Age of Adepts

A witch war that took place between the Denel family and the Crimson family, it was surprising to see so many witch families involved behind the scenes, and naturally only Grim could fully taste the situation.

In the eyes of Gargamel, Meryl and the others, this was just the inevitable suppression and hostility of the inherent power in the middle of the continent towards the emerging power. But in Grim's eyes, what he saw was a 'change' in the old power pattern of the entire wizard world.

With different realms, the matters and levels seen were different!

The middle of the continent had been silent for far too long.

Sitting on such vast land and population resources, as well as having a complete wizard heritage, it was hard pressed by the three major wizard organizations to exist only as a second-rate wizard power. Such a status and position obviously couldn't be compared to the huge size of the middle of the continent.

There were both external factors: the three major shaman organizations didn't want a competitor who could compete with them for resources... and internal factors: the inherent power in the middle of the continent was still dominated by loosely independent shaman families, and didn't want an overly powerful organization around them to infringe on their interests! ........

The inside and the outside were intertwined to form such a strange and bizarre existence as the Scattered Earth Tallinn in the middle of the continent!

The appearance of Grim and the Crimson Family had undoubtedly shaken the ruling structure of the Scattered Tower Forest, making them all extraordinarily nervous. Of course, it was too early to say that the Crimson Family had broken the Scattered Tower Forest's inherent structure.

However, Crimson's appearance did mean that the first bricks had been taken out from underneath the foundation of the Scattered Earth Tallinn. As long as one continued along this path, it was only a matter of time before the Scattered Earth Tallinn collapsed!

That was clear to Grim, and it was clear to those old 4th Order guys!

Originally, Grim had been mentally prepared to start a war with all the Scattered Earth Talin Witch Families. But now it seemed that these old guys were still too conservative and had only introduced one Clara witch to fight themselves.

And they themselves are huddled behind the curtain, wanting to take out the unsettling factor that is Grim, but also not wanting to deal too severe a blow to their own family's power. With such foresight and such rat-headedness, it's no wonder that the middle of the continent was a clusterfuck for thousands of years.

In fact, before deciding to establish the Horton School of Witchcraft and Sorcery, Grim had already anticipated and planned for the total collapse of the Crimson Family. He was still very young and could afford to lose.

Moreover, the Crimson Family's most important thing was not those mundane territories, not those resource points, and not the hundreds of family witches... but the high-ranking witches who could make a single claim.

Even if all of the Crimson Family's existing foundations were swept away by the enemy, even if there were not a hundred Crimson Family Sorcerers and Apprentices left. As long as Grim chose to retreat to the Flame Throne and remain in solitary confinement for a hundred years, the enemy would not be able to do anything about it.

Grim, Mary, Alice, and Ames... the four 4th stage existences were the strongest guarantee that the Crimson Family would break and never be destroyed!

As long as the few of them were still around, no one would be able to overthrow the Crimson Family's foundation.

Even if they failed, after surviving a hundred years, when those old guys were young and old, their descendants, their successors, who would be able to stop the still young and strong Grim?

Grim had countless chances of trial and error, and if they took the path of confronting Crimson, it would mean that once they fell, they would sink forever. With the hatred accumulated between the two sides, even if they found a suitable successor, they might not be able to escape the dreadful fate of their heritage being severed and their entire family foundation being uprooted.

This... was the cruelest and bloodiest norm in the witch wars!

The crimson base that Gargamel, Meryl, Emelia and others see as needing to be sworn to protect and survive with them is nothing more than a simple bargaining chip for Grim to play a lay with the enemy.

The ups and downs of centuries and the seismic twists and turns of the family foundation are all acceptable to Grim. As long as the final outcome could be reached, all the rough and tumble of the road was nothing more than the madness and struggle of the enemy before him who refused to fail.

Such are the different states of consciousness, levels of life, and patterns of life that result in different views of the same thing!

But this was only the worst estimate, from the current state of the battle, those old guys were still unwilling to pour into the Crimson First Battle. Otherwise, seven or eight 4th rank wizards and their affiliated forces would unite, and even with Grim's confidence, they would have to be prepared to retreat back to the vicinity of the Flame Throne to fight guerrilla attacks.

But those old guys wouldn't dare!

If the Crimson Family was to fight with all their might, it would be more than enough to defeat and annihilate three or four 4th rank forces. Then, who would want their own family and affiliated forces to become victims of the destruction of the Crimson Family, and who would want to be on the front line of the war?

That Clara Witch's sudden about-face was not so much a case of being desperate to find Grim to fight to the death, but rather just a case of finally seeing the development of the situation in front of her and wanting to find the most convenient way to stop the bleeding of the Denel family.

She was clearly unwilling to let the Denel family become a bargaining chip for the other witch families against Crimson anymore, and was also using this method to force the guys behind the scenes to step up to the plate.

One could imagine that after three days, the battle that would decide the future fate of the central continent was bound to be bloody and cruel to the extreme. And before that, it seemed that the Crimson Family should also strive to gather some allies.

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

Three days later.

Shattered Canyon.

Since the date of the final battle was established, the Denelian forces that had penetrated deeper into the Alois region had withdrawn to the vicinity of the Shattered Canyon.

Here, they had set up solid camps, erected tall fortifications, and seized the time to repair a temporarily constructed sorcery facility.

It was a three-story tower with a ten-meter diameter circular tower with hidden firing ports and watchtowers, which could squeeze in up to ten witches.

With these makeshift war towers, the shamans hiding inside are protected by a powerful witch array, and can also use the attacking witch array inside the tower to increase their attack power.

Such war witch towers were all temporary chapters, and were one-time use witchcraft facilities. However, the materials and resources used to build them were not much less than official towers, so guys who didn't have more resources than they could use wouldn't be willing to use them so extravagantly.

The basic cost of a lowest level witch tower is only 200,000 magic crystals, and it takes 150,000 magic crystals to build one of these temporary war witch towers.

However, in order to save the family's face in the final battle, the Dennell family had built thirty towers on the front side of the Gravel Canyon alone.

And the War Witch Tower alone wouldn't do, after all, they were only defensive.

As a result, the Denel family had in turn filled the Witch Tower and the Witch Tower directly with an astonishing number of witch troops. Most of the members of these troops were filled by apprentice sorcerers, but with special equipment and bizarre combat skills, they possessed offensive power comparable to that of formal sorcerers.

Their presence made up for the lack of numbers of formal witches and also made the warfare tactics of the witch families treacherous and unpredictable.

At the front of the Witch Tower, the Denel family drove in powerful witch beasts numbering in the tens of thousands, allowing them to act as the cannon fodder force for this war.

With such an ample arrangement, the Clara Witch was only slightly relieved, safely entrenched inside the Gravel Canyon Fortress, silently awaiting the arrival of the Crimson Family.

On her side, on the other hand, there was still standing the President of the Scattered Tallinn Association, Fried, the Vice President, Milva, Elder Nicholas, Elder Matthew, Elder Fabreth, and that Gaia family patriarch Monash Gaia, who was known as the strongest witch in the center....

It could be politely said that almost all of the 4th rank wizards who had fought and feuded with the Crimson Family throughout the middle of the continent had arrived. As for the remaining ones, they are either hiding nearby to watch the development of the situation, or they really aren't interested in power and live in seclusion without listening to anything outside the window.

In addition to the witches in the middle of the continent, the three major witch organizations that belonged to different regions also sent their observers to observe the future direction of the middle of the continent.

Of course, when the current situation was moving in an 'unfavorable' direction, one could not rule out the possibility that they would take the opportunity to intervene. There was no need for thousands of troops, no need for massive resources, as long as one or two super-powerful level guys appeared on the battlefield, the entire situation would be impossible to deviate from their pre-planned course of travel.

To even put it more bluntly, it was simply inconceivable that the conflicting struggles in the middle of the continent could intensify to such an extent without the fueling of these witch organizations!

The time was just approaching noon, and a huge cloud of smoke and dust rose up on the horizon at the end of heaven and earth.

A vast army of Demonic Armaments advanced furiously, rushing towards the direction of the Gravel Canyon like a long steel dragon.

At the forefront were a hundred goblin chariots with the title of Steel Trailblazers.

They had long since gotten rid of the steam power of the past, and were now powered by magic energy, and thus did not have that trademark steaming white gas. A hundred chariots whirred to a halt two kilometers from the enemy's front line, raising their bodies horizontally, bracing their supports, and twirling their top turrets, instantly setting up a great wall of steel that stretched for nearly three miles.

Behind them, however, was a huge army made up purely of steel magic weapons.

Flying in the sky, lined up in a row, were ten floating giant ships.

Each of them was the size of a small city, their circumference densely covered with terrifying black hole cannon muzzles, and their silvery metal bodies shone brightly under the bright sky light.

On the ground, neatly marched over was an army of neat metal magic weapons numbering nearly ten thousand. Each of them was over 3 meters tall, with hard bodies made of all metal, and terrifying magic energy cannons or ray guns mounted on their shoulders, chests, and arms.

As they marched forward step by step in unison, the entire earth seemed to tremble and pulsate with them....