Three days later …
The smoke in Lokol City had not completely dissipated.
The inside of the city was full of broken walls, scorched frames with burnt roofs, billowing black smoke, and a terrible, pungent stench.
The wizard tower in the center of the city had also lost its former grandeur and magnificence. It stood there like a half-burnt stick, its appearance full of endless misery and desolation.
The Wizard's Pagoda had been breached.
The sixteen Wizards from the Entom Family had undoubtedly become captives of the Crimson Fleet, including thirteen Level One Wizards and three Level Two Wizards.
The reason why they did not use the Teleportation Formation inside the Wizard's Pagoda to escape was not because they did not want to, but because the Crimson Fleet had used a Wizard Formation to disrupt the teleportation in the surroundings the moment they arrived in Lokol City.
Therefore, the remaining Wizards from the Entom Family in Lokol City were abandoned, obediently raising their hands and surrendering after the Wizard's Pagoda was breached.
According to the rules of war in the Wizard World, neither side was allowed to kill Wizard captives who had given up resisting. Otherwise, they would be spurned and boycotted by all Wizards!
There was no sorcerer who did not cherish his own life …
Although these Wizards had signed a service contract with the Entom Family, and needed to exchange their service and loyalty for corresponding resources or status. But this did not mean that they had to sacrifice their lives for the Entom Family.
Therefore, the moment the Wizard Tower was breached, their contract mission was considered completed. The rest was to obediently raise their hands and think of ways to exchange resources or something else for their freedom.
After all, if they were really core members of the Entom Family, they would not have been abandoned under the butcher knife of the Crimson Family at such a dangerous time.
The Crimson Fleet stayed there for two days, waiting for the other two fleets to arrive.
Mary and Armes each led two giant Floating Warships to sweep through the other two territories of the Entom Family. From the way they returned, it was obvious that they were in high spirits and had gained a lot.
War was undoubtedly the fastest way to amass wealth!
Although most of the resources had been collected by the Entom Family back to Kothrin Castle, the little that was left was enough for Grim and his men to eat until their mouths were full.
After the three Crimson Fleets merged back into one, they did not stop and headed straight for Kirslin Castle.
This was only possible because the Crimson Family possessed a large number of airships. If it were any other Magus family, they would have brought along a large number of wizard beasts, subsidiary armies, and the servants of the nobles who did the dirty work. They wouldn't have been able to advance so unscrupulously.
None of these fellows could fly. Not only was their speed slow, but their reliance on logistics and supplies was also a headache.
If he were to bring them out to fight, he could only steadily attack one pass at a time. Otherwise, once the supply line was cut off, the Wizard Beast Army would still be fine, but the subsidiary army and the nobles' servant army would definitely collapse.
However, these problems did not exist in front of the Crimson Fleet.
All of the corps, troops, supplies, and resources were stored inside the airships. Only in battle would these things be fully displayed to the enemy. Normally, they would be hidden from view.
Without the ground troops, there was no need to fight all the way.
After taking over three territories of the Entom Family, Grim received a message he had been waiting for. Without hesitation, he ordered the Crimson Fleet to advance towards Kirslin Castle at high speed.
The battle at Gravel Valley could only be said to have lifted the veil of the central continent, exposing the internal conflicts of the Scattered Tower Forest.
With Grim as the leader, the new force had gathered enough power to topple the existing forces of the central continent. And Crushed Stone Canyon was the first stop!
However, due to the interference of too many external factors, the victory was a sloppy one. The victory was unclear. Therefore, the attack on the existing forces had not reached the point of making them submit. This caused the Scattered Tower Forest, and even the entire central continent, to face the danger of splitting.
Once Freid and the others had the time and opportunity, they would definitely sell out the central continent to lure in the external forces. By then, the entire Scattered Tower Forest would inevitably be filled with the flames of war!
If he did not want to destroy his future base, the battle at Kirslin Castle had to be fought, and it was a battle he had to win!
Grim's advance was slow, and he even had the time to sweep through three territories of the Entom Family. It was not because he was not anxious, nor was it because the situation was not urgent enough. It was because … the time was not right!
Grim was waiting …
He was waiting for Alice to send a message, a message that the time was right!
Life was like a chess piece, and fate was like a chessboard!
He was slowly approaching, forcing the enemy to make some irrational decisions.
Once the enemy did so, to Grim, his advance was no longer bullying the weak, disrupting the central continent, and fighting for territory. It had a more positive meaning.
It was to set things right, and to give the central continent a new order!
All of this was not for the world to see, but for 'fate' to see.
At his level, with the help of Alice, the leader of the Witches of Fate, fate was no longer a mysterious thing that could not be seen or touched. Instead, it was a great power that could be touched, and he could borrow strength from it!
Ever since he had advanced to rank 4, everything Grimm had done had been done in consideration of the interests of the Magi community as a whole. Many times, he did not hesitate to harm the interests of the Crimson Family in order to 'disguise' himself as someone who cared about the big picture and endured humiliation.
He clearly had the strength of a powerful being, but he still pretended to be weak in the central continent. He established the Horton School of Witchcraft, sacrificing the Crimson Family's short-term interests to promote the disintegration of the Magi families in the central continent. Even the confrontation between the grade 4 forces was initiated by him, and the Crimson Family could only passively accept it …
All of these made Grim's actions seem passive and cowardly, but it also allowed him to successfully avoid the counterattack of the plane's consciousness, positioning himself as a righteous person.
This identity was very important!
The reason so many geniuses and seniors were rejected by the Magus World was because they did not know how to restrain themselves and were unscrupulous.
The Sorcerer World had nurtured so many high-grade experts not to let them wreak havoc in their own world, but to treat them as high-grade slaves and high-grade thugs. This way, if a foreign civilization invaded, the Magus World would be able to gather enough power to expel the enemy.
The relationship between the Magus World and the Magi was like that between a beehive and a swarm of bees. Only when the swarm of bees grew stronger would they be able to plunder more resources and people from the outside world. Only then would the beehive be able to improve itself.
The beehive would also bring more benefits to the swarm of bees, allowing them to fly faster, sharpen their claws, and become stronger …
The two complemented each other, forming a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship.
However, the damage that super Magi caused to the laws of the plane was too great. Thus, the Magus World had no choice but to expel super Magi who exceeded the limits of the plane. Otherwise, if they were allowed to wreak havoc in the plane, they would sooner or later become a cancer in the development of the plane.
Once these fellows were targeted by the plane's consciousness, they would be devoured by the power of destiny sooner or later!
Thus, Grimm had to be careful and use various methods to conceal his ambitions.
Although any Magus could see his ambitions, it just happened to be useful against the plane's consciousness. This was because the plane's consciousness only cared about the results, not the process.
To be more precise, the plane's consciousness had not evolved to the point where it could distinguish the subtle emotions of humans. It could only judge the value of one's existence from the impact of one's actions on the world. This slight difference gave Grimm the possibility of borrowing the power of destiny to move forward …
To the plane's consciousness, it was always fair and just!
The Magi born in the central continent were all its children and resources. Regardless of whether it was Freid and the others who represented the existing forces or Grimm who represented the new forces, they were all members of the scattered Forest of Towers. They were all part of the plane's consciousness.
When these two groups fought and conflicted, the existence of the group that was more beneficial to the Magus World would become the target of the plane's consciousness. Every action of the plane's consciousness was completed through the manipulation of the power of destiny.
Thus, Alice could completely guess the true intentions of the plane's consciousness by observing and sensing the flow and changes of the power of destiny in the central continent.
Just as the Crimson Fleet dawdled in their attack on Lokor City, revealing their empty rear, Freid and the others, who had been intimidated by the Crimson Will, finally made a decision. Their decision was not known to the outside world, but it could not be hidden from the omnipresent plane's consciousness.
Thus, the balance of destiny, which had always been fair, finally tilted!
After Grimm received Alice's hint, he did not hesitate and immediately led his army to attack Fort Kothrin. The ferocity and speed of the attack far exceeded the enemy's imagination.
Thus, on the seventh day after the Crimson Fleet invaded the Entom Family's territory, the giant floating warship finally arrived at Fort Kothrin!
… …
This was a war fortress that was on high alert.
All of the retreating Wizard troops and family Wizards gathered outside Fort Kothrin, relying on the War Wizard Towers and Defense Spell Formations. They looked like they were going to fight to the end.
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