Age of Adepts

Annemdor Academy.

Inside a dark and dusky sorcery chamber.

Milva, who hadn't shown his face for days, was now whispering to someone through the magic water mirror.

As the only light source within the chamber, the magic water mirror emitted a pale greenish light that not only failed to illuminate this space, but also filled the place with a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere.

The magical water mirror was split into several images, each of which had a strangely shaped character within it. If you drew closer to the images, you would be shocked to discover that the ones appearing in the images were all 4th ranked sorcerers from the famous Scattered Earth Tallinn.

All of them were famous and respected in the past, and all of them were big names in the middle of the continent. However, at this moment, they are like a group of rats hiding in the sewer, as if they're in fear and disturbed.

At this time, the magic water mirror corner, the Matthew wizard with thin hair and puffy eyes asked in a terrified voice, "This news has been confirmed? But don't let it be that Grim putting out false news, trying to get us to implode..."

In the other corner of the water mirror, a gloomy-looking Nicholas with a cold glint in his triangular eyes said quietly, "I just sent Declan away...he's here to persuade me to surrender!"

Hearing that name, several of the wizards in the water mirror cursed.

"This bastard Declan is so gutless..."

"Well, he must have been under Grim's control to say that..."

"His words cannot be taken seriously!"

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Inside the chamber, Milva said acerbically, "It was Alfred who came to see me!"

Several people in the water mirror were quiet in unison, and then they all turned their attention to Milva.

"What did Everett say?"

"Alfred and you have always had a good personal friendship, did...even he say that?"

The bitterness on Milva's face intensified when she heard the crowd's question.

"This is no longer a rumor, but a fact! It is said that it was not only Clara, Declan, and Alfred who experienced Mary's Nightmare Frontier firsthand, but also the two Union Councillors, including Tatas..."

"How's the power?"

Milva took a deep breath and said, "It's enough to compete with the super-powered, and naturally it's even more of a problem against us ordinary witches!"

The secret room was abruptly silent.

Everyone lost interest in speaking, and the atmosphere became extremely dull and depressing.

After a long time, Nicholas Wizard finally opened his mouth again and asked directly to Milva, "Milva, what do you think we should do next? Fred...has been killed...we...we..."

Everyone in the water mirror turned their sympathetic gazes towards Nicholas.

It couldn't be helped that among the many 4th rank forces, apart from Clara Witch's Denel family, it was Nicholas' family territory that was closest to the Crimson Family's Alois region. If that Grim wouldn't stop, the next target of attack would be either the 'most famous' vice president of Mirwa, or he, Nicholas, who was near the lion's den.

Thus the doom of annihilation for the two of them was also more immediate and pressing compared to the crowd!

Although Nicholas asked a vague question, but his meaning was understood by the crowd.

In fact, everyone wanted to know the choice of this Vice President of Mirwa, the only one who could lead them after the fall of President Freed, fight or surrender at this moment.

If the people were really ruthless enough to kowtow to the Crimson Family, even if that Grim wanted to unify the central part of the country, it would be extremely difficult. Let's not forget that another prominent name in the middle of the continent could be called 'Scattered Earth Tallinn'!

Scattered Earth Pagoda Forest... directly points out the special distribution of families in the middle of the continent.

The territory was scattered, and the witch towers were forested.

There were many families of witches in the middle of the continent, and it was common for them to rise and fall.

Whenever a witch war broke out, no one cared about the turnover of mundane territories, and the witches only cared about the control of the pagodas.

Although some small families are weak, if they are invaded by other large forces, they only need to shrink their core members to defend the tower, which is enough to withstand a long siege by several times the enemy.

And if they couldn't capture the tower, it would be futile to encroach on any amount of mundane territory.

It was always impossible to keep the opposing Witch Tower under siege forever, and once the army retreated and the power of the Witch Tower re-radiated out, the taken lands and lords would still be returned to their owners, just with a 'slight' loss of resources!

Therefore, in the middle of the continent, it was also very difficult to truly and completely annihilate a witch family. Without the courage to gnaw out a mouth full of teeth, don't even think of gnawing past one witch tower after another.

Although the Crimson Fleet led by Grim had demonstrated the ability to break through the Sorcerer Towers in the Freed Territory, it had also revealed some shortcomings.

In order to breach a Witch Tower, the presence of a high ranked Witch was essential, and one also needed to possess an oversized war weapon such as a floating giant ship or a magic puppet dragon. Even if all of these things were possessed, the number of casualties and costs paid were staggering!

