The Magus World.
Scattered Tower Forest, Elobis region.
The Magus War between the Farbrace Family and the Crimson Family was still ongoing.
As one side was a large Magus family, while the other was a family that had just advanced to a medium rank in the past few years, the disparity in strength between the two had caused the Magus War to be carried out in the Crimson Family's territory from the start.
At the start of the war, the Crimson Family that had developed rapidly had already occupied 80% of the territory in the Elobis region. However, as the war progressed, the Crimson Family gradually lost all of their surrounding territories and resource points. The family's strength retreated to the Blazing Flame Monarch and the small city of Pine Tower.
It could be said that in this situation, the Crimson Family had completely lost!
According to the normal rules of the Magus War, the Farbrace Family could have stopped in their tracks and sent a representative to negotiate with the Crimson Family about the compensation and division of territory. Though it was impossible for the Farbrace Family to swallow all of the Crimson Family's territory and resource points, it was not a problem for them to take 60% of it as compensation.
However, what was strange was that even though they had forced the Crimson Family to retreat to less than 400 kilometres away from their territory of origin, the Farbrace Family still had no intention of stopping. The Magi, acolytes, and armies from both sides were locked in a fierce battle near Pine Tower City. Blood flowed like a river, and three cities under the Crimson Family with a population of 30,000 to 50,000 had already been destroyed.
Towards such actions that seriously exceeded the scope of the Magus War, the usually active scattered Tower Forest Association was strangely silent, as if tacitly approving of the Farbrace Family's actions.
The only reason for such a situation was the Tier 4 Sorcerer standing behind the Fabris Family.
No one would criticize the actions of a Tier 4 Sorcerer.
In this strange land like the Magus Continent, rank 4 represented absolute power!
No Sorcerer or Sorcerer Organization was willing to stand against another Tier 4 Sorcerer. Unless there was an irreconcilable enmity between the two sides, there would rarely be a confrontation between rank 4 Magi. This was because, compared to a rank 4 Magus, the other Magi were too weak.
If two Tier 4 Sorcerers were to clash, it would be difficult for them to kill each other. However, it would be easy for them to destroy the person or thing that the other party loved, as well as the family that the other party had established.
It was precisely because of this restraint that the Tier 4 Sorcerers were able to restrain each other.
No one was willing to offend a reputable rank 4 Physique Refinement Sorcerer for the sake of a rising family with no backing. Hence, the many Magus families and organisations only watched silently and savored everything that happened in the Elobis region. No one interfered.
In order to curry favor with the Fabris family, there were also many small and medium-sized Magus families and organisations that were willing to wave flags and shout for them, and even charge at the frontlines. Therefore, in the face of the menacing enemy, the Crimson Sorcerers could only retreat again and again, finally stabilizing the frontline 120 kilometers south of Pine Tower City.
The reason why the frontlines could be stabilized here was not because of the Scarlet Magi's strength, but because of the rank 4 Puppet Dragon.
With the rank 4 Puppet Dragon as the core fighting force, along with hundreds of Goblin War Chariots, three Floating Warships, and thousands of metal magic machines … To maintain such a large troop of magic machines, the Crimson Family spent a shocking amount of magic crystals every day.
If not for the large number of Magic Furnaces that solved the problem of energy supply for a few of the big guys, just the magic crystal expenditure alone would have been enough to bankrupt the Crimson Family!
Even so, mobile forces like the Goblin War Chariots and metal magic machines still needed a copious amount of magic energy. Hence, with the origin of the family, after charging once, their attack range could only reach 120 kilometers.
If they exceeded this range and their energy supply was cut off by the enemy, there was a possibility that this last force belonging to the Crimson Family would completely collapse.
Of course, the Fabris Family with their numbers was not willing to be blocked by a 'small' Crimson Family. Hence, they frequently sent Magus teams to invade the periphery of Pine Tower City. They used poison, destroyed battle facilities, or massacred the citizens of the Crimson Family … There were all sorts of methods, but they all caused the Crimson Family to suffer huge losses in manpower and resources.
The Crimson Family, who were not willing to sit still and wait for death, had Pine Tower City as their stable rear. Naturally, they could go all out and deal with the enemy.
If the enemy Magi dared to invade, kill, and destroy, then the Crimson Magi dared to lay in ambush, slowly whittling down the number of Magi from the Fabris Family. Among them, the Insect Lich Bliss, the Demoness Emelia, the Dragon Wizard Winley, and the Vampires under Mary were the most eye-catching.
After a few years of bloody Magus Wars, Winley, who had always been a nobody, had successfully advanced to rank 2, becoming a powerful bloodline Magus who could transform into a rank 2 Fire Dragon. If not for the time limit of her transformation, Winley might have immediately surpassed the few veteran rank 2 Magi in the family and become the number one Magus among the rank 2 Magi.
