Age of Adepts

At the edge of the battlefield, the Northland Witches and the Silver Alliance were each on their own, also resting in silence to recover.

After hastily absorbing the feedback from the bits and perceiving the rules manifesting like a white horse, many Northland Witches gathered at the side of the Death Witch leader, Krsuna, and conferred in a low voice.

"What is the Witch Council trying to do? It's not like they're going to try to make peace with that Grim..." said Cerci.

Due to the previous conflict, Cersei had always had a hatred for that legendary fire witch that was hard for outsiders to understand. Unfortunately, even though she had tried every possible way to suppress the other party, the other party had still steadily leaped up step by step.

Now, even she, the leader of the Dark Witch, had to be careful in front of the other party, lest she be caught by it in some way. Thinking of the brutal loss she had suffered at the other party's hands some time ago, Cersei couldn't help but feel indignant inside.

But as soon as Cersei's words came out, Krsuna's pair of cold, icy gazes fell on her.

"Cerci, I don't care what conflicts and clashes you had with that Grim earlier, they have all been wiped out from this moment onwards. You must maintain basic manners and respect for him at all times, no matter what. Otherwise, he'll pick up on the manners and even I won't be able to keep you. Do you remember that?"

"Yes!" Cersei immediately agreed with a low brow.

Although the two sides were both witch chiefs and had equal status, Krsuna had been famous for a long time and still had superpower level strength. Therefore, among the several witch chiefs, she and the other pale witch chief, Sylvia, were the older sister of all the witches, deeply trusted and feared by all the witches.

Krsuna sighed under her breath.

She could see that Cersei was still convinced.

These high-ranking witches had become human beings since they had been promoted to the 4th rank, living a life of commanding nobility, never having experienced the dark dumping and bloody and cruel internal struggles among the witch community.

They were still too young and high-minded to know the serious consequences of offending a powerful witch who was growing up fast!

The Coven is so powerful, so rich, so soft when it needs to be soft, never to be at loggerheads with a future great witch. But Cersei has rashly gotten involved in the Witch of Destiny dispute for the sake of some family's personal gain, and now she's getting deeper and deeper into it.

Cersei herself may not be aware of the coming crisis, but Krsuna has already foreseen that the entire dark witchdom will be plunged into a trough because of her recklessness and impulsiveness.

The Northern Witches had fallen from the first thirteen branches to the current eight, and their strength had been greatly reduced. Among them, the Winter Witch and the Destiny Witch had been cut off for nearly a thousand years due to special reasons, and it was only in the last few hundred years that they had regained their heritage.

If anything else happened to the Dark Witches, I'm afraid the situation in the North would become even more volatile!

Although Cersei's outburst was somewhat reckless, her statement clearly resonated among the Northland witches as well.

The other fraudulent witch leader, Angelina, couldn't help but ask as well, "Sister Krsuna, aren't you surprised by the actions of the Coven? They were having a soldier's quarrel with that Grim before, and now they're nice as family. What the hell are they doing?"

Krsuna looked around and saw the confusion on the faces of her sisters, and could only shake her head and sigh, "This is a conspiracy of the Wizard's Association!"

"A positive conspiracy?" Several witches were bewildered.

"I'm afraid anyone can see now that that legendary fire witch Grim is no longer overwhelming. As long as he exists, the central part of the country is his world, and none of our three powers will be able to get a piece of it anymore..."

"Wouldn't that be all the more reason for the three of us to join forces to suppress that Grim? What does it have to do with them pleasing and pulling in now?"

"You still have contempt for the High Sorcerer, you don't know how terrifying an out-of-control strong man can be..." said Krsuna, looking around and saying coldly, "Let me put it to you plainly this way! With that Grim's current power, it would be a handful to annihilate any of the witch powers if they shed their faces to fight guerrilla."

"Hiss..." the witches all sucked in a breath of cold air.

Although they had already experienced the power of the Legendary Fire Witch through the battle just now, they still hadn't thought that Krsuna would put the other party at such a terrifying height.

In that case, wouldn't the other party have no enemies within the Sorcerer World Bit?

"Among the three major powers, the Silver Alliance has the Sky City and the Sorcerer Association has the Overlook Tower, with these two fortresses, even if they encounter an insurmountable situation as long as they retreat a bit, they have room for stability. But our Northland doesn't have such a top-notch witchcraft facility, once they fall out with Grim, the entire Northland Witch will face disintegration......."

At this point, Krsuna paused for a moment and looked coldly at Cersi, "I know that you Dark Witches have gained a lot from pioneering the Shadow Plane over the years, and have also cultivated a large number of Dark Legions. But if you want to mess with that Grim again like this, what can you do to him if he smashes your Dark Mysteries to smithereens? Are you still going to be able to chase him all over the world with the Dark Legion?"

