Age of Adepts

On the surface of the battlefield, there are always accidents!

As the heart would have it, all four of the Calamity Little Lords were left behind, and the Wizard's side paid a heavy price, with Central and the Association each dying in battle.

The central death was Arisa, who was killed by the giant winged serpent dragon's dying backlash. The one who died on the Association side was Schreiber, the little known 4th rank fire witch.

Although the death of the 4th rank witch in battle was a bit surprising, but really, it was within reason. After all, the Calamity Lords were powerful creatures that roamed the entire Multiverse, and in all aspects, their battle power was enough to crush human sorcerers of the same rank.

Moreover, three of the five young lords who had entered the Moabuchi Valley were all rank 5 creatures, and to be honest, it was already unimaginable for a human sorcerer to wipe them out with just two lives!

You know, if a guy like Five Faces, Mukus, or Zagu had broken into an ordinary material plane, I'm afraid that the other party wouldn't be able to smoothly winnow them down even if they were to use the power of the entire plane.

Therefore, the most heard of is that a certain Super Star Beast or Calamity Lord broke into a plane world, and turned it upside down, devouring most of the resources and living creatures, before being forced out by the strongest person in that plane world with a death-defying attitude.

And in order to expel such a terrifying fellow, that bit world would have to lose nearly half of its bit powerhouses in lesser words, and the price paid was not a heavy one.

The ones who succeeded in expelling him, and those who didn't, would end up with a broken bit surface and a life of misery. From time to time, some fragmented wreckage of bitter continents could be seen in the Outer Star Sea, and that was the final outcome of those failed bitterness.

This was a world of great struggle!

Those weak, undeveloped bits must either hide themselves from being found by powerful bits like Calamity or the Abyss, or they must scramble to develop and grow themselves and drink in the strength of the powerful to stop the bit predators that are eyeing them....

The only way for them to grow was by conquering other bit worlds, stealing resources, capturing populations, plundering knowledge, and squeezing souls... Only through this way could they grow by leaps and bounds and quickly survive their infancy, thus forcing out a unique position in the multiverse's forest of power.

In the entire multiverse, there were actually only a handful of them in the first echelon.

Calamity, Abyss, Titan....

In every aspect, the strength of the three of them was only first-rate and powerful, and the number of their communities was spread throughout the entire multiverse, so no one dared to provoke them.

The Sorcerer Civilization at most belonged to the second echelon, and was still at the middle and lower levels within it. And within this echelon were the World of Gods, the Elemental Plane, the Magic Eye Empire, the Kingdom of the Dragon, the Elven Empire, the Spirit Realm, the Shadow Realm....

Among them, the Elemental Plane was enough to be in the first tier, on par with Calamity and the Titans, if only in terms of strength. But those elemental lords and kings were too loose and free, without any valley of hope for external expansion and conquest.

So many bit-powerful creatures defined elementals as harmless creatures. As long as you didn't actively provoke them, they would never be willing to step out of the elemental realm to do the hard work of territorial expansion.

And the Arcane Empire was originally qualified to squeeze into the second echelon, but unfortunately, it couldn't resist the strong invasion of many enemies, and ended up with the tragic outcome of the bit falling and the remaining members of the Star Sea.

After the second echelon, there were the so-called third-rate forces, and such organizational forces were simply plentiful in the multiverse. Even the Panverse Witch Alliance that Grim had dealt with was such a third-rate force.

Although there were several powerful and terrifying Witch Demon Kings within it, the number of members was too small, and this became the fundamental reason why they were unable to grow.

Similar to it, there were also Star Beasts.

The Star Beast race was billions of races, and the number of them was astonishingly large, but they were widely spread all over the Endless Star Sea, and they were constantly attacking and killing each other. They were powerful creatures that moved according to their instincts, and although they were incredibly strong, they did not have the higher intelligence to match.

They were like the ubiquitous scavengers of the multiverse, wandering the depths of the Star Ocean and feeding on bite-sized creatures. Although there were many of them, they were never able to pin down a formidable force worthy of praise.

Thus, Star Beasts, despite their power, could not enter the ranking of intelligent races!

Only by understanding how powerful the Calamity Beings were, could one truly appreciate the invaluableness of this victory in the Murky Vale. Of course, this was also related to the fact that the demonic tide had just erupted, and the true greats of the Calamity Plane, the Domain Masters who had been sleeping for thousands of years, had yet to awaken.

If those Level 7 and above Domain Lords had awakened, it wouldn't be the turn of the Level 5 or 6 Calamity Lords to yell at each other. But that would also be the time for the great out-of-domain shamans to intervene.

Seriously speaking, this time, the battle in the Murky Valley was not an official war between the Witch Civilization and the Calamity Plane. It was just a spur of the moment attack on the Wizard World by a certain 6th Order Calamity Lord.

