Age of Adepts

Looking at this déjà vu content, Grim had a very odd expression on his face.

It was only after a long time that he looked at Saints with a seeming smile and said softly, "The last compulsory recruitment mission seems to have been issued by you as well, that mission is memorable to me! And now you're recommending a similar mission to me...it seems that we are truly destined to meet."

Saints also laughed together, "It was indeed meant to be. But that time I gave that mission to Fried, who knew that he would push you out to fill in the numbers. If it wasn't for that 'chance', I'm afraid you wouldn't have become a great sorcerer so smoothly. In that case, it does seem to be a coincidence..."

"Then His Excellency and Fred..."

"Nothing to do with it. It's just that he wants to take a share of the trade inside the camp through my means, so he'll supply me regularly!"

"Then would I not be spoiling His Excellency's good fortune!"

"Just a few low-level resources! What do you think a guy who hides inside the bit and doesn't even dare to participate in a major bit war is going to be good for?" Saints laughed and explained, "He did ask me for help once, but I turned him down!"

"Why?"

"Thus the great sorcerers who leave the Wizarding World are almost all reluctant to participate in the internal battles of the bit plane anymore. Once they get involved, they will trigger the bit consciousness to turn against them. Once the bit consciousness does something bad and lowers my rule compatibility, wouldn't I have more to lose than to gain! Especially guys like you who are blessed by the bit consciousness, no one dares to touch them..."

"Not necessarily," Grim seemed to remember something and he said, "I was attacked by a great wizard billet just inside the bit, and his name seems to be... Douglas!"

"Douglas?" Saints was appalled and asked rhetorically, "Douglas of the Silver League?"

"I don't know which side he belongs to, but by the looks of the signs, he's really close to someone inside the Silver Alliance." Grim hesitated.

"That's him!" Saints sighed, "Douglas, the guy who was promoted to Grand Sorcerer by the Silver Alliance 1200 years ago, is now at the 6th level and has long since left Camp Esoda. It is said that..."

At this point, Saints stole a glance up at Grim before whispering, "It's said that he's now mixed up with a certain witch and is already thinking of leaving the Silver Alliance. That's why he had to leave the camp to avoid trouble... Of course, this is all just gossip!"

Witches....avoiding disaster....

Grim's brow furrowed slightly, vaguely feeling as if there was a hint of connection between these two things. It was just that he had never studied the art of divination and prophecy, so he couldn't deduce some of the hidden secrets behind them based on these traces.

Seeing Grim pondering there, Saints didn't press, but casually picked up a book of sorcery and silently flipped through it.

After a long time, Grim finally raised his head and inquired, "If I'm interested in this recruitment mission, who should I contact?"

"Jie Jie Jie... just talk to me and I'll naturally contact that side for you."

"What about Sarupo-sama's side..."

"Don't worry about that, I can assure you that Lord Sarupo will never bring down your crime because of that little matter. Besides, if you participate in the mission, you might even run into Lord Sarupo over there!"

Grim got the information he wanted and didn't delay, saying goodbye to Saints and returning directly to the Steel Capital.

Of course, there was no way Grim would believe anything Saints said. Therefore, he also explained that Iso-Brain Ghazluvi was in the camp to get information related to this recruitment mission.

The Isobrain Ghazluvi had been stationed at Camp Esoda for more than two hundred years, and had some of its own gateways and ways. And the recruitment quests it had spied back were not one, but as many as five.

This also meant that the entire witch camp was fighting against five parties at the moment, and they had apparently spread the call for quests to all places where wizards gathered. Any sorcerer who was interested in these quests, or wanted to sharpen their will in a life or death situation, could voluntarily sign up for these conquests.

And the pay for the quests was very generous!

At least it was much more lucrative than hanging around inside the camp waiting to die.

In this regard, that Saints recommending conscription missions to himself was not much of a conspiracy calculation.

All of the mission descriptions were similar, there was an attack on the Demon Eye Empire, a war with the Abyssal Realm, an assault on the Dragon Plane... In short, there was a need for manpower everywhere, and there were preparations for war everywhere, which was completely different from the leisurely and loose life of a wizard that Grim had originally thought.

Grim hesitated for a long time, but in the end, he still couldn't resist his curiosity about the Large Plane War and got in touch with that Cains.

Having received an affirmative answer from Grim, that Saints was also overjoyed. This made Grim couldn't help but speculate a little as to whether or not the Saints would also get some nice benefits as a referral.

But for these minor details, Grim no longer pursued them, and instead focused on arranging the affairs within the camp.

