Age of Adepts c1-1513

by Zhen De Lao Lang, 真的老狼

  She was a Northern Witch, yet she had killed so many people in a region ruled by the Zhentarim Association. Her actions had immediately evoked a strong reaction from some Adept Families at the center region of Adept Continent. But with regards to this matter, after all, the old witch had the valid reason for seeking revenge for her disciple, hence, no matter how discontent those Adept Families were, they had no choice but acquiesce her action.

  Therefore, whenever the name of this poisonous witch was mentioned, all the Adepts from center region of the continent would feel a headache. After all, in the center region of the continent controlled by the Zhentarim Association, there weren’t any major scale of invasions coming from demons, and the conditions of the natural environment were so much better comparing to the Land of Far North. As the result, most of the Adepts here had spent too much time carrying out magical experiments, which caused their combative abilities and approaches to recede. That was why they were not as ferocious and brutal as those Northern Witches.

  If not because Zhentarim Association had controlled a huge area with abundant resources, which allowed them to produce countless Adepts, with the quality of the Adepts in this place, there was no way they could compete with the other three major Adept powers that surrounded them.

  The Magical Swamp was, after all, a private resource site for Sarubo Family. If it were any other Adept of the same grade who had come and gave him trouble, Anderson would have attacked him or her without another word. But when facing this infamous ‘Poisonous Witch’, even with his unsociable and eccentric temperament, he wouldn’t initiate any attacks easily.

  Faced with Anderson’s question, the poisonous witch let out a few ghastly sneers, turned behind her and said, “Alice, come out and show yourself to this master Anderson, so he can save his breath in uttering that nonsense!”

  When Anderson saw the little girl who had jumped out from behind the poisonous witch, his gloomy face turned as dark as the bottom of a used pot. “Endor, who is this little girl to you? I remember she is Deborah’s disciple.”

  “You do have a good memory. She is doing her apprenticeship under Deborah currently. But she is also my blood descendant! She is an Apprentice Witch with the most potential from my family, Moya Family! However, she had suffered a shameful ambush and humiliation from you! Today, I’m here to settle the scores with you!”

  Fuck! Right at this very moment, who knew how many times had Anderson cursed in his mind! Who would know by simply teaching a lesson to an Advanced Apprentice who had intruded Magical Swamp, he would provoke a junior from the clan of the ‘Poisonous Witch’? Could what he had done disgusted the Will of the Adept World, causing it to bring him such punishment?

  While cursing his bad luck inwardly, Anderson roared out furiously with a cold expression, “I did teach a lesson to this little girl! So what? Are you going to fight me just because of her? Endor, don’t you forget you’re just a representative sent by Northern Witch, attacking me would stir up a clan war between our families!”

  “Clan war? Hmph. Would the family behind you, Sarubo Family, declare a war against my Moya Family just because of such a petty matter? But, you don’t have to worry, my purpose today is not to teach you a lesson, but to let Alice vent her spleen.” Hearing what the poisonous witch had said, the doll-like Alice’s eyes immediately turned red, as she threw herself into the old witch’s arms and acted like a spoiled child. She even turned her head and gave Anderson a fierce gaze.

  “So what exactly do you want? I was just punishing a little fellow who was rude to me, do you really want me to pay a price for that?” Anderson’s voice lowered by a few degrees.

  “Hmph, I can accept your action of teaching Alice a lesson! But your apprentices had jointly attacked Alice, and we need to settle this score in a proper manner! I’ll not bully the weak by being strong, so get those few fellows who had hurt Alice before and let them have another fight again. If your apprentices win, I’ll leave immediately. If your apprentices lose, hehehe… they will have to face their death!”

  The gloomy face of Anderson twisted violently a few times. He then waved his hand and recited some incantations that no one could understand. Following an enshrouding magical ring that flashed through the top of this small hill, three figures of different appearances appeared in midair.