And for such a small fight, those extra-territorial great sorcerers were naturally not interested in participating in it. A single 6th Order Calamity Lord can't swallow the entire Sorcerer's World anyway, so this is a good opportunity to train the younger generation within the surface and give them a chance to make a difference.

Anyway, they didn't care if they lost any more 4th rank. What they really cared about was whether or not any 4th rank would take this opportunity to leap to 5th rank, and only such an individual would be eligible for them to pay a little attention.

After all, the Out-of-Domain Sorcerer camp also had large and small sorcerer organizations. Being able to bring in a new blood to your organization in time was a pretty good thing!

Thus, a powerful sorcerer like Grim who was already halfway to the 5th rank would soon have a large number of extra-domain organizations sniffing around to recruit and buy them.

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

After the Great War, the harvesting of the spoils was always a joyous process.

For Arisa's death in battle, several central wizards gathered around and sealed his body and relics after a simple mourning ceremony.

When they returned to Central in the future, these items were to be returned to Arisa's clan intact. As for how they would inherit and divide Arisa's wealth and territory within them, that was a matter for the Menso clan itself.

As the co-owner of the central part of the country, Grim had to show something, mindful of the fact that Arisa had also died unexpectedly for the sake of the central part of the country, thus granting the Manso family a hundred year protection period.

Within this hundred years, the Manso Family still enjoyed the treatment of a 4th rank power and was blessed by the Crimson Family, and would not be attacked by any wizard family.

If, after a hundred years, the Manso family was lucky enough to promote a 4th rank, they would naturally be able to continue to rule that huge family territory. However, if there was still no 4th rank sorcerer, it would be downgraded to an ordinary 3rd rank power.

At that time, their former huge family territory would become the coveted meat of the surrounding Sorcerer Families, and they would end up scrambling for it.

And such survival of the fittest was also in line with the central development trend, so Grim would not intervene.

After dealing with Arisa's matter, the next step was to divide up those spoils of war.

In this battle, the central part along with Grim harvested a rank 5 Dobby Giant and a rank 4 Giant Winged Serpent Dragon. Among them, the Dobby Giant was taken by Grim alone, and the entire proceeds were naturally shared by him, while the Giant Winged Serpent Dragon was to be shared by the remaining six Sorcerers.

But before sharing, Grim, as the number one wizard in Central, was naturally still qualified to pick one trophy first. And this was a kind of disguised offering and filial respect from Clara and the others!

Having already received the remains of two Level 5 Calamity Little Lords in his bag, Grim had already eaten to his heart's content, so he no longer harped on Clara and the others too much.

Therefore, after taking away most of the Giant Winged Serpent Dragon's blood, Grim symbolically gave Clara and the others the right to divide the blood.

It was this bit of blood that Grim had also given Mary to ask for.

It took the six Central 4 Steps immediately hid aside, arguing with each other, and it took a full ten hours before the entire Giant Winged Serpent Dragon was completely divided.

The one who contributed the most, Declan, naturally reaped the lion's share, getting most of the Giant Winged Serpent Dragon's skeleton and hundreds of kilograms of flesh and blood. Clara, on the other hand, teamed up with Alfred to take down the pair of Terror Giant Wings, as well as a small amount of flesh and blood. How they split it up later was up to them.

Matthew obtained the Snake Dragon's mutilated soul, and with this offering, he would have absolutely no problem contracting another rank 4 creature from the Otherworld.

Nicholas, on the other hand, obtained the Dragon Crystal, and looking at him with a smiling face, it seemed like that thing really had some sort of great use for him.

Roderick obtained the Giant Winged Serpent Dragon Scaled Armor and a pair of front claws, which were used to create some powerful wizards.

If Clara and the others ate to their hearts' content, then Grim's trip could be considered to have fallen into a bumper crop.

The Level 5 Multi-Headed Serpent Lizard Five-Face had contributed him 4 top-grade elemental crystals and a Level 5 Venomous Rule Crystal. Among them, the 5th Order Rule Crystal had already been devoured by the Remy from the Book of Filthy Darkness. It could be expected that after it completely digested this treasure, the Plague Poison Spirit Remy would definitely be able to become a Super Tiered Artifact as well.

At that time, it would be qualified to truly harness this 5th-rank artifact!

When drying off the five faces, Grim borrowed the 5th level flame divine technique 'Scorched Earth', which was so powerful that it damaged the entire booty. The stage 5 multi-armed giant Zagu, on the other hand, had been killed by Grim's fire in one fell swoop, thus contributing more treasures and materials to Grim with his remains intact.

Thus, while Clara and the others were there gleefully dividing up the loot, Grim was also scanning through the chip and quickly came up with a list of materials that made his mouth go dry!