The embers on the earth have not yet been completely extinguished.

Plumes of black smoke lingered on the battlefield.

With Keslinburg as the center, there is hardly any human structure that can still maintain its original form within a radius of 100 miles. Even the ubiquitous green jungle has become a scorched earth, marked by large black scorch marks.

Yet on this withered land of extinction, the Köthlingburg still stood silently in place. With the naked eye alone, it is impossible to find any signs of damage or battle on this castle that is still intact on the outside.

The central area of the main battlefield, which is full of devastation and ruins, can still 'remain' of the next ancient castle? And as far as everyone knows, this Kthlin Fort was activated into a berserk stone giant that stood up to the sky at that time, and fought fiercely with the Crimson family......

Although they knew that there must be a secret in it, after the battle between the two sides, none of the core wizards of the Entom family escaped, and all disappeared without a trace. This also made many onlookers puzzled, and they felt a chill from the bottom of their hearts.

Could it be that the Crimson family has reached such heights that the Entom family, led by old Fried, cannot even escape alive? This kind of speculation also made Mirwa and other wizards jealous, and even rebelled against the Crimson family with a little less momentum.

At this moment, the few central forces that had once firmly opposed the Crimson family had also died down, trying to avoid the limelight for the time being, not wanting to be targeted by the Crimson family and become the second Entom family!

The reason why they opposed Crimson before was naturally because they didn't want to give up the power and status in their hands. But if the result of fierce opposition is the death of the body and soul, and the severance of the family inheritance, such a price is too cruel for the fourth-order wizards who have lived for thousands of years.

Freedom is important, but if the price of pursuing it is one's own life...... This is something that Rank 4 wizards would never accept!

Compared to life, it is not so difficult to accept to be subordinate to Grim and become a subsidiary force of the Crimson family.

In the past, they were used to being tigers in the middle of the continent, and there were undoubtedly some deviations in their knowledge and cognition. They hadn't seen the horror of the super strong, and they thought they could join forces, and they oppressed each other to bow their heads with their numerical superiority.

And the battle between Gravel Canyon and Kethlinburg completely shattered their false arrogance and comfort, and also made them completely realize the power of the super strong. It seems that the super-strong and the Rank 4 wizard are no longer the same species, they are located at opposite ends of the food chain, one is a predator, and the other is ridiculously prey......

This perception completely subverts the stereotypes they have formed over the past hundreds of years, and also makes them realize their own shallowness and naivety. The fact that Scattered Tallinn was able to survive for tens of thousands of years was not because these fourth-order wizards had shocked the three major wizarding organizations, but because of the delicate balance that had been reached by the entanglement of the other party.

Now that the balance has been broken, where the future of Scattered Tallinn will go has become a question that every wizard in the middle needs to think about and choose!

Do you choose Grim, or do you choose one of the three wizarding organizations, or do you want to make a big quagmire and make the central part of the country a flesh-and-blood battlefield where the three major wizarding organizations fight?

As soon as the 4th-order wizards in the past heard the words "unify the middle", they instinctively repelled it, and preferred to keep the previous comfort and dissipation. Now, even they have to think seriously about it.

If they don't want to make a choice, someone will force them to make a choice. And by that time, they will have far fewer options......

Unconsciously, unification and non-unification have become a thing of the past, and now more people are discussing the question of how to unify!

Whether Grim is brutal or not, whether the Crimson family will take all the winners, and what position will the various wizarding families be in the middle of the future...... The thorny problems that need to be solved urgently have become the things that many family executives want to know and know the most.

The answers to these questions can only be obtained from the Crimson family!

So, on the eleventh day of the fall of the Entom family, that is, the day after the forces of Molten City announced their defection to the Crimson family, dense mysterious emissaries with hidden identities poured into Kthlinburg from all directions, wanting to meet the newly victorious Grim and get the most tangible promise from his mouth.

And the first thing they saw when they arrived at the Crimson Fleet station was the Kesslinburg, which had survived the brutal war but was intact.

Many of the emissaries who had been going to and from Kesslinburg for many years secretly had a trace of doubt, and the castle in front of them seemed to have not changed in any way in terms of appearance and style. But when their eyes fell on the castle, there was always a very strange strangeness.

It seems as if they had only seen this Kesslinburg for the first time today!

With this strange feeling, the secret messengers of the various families stepped into Kesslinburg.

As soon as you enter the castle, this feeling is even stronger.

