Age of Adepts

"President Freed, I never expected to see you here..."

Grim took a step forward and looked at the other with a leisurely smile.

"Is His Excellency appearing here prepared to mediate, or to help the Clara Witch fight us?"

Faced with Grim's ridicule-tinged questioning, President Freed's face was a solemn look.

"Grim, you mustn't forget that you were able to become a 4th rank sorcerer, and all of the people here have made a great effort. Since you're asking, I'll tell you clearly... I will convince the Clara Witch to withdraw from your territory and have the Association make up for the Crimson Family's previous losses as long as you guarantee that the Crimson Family will not seek any more territories outside of the Alois and Arash regions in the future!"

"How about that, is that a generous enough offer! As soon as you give the nod, the war will end, everything will go back to the way it was, and you'll be able to rule the two richest territories in the middle of the continent as usual... That's the best offer we can make!"

Hearing President Freed's truce conditions, Grim was first silent for a moment, then suddenly burst out in an open and unrestrained laughter.

In the midst of Grim's unbridled laughter, President Freed's look was first puzzled, then his face turned livid, and finally he couldn't help but shout in a low voice, "Grim, you mustn't mistake yourself! Today, we have seven 4-step ones on our side, but there are only three on your side, well, counting that war puppet as well, it's only four. Are you... are you that confident that you can achieve the final victory?"

Grim finally put away the smile on his face and looked squarely at this President Freed and said calmly, "President Freed, if you had been a little more resolute just now and never compromised with the Crimson Family, I could still have retained a little bit of respect for you. Things have come to this point, and you still fantasize about a peaceful resolution? No wonder the association is still an empty shelf after all you've run in the Scatterland Tallinn. You... are not even worthy of leading the entire middle of the continent!"

"You..." for the first time in his life, Fred was actually rebuked and scorned to his face, his face instantly turned the color of liver, the veins in his forehead were bulging, and his entire face was hideously twisted, "Fine fine! ...Then today I'm going to see just how good you are as a person!"

After all, Freed was a world-savvy old fart, and even though his heart was cruel, he didn't impulsively rush straight into war. Instead, he still stood back behind the Clara Witch, acting as if he still had the Denel family as the main focus.

"If you want to fight, fight, where's all the nonsense!" Mary had long since been unable to hold back the nearly boiling hot blood in her body, and with a flash of her bat wings, her entire body suddenly turned into a red blood shadow, and she rushed over to the opposite side.

Of the seven 4th rank on Denel's side, only Fabreth was a Body Refining Sorcerer, while Monash Gaia also had a not weak melee ability due to his Golden Titan bloodline.

Thus, these two looked at each other and without hesitation, they rushed out to block Mary.

"Ames, dash...let's team up and give them a hard time this time!" Since acquiring two Tier 5 artifacts, Grim had never tried to fight at full strength.

Today, stimulated by his opponent's overwhelming spiritual pressure, he was battle-motivated, and for the first time, he went berserk regardless.

With a hoot of flames soaring, tumbling and steaming golden flames spewed out from every pore of Grim's body, instantly turning him into a huge flame giant with a size of 5 meters and dazzling flames of law all over his body.

The promoted Level 4 Thunder Lord Ames was even more majestic and strong as a dragon mountain, it burst out thousands of wantonly twisting and flickering dazzling thunder snakes all over its body, hunching over Grim and rushing towards Dennel's side right after Mary.

With Ames as his flying mount, Grim didn't have to worry about defending himself in the slightest. In the shadows beneath him, the Shadow Demon was also ready for battle. The Book of Filth and Darkness hanging from his waist also automatically flew into his hand and began to clatter and flip.

The 4th stage Plague Poison Spirit Remy emerged in the void with a strange smile, then turned around and had disappeared without a trace.

In the next moment, an enveloping burning field instantly incorporated the entire battlefield, and all matter and life began to burn under the extreme heat and ferocious flames.

Grim's witch wand in his hand was a single stroke, and the four flame runes were transformed into four meteors that fell into Mary, Ames, Shadow Demon and Remy's bodies. With this flame rune, they also had the permission to move freely in the burning field and would not be attacked by flames anymore.

And when Grim was ready for battle, four terrifying sorceries from the opposite side instantly bombarded them.

Tornado Sky Attack... this was a 4th level wind sorcery contributed by President Freed that had the dual ability of attacking and trapping enemies!

Dark Seal...This was a special sorcery unleashed by the Clara Witch, once any recipient triggered the Dark Seal, part of their own abilities would instantly disappear.

Flowing Clouds and Waterfalls...Elder Nicholas was a Water Witch, and his attack was undoubtedly the weakest of the few.

Otherworldly Summoning...Elder Matthew was a summoner, able to summon contracted creatures from otherworldly realms to help him fight.

Apart from long-range sorcery, all the 4th level sorcerers had large amounts of sorcery items and sorcery scrolls. In the midst of their almost extravagant release and use, the camp became more and more crowded, surprisingly becoming instantly densely packed.

Amongst them, Elder Matthew was extremely active, and as an Otherworldly Summoner, he alone summoned three otherworldly 4th rank creatures in one go: the Human Face Snake, the Eye Demon, and the Devouring Monster.

The Human Face Serpent was a bizarre monster with a body length of 20 meters and a human face on its snake head. It had a tough life force and a flexible body comparable to a steel noose, along with its own strange paralyzing attack. Once entangled in its coils, no creature had yet managed to escape.

The Eye Demon is a kind of mutated demon living in the underground world. Its body is a huge eyeball with a diameter of 5 meters and seven long snake-like flexible stalks. At the end of the stalk is a strange eyeball, which can shoot out magic rays of different nature.

The Devouring Monster is a very difficult monster, it hardly has a real body, and what it usually appears is just a big mouth with two wings. Once it took a bite, any creature could die with its soul shattered in an instant.

In addition to these Level 4 monsters, the Clara Witch had a small red-eyed monkey crawling out of her sleeve and quickly transformed into a red-eyed tyrant, a kind of berserk baboon with great battle power.

The Milva Witch, on the other hand, took out her puppet amulet and released two fine gold statues....

Compared to Grim's side, these veteran 4th rank wizards that had been spanning the middle of the continent for hundreds of years almost every one of them had some 4th rank cards under their hands. And when they were pieced together, they instantly turned into a vast and terrifying battle squad made up purely of 4th-rank creatures.

But before this battle squad could take off, Thunder Lord Ames had already humped Grim, who had transformed into a molten fire giant, and rushed up.

In the next second, the entire battlefield space was engulfed by the instantaneous and violent thunder.

In the midst of the dazzling thunderous fury, countless electric dancing silver serpents weaved and snaked between the group of 4th rank creatures, terrifying extreme currents raging wildly on their bodies.

In almost a split second, several of the off-world creatures were squealing from the splintering, fleeing frantically to the outskirts of the lightning storm.

However, before they could flee far away, Grim's wand was raised in his hand, and a striking aura of flame blossomed in the center of the battlefield. Wherever the aura reached, all the witches and otherworldly creatures were knocked to the ground by the impact, making it difficult for them to gain a firm foothold.

This flame aura had the Flame Impact Law attached to it, which penetrated the opponent's sorcery protection and superimposed the effect of the resistance aura on them.

And while they were still struggling with the thunder and flames, a flaming meteorite that fell from the sky whistled down onto the battlefield. Thus, an even more ferocious flame shockwave accompanied by hundreds of meteorite fragments swept them up in a haphazard dash.

The Fire God Pearl was worthy of being a fire treasure that was in perfect harmony with Grim's soul source, without its assistance, it was impossible for Grim to unleash two powerful sorceries that contained the power of the flame laws so quickly.

Moreover, the Fire God Pearl was a 5th rank treasure, which had a natural bit of suppression for 4th rank sorcerers. Otherwise, no matter how powerful the flame sorcery was, it would be impossible for it to achieve the perfect effect in front of him.

Among the several otherworldly creatures, only the Human Face Snake and the Red-Eyed Tyrant withstood the blows, while the other two guys, the Eye Demon and the Devouring Monster, didn't have the time or opportunity to exert their battle power at all before howling and disappearing into the sky.

However, there were also guys on the battlefield who didn't eat these sorcery effects.

The two fine gold magic statues with a body size of 8 meters stepped stiffly, pushing towards Grim and Ames step by step. They belonged to the metal puppets and were inherently unaffected by the confusion control and the benefit reduction effects.

And while Grim and Ames attacked with impunity, the opponent's attack sorcery was also wreaking havoc on their bodies.

However, Thunder Lord Ames, being a 4th level dragon with thick skin and the protection of dragon scales, still resisted despite being beaten and muffled. On the other hand, Grim, who was pinned on top of its back, was surrounded by layers of strange flame law power, and even though he had suffered multiple sorcery attacks, he was still unharmed and unscathed.

This was a kind of law protection constructed by Grim based on the chip's projection, and the four flame laws he mastered were carefully and preferably matched.

To break through such a law protection, an ordinary elemental sorcery simply couldn't do it!

Only the same power of the Laws could break through the protection of the Flame Laws and injure his body. And this... was the most fundamental reason why a high ranked sorcerer could easily crush a middle or low ranked sorcerer!