Age of Adepts

Wizarding World, Northland Witchland.

Naio Valley.

The original tower of the Dark Witch Clan - the location of the Black Secret Realm.

Everything in the valley is still so dark and deep, all the animals and plants are shrouded in a layer of hazy and illusory strange shadow, gray and lifeless.

And on the tower of origin that stands tall, a fierce quarrel is going on.

In a dimly lit secret room, three black figures confronted each other coldly, looking like their swords were on the verge of breaking out.

"Cersi, even though you are the patriarch, it doesn't mean you have all the power in the clan!" An unusually old and hoarse voice from the shadow on the left said, "What's going on with Shani? The Shadow Orb is gone again!" Where is it? These... If you don’t give me an explanation today, our sisters in the Anbu will no longer obey orders from the headquarters!”

And on the right, an equally hoarse voice sounded in due course.

"Yeah, Circe, a fourth-order sister just disappeared, you have to give us an explanation!"

The black figure surrounded by the two was quite tall and slender, but his tone was particularly cold and fierce.

"Two elders, I am the one who gave Xia Ni the order, and I am the one who let her participate in the mission of the Arcane Empire. If you have any questions, please come to me!"

Seeing Circe's determination, the two elderly dark witch elders couldn't help but soften their tone.

Finally, the elder 'Anbu' on the left spoke again.

"You are our leader, so you naturally have the right to mobilize all the witches and resources in the black secret realm. But we want to know, with Shani's strength, why did she fall in that Morian plane? You sent her... really just to go Perform a simple infiltration mission?"

Circe was silent for a moment.

"I sent Xia Ni to participate in this mission. On the surface, it was for the Arcane Empire, but in fact... it was to take the opportunity to kill one of the mission participants."

"who?"

"Grimm, a rank 4 fire witch who was born in Sandi Tallinn!"

The two elder witches looked at each other, then nodded silently, apparently they were no strangers to this Greem.

"That Greem is just a newly promoted fire witch, but Shani has already reached the 4th intermediate level, plus the shadow orb you handed to her before departure, why did the mission fail? Did she die because of those At the hands of the Arcanist, or at the hands of Greem?"

Circe couldn't help being silent again, and said sadly after a while: "The Morian plane has been completely smashed. Even if we send Elsa the wise to sneak in to find the cause of death at this time, I'm afraid we won't be able to get any results."

"Then let Shani die in vain? Besides, the shadow orb has not returned smoothly, which will have an extremely adverse impact on the subsequent integration of our black secret realm and the shadow kingdom over there. What are you going to do?"

"Xia Ni's death must be related to that Greem, and I will seek revenge from him. The Shadow Orb must also be on him, and I will take it back together when the time comes!" Circe said coldly.

"In what name? Don't forget, that Greem is now the elder of the Sandtalyn Association. Without any evidence, it is very difficult for us to face him. Could it be that you want to trigger the Dark Witch and the Sandralyn?" A head-on conflict from the association?" Elder An interrupted her coldly.

"Let's look for evidence first!" Another witch elder also sighed quietly: "Didn't their group come back and there are wizards from the Silver Alliance? Let's start with him first, and see if we can get Greem to kill Shani With the evidence, we can propose a motion in the witch council to mobilize the power of the entire Northland witches to kill that Greem. Presumably, those old tricksters in the Sanditalin Association would not dare to fight with us. The whole Northland Witch fights against it?"

"Understood! I'll arrange someone to contact that Silver Alliance wizard right away..." Circe thought for a while, and quickly nodded in agreement.

"Besides, what you did this time is really reckless!" The elder witch couldn't help but feel sad again: "Without knowing the real strength of the other party, you sent your sisters out, and even sent out your own sisters. The sacred object, the Shadow Orb, is also included. If you haven’t retrieved the Shadow Orb before the next clan affairs meeting, I will suggest to Lady Malvina that you be deprived of your patriarch status!”

"Secondary! I also agree with Elder Jacques's proposal. Circe, you have been in the position of patriarch for too long, and it is time to change. Otherwise, the entire Dark Witch Headquarters will not become the one word for your Ankara clan? "

As a fourth-order dark witch, Circe is the leader and patriarch of the witches, and naturally has the greatest management authority over all witches and family resources.

And the dark elder Claudine holds the power of the dark witch's assassination department. There are elite witches selected from the Dark Witch Headquarters who are good at assassination and sneak attack. And as the leader of Anbu, Claudina's power is not much less than Circe's.

Jacques, the Minister of Beasts, is in charge of concocting and cultivating shadow slave beasts, specially creating a powerful shadow army for the dark witches, and naturally has great power.

