The Crimson Family was unique among all the other Magus families.
Taking everything into account, it had only been fifty or sixty years since it was first known to the world until now.
What was 50 to 60 years to a Magus family?
For a common territory, a dynasty might have just ended. For a low-ranked Magus, it might be a small rank. For high-ranked Magi, it might only be enough for them to complete a large-scale spell experiment.
However, for the Crimson Family, it was enough for them to grow from a small family to a giant that was second only to the larger families.
Other Magus families would need hundreds or even thousands of years to complete such a process.
What was even more unique was the legendary leader of the Crimson Family.
He barely became an acolyte with his poor talent and suffered day after day in a low-ranked resource point under the Sarubo Family. However, after the Scattered Tower Forest's first compulsory mission, this ordinary Sorcerer-Apprentice actually soared to the skies in one go and rapidly matured.
According to the rumors, he was a beginner acolyte before the mission, but after the mission ended, he had already become a high-ranked acolyte.
Even though he was only an acolyte, he had already surpassed two ranks in a single mission. Although he was only an acolyte, it was enough to show how extraordinary and legendary he was.
From then on, he went out of control. Not long after returning to the resource point, he became a quasi-wizard and gained the attention of the Sarubo Family.
However, no one knew how Grimm became a Magus.
Even though some Magus organizations spent a lot of effort to investigate, they could only barely find out that something had happened to the resource point where Grimm had stayed. Even the Magus stationed there had died a violent death. However, Grimm, Mary, and the other guy who controlled insects benefited from the disaster and successfully became Magi.
Less than half a year after becoming Magi, the three of them were thrown into a Planar War by the Sarubo Family. It was said that Grimm's performance was exceptional, so he gained the favor of the great Magus Sarubo and successfully became a high-ranking member of the Sarubo Family.
From then on, Grimm seemed to be on bad terms with the high-ranking members of the Sarubo Family, and there were often rumors of internal strife.
Grimm and Mary also officially left the Salubo family after the service contract ended. It was said that this caused an internal split in the Salubo Family, and a considerable number of Magi and acolytes followed the two and left the Salubo Family.
But from then on, Grim truly stepped into his legendary life!
In less than a hundred years, Grimm established the Crimson Family with a small private Wizard's Pagoda as the center, and started to frequently travel to other dimensions. As for himself, in less than a hundred years after becoming a Magus, he had once again advanced to become a famous Rank 2 Magus.
It was also during this period that the Crimson Family's name was gradually known to outsiders!
But what really made the Crimson Family famous was the existence of the giant dragon.
The Crimson Family seemed to have opened up a path to the Giant Dragon Plane, from which they could continuously obtain Giant Dragon resources and the enviable wealth of the Dragon race. These two were the sources of wealth that allowed the Crimson Family to rise so quickly.
With the resources and wealth they obtained from the Giant Dragon Plane, the Crimson Family's wealth immediately multiplied, and they quickly grew from an inconspicuous family to a small-scale family …
It was precisely because of its rapid rise that it had attracted a pack of vicious wolves.
With the Camara Family as the leader, five Wizard families or organizations joined forces and casually found an excuse to start a Wizard War against the Crimson Family. The result of the war was unexpected. The Crimson Family managed to defeat the allied forces of the five Wizard families with a large number of Metal Puppets even though their legendary family leader was not in the Wizard World.
It was this miraculous turnaround that allowed the Crimson Family to absorb the blood of the defeated and quickly grow. They rushed out of the Flame Monarch's Wizard's Pagoda, wantonly plundering land in the Elobis area, and they had the momentum of becoming a mid-tier family.
In order to suppress the Crimson Family's expansion, the rank 3 family leader of the Camara Family, the veteran Crow of Death, Yurga, chose to challenge the family. It was this unimaginable battle that established Wizard Grimm's status as a legendary Wizard.
A rank 2 Fire Wizard, the family leader of a newly rising family, used a miraculous method to kill a veteran rank 3 Wizard in front of everyone.
This was something that had never happened in the history of the Wizard World!
After swallowing up the Camara Family and a few other families, the Crimson Family quickly gained a foothold in the Elobis area and began to expand their family's influence to the northern Witches' territory.
In the northern lands, ruled by the Witches, the Crimson Family somehow got on the ship of the Witches of Destiny and actually occupied a large territory in a place called the Icewind Territory. It was said that the Crimson Family's development there was flourishing, and it was not inferior to the Elobis area in the central part of the continent.
