Age of Adepts

Fire Elemental Plane, Altar of Molten Fire.

The void abruptly opened up with a dense dark red luster, a huge portal.

It could be seen that this void portal was unstable, and the spatial fluctuations above the light door made up of fire elements were so clear and obvious that the ever-vibrating space could be perceived from a hundred miles away.

It was only after a long time that the Void Portal was barely stable, and Grim dragged the dragon witch captive in his hand across the light portal to return to the molten fire altar.

"Welcome back, Master!" Sensing the spatial fluctuations, the embers web spider mother Lakebeth, who was in charge of the specific affairs here, and the split-brain Sock hurried to the light door to greet Grim.

"Take this bastard down and watch it, don't let it get away..." after Grim tossed the Dragon Wraith in his hand to the Spider Mother, he stood firm and began to seriously and carefully examine the molten fire altar in front of him.

The altar of molten fire had become a huge construction site at this moment.

Thousands of engineering magic weapons were busy near the Lava Lake, carrying stones, magic materials, magic alloys, and other various supplies. More native creatures of the fire elemental plane were being driven as hard labor to level the land and build a temporary road with volcanic rock that led straight to the center of the lava lake.

On the shore of the lava lake, a huge metal furnace was erected, and the straight upward exhaust vent spewed out heavy black smoke that almost covered the entire molten fire altar valley.

The magic iron ore from the out-of-area camp was put into it, and then under the rumbling process of crushing, stirring, sifting, quenching and purifying, it was turned into a magic iron alloy that could be used in the construction of the witch tower.

A metal column three meters thick and twenty meters long had been crafted and was stacked densely near the lake, waiting to be thrown into the lake as the foundation of the pagoda after the magical patterns and runes had been drawn.

Since the location of this witch tower could not be leaked out at will, these detailed jobs could only be done by higher-grade and more intelligent witchcraft puppets. Therefore, the progress of the project was not too fast.

At the current rate of advancement, it would probably take more than twenty long years for this witch tower to be completely completed. Such a speed was a tortoise compared to the Silver Alliance, but for the sake of safety, it could only be done.

After all, the Silver Alliance had a large number of arcane sorcerers inside, and the stones, magic materials and rune sorcerer formations they used were all half-finished products that had been prepared in advance. And all they needed to do was simply assemble them at the resident tower location and fuse them into a whole.

And if Grim wanted to build the Witch Tower, the magic patterns and witch formations on top of each stone, each portal needed to be carved out a little bit. With the scale of the Witch Tower he envisioned, that amount of work was so much that it could drive one crazy.

To be honest, if it wasn't for the fact that Split Brain Sock was able to multi-task and manipulate more than a dozen sorcery puppets at the same time to draw witch formations, the time to build the tower would have been even longer.

Grim slowly scanned the entire construction site in a circle, and was able to grasp the general situation of the place, seeing that everything was proceeding methodically according to plan, he finally nodded his head in satisfaction.

"How's it going, is the project going well? Just tell me all the problems together, and while I'm at it, it's all solved for you!"

Hearing Grim's question, Fractional Brain Sock couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Master, the temperature of the lava lake here is too high, ordinary engineering magic weapons will melt if they go down. Even if the special modulated anti-fire magic weapon went down, it wouldn't last long. Therefore, the construction site is now in desperate need of a number of big men who can move freely in the lava lake..."

"Oh?" Grim gazed at the fire elemental plane and thought for a moment, only the molten core giants seemed to fit Sock's description, the others were either too powerful or too few in number. Grim quickly turned to the embers web arachnid mother Lakebeth and asked in a deep voice, "Is there a tribe of molten core giants nearby? The number of clans should ideally be between 200 and 500, and strength... a 2nd rank would be enough!"

Lakebeth, the embers web spider mother, pondered and said softly, "I remember about a 7-day walk southeast from here, there's a tribe of molten core giants there, about 400 in number, and the leader is a 3rd rank."

"Well, that's them! You find someone to show me the way, I'll be there and back..."

Sitting on his words and not dragging his feet, after one tea, Grim set off with a rank 2 elite level embers web spider.

Half a month later, Grim returned to the valley with a group of tall molten core giants that numbered up to over 400. It could be seen that this group of molten core giants were both large and small, both adults and juveniles, and should have been a more complete tribal group.

It was a pity that the lead 3rd level molten core giant's body that was up to 11 meters tall was somewhat crooked and had obvious traces of external forces on it, as if it had been forcibly disassembled and put back together again, revealing an energy atmosphere that was about to fall to the 2nd level.

"Sock, this is the helper I got back for you. It's called Nasta, so they'll be in charge of completing the tower building work in the lava lake from now on! You should hurry up and supervise them not to be lazy and try to finish them as soon as possible!" As soon as Grim returned, he assigned the group of Molten Core Giants to Sock.

