Age of Adepts

Beyond the Domain, Camp Esoda.

This was a magnificent tower that stood in the center of the camp.

The glowing magical light that hung above the tower was so dazzling and impressive, even in the camp of Esoda, where there were many witch towers.

However, at this moment, on the twenty-third floor of this tower, the door of a private sorcery laboratory suddenly opened with a bang, and the great sorcerer Onek rushed out from it with a violent cough. Through the open door behind him, a strange cloud of smoke could be seen inside, rapidly transforming into a blurred human shape and rushing towards the door.

Onyk hurriedly escaped from the chamber and closed the door with his bare hands.

Unfortunately, no matter how fast he moved, there were still wisps of smoke drifting out from inside, and quickly converged in the air, with the intention of transforming into a form again.

A bang exploded.

A brightly colored sorcerous fireball burst in the center of the smoke cloud, completely drowning them in a terrifying sorcerous flame.

After the fireball exploded, Ernak was unsure and added two more in succession, making sure to completely obliterate all the smoke before choosing to stop.

Knock knock knock....

The door to the chamber suddenly roared loudly, as if a giant creature was trying to escape inside and was attacking everything in a frenzy.

Onek frowned, and gave a cold order, "Comps, do a full cleanup of Lab 7..."

Comps was the name he gave to this witch tower spirit.

"As you command, my lord!" Ordered by the Tower Master, the Tower Spirit immediately reacted.

A strange and loud sound like a landslide and tsunami suddenly resounded within the chamber, and after a moment, the sound faded away, and the inside became silent again from then on.

"Lab Seven has been cleaned up... The out-of-control sorcery creation has been destroyed, and the internal instruments and devices have been completely destroyed, requiring reinstallation and debugging... The specific list is as follows:... Please approve whether or not to use the Witch Tower's reserves to reset Lab Seven..."

As the list of items and resources reported by Tarrin reverberated in his mind, Onyek couldn't help but have a dark headache.

This failure in the refining of the Cloud Mist Giant Potion had cost him a lot of high-tier resources. Coupled with the funds and expenses of rebuilding a high-level laboratory, even he, a sixth-rank Grand Sorcerer, had to feel that heavy pressure.

Four million two hundred thousand magic crystals....

That one runaway 6th stage experiment just now had cost him a direct loss of 4.2 million magic crystals.

This was already comparable to the entirety of a 3rd stage dragon, so it was no wonder that his face was now so ugly!

"Comps, clear out lab five for me, and prepare a copy of the materials for the Cloud Giant Potion..." biting his teeth, Onec was ready to put up one more fight.

"Lab Five has been cleared. But the remaining resources are no longer enough to gather another Cloud Giant Potion material."

"Which one is missing?"

"300 grams of Ancient Giant Active Spinal Cord..."

"Hiss... "Onek felt more and more toothache.

The Cloud Giant Potion he wanted to create was a 6th-rank witch drug, and the Ancient Giant Active Spinal Cord needed was an exceptionally rare witch resource that was nearly impossible to replenish in the short term.

The ancient giants have been extinct for tens of thousands of years, and it is extremely difficult to obtain their active spinal cord.

Onec found a group of descendants with the bloodline of the ancient giants in a small location, and after slaughtering hundreds of sub-blood giants in one breath, he kept refining and purifying them to increase their activity, and only then was he able to obtain a batch of active spinal cords for the giants.

Now that this main material had been depleted, where could he get a replacement from!

However, just as Onek was filled with chagrin, a new message came in from Taryn Comps.

"Warning, warning, strong energy fluctuations are being perceived on the outskirts of Camp Esoda, target location: xxx... The Ka'elf Wizard of the Inspection Department launched an inquiry to you 27 hours ago, whether the camp needs to intervene or not, and is currently awaiting your response!"

The Patrol Department is a wizarding organization under Camp Esoda that is responsible for security and basic order around the camp. Kaelph was a 4th rank wizard and the head of the Inspection Department.

"27 hours ago? It seems that this retreat to concoct the Cloud Giant Potion has really missed out on a lot of interesting things." Onek smiled sardonicly, "Comps, pull up the report Kaelph submitted!"

"Yes!"

A moment later, a magic water mirror the size of a round table floated out in front of Onec Wizard, filled with all sorts of books, sorcery notes, and all sorts of strange small objects. In the middle of the table, a parchment with strange and beautiful patterns on the edges was floating there, flickering with a red light that represented the state of 'emergency'.

Oneke used his right hand with the ring of authority to point on the parchment, and it quickly unfolded in front of him with a clatter, revealing the contents of the densely packed information inside.

"Well? ...a newly opened outlying camp? ...The Crimson Family...Steel City...The Eastlander Family Team.... "

After quickly going over the information submitted by the Inspection Department, a fierce look appeared on the face of the Onec Wizard who had just lost a large amount of resources, and casually connected to that Kaelph's sorcery connection.

