Age of Adepts

After a long month of waiting, the expected boot finally landed.

A century-old contract of service between Grimm and the Sarubo family has now reached the age of 10 years and has passed a period of protection for newcomers, becoming an official wizard of the family. The family's compulsory tasks therefore follow.

As Merrill previously leaked, Grimm will be sent to the city of Gilnis, closest to the conflict zone, where an iron ring excavation site belonging to the Sarubo family is known for producing high-quality turquoise and yellow crystalline jade.

Of course, there is also a family secondary resource point nearby, which belongs to the residential wizard's needs for care.

In accordance with the rules of the past, Grimm, as a former resident witch sent by his family, needs to maintain basic security in both areas. Their day-to-day production is usually the responsibility of another group of specialized quasi-witches and senior apprentices, and Grimm does not have to wait there indefinitely.

But when resource points and mines present challenges that cannot be solved by guardian forces, Grimm, a resident wizard, must come forward to expel or kill those wizard-level enemies that threaten resource collection.

So usually Grimm can relax in the bustling city of Gilnis. The apprentice chief of the general little troublemaker solves himself and only sends someone to invite him to town when faced with an enemy of the wizard class.

So this standby mission, apart from being less liberal, can almost be considered a margin of appreciation.

After all, close to the resource point, those local administrators and local nobles must have changed their minds to please resident wizards like Grimm. As long as he wants, every day the wine pool and the meat grove, every day the party is fine. And every once in a while, several resource points and mine managers must have additional resources to devote, which is a matter of silence, so it also belongs to the basic welfare of resident wizards.

These are, however, peacetime events, and the situation is clearly different today.

Earlier, a quasi-woman named Sark, an apprentice at the Iron Ring excavation site, clashed with a nearby quasi-woman of the Yashi family while he was out collecting resources and ‘missed' his opponent's death.

So this moment detonated the deep contradiction between the Sarubo and Yashi clans!

Of course, privately, the Sarubo and Yassi hierarchies must have begun clandestine contacts, arguing over topics such as‘ revenge ’and‘ compensation ’. But with Sanazana's fierce temper, how could he easily answer the counterpart's terms, hand over Sark and compensate for his resources?

So when the two sides are arguing, the front end of the family becomes a powder barrel and is likely to be the target of retaliation.

Although killing between wizards is strictly forbidden in the scattered Tallinn region, if there is a good excuse, the wizard association's elders will also turn a blind eye and not participate in the 'friction’ between the two great wizard families.

Given the tense situation around the city of Gilnice and the urgent need for a strong fighting wizard to sit in town, Grimm's ‘prick' was reasonably assigned there.

The Sarubo Clan gave Grimm only twenty days to prepare.

Grimm has not appeared in Gilnis City for more than twenty days, and Lord Vergen, the second-degree wizard of the Sarubo clan, is about to "talk to him".

As for Grimm's own witch tower security, this has never been raised.

The size of the Sarubo family territory, he had no choice but to root his witch tower in a rugged black forest, which had clearly provoked dissatisfaction at the top of the family. And this mandatory family task was a knock on him.

Normal wizards have two to three different choices when faced with family mandatory tasks, then choose one according to their preferences and time freedom.

Typically, such a static mission takes two years at a time, with three years remaining before he can arrange and operate on his own until the next round reaches the end of the five-year period.

Unfortunately, this time it was a mandatory task assigned to Grim personally by Lord Sanaza, so Grim did not have the audacity to go to the other side even if he was dissatisfied.

Upon receipt of the family's mission papers, Grimm could only begin to arrange the internal affairs of the witch tower as best he could.

This time he may be away for a long time, and security work and internal development around the witch tower need to be well organized. And before he leaves, he needs to clean up those 'pricks’ that pose a threat to the Witch Tower!

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The giant barbarian elephant is a powerful monster with a very strong territorial view.

Once the territories have been circled, they are constantly swimming inside. Any powerful creature entering their territory is subjected to a madness of barbarian elephants.

In contrast, the weak creatures do not provoke their vigilance and attacks.

So in the area of barbarian elephant life, it is impossible to find other monsters!

The dark forests surround the night, and dense and numb giant trees abound in the sea.

Each giant tree is dozens of meters tall, with dense branches covering the sky and flying from the sky almost invisible to the earth.