The dead Shani was an elder of the witch department, and was usually responsible for the research of shadow witchcraft and the cultivation of witches' new blood. Since Xia Ni was also born in the Ankara clan and was a descendant of the leader of Circe, she also obeyed the leader of the clan, which led to this unexpected disaster.

As for the Lord Malvina mentioned by Elder Jacques, he is a sixth-level dark witch. Since she is stationed somewhere outside the territory all the year round, the dark witch affairs in the wizarding world can only be remotely managed through the family affairs meeting once every hundred years.

Hearing the threat of the two elders, the red-flowered fruit, the leader Circe couldn't help but turn pale, but there was nothing he could do.

At the level of Tier 4, even if she is the leader and patriarch, her restraint on them is not as great as imagined. The death of a Tier 4 witch can be big or small, and even if the other party gets stabbed at the family affairs meeting, it is unlikely that Circe will be implicated in it.

But that shadow orb is different!

The fifth-order shadow orb is a dark sacred object handed down by the great witch in the clan, and it plays an irreplaceable important role in the dark witch clan. Once it is lost from his hands, no matter how much that Lord Malvina loves him, he may not be able to keep his position and identity as the patriarch.

And the next family affairs meeting will be held in seven years, which means that the other party only left Circe seven years to deal with this difficult matter!

"I know what to do. Don't worry, all problems will be resolved before the clan affairs meeting!"

After simply throwing down a few cruel words, Circe turned into a cloud of mist and merged into the shadow behind him, disappearing from the secret room without a trace.

The two witch elders looked at each other, sighed quietly, and left one after another.

…………

The Wizarding World, Far East Coast.

This is the residence of the great Wizarding Association, and it is also the ideal hometown that thousands of wizards yearn for.

There are dense wizard towers here, there is a vast and rich wizard country, there are a huge number of wizard groups, and there are countless wizard resources...

Compared with the other major forces, the Wizarding Association is the only orthodox wizarding organization in the wizarding world. The Silver Alliance is more like a union of business-minded esoteric wizards and mechanical wizards, while the Northland Witches are a group of witches who are more united, more exclusive, and have ancient blood inheritance.

As for the Sandi Tower Forest Association, because it is too loose, it has no effective binding force on high-level wizards. It can only be classified as a second-rate wizarding organization, and it cannot be compared with the three major organizational forces.

And on the site of the Wizards Association, the most famous is their seven-ring tower.

Seven top-level towers built according to some kind of mysterious and mysterious witch formation, and then connected them with a large number of witchcraft altars or buildings, forming an extremely large witch formation system.

With the top-level witch tower as the node of the rune array, and the tens of thousands of miles of land under the feet as the foundation of the rune array, this kind of layout, vision and generosity can only be achieved by great wizards who can destroy the world with every gesture.

And at this very moment, in the inner hall of one of the seven-ring towers, a special hearing is also being held immediately.

Speaker Lawyers was sitting behind his somewhat old mahogany round table, listening to a black-robed wizard in front of him report the death investigation report of Wizard Mangles, while asking some questions he was interested in in a low and calm tone. The problem.

Speaker Lawyers is also a fourth-level wizard, with a wrinkled face and gray hair. The pair of black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose gave him a touch of elegance, profoundness, and wisdom that are unique to high-level wizards.

On the other side of the hall, behind the tall wooden fence, dozens of wizards with anxious and apprehensive faces sat on wooden chairs, waiting for the speaker's final decision.

"What do you mean, that Magus wizard is dead enough to die, and he can't even find a soul fragment?" Speaker Lawyers slowly asked the third-level wizard who was sent out to investigate.

"Yes, Lord Speaker."

"How did he die?"

"We personally visited those wizards who returned with Lord Manggis. According to their recollection, Lord Manggis was normal before returning from the Morian plane, but he suddenly went crazy during the transmission, and seemed to want to use Killed a companion by self-detonation. This has been confirmed by more than three fourth-level wizards..."

"Who was that man he wanted to kill?"

"It's a newly promoted fire witch named Greem, who belongs to the Sanditarin Association, and was assigned to the same team as Master Mangs."

"Is there any enmity between them?"

"According to our investigation, it doesn't seem to be the case! Moreover, judging from the information we know, it seems that Mr. Manges has signed an oath contract with several of his companions. If there is hatred between the two parties, it should not be possible to do this..." The third-level black-robed wizard is obviously very conscientious, and the information he understands is comprehensive and detailed, which is obviously quite authoritative.