Below Blood Curse Court's Wall of the Faithless, the black wizards' expressions became extremely tense one after another. The undead prophecy gathering from the source of the Wall of the Faithless informed them that a First Circle wizard of Blood Curse Court had died.

A formal wizard level black wizard shrieked, "Which First Circle wizard is it?"

A crystal skull released seven-colored light. Immediately, before all the wizards' eyes appeared the scene before Rashid Tariel's death.

That blue standard iris and Sophia's indifferent expression instantly provoked anger and terror among Blood Curse Court's black wizards.

"A black wizard like Rashid was actually killed by a newcomer. What about his undead body?"

"How could a First Circle vampire's undead body possibly be immune to a high-grade magical plant's [Elemental Infusion] damage? Moreover, you all saw that Rashid's condition before death was extremely poor."

"This is naked, all-out declaration of war. They killed one of our formal wizards in our heartland. Such provocation, aren't they afraid we'll launch a war and cause them economic crisis, then bankruptcy! All along, haven't those white wizard organizations been afraid of going to war with us, leading to their funding chains breaking and bankruptcy? Why do they dare kill one of our formal wizards this time?"

The black wizards wearing black pointed hats were shocked, terrified, and enraged. "Retaliation, we must retaliate."

"No, we absolutely cannot let them return alive and unscathed. Fully activate the Wall of the Faithless. Use all resources to intercept and kill them!"

"Fully opening the Wall of the Faithless for one minute will consume ten thousand magic stones!"

"If we let that female wizard and her accomplices leave black wizard territory unharmed, that would be our greatest loss. For us at Blood Curse Court, maintaining [Fear] is a crucial matter. Have you forgotten? What did we rely on to become First Circle wizards?"

"What does Blood Curse Court rely on to form a force, having those apprentices and mortals collectively support us? Relying only on curses' efficiency would be much lower than now."

"We rely on [Fear]!"

"Agreed, immediately use all resources to intercept and kill the white wizards invading our territory. Moreover, this time Lilith's Cottage provoked us first. I think the White Wizard Association and Black Wizard League should have nothing to say. We're launching all-out war!"

"It's the Blood Master... the Blood Master's message has come through. The message is indeed, intercept and kill with full force, all-out war!"

At Blood Curse Court's Blood Court, which was the Blood Master's residence, a middle-aged male wizard draped in black robes with not a trace of color on his face climbed out from a black coffin. His pupils were completely black, as if they could absorb all light into them.

At this moment, a trace of sorrow flashed through the Blood Master's eyes. "Rashid, my student..."

"My proudest student..."

That trace of sorrow in his eyes quickly transformed into anger. "Hmph, you're truly useless."

"The curse eater was my last hope for advancing to Second Circle wizard. Now that you, this waste, have died, I have completely lost hope. In vain did I personally bestow upon you the undead curse over forty years ago, yet you were so incompetent, dying at the hands of a young brat girl from the white wizards' side."

"Lilith's Cottage..."

The Blood Master beckoned with his hand. Immediately, a pot of decorative Blood Orchid Star Flower arranged inside the Blood Court fell into his palm. The moment the flower touched his skin, it immediately lost all color, turning into a gray state.

Then, this flower became scattered gray ash, dispersing into the air.

"Lilith's Cottage, Dean Earl Thompson..." A deep fury passed through the Blood Master's eyes. "You've twice schemed to destroy my advancement hopes, all because I personally killed your beloved disciple with a curse."

"Hehe, I'll make you regret it, never forget it for eternity!"

"After I defeat Lilith's Cottage, I'll capture you alive and inflict upon you the undead curse, making you never die, forever living in fear of me."

The Blood Master gnashed his teeth. On his pale face, in the instant of his anger, a trace of living person's blood color actually emerged, and a brown pupil also appeared in his eyes, like human eyeballs.

This terrified the Blood Master beyond measure. He hurriedly turned around, actively lying into the curse blood coffin filled with curses, letting curse energy spread through his body to maintain his undeath.

"Damn it, the advancement failure has already started destroying my undead body."

"I almost became human."

"The consequences of failing extreme magic drawing are truly too severe. But the potions that can help me are only useful if brewed by Second Circle potion masters... and I've usually offended too many potion masters. I can't trust potions given to me by any potion master..."

The Blood Master extended his hand in a grasping motion. A curse spirit thread descended into his hand, "Transmit my command, intercept and kill with full force, all-out war."

"Don't let those white wizards return. Send out our students and mentors to pursue and kill them!"

...

On the other side, above Corinth city-state, those seven-colored crystal skulls transformed into an endless high wall, actually covering more than half the sky. Like a cage, they descended from the sky to seal off Locke and the others below.

Magical runes belonging to [Bone Court] appeared one after another in midair. The soul power of wronged spirits formed an unbreakable cage to trap Sophia and the others within.

Gabriel gritted her teeth, chanted a spell, and summoned a flock of white doves attempting to break through this soul power cage. But those doves were erased the instant they touched this invisible cage.

The sealing barrier formed by countless crystal skulls descended from the sky. Buildings collapsed one after another. Mortals who hadn't yet reacted to what was happening were pressed to the ground by this enormous pressure.

When wizards fight, mortals suffer.

Of course, most of the mortals in this city-state were vested interests who had enjoyed countless benefits from Blood Curse Court. Ordinary mortals had no qualifications to live within Corinth city-state. After all, this was one of the core city-states with several first-class wizard apprentice black wizards serving as city lords.

Locke attempted to summon tomb spirits to interpret the black magic here, to see if he could find a chance to escape alive. But the moment he summoned the tomb spirit, it was compressed and deformed by the sealing barrier, its spell model directly disintegrating.

"Teacher..."

The corners of Witch Sophia's mouth curved up. "Locke, my friends have arrived. Remember to greet them later. They're all Teacher's friends."

The sealing barrier in the sky suddenly split open a crack. Large numbers of harpies penetrated through that crack. Each wore gorgeous clothing, basically looking like fashionable human ