Age of Adepts

The ‘fierce’ and difficult battle lasted for over twenty hours, and the Darkblood Army only lost around thirty First Grade adepts.

The Capital of Steel had not been too severely damaged, either. Apart from the first few layers of metal plates being blasted apart, and some of the watchtowers being brought down, it had not suffered any damage. Meanwhile, over a hundred of the First Grade magical machines had been destroyed, while not a single high-grade magical machine of Second Grade and above had been lost.

These numbers alone were evidence of how gentle the battle had been.

If this had been a conventional war between adepts, the number of casualties could have easily been ten times the current amount!

The energy shockwaves produced by the battle had even drawn the patrols of Exodar Camp here. However, upon seeing the emblem on the Darkblood adepts, the patrol decided not to intervene in the battle. Instead, they sent a report up to their authorities.

This incident involved the Fifth Grade organization, Istanal Clan. Ordinary patrol adepts had no power or authority to be involved in such a fight. Moreover, this was the border region of the Exodar Camp. Strictly speaking, it wasn’t part of the camp. The patrols could only watch the battle unfold in silence.

It was precisely because of this that the Fourth Grade adept of the Istanal Clan was so brazen in starting a war. Otherwise, any adept clan that started trouble in Exodar Camp would not escape punishment from the stationed Great Adept, even if they won the battle in the end.

When the battle finally dragged out past the twenty-hour mark, the Fourth Grade adept of the Istanal Clan realized something was wrong.

When Gazlowe’s pervasive mental powers picked up on the enemy’s grand invasion, he immediately activated the two magic generator furnaces he had kept on standby. They increased the magic energy supplied to the city by an incredible amount.

A torrent of magic energy surged through the metal pipes and was transported to every corner of the city. The fallen towers and buildings were lifted as if they were liquid metal, then reshaped and reformed.

The damaged and destroyed cannons were quickly replaced with new weapons fresh off the assembly line.

Of course, all this happened within the Capital of Steel. No one could see this happening from the outside.

When the armies of Darkblood adepts activated their shields and dove down against the rain of cannon fire, numerous magic energy cannons emerged from the metal towers that had risen from the ground. All of them fired simultaneously.

The dark space of the galaxy instantly turned as bright as day!

The excessively concentrated and violent magic energy attacks were like a massive web of destruction. They enveloped the Darkblood adepts and rained down upon them.

The ferocity of the attack, and the surprising intensity of the magic energy, caused the faces of all the adepts to turn white.

Dammit! What a terrifying attack!

Just as the heart of the Fourth Grade adept plummeted, a massive cluster of fireworks went off in the center of the battlefield. A horrifying energy tide immediately devoured the first few hundred Darkblood adepts to arrive in the city.

Beng! Beng! Beng!

Such concentrated fire could not be defended against, even with defensive shields ten times more powerful than what the adepts had.

As their magical shields shattered, wild magic energy surged in, devouring the one hundred Darkblood adepts charging at the forefront.

Energy ripples, elementium explosions, severed limbs, and splattered bodies.

A hundred First Grade Darkblood adepts and eleven Second Grade Darkblood adepts had become the first sacrifices of the Capital of Steel’s retaliation. Most of the owls beneath the adepts had been riddled with holes and torn up by the energy blasts. Their ripped-up bodies and blood fell from the sky like rain.

Some of the adepts who were the focus of the attacks had been vaporized completely. Not a single trace of their existence remained!

The atmosphere of the battlefield froze over in an instant.