Although Alice had defeated Morgana, it was only a Pyrrhic victory in the end!
Morgana lost the reputation of the Chilly Winter Witches and nearly one-third of the family's resource points, while Alice lost all the power of destiny that she had painstakingly accumulated.
After all, this was the foundation that Alice had accumulated after participating in three consecutive Planar Wars!
However, the Destiny Witches had obtained a huge turnaround, and their overall strength had improved by leaps and bounds.
At present, the number of Destiny Witches belonging to the Tower of Destiny had reached seven. Although they still hadn't reached the level of advancing to the Faern position, the quality was much higher.
And as the territory controlled by the Destiny Witches grew larger and larger, the apprentice seeds screened from all over the place were also increasing. The seven Destiny Witches ran around the territory day and night, selecting the talented apprentice seeds from these apprentice seeds and sending them back to the Tower of Destiny.
As for those with inferior talents, they were placed in the nearby resource points to study and advance.
After a hundred years of revival, for the first time in history, the number of witch apprentices gathered in the Tower of Destiny was as high as one hundred. This was an unprecedented grand occasion in the history of the Destiny Witches!
One hundred witch apprentices in any witch faction would only be considered too few, but the Destiny Witches were an exception.
As everyone knew, the Destiny Witches were not known for their combat effectiveness. In the early stage, there were almost no professional skills related to combat. Only those like Alice who struggled to reach grade 2 and mastered the professional skills of Destiny Blessing and Reduction would have a dazzling performance on the battlefield.
Before that, most of the Destiny Witches could only rely on instant magic wands and witchcraft scrolls to protect themselves. This also increased the difficulty of their survival on the battlefield from one aspect. Therefore, before the Destiny Witches grew up, they especially needed external protection.
It was precisely because of these fatal 'flaws' that the number of witch apprentices in the Destiny Witches was far less than that of other factions. And those who could rely on the Destiny Witches were probably the hypocritical witches who had difficulty in advancing and had harsh prerequisites.
It was said that the basic conditions given by the hypocritical witches to select a witch apprentice were: female, no immediate family, awakening the talent of illusion before the age of eight.
These prerequisites alone were enough to screen out most of the candidates, not to mention how difficult it was to advance later. Therefore, the Hypocritical Witch system was more like a single apprentice system, that is, a Hypocritical Witch would only train one apprentice in her lifetime.
This also caused the origin of the Hypocritical Witches to easily die halfway due to accidents!
To be honest, if one were to ask which faction was the weakest among the northern witches with the least number of people, the Witch of Hypocrisy would definitely be elected with the highest number of votes.
The Witches of Destiny came second.
If Alice didn't know Grimm, she wouldn't have been able to endure the painful process of level-1 with her family's shallow foundation. And now, with the deep cooperation between the Destiny Witches and the Crimson Family, the strength of the Destiny Witches was not so weak under the double protection of the metal magic machinery and the elemental magic puppet.
Under such circumstances, the development of the Fate faction seemed to be flourishing!
After spending two days with Alice in the Tower of Destiny, Grim was urged by Wizard Meryl to go to the White Tower.
These days, the White Tower was bustling with noise and excitement.
After five years of cultivation by the Crimson Family, the tentacles of the family's influence had already extended nearly 300 miles into the depths of the Black Forest. This action had undoubtedly deeply touched the nerves of many powerful magical creatures, and the expected counterattack of the Demon Wave broke out!
The Demon Wave that erupted in the depths of the Black Forest was both an opportunity and a tribulation for the Crimson Family who had just established their foothold here. If they were able to withstand the counterattack of the Demon Wave, they would control the rich and fertile land and forest nearby. If they were to fail, everything would return to square one. The Crimson Family's efforts and resources over the past five years would all be for naught.
Therefore, Meryl, who was under great pressure, immediately began to recruit powerful Wizards from within the family to head to the frontlines. It was reported that the Dragonman Zacha and the Goblin Tigole had already arrived and were engaged in a fierce battle with the powerful Magical Creature Lords in the Black Forest.
As for the family's number one warrior, the Blood Queen Mary, she was on the eve of advancing to level 3, and was hiding in the Crimson Throne Wizard Tower. However, a few of her powerful servants had all arrived, forming a solid line of defense for the Crimson Family.
The other powerful Wizard, the Insect Lich Bliss, had gone to the center of the continent to investigate some ancient ruins and could not be contacted for the time being.
That was why Meryl, who was worried about the losses at the frontlines, could not sleep at night. She would frantically urge Grimm, the leader of the family, three times a day. Therefore, Grim could only reluctantly leave the Tower of Destiny and return to the White Tower.
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Doflan Basin.
This was a wide basin filled with fiery-red cockscombs. It was oval in shape, and was high in the west and low in the east.
