Age of Adepts

Dong! Dong! Dong!

A series of explosions erupted among the beasts!

Wildfires and a ferocious shockwave washed over the snow beasts.

For a moment, there was an increase in many snow beast casualties.

However, how could Morgana’s rise to leader of the Coldwinter Witches ever have been predicated upon these grunts?

While the snow beasts were tussling with the opponent, she had already flown to where the battle was happening. She waved a single hand, and tens of thousands of snow swords flew out of the storm, shooting toward her enemies.

Judging from the indiscriminate attacks, she couldn’t care less if the snow beasts were caught in the fire.

Dammit, dammit!

Billis repeatedly cursed as he hid in the shadows. He desperately commanded his swarm to turn into black smoke and escape. Meanwhile, the Second Grade Voidreavers beat their wings and scrambled out of the battlefield.

Their silhouettes slowly vanished after a short while. Only a slight shimmer in the air was visible before they disappeared without a trace.

The overwhelming snowstorm ravaged the land along with the countless blades of ice and snow. Many of the snow beasts were torn to pieces and killed by the barrage of transparent ice crystals. Meanwhile, some of the black smoke also failed to escape and was caught by the storm. The haze once again turned into fist-sized black beetles with tough shells and sharp fangs.

These black beetles let out a strange shriek as they tumbled around in the cold winds, frost creeping up their shells.

The speed of their flight slowed, and the ice blades quickly caught up and shredded them to pieces. The corpses of insects rained down from the skies, their broken shells and severed limbs trapped in thick blocks of ice before they even hit the ground.

“Mary, draw her attention!”

Silver light shimmered around Alice as she moved about the battlefield, teleporting once every second. Several lavish and delicate tarot cards spun wildly around her. Yet, no matter how they turned, circled, and continued to dance around Alice in a strange and wondrous trajector, the back of the cards always faced outward while the faces kept toward her.

With just a thought, Alice only needed to extend her hand to one of the tarot cards to make it flow into her hand. She could then instantly equip the item sealed within the tarot card.

While Morgana was launching her attack, Alice had already summoned the Witch’s Mask, the Mercury Accessories, the Hourglass of Time, and the Staff of Divination, thoroughly equipping herself with items.

The Witch’s Mask was a piece of Fate equipment. It could blur the enemy’s senses and cause them to gloss over the existence of the wearer unintentionally.

Morgana’s spell would have no effect on Alice as long as her eyes weren’t fixed upon her.

Mercury Accessories were another set of Fate equipment. Alice would never be affected by any adverse effects while she was wearing them.

With this item, Morgana’s area-of-effect frost aura would not be able to restrain Alice.

Meanwhile, the Hourglass of Time was a piece of powerful Fate equipment. If Alice was willing to fill it with her Fate power, she could rewind time from one to five seconds ago.

With the Hourglass of Time, she would never leave behind any regrets on the battlefield!

As for the final item, the Staff of Divination, that was Alice’s main combat equipment that she had mastered the most.

With the Staff of Divination in hand, the entire world was transparent before Alice’s eyes!

A strange sonic boom rang out in the air when Alice completely equipped herself.

Crimson lightning cut across the sky and pierced into the storm.

With her extreme speed and the protection of her blood energy, Mary was able to reach Morgana’s side before the seeping cold could reach her.

A loud crackling sound rang out as the blood energy surrounding Mary froze into crimson chunks of ice from the frost aura.

They crackled as they fell from the sky. Mary was like a butterfly dancing around a candle fire, rapidly attacking Morgana several times in a row. She then hurriedly escape from the snowstorm when she saw ferocious ice energy gather around Morgana.

It had only been a trip in and out that took no more than three to five seconds, yet Mary had already lost more than thirty percent of the blood energy within her body. That caused her to start stuffing blood crystals into her mouth the moment she escaped Morgana’s range of attack.

“Gru; attack here, here, here, and here.”

While Morgana was distracted by Mary, Alice quickly sent out orders to Split-Off Brain Gru, who was hiding at the edges of the battlefield. Though Gru might not seem to have as much combat potential as the Goblin Shredder, he was uncontested when it came to the amount of his magical energy output.

After all, no one would stuff a terrifying magic generator furnace into their stomach!

With Alice’s guidance, several red dots mysteriously appeared on the destructive snowstorm around Morgana. These were the areas that Alice had instructed Gru to attack!