Therefore, if the many 4th rank wizards present were determined to fight the Crimson Family to the death, even if they were just retreating and sticking to their guns, they could make Grim's head hurt and vomit his heart out.

The Crimson Fleet under Grim was indeed terrifying, but there were only three 4th rankers within the family who could calm down the situation: Grim, Mary and Ams.

They couldn't just charge ahead with everything, and personally lead the fleet to push past one witch tower after another, right? Without them in town, if the Crimson Fleet alone, whichever 4th rank wizard present would have the ability to kill it and flee in disgrace.

At that point, the time for the Crimson Family to unify the central part of the country would be stretched out indefinitely.

This would also give the crowd the confidence to wait for a turn of events!

They didn't believe that the three major witch organizations would sit back and watch Grim gobble up the big chunk of fat it had been coveting for so long in the middle of the country.

One of the most fundamental reasons why the situation was so calm now was that the Crimson Family had erupted so fiercely and violently that the three major witch organizations hadn't reacted by now.

There had been too many witch wars in the middle of the continent in the past, but the pace of war was mostly long and boring. Crossing vast territories to directly attack the opponent's lair, ending a witch war with a single arrow through the heart....

Truth be told, such witch wars almost never happen!

Therefore, after the conflicts within the Scattered Earth Tallinn erupted, the three major witch organizations did not expect the situation to develop so rapidly that it was out of everyone's control from the start.

It wasn't the large number of low and middle-ranked witches that would decide whether a witch war would be won or lost, but rather a handful of high ranked witches that were very few in number!

At the beginning of the war, the three major witch organizations were able to send super-powered people to watch the battle, waiting for an opportunity to intervene to turn the tide of the war. Such an arrangement and set-up was already enough, or at least they thought it was enough.

After all, the last time Grim appeared at the Sorcerer's Association, the power displayed was strong, very strong, but it was only on par with torturing witches, and was still a long way from being super strong.

However, what they hadn't expected was that it had only been a number of years since then, and that legendary fire witch had made progress again. Not only had he forcefully dragged down the Golden Titan Monash, he had also severely injured the Cursed Sorcerer Severus in a 'fair fight'.

This... was clearly somewhat unexpected of the Sorcerer's Association!

Since even Severus had lost at the hands of that legendary fire witch Grim, the next step would be to dispatch a few more powerful superpowers. However, such a guy was either wandering around in the depths of the Endless Star Sea, or he was closed in on some extremely important sorcery experiment....

Although the Sorcerer's Association was willing to mobilize them, the time and cost for these strong personalities to return even if they were willing to give up their current mission and benefits and turn back once from the depths of the Star Ocean was unusually large!

If the strong can't tune it, then tune the army....

However, the dangerous and vast Black Forest itself was a natural obstacle to them, and the Wizard Association might not have much of a problem sending a few strong people through using small teleportation arrays, but it would be a fantasy to send an entire army of witches through.

Transit through a floating airship?

Even with good mobilization and proper logistical arrangements, it will be difficult to take shape without more than two months' time! And two months, with the Crimson Fleet's current attack speed, would be enough to take care of most of the die-hards and stabilize the entire central part of the country again.

By then, how would the Association armies that had come from afar be able to handle themselves?

Moreover, with a large number of Association troops deployed, how would the Northland Witches and the Silver Alliance side react? With the power of the three parties entangled, I'm afraid it would take a lot of time just to state their attitudes and coordinate their positions.

By the time the three parties have reached a conclusion, I'm afraid the middle of the continent will have become Crimson's world!

In short, it was that the Crimson Family's hidden heritage was too powerful, so powerful that when it erupted, even the Three Great Sorcerer Organizations wouldn't be able to react.

However, what the Three Great Wizards were most concerned about was what they could get out of this Scattered Tallinn Incident, and what was in front of the several Central 4th Order Wizards was a choice between life and death!

One by one, their eyes flickered and they looked fierce, yet they were filled with pathos and misery.

Once upon a time, they were also the desperate ferocious gods that stomped the heavens and earth in the middle of the continent, but when they encountered the world-destroying gods that were even more unreasonable and barbaric than themselves, there was no other way to vent the depression in their chests other than pathos and resentment.

Depressed... yes, they were all depressed to the core!

To put it bluntly, Grim's ability to become a 4th rank wizard so early was still the result of the concerted efforts of all present to 'build' him. And yet they were backed into a corner by a rising generation, and might even bow to it in the future....

At the thought of that image, Nicholas and Matthew and the others were just about to explode with depression!