Age of Adepts

Northland, Tower of Destiny.

Today was the time for the Witches of Destiny to gather together for their routine astrological ritual.

From midday until late at night, the topmost floor of the tower was radiant with light, completely illuminating the entire Dragon Bone Wilderness. The astrology hall was even more light and shadow floating inside, completely becoming a sea of light.

Lucia crouched in boredom on the astrological platform, poking her hand thorns at one soap bubble-like mirage after another floating on her side. Inside each soap bubble was a silent flicker of a strange scene somewhere within the bit world.

And those who could be captured and projected by the Tower of Fate naturally wouldn't be nameless people, almost every guy who appeared inside the scene of fate was a terrifying existence that stomped the heavens and earth in the wizard world....

Among them, of course, was the legendary sorcerer Grim, who proudly roamed the middle of the country, stealthily towering over everyone!

"Hey, what's wrong with this guy? You can fall asleep even while reading a book..."

Lucia casually grasped a cloud of Fate Projection wrapped in a transparent film of light in her palm, slowly **angling and orienting herself to spy on the male witch who was 'lazing' soundly asleep.

"No... no... it's not like it's asleep, it's more like..."

Lucia muttered to herself as a deep and beautiful female voice suddenly came from her ears.

"Dream Killing Technique... it's Dream Killing Technique! It looks like Ivana can't help but make a move..."

Lucia turned her head to look at the Alice who was standing beside her, wearing an exquisite star robe, her face and exposed skin overflowing with glittering light, and couldn't help but be appalled, "Teacher, your lover has been hit by the enemy's dream killing technique, aren't you... aren't you afraid? "

Alice's fluorescent, jade-like face revealed a sweet smile as she calmly said, "If Grim had been killed so easily, he wouldn't be alive today. I'm afraid that Ivana, who always has excellent patience and never makes a move easily without certainty, will have to suffer a heavy loss this time as well!"

"Why...why do you have so much faith in this Grim?" Lucia was astonished.

"You've also mastered the use of the power of fate quite a bit, haven't you been able to see how Grim's destiny is moving? You think, he looks like a guy who's going to perish today?" Alice chuckled back at the question.

"Uh... "Lucia was speechless for a while.

She still thought of herself as an Auror from the inside after all. Although she also possessed a 1st Order Fate Vocation under Fate's blessing, for the most part, she was still accustomed to probing everything around her with the meticulousness and knowledge of an Arcane Master.

Thus, it was difficult for her to adjust to Alice's devotion and trust that readily placed everything on Fate's blessing.

This may be the main reason why Alice can become the lamp-bearer of fate, while she can only play a few simple fate sorcery!

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Silver Alliance, Sky City.

In front of a small dark swampy mushroom hut, an ugly witch with a somewhat rickety figure and hair as unkempt as a chicken nest barely raised her head, silently gazing out at the starry night sky.

Behind her, a dull orange candlelight came out from inside the low hut, giving her a faint yellow halo around the edges of her body.

Above the dark and gloomy night sky, twelve main stars ran parallel to the vault of the sky, illuminating different star fields along their own paths and routes. Each star field was also dotted with stars, bright and dim, giving people a strange feeling of unpredictability.

Tonight's night sky is especially strange, with the stars changing even more dramatically and abruptly.

Some stars would suddenly become so bright that they tended to overwhelm the twelve main stars; others would suddenly become dim and dull, and could no longer be found. If it were not for the faint glow of the star, one would think it had fallen without a trace.

Witch Leona was looking out over a star field somewhere in the southeast corner of the night sky.

Under her gaze, an auxiliary star in that star field suddenly became extremely bright, illuminating almost half of the starry sky. And at the same time as it was bright, it seemed to be burning, a layer of dark red light lingering around it, almost completely igniting it.

Seeing this, the Lyanna Witch couldn't help but grin widely, revealing a mouth full of yellow and broken teeth, and sneer.

"Ivana, Ivana... I've been waiting for you for five hundred years, but I never thought you would finally get out of the Land of Mists! You were hiding in the Land of Mist, and I probably couldn't do a thing to you. Now that you've taken the initiative to come out and dare to fight against an opponent of the same level... Jie Jie Jie, you don't think I've forgotten what happened five hundred years ago, do you? The shame and hatred you brought upon me, I will return it to you today..."

With that said, Lianna rushed back to the mushroom hut, and in a flurry of clanking and rummaging, she found a strange wooden statue from a dusty and broken old wooden box.

The wooden carving was only the size of a palm, the wood was old and withered, and there were many cracks on it.

In appearance, the carving seemed to be of a beautiful and graceful woman, with delicate brows and smooth lines, rather similar to the fearsome witch that appeared in Grim's dream.

Leona didn't hesitate to throw the wooden carving into the huge, ugly crucible in the corner of the hut, and the latter just whirled around and fell underneath the greenish-colored soup inside the pot.

And the moment the wooden carving came into contact with the pot of poisonous soup that had been simmering for hundreds of years, a miserable and angry scream suddenly came from the distant void.

"What a lovely and beautiful scream... what a nostalgic echoing sound... Ivana, I will return the hatred you inflicted on me tenfold, a hundredfold... ...Jae Jae Jae..."

As she raised her head to the heavens and let out a night owl-like mournful and cold laughter, Liliana Witch continuously condensed a dark green rune filled with miserable howls and terrifying ghost whistles, striking them one by one into the crucible.

The flames beneath the crucible burned even more fiercely, and the frantic licking of the pot's flames all took on a shockingly ghastly green zephyr.

The miserable screams in the void grew louder and louder!

"Despair! Scream! Suffer! Ivana, this is what you deserve..."

As if desperate witchcraft wasn't enough, Liana moved to a small stool and carried down the largest of the bottles and jars hanging from the beams of the house. Then she uncorked the jar and poured the murky, filthy liquid inside into the crucible, along with the giant eyeball.

As soon as the eyeball entered the pot, it instantly transformed into an unusually large eyeball-like monster that wrapped itself tightly around the wooden carving.

The woman on the wooden carving seemed to come to life, holding her head high and letting out a miserable scream of extreme pain, and then sank to the bottom of the pot together with the eyeball monster.

The crucible immediately began to tremble violently, and the sticky, miserable green soup inside began to boil and tumble, as if there were two exceptionally powerful monsters fighting and battling madly inside.

"How is it, Ivana? It's a feast of despair that I've dedicated centuries to cooking for you, and that Eye of Despair...you think you're enjoying it! Then I'll give you an even tougher one..."

With that said, Leona no longer hesitated, her hands grabbed and threw one bottle after another into her hands, and then threw the specially made Eyes of Despair into the crucible one by one.

These Eyes of Despair may not have any other effects, but they are the most terrifying pollution beasts. They were able to infuse a spiritual element called 'despair' into the target organism through a physical attack.

And such attacks were not immune to magic resistance!

However, as Lianna danced around the crucible in her madness, an angry, sharp, terrifying female voice suddenly rang out in the mushroom hut.

"Lianna, you're looking for death!"

In the next moment, this sharp female voice suddenly turned into a kind of terrifying screeching howl, instantly setting off a terrifying sonic storm within the hut.

Ah........

The high-frequency vibrating sound waves possessed the ultimate destructive power, instantly destroying all matter that was not protected by the witch array.

The mushroom hut fell apart in a terrifying wave of sound.

Everything, fungus bodies, wooden pillars, iron hooks, square tables, books, bottles and jars, as well as uncountable and inexplicable things, were all ruptured and shattered in the sound wave, then disintegrated into tiny particles that were indistinguishable to the naked eye and swept away.

Even the near-mad witch Leona was struck by thunder as she screamed in terror, blood and snakes dripping from her eyes, ears, mouth and nose. The skin around her body was cracked to pieces, revealing the withered and shriveled flesh and bones beneath.

Lianna Witch might have been an incredibly powerful desperate witch five hundred years ago. But now, due to the severe wounds on her body, her strength had fallen to 2nd rank advanced, and she no longer had her previous power.

Using the body of a 2nd rank witch to curse and tyrannize a justifiably powerful 4th rank false witch, and a fearsome false witch leader at that. It was light enough to nearly perish on the spot after suffering a single interdimensional counterattack.

If that Ivana hadn't been performing a Dream Kill and tangling with Grim, I'm afraid that one counterattack would have been enough to kill Liana!

A moment later, the Lyanna witch struggled to get up off the ground.

The mushroom hut that had lived for three hundred years had vanished, and everything in the sludge clearing had disappeared except for the huge, ugly crucible and herself.

Instead, an even uglier, more fierce expression appeared on her evil ghostly face.

"I won't be alive for long anyway, and today is a great day to find you to fight for your life. Ivana, I'll be waiting for you in hell!"

With that said, Leona Witch leapt, actually closed into the crucible, her entire body was like melted ink, quickly staining the miserable green soup black and black.

A huge and terrifying desperate spiritual element poured into the wooden sculpture that was lit up with strange magical patterns around its body, and then through the strange spiritual channel, a stream of pollution was directed towards the spiritual node in the distance.

Above the sky, in the northwest corner of the starry night, an already dim star Woodward glowed greatly, and then turned into a meteor distantly falling down the dome of the sky....