Age of Adepts

Half an hour later, Krsuna flew out of the Nightmare Castle and hurried northward.

Looking at the other party's fading figure, Grim looked pale and bowed his head in silence.

"How's it going, is it hard to accept the conditions the other party is proposing?" Mary did not participate in the 'negotiations' just now due to the severity of her injuries.

After a quick treatment and a sufficient blood meal, Mary's superficial wounds had been swept away, and she had once again regained her previous beauty and delicacy.

This was one of the most intimidating and headache-inducing aspects of the vampire clan!

However, the 'aftermath' of the previous war still hadn't subsided, and wisps of purple smoke could be seen everywhere in Mary's limbs. As long as purple smoke clouds existed, Mary's racial talent of absorbing blood and healing herself could never be brought into play.

Inside the newly repaired body, slight crackling explosions could be heard everywhere, the sound of the repaired body being crushed and annihilated by the alien energy once again.

The body instinctively mended the wreckage and damage on the body, but every time it was repaired it would be crushed again by the alien energy bursting and crushing. This time and again, the pain brought to Mary is probably only she herself can understand.

However, even so, Mary was still smiling like a flower, and from her appearance, it was not at all obvious that her body had been reduced to flesh and blood and her bones had burst!

Grim withdrew his gaze, but a look of distress overtook his eyes as he settled on Mary, lovingly advising, "The most dangerous threshold has been crossed, don't worry about the rest of the story, focus on healing your wounds. I've already extracted some of this strange purple energy, and I'll be able to remove their effects for you once I've studied a result. Until then, you go to sleep in the blood coffin for a while, and it will also ease the pain in your body..."

"The situation isn't stable yet, and those guys around here are also eyeing it, so I'll bear with them a little longer... "Mary's rare calmness today was even more direct about their current situation.

When that Gloria showed her strength to oppress the two, only then did Krsuna and that Stephen choose to show up and push them back. The result was that both sides were injured, and while Grim and Mary ended up in a terrible state of consumption, Gloria wasn't much better, or else she wouldn't have withdrawn from the battlefield so happily.

After the battle, although Grim and Mary's injuries were serious, they could only pretend to be slightly damaged on the outside. Once the news of their serious injuries spread, there was no telling what other moths those central bigwigs who had been forced down would make.

Grim had already made up his mind, at this moment, if those Central bigwigs were still restless, after he had eased off, he would definitely use the most cruel and bloody means to root out his family as a warning to others.

But until then, he could only endure...endure until the injuries on Mary's body were dispelled, and until his fallen physique and mental strength were repaired. At that time, the two of them together, the central part of the country would become his bag, and no other guy would ever dare to come to his door like he did now.

Before hastily hiding in the chamber to heal his wounds, Grim used the Crimson Clan Leader's authority again to pass over a list of resources to Meryl and Emelia.

The Nightmare Castle was half ruined after the battle, with more than half of the annexes collapsing and crumbling, and even the main five-story castle had several large holes opened up, revealing everything hidden inside.

In the past, when Fried built this castle, the most important consideration was obviously the castle's sturdiness and resistance to demons, so the main body of the castle was mostly made of steel rock and obsidian. Now that the castle had become Mary's lair, however, sturdiness became less important, and instead the compatibility with the blood energy rose to the first priority.

Therefore, within the long list of resources that Grim had listed, the one at the top of the list was Blood Marrow Stone, a special material that was extremely compatible with the blood energy. The quantity behind this material, Grim gave an astonishingly staggering number: 27 tons.

This was already the minimum amount that the chip could come up with after calculations, and if it was any less, the restored Nightmare Castle would lose the kind of strange effect Grim was expecting.

Although Blood Marrow Stones were not as rare and unusual as Void Stones and Breeding Flowers, a terrifying amount of up to 27 tons converted into Magic Crystals would probably be enough to drag down most 4th rank witches.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Crimson Family is so hot in the middle of the continent right now, and has risen to become the number one family worthy of the title, and is only one step away from becoming a super family, I'm afraid that it would be difficult to gather such an astonishing amount of blood marrow.

If you don't have enough from your own family, you can go to other families, and if you still don't have enough, you can go to several neighboring powers to ask for it... Naturally, there will be subordinates who will do such tedious and quarrelsome things, and Grim only needs to accurately calculate and evaluate the family's strength and make a request.

After beating the big families to death, the Crimson Family had never made any excessive or harsh demands. If all the rules remained the same, what was the point of Crimson Family unifying the central part of the country? At the moment, with the help of the search for the Blood Marrow Stone, it was possible to test and understand the acceptance level of the major clans towards the Crimson Family from the side.