In the vast Black Forest, this was the most open area, and it became the place where the Crimson Family and the ferocious Beast Tide fought the most intense battle.
A sturdy stronghold was set up with the Doflan Basin as the center. Large numbers of Crimson Wizards, apprentices, and citizens guarded the area, creating a solid wedge in the flank of the massive Beast Tide. Although there were a few scattered beasts and magical creatures near the White Tower, the largest group of Monster Lords kept loitering outside the stronghold.
Before killing the human Wizards who had entered the depths of the Black Forest, the Monster Lords did not dare to step into the area covered by the White Tower.
The battle continued …
At the highest point on the west side of the Doflan Basin, the Crimson Wizards organized their citizens and goblin construction teams to build an incomparably sturdy wooden stronghold.
The surrounding trees and shrubs had all been cleared. Thick and sturdy logs had been sharpened and driven deep into the soil. They were densely arranged to form a layer of sturdy walls. On top of the stronghold walls, about two meters above the ground, there was a series of bowl-sized holes. Magical muskets that shone with a golden metallic luster extended out from the holes.
Almost a thousand White Tower citizens and goblins in the stronghold each had a long-barreled Magical Ray Gun, as well as a short-handled musket at their waist.
The former relied on magical batteries to fire a weakened version of the Scorching Ray. It had a range of 120 meters and an attack power of 11 degrees. Normal beasts did not have so-called magic resistance, and the Scorching Ray would leave a bloody hole in their bodies. They could not withstand this level of attack at all. Even the monsters below Grade 1 would not be able to avoid being injured by such an attack.
The latter was the original version of the Goblin Musket. It relied on alchemy to fire metal bullets to kill enemies. It had a range of 10 to 40 meters and an attack power of 8 degrees. A single Goblin Musket might not be powerful, but when a group of muskets were concentrated, even Grade 1 monsters would be at a disadvantage.
It could be said that without the Crimson Family's large-scale promotion of the Magical Ray Guns and Goblin Muskets, normal citizens and goblins would not have the qualifications to fight against monsters and beasts in the Black Forest. But now, with these basic weapons, anyone who could pull the trigger could smoothly become a Monster Hunter. They could hide behind the sturdy stronghold walls and kill the swarms of beasts with ease.
When groups of beasts and vicious birds surged out of the Black Forest to the east of Doflan Basin, crossing the low-lying basin and charging towards the stronghold, the walls of the stronghold were dotted with red light. Scorching rays sizzled as they pierced through the sky, landing in the densest area of the beast horde.
Whether it was the fat Razor Boars, the flying Berserk Apes, or the agile Forest Leopards … it was difficult for them to charge through the middle of the basin.
The concentrated Scorching Rays were like the eyes of the Grim Reaper. Wherever they extended, death would follow. Forest beasts and ferocious birds fell to the ground in the area where the red light intersected, their bodies riddled with bloody holes.
When the thick-skinned monsters relied on their magic resistance to charge forward, the Crimson Magus hiding behind the stronghold walls would use Berserk Spells to drown them in an instant.
Using crude and primitive fur and dense flesh to test the might of human Magi was an extremely unfair thing in itself!
But here, in this chaotic battlefield, it was repeated over and over again.
Most of the beasts and ferocious birds fell on the path of the charge. Even if there were some that managed to make it to the front of the walls, what awaited them was a row of metal magical machinery that was made of steel and iron.
Within the Crimson Family, Metal Magical Machines and Elemental Magical Machines were the necessary and powerful guards for every official Magus. One was solid metal, while the other was ferocious. They had become the Crimson Magi's indispensable arms.
It was impossible to charge to the Crimson Magi's side without defeating these two fellows!
However, as blood and flesh flew everywhere in the basin, the seven Grade 2 Magi of the Crimson Family stood calmly in front of the tent in the center of the stronghold, observing the battlefield from afar.
Dragonman Zacha, Goblin Tigule, Blood Knight Soros and Winsal, Blood Elf Isa (Wizard), Leia (Magic Archer), Spara (Shapeshifter) …
As the core fighting force of the Crimson family, these seven rank 2 Magi represented Grimm, the goblins, and the vampires. Apart from the few top-ranked Magi, this was the strongest the Crimson family could muster.
They could clearly see that these beasts could not even break through a stronghold in the wilderness, so what right did they have to go to the White Tower to die? The reason the Crimson Family chose to defend against the beast wave was to reduce the pressure around the White Tower on the surface, but it was actually an internal selection and elimination of the Magi.
These days, the Crimson Family had many newly matured Magi, and the higher-ups of the Family obviously wanted to use this beast wave to select the elites. Thus, these Grade 2 Magi were only responsible for suppressing the situation. The real ones fighting the beast wave were the Grade 1 Magi and acolytes of the Family.
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