The shock that the battle at the Crimson Wizard Tower brought to the central continent was getting more and more intense!
Five Sorcerer factions had joined forces to annihilate a newly established Sorcerer family that had been around for less than ten years, but they had suffered a crushing defeat. Not only had the mortal army been wiped out, more than half of the hundred official Sorcerers had died in battle. Less than eleven of them had managed to escape back to their factions.
This was completely out of everyone's expectations, and caused many high-grade Sorcerers to turn their attention to this seemingly inconspicuous new family.
Possessing all the resources and population of a secondary plane, turning it into their own family's talent reserve base and weapon factory. This was something that every Sorcerer family wished to do. However, any Sorcerer who had participated in the Dimensional War knew how difficult it was for a Sorcerer family to conquer an entire continent with only a handful of Sorcerers and suppress the rebellious natives.
Most Sorcerer families had entered the secondary plane in the form of outer world forces or dimensional merchants. This was the only way they could reduce or weaken the natives' wariness and rejection towards Sorcerers. Of course, after years of erosion and division, the Sorcerers naturally had the means to control the original ruler of the plane, then invade and plunder the resources of the secondary plane indirectly.
However, this process usually took a long time.
According to the normal process, from invading to completely controlling a small plane, it would usually take five to ten years of hard work and management. If it was a mid-tier plane, this time could be extended to as long as a hundred years.
However, the Crimson Family was completely different. They only used a mere ten years to completely control two Secondary Planes that were not weak. According to the analysis of some busybodies, one of them should be the Magical Machine World with green-skinned gnomes as its main population, while the other was the Giant Dragon Plane with pure-blooded dragons as its main population.
Logically speaking, with the Crimson Family's strength, it should not have been easy to take over these two planes. Even if they gave it their all, it was already not easy to set up a stable Sorcerer camp in such a plane. Not to mention enslaving and controlling the natives who possessed such great power. This was simply an impossible task!
Unfortunately, what was shocking was that the Crimson Family had managed to do it.
Not only did they invade the two planes, but they also used some means to completely control the Demonic Machine World. Otherwise, at the critical moment when the Crimson Family was facing extinction, they wouldn't have been able to mobilize thousands of metal puppets from the Magic Machine World and destroy the allied forces of the five Sorcerer organizations in one fell swoop.
Upon hearing this news, all the Magus families near the Blazing Flame Monarch began to worry.
They were very worried that they would wake up to find that their family's secular territory had already been occupied by the enemy, and that their family's Wizard Pagoda had also been surrounded by these cheap metal puppets. No matter how one looked at it, using one's precious life in exchange for the other party's cheap metal puppets was not worth it!
For a time, all the Magus families in the Elobis region could not sit still. They secretly formed alliances and contacted each other countless times. They intended to organize an even larger joint invasion to completely eliminate such a hidden danger.
However, after sending spies and ears into the vicinity of the Blazing Flame Monarch to investigate, the Magus families quickly ceased all activities.
Goodness gracious, the area around the Blazing Flame Monarch had become a Magical Machine Maze!
The entire Flame Cave, the entire Lava Hall, were occupied by metal Magical Machines that wandered about. It would be a fool's dream for outsiders to pass through these two places to investigate the current state of the Wizard's Pagoda.
If they joined forces again without understanding the internal situation of the Crimson Family, they would only welcome another wave of Magical Machines, causing the Magi who participated in the battle to die a tragic death.
After the five Sorcerer organizations defeated by the Crimson Family fled back to their respective territories and nests, another internal strife and annexation occurred. The Camara Family, who had basically maintained their family's strength, took the opportunity to invade the Demonic Forest Hut and the Andal Family. The former surrendered in defeat and became a vassal of the Camara Family. The latter lost all of its secular territory and holed up in the last tower of the family, finally preserving the seed of the family.
As for the other two Sorcerer organizations, the Seenas Family and the Leyton Wizard Academy, they also retreated to their headquarters after experiencing a series of upheavals and setbacks, barely managing to survive this difficult period.
But what about the level three Vampire Hennes? After news of Vic's fall in the Blazing Flame Monarch spread, the Vic Family's Vampire Castle in the far southwest of the scattered Forest of Towers was breached by the combined forces of a few other Vampire Families. In a short period of time, the members of the Vic Family either left their homes and went into hiding, or they turned to other Vampire Families.
Unknowingly, a Vampire Family that had existed for three to four hundred years had suddenly vanished into thin air!
Unlike the intense turmoil in the outside world, the Crimson Family was in a state of jubilation and smiles.
But while there were people who wanted to laugh, there were also people who wanted to cry.
Gru the Brain Monster was the one who wanted to cry the most.
After the battle, the Crimson Family had obtained the greatest benefits and the most spoils of war, but they were the ones who had suffered the greatest losses.
In less than a day of counterattack, the Magical Machine Army had lost more than six thousand people, and the magic batteries had been used up to an astonishing eight hundred thousand. Even though the damage to the Magical Machine Army was only a twentieth of Gazruvi's magical equipment reserves, the magic batteries had been used up to two thirds.
