Age of Adepts

November 5, 33072 on the wizarding calendar.

It was a great day worthy of capitalization.

On this day, the fourth large wizard organization in the wizarding world was smoothly born in the middle of the continent, and its name was called 'Horton Witchcraft Academy'.

From its inception, this Horton Witchcraft Academy was located near Ironwood City in the Crimson Family's Alois region. The territory that directly belonged to the academy was about 1/5 the size of the Ellowes region, and it was a public academy open to the public.

Now, with the infusion of power from all the Central 4th rank forces, Horton Witchcraft Academy had become a giant witchcraft public academy, ruling over almost 70% of the 31 regions in the central part of the continent.

The influx of high, middle and low ranked witches also made Horton Witchcraft Academy's faculty unprecedentedly large, enough to surpass the Northland and Silver Alliance as the second most powerful witch organization in the entire witch world.

Of course, every reputable witch organization had to have a powerful witch existing as the soul core in order to serve as a rallying point for the high ranking witches. Only when these top-ranked wizards were united as a group, could the entire wizarding organization become a powerful organization with a great deterrent power externally and internally.

And the worthy soul of the newly established Horton Witchcraft Academy was that legendary Fire Witch Grim!

It could be politely said that it was only because of the legendary Fire Witch Grim's power that was far greater than his peers that he had broken the pattern of the middle of the continent being scattered, cleared the geographical boundaries, and subdued all of the central 4th stage.

Such a great achievement, even if one looked through all the sorcery books, it would be hard to find a guy who could compare to it. If you go back to the ancient times, only those three powerful sorcerers who founded the three great sorcerer organizations can be compared to them.

Those three powerful sorcerers had become great existences of the 9th rank, and were the most respected leaders and pioneers of the entire sorcerer civilization.

Thus, in many private discussions, many sorcerers were secretly wondering if this legendary fire witch Grim would one day become such a powerful and great top-ranked sorcerer as well!

Especially, when many people learned from side information that the reason why that Legendary Fire Witch was absent from the entire preparation and expansion ceremony of the Horton Witchcraft Academy was because he had embarked on that evolutionary path that led straight to the 5th level.

Perhaps the next time that Legendary Fire Witch would make an appearance would be the moment when it would become a Grand Sorcerer!

This also meant that this newly established Horton Witchcraft Academy had the full support of a future Grand Sorcerer behind it.

A 5th rank Grand Sorcerer who was temporarily stuck within the Wizarding World....

Honestly, there's nothing more substantial than that!

The reason why those three major witch organizations didn't step in to stop the establishment of the Horton Witchcraft Academy, and even sent someone to attend the organization's founding celebration in person.

I'm afraid that this was the most crucial factor!

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Ironwood City.

The location of Horton Witchcraft Academy's headquarters.

From the beginning of November, Ironwood City became a sea of singing and dancing celebrations.

The expansion of the Horton School of Witchcraft and Wizardry had made Ironwood City a world-famous place for witches. Here, the witch beasts and goblins galloping on the ground were witches, and the ferocious birds and exotic beasts soaring in the sky were witches.

Even on the streets, the ones who were hurrying along with their happy faces were still sorcerers.......

This place has become a world of witches, and witches can be seen in every corner, in every space, everywhere. The ones who served as waiters and waitresses here were a large number of apprentice witches who had come from all over the world to study.

The headquarters of the Horton Witchcraft Academy was also beyond the scope of ordinary witch organizations, occupying almost every inch of land within a hundred-mile radius of Ironwood City. Witchcraft halls, libraries, alchemy laboratories, magic weapons factories, witchcraft practice grounds and other witchcraft buildings had risen from the ground and were scattered around Ironwood City.

The apprentices who came to Houghton Witchcraft Academy from abroad would have to spend several months or even half a year just to familiarize themselves with the various witchcraft facilities within the school. If they wanted to go to any of the witchcraft buildings as they wished, they needed to equip themselves with a Goblin Landbird or Goblin Sports Car.

Otherwise, they would have to spend more than half of their time each day just running between the library and the labs!

After the deep transformation of the Horton School of Witchcraft and Sorcery, Ironwood City had become a magic weapon city. There were magic energy pools everywhere, magic weapon rental places everywhere, and magic weapon factories everywhere, all of which gave everyday life to the convenience and magic of magic machines.

However, due to the sheer number of witches, the radiation of witchcraft energy, although filtered by the Purifying Witch Formation, would still cause irreversible and massive damage to ordinary people. Therefore, the minimum number of people who could set foot within a hundred miles of Iron Forest City was an apprentice sorcerer.

Of course, as the reputation of the Horton Witchcraft Academy grew, some of the more outstanding intelligent creatures or races were selected from the 127 sub-dimensions that belonged to the Academy's property, and were able to study within the Academy.

As a result, a large number of foreign students with strange forms, customs, and races suddenly appeared in Ironwood City.

In order to control the number of foreign students in the academy from becoming too widespread, the Horton Witchcraft Academy granted each sub-dimension a limit of five foreign students per decade, and their age could not exceed 30 years (except for special races).

Therefore, humans in the Wizarding World who possess elemental talents can be selected as Wizard Apprentices and enter the outer organizations of the academy. These Academy foreign students, on the other hand, did not enjoy this benefit.

Almost every one of them was a genius within the younger generation of their respective planes.

Moreover, within their realm, in order to qualify as a foreign student who went to the main level of the Sorcerer World to further their studies, it was necessary to go through a bloody elimination and fight.

There were geniuses every year, but the places were always so scarce.

Moreover, the secondary plane had its own power elite, who wouldn't want to send their nearest and dearest to the main plane to receive the highest level of sorcery education and cultivation for the entire sorcerer system.

After all, even if any foreign student who was successful in their studies did not become a sorcerer, with the connections and networks they had established during their apprenticeship, they could easily become a member of the ruling class upon returning to their own throne.

This act of 'gilding' was also undoubtedly the easiest way for the ruling class to close in on the witches!

Therefore, the foreign students who were able to go through a bloody fight and elimination, and stand out from the thousands of horses and soldiers, were all outstandingly skilled. The reason they were unknown before was simply because they lacked opportunities.

Now, Horton Witchcraft Academy had given them that opportunity!

The academy's top management treated all students entering the academy equally, without any discrimination or bias. As long as one could brush up enough credits and complete specific academy tasks, the academy would give quantitative resources for sorcerer training.

And whether they could succeed or not would depend on their own luck and strength!

With such an unbiased style and almost terrifying resources, Horton Witchcraft School quickly produced its first batch of full-fledged witches with the school's style in the five years since its establishment and trial run.

There were also a number of foreign students who had successfully advanced to the rank of witch and become part of the wizarding system.

Today, November 5th, was the day that the Horton Witchcraft and Wizardry Academy was officially established, and it was also a great day of celebration for all the witches and apprentices who had lived in the Ironwood City courtyard over the past five years!

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Ironwood City.

Inside the towering Sorcerer's Tower in the central area.

Dressed in a magnificent wizard's robe, Mary stood quietly on the highest floor of the tower, calmly looking down through the airless window at the chessboard-like uniformity of the streets and the ant-like movement of the crowd below her.

Behind her, four young and beautiful elf maids were carefully dressing her with intricate and unusual witchcraft ornaments.

Each of the ornaments had a faint halo of magical light on them, and when they were placed on Mary's robe, they would echo with the runes on them, creating a glorious and brilliant effect.

Mary's strength had also been advancing by leaps and bounds since she had fused with the Nightmare Castle.

As a result, these elf maids could perceive the pinprick-like radiation of witchcraft energy even if they just stayed at her side. And what was even more frightening was that the Blood Law and Nightmare Aura that Mary controlled were both extremely intrusive.

Staying at her side for more than fifteen minutes would have the dire consequences of blood loss and nightmares haunting her.

Therefore, those who could stay by Mary's side and serve her were female elves with 2nd rank strength.

While Mary was thoughtfully overlooking Ironwood City, Emelia, who already possessed 3rd rank intermediate strength, was holding a long document in her hand, softly reporting to her about the arrangements for the establishment celebration.

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"The celebratory representative sent by the Silver Alliance is that Vice Chancellor Meloni, with an entourage of...congratulatory gifts sent...and has been arranged to stay temporarily in Hall 7, to be hosted by Lord Everard and Isa! "

"The celebratory representative sent by the Northlands is the Fraudulent Witch Chieftain Angelina, and the attendants have...sent congratulatory gifts...which have been arranged to be received by Clara-sama and Lelia at Hall 9! "

As she listened quietly, Mary inquired without turning her head.

"What about the Wizarding Council?"

"There's no word yet..."

At this moment, it had been less than an hour since the start of the celebration, and there was still no news from the Sorcerer's Association. This had clearly indicated their attitude!

Mary grunted and kept quiet.

Emelia stole a glance up and could only continue to report down.

"The Sea Tribe, the Underworld, and the Storm Kingdom have also sent representatives to observe the ceremony, and I've assigned someone to receive them..."

"The preparations for the celebration have all been completed, and it will then be necessary for you, Lord Mary, to be present to preside over the entire ceremony..."

"The general flow of the celebration consists of the following..."

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