  As Adept Anderson owned the highest control power of the Swampy Tower, therefore, without communicating with Greem and the others, he had used his right and forcefully teleported Acteon, Mary and Greem over to this small hill. Obviously, the three of them still had no idea what was going on, they were busy with their own matters in their own residences, but with a magical ring that suddenly flashed underneath their feet, they had come to this wilderness for no apparent reason.

  The three of them were first struck with bewilderment, then they were startled. And when they saw Adept Anderson, they quickly bowed deeply and paid him respect, waiting for his orders quietly.

  “They are the ones! All of them are bad people, they had hurt me repeatedly! Especially that disgusting vampire, she even sucked away a lot of my blood…”

  Right when Alice jumped out and scolded angrily, the poisonous witch who had brought her here knitted her brows in a tight frown.

  Two Pseudo-Adepts and an Advanced Apprentice!

  How came their rank was slightly different from what Alice had described?

  “Alice, are you sure they are the ones? Why they are different from what you told me?” The poisonous witch’s expression turned cold.

  “Yes, I’m sure! But last time two of them were only Advanced Apprentices, and this…” Alice pointed her finger at Greem, a vicious glow could be seen flickering on her cute little face, “This guy, he was only a Beginner Apprentice last time!”

  They had been promoted?

  Facing two Pseudo-Adepts, even the Poisonous Witch Endor started to worry.

  With her overall strength and the aggressiveness of Moya Family that supported her, it wouldn’t be a big deal if Alice killed two Advanced Apprentices. But when it involved Pseudo-Adepts, things became a bit trickier to handle!

  For any Adept Family, Pseudo-Adepts were the backup force they prepared for their future, and they wouldn’t give any of them up. According to Endor’s understanding, this Sarubo Family didn’t even own more than a two digit number of Pseudo-Adepts, if she killed two of them at the same time, even though Sarubo Family was a weak family, perhaps they would still declare a war to the Moya Family!

  “Alice, you can’t touch those two Pseudo-Adepts! I thought you said you hated that kid the most? Go challenge that Advanced Apprentice! Kill him and vent your spleen, I’ll find a way to settle the other two.” Showing no changes on the outside, Endor had transmitted her thought over to Alice’s mind via telepathy.

  Alice, who was in the middle of yelling and scolding, stopped for a brief moment. Then, she pointed her finger at Greem and announced her challenge.

  By right, a meaningless challenge like this would not be approved. As the apprentice of Swampy Tower, Adept Anderson was obliged to provide protection to Greem. But obviously, today was an exception. When Alice announced her challenge in front of everyone, Adept Anderson never said another word, clearly, he had tacitly assented such behavior.

  Greem sneered a few times inwardly.

  Though he only arrived here for a very short amount of time, but right when he saw Alice, he had grasped the reasons behind this farce. Therefore, when confronted with Alice’s challenge, Greem took a step forward.

  “After beating you last time, I never expected to see you back for revenge so soon! So, if I beat you again this time, when are you going to come back for your revenge?”

  Though Alice was a black-hearted and merciless girl, she still took her honor seriously. When she heard the ridicule coming from Greem, she immediately jumped up and down from anger, screaming furiously, “Do you really think you can defeat me? Last time, if it weren’t for the fact that you all had taken turns attacking me and h
ad gotten help from the sneak attack of that vampire, do you really think you could live until today?”

  “So, if I really defeat you this time, what are you going to do?” Greem was waiting for these words from her. Without hesitation, he immediately countered her statement.

  “If I’m really defeated by you, my life will be yours, and I’ll be your slave forever! But if you’re defeated by me, your life will be mine!” In a towering rage, Alice roared out this statement without thinking twice.

  Endor, standing behind Alice, furrowed her brows. For some unknown reasons, an inauspicious feeling suddenly surged up in her mind. This young kid, who was going to fight Alice, portrayed an overly calm and peaceful manner. Could he really possess some powerful trump cards?