Fractional Brain Sock immediately smiled as he looked at the large men behind Grim, one next to the other.

The stone used to build the Witch Tower was easily three to five meters square and weighed several tons, so it was impossible for ordinary flame creatures or engineering magic weapons to move it, not to mention the piling and reinforcement of the tower's foundation at the bottom of the lava lake, which was 50 to 60 meters deep.

This kind of work, in such an environment, could not be carried out without a decent helper.

Now that we had the Molten Core Giant, everything would go smoothly according to plan!

Of course, while Grim wasn't paying attention, Split Brain Sork also secretly dragged that 3rd stage Fused Core Giant leader Nastar aside, curiously asking about the process of 'recruiting' it.

Almost as if he was 'crying tears', Nasta recounted the painful past of how that lord had transformed into a 100-meter flame giant and beat up all the molten giant warriors on the ground.

In particular, as the leader of the Molten Giant, Nastar's resistance was even more intense, which caused the other warrior to rage and tear his entire body into pieces. If Nasta didn't have some brains and bowed down early, he would have destroyed the entire Molten Giant clan in a fit of rage.

The fire creatures actually had this advantage.

Although they are usually violent and tyrannical, once they submit, they become loyal and never rebel. If it is unwilling to accept your rule, it will only challenge you in person and decide its own fate by winning or losing. And it will never scheme behind your back, nor will it be shady and engage in double-crossing that way.

So don't look at Grim's brutal act of hijacking and plundering the molten giants, nor does he promise them any material benefits. However, the moment the giants lowered their heads, they became Grim's most loyal and steadfast men and women.

In the fire elemental plane, whoever had the biggest fist was the king.

This... was the creed of power etched into the souls of all fire elemental creatures!

Simple, brutal, but with such a hint of cuteness....

The arrival of the molten core giants had added several hundred more top-heavy giants to the construction site.

Unlike other flame creatures whose bodies were constructed purely from exotic flames, the bodies of the molten giants were assembled from a single piece of molten fire rock, and the red lava flowing inside them was at a temperature of nearly a thousand degrees.

The special construction gave them a strong body and berserk strength not possessed by other low-grade flame creatures, and they were simply too apt to be used as bitter labor!

All the molten core giants lifted up a thick metal pillar and stepped into the lava lake. Soon, their bodies were engulfed by the dark red, sticky and terrifying lava.

In such a harsh environment, other magical creatures, and even magic weapons made of highly fire-resistant magical alloys, were unable to function properly. However, they moved as freely as a fish in water, and instead of being burned by the magma, they became more and more energetic.

In the bottom of the lava lake, which has a temperature of 2,000 degrees, the molten fire giants stepped on the soft and molten rocks and drove the metal pillars, which were engraved with magical symbols and witch formations, into the rocks in a specific direction.

Strangely enough, as soon as these normally inconspicuous metal pillars came into contact with the hot magma, the magical patterns on their surfaces lit up one by one. An invisible magical force field spread out, pushing the surrounding liquid lava even further away.

And when all 128 metal pillars were in place in a ring shape, the magical force field they gathered to constrain and form opened up a cavity nearly a mile square in the center of the lava lake.

As soon as the cavity area appeared, the large number of engineering magic weapons that had been waiting outside swarmed in and began to get busy like a swarm of ants.

With Grim's current status as a Grand Sorcerer, it was natural that those cheap volcanic rocks would no longer be used to build the Private Sorcerer Tower. The stones stacked like small mountains by the lava lake were not ordinary goods, but rather fire crystals that were quite rare even in the Fire Elemental Plane.

Fire Crystals were equivalent to the Magic Crystals of the Sorcerer's World in the Fire Elemental Plane, but they were a high-grade item of great value.

Now, however, they were the lowest base material for Grim to build his own Witch Tower!

Pieces of fire crystals were thrown into the cavity of the lava lake, while those engineered magic weapons busily stacked them up in a specific orientation and form. And while building the towers, intricate and arcane magic lines and sorcery runes were engraved on top of the base of the towers.

Sturdy runes, defensive sorcery lines, energy nodes, energy conduction, control sorcery lines, magic circuits... Each fire crystal was a small magic circuit and a small energy node. And linking them one by one, they also formed an increasingly large Rune Witch Formation.

Etching the grooves of the rune lines, filling them with the magic secret silver with the best magic conduction performance, and inlaying magic gems with varying functions and effectiveness at key nodes... Such a huge and complicated job, only the tireless engineering magic weapons and flame creatures were capable of doing it.

If it were an ordinary person, they would have been reduced to ashes if they couldn't even get close to the lava lake!