Chapter 854 - Strange War
Chapter 854 Strange War
An adept advancing to Third Grade wasn’t too significant of an event, even in the World of Adepts.
After all, the World of Adepts was a large-sized higher plane. Third Grade adepts might not be as numerous as the stars in the sky, but there were still plenty of them.
However, a Third Grade adept as glorious and powerful as Greem was a rare sight. He stood out as a shining star in the crowd.
When news of the young clan leader of the Crimson Clan advancing to Third Grade spread throughout the land, Greem instantly became a blinding, rising star of the center region.
It wasn’t just the Zhentarim area. Even a small half of the Northern Lands was passionately talking about this legendary fire adept.
In just two hundred years, he had passed through three thresholds and become a famous and renowned fire adept. An adept like this had the most potential to advance to Fourth Grade. There was no doubt that this particular aspect of Greem’s advancement was what caught the eyes of the adepts.
Meanwhile, the vampires were also enraged, and all requested to go into battle for their mistress.
Amongst them, Emelia was the one that made the most noise and moved around the most. She waved her little fists and shouted non-stop within the Rouge Corps as if she wanted to drag the enemy to the grave along with her.
The second one to stand up and speak was White Tower Majordomo Meryl.
She was a student of Greem’s, as well as the most respected and beloved core adept of the leaders of the Crimson Clan. She might only be at intermediate First Grade, and couldn’t even rank in the top ten powerhouses of the clan, but she was a central character in the authority of the Crimson Clan.
The other Second Grade adepts might excel at combat and slaughter, but they were inept at managing clan matters and dealing with more trivial tasks such as the allocation of resources.
Judging from the Goblin Plane and White Tower alone, one could see how all clan matters that Meryl managed were dealt with in an orderly and suitable fashion. The allocation of resources had always been fair as well, and all things progressed positively under her guidance.
Given this to be the case, Meryl was also an irreplaceable core character of the Crimson Clan!
Her words carried a lot of weight to them.
She expressed immense fury at this somewhat humiliating decision from the Witch Council. However, because this had always been how the Northern Witches acted, the Crimson Clan had no choice but to deal with the matter using the thought processes and methods of the witches.
If that was the case, it seemed like a joint combat cooperation with the Fate Witches was unavoidable!
The key to the problem was what methods of cooperation was available to the two parties? How was the gathering of information on the Coldwinter Witches going? What did they need to be aware of when fighting against the Coldwinter Witches?
As they listened to Meryl list out all of these crucial questions one by one, the Fate Witches in attendance looked at each other. In the end, they had no choice but to hand over all the information they had on their hands.
The Coldwinter Witches were known as the most combat-proficient faction of the Northern Witches.
The ice and snow magic that they specialized in was very compatible with the harsh environment of the Northern Lands. Consequently, their abilities were significantly enhanced by nature when fighting outside.
However, the Coldwinter faction had experienced many crises over the years, and their witch legacy had also been cut off for long periods of time. This latest Coldwinter branch had only just regained their inheritance five hundred years ago. Though they were much more developed than the Fate Witches under Alice’s rule, they were still inferior compared to those factions that had lasted for several thousands of years.
At this point, the Coldwinter Witches only had a single Third Grade witch, who was their faction leader; Morgana, the woman who had started this conflict to begin with. The Coldwinter Witches had sixty-seven witches in total, eleven Second Grades, and fifty-six First Grades. Apart from them, the Coldwinter Witches also had twenty-eight subordinate adepts, most of them outsider First Grade male adepts.
The headquarters of the Coldwinter Witches was in Icesnow Valley, located in the southeastern corner of the Northern Lands. It was only a straight-line distance of three hundred and fifty kilometers away from White Tower.
Apart from these, the Coldwinter Witches also possessed thirty-one clan territories, eighty-nine human cities of various sizes, twenty-six resource sites of different classes, and four million direct subjects.