The fire on the ground had yet to be completely extinguished.
Wisps of black smoke lingered on the former battlefield.
With Castle Keslin as the center, there were no longer any human buildings that could maintain their original form within a hundred miles. Even the lush green forest that could be seen everywhere had turned into scorched earth, with large black scorch marks marking the area under their rule.
However, on this withered land that had lost all signs of life, Castle Keslin was still standing silently. With just the naked eye, it was impossible to find any traces of damage or battle on this castle that was still in perfect condition.
How could an ancient castle 'survive' in the central area of the main battlefield that was filled with desolation and ruins? And according to everyone's understanding, this Keslin Castle had transformed into an indomitable Berserk Stone Giant, and had a fierce battle with the Crimson Family …
Even though they knew that there must be a secret behind this, after the battle, not a single core Magus of the Entom Family escaped. All of them had disappeared without a trace. This caused many of the onlookers to scratch their heads in confusion, and they felt a bone-chilling coldness from the bottom of their hearts.
Could it be that the Crimson Family had already reached such a height that not a single member of the Entom Family, led by Old Fred, could escape alive? This speculation made Milva and the other Magi fearful, and even the momentum of contacting the Crimson Family to resist had weakened.
At this moment, the few central forces that had once firmly opposed the Crimson Family had actually laid down their banners and stopped fighting. They were temporarily hiding from the limelight, not wanting to be targeted by the Crimson Family and become the second Entom Family.
The reason why they had opposed the Crimson Family before was naturally because they did not want to give up their power and status. However, if they were to oppose the Crimson Family intensely, their souls would be destroyed, and their family's legacy would be severed. Such a price was too cruel for Grade 4 Magi who had lived for thousands of years.
Freedom was important, but if the price for freedom was their own lives … This was something that Grade 4 Magi could not accept!
Compared to their lives, it was not so hard to accept being under Grim and a subsidiary force of the Crimson Family.
In the past, they were used to being tigers in the middle of the continent, and their knowledge and knowledge were undoubtedly a little off. They had never seen how terrifying a super expert was, so they thought that they could join forces and use their advantage in numbers to suppress the other party.
The battle at Gravel Canyon and Kerslin Castle had completely shattered their false arrogance and comfort, and had also made them fully realize the power of the super strong. Super powerhouses and Tier 4 Magi were no longer the same species. They were at opposite ends of the food chain. One was the predator, while the other was the laughable prey.
This understanding completely subverted the stereotype that they had formed in the past hundreds of years, and it also made them realize how shallow and childish they were. The reason the Scattered Tower Forest had been able to survive for tens of thousands of years was not because the Tier 4 Sorcerers had intimidated the Three Great Sorcerer Organizations. Rather, it was because the Three Great Sorcerer Organizations had reached a delicate balance.
Now that the balance had been broken, every Magus of the central continent had to think about the future direction of the scattered towers!
Should he choose Grim or one of the Three Great Wizard Organizations? Or perhaps it would turn into a huge quagmire, turning the central continent into a bloody battlefield for the three great Magus organizations to fight?
In the past, the Tier 4 Magi would instinctively reject the idea of unifying the central continent when they heard the words "unifying the central continent." Now, even they had to seriously consider this question.
If they were unwilling to make a choice, there would always be someone who would force them to make a choice. When that time came, they would have much fewer choices left.
Unknowingly, unifying the central continent had become a thing of the past. Now, most people were discussing how to unify the central continent.
Whether Grim was cruel or not, whether the Crimson Family would take everything, and what position the Magus Families would have in the central continent in the future … These thorny questions that needed to be solved became what the higher-ups of the families wanted to know and understand the most.
Of course, the answers to these questions could only be obtained from the Crimson Family.
Thus, on the eleventh day of the Entium Family's destruction, which was also the second day that Molten City announced that they were siding with the Crimson Family, a dense number of mysterious envoys with hidden identities flocked to Kerslin Castle from all directions. They wanted to meet Grim, who had just won a battle, and obtain the most practical promise from him.
The first thing they saw when they arrived at the Crimson Fleet's base was the undamaged Kerslin Castle that had gone through the cruel war.
Many of the envoys who came to Kerslin Castle all year round had a trace of doubt. The castle in front of them was exactly the same as before, and there seemed to be no changes. However, when their gazes fell on the castle, they felt a strange sense of unfamiliarity.
It was as if this was the first time they had seen Kerslin Castle!
With this strange feeling, the secret envoys of the various families stepped into Kerslin Castle.
