Age of Adepts

The metal giant that Adept Holly had turned into possessed impressive might that far surpassed these arcane golems.

The arcane golems that only reached his waist were so frail and fragile in front of him.

Loud metallic snapping and crackling rang out as the metal giant charged like a stampeding bull through a china store. It immediately pierced through the army of arcane golems, its domineering figure appearing in front of the arcanists. The metal giant had knocked the arcane golems all over the place, large web-like cracks covering their rune-carved bodies.

“Little brats, make way!”

Adept Holly was hidden well within the astral construct. He extended a giant metallic hand, and countless blinding starlight descended from the skies, wildly ravaging the shocked and terrified arcanists.

These dozen arcanists were of various grades. Some were young, and some were old. Some were male, while others were female. Without a single exception, every one of them was draped in fine and ornate arcane robes.

As the violent starlight crashed down upon them, layers of dense and thick arcane light shimmered around their bodies, desperately protecting them against this fearsome power.

If they were all Fourth Ring arcanists and enhanced by energy from the arcane tower, they just might have been able to defend against Adept Holly’s attack. Unfortunately, the most powerful one present in the group was only a Third Ring arcanist!

Dark Witch Shani stood at the control crystal. Her mouth was slightly agape as tendrils of faint, black smoke slowly came out and merged with the crystal. In combination with the passwords and means of control that she had succeeded in retrieving from the tower master’s mind, Shani had managed to use her powers to erode the crystal. She had managed to suppress the tower spirit somewhat and was slowly starting to take over control of the arcane tower.

A semi-translucent projection of the tower appeared above the control crystal. Every hidden room, hidden passage, warehouse, and storage facilities were fully displayed. Even the arcanists and arcane apprentices in the tower were indicated with red dots of various brightness.

Shani laughed sinisterly.

Whenever she pointed at a place in the tower, the scene taking place in that location would be magnified and projected in front of her. It showed the arcanists panicking as they tried to dodge the attacks from their own arcane golems. The magical doors that had always granted them free access seemed to have malfunctioned as well, leaving them isolated and trapped in individual rooms of their own.

Shani reveled in the crazed expressions of the arcanists as she pointed with her finger and sent clusters of dark energy through the tower.

A shadow assassin similar to Shani in appearance quickly formed wherever the dark energy traveled!

The panicked and terrified cries of the arcanists soon filled the entire tower.

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Greem casually strolled through the arcane tower.

The four adepts had already broken in. They were scattered throughout the different levels, slaughtering, or simply scouring for treasure. Everyone was doing what they enjoyed the most.

Dark Witch Shani had taken over the central control hall and seemed to be having plenty of fun in there.

Adept Holly had been studying and researching something in the energy room in the basement after knocking down the last arcane golem.

Two-headed Adept Mangus was cooped up in the warehouses looting all he could.

Meanwhile, Greem turned corner after corner, walked through door after door, and finally arrived at the knowledge hall in the arcane tower. A trail of magical doors had a human imprint burned through them from where he passed through.

This place was only a small arcane tower in a rural province, after all. Their magical doors only had ordinary magic resistance and couldn’t possibly stop a Fourth Grade elementium adept.

Thus, Greem broke into the knowledge hall and started using the Chip’s rapid scan and copy functions to quickly record the contents of every single book into his mind.

A comprehensive and organized system of the arcane arts was rapidly forming in the depths of his mind.