The same castle gate, the same gray stone square, the same pale golden stone corridor, the same spiritual suppression, and even the magical aura flowing in the stone wall are the same...... But the end of the messenger's nose was filled with a thick bloody breath, and what lingered in his ears was a terrible soul howl, and the weeping blood of the dead could be seen in every corner......

All of this indicates that a terrible blood sacrifice has just taken place, and that the object of the blood sacrifice is most likely the wizards of the Entom family who have never been heard from again.

There are more than two hundred wizards, and there are as many as seven third-order wizards alone...... Such a huge number of wizards were sacrificed with blood......

Every time they thought about this, these messengers sent by various wizard families felt a chill in their hearts, and even walked a little stiff.

With a large number of envoys from various families, it is naturally impossible for Grim to meet them one by one, and only those large wizard families can meet him in person. As for the remaining small and medium-sized families and wizarding organizations, they can only visit Meryl and ask her to convey some secret agreements and terms.

Since the Great War had just ended, the vicinity was already in ruins, so the emissaries could only stay in Kesslinburg for the time being. But after only one night, all the wizards moved out in unison.

They would rather build a mud hut in the open wilderness and barbecue some wild food than set foot in Kesslinburg again. The nightmare almost drove them insane.

According to some wizards, the night he lived in the castle, he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and was shocked to find that he was not lying on the warm and comfortable bed, but soaked in a terrible pool of blood that was almost overflowing.

Inside the pool of blood, the missing heads, the stumps and broken arms, the broken small intestines, the white flowers*, were densely packed with terrible souls that almost filled the pool surface...... One by one, the dead souls crawl out of the pool, their gray faces twisted and hideous from pain, stretching out their mutilated arms, and screaming desperately and bitterly at you......

As for the four walls of the room, the floor, and the ceiling, they are covered in a strange gray substance. The gray substance is constantly wriggling and bulging, and thick tubes like blood vessels grow on the surface. The walls of the tube are flesh-colored, translucent, and grunt...... There was a viscous purple-black liquid flowing inside, and faintly a flash of undigested flesh and blood could be seen.

Living in the castle actually gave him a strange feeling that he was living in the intestinal wall of some strange lifeform, and it was this feeling that prompted him to move out in a hurry, and he no longer dared to easily step into Kesslinburg.

This Köthlingburg is by no means the same as it used to be!

It has undergone some kind of mutation, becoming a ...... He has become a strange guy who can't explain it, and has the dual characteristics of alchemical life and flesh life.

Therefore, those guys with sharp senses are instinctively driven to choose to stay away from it!

In fact, not to mention these foreign envoys, even several high-ranking members of the Crimson family temporarily lived in the floating giant ship, and did not dare to spend the night in Kthlinburg.

There are currently only two tenants in the whole of Kesslinburg: Grim and Mary.

Of course, the Shadow Fiend always followed Grim's side, protecting him closely.

As for Grim's choice to reside in Kthlingburg, it is not for self-abuse, but to further subdue this strange life that has been freed from the cage of life and free from the confines of witchcraft.

Yes, Kesslinburg now has all the characteristics of an intelligent life being. If it weren't for the lack of a permanent energy body, I'm afraid that even Grim would be difficult to restrain such a forbidden life that devoured the entire Entom family.

The biggest feature of forbidden lifeforms compared to ordinary intelligent life forms is that their growth and expansion are inseparable from such forbidden means as blood sacrifice, killing or destruction. Don't look at the wizards who usually look like they have no taboos, but they still have to abide by the basic wizarding rules, and they must not easily mutilate the lower creatures of the same plane.

This is also a wizarding convention for the sustainable development of the entire wizarding civilization!

You can disobey, but once your evil deeds are revealed, all wizarding organizations and forces will blacklist you and no longer trade resources or exchange knowledge with you.

Even some jealous wizards will come after you, and this hunt is not subject to the wizarding rules.

Therefore, considering the grave consequences, no sorcerer dared to openly engage in killing or blood sacrifices. Of course, everything that is done behind the scenes, as long as the hands and feet are clean, there is no problem.

Every year, a group of apprentice wizards die quietly in the towers of private wizards. And most of them fall prey to individual wizards testing dangerous witchcraft or forbidden experiments. For these, most wizarding forces have chosen to turn a blind eye and will not do too much scrutiny.

After all, every bit of progress of their own wizard symbolizes the growth of the family's overall strength, so why not do it!