Age of Adepts

"Welcome, Don Congenas!"

Mary showed due respect for this undead witch, though.

Besides the fact that on the one hand, this Congenas was the head of the Department of Necromancy at the Horton School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he was also the only powerful caster that Grim had mentioned whose future achievements were not inferior to his. Either of those two points deserved the respect that Mary offered herself for it now.

"It's what I'm supposed to do!"

As the top undead witch demon, Congenas had long since abandoned his decaying skin and transformed his body and skeleton into a strange substance similar to a magic crystal. This substance combined ultra-high anti-magic properties with extremely strong defensive power, and was immune to attacks from small demonic weapons.

And with the deep fusion between Kangonas and the Casket of Severe Winter, the surface of its Witch Body also lingered with two layers of magical aura similar to the aura of rules.

Ordinary 4th stage sorcerers, not to mention confrontation, I'm afraid that even a little closer to it will have to endure the dual invasion of the power of death and the power of winter, before the start of the battle their own strength will be greatly reduced.

And the reason why Kangenas was willing to take the time to participate in the academy's celebration was of course on Grim's behalf. It lifted its crystal head, its empty eye sockets set with two full, round, large rubies. And it condensed like a cruciform scarlet soul fire was hidden behind the gems.

"I didn't come here by myself this time, but I also brought a few friends... "Connors turned to Mary and introduced her, "This is Serpentess Silsina... ...This one is the Sand King...all old friends that Grim had dealt with. And this one is the Wraith Raisas..."

At this point Congenas suddenly turned to the spirit language and had a secret private chat with Mary.

"Raisas is here on behalf of the Witch Alliance, and wishes to meet with His Excellency Grim once. I wonder if His Excellency Mary can arrange that?"

Mary looked slightly moved, her gaze passing over each of the faces of the several visitors.

It had to be said that the lowest guy who could deal with Kangenas had to be a 4th rank.

A powerful snake woman of rank 4, a powerful insect lord of rank 4, a mysterious witch messenger of rank 4... these guys were no slouches, and I don't know when Grim had made friends with them.

"His Excellency Kangenas might as well stay here for a few days, I will try to contact Grim as soon as possible. If it's appropriate, he'll definitely come out to meet you all!" Mary soothed with warm words.

She knew that it was impossible to invite these otherworldly powerhouses with her own love and credentials. The reason why the other side was willing to travel hundreds of millions of miles to the Witch World to participate in a new power's founding celebration was all in Grim's face.

From this perspective, it seemed that Grim wasn't a blank slate when it came to the operation of extra-territorial powers.

Having gotten the promise, the Kangonas stopped pestering.

At Mary's invitation, they also followed behind Mary and walked together to the banquet high platform.

The banquet high platform was a huge square hall of ten thousand meters in size, with three high-backed chairs of different colors placed in a zigzag at the top.

The middle chair was the largest, dark red in color, and the two smaller chairs were placed to the left and right, at the back. The one on the left was dark in color, with a little silver light on it representing the stars; the one on the right was bright red, like the scarlet of flowing blood.

Mary, dressed in full dress, walked straight up to the right side of the blood-colored high chair and turned around to sit down.

All the guests and emissaries from all sides also entered, and took their seats under the guidance of the Academy's sorcerer, and soon the banquet hall was filled to the brim.

At this time, many lithe elven maidens entered, placing fruits and drinks for these witches and powerful people from all over the world. The different races had different preferences, so the contents of the display were each different and vastly different.

Taking advantage of this free moment, Mary looked around from her seat, identifying the guests of honor one by one.

Thunder Lord Ames and its lovers and men....

The snake woman, Scylla, and her four clansmen....

The grotesquely shaped Sand King was alone instead....

The Wraith Congenas and that Wraith Union emissary Raisas, and many of his men....

The many 4th rank wizards and their relatives and subordinates in the middle of the continent....

And in the forefront of the first group on the right side of the banquet hall, Mary saw some fae that were completely different in form and appearance from humans.

Sea Naga, a strange creature that lived in the deep sea.

They had an indigo complexion, fine scales on their bodies, a long, flat tail like a snake, and a baked upper body like that of a human beauty. They are generally pretty, with long, slender, pointed faces, long green hair in the shape of seaweed, purple-black lips, and necks, wrists, and ears adorned with scallops, coral, and night pearls.

In fact, most of the sea creatures are odd-looking and do not fit the aesthetic viewpoint of human shamans. However, except for the Sea Naga tribe, they have a humanoid appearance, and also possess considerable intelligence, relying on the huge number of tribes to cultivate a large number of witches.

Yes, there is a serious gender occupational division within the Sea Naga, with most male Sea Naga turning into warrior-type melee professionals, while women are mostly spell-casting professionals like witches or priests.

The other sea creatures were not weak, but the only one who was willing to maintain contact with the land-based human sorcerers and carry out correspondence was the Sea Naga tribe.

This time, the Hainaga tribe came to participate in the celebration of the establishment of Horton Sorcery School, but in reality, they came to meet, greet and trade some much-needed sorcerer resources with strong human sorcerers from all over the world.

The Sea Tribe's alchemy process is extremely primitive and crude, so it covets the magical items, sorcery items and trinkets in the hands of human witches. What they can give out are mostly rare deep sea fish, coral, ores and other witchcraft materials.

This exchange was beneficial to both sides, which was why the Sea Naga were so eager to participate in all of the continent's witch events!

After nodding her head in greeting with the señorita who was the head of the señorita's 4th rank witch, Sech, Mary shifted her gaze to the subterranean man on their side.

Just like the other planes, there existed an underground world in the Witch World that was completely isolated from the surface. There was an extreme lack of resources, food, and population, but it also nurtured some unique underground life.

However, in such a dark and deep environment, it was difficult to cultivate true spell casters, so the underground creatures that came to congratulate them were mostly lizard assassins, insect spirits, and other special life forms.

The reason why they had come to participate in the Horton Witchcraft Academy's celebration was similar to those Hainaga witches, but for the sake of being able to take the opportunity to carry out cross-regional trade or resource exchange.

In this regard, if they wanted to occupy a place in the trade system in the middle of the continent, negotiations with the Horton Witchcraft Academy, the largest witch organization in the middle, were inevitable. In order to show their sincerity, both parties brought a large number of top-grade rare resources unique to their respective regions as a congratulatory gift.

For these, Mary only needed to gladly smile and accept them. As for the specific negotiation matters, Emelia or Meryl would discuss further with them.

After dealing with the two major foreign races in a proper manner, Mary then turned her attention to the other two major witch organizations that had come to congratulate her: the Silver Alliance and the Witch of the North.

The representative sent by the Silver Alliance was still the same Deputy Speaker of Melony, followed by several Alliance members with silver robes by their sides and silver badges on their chests.

The Silver Alliance was also a sorcerer organization that did not limit its origin or race, and only valued individual arcane strength. Therefore, the councilors had a mixture of races, ranging from humans, elves, dwarves to rats.

Almost all of the members of the Alliance were pure magic puppeteers, and their bodies were covered with exquisite and delicate magic armor. These armor constructs are like another layer of skin covering their bodies, engraved with fine and intricate magic patterns, and from time to time, they emit striking elemental aura.

This kind of armor construction technology is also an arcane sorcerer ability unique to the Silver Alliance.

When it was time to fight, these metal-looking armor constructs would arm the puppeteers in the shortest amount of time, and the rune wizards etched on them would grant them special sorcery abilities.

With this armor, the puppeteer has an additional piece of magical armor that can help him fight.

Therefore, they may be relatively weak on their own, but once they are combined with the armor, they can exert more than several times their own power.

This, was an alternative path of strengthening that the arcane sorcerers had carved out for themselves!

Seeing Mary's gaze cast over, that Meloni Deputy Speaker also stood up with emotion and said loudly, "This time, I have come as a congratulatory representative assigned by Alliance Speaker Salvini. This is a special congratulatory gift prepared by our Silver Alliance, and I hope that Your Excellency Mary won't mind."

With that said, Meloni gave a wink, and a Rat MP on his side stood up and took out a four-square silver chessboard and threw it into the center of the hall.

Immediately the silver chessboard rapidly grew in size, and in an instant became a huge chessboard covering an area of a hundred meters square, on which thirty-two metal chess pieces of different colors and shapes were divided into left and right sides respectively piled up.

These metal chess pieces were either armored warriors with giant shields and swords, palace sorcerers with sorcerer's staffs, dwarves pushing and shoving magic cannons, or beast tamers chasing beasts.......

Looking at the shape, the style, it is exactly a board game that is more popular among the human dignitaries in the Wizard Continent.

When the chessboard grid was unfolded, the metal pieces divided into two sides also began to move in a lifelike manner. They roared, roared, or banged on their weapon armor, challenging the opposite pieces in every way possible....