This also meant that without a few years of recuperation, the metal fortress would not be able to erupt with such a powerful wave of soldiers again!
After the Blazing Flame Monarch's situation had stabilized, Gru the Brain Monster once again returned to the Lance Dimension through the Teleportation Portal. As for the remaining two thousand metal Magical Machines near the Wizard's Pagoda, they were left to the Gargamel, temporarily acting as the outer sentries of the Wizard's Pagoda.
But without Gru's Magical Furnace, the Blazing Flame Monarch's Wizard's Pagoda could not support such a large team of Magical Machines. They could only recall most of the Magical Machines back into the Wizard's Pagoda and hide them as strategic reserves, leaving only a team of two hundred Magical Machines to guard the Wizard's Pagoda.
This was only a temporary measure after the battle.
After the situation in the family calmed down, the two hundred Magical Machines would have to be reduced further. Otherwise, they would not even have enough energy to supply the Wizard's Pagoda, much less repair the damaged Wizard's Pagoda.
As a Wizard, they still had to abide by the so-called "Wizard's Handbook". Thus, the upper echelons of the Crimson Family had a headache dealing with the Wizard captives.
From the bodies and Storage Spaces of over seventy dead Wizards, the Crimson Family had extracted an uncountable number of precious resources and treasures that needed to be appraised. But Mary and the rest had different opinions on how to deal with the twenty-six Wizard captives that were still alive.
According to Mary's personality, these Wizards would naturally be executed without exception. It would be best if they were all handed over to her, either to become Blood Slaves or to extract the essence of their blood. Unfortunately, this nonsensical idea was rejected by all of the Wizards.
No one would care if they did what they did in the foreign world they controlled, but if they were to do so in the Wizard World, the old fellows of the Pagoda Forest Association would come knocking on their door at any moment.
Due to the unique characteristics of the Vampires and a few other strange species, the entire Wizard Continent strictly forbade them from The Embrace and enslaving members of the Blood Breeds in their own dimension. Otherwise, the few Vampire families would not have to go through so much trouble to use natural reproduction methods to expand their ranks.
Furthermore, The Embrace would exhaust the power of the source of the bloodline.
If Mary was really greedy and enslaved these twenty-six Wizards and turned them into Vampires, then she would definitely lose a level. Although Mary was greedy, she was not that stupid to lose a level that she had worked so hard to raise just for twenty-six normal Blood Breeds.
Ever since she returned from the Faern Plane, Mary seemed to have realized the disadvantages of casually The Embrace and did not dare to easily expand her ranks anymore. Unless she met a particularly outstanding talent, it was better to accumulate as much bloodline power as possible.
The Crimson Family was originally waiting for the defeated families to send a representative to discuss the matter of redeeming the captives, but they did not come no matter how long they waited. When they sent someone to ask around, out of the five Wizard families, three were crippled, and one was fat. The Demonic Forest House had even become a subordinate of the Camara Family.
The family could not even protect itself, so where would they find the resources to redeem their Wizards?
When the Crimson Family revealed the news of the outside world to the Wizard captives, they all fell silent. The Alchemy Sorcerers of the Demonic Forest Hut were filled with indignation. If it wasn't for the fact that all of their magic tools had been taken away and their magic powers had been sealed, they would've gone all out with the Camara Family's Sorcerers.
After waiting bitterly for another two months, other than the two Wizards from the Camara Family who were redeemed by their families at a shocking price, the rest of the Wizards became abandoned pawns that no one cared about.
Unwilling to let their lives be wasted in the Wizard's Pagoda's prison, these Wizard captives began to come into contact with the Crimson Family one after another, discussing the benefits and benefits they would receive after joining them.
As the defeated, their status naturally could not be compared to normal Wizards who came to join them.
For a long period of time, they could only accept the enslavement of the Wizard Contract and become the vassal Wizards of the Crimson Family. Only after surviving the enslavement period would they have the right to choose again.
After a difficult negotiation and confrontation, the two sides finally reached a final agreement.
The contract period for the Wizard captives was set at twenty years. In these twenty years, they would sign a Wizard Contract with the Crimson Family, becoming half hired and half enslaved members of the family. Only after the twenty years were up would they have the right to leave or stay as they pleased.
After discussing the conditions, the first batch who chose to join the Crimson Family were the Alchemist Wizards with special skills. Their home, the Demonic Forest House, had already been taken over by the Camara Family. Returning there would only mean living under them, so they might as well settle down in the Crimson Family.
The addition of this batch of Alchemist Wizards instantly strengthened the Wizard power of the Crimson Family. Under the leadership of the Gargamel, a new Alchemy Division was established.
With the Alchemist Wizards of the Demonic Forest House as an example, the remaining Wizards did not persist for long. They all quietly accepted the Wizard Contract and became a member of the Crimson Family.
With the addition of twenty-four official Wizards, the Crimson Family's Wizards that had been strapped for power became more plentiful. Other than the half-paralyzed Blazing Flame Monarch Wizard's Pagoda slowly recovering, even the White Tower far away in the north gained some benefits, and many low-level Wizards were sent over.
Using these Wizards as the foundation, many teaching and combat divisions that could not be supported in the past began to appear.
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