In private, there were many rumors that the legendary Fire Wizard of the Crimson Family and the leader of the Witches of Destiny, Alice, had an ambiguous relationship. This could be seen from the depth and breadth of their cooperation.
Regarding this, many of the old fellows in the central part of the continent were obviously dissatisfied!
From their point of view, this meant that the Crimson Family had become the vassal and vanguard of the northern Witches. It would lead the northern Witches' influence to the entire scattered Tower Forest.
Therefore, in these past few years, the Crimson Family's influence could only be limited to the Elobis area and some newly opened territories. If they wanted to expand their influence to other areas, they would be heavily attacked by the local Wizard organizations or families.
This also caused the Goblins that belonged to the Crimson Family to spend a lot of effort, but they could only extend their influence to some neutral cities. As for the private territories, they were not welcomed.
There were even cases of Goblin caravans being killed halfway through their journey and being completely wiped out.
However, as the Crimson Family's influence grew stronger, they became more secretive and their hands and feet became cleaner.
Unfortunately, with the help of the Witches of Destiny, no matter how the ambushers erased their traces, the Crimson Family could easily find the mastermind and the murderer. As a few mid-tier Magi fell to the Crimson Family's Patrol Mothership and the overwhelming Magic Machine Army, no other organization dared to touch them!
Just as some Grade 4 Magi gradually shifted their attention to the Crimson Family and spread the news that they were going to take care of them, the legendary Fire Magus actually brought back a huge Grade 4 Metal Golem Dragon from the secondary plane.
With this, the commotion that had just been caused instantly calmed down!
Though the entire scattered Tower Forest was surging with undercurrents, at least on the surface, no Magus organization dared to openly deal with the Crimson Family.
It was fine if the Crimson Family did not have any Grade 4 Magi, so they could take care of them. However, now that the Crimson Family had suddenly produced a powerful Grade 4 Golem, the Grade 4 Magi gave up on the idea of casually stepping on them.
Even if the Grade 4 Magi had a high chance of winning against a stiff and rigid Grade 4 Golem, they were not willing to take this risk.
With their strength and prestige, as long as they were still in the family, the sorcerer family or organization that they represented would never fall. No Grade 4 Magus would make an enemy out of a Magus of the same rank. No matter how rich the benefits were, they would not make a move against another Grade 4 Magus.
This was because once a grudge was formed, no Magus family or organization would be able to withstand the attack of a Grade 4 Magus. Even if there was another Grade 4 Magus protecting them, it would still be the same.
When a Magus advanced to Grade 4, the difference in their methods and abilities was so great that outsiders would not be able to understand it. A bloodline curse or a necromancy spell could cause a family to fall apart in an instant, resulting in heavy casualties.
Hence, if there was no need, even Grade 4 Magi would not be willing to provoke another Grade 4 Magus for the sake of some resources and benefits.
Although the Grade 4 Golem of the Crimson Family did not have the terrifying might of a Grade 4 Magus, who knew what kind of terrifying trump cards that fellow called Grim had hidden up his sleeves. Hence, with the experience and wisdom of the Grade 4 Magi, as long as the Crimson Family did not provoke them, they would not be willing to take this hard hit.
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The White Tower of the North.
An exquisitely designed Cruising Mothership in the shape of a cigar slowly floated in the sky near the White Tower.
Since it used magic energy as its power source, this Cruising Mothership did not have the metal clanking sound of gears grinding against each other like other mechanical spaceships.
Just like an exquisite silver-white cigar, the Cruising Mothership silently crushed the flock-like clouds and floated in the sky leisurely. The Goblin Magician Locke Jr. stood on the edge of the ship with his legs crossed, looking down at the Dark Forest, the tall ancient trees, the undulating mountains, and the lakes that passed by quickly.
As a newly promoted Magus, with his qualifications and strength, he naturally did not have the qualifications to control such a powerful Mothership that was full of magical technology. However, considering his Goblin background, Wizard Meryl still transferred him to the Cruising Mothership to work under the Grade 2 Knight Soros.
Knight Soros was the captain of the Cruising Mothership, and Locke Jr. was only one of the three Magi on the Mothership.
Their mission was to patrol the Dark Forest between the White Tower and Doflan City.
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