Age of Adepts

The Tide is coming!

What is the Magic Tide....

Less than half a day after the Crimson Meeting ended, this magical word spread as quickly as a plague to every corner of the central continent.

However, the news didn't spread outward without limit, and its spread was limited to the wizard community!

The common folk, and even the nobles who thought they were above it all, remained ignorant. They went about their lives as usual, hunting, trading, and going about the events of their lives, unaware that a terrible catastrophe was about to befall the world.

The Wizards kept all news to themselves to avoid causing undue panic in mortal society.

But as the news spread through the wizarding families, many of the wizards who heard about it were equally dumbfounded.

What was the Magic Tide? Where did it come from? What kind of harm will it do to us? Why did the legendary fire witch who nominally ruled the entire central part of the country gather all the 4th level wizards in the Crimson Wing to deliberately pass on the news? Is that magic tide really that scary? ........

The endless questions and confusion baffled most of the witch families, so they could only rush into the piles of old papers one by one and consult the information about the magic tide from the vast witchcraft books.

Once in a million years...magic eruption...space gap opening...demon impact...star beast invasion ........

One harsh word after another popped up, each one so gory and chilling. Ten thousand years had undoubtedly been too long for them, too long to treat history as a myth and truth as a legend.

Now, when the world showed them what history really looked like in another gory way, all the witches were shocked and felt their insignificance once again.

Although they were noble human beings and enjoyed an extravagant life of the utmost dignity, in the vast history of the multiverse, they couldn't even raise a small splash. 'Life's little drops of water.

Like summer insects that cannot speak ice, they have flown over so many places and visited so many gardens and meadows that they think they have fully understood the world. They live freely and naturally, burning up their lives brilliantly in just one summer.

How did they know that after leaving the heat of summer and experiencing the autumn wind, there would still be a snow-covered winter and the first spring of renewal in the world cycle.......

Guys who could become sorcerers had life dimensions that were much more elongated than mortals. In their eyes, mortals were summer worms, unable to comprehend the reality and cruelty of the world.

They understood the bit plane, extending their sight and perception beyond the bit plane, where they peered into a grander and more glorious world scene. But just when they thought they had their finger on the pulse of the world once more, a sudden name dragged them back into a completely unfamiliar and unknown realm.

In the eyes of mortals, they might have been as powerful as deities. But in the eyes of a higher power, they were as weak and insignificant as insects, not even worth mentioning.

With only a few hundred years of their lives, they were originally untouchable to this kind of cosmic 'calamity'. But now, whether it was unfortunate or fortunate, they were honored to be about to experience this mysterious demonic tide that was so vast that it could even affect the entire Multiverse ten years later.

A crumpled and scorched book was plucked from the pile of old papers, a top secret information was searched out from the ancient books... When the details were assembled together, when the fragmented information was pieced together, what was presented before their eyes was a bloody reality!

The Magic Tide was terrifying... the Magic Tide was even beyond their imagination!

According to fragmentary records, the last time the wizarding world experienced a magic tide was 8500 years ago. This meant that the magic tide was a full 1500 years earlier.

The last time the Sea of Magic was in turmoil, it lasted for a hundred years, and it had gone through more than ten rounds of demonic tides. The damage they brought to the Wizard World was unimaginable, with the population of the central part of the continent reduced by more than half, and even the Wizards lost 30%.

Of course, that wasn't even the worst!

According to the ancient records, the heaviest casualties at that time had to be in the territory of the Sorcerer's Association.

A huge time rift had appeared there, from which an astonishing number of terrifying star beasts emerged. It was because of their ravages that the population of the Sorcerer's Association had been reduced by two-thirds, and the battle loss rate of the Sorcerer's Association had reached a staggering 50%.

It had to be said that the century-long demonic tide had really changed the shape of the wizard world.

It was said that the current Mo Yuan Valley within the Association's territory was the terrifying trace of the last time when the Association's super-powerful people fought against the invading star beasts. Thousands of years had passed, and that trace still hadn't completely faded away.

This also showed how ferocious and terrifying that battle had been!

As for the great spatial rift in the central Alden Family territory, it was also a remnant left behind during the last demonic tide, and so far the Wizard World had been unable to completely heal it.

And along with the Magic Tide Advent message arrived a powerful voice from the Crimson Council.

Clear the Black Forest...find the weak points in space...relocate the main population to more stable areas...build more war witch towers.... ...

