Other than these core Sorcerers, the Crimson Family also produced a batch of elite Sorcerers.
For example, the Dragon Eater Olina.
Olina had always been a marginal figure in the Crimson Family. She rarely participated in the family's affairs, and it was even more impossible for her to participate in a Sorcerer War that had nothing to do with her.
However, with Grimm's' support ', Olina successfully advanced to Grade 3. In order to repay this favor, she was forced to participate in this Sorcerer War.
As a Dragon Eater, Olina's powerful combat abilities were almost all related to the Giant Dragons.
When she fought with the Dragon Race as a beginner Grade 3, her basic combat ability was no weaker than that of a Peak Grade 3. Even if she faced a Grade 4 Giant Dragon, she could still escape unscathed.
This was the powerful class ability of the Dragon Eater!
However, when Olina's opponent changed from the Dragon Race to other people or creatures, she could not use most of her active or passive combat skills, which would severely affect her personal combat ability. At this time, she was equivalent to a beginner Grade 3 Magic Breaker Assassin.
Fortunately, she still had the basic combat ability of a Grade 3 creature. Therefore, when she appeared on the battlefield, the Elemental Sorcerers who were only good at long-range spells and lacked close-range defense did not dare to overpower the battlefield unscrupulously.
Other than these high-end combat abilities, the most outstanding ones in this war were the two strange classes, the Goblin Magician and Goblin Mechanical Warlock.
Compared to the difficulty of advancing as a Goblin Magician, the Goblin Mechanical Warlock was a class that almost any adult Goblin could advance to.
To be honest, this was a special class that was specially modified (weakened) for Goblins!
Almost all Goblins could master the basic knowledge of firearms and alchemy to advance to this class. If they went through some in-depth training and mastered some magic theory and knowledge of magic, they would be able to advance to the Goblin Mechanical Warlock.
Compared to the advancement of a Sorcerer, the Goblin Mechanical Warlock would not experience a complete change in physique. Instead, it would only passively increase the ability to control magic machinery and weapons.
When a tiny Goblin less than 1.2 meters tall controlled a huge war machine that was four to five meters tall and charged into the battlefield, it would desperately pour metal bullets at the enemy, using Goblin Fire Arrows and Thrown Alchemy Weapons to trample the enemy's position …
At the very least, before it ran out of magic weapons and ammunition, a Goblin Mechanical Warlock could display a battle prowess that was not any weaker than a Tier 1 Beginner Wizard.
The greatest advantage of this class was its wide range of advancement!
Many goblin Sorcerers had gone through a lot of research and systematic reorganization. They had removed most of the most difficult things for a Sorcerer to upgrade their physique, and removed many 'unnecessary' Sorcery subjects. As a result, the percentage of adult gnomes who had successfully advanced to become mechanical warlocks was almost 67%.
This also meant that the appearance of the Goblin Mechanical Warlock profession gave the goblin race the possibility of becoming a Professional!
However, it was only a weakened version of the combat profession, and could not improve the goblins' innate physique.
Therefore, no matter how many Goblin Mechanical Warlocks there were, their lifespans were still limited by the goblin race's innate 'short lifespan'. In this regard, it still could not be compared to those orthodox professions that had advanced to Goblin Magic Machinist.
After all, the human Sorcerers could rely on the accumulation of resources and time to slowly accumulate a certain number of high-grade Sorcerers. However, this simplified version of the Goblin Mechanical Warlock had only ever reached Tier 1. It was impossible for a Tier 2 Mechanical Warlock to appear.
This was because the short lifespan of the goblin race was not enough to support them to reach Tier 2!
After all these years of selection and training, the Crimson Family had produced a total of thirteen Goblin Magic Machinists. Among them, the one who had improved the fastest was Wizard Locke, who had already reached Advanced Tier 1 combat strength. According to his current rate of improvement, it was extremely likely that he would produce the first Tier 2 Professional of the goblin race within thirty to fifty years.
In this Sorcerer War, be it the few Goblin Magic Machinists or the large number of Goblin Mechanical Warlocks, they had all stepped onto the battlefield. Judging from their performance in battle, they might be a little weak in terms of cunning, but in the open battlefield of flesh and blood, the combat strength they displayed was not any weaker than the real human Sorcerers.
This also meant that if a Goblin Magic Machinist or a Goblin Mechanical Warlock was thrown into a forest with a human Sorcerer, the one who could walk out alive would definitely be a human Sorcerer. However, if ten Goblin Mechanical Warlocks were to step onto the battlefield side by side, an equal number of human Sorcerers would definitely not be a match for them!
This was especially so for those Goblin Mechanical Warlocks that had been transformed from Demonized Goblins. Their spiritual force and physique were stronger, and they could control and bear the burden of more magical machinery at the same time, making them more ferocious. When faced with human Sorcerers who cherished their lives, their brutality and ferocity could practically dominate the battlefield.