The matter of building the Sorcerer's Tower in the Fire Elemental Plane was left to Split Brain Sock. With the Bit Waymark that Grim had left there, and with the assistance of the 4-stage Embers Web Spider Mother Lacbeth that had been placed there beforehand, the matter of building the tower would not be interfered with by the other fire elemental creatures.

The only challenge now was the need to rush a batch of engineering magic weapons that could withstand the fire elemental plane's harsh flame environment, as well as acquiring a large number of stone and witch array materials for building the tower.

These things could not be rushed, and could only be collected a little bit at a time.

According to the chip's estimates, without five or six years of work, this witch tower would not be erected.

And in the meantime, Grim had nothing to do inside the camp, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to take the opportunity to witness the large-scale bit war that Saints was talking about.

Such a conscription mission wasn't mandatory anyway, and Grim could always shrug it off and come back if he didn't have a good time there, without having to worry about being assigned to the most dangerous places like he did last time.

And that, was the fundamental reason why Grim was willing to accept the conscription mission!

Of course, that generous quest reward was also a secondary factor.

What resource bits, source materials, slaves... these things were rare, but as long as one was patient enough to collect them, they would always be rewarded. Then things like 5th level materials were hard to find in out-of-territory camps.

Grim was also blessed to have seized some 5th tier materials through the previous bit of battle. At that time, he didn't find them rare and precious, but when he came to the camp in Esoda to explore the market, he was surprised to find that the 5th tier materials had no price at all, no one would trade them.

Even if there was the occasional trade, it was a private sale of resources by the great sorcerers in exchange for goods.

The Tier 5 materials that Grim had obtained previously contained a portion of the remains of the multi-headed snake lizard, as well as the remains and soul of the multi-armed giant. Apart from the rule crystals and magic nucleus, which he could use, the rest of these items, although valuable, could only be sealed in the flame dimension for the time being.

Of course, if Grim could find a Master Puppet Master, he might be able to turn that Dobby Giant, who had lost his heart, had his blood sucked out of his body, and was partially missing, into a Stage 5 Terrifying Witch Beast.

That way, Grim would be able to have an additional 5th rank helper as well!

But unfortunately, the puppet master who was the strongest inside Esoda's camp was only a 4th rank. And such a guy was obviously incapable of handling such precious 5th rank materials.

Preferring to wait rather than waste, Grim had no choice but to let these materials gather dust in the warehouse!

The multi-armed giant's rule crystal is an earth rule, not qualified for Rim use, unable to absorb and fuse, and can only be left in hand to see if it can be exchanged with someone for a fire one.

As for the Dobby Giant's nucleus, with the extracted soul, it is possible to create a 5th-grade magic puppet. However, some of the more rare Tier 5 materials were needed to create it successfully, and these were precisely the things that were difficult to scrounge up from the market.

Thus, Grim had also placed his hopes on the reward of that 5th tier material from the conquest mission!

It had to be said that once the witches were mobilized, they were also quite efficient in their actions.

On the 6th day that Grim had agreed to the conscription mission, Selos informed him that he was leaving.

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

It was a massive giant rock castle floating in the depths of the starry sky.

Its size was large enough to be comparable to the main continent of small bits, and those who could step on it were all powerful sorcerers or elite sorcerer battalions from all over the sorcerer camp.

At this moment, however, on top of an open-air teleportation platform on the 73rd floor of the Giant Rock Castle, the white light representing the ultra-long-range bit-transfer had just begun to dissipate, revealing a tall and upright young man inside.

"It's the Grim Grand Sorcerer from Camp Esoda, isn't it! Please report to Lord Irunwald at War Hall 7..." waiting outside the teleportation array was a strange sorcerer with a bird-headed body, its rank was only 3, but the power in its body was unlike any sorcerer Grim had ever seen.

Grim stood still for a moment, getting over the slight discomfort he felt after the ultra teleportation, before he had a chance to look out over the surrounding scenery.

Overhead was a pitch-black night star filled with stars, and a huge and grand energy shield enveloped the entire Giant Rock Castle, insulating it from the tides of magic rushing outside and making the environment relatively mild.

Although the magical wind blowing through here was not as violent as the outside world, the terrifying energy radiation was still not something ordinary creatures could resist. According to the chip's estimation, in order to move freely here, the creature level must be at least 2nd stage advanced.

And just as Grim was glancing around for a moment, several surrounding platforms there lit up with a milky white teleportation light. Along with a spatial noise from Hitomi, a strong wizard of different forms appeared among them, arriving at this giant rock castle that represented the center of the wizard war.