"It's not like you've never seen the power of a strong man! That fire wizard was able to kill hundreds of thousands of alienated herds and calamitous creatures with just one man, and block them back to the Murky Valley alive. Once the burning field is open, Cersei, do you think your Dark Legion is enough for him to burn?"

Cersei finally dropped her pretty face this time and couldn't help but tremble a little as she hid her body in the hazy black mist.

Krsuna didn't want to dampen Cerci's spirits too much and quickly revealed the mystery.

"It's a good thing that the Wizengamot is now trying to rally Grim, it means that they've understood that frontal suppression is ineffective and will only push it against us. Therefore, they've used a sunny plot to send Grim out of the Wizarding World..."

"If we don't try to speed up the process, with Grim's strength and age, there won't be any problem in ruling the central part of the country for nearly a thousand years before he advances to the next level. And a thousand years is too long for all three of our major wizarding organizations, so the association will definitely try to meet all of that Grim's needs, only to have him advance to rank 5 and be banished from the wizarding world by the laws of the position as soon as possible."

"A middle without Grim...it won't hold up with just that Vampire Mary!"

Only then did it dawn on all the witches that they couldn't help but nod their heads in unison.

Indeed, in the event that they couldn't continue to suppress that Grim, doing their best to shorten the other party's time to rule the central region was definitely a wise plan. Even if that Grim was aware of it, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to give up the hope and impulse to advance to Grand Sorcerer as soon as possible.

However, the once prestigious Three Great Sorcerer Organizations have now been reduced to the point where they need to use this kind of tactic against a Central Sorcerer, which is a bit sad and helpless when you think about it!

....................

The battle isn't really over.

Although all the Calamity creatures would have been driven back to the Murky Valley, they were still entrenched beneath the crack in the ground, closely guarding the huge spatial fissure.

If time dragged on for too long, and they eroded away the cornerstone of the bit plane here, and that 6th ranked Calamity Lord killed into the Wizard World after the spatial barrier was opened, it was feared that all the previous efforts would be in vain.

It was only within the bit plane, under the suppression of the bit plane laws, that they, the 4th stage witches, would be able to kill those 5th stage calamity lords. Once the advantage of the bit surface barrier was lost, all of them tied together might not be enough to kill the 6th ranked Calamity Lord with a slap.

Therefore, the tablet barrier must not be lost, even if it meant sacrificing a lot!

Thus, after simply gathering the battlefield and purifying the scent of calamity near the valley, a large number of witch beast troops rushed into the valley rift under the witchers' drive.

There, the witch beasts and the alienated beasts attacked and defended, this time turning into the main attack of the witch beasts, while the alienated beasts defended according to the danger, using the entire underground rift as a fighting battlefield.

In order to avoid the Witch Beasts from being infected by the other side, the main offensive force this time was a group of steel puppets, magic armor warriors and revitalized configurations that were all shining with a metallic luster.

At the forefront were the Demon Armor Warriors.

All of them were over three meters tall, and their bodies were in the form of armored warriors with hollow interiors, supported by pure sorcery power. They held a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, stepping in heavy steps, five by five, advancing underground in a neat formation.

As soon as they rushed into the mist, the alienated beasts that were crowded in a mass inside rushed over with an owl. The flesh-and-blood alienated beasts and this group of bronze-headed, iron-armed magical warriors immediately collided with each other.

These Magic Armor Warriors that had undergone great adjustments by the Sorcerer's Association were not as clumsy and stiff as the common iron statues, their movements were very flexible and precise, and they were not afraid of life and death.

Faced with the alien beast that was pouncing head-on, the Magic Warriors stepped forward and slammed their left shields together, knocking their opponents unconscious before raising their swords and swinging them sideways.

Magic armor warriors had no life at all, and it didn't matter if they feared or retreated.

They were just a bunch of thick metal armor and huge shields and heavy swords that had been revitalized with the power of sorcery. Therefore, the only way to deal with them is to use force to defeat them by smashing their shields and swords, and smashing their demonic armor to make them completely useless.

This sorcery characteristic also determines their fighting style!

That is clashing and fighting....

Faced with a mountainous and sea-like swarm of raging alienated beasts, the Demonic Armor Warriors, with their swords up and down and their giant shields protecting their bodies, killed their way into the underground space step by step.

The differentiated beasts, on the other hand, made full use of their flexible and treacherous forms to attack from the front, from the side, climbing on the rock wall, or levitating to raid from above....

The entire Murky Deep Rift Valley was filled with writhing black and red figures, and they instantly surrounded the Demonic Armor Warriors that had rushed in!