Chapter 0722: The Rise of the Crimson Family
The return of the main force of the family also immediately boosted the momentum of the Crimson family.
Some time ago, in order to prevent the Witch Tower's power from being attacked by the enemy, the family almost sealed the flame cave that led to the outside world of the Flame Throne.
Now, of course, these problems do not exist.
As a result, the Throne of Fire, the Hall of Lava, and the Caverns of Fire are once again open to the public, and the long-awaited mercenaries, adventurers, and wizard apprentices have once again poured into the underground tower, making it bustling with activity once again.
And once these outsiders actually entered the Flame Throne, they immediately found something different from the past.
First of all, the Witch Tower's defense system has become more and more tight.
In the past, the Flame Throne lacked a sufficient number of witchcraft, so most of the patrols and vigilance missions were done by manticores and vigilance witch circles. But now, all this heavy and menial work has been handed over to some strange metal magic machines.
Different from the metal golems and constructs of ordinary witch towers, these metal magic machines have an unusually obvious otherworldly style, and the energy circulation system and combat system are also very different from the golem constructs in the wizarding world.
But in any case, the addition of this group of new forces means that the Flame Throne's own strength is getting stronger and stronger.
Secondly, a large number of natural treasures and strange objects have also appeared in the trading system of the Flame Throne one after another.
Whether it's the heart of a thousand-year-old tree, or the sharp horn of a unicorn, or a large number of enchanted swords, elven longbows, and natural staffs, they are all unique things. On them, you can clearly see the imprint of a huge otherworldly civilization.
The appearance of such a large number of alien treasures and weapons on the Flame Throne can only show that the Crimson family has recently successfully conquered a certain alien world, and it is also the lair of natural creatures.
Some well-intentioned people passed on this information, which immediately attracted the attention of several major wizarding families in the surrounding area.
From what the Flame Throne has revealed, it can be seen that this Crimson family has successfully conquered at least two or three heterotopic planes with completely different systems. And more importantly, they don't seem to have lost much. At least, the characters on the bright side of the Crimson family are all there, and there is no overly obvious family attrition.
And this ...... In fact, it is the other families who are most puzzled!
The difficulty of the expedition on the Alien Plane will be understood by any wizard family who has tried it.
With the power of a small wizard family, if you want to devour a complete plane in the distant other world in one bite, the difficulty of this, who knows. A dozen wizards sent over, let alone occupy the entire plane, it was so difficult to build a solid dimensional stronghold.
If one is not well surrounded by the natives of the plane, it is often the end of the total annihilation.
And this so-called Crimson family, on the surface, has only seven or eight big and small wizards, and most of them are first-order wizards. By what means did they achieve one victory after another?
Luck, weak enemy, strong foreign aid?
It was precisely because of this confusion that some of the neighboring wizarding families couldn't help but start to focus their attention on the newly formed Crimson family.
It's okay if you don't understand, but when you dig deeper, these wizard families can't help but be surprised!
I don't know when it started, this crimson family, which has always been weak in their minds, actually ...... It turned out that he already had nine 2nd orders.
The Crimson Master Grimm is a Tier 2 Fire Witch, the Blood Queen Mary Wizard is a Vampire Wizard, the Dragonman Zacha is a Tier 2 Demon Warrior, and the Goblin Tigur is able to control the Tier 2 Goblin Ripper...... In addition, two second-order blood knights and three second-order blood elves suddenly appeared in the Crimson family.
Although these strange magical creatures are not comparable to the orthodox second-order wizards, they can still be a terrifying force when combined.
Compared to the 2nd order, the number of 1st order of the Crimson family is a bit rare.
Earth Wizard Meryl (1st Intermediate), Worm Wizard Bilis (1st Tier), Wind Witch Desella (1st Elementary), Medusa Dana (1st Advanced), Manticore Caron (1st Advanced), Apothecary Gargamel (1st Intermediate), Ava the Forest Demon (1st Intermediate), Nature Wizard Emelia (1st Elementary), Goblin Kirby (1st Elementary), Old Fox Winliel (1st Intermediate), Six Blood Elves (1st Elementary), ......
In any wizarding family, the number of Tier 1 wizards who exist as the base power is the largest, while the number of Tier 2 wizards who are the main combat power is obviously rare.
But this development criterion does not seem to hold true at all in the Crimson family.
The number of second-order members of this crimson family has a faint tendency to surpass that of first-order members. This...... It's incredible!
Moreover, ordinary wizard families have to desperately expand their secular territory, using facilities such as witch towers, resource points, and family castles to control more people and more land. Only in this way will it be possible to discover more apprentices with wizarding talents, and then establish a complete and systematic wizarding training system.
But this Crimson family is so strange, not only is the family home in the Black Forest, but there is hardly any population or land around it that can be controlled. Even the family wizards have always lived in seclusion, rarely leaving the small tower that sits deep underground.
As a result, the Crimson family and the nearby wizard family seemed so incompatible, like carriages walking on two parallel lines, and if it wasn't for the deliberate understanding and listening, it would be almost impossible for the two sides to have any intersection.
However, with the improvement of the family's strength, it is very unnecessary to maintain the previous mystery and high level.
If the family wants to develop, and the wizard wants to improve, it is inseparable from resources and knowledge. And these, relying on one's own family to collect passively, will undoubtedly become extremely slow, and it will also affect the progress of the family's wizards.
Therefore, with Grim's approval, a large number of natural treasures, strange objects, weapons, and a group of forest elf slaves appeared in the Flame Throne auction house. Under the auspices of the goblin Kabi, he successfully attracted many slave traders and family representatives in the scattered Tallinn area, and also slowly but significantly increased the family's strength.
The current Flame Throne is no longer the remote enclave of material scarcity and resource-poor in the past, but has become a hot star land in the Elovis region in the middle of the continent.
With the Flame Throne Witch Tower in front, the land between it and the town of Songta has become a 'familiar land'.
Forest paths turn into flat avenues, and the jungle beasts and small monsters that inhabit them are strangled by the hordes of monster hunters or adventurers. As a result, small settlements have emerged one after another, and some have gradually developed into human villages and towns.
The former Black Forest gradually receded to the north, returning nearly two hundred miles of forest around the Flame Throne and to the south to humans.
However, according to the agreement between Grim and the Scattered Tallinn Council, all the newly reclaimed land belongs to the council, and the council will send suitable personnel to become the lords of the new land.
Although the wizards of the Crimson family were dissatisfied with this, no one dared to openly stand up and make irresponsible remarks in the Tallinn Association of the Scattered Lands.
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In the depths of winter.
An exquisite and ornate aristocratic carriage drove slowly along the forest road.
The last rays of sunlight at the end of the distant sky sank into the dark forest sea, making the forest road even darker and darker.
Although the large carnivorous beasts of the surrounding jungle have been banished, it is still very dangerous to walk alone here at night.
Wilms lifted the curtain, glanced out into the deep forest, and fell silently into deep thought.
The cold wind at night blew along the forest road, chilling to the bone, and he couldn't help but shiver.
Wilms tightened his elaborate noble cloak and covered the equally ornate armor underneath. As the eldest son of the Andorran family, he was a nobleman with the title of baron, and he himself learned some skills in horseback slashing with the knights, so he was not a weak nobleman.
At this time, a terrible and long wolf howl suddenly came from the depths of the forest sea, which made him more and more suspicious.
"Jem, will we be able to reach the Flame Throne tonight?" Finally, after a long lonely journey, he couldn't help but ask the childish question to the coachman and butler who had followed him for many years.
"My lord, I'm afraid I won't be able to arrive tonight!" the coachman Jem let out a breath of heat from his mouth, warmed his hands, and said in a low voice: "There are still more than forty miles of mountain road from the Flame Throne here, and we are afraid that we will have to stop and stay in Giethoorn for a night......"
As soon as you hear such a vulgar and shoddy name, you know that "Giethoorn ......" must be one kind of humble little village with nothing but some dilapidated thatched huts and charred black fire ponds.
This meant that there would be no warm and comfortable rooms, no sweet bread and hot soups, and no beautiful ladies who would delight him...... Wilms became restless again, fidgeting once again about the mission he had been carrying.
He sighed helplessly and lowered the curtain to cover the cold air outside the car.
After his mind had resettled, Wilms once again took out the simple and elegant magical parchment scroll from his bosom and slowly unfolded it.
Immediately, the lines of beautiful writing in magic ink on the parchment scroll came into view.
“…… Baron Wilms, the eldest son of the House of Andorra, is hereby appointed to take over all the land, minerals, and people there, and to become the undisputed new lord there......"
At the end of the parchment scroll, the unique magic seal of the Scattered Tallinn Society and the witchcraft sigil of the two elders are also inscribed.
There's a new lord here!