Fighting attack with attack, exchanging life for life, no human Sorcerer would be willing to do such a foolish thing, but they did not care!
Therefore, when the Crimson Family's top combat strength was severely weaker than their opponents, it was this group of Goblin Mechanical Warlocks who were not afraid of death who held up a solid barrier.
Under the protection of the Magical Puppet Dragons, Magical Machinery Army, Goblin War Chariots, and Giant Floating Airships, the newly formed "Violent Blood Group" by the Goblin Mechanical Warlocks was practically the opponent that the Fabris Family Sorcerers were most unwilling to face.
To be honest, when the opposing Sorcerers saw the malevolent-looking Goblins hiding inside their magical machinery and stepping onto the battlefield while puffing out huge amounts of steam, they laughed maniacally as they used magical cannons, Goblin missiles, explosives, and projectiles to turn the battlefield into a piece of scorched earth, the resentment they felt was simply indescribable!
The magical machinery they controlled had simple defense and extremely low magic resistance. They would definitely explode into a ball of fireworks if they suffered one or two rounds of attacks from the Sorcerers. But … they really did not care!
It seemed that every Goblin Mechanical Warlock that stepped onto the battlefield knew that they did not have long to live, so they did not plan to turn back to replenish their magical machinery and ammunition. They were attacking, racing against time to attack, striving to pour out all their ammunition before the magical machinery they were hiding in was destroyed.
This … was perhaps the only reason why they were so violent and brutal!
They did not care about their lives, but the Sorcerers of the Fabris Family cherished their lives.
Therefore, as the battlefront got closer and closer to the Crimson Family's place of origin, the space left for both sides to weave in and ambush became smaller and smaller. Most of the time, both sides could only helplessly play positional warfare.
After experiencing the terror of the Crimson Family's Violent Blood Legion for the first time, the Fabris Family, who had suffered huge losses, could only withdraw their Sorcerers and replace them with an astonishing number of modified Wizard Beasts and Metal Puppets.
Therefore, with the Legas Valley 120 kilometers south of the small Pine Tower City as the center, both sides fought back and forth, constantly changing the battlefield there, turning one region after another into scorched earth and dead land where all life was extinguished.
On the whole, if one were to compare the quantity and quality of the basic Sorcerers and combat troops, not only was the Crimson Family not at a disadvantage, they were even stronger than the Fabris Family in many areas.
However, once the high-ranked Sorcerers of the Fabris Family stepped onto the battlefield, the only high-ranked Sorcerers of the Crimson Family that could slightly restrain them were Mary and Olina. Although the grade 3 Emerald Dragon Aretina had also responded to the summons and brought a portion of the dragons to the battlefield, when Grim was not around, this cunning fellow did not put in much effort and would not allow herself to be surrounded by so many Sorcerers of the same rank.
Moreover, there was a hidden grade 4 Anatomy Refinery Sorcerer in the opposing Sorcerers' camp.
That was a powerful existence that could "kill" her in an instant. Thus, Aretina became even more careful and never left the protection of the Magical Golem Dragon.
Anyway, with the existence of her and the dragon horde, the other party had to consider the terrifying attacks of the dragon horde if they wanted to launch a large-scale battle. Therefore, after forcing the Crimson Family back to the Land of Origin, the number of times the Fabris Family launched a large-scale ground attack could be counted on one hand, and they mainly used small-scale infiltration operations.
However, as time passed, the old monster behind the Fabris Family seemed to have gradually lost his patience, and began to frequently pay attention to and intervene in this war.
Under the suffocating shadow of this grade 4 powerhouse, the little bit of advantage that the Crimson Family had accumulated previously disappeared in an instant. Every day, the moment the Sorcerers of the family received a mission and stepped onto the battlefield, they would feel uneasy.
The most fundamental reason why the Crimson Family had not collapsed until now was that the grade 4 Sorcerer had always been overseeing the headquarters of the family and had never appeared on the battlefield. Up until now, the main force of the Fabris Family that was responsible for pushing the war forward was only a group of grade 3 Sorcerers.
However, once the grade 4 Sorcerer lost his patience and personally stepped onto the battlefield, the defensive line that the Crimson Family had maintained would collapse in an instant. At that time, even with the Magical Golem Dragon at the front, it was unknown if they could protect the last Pine Tower City.
Pine Tower City could not be lost!
The Crimson Family had developed and strengthened for so many years, and had accumulated a certain amount of resources and manpower. If they lost Pine Tower City, it would be unrealistic to move their ten to twenty thousand people to the Blazing Flame Monarch's Wizard's Pagoda for protection.
However, if they were to casually abandon them, even if they managed to repel the Fabris Family's attack in the future, the Crimson Family would lose the elites and backbone of the family to rise again.
The secular territories needed to be ruled by smart and capable nobles, and the numerous resource points needed to be managed by competent Sorcerers and acolytes … Those who could not abandon the family under such cruel circumstances were the cornerstones of the family's future growth and strength.
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