According to Anguga, Grimm rode on the back ridge of Scorpion Lion Leader and quickly slid along the tip of the forest to the area where the giant barbarians lived under the cover of a huge night.

Due to the shielding of the giant tree crown, even Grimm's vision and perception make it difficult to spy on the secrets beneath the lush branches. But grim can always capture the unusual tremors of some tree crowns with sharp vision, hovering over the dark forest sea.

Night winds whistled and scraped by his side.

Scorpion Lion Leader's wide manta wing stretches open, allowing for a breezy shuttle over the forest sea.

Grimm looked around and quickly found several anomalies in the volatile Black Forest Sea. It seems that there are giant beasts passing through the woods, and the trees that are rubbing against them can't stop trembling.

Grimm gently patted the scorpion lion leader under him, and the other side immediately turned his body and glided toward it with his wings extended.

As he approached it, the Scorpion Lion's captain's wings converged, his torso slightly bent down, hitting the lush branches of the road with his tough body, one stuck in the dark forest.

Until it rushes into the forest, the Scorpion Lion leader reappears his manta wings, gliding flexibly between tall, ancient trees. Three or five times apart, they will also stay on a thick tree, sweeping the world of the forest with sharp eyes.

Boom...

A giant barbaric elephant as tall as a hill slowly patrolled the territory. With its huge body, every step you take makes the ground tremble.

Suddenly, its long nose rose high, its huge body turned its body incredibly agile, and its bloodred eyes stared dead into the darkness of the distance.

There, there seems to be a dangerous atmosphere hidden that disgusts it!

Ho...

The barbarian elephant lifted his thick foreleg and heavily stepped on the land under his feet, swinging his long elephant nose left and right, shaking Cerser, who was punched by several large trees around him. And the two curved huge curves forward angry fangs scraped on the giant tree, causing its wood chips to fly and the bark to peel off, revealing the raw wood beneath.

As a monster who likes to hold onto his territory, the giant barbarian shouts a frightening roar and demonstrates to each other. If the creature in the dark leaves automatically and intriguingly, it continues to cruise the territory as if it had not seen it.

After all, this terrible sense of danger tells it that the guys we meet today are not random. But its‘ good intentions' were obviously not understood, and the creature in the dark, instead of leaving, stepped towards it.

boom boom boom boom...

Without hesitation, the bloodthirsty giant barbarian immediately launched a death strike, lowered his torso slightly, buried his head, pointed at each other with two sharp fangs, and rushed towards a human creature walking in the dark at a heavy pace of rumbling.

The other person was a human being, dressed in a black robe with strong fluctuations of elements in his body.

This allows it to be recognized in the first place, by a human wizard!

While migrating here, the Giant Elephant Leader had learned of the emergence of the Wizard Tower of Human Wizards nearby. But with the stubbornness of "well water without breaking the river", the leader of the giant barbarian elephant still chose to put his home here.

For some time now, many of the surrounding monsters have come to pull it together, but the mighty barbarian chiefs have strictly restrained their own men from easily stepping out of their territory. Unfortunately, its bitterness is still in vain. It doesn't bother human wizards, but human wizards do!

With anger and bloodthirsty fury, the great barbarian elephant leader, like a moving meat mountain, crashed into two or three big trees, rushing to Grimm in an unstoppable and courageous manner.

Grimm, covered in black robes, raised his head, and under the dark shadow of his deep hood lit two glittering red rays, while his left hand held a witch wand and his right hand extended forward, a bright red stream of horror shooting out of his palm, crossing a distance of thirty meters, scratching the front towards the skull leaking from the leader of the giant barbarian elephant.

Pfft...

The echoes of the mad burning flesh.

A thin protective field emerged around the chief's body, simply blocking the flame flow in Grimm's hands, and then its huge body swept past Grimm's place as if it were an uncontrolled train.

Huge flame rising.

Grimm's ‘skinny’ body disappeared beneath the giant barbarian chief's thick iron hooves and, when it reappeared, stood high on each other's generous backs.

A huge lava fireball keeps gathering in his palm.

When the fire element was so thick that even he could hardly continue to control it, Grimm shook his wrist and threw it hard into the head of the giant barbarian chief that he disappeared into the flame again.

Boom...

A shocking explosion of heaven and earth.

Terrible flame shockwaves and shockwaves erupt in the silent black forest.

In the blink of an eye, the vast space of twenty or thirty meters is swallowed up by the sea of flames!