  Secretly, a tentacle stretched out from Endor’s powerful spirit, slowly but surely it reached Greem’s body, and gave its target a serious examination. Overall strength of an Advanced Apprentice and ordinary Fire element innate talent. The magical equipment on his body could be considered as finely made. But, with such overall strength, it was far from enough to defeat Alice.

  Since she stepped into the path of an Adept, Endor never saw anyone possessing a more powerful innate ability than Alice’s spatial innate ability. No matter what kind of powerful magic spells those elemental apprentices mastered, when facing against Alice, an opponent who had total control of the spatial aspects of the battlefield, nothing would matter when they couldn’t hit her with their spells.

  As for Body Refining and Profound Apprentices, in front of Alice, they were as fragile as scarecrows. Only those Bloodline Apprentice with extraordinary innate talents would be a threat to Alice.

  But, after the last defeat, Alice had gone through a painful torture, which eventually made her skyrocket in her mastery in short distance teleportation. When facing against Alice, who could now travel freely within a battlefield, Endor couldn’t think of how those Apprentice Adepts could defend against her Spatial Cut that was capable of destroying anything, and how were they going to capture Alice who kept teleporting across the battlefield!

  After making sure the overall strength of Alice’s opponent, Endor let out a shivering sneer, saying, “Kid, save your breath, go inside and have a fight with Alice!”

  Having finished saying that, she stretched her arm and took the golden bird cage from Alice, then waved it towards both Greem and Alice.

  In next second, both Greem and Alice had disappeared from the scene!

  Chapter 120

  When Greem finally got a hold of himself, he discovered that he was standing right inside of the golden bird cage.

  Through the fence of the bird cage that now looked like rows of stone pillars poking into the sky, Greem could vaguely see the view outside of the cage. Especially when the frightening poisonous witch was leaning close to the cage, her enormous eyeballs that nearly occupied half of the sky simply sent chills down Greem’s back.

  When he looked into the distance, right at the other end of the cage, nearly three miles away from him, the petite figure of Alice was seen continuously teleporting her way and rushing in his direction.

  Greem knitted his brows into a tight frown.

  At this moment, he wasn’t sure on whether this place was just a small space in a different dimension or if old witch really did transform him into a smaller size. Nevertheless, now was not the right time to research further on this. In less than ten seconds, that Alice who had gone berserk would arrive in front of him.

  Previously, he had been concealing his capabilities and avoided the limelight, so he could further polish his own overall strength, and design a set of combat tactic that suited him the most. It seemed that now was the perfect timing for him to test if those combat tactics were suitable!

  Greem started to equip himself swiftly.

  While remained standing at where he was, he touched his waist belt with his right hand. A strange scepter with peculiar designs immediately appeared in his grip. At the same time, he stretched out his left hand, the magical book, tied by a silver chain that was hanging on his waist automatically flew into his hand, and started to flip through the pages by itself.

  Following one after another the fiery red ring flashed out from Greem’s body, Inferno Body, Inferno Shield, Inferno Force Field, Fire Damage Reflect, multiple Fire element defensive magic spells had revealed themselves. After finishing preparing his defense, Greem pointed in front of him with the Fire Lord’s Scepter, and started to recite with a loud voice, “Redmond Carina, Anya Roset, in the name of flames…”

  From all directions, countless fiery red flames started to gather in midair. Within the blink of an eye, a tall Fire Deity over seven meters stood right in front of Greem. It was surrounded by raging and boiling flames, and the color of the flames had turned from ordinary fiery red into flame with a purple colored core. This also meant that this Fire Deity possessed the overall strength of a Pseudo-Adept.

  But, this was not the end!

  Countless brilliantly lit objects flew out from Greem’s storage waist belt and scattered around. After a burst of furious crackling coming from the explosions of Elementiums, these objects formed into different elemental golems with a variety of heights, shapes and looks.

