Age of Adepts

"Where are they... where are they going?" A Denelian wizard asked blankly, "What's there in the southwest?"

All of them shook their heads.

Only one wizard suddenly woke up and said, "Amman City... Black Rose Manor... they're... they're going to Black Rose Manor! "

Everyone's faces changed and they understood at the same time.

This had poked a hornet's nest, that Marilyn Mona-sama seemed to be in trouble!

The rank 3 male witch at the head even took out a remote contact crystal directly and contacted the far side in a gust of wind.

...........

Marilyn Mona was given the distant message half a quarter of an hour later.

As soon as she ended the telecommunication, she quickly summoned all the resident witches of the Black Rose Manor and sent them to the neighboring city of Aman. She, on the other hand, under the protection of the Lost Dream Garden Witch troop, quickly broke away from the main force and fled in the direction of her family's territory.

Cold Mountain City was over a thousand miles away from Amman City, and with the flying speed of that group of vampires, it would take them four hours to reach it, even if they flew at full speed regardless of their physical strength.

This was not long enough to allow Marilyn Mona to return to her family in a carriage with ease. And the other party was so exuberant, it was obvious that they had been completely torn apart and had nothing to fear.

So even if she escaped back to the family territory, without the blessing of absolute power, her life was still not guaranteed and she was facing a great death threat!

At one point, all the wizards rode on the giant goat, heading towards the family territory like a whirlwind. Of course, the magic colt was faster in the short sprint item. But in terms of endurance, they were clearly not as good at trekking as the giant mountain goats.

Moreover, this kind of riding beast that the family had concocted by special means could run for days in one breath with just one full meal without any worries. In terms of endurance, stamina and degree of domestication, they are a hundred times better than ordinary mounts.

If they wanted to return to the family territory, then their only route would be the gravel valley that connected the two regions.

It took them 3 hours to reach it, a distance of over 400 miles.

However, as soon as they arrived here, before they had a chance to rest, they received the news that Amman City was attacked by the enemy vampire troops.

At the same time, the defenders of the Shattered Stone Valley also received a message from afar that there was a terrifying team of witches advancing rapidly in their direction.

"Crazy... that group of vampires is crazy!" Marilyn Mona, who had arrived here without stopping, looked angry and frightened. Although she was a noble 3rd rank witch, she suddenly heard that such a terrifying team was chasing closely behind her, and she was also a little terrified inside.

"Leave... leave immediately! Don't stop here and go straight back to the family headquarters!"

Driven by her loud voice, the team that had just arrived here immediately whip up their horses again, passing through the gravel canyon and rushing towards the family hinterland along the gray gravel paved road.

And this time, their team had left for just under an hour before they suddenly looked back and saw, distantly, the rolling smoke rising over the gravel valley in the distance.

"Damn, those vampires aren't going to break in here!" Although she was still desperately trying to comfort herself inside, Marilyn Mona's confidence was seriously low.

"The situation is critical, we can't go on so slowly! Ansock, Muto... "Mona named four or five names in one breath and said sternly, "You each take a group of people, scatter and flee, and meet up at the family headquarters after escaping the enemy's pursuit.... Tarina, you take the others and continue along the main road. Remember, run as fast as you can..."

Talina was also a young witch, but with only 2nd rank strength, and at Mona's order, her body trembled, but she didn't dare to disobey, so she could only bite down and agree.

In a swift manner, the hundred-strong witch team scattered into five teams, with the large force of nearly sixty people still running desperately along the main road under the leadership of that Tarina. The other teams, however, scattered into the mountains and fled to different directions.

As for Marilyn Mona, she was all alone, burrowing into the dense forest and rushing off in a northwest direction.

Since she was fleeing, she couldn't use her flying technique.

On the one hand, she wasn't good at flying, and trying to compete with that group of vampires in terms of flying speed would naturally be self-defeating. On the other hand, flying at high altitudes would leave clear traces of flight in the air, making it easy for the enemy to catch up with her.

Therefore, Marilyn Mona directly entered the dense forest and after enchanting herself with 'Gaiting', 'Evasive Detection', and 'Stone Skin', she no longer cared about these many men and began to seize the road and run.

Within the dense forest, the tawny trees were tall and straight, with trees growing higher. The forest clearing was filled with clusters of low bushes and grasses, and thick roots that snakes dug around.

It was now nightfall.

