Second Grade Fire Dragon Bamler’s undergroundbyrinth had copsed!


    This scary bit of news spread throughout Lance with the speed of a gue.


    Every dragon that heard this news was shocked and started listening for the source of the story and its reliability. Some more meddlesome dragons even took a special trip to Bamler’sbyrinth and attempted to verify the truth of the news with the dragon himself.


    Sadly, that Second Grade fire dragon had vanished without a trace, almost as if he had evaporated into thin air.


    Thebyrinth he’d constructed had utterly copsed, just as the rumors imed. The ma.s.sive amounts of rock and stone that hade down from its copse also fell into theva river and blocked it. Theva that continually surged under the Burning ins had begun to surge up to the surface, forming a ma.s.sive magmake where the valley once was.


    That stopped the desire of meddlesome dragons to continue pursuing the matter!


    Along with the Second Grade fire dragon, his subordinate Firethroat Dragonborn had also vanished. The sight of those tall silhouettes in crimson scales patrolling the burningnds could no longer be seen around the valley.


    ording to some of the higher magical creatures left in the Burning ins, it seemed as if Bamler had strangely vanished after some odd outsiders had broken into his territory. Meanwhile, theck of sufficient information made it difficult for anyone to investigate the true ident.i.ties of these outsiders.


    After six months of sloppy inquiries, the dragons that got no useful information finally lost their patience and scattered.


    As such, the question of the mysterious vanishing of Second Grade Fire Dragon Bamler became a mystery of Lance!


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    Even an entire Second Grade fire dragon still couldn’t boost Oliven up onto the throne of Third Grade.


    That said,pared to before, she was much stronger, be it in terms of magic resistance, physical strength, or spiritual strength. More importantly, she seemed to have inherited some racial abilities of the fire dragon. Just like Bamler, she could unleash a lethal, wide-area fire breath.


    Even Greem fell into a daze at the sight of a pet.i.te and cute girl releasing a ma.s.sive fan-shaped fire dragon’s breath like a dragon. Though the adept had modeled the high-grade spell Dragon’s Breath after actual dragon breath, the spell itself was still far inferior to the real thing.


    The dragon weapons that Oliven carried with her had also gained even more powerful and terrifying powers after absorbing the vengeful spirit of the fire dragon. These powers might not be able to do much against other races, but they were especially effective against dragons.


    After all, the dragonsoul curse entangled in the weapons was not something that ordinary dragons could easily endure!


    In fact, when facing off against Oliven, low-grade dragons would even have to suffer her dragon’s aura of might. Oliven would only need to let out a ma.s.sive roar, and all dragons that were at least two sub-grades below her would flee in terror. They wouldn’t even be able to muster the courage to surround her and beat her.


    However, the surge in Spirit also made it impossible for Oliven to hide herself like before perfectly. Until she managed to digest and absorb the remnants of this dragonsoul curse, Oliven was not suited to continue staying in Lance.


    Otherwise, all the dragon powerhouses of Lance would be attracted to the dense dragon devourer aura and track her down to the metal fortress!


    That was why Oliven had no choice but to suppress her Spirit and follow Greem’s adepts to Fire Throne, bing a new Second Grade adept of the Crimson n. On the surface, the Crimson n now had a total of four Second Grade adepts.


    As for Dragonborn Zacha, the two blood knights, and the three blood elves? Their unique status made it such that they could only be considered Second Grade servants of Greem and Mary, rather than official adepts with independent souls.


    However, the fact that a newly risen adept n that had not been established for more than five years had such power waspletely beyond everyone’s expectations. It also meant that the individuals who had joined the Crimson n during its infancy were bound to reap ma.s.sive profits. They would be the biggest winners!


    However, the wellspring appearance of Second Grade adepts in the n also applied tremendous pressure to the current First Grades of the n. If they didn’t hasten their advancements, they would probably be excluded from the core of power in the near future, cast away as peripheral members of the n.


    After giving out the fire dragon’s h.o.a.rd to the partic.i.p.ating adepts based on contributions, the remainder was returned to the n’s warehouse. It was only now, after so much toiling and working, that the Crimson n had finally stabilized for the first time. The focus of development had finally returned to Fire Throne.


    The recruitment of multiple Second Grade adepts and the growth of the First Grade n adepts caused the fame and might of the Crimson n to grow with each pa.s.sing day.


    One had to admit that a small adept’s tower like Fire Throne could no longer hold the entirety of the Crimson n!


    The power and forces of the n desperately needed expansion. Thus, the choice of their future development path became ever more critical.


    After several discussions between Greem and Alice, they finally decided to construct the new Crimson n’s tower in the north.


    Zhentarim might have looser adept forces and organizations with greater potential for development, but the struggle between the ns was also exceedingly brutal. b.l.o.o.d.y conflicts between adept ns urred every so often. It was only the suppression of the Zhentarim a.s.sociation that kept these conflicts from erupting into war all over the ce.


    Greem had always stayed outside of the Zhentarim adept groups, which was what kept him from being embroiled in a cruel adept’s war. He had remained within the newly excavated area of the ck Forest after leaving the Sarubo n and establishing the Crimson n. That was how he avoided bing the new prey of those adept ns.


    There were too many people who wanted to attack the Crimson n. However, there was nothing they could do against an organization that stayed cooped up in their underground tower. If the Crimson n had their ownnds, vis, and resource sites in the central area of Zhentarim, they would most definitely have been split up by the surrounding ns already.


    Unfortunately, the Crimson n had none of these things.


    Moreover, the Crimson n seemed like it had no interest in these inherited territories and resource sites. It had not extended the influence of its n even a single step beyond the tower despite the scale that they now possessed.


    The only known property of the Crimson n was a small adept’s tower hidden underground- Fire Throne. Yet, this tower was also the hardest piece of property to take over. Even the Third Grade vampire n had fallen before Fire Throne. Other adept ns had no interest in traveling thousands of miles to try and crack this tough nut.


    It wasn’t that surrounding adept ns didn’t want to deal with the quickly rising Crimson n; it was that they couldn’t find a way to do so!


    The Crimson n that had yet to even walk out of their tower already had countless enemies in the center of the continent. Among them was a vampire n with an unresolvable grudge, two other adept ns who had hostile ties with them, and even the old Sarubo n wasn’t on speaking terms with them.


    Such tremendous ability to draw hatred was unique amongst all the small adept ns!


    Consequently, the Crimson n would surely experience attacks and conspiracies from these enemies if they were to attempt to expand their forces in Zhentarim, be it on the surface or in the shadows. When that happened, it wouldn’t be worth all the ha.s.sle and losses they would suffer.


    It was the consideration of all these factors that caused Alice to suggest Greem expand the Crimson n toward the north. Though the witches here were fairly xenophobic, with Alice, the Witch of Fate’s leader backing him, the s.p.a.ce for development for Greem and his Crimson n would still be infinitely more abundant than at the center of the continent.


    Now that they had decided their future direction, it was naturally time to determine the address of the new n base!


    Excessively prosperous and bountifulnds were already under the governance of witches of other branches. The areas that had been given over to the Fate Witches over the years were either barren saltnds or bordends infested with magical creatures. Even a top-grade adept n would have to prepare themselves for loss if they were to attempt to expand in ces like these.


    However, Greem didn’t seem to mind at all.


    His ideal adept’s empire waspletely discongruent with the World of Adepts of the present. Perhaps it was only this process of building up from nothing that could help him discover his true path forward.


    After running to and fro the north for five long months, Greem finally decided on the new territory of their n- a ce called Icewind.


    Icewind.


    It was a frigid ce neighboring the ck Forest to the east of the Northern Lands.


    There were almost no human viges or cities here. Even the closest adept’s tower was four hundred kilometers away. It was actually the territory of the Coldwinter Witches, but they were unwilling to part with a bountifulnd in the center of the Northern Lands and thus gave this hundred-kilometer-wide frozen in to the Fate Witches.


    Due to the difficulty of raising Fate Witches, they had not managed to take over their direct subordinate territoriespletely yet. Such a border area to the ck Forest naturally turned into nothing more than an ornament, a barrennd managed by no one.


    No witches were willing to stay here, and without the protection of a powerful adept’s tower, there were naturally no citizens who dared to stay here. As such, Greem found absolutely no living people in Icewind when he traveled the entirety of the area, apart from one or two dozen hunter families!


    Such a territory might be a profitless bone for others, but it was a decent springboard for Greem. After circling out an area on a hill five kilometers away from the ck Forest, the tower builders that Greem had hired quickly arrived.


    Just like in the center of the continent, the tower builders that Greem hired still belonged to a subsidiary force of the Silver Union, based in the Northern Lands. For the sake of his n’s future development, Greem gritted his teeth and asked them to construct a medium tower.


    A medium tower, fifteen levels tall, with all magical facilities possible!


    The cost of constructing a medium tower matched its functions and power. The price was so high that it made Greem want to curl up and cry.


    One million, two hundred thousand magical crystals; a million and two hundred thousand magical crystals!


    Just the odd change in the price of a medium tower couldpare to that of a small tower.