  The most attractive among them would be the Lightning Giant. Every time it made its debut, it would always bring forth a frightening scene, where the sky would be filled with raging thunder strikes. Also, the tall, green body which was completely covered in the golden armor, the lightning serpents that kept bolting out and lingering around its body, all had given it a touch of mightiness.

  While the Lightning Giant slowly ascended into the sky, the Fire Deity strode toward Alice and the Water Elementiums started to gather on both sides of Greem at an incredible speed. Soon, two Pseudo-Adept level Water Elementals had emerged out from thin air.

  Greem stomped his feet on the ground with great force, though they looked like they were made from stone, they were actually transformed from the Protection Barrier. Since he couldn’t squeeze into the underground, there was no need to summon the Demon Alligator Hunter or Rock Snake. Greem gave up on the thought of summoning Earth element golems and switched his attention to the battle that was happening in the far distance.

  The summon of Lightning Giant had consumed 7 points of his Spirit, while two Water Elementals took away 6 points of his Spirit. As for the Inferno Shield and the Fire Deity, both of them were abilities brought to him by the Fire Lord’s Scepter, thus they didn’t consume any of his Spirit. With Greem’s total Spirit of 19 points, he still had 6 points that he could use in case of emergencies, and, judging from the development of the battle later, only then would he decide which golem to summon next.

  The Lightning Giant was focused on offense with the Fire Deity as its assistant, and two Water Elementals handled both offense and defense at the same time.

  These Water Elementals were the brand new golems crafted by Greem using Water element cores. They had an appearance that resembled a large clump of water that could stand straight and walk around. They didn’t have feet, so their lower bodies were just thick water pillars, and water could be seen kept splashing around from the bottom of these water pillars. Their upper bodies had the vague look of a human, there was a body, a head, and even two arms. But all these body parts looked rather crude, there didn’t have any facial features on their heads, and both arms were just two thick water pillars.

  Though these Water Elementals had a humble outlook, their strange abilities could cause eyebrows to raise.

  Right after both Water Elementals appeared, they immediately waved their arms several times in the air. After each wave, there would be a smaller size Water Elementals pulled out of their bodies, and within a blink of an eye, the smaller Water Elementals changed their appearances into that of Greem’s. They even had the same magical equipment as Greem had.

  Nearly in an instant, two Water Elementals working together and produced twelve ‘Greem’. And, after all thirteen Greem s
witched their positions in a messy order, the real Greem, who was now mixed among the other ‘Greem’, had a bright smile blooming on his face.

  There were so many ‘Greem’ that looked exactly like him, to be honest, when he saw he was surrounded by copies of ‘himself’, even he nearly burst out into laughter.

  And, this was not the end. Following the waving movement of both Water Elementals, a large sheet of billowing water vapor emerged, blanketing this group of ‘Greem’. From the outside, one could only see some wobbling figures behind this sheet of water vapor, and couldn’t get a glimpse at the true scene at all.

  Right at this moment, not only Alice, who was standing right opposite to Greem, nearly collapsed by what she was facing, even both Adepts who were standing outside of the cage and were observing the situation had their expression changed slightly, each portraying a different look on their faces.

  Of course, Adept Anderson showed a surprised look at first, then it was replaced by a delightful expression. Initially, he thought it would be a one-sided slaughter, but because of the sudden explosive performance put out by this mysterious kid, everything became unpredictable. Though he could sense that because of Greem’s existence his control over Mary had weakened, the thought of killing Greem in the dark had long hatched in his mind.

  But, on an occasion like this, Anderson preferred to see that cute little Alice having her head severely beaten. After all, he still had plenty of time to deal with that kid. Therefore, Adept Anderson simply eased his mind, and for the first time, he was praising at Greem in his mind.

  You just can’t keep all the people happy at the same time!

  When Anderson brought upon a bizarre smile on his face and quietly watched the battlefield, a complex look could be seen in Endor’s eyes, as she seemed to dither over her decision.