It was a war preparation guide from the Crimson Family, and a strategic defense plan for the entire central continent for the next decade!

And when the central witches digested and absorbed the magic tide message, the entire central part of the country immediately grieved and grumbled.

You should know that after every 4th level shaman was born, they would seize the most fertile area for themselves and their family as their family residence. Naturally, this kind of residence was a safe area far away from the Black Forest, and was in the middle of the rest of the region.

Therefore, virtually, many small and medium sorcerer families and powers have been pushed to the middle of the continent in the more marginal areas. All of them, without exception, were facing the danger of the raging beast tide of the Black Forest.

These small and medium sorcerer families all had a large number of hunting teams, specializing in capturing and killing those high value demons and rare beasts in the depths of the Black Forest. At that time, the Black Forest was not only not a threat, but also an inexhaustible treasure trove of resources for them.

But once the demonic tide descended, it was feared that the entire situation would be reversed.

The past hunters became the prey, while the scattered groups of demons converged and drove a large number of beasts and birds to launch a ferocious counterattack on the human settlements.

Without a heritage as deep as the great families, it was ambiguous as to whether the many small and medium-sized families could withstand the onslaught of the beast tide!

If a pagoda fell, it would mean the loss of more than just a dozen or so shamans and hundreds of apprentices. It was feared that the human towns and settlements under the protection of the pagodas would also suffer, becoming food for thousands of ferocious beasts.

With the minds of the sorcerers, based on the current situation, they would soon be able to come to a rough conclusion.

If the demonic tide was as terrifying as the ancient records, the sorcerer clans in the middle of the continent would be in for an unprecedented reshuffle. Most of the Sorcerer Families or forces that did not have the strength to defend themselves would be annihilated by the rolling tide.

As long as the remaining Sorcerer Families could survive the first few rounds of the Beast Tide and keep their Pagodas and territories from being washed away by the Beast Tide, then a great promotion would be waiting for them.

Everything had its beginning and end, its pros and cons!

Although the Magic Tide was terrifying and would bring great calamity, on the other hand, it also brought all sorts of indescribable benefits.

The first benefit was naturally the overflow of demonic resources.

Fierce demons that were rare to be found in a hundred years, and terrifying star beasts that were rare to be found in a thousand years, would all make their appearance, expecting to tear off enough flesh and souls from humans. The surviving sorcerers would undoubtedly reap unimaginably large amounts of resources if they were defeated.

With the aid of resources and the excitement of killing on the battlefield, a witch's chances of advancing in rank were more than several times greater. In a way, this could not be seen as meaningful guidance and feedback from the position consciousness!

You help the Sorcerer World to fight and destroy the invaders, then the Sorcerer World's bit consciousness gives you invisible feedback, allowing you to sublimate your soul and leap into life in the shortest possible time.

This... is actually complementary, two sides of the same coin!

The second benefit, however, was that the change in the magical environment would stimulate the birth of more, stronger, and higher quality offspring from the creatures of the bit.

To put it in terms of witches, the percentage of human babies born with witches' talents would increase tenfold or a hundredfold during the magic tide. By raising them all up, the entire witch community would undoubtedly see an explosive growth as well.

As for the deeper benefit, it was something that only high-ranking witches could enjoy.

That was that the Bit World was in chaos, and it was a great time for them to take advantage of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters!

The worlds of the gods were usually guarded by barrels of iron, and could not find many opportunities to penetrate and destroy. Now that the magical tide had come in and all the bit barriers had become riddled with holes and not so secure, it was the perfect time for them to have their revenge and grab resources without it.

At the very least, Grim was Monty's plan to take a stroll through the Faun's Plane!

Because of the death of the Poison Crone Endor, Alice had pleaded with Grim to help her destroy the entire Faun Plane. With Grim's current strength, he obviously couldn't do that yet. But there was nothing wrong with taking advantage of the chaos in the Faun's Plane to go there and hit the road and find a few 'old friends' to catch up on old times.

Especially that Elven Sword Saint Agassi, who had forced Grim to flee in disarray and killed Endor with his own hands... he remembered all these hatreds in a single stroke!

Of course, that Paladin bit could also go back and harvest a round if it was free. More than two hundred years had passed, so a new batch of Paladins must have grown up.

Nowadays, although Grim couldn't use the soul devouring method that had serious consequences, it was a good resource for a sorcerer to train and promote the younger generation of the family.