didn't dare to stop there, turning and putting his feet to fly as he gathered his hands around his mouth and struggled to let out a strange shout.

The subdued shout spread rapidly through the forest and soon reached somewhere in the distance.

Several troll hunters with the same appearance and equipment as Steelde were searching the forest, and when they heard the call, they immediately rose to their feet and fled in the direction of the sound.

And as they attacked, they also passed back the information of 'found enemy' layer by layer in the same way....