She was also the only rank 2 Magus among the Crimson Magi who had the confidence to kill her way back to the family's encampment after encountering a rank 3 Magus.
As for Emelia, she had also advanced to rank 2 during this Magus War.
Her current form had also undergone an earth-shattering change compared to before.
After completely fusing with Princess Mospore's soul, Emelia also possessed the soul origin of a human Magus and the Mospore Tribe. Now, apart from the part above her waist that still retained the form of a human girl, her lower limbs had completely transformed into a magic spore form similar to an octopus.
The reason why people called her the Demoness was purely because she could transform into a magic plant form at will, becoming a human-shaped magic plant that could walk upright.
As long as she was in an area covered by green vegetation, she was equivalent to a carnivorous magic plant with 'passive invisibility' and 'visual evasion' activated. Moreover, her innate ability 'Magic Spore Infection' could control all life forms infected by the magic spore.
Therefore, the Magi who fought with her often faced the terrifying situation of losing control of their body parts.
Compared to these two rising stars, the Bug Lich Bliss was as powerful and evil as ever!
In the bounty list issued by the Fabris Family, the Bug Lich Bliss had even surpassed the rank 3 Blood Queen Mary, becoming the Crimson Magus with the highest bounty on the list.
Since the start of the Magus War between the Fabris Family and the Crimson Family, the number of Magi who had died at the hands of the Bug Lich Bliss had reached more than 20. Although most of them were just rank 1 Magi, it was still an unbearable blow to the Fabris Family.
In order to kill this Bug Lich Bliss, the Fabris Family had racked their brains.
Unfortunately, Bliss, who had the Bug Swarm Clone, was just that difficult to deal with.
When encountering a Magus of the same rank or an opponent that was too strong, Bliss would hide whenever he could, and would never clash head-on with an opponent of equal strength. However, once encountering a low-ranked Magus who were out on a mission, the Bug Lich Bliss would become unprecedentedly savage.
Wherever the Bug Lich Bliss passed, not even a blade of grass would grow!
Magi … Killed, sucked dry of their blood essence to nourish themselves!
Acolytes … Killed, thrown to the Bug Generals to fill their bellies!
Ordinary warriors … Killed, used as placenta to incubate the Bug Army!
For a Bug Lich like him who could only rely on killing to evolve, he was like a fish in water when encountering a battle, and immediately erupted with passion. Other Magi still needed to return to their encampment to resupply and rest after a battle, but he shuttled back and forth between the various battlefields day and night, looking for opportunities to attack his enemies.
When encountering Magi who came to kill him, Bliss would flee for his life, even if he had to give up tens of thousands of his Bug Army. The flesh and blood of his enemies were his hatchery, and the lives of his enemies were his energy source … He was like a killing machine that never knew fatigue. If he wasn't killing on the battlefield, he was on his way to the battlefield!
Facing such a savage and cunning fellow, the Fabris Family had a huge headache.
For him, the Fabris Family had even sent out rank 3 Magi to participate in the encirclement. Unfortunately, he still managed to escape, abandoning more than half of his Bug Army and all the Demonized Mantises to slip away.
However, in less than half a month, using the flesh and lives of the Fabris Family's Magi, the Bug Lich Bliss was once again active on the battlefield, completely unlike the pathetic and unbearable state he had been when he had fled miserably.
Because of this, the Fabris Family had repeatedly increased the bounty on the Bug Lich Bliss' head, allowing him to surpass Mary and rise to the top of the must-kill list.
Other than these few core rank 2 Magi, the Vampire Magi were the only ones who performed outstandingly.
They could transform into Bat Demons to increase their mobility or evade the enemy's pursuit, and they could suck the enemy's blood to replenish their own energy expenditure. They also had unparalleled stealth and concealment abilities … When these abilities were combined, the Vampire Magi became bloody assassins who could fight and replenish their own energy.
They were ordered to shuttle through various parts of the battlefield, and once they found a target that they could attack, they would immediately call for their friends and quickly gather a Magus that far outnumbered the enemy, and then launch a surprise attack.
Don't be fooled by their usual timid and cautious appearance, once they rushed onto the battlefield, they were as fierce and valiant as human warriors. They did not fear physical injuries at all, and dared to exchange blows with their enemies. These were the most difficult aspects of the Vampire Magi to deal with.
If not for the fact that their elemental energy was weak and their attacks were not sharp enough, their lethality might not be inferior to that of a rank 2 Magus fighting alone.
At the very least, in this Magus War, the Vampires had taken the heads of more than ten enemy Magi. Their numbers even surpassed that of the rank 2 Dragonman Zacha and the goblin Tigole.
After all, Dragonman Zacha and the goblin Tigole were only adept at large-scale positional warfare.
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