Age of Adepts

Minal Valley.

The bright sun is hard to shine through the dense canopy and leaves the woods covered in soggy darkness. The faint mist pervades the forest, and the whole forest is silent and even the most common insect birds can't hear it.

In this dead silence, a dark shadow suddenly burst into the shadow cast by a green tree and quickly became a vague and illusory figure.

The mist spreads and reveals the mysterious wizard in the sky and blue who looks handsome and ruthless.

After the mysterious wizard appeared, he swept four times and did not notice any abnormality. This stomped his feet gently, a dark cold air permeated the ground and touched a symbol array there.

Silently, a thick snake-neck flower burst into the soil of a wooded space, the stacked and closed petals opened for the second time, spitting out a gold ring with a leopard claw on his head and a thick leather armor.

“Hey, no word yet?” Seeing the silent expression of his companion, the strong man immediately became agitated: “It's been four days, the bastard is just going to come here to take another look! Did he get any news, or why was he so calm? ”

“Let's ask Ramire!” The Blue Robe Wizard complained unhappily: "Not only did she not catch the guy, but she raised his guard. ”

“It's not Ramil the bitch who sold us, is it?” The rough guy turned his mind and his eyes turned hard: “Ramil, get out of here... I know you're here, get out of here...”

With the roar of the haughty man, the whole forest was buzzed, which made the Blue Robe Wizard unable to help frown, the short handle wizard wand waved in his hand, a colorful translucent water barrier blocked the place.

It is still too close to the enemy's Iron Ring excavation site, and if the warnings of the Wizards inside detect an anomaly here, it will be difficult for them to carry out their subsequent plans.

squeak squeak squeak squeak...

A strange monkey emerged from the depths of the woods, and four or five long-armed monkeys crossed the trees like flying trees. Finally, they stopped on a large tree in front of the two of them, staring at them with a straight eye.

“Ramil, how dare you come out... and say, did you betray the information we came to? Otherwise, how could that boy be so clever? It's already a mess here. He can still squat honestly in the city..."

The long-armed ape in front of the two suddenly emitted a glimmer from the bottom of his eyes, and the whole 'man' became smart and agile.

“Sicha, you barbarian, I'm too lazy to talk to you... I'm part of the mission this time, what good is it to me if the mission fails?” The long-armed ape suddenly spoke, and it was a female voice.

“Hmm, that might be. Everybody knows you and Flanders don't fight each other, and the devil knows if there's some kind of plot behind your back?” Cicca held her shoulders with both hands, showing disbelief in her face.

“Okay, okay...” Flander, the Blue Robe Wizard with his cold face, cut off the confrontation between the two: “Whatever that guy hears, we have to lure him out. The Iron Ring is best suited for ambushes, and there is no need to worry about disturbances when fighting, and we still set this place up as the first battlefield. ”

“Humph, the environment is indeed the best for ambush raids. We know that, and I'm afraid that kid knows that too. The mine had been in trouble for several days, and he didn't even want to do the quest, I'm afraid he had given up the Iron Ring excavation site.” Although Sicha is a sophisticated wizard and a strong muscle man, his mind is not lost to Flemish with spiritual strength.

“There was also a disciple apprentice in the mine, or I lured him out too. That might force the bastard to show up!” The elbow-armed monkey's eyes turned and came up with an idea.

“First lure it out and turn it off, see how it works!” Flander, the Blue Robe Wizard, frowned bitterly.

Though he knew that this Ramilken had come up with an idea, he was definitely not comfortable with it, but thought about it, and could not detect what kind of conspiracy it contained.

“We'll wait another day, and if that guy doesn't come out yet, we'll tear down that Level 2 resource point for him. I don't believe he can squat in a stone tower under these circumstances. Sicha, try harder to find a suitable ambush position near the resource point and wait for me there after arranging the symbol array..."

“Then…”

“I'm going to see Gilnis City.” Flander the Blue Robe Wizard bites his teeth: "If the boy really doesn't want to come out, we'll have to raid his stone tower if we have to. Fortunately, it was just a simple defensive witch formation, not a war witch tower, otherwise our task would be a bit difficult! ”

It's going to step in each other's nest.

Specifically, Cicca stopped asking, after all, that Ramil was here. Whether she leaks secrets or not, personal whereabouts or secrecy are good.

After a brief conversation, the three broke up again and went in different directions.

The forest, close to the Iron Ring excavation site, soon fell silent again.

…………

Bluestone Tower.

Grim is in a bad mood.

He had just received a message of witchcraft from Meryl from Federnand, and Kodal's funeral would be held in three days in a small place called Molloy.

That's where his family's cemetery was!

Kodal died in a failed promotion ceremony ten days ago.

When the people lifted him out of the chamber, all the flesh and organs of the body were said to have been sucked clean by the promotion ceremony, and the body had been lean and dried up like a skeleton.

