Age of Adepts

The remaining fires on the earth had yet to be completely extinguished.

A curl of black smoke lingered over what was once a battlefield.

With Keslin Castle as the center, there were almost no more human buildings within a hundred-mile radius that could still maintain their original form. Even the green jungle everywhere had become a scorched land, with large black scorch marks marking its original dominion.

However, right on top of this withered land where life had died out, the Keslin Fortress was still standing silently in place. With the naked eye alone, it was impossible to find any traces of damage or battle on this still intact exterior castle.

The devastation and ruins of the main battlefield's central area could still be a 'remnant' of an ancient castle? And as far as everyone knew, this Kirthlin Castle was revitalized into a topsy-turvy berserk stone giant at the time, and fought hard against the Crimson Family....

Although I knew there was a secret, but after the battle, all the core sorcerers of the Entom Family didn't even escape and disappeared without a trace. This also made many of the watchers baffled, and felt a bone-chilling chill in their hearts.

Had the Crimson Family reached such a high level that the Ntom Family, led by Old Freed, couldn't even let a single living soul escape? This speculation also made Milva and other witches feel less scrupulous, and even the contact to rebel against the Crimson Family was a little less vocal.

At this moment, the few central forces that had been firmly opposed to the Crimson Family had even laid down their arms, acting as if they had temporarily avoided the limelight, not wanting to be targeted by the Crimson Family and thus become the second Entom Family!

The reason they had opposed Crimson earlier was naturally because they didn't want to throw away their power and position. But if the result of their fierce opposition was death and the loss of their family heritage, such a price would be too cruel to the 4th ranked witches whose lives were thousands of years old.

Freedom was important, but if the pursuit of freedom came at the cost of one's own life... this was something that the 4th ranked witches would never accept!

Compared to life, succumbing to Grim and becoming an affiliated force of the Crimson Family was not that hard to accept.

In the past, they were used to being a doorway tiger in the middle of the continent, and their insights and perceptions were undoubtedly a bit off. Not having seen the horrors of superpowers, they still thought that they could unite and oppress the other side to bow with their numerical superiority.

And the battle between the Crushing Stone Canyon and Keslin Castle had completely shattered that false pride and comfort they had, and made them completely realize the power of the super strong. It seemed that the super-strong and the 4th rank wizards were no longer the same species, located at opposite ends of the food chain, with one side being the predator while the other side was ridiculously reduced to prey....

This perception completely overturned the inherent impressions they had formed over the past few centuries, and made them realize their shallowness and naivety. The Scattered Earth Tallinn had been able to exist for tens of thousands of years, not because they, the 4th ranked witches, had deterred the three major witch organizations, but because they had reached a delicate balance by entangling each other.

Now that the balance had been broken, where the Scattered Earth Tallinn would go in the future was a question that every Central Shaman needed to think about and decide!

Will you choose Grim, or one of the three major wizarding organizations? Or muddle it up into a big quagmire and make the middle of the country a bloody battleground for the three major wizarding groups to fight over?

In the past, when a 4th level wizard heard the words "Central Unification", they would instinctively reject it, preferring to keep their previous comfort and grace. Now, even they were forced to think seriously about this issue.

If they were unwilling to make a choice, there would always be someone who would force them to make a choice. And at that time, there would be far fewer choices left for them....

Before you know it, unification and disunification are a thing of the past, and now more people are talking about how to unify!

Whether or not Grim was brutal, whether or not the Crimson Family would be winner-take-all, and where the various Wizard Families would be in the future of the Middle... A pressing and thorny problem to be solved had become something that the many family executives wanted to know and understand the most.

The answers to these questions could of course only be obtained from the Crimson Family!

Thus, on the eleventh day of the destruction of the Entom Family, the day after the forces of the Molten Fire City announced that they had surrendered to the Crimson Family, mysterious emissaries who had densely concealed their identities flocked to Keslin Castle from all directions, wanting to meet that Grim who had just won the war and get the most tangible promises from him.

The first thing they saw when they arrived at the Crimson Fleet station was the intact Kirthlin Fortress that had survived the brutal war.

Many of the ambassadors who had been traveling to and from Keslin Castle for years were secretly puzzled, as the castle in front of them was just the same in appearance and style as before, seemingly unchanged. However, when their eyes fell on the castle, there was always a strange sense of strangeness.

It seemed as if they had only seen this Kirthlin Castle for the first time today!

With this odd feeling, the secret emissaries of the various families stepped into Keslin Castle.

Once they entered the inside of the castle, this feeling became even stronger.

The same castle gate, the same gray stone square, the same light golden stone tunnel, the same spiritual suppression, even the magical breath flowing inside the stone wall were all the same... But what filled the emissaries' noses was a thick bloody air, and what haunted their ears was the terrifying howling of their souls. Weeping for the dead....

Everything indicated that a terrifying blood sacrifice had just taken place here, and the target of the blood sacrifice was most likely the Entom Family witches who were never heard from again.

Over 200 witches, and there were as many as seven 3rd rank witches alone... such a huge number of witches had all been blood sacrificed....

Every time they thought about it, the ambassadors sent out by the various Sorcerer Families felt chilled to the bone, and even walked a little stiffly.

There were so many ambassadors from various families that Grim naturally couldn't meet with them one by one, and only the large wizard families could meet with him personally. As for the remaining small and medium-sized families and wizard organizations, they could only pay a visit to Meryl and ask her to convey some secret agreements and terms.

As the war had just passed, the area was already in ruins, so these ambassadors could only stay in Kirthlin Castle temporarily. But after only one night's stay, all the witches moved out without a word.

They preferred to build a mud hut in the open wilderness and barbecue some wild food, rather than set foot in Keslin Castle. That nightmare-ridden night was simply driving them crazy.

According to some wizards' private rumors, the night he lived in the castle, he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, and was horrified to find himself not lying on the warm and comfortable bed, but immersed in a nearly overflowing pool of horrible blood.

Inside the blood pool, missing heads, broken limbs, broken intestines, white flowers **, dense almost filled the surface of the dreadful dead souls.......one by one, the dead souls could not help but crawl out of the pool, greenish-gray faces extremely distorted and hideous because of the pain, stretching out their broken arms, and let out desperate and miserable howls to you! ........

As for the four walls of the room, as well as the floor and ceiling, they were all covered with a strange gray substance. The grey substance was constantly writhing and bulging, with thick, blood vessel-like pipes growing on its surface. The walls of the pipes were flesh-colored and translucent, goo goo goo goo goo... A sticky purple-black liquid flowed inside, and a faint glimpse of undigested blood and flesh remnants could be seen.

Living in the castle gave him a strange feeling that he was living in the intestinal wall of a strange life form, and it was precisely this feeling that prompted him to move out in a panic, never daring to step into the Kirthlin Castle again.

This Keslin Castle was definitely not the old Keslin Castle anymore!

It had undergone some sort of mutation, becoming... becoming a strange fellow that was indefinable and had both alchemical and flesh and blood life characteristics at the same time.

Thus, those guys with keen senses were driven by instinct to choose to stay away from it!

In fact, not to mention these foreign ambassadors, even a few senior executives of the Crimson Family were staying in the floating giant ship temporarily, not daring to spend the night inside the Kirthlin Castle.

There were currently only two tenants in the entire Kathleen Castle: Grim and Mary.

Of course, the Shadow Demon was always following Grim's side, protecting him closely.

As for Grim's choice to stay in Kirthlin Castle, it was not for the sake of self-abuse, but to further subjugate this strange being who had broken free from the prison of life and was free from the confinement of sorcery.

Yes, the current Kirthlin Fortress already had all the characteristics of an intelligent life form. If not for the lack of a perpetual energy body, it would have been difficult for even Grim to restrain such a forbidden life that had consumed the entire Entom family.

The greatest characteristic of forbidden beings compared to ordinary intelligent beings was that they could not grow and expand without forbidden means like blood sacrifice, killing or destruction. Don't look at the fact that witches usually acted as if they were all forbidden, but they still had to abide by the basic witches' code, never to easily mutilate the lower creatures of the same plane.

This was also a Shaman's Covenant for the sustainable development of the entire Shaman civilization!

You may not abide by it, but once your evil deeds are publicized, all witch organizations and forces will add you to the blacklist and no longer trade any resources or knowledge with you.

Even some jealous witches will run after you on their own accord, and this pursuit will not be bound by the witch code.

Therefore, considering the serious consequences, no wizard would dare to openly and publicly carry out a killing or blood sacrifice. Of course, there is still nothing wrong with carrying out all that behind your back, as long as your hands and feet are clean.

Every year, a number of sorcerer apprentices died quietly in those private sorcerer high towers. And most of them became victims of individual witches' validation of dangerous sorcery or forbidden experiments. For these, most of the sorcerer powers chose to turn a blind eye and would not do much censorship.

After all, every bit of progress made by their own sorcerers symbolized the growth of the family's overall strength, so why wouldn't they be happy about it!