The one who appeared in the light screen was a strange male with golden skin and no eyebrows or hair. The other party hurriedly bowed and saluted when he saw the Onek sorcerer.

"How is the situation now?" Onyek yawned and asked with an impatient face.

"The fierce battle is still going on..."

"They're still fighting? How is that possible? That Ishtar family has a large number of high-ranking sorcerers, so how could they be in a stalemate with a family that had just set foot outside the domain until now? Have all the high ranking wizards of the Ishtar family died out?"

Hearing the astonished inquiry of the Onyek Grand Sorcerer, that golden-skinned sorcerer also smiled bitterly with the same face, then the camera turned and directly pointed the magic water mirror at that battlefield in the distance.

...........

The battle is still raging!

As the defensive side, the Capital of Steel displayed an astonishing defensive power and an even more astonishing offensive power.

It had only been a month or so, and the Iron Capital had already extended its tentacles into every space and corner of the Hovering Giant Rock. A thick layer of metal decks completely armed the Hovering Giant Rock, and made the interior of the Giant Rock the true core of the Capital of Steel.

The upper layer of the giant rock was covered with thick metal armor, and tall metal towers could be seen everywhere, with countless black holes poking out of them, pointing at the surrounding empty space everywhere.

In the center of the many metal buildings, a tall and magnificent metal hall opened its mouth wide, becoming the only main road in and out of the giant rock. In front of the metal palace was a huge square covering an area of ten thousand square meters, on which were neatly arranged tall and powerful metal demonic weapons.

At this moment, the Steel Capital was like a metal hedgehog that had curled up, hiding all of its weaknesses under the thick metal deck, and the only thing that could protect it was the dense, cascading magic energy cannons and magic energy giant cannons on the surface of the giant rock....

Battling against the Steel Capital was a team of sorcerers that numbered up to 3,000.

They all uniformly wore a Darkblood badge on their chests, which was also the logo of the Ishtar Family's Darkblood Legion.

The Darkblood Legion, this was the most prominent wizard team of the 5th rank power Ishtar Family.

The members all consisted of Darkblood Sorcerers from the different planes.

It was said that they were all products of bloodline synthesis experiments and belonged to a type of sorcery creation. Such guys no longer possessed the ability to advance and upgrade on their own, except for conducting higher-grade bloodline synthesis experiments.

To put it bluntly, they were just a bunch of mass-modulated humanoid witch beasts that possessed some witchcraft attack methods!

All of the Darkblood Witches rode on a kind of mutated enlarged version of an owl, hovering and interspersing around the Steel Capital. Each time they swooped down, they would wave their wands and unleash an elemental sorcery with astonishing attacking effects.

Their ranks ranged from high to low, led by eight 3rd rank Darkblood Sorcerers, as well as over seventy 2nd rank, with the rest generally having 1st rank advanced strength as well.

It was such a huge and astonishingly powerful group that firmly blocked off the giant rock occupied by the Steel Capital, and then rushed in groups over it to bombard it furiously.

Under their ferocious sorcery attacks, rushing fires and colorful elemental martyrdom could be seen everywhere on the surface of the entire giant rock. The constant roar of the elements had plunged the entire battlefield into deep water.

The Steel Capital, which was on the defensive, was not willing to sit idly by and bombarded the Darkblood Witches with a rushing, dense net of fire.

The Darkblood Witches as well as the mutant owls beneath them were protected by sorcery shields.

An ordinary 1st rank Darkblood Sorcerer's Sorcery Shield was able to withstand 5-7 Magic Cannon attacks, while a slightly more advanced 2nd rank Darkblood Sorcerer was able to withstand around 15 Magic Cannon attacks. As long as they didn't rush into the Steel Capital Fire Network and weren't caught by the dense concentration of magic cannons, there was no chance of their shields being destroyed.

It was also true that their previous attacks had used a peripheral wandering tactic, sending Darkblood Witches into the front lines in batches to draw the firepower of the Steel Capital and deplete its internal reserves of elemental energy. Once a Darkblood Sorcerer's shield was on the verge of shattering, they would replace it, and then send them back up again after the shield was restored.

The Ishtar Family 4th ranked sorcerer who was in charge of leading the Darkblood Legion had also considered this point very clearly.

Before coming here, they had investigated it thoroughly.

That Crimson Family didn't even build a Sorcerer Tower in the family compound.

This meant that the huge, extremely large steel city below didn't even have a witch tower to protect it, let alone gain the support of the witch tower's energy. Thus, the more magic energy cannons the other side put out and the more frequently they attacked, the more terrifying the family's energy reserves would be depleted.

How many magical crystal reserves could a 'small family' that had just advanced to the 4th rank of power have?

Based on this intensity of firepower, I'm afraid that Crimson Family will have to vomit their heart and blood after one battle!

So at the beginning of the battle, the incoming Darkblood Witches looked menacing on the surface, but actually fought tepidly, not putting out their full strength at all.