With the loss of Kodar, his family inevitably has to decline for a while. Although there are some talented seedlings in the descendants of the family, they need time and resources to grow up.

So when Meryl faced that old, crying elder, witchcraft, she was obviously not good at dealing with the situation. So when she returned to Federnand, she was surrounded by a little girl named Mona.

Mona, 18, junior apprentice...

This short information is generous enough to determine Mona's death sentence!

The fact that she is 18 years old and is a junior apprentice is enough to suggest that her talent potential is very poor. To cultivate such a junior apprentice, it takes enough resources to cultivate 3—5 talented guys with great talent potential.

Meryl, this is so much trouble for yourself!

As a newcomer, she herself did not have much resources, and a group of family apprentices awaited her training. Now comes another Kodal half-sister, a huge burden likely to slow down her own development plans.

Though he disagreed with Merrill's actions, Grimm thought about it and sent messages to the Grigg witches of the Goblin Kabi and the Flame Throne, respectively, adding some more resources to Merrill's allocation.

As members of the Grimm faction, in addition to nominal mentorship disciples, Grimm offers them great discounts when purchasing resources and teaching knowledge. This would also save them a lot of resources, allow them to spend that part of their resources on strengthening themselves and their knowledge reserves, as well as transform them into personal empowerment.

So it's almost unimaginable for outsiders to want to bring together a group of people, and the resources involved are enormous.

To give the simplest example, so many wizard apprentices prefer to accept strict witchcraft contracts, but also cut their heads into a family of wizards or a witchcraft organization. Why?

In order to receive a share of the resource subsidy and to be able to receive a family funded free witch promotion ceremony when they reach the quasi-witch threshold. The basic value of this sorcerer promotion ceremony should be 10,000 magic crystals if all the sorcery materials and resources consumed are converted into magic crystals.

And 10,000 Demon Crystals, let a vagrant witch use her power, I'm afraid it won't be enough for seven or eight years. If many of the resources needed for promotion ceremonies were considered, they would not be collected at all in the market, and most of them would be monopolized by the wizard families.

This makes it harder for them to acquire promotional ceremonial items!

Many helpless vagabond apprentices can only venture into the resource points of a family of wizards in order to be able to steal some of the rare resources not available on the market. Few of the guys were killed for it.

So that's how the hatred between wandering wizards and apprentices and wizard families comes about.

While Grimm was silent about this, Sabrina returned.

Yuri and Morse, the apprentices are back!

This... is the twelfth time they've visited Grim Wizard in five days!

As can be seen from the look on their face each time they arrive, the situation on the front line is becoming increasingly urgent. Previously, there had been only a number of hired housekeepers and guards, but the missing persons had spread to the Wizard Apprentice community over the past two days.

Just two days of kung fu, two intermediate apprentices and one senior apprentice were missing from the Iron Ring excavation site, and one intermediate apprentice was also missing from the level 2 resource point.

These guys disappeared very strangely, and they couldn't find any signs of fighting at the scene, as if they had snuck out of their homes and walked out of the realm of defensive witchcraft guards.

Grimm, of course, had some insight into what was going on here, but he didn't divulge a word to these ‘men'. After all, it is difficult for him to distinguish which of these people are trustworthy and which are not, so for the sake of confidentiality, he simply disappeared and had Sabrina send them away every time.

In the lobby on the ground floor, the two apprentices frequently looked up at the door restless.

When they saw that Sabrina was the only one walking in, without the figure of Grim, their faces had to show a sense of despair and anger.

Once upon a time, their hearts also saw this famous Fire Demon as a personal idol. But now...

“Lord Grimm is still busy with his witchcraft experiments and is not available to see you at this time.” Sabrina paused for a moment and the mechanical eye of the gorilla sparkled a few times: “He asked me to tell you that this was just an enemy harassment tactic, as long as you...”

“Harassment…” The most stressful Yuri couldn't hold out for the first time: “In order to avoid enemy incursions, several of our wizard apprentices have moved into a room and are still unable to stop an apprentice from disappearing. Although it is my duty to guard the Iron Ring Excavation Site, Lord Grimm also bears part of the responsibility. If the grownups don't show up yet, we'll have to ask the family for help ourselves..."

Without looking at Sabrina's face, she turned away from the stone tower.

And that apprentice Morse secretly sighed, drooling his head and walking out silently.

On the upper level of the stone tower, Grimm stood in the shadow by the narrow window, silently watching the two of them leave, silently communicating with the chip.

“Chip, how long does the data model take to complete? ”

“Di, 36 hours 49 minutes 52 seconds...”

If you add the time you have to make your own Wind Dragon Demon Puppet, that means it will take at least 48 hours to do something.

Grimm couldn't help but squeeze his eyes together and the cold glow in his eyes grew colder.