Once they entered the castle, this feeling became even stronger.
It was the same castle gate, the same gray stone plaza, the same pale golden stone corridor, the same mental suppression, and even the magic aura flowing in the stone walls were the same … However, the emissary's nostrils were filled with a thick stench of blood, and what lingered in his ears were the terrifying screams of souls. There were even faintly discernible blood-sobbing souls in every corner …
Everything pointed to the fact that a terrible blood sacrifice had just been carried out here, and the targets of the blood sacrifice were most likely the Entom Family Sorcerers who had never been heard from again.
More than two hundred Sorcerers, and there were as many as seven grade 3 Sorcerers … Such a large number of Sorcerers had all been sacrificed …
Every time they thought of this, the envoys sent by the various Sorcerer Families felt a chill in their hearts, and even their steps became stiff.
There were so many envoys from the various families, and Grimm naturally could not meet them one by one. Only the large Sorcerer Families could meet him personally. As for the remaining small and medium-sized families and Sorcerer Organizations, they could only visit Meryl and ask her to pass on some secret agreements and terms.
Since the war had just ended, the surroundings were already in ruins, so these envoys could only temporarily stay in Kerslin Castle. However, after staying for only one night, all the Sorcerers moved out at the same time.
They would rather build a mud hut in the wilderness and barbecue some wild food than take another step into Kerslin Castle. That night of continuous nightmares almost drove them crazy.
According to some private rumors, on the night he stayed in the castle, he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and was shocked to find that he was not lying on the warm and comfortable bed, but in a horrifying pool of blood that was almost overflowing.
In the blood pool, there were broken skulls, broken limbs, broken intestines, white breasts, and countless terrifying souls of the dead that almost filled the surface of the pool … The souls of the dead kept crawling out of the pool. Their gray faces were extremely twisted because of the pain, and they stretched out their broken arms, letting out despairing and mournful wails …
As for the walls, floor, and ceiling of the room, they were all covered by a layer of strange gray substance. The gray substance constantly wriggled and expanded, and on the surface grew thick tubes that looked like blood vessels. The walls of the tubes were the color of flesh and translucent. Glug, glug, glug … There was a viscous purplish black liquid flowing inside, and one could faintly see the remnants of undigested flesh and blood.
Living in the castle gave him a strange feeling that he was living in the intestines of a strange life form. It was this feeling that made him move out in a hurry, and he did not dare to casually step into Kerslin Castle anymore.
This Kerslin Castle was not the Kerslin Castle of the past!
It had already undergone some kind of mutation, and became … a strange creature that had both the characteristics of an alchemy life and a flesh and blood life form.
Therefore, those with keen senses chose to stay away from it under their instincts!
In fact, it was not just these foreign envoys, even the few high-ranking members of the Crimson Family temporarily stayed in the giant floating ship, and did not dare to spend the night in Kerslin Castle.
The whole of Kerslin Castle currently only had two tenants: Grim and Mary.
Of course, the Shadow Fiend always followed Grim by his side, staying close to him to protect him.
As for Grim's decision to stay in Kerslin Castle, it was not to torture himself, but to further subdue this strange life form that had escaped the cage of life and the shackles of witchcraft.
Yes, the current Kerslin Castle had all the characteristics of an intelligent life form. If not for the lack of a permanent energy source, perhaps even Grim would have a hard time restraining this forbidden life form that had devoured the entire Entom Family.
Compared to normal intelligent life forms, the biggest difference between forbidden life forms and normal intelligent life forms was that their growth and strength could not be separated from taboo methods such as blood sacrifice, slaughter, or destruction. Although the wizards usually looked like they had no taboo, they still had to abide by the basic rules of the wizards, and they could not easily harm the low-level creatures of the same plane.
This was also a wizard convention for the sustainable development of the entire wizard civilization!
You could choose not to abide by it, but once your evil deeds were publicized, all wizard organizations and forces would blacklist you, and no longer have any resources or knowledge exchange with you.
Some wizards who hated evil would even take the initiative to hunt you down, and this kind of hunting would not be restricted by the wizard rules.
Hence, considering the severe consequences, no Magus dared to openly carry out a massacre or blood sacrifice. Of course, everything that was carried out behind the scenes would not be a problem as long as they were clean.
Every year, a group of sorcerer-apprentices would quietly die in those private sorcerer towers. Most of them had become the victims of individual wizards' dangerous witchcraft or forbidden experiments. Most of the wizard organizations chose to turn a blind eye to this, and they would not conduct too much investigation.
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