Gru let out a roar and his five-meter-tall, substantial body squatted down. A half-meter-thick black cannon barrel emerged from his back. The next instant, terrifying magic energy surged into the cannon as seven beams of energy accurately hit the seven red marks.

The gigantic snowstorm suddenly stalled for a second. If it weren’t for Morgana realizing something was wrong and using her powerful ice magic to keep the storm spinning, that one powerful attack from Gru would have been enough to destroy the storm.

Much like how Greem liked to spread flames everywhere the moment he started fighting, most of Morgana’s magic was improved tremendously with the presence of the snowstorm. Moreover, with the snowstorm around Morgana, anyone that tried to attack would have to pay a heavy price to reach her!

With that one attack from earlier, Gru had caught the attention of Morgana from three and a half kilometers away.

The other Second Grade adepts were annoying to deal with and couldn’t present any real threat to her. However, this iron tin can’s attack had almost caused her protective spell to fall apart. Morgana instantly prioritized Gru as the first target for extermination.

Morgana let out a crisp battlecry, and several large scale ice spells descended upon Gru like an avalanche.

Dammit! Bastards…protect me, won’t you?!

Gru quickly threw out countless layers of forcefields while calling for help with his mental connection to the others. He dodged within the destructive ice spells while desperately making his way outward.

Still, how could a Third Grade witch’s elementium spell be so easily survived?

The wild ice magic froze the earth and even the sky, sealing Gru in a thick layer of ice. As a cold breeze blew across, all of the ice crystals instantly disintegrated, returning to the smallest of ice particles.

Gru, who had been jumping about actively just now, also turned into shards of ice. He was nowhere to be seen now. Only a magic generator furnace remained where he stood, still glowing with ghostly blue light!

It had not even been six minutes since the start of the battle, and only three rounds of attacks between the two parties, yet one of Alice’s four helpers had died in battle. The other Second Grade adepts couldn’t help but feel terror rise in their hearts at the same time.

“Hahahaha! A bunch of Second Grades, yet you dare to come and send yourself to your graves. I…”

Morgana started laughing wildly, but her laughter stopped halfway as if she was a chicken that had just been grasped by the neck.

Alice remained calm. Prismatic light suddenly shone from the Hourglass of Time at her waist. Everything quickly returned to silence.

Meanwhile, a small and delicate projection of an hourglass appeared where Gru had died. The sands of time within the projection mysteriously began to flow backward, returning to the upper half of the hourglass.

While the Hourglass of Time was rewinding, mysterious planar laws started to extract the billions of metal particles from the ice shards nearby. The metal particles were then put together around the magic generator furnace once again according to a certain law and a certain order, as if stacking blocks of wood.

It was almost as if someone had pressed the rewind button on spacetime. Gru’s already shattered body was pieced together before everyone’s eyes.

When the completely dead brain that was Gru once again appeared within the defensive shield of his metal body, the last bits of sand drained away from the hourglass and it slowly faded into nothingness.

“You bastards, you just watch me die? I want to curse…hm? How am I still alive?”

His messed-up perception of spacetime and all the strange information surging into his mind from the planar laws caused the newly revived Gru to be completely confused.

“Why aren’t you running yet? Do you want to die again?” At this moment, Alice’s sweet voice rang out in Gru’s mind, absolutely unamused.

Gru immediately turned and ran without any hesitation.

Damn, what was that magic? How was it so powerful? It could even save someone that had been turned to pieces?

Mary, Tigule, and Billis saw this mysterious scene unfold in front of them from where they were hiding. The shock in their hearts was indescribable. However, along with the immense shock came tremendous joy.

Hell, were they even afraid of death with such a powerful ability helping them?

The morale of the Crimson adepts instantly reached a peak without even a single word exchanged between them!

They were celebrating in joy, while Morgana was utterly stunned.

Dammit, dammit, dammit! Was this the true power of the Fate Witches? It is truly as mysterious and profound as recorded in the history books!

Still, since they were now her opponents, she would never let them have the chance to turn the tables.

Now that she had made up her mind, Morgana’s will to battle erupted, and she chose the teleporting Alice as her new target.

Alice was the core of today’s battle. If she wasn’t dealt with, who knew how many more such miracles she could still produce with her mysterious Fate magic.

Morgana silently dashed toward Alice, her terrifying snowstorm still raging around her!