Age of Adepts

The three major witch organizations were entangled and held each other back, and a huge change in power on either side would trigger a chain reaction on the other two.

As the second-ranked super-strongest of the Witch Association, Gloria's return undoubtedly meant a surge in the Association's strong power, immediately offsetting the power gap caused by the previous injury to Severus.

Eventually, it made both the Silver Alliance and the Witch of the North a little nervous.

It was said that the Speaker of the Silver Alliance had personally approved the summoning back of one of the only two super-strong people from the Maelstrom Tower, the Mechanical Witch Stephen.

The Northland witches also held a council of witches overnight and unanimously moved to send a super strong level witch to sit in the central stronghold in order to protect the interests of the Northland witches in the area from being infringed upon.

And this task fell squarely on the head of the Death Witch leader, Krsuna!

It couldn't be helped, who let there be only two super strong people in the entire Northlands, one was Death Witch Leader Krsuna and the other was Pale Witch Leader Sylvia. Of the two of them, it was Krsuna who was undoubtedly the best at attacking head-on and was the best suited to stand alone.

It was clear to everyone that the Scattered Tallinn, which had been weak in the past, was facing a huge structural change this time. If left to its own devices, it could very well give birth to a new massive wizarding organization in the wizarding world.

This was clearly not in the interest of any party!

On the other hand, if they want to intervene rashly, they are afraid that their greatest interests will be taken away by other wizard organizations, thus affecting the future development of their own organizations. Therefore, to wait and wait, and to send top forces to intervene in the situation in order to control the future development direction, this is the unanimous strategy adopted by the three major organizations.

Even secretly, the Silver Alliance and the Witch of the North were in private contact, looking for ways and means to work together to counterbalance the Sorcerer's Association and suppress the central part of the country.

And they believed that the most ideal outcome would undoubtedly be a head-on clash between the Wizards Association and the newly-emerged Crimson Family, a two-way conflict, and then they would come out to clean up the mess.

But when they heard the news of Gloria's return, they couldn't help but secretly worry about the Crimson Family. If Gloria swept through the middle and Crimson crumbled, then the pot of sandwich rice would be taken away by the Sorcerer's Association....

It was out of this concern that the two organizations quickly dispatched their counterpart forces in order to restrain Gloria from making any reckless moves. But with Gloria's history of bravery and brute domination, there's no telling how effective this containment will be!

The nearly semi-public direct interference of the three major organizations also made the situation in the middle of the entire continent even more treacherous and unpredictable.

Since there was no way to fathom it, it was no longer fathomable!

Grim, who had clearly overpowered all of the Central 4th Order forces, immediately returned to the Nightmare Castle without hesitation, choosing to meet up with Mary.

With danger looming, hiding back in the lair seemed to be the right choice!

However, the Flame Throne was, after all, only a small Sorcerer's Tower, and its defensive and offensive power could not match his current identity and strength. And for those strong people who dared to trouble him, the Flame Throne was really not an object that could make them feel scrupulous.

Thus, the moment he sensed danger approaching, Grim instinctively chose Mary's Nightmare Castle.

Grim's injuries were still heavy, and Mary had just overpowered the Nightmare Castle....

Although both sides outwardly had battle power comparable to that of superpowers, they knew that there was still some power gap between them and those true superpowers.

However, by combining the strength of the two, they should be able to deter those evil-minded villains!

But on the third day of Grim's entry into the Castle of Nightmares, the villain he had been waiting for finally arrived....

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It was another night of deep darkness.

The moon is all but hidden from the sky, leaving only the stars twinkling in the firmament.

But soon, even they were obscured by a dense night mist.

The entire world was dark.

The Ancient Nightmare Castle stood alone in the middle of the wilderness.

Not a single light could be seen in it, nor could it be perceived as a place to stay.

Both the Crimson Fleet and the Armor Corps have withdrawn to the Iroquois region, leaving only the symbolic Nightmare Castle on top of the wreckage of the war.

In the darkness of the night, the towering Nightmare Castle was like a fearsome beast holding its breath, waiting for its prey with its mouth wide open.

The dense night fog wrapped around the castle, adding a whiff of evil and unpredictable to it!

A piercing crunch tore through space.

A small portal quickly opened five miles in front of the castle, from which stepped out a slender human figure whose body was surrounded by a cloud of purple light.

Without a stealthy dive or a major incoming attack, that Gloria teleported to the side of the Nightmare Castle with such a large spine, her face mockingly and silently surveying the silent castle before her.

"Huh, very odd power..." although she had heard about the oddness of this castle before coming, no amount of information, no amount of detail, could compare to the information gained from seeing it with one's own eyes, which was richer and more intuitive.

Very odd life forms... There was both the unique magical scent of alchemical beings and the unique soul fluctuations of intelligent beings.

In a way, the dark and silent five-story castle in front of us could be seen as another strange form of intelligent life form. Only, through the suppressed and scattered soul core, what Gloria perceived was a completely overwhelming scent of blood and murder.

Another 'forbidden life' created through the blood sacrifice method!

Gloria gave it an accurate definition in her mind with a slight twist of her lips.

After wandering outside the Domain for so long, there were simply countless strange lifeforms that I had heard of, seen, and touched, and I had seen one or two similar forbidden beings. Most of them could not end well!

For no other reason than to suppress the killing instincts within their core, erecting too many enemies that can't be provoked. No matter how powerful such a life form was, it would one day bring about its own demise.

But that was outside the domain, where life was forbidden, and it was a real first to see such a pristine, not yet fully grown forbidden life inside the bit world like this!

Gloria lifted her nose and sniffed a few times, finally confirming that the prey she was pursuing was within the castle in front of her. It was just obscured by a special and powerful blood scent, unable to perceive the target creature's specific energy state in detail.

This was a special way of chasing prey that Gloria herself had eluded to!

In the Outlands, the creatures that could survive there were all extremely evil. Either possessing a body or armor that was as strong as a magical iron alloy, or possessing berserk giants with overwhelming power, or possessing terrifying speed that was unattainable to outsiders....

If one did not possess any of these things, then one could only rely on superhuman first-class concealment means or perverted-level spiritual perception.

Without these means, one would only be worthy of becoming prey outside of the domain, not qualified to become a predator feared by all!

What Gloria relied on to chase down the enemy was not external things like scent, sweat marks, or footprints, but the other person's energy scent mixed with soul waves. Traces could be hidden and the environment could be disguised, but the unique energy scent of each person was eternal.

Moreover, the higher the life level of an individual, the more they would involuntarily absorb some of the magical energy straying from the spatial environment through their own unique ways whenever they visited a region.

Under normal circumstances, a fire witch would leave a clear path of flame in the space they passed through due to the expansion and dispersion of life energy. Not only will the concentration of the fire element in the space increase slightly, it will also become unusually active.

This bizarre phenomenon could often last for months.

A 4th rank Legendary Fire Witch would even be able to permanently change the distribution and rules of operation of the fire element in a certain area!

Thus, even though that fire witch had restrained his personal scent without leaking out at all, it was impossible for Gloria to lose the other party simply by the slight traces left behind by his flame origin every moment as he interacted with his surroundings.

Grim, 4th rank, legendary fire witch, originated from the Central Sarupo family, and later broke away from that family to form the Crimson family. This son has a strange talent and is skilled in puppet making and fire sorcery, following the route of flame specialization.

In addition: in his hands, he holds two artifacts, one of which is a 5th-order fire-attribute rule aggregate, perfectly in line with the origin of his soul (it is known to be a high-level artifact of a fire god in the world of the gods, obtained by him in a special way); the other book-shaped sorcerer is suspected to be a soul-armed, 5th-order, of unknown origin....

Also: it is constantly flanked by a powerful shadow puppet, rank 4, with a plurality of rank 4 dark sorceries, and the following common skills....

Mary, 4th order, vampire witch, also from House Sarupo. She is close to Grim, has advanced to the rank of witch at the same time as breaking away from House Sarupo, and is known to be Grim's publicly acknowledged lover.

Also: the wizards it possesses are Bee Stinger (3rd level), Spell Crystal (3rd level), Boots of Evasion (3rd level), Haunted Stone Plaque (2nd level)....

Also: in the previous Keslin Castle for a while, it came out and subjugated the semi-evolved alchemical life of Keslin and took control of a suspected 'forbidden life'. Within the confines of its castle, it possesses a force field of energy that suppresses 4th level witches. The initial estimate was that the combined strength of Mary + Nightmare Ancient Castle was between advanced 4th rank and peak 4th rank, posing a considerable threat to the super-strong....

Having been away from the wizarding world for too long, Gloria is already somewhat unfamiliar with the strange changes in the central part of the country.

But with the powerful Sorcerer's Guild at her back, all information about her enemies would be fully open to her. So pestling in the darkness among the wilderness, her mind just briefly reviewed and filtered the two most important enemy information of the trip completely again.

Two 'pseudo' superpowers only... without having made their way outside of the domain, without having experienced the bloodbath of a different dimension, they were worthy of being compared to superpowers....

Gloria smirked heedlessly and stepped towards the eerie castle that stood silently in the darkness!