In the past, they had formed their own systems and were used to being free and unfettered, and they had never accepted another wizard family's control and domination. Therefore, anger, bickering and tirades were always inevitable, the key was how high a price they were willing to pay for this apparent peace.

That was actually what Grim wanted to know and test out the most!

Leaving all mundane and chores to the Crimson Family to handle, Grim immediately hid within the chamber without hesitation and began to carefully and meticulously detect the strange purple energy.

This was the only remaining intact sorcery chamber.

Scattered in the center of the room were several slowly running mysterious witch arrays, all of which had been specially modified and enchanted to imprison the witch.

In the center of each witch array, there was a bit of violet mane that was rapidly moving around.

They seemed to be sentient in themselves, able to continuously absorb the free magical energy from the surrounding void to enrich themselves, and had the offensive and defensive instinctive reactions of an elementary intelligent creature.

Therefore, these imprisoning witch formations that Grim transformed completely blocked the flow of internal and external energy, and also deprived these violet manes of the opportunity to strengthen and enrich themselves.

Coupled with the fact that the witch formation also isolated the trace of soul connection between the violet mane and its original body, thus losing the control of the original body, the violet mane acted extremely dazed and just dashed around inside the rune formation, seemingly looking for a way out of escape.

"Chip, did you detect the properties of these energies? What are they, exactly?" Grim inquired softly.

"Drip, testing is complete..."

"This energy body is a foreign species created after the combination of life energy and belief will, and the base attribute manifested is powerful power..."

"Powerful?" Grim chimed in, "That would fit with the power traits that Gloria displayed when she fought! You go on..."

"Since the power generation is mixed with the will of belief, they remain under the control of the will of the body even though they are separate from the body..."

Grim couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air, "Wouldn't that mean that that Gloria would still be able to manipulate their subsequent attack behavior after sending her power into the enemy's body?"

"Yes! The alien energy remains under the complete control of the body without being kilometers away from the body, and there is no time delay or retardation due to the infinite sensing of the mind. However, this will belief can be isolated and weakened by sorcerous energy, the exact effect of which depends on the disparity in equals and strength between the two parties..."

After listening to the chip's explanation, Grim couldn't help but brighten up.

This kind of means of combining one's life energy and spiritual will to condense into a powerful force belonged to the privilege of melee sorcerers, and it was obviously difficult for him, a 'half-rule sorcerer', to make use of it.

However, if one could refine and synthesize such a means, it would be quite suitable for Mary!

Mary herself possessed the ability to control blood, and if she were to acquire this peculiar way of using her power again, her own battle strength would definitely increase quite a bit.

Since she knew that the violet mane was a combination of life energy and spiritual will, Grim would always have a way to split and strip them apart. But even if he lost control of his faith, this pure life energy had tremendous research value for Grim.

He hadn't been able to investigate what the super-ranked witchcraft that Gloria held in her hands was, and perhaps the study of its life energy would clear up the confusion for him, or at least allow him to figure out which spectrum and type of magic characteristics the other witchcraft belonged to....

Don't underestimate this insignificant little bit of information, when it accumulated more, it would always seek out where the weaknesses in that Gloria Witch were.

Honestly, fighting so suffocatingly and being bullied so fiercely was the first time in Grim's history!

As long as he was allowed to survive this difficult period, and as long as he was allowed to find the loopholes in the enemy, Grim would never mind launching a counterattack against the enemy with the most ruthless methods.

Especially that Gloria... it was about time she was shown the power of the Central Wizard!

The battle of the superpowers that took place at the Nightmare Castle, there weren't many people in the middle of the entire continent who could know about it. And all the guys who did know chose to remain silent, silently assessing the impact of this matter.

First of all, it affected the hearts of people!

Once again, the descending strikes from the Wizards Association did not have the expected results.

Superpowers had come and gone, and that Grim was still alive and well inside the Nightmare Castle, and still had time to send emissaries to the various Wizard Families to requisition large amounts of rare resources.

This also made the wall-riding factions who had temporarily bowed their heads and waited for the change to come become extremely lost and frustrated. They wanted to forcefully reject the Crimson Family's outrageous extortion and blackmail, but in the absence of a leader, no 4th rank power or 4th rank witch alone would dare to disobey that legendary fire witch who was in the limelight.

One had to know that it was a powerful witch who couldn't even be controlled by a superpower!