Age of Adepts

As soon as Grim woke up, his mental activity was captured by the foreign brain that controlled the entire Steel Capital.

"Master, you've woken up. During the time you were asleep, I have received eleven meeting invitations one after another..."

The hall immediately reverberated with the mental waves of the alien brain Ghazluvi.

An invitation to a meeting?

Grim's mental energy was swiftly linked to the ectobrain, and a large amount of relevant data immediately flooded into his conscious body like a torrent.

In the past, he would never have dared to have this kind of direct data connection with the ectobrain. After all, the human brain couldn't compare to the foreign brain, and without strong data computing and brain support, the data impact alone would be enough to cause unpredictable mental damage to any consciousness body.

'Burning Ring' Suna....

'Darkwing' Al....

'Witchcraft Research Federation' Gorman....

The 'Bloodborne Society' Frideric....

'Witching Light' Albert....

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Honestly, Grim couldn't help but feel giddy and dazed as he looked at the names of wizarding organizations and a complete stranger all over the place.

It was difficult for him to get in touch with these great wizards with his past levels.

At that time, even if he had prepared a gift to go to their door, it would have been difficult for him to get the slightest attention from them. But now, after becoming a 5th rank Grand Sorcerer, even if he sat behind closed doors, snowflakes of invitations would come pouring in.

It was just that... Grim knew almost nothing about this information, and how he should respond would be a double-take.

However, with such an extra-territorial know-it-all guarding around him, Grim naturally wouldn't let it go for nothing. So, with the help of a mental link, Grim quickly obtained most of the information he wanted from the foreign brain.

It had to be said that the extra-territorial camp was truly a hodgepodge of fish and dragons!

Most of the people who were stationed here all year round were 'old academics' who didn't like to fight and only liked to bury their heads in the lab to do some research and experiments. Their strength might be above most of the middle and high level witches, but they were typically 'weak' within the 5th level group.

Once they left the Witch Tower, once they left the camp, it was completely unknown how much of their battle power they could bring out!

It was because these Grand Sorcerers had a long lifespan, so in order to study what they liked, they had created a large tandem in a dozen or so Sorcerer camps, creating one small Sorcerer organization after another that was difficult for outsiders to understand.

These witch organizations usually consisted of only three or five people, and most of their members were mainly great wizards, with the occasional 4th rank with exceptional talent invited to join. They were usually only formed around a certain topic that everyone was interested in, and did not involve much interest or power.

This was the case with things like the Witchcraft Research Federation and Witchcraft Light.

And beyond that, there are special wizarding organizations that recruit members based on like-minded philosophies and belong to secret groups that are more tightly connected, more organized, and more binding.

These organizations included the Burning Ring, the Dark Wings, and the Blood Source Society.

According to the information collected by Ectobrain in the past 200 years, the Burning Ring mainly recruits fire spell casters, and is also considered a small organization formed by all the fire sorcerers in Esoda and several surrounding camps.

The Dark Wings, on the other hand, was a mysterious organization made up by a group of dark witches, with unknown members, unknown research content, and unknown location of the organization.

The Bloodline Society was instead based in Camp Esoda, a secret organization dedicated to bloodline research. The reason why they had extended an invitation to Grim was probably somewhat related to his possession of a star beast bloodline.

After going through the intelligence data of the different brains, Grim was able to briefly understand the origin of these meeting invitations.

It should be noted that with the top level of power in the wizarding world nearing saturation, the number of 5th level Grand Sorcerers who had stepped out of the main plane over the years was diminishing.

Therefore, with new blood being rare, it was no wonder that most of the wizard organizations in Camp Esoda had reached out to Grim, looking forward to an early meeting with him.

And after looking through the eleven meeting invitations, Grim strangely found two familiar names in them.

The Great Sorcerer of Sarupo....

The Great Wizard of Onyek....

Seeing these two names, Grim couldn't help but furrow his brow and fall into a long thought.

They could be rank 6 Grand Sorcerers! And...Grim had some history with them all.

Onek was the current controller of Camp Esoda, although there was also an Irunwald rank 7 Grand Sorcerer above him. However, the latter had been absent for hundreds of years at every turn, so most of the time, the internal affairs of Camp Esoda were handled by this 6th rank Onek Grand Sorcerer.

It was also reasonable and logical for him to invite Grim to a meeting.

However, that Sarubo 6th Order Grand Sorcerer was a bit of a problem.

Seriously speaking, Grim and this Sarupo still had some conflicts.

Grim had originally come from within the Sarupo family, and had spent his time from apprenticing as a sorcerer until advancing to the 2nd rank. During that time, he had also had the opportunity to have a brief contact with this Sarupo Grand Sorcerer.

Although it was only a billet projection of the Sarupo Grand Sorcerer, it was able to uphold most of the will of his original body.

As for later, Grim had a falling out with a few of the family's higher-ups, and then angrily ran away to create his own Crimson Family. Piecemeal, the open and hidden rivalry between the Crimson Family and the Sarupo Family had been going on for three or four hundred years.

The most serious conflict between the two sides was at a 3rd rank witch selection tournament held in the Scattered Tallinn, where Grim's powerful crush knocked the 3rd rank Sanaza unconscious on the spot, losing the best chance to become a 4th rank.

After that, Sanaza was never seen again, and seemed to have been transferred to some other dimension, replaced within the family by another purple-eyed witch.

From all of this, it was easy to see that the conflict between the Sarupo family and Grim had become very serious. So, why did the great Sarupo wizard want to meet Grim at this moment?

I didn't come here to teach him a lesson!

Grim asked himself, if he was really Jairus' guy, he would have eradicated the Sarupo family by the roots during his time ruling the central part of the country. The main reason why he hadn't touched the Sarupo Family was because of the face of this 6th rank Grand Sorcerer.

Therefore, the malicious element of the other party's move should not be high, and it was more likely that they just wanted to ease the relationship. After all, Grand Sorcerer Sarupo had been away from the Sorcerer World for a long time, and his family's power had been waning, while Grim's Crimson Family was as strong as ever in the center.

Grim closed his eyes in thought, gradually running through the work that needed to be done one by one later.

Finally, Grim opened his eyes and contacted the ectoplasmic brain, "Contact that Lord Onec for me. Let it be said that I, Grim, will be making a personal visit!"

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Out of Domain, Camp Esoda.

Central Witch Tower.

As Grim entered the hall on the first floor wearing a simple red witching robe, the witches entering and exiting the place avoided the sides and took it upon themselves to stroke his chest.

There were no weaklings who could make a living outside the domain.

The worst ranked of these witches were 2nd ranked senior, and most of them wore an earthy yellow badge on their chests that represented Camp Esoda. This meant that they belonged to the management team of Camp Esoda and had the appropriate law enforcement powers.

None of them had ever met Grim, but it didn't prevent them from knowing Grim's identity.

Grim was the only rank 5 Grand Sorcerer from the main plane of the Sorcerer World in the last 500 years!

Thus, the day after Grim's arrival at Camp Esoda, his portrait and achievements were already going around the camp. Of course, the camp sorcerers pursued this information partly out of curiosity, and partly because they wanted to get to know the legendary fire wizard so as not to unintentionally offend or clash with the great sorcerer.

This is a common occurrence in out-of-area camps.

After a few times of this, all the camp witches learned their lesson.

The first homework they needed to do at every out-of-territory camp was to buy a copy of the intelligence information about the camp's head. With this, it was the only way to keep from causing some uncontrollable trouble.

So, in the eleven years that Grim had been sleeping without showing his face, everything about him had gone crazy in the camp.

The fastest advancing wizard.......fierce in battle, even unifying the entire central region......beheading multiple calamitous small lords......spiking the Vulcan Projection....

Any of the above taken out would be enough to make one speculate for a long time about the mega news. Yet right now, they were all converging on a newly promoted 5th rank Grand Sorcerer.

Thus, during this time, the name Grim was literally thundering like a sunrise in Camp Esoda. For a time, the limelight even overshadowed some of the older 5th Order Grand Sorcerers.

The most direct consequence of this was that as soon as Grim stepped out of the Iron Capital and arrived at the gate of the Tower of Sorcery, which was located in the center of Camp Esoda, he was recognized by every sorcerer he met.

Truth be told, stepping into a completely unfamiliar territory, yet being greeted with a bow by every stranger you bumped into. This strange psychological experience made Grim look so strange that he didn't even know how he should react.

Good thing he was a great wizard, no one would dare pick on him here.

The first person who came out to greet Grim was also an old acquaintance, Kaelph, the head of Esoda's camp inspection department, at the peak of the 4th rank.

After inquiring about Grim's intentions, Caelph enthusiastically communicated with the Witch Tower Tarin Comps on his behalf.

So, led by a 4th stage constructed puppet, Grim entered the central witch tower with an odd face, arrived at the 23rd floor, and personally knocked on the door of that Ernak Grand Sorcerer.