After nightfall, wisps of white vapor rose from the ground, forming a thin layer of water mist in the forest. With this mist, it would be difficult for an ordinary person to even see more than ten steps away.

However, in such an environment, a slender and slender figure suddenly rushed out from the depths of the mist and crashed straight into a cluster of green bushes in the forest. Not only did its delicate and beautiful body not suffer any injuries, but the cluster of shrubs was trampled into disrepair by a huge force.

A piercing sound.

Marilyn Mona stopped abruptly and looked down to check, only then did she discover that the beautiful dress on her body was torn into a band of cloth from the raw shrubs and thorns, barely hanging on her body. As for the exposed white body, only some of the light red marks were still there, but the skin was undamaged.

Like most elemental witches, Mona was focused on cultivating and improving her mental strength, rarely betting resources and effort on her physique. Therefore, despite her 3rd rank strength, her physique was still a pitiful 11 points, barely able to cope with the environmental radiation and bit suppression of the alien plane.

Of course, 11 points of physique was already enough to make her a mammoth beast-like terror among ordinary people. But within the group of sorcerers, it was an insignificant starting point.

With the help of the 'Gaiting Technique', Mona was literally flying forward at superhuman speed, her entire body transforming into an illusion, making it difficult to capture her true position. However, such terrifying high speed also brought unexpected risks to it.

Even if it was an ordinary thorn shrub, the dense wood thorns on it could give her terrifying tearing damage. If one wanted to avoid damage, one could only hold up an elemental shield. But under such a dense 'attack', it would be a fluke that the shield that was normally able to operate for half an hour could last for half a quarter of an hour now.

If she didn't steer well enough to hit a tree while running, even if Mona only had 11 points of constitution, she wouldn't be the one who would be unlucky, but the ancient tree that grew out of place. But hitting it more than once, the violent shocks and terrible scrapes would also make her extremely uncomfortable.

Marilyn Mona's strength and agility were even more abysmal compared to her 11-point physique!

Her strength was only 6 points and her agility was only 7 points, which was neither enough to allow her to run rampant inside the jungle, nor was it enough to allow her to manage that windy 'extreme' speed.

Therefore, after running out for nearly a hundred miles in one breath, even with Marilyn Mona's physique, she couldn't help but stop to catch her breath, and took this opportunity to start examining her aching body and beggar's outfit that was comparable to shreds of cloth.

She held onto a tall tree for half a day to catch her breath before she eased off of that and took a magic water mirror out of her ring for just one look, and then frowned.

It had been an hour and a half since she and the men had scattered, and four of the six red dots in the crystal ball had gone out. This was a sign that four of the men who had scattered and fled various places had been killed.

Such speed, such strength, and moreover, such a clear indication of how powerful and terrifying the group of vampires that were chasing closely behind her were!

And even more frightening is the fierceness and determination that they display!

It seems like it was a bit unwise to kill that Sparrow, and he's plainly gotten himself into this big group of fury....

But at this moment, there was nothing to regret.

Before departing, she had already sent a distress signal to the family headquarters, believing that with her position and power, those elders within the family would not see death. It was even possible that even Lord Clara was on his way to this place.

At the thought of this, the originally somewhat apprehensive heart gradually settled down again.

Looking back to the road she had come from, Marilyn Mona could not help but frown deeply.

She didn't have a chance to slowly cover up the traces of her running in this exuberant run. The bushes that had been knocked to the ground, the disfigured grass that had been trampled on, the ancient trees that had been nearly broken by the collision... Not to mention these, even in the dense mist, there was a thin trace that marked the trajectory of her movement that she had run all the way here.

Naturally, such a tiny, inscrutable trace would be undetectable to an ordinary person, but to witches with pervasive mental energy, it was as clear as a footprint on the beach.

If those vampires were really chasing after them, such an escape wouldn't be able to swing them....

She was obviously a noble 3rd rank Mind Warlock, yet she was driven like a wild dog by a group of lowly and lowly vampires who were hiding inside the mountain forest. This humiliating great anger made Marilyn Mona hate it, but there was nothing she could do about it.

With a bite of hatred, she gave herself another 'Invisibility' and 'Breath Concealment' spell. It was only after her body transformed into a transparent human form, with no body odor or elemental fluctuations leaking out, that she carefully floated off the ground and slowly flew deeper into the dense forest.