Chapter 0787: The Growth of the Family
The shock brought to the central part of the continent by the battle of the Crimson Witch Tower has become more and more intense!
Five wizarding forces joined forces to encircle and suppress a new wizard family that had just been established for less than ten years, and it ended up in a big defeat. Not only were the mortal armies killed, but even the hundreds of official wizards were killed in battle, and less than eleven members were able to escape back to their respective forces.
This was completely beyond everyone's expectations, and it also made more high-level wizards can't help but focus on this seemingly inconspicuous emerging family.
Completely owning all the resources and population in a secondary plane, and transforming it into their own family's talent reserve base and arsenal, this is what every wizarding family aspires to do. However, as long as the wizards who have participated in the dimensional wars know very well, how difficult it is for the handful of wizards of a wizarding family to conquer an entire continent and subdue the unruly natives inside.
Most wizarding families actually settle into the secondary planes in the form of out-of-realm forces or plane merchants, and only in this way can the fear and rejection of wizards by the local natives be reduced or weakened. Of course, through the erosion and differentiation year after year, the wizards naturally have the means to control the original rulers of this plane, and then indirectly invade and plunder the resources of the secondary planes.
However, this process generally takes a long time.
According to the normal process, it usually takes 5-10 years of hard work and 'management' to go from invasion to complete control of a small plane. In the case of a medium plane, this time is more likely to be extended to a hundred years.
However, this Crimson family was unusual, and it only took ten years to completely control two sub-planes that were not weak. According to the analysis of some do-gooders, one of them should be the magic machine world dominated by green-skinned goblins, and the other is a dragon plane dominated by pure-blooded dragons.
It stands to reason that such two planes would not be easily won with the strength of the Crimson family. Even if they did their best, it would not be easy to establish a solid wizarding camp in such a plane. Not to mention enslaving and driving the local natives who have wielded such great power, this is simply an impossible thing!
It's a pity, what is jaw-dropping is that the Crimson family did it.
Not only did they invade the two planes, but they also used some means to completely and completely control the magical machine world within. Otherwise, at the last moment when the Crimson Family was facing annihilation, it would be impossible for them to transfer thousands of metal golems from the Demon Craft World in one go, and use the amazing Demon Weapon Legion to wipe out the alliance of the five wizarding forces in one fell swoop.
Hearing this news, all the wizarding families near the Flame Throne became a little worried.
Worried, they woke up to find that their family's secular realms had been taken over by the enemy, and their family's witch tower was surrounded by this cheap metal golem. exchanging one's precious life for the other party's cheap metal puppet, such a 'deal' is a bit unworthy!
For a while, the wizarding families in the entire Elovis region were a little unable to sit still, and secretly joined forces, I don't know how many times they had been contacted. They are willing to organize a larger-scale joint invasion to completely eliminate such a hidden danger.
However, after sending out Eyeliner and Eyes to reconnoiter near the Flame Throne once, all the wizarding families quickly died down again.
My goodness, at this moment, the vicinity of the Flame Throne has become a maze of magical weapons!
The entire cavern of flames, the entire lava hall, was occupied by roaming metal magic weapons. Outsiders want to pass through these two places to find out the current situation of the Flame Throne Witch Tower, it is simply a fool's dream.
And joining forces again without knowing the internal situation of the Crimson family may only usher in another wave of magical weapons, leaving the wizards involved in the war with no place to bury.
After the five wizarding forces defeated by the Crimson family fled back to their respective territories and lairs, another internal struggle and annexation broke out. The Kamala family, who had largely maintained their family's strength, took advantage of the situation to invade the Magic Lodge and the Andorran family. The former was defeated and surrendered, becoming a vassal of the Kamala family. After the latter lost all the secular territory, he retreated to defend the last tower of the family, and finally saved the family's fire.
As for the other two wizarding forces, the Senas family and the Layton Wizarding Academy also retreated to their headquarters after some turmoil and twists and turns, barely surviving this difficult period.
But when the news came out that the third-order vampire Haynes Vik had fallen to the Flame Throne, the vampire castle of the Vic family, far away in the southwest of Tallinn, was also breached by several other vampire families. For a time, the members of the Vic family either fled the country and disappeared, or turned to other vampire families.
Unconsciously, a vampire family that had existed for three or four hundred years suddenly disappeared!
Different from the fierce turmoil in the outside world, the Crimson family at this time was jubilant and smiling.
But there are those who laugh, and there are those who want to cry.
Gru is the one who wants to cry the most.
After a battle, the Crimson family got the most benefits and the most loot, but it was the one with the heaviest losses.
In less than a day's counterattack, the Demon Weapon Legion lost more than 6,000, and the loss of the magic energy battery reached an astonishing 800,000 pieces. Although the loss of the Magic Legion only accounts for 1/20 of Ghazruvi's magic reserves, the loss of the magic energy battery is about 2/3.
This also means that without a few years of recuperation, it is impossible for the metal fortress to break out again with such a strong tide of troops!
When the situation on the Flame Throne stabilized, Gru returned to the Lance plane through the portal again. As for the control of the more than 2,000 metal magic weapons remaining near the Witch Tower, the control rights were left to Gargamel, allowing them to temporarily serve as the outer sentinels of the Witch Tower.
However, without the Brain Monster Gru's Magic Furnace, the Flame Throne Witch Tower would not be able to support such a large team of magical weapons. He could only take back most of the magic weapons to the Witch Tower as a strategic reserve and hide them, leaving only a 200-strong magic weapon brigade to defend the Witch Tower.
This was only a temporary post-war initiative.
After the situation in the family is calm, the 200-person magic weapon brigade still needs to continue to be reduced, otherwise all the energy of the Witch Tower will be insufficient to supply them, let alone repair the damaged Witch Tower.
As a member of the wizards, you also need to abide by the so-called "Wizard's Codex" in general. Therefore, when it comes to dealing with these wizard captives, several high-ranking members of the Crimson family are really nerve-wracking.
From the bodies and storage spaces of more than seventy wizards who died in battle, the Crimson family squeezed out countless rare resources and countless treasures that urgently needed to be identified. However, as to what to do with the 26 wizard captives who are still alive, Mary and the others have much more different opinions.
According to Mary's character, these wizards naturally had to be executed without exception, and it was best to hand them all over into her hands, either to become blood slaves or to squeeze out the blood essence. It's a pity that this nonsense idea was dismissed by all the wizards joining forces.
In the other world under your control, no one will take care of you if you do this, but if you mess around like this in the wizarding world, the old guys of the Tallinn Association will come to your door.
In view of the characteristics of several strange species such as vampires, the entire wizarding continent strictly forbids them to embrace and enslave the bloodlines in their own plane. Otherwise, several vampire families would not have to work hard to expand the family team by natural reproduction.
Moreover, the initial embrace needs to consume the power of the bloodline source bloodline.
If Mary was really greedy and enslaved and transformed all 26 wizards into vampires in one go, then she would definitely be downgraded. For the sake of 26 ordinary blood clan subordinates, let the rank that she worked so hard to rise fall down, although Mary was greedy, she was not so stupid.
Since returning from the Faun plane, Mary seems to have realized the disadvantages of casual beginnings, and no longer dares to expand her team easily. It's not that you meet those particularly outstanding and excellent talents, but the more the power of the bloodline accumulates in yourself, the better.
The Crimson family was still waiting for these defeated families to turn around and send representatives to negotiate the ransom of the captives, but they didn't come on the left and on the right, so they sent someone to inquire, and by the way, three of the five wizards were disabled and one was fat, and the magic hut directly became a subordinate vassal of the Kamala family.
It is difficult for the family to protect itself, and where can they have the resources to redeem their own family's wizards!
When the Crimson family leaked the news of the outside world to these wizard captives, they fell silent. Among them, the alchemists of the Magic Forest Lodge were even more angry, if it weren't for the fact that all the witchcraft props were seized and the witchcraft power was imprisoned, they would definitely have a full-fledged martial arts with the wizard captives of the Kamala family.
After two months of hard work, except for the two wizards of the Kamala family, who were redeemed by their families for a staggering price, the rest of the wizards became outcasts who no one cared about.
Unwilling to let their lives be abandoned in the cell of the Witch Tower, one after another, these witch captives began to have intensive contact with the Crimson family to discuss the personal treatment and welfare after taking refuge.
As the vanquished, their status naturally cannot be compared with that of a normal wizard.
For a long time, they were all enslaved by the witchcraft contract and became vassal wizards of the Crimson family. Only after the period of slavery can they have the right to choose again.
After difficult negotiations and confrontations, the two sides finally reached a final agreement.
The contract period for the sorcerer's captives was set at twenty years. In the past twenty years, they have signed a witchcraft contract with the Crimson family and become half-hired and half-slave family members. It is only after the expiration of twenty years that they have the right to leave or stay at their own discretion.
After negotiating the conditions, the first group to choose to take refuge were naturally those alchemists with special skills. Their home, the Grim Lodge, has been swallowed up by the Kamala family, and it would be subservient to return there, so it is better to put down roots in this Crimson family.
And the addition of this group of alchemy wizards also instantly made the wizard power of the Crimson family thicker, and even under the leadership of Gargamel, a new alchemy branch was established.
With the alchemy wizards of the Magic Forest Lodge as an example, the remaining wizards didn't last long, and they accepted the witchcraft contract one after another and became a member of the low-level wizards of the Crimson family.
The addition of 24 official wizards also made the Crimson family's originally overstretched wizard power abundant. In addition to the half-paralyzed Flame Throne Witch Tower, which began to slowly repair and recover, even the White Tower in the far north was stained with some oil and water, and was assigned to many low-level wizards.
Using these wizards as the underlying framework, many teaching or combat divisions that could not be supported in the past have appeared one after another.
The entire Crimson family continued to draw sufficient nutrients from the flesh and bones of the defeated, and once again slowly grew and prospered!