Age of Adepts

Chapter 1292 Fire and Undead

Everyone fell silent.

Even though they all knew the Crimson Clan had been hiding a massive army of magical-machine constructs, the visual impact of seeing over ten thousand magical machines thunder onto the battlefield like a torrent of metal still shook them to their core.

Dammit! Why were there so many of them?

Did the Crimson Clan dig up every last scrap of metal ore from their Goblin Plane?

It was important to note that in most material planes, it was only possible to obtain one ton of refined steel by refining and processing over a hundred tons of ordinary metal.

Moreover, such exceptional steel could only be used for the armor of the magical machines. To obtain alloy with sufficient conductivity and hardness to craft weapons, one would have to resort to small-scale production in their laboratories.

Due to all these limiting factors, creating metal golems on a large scale was very difficult. Not only did it require a tremendous amount of metal resources, but it also needed manpower in the form of alchemists. In the entirety of the World of Adepts, the Silver Union was the only organization able to entirely replace their armies of footsoldiers and cannon fodder with metal golems. Even the two other major organizations relied primarily on their adept forces and voodoo beasts as their military.

Of course, in the World of Adepts, the Fourth Grade adepts did not fear these liches in the slightest.

Even Fourth Grade liches would have to endure terrifying planar suppression while they were here. What remained of their power was not enough to scare off the adepts.

Still, they couldn’t help but be impressed with the legendary fire adept’s vast social circle.

To make allies out of individuals like liches and Fire Lords– that required absolute power!

Without the power to defend yourself and intimidate these beings, any sort of collaboration you had with them would be no different than plotting with robbers. A tragic fate would be the only thing awaiting you.

Yet, the fire adept had somehow managed to simultaneously make allies out of so many evil creatures and savage elementium beings. He was no ordinary person indeed!

As everyone sighed exasperatedly, the battle finally broke out.

The first ones to step onto the battlefield were, naturally, the wildly sprinting ghouls.

These creatures were scrawny, but what muscle fibers could be seen on their bodies were as thick and tough as steel wires. The ghouls sprinted across the ground like hunting dogs at rapid speeds. They leaped over any obstructions, the sharp claws on their hands and feet providing them with the strength to easily do so.

From a distance, the tens of thousands of ghouls were like a white tide that instantly devoured the empty space between the armies. They quickly arrived before the voodoo beasts.

The thirty war towers commenced functioning at the same time. Overwhelming magic energy surged through each of the towers, lighting up their numerous arrays and runes.

Layers of elementium defenses stacked upon each other, firmly protecting the tower below a series of barriers. Then, the offensive arrays lit up as devastating elementium magic was unleashed upon the ghouls, guided by the adepts in the towers.

Violent lightning crashed down from above like an apocalyptic nightmare. Dozens of bolts of silver lightning, each over two-meters thick, cut through the ghouls and instantly turned them to ashes. Not a trace of their corpses could even be found.

Ice magic quickly turned the frontlines into a world of frost. Countless blades of snow and ice rained down from above, pinning the ghouls to the ground and slicing them to death.

Elementium magic of various forms and effects ravaged the battlefield, instantly wiping out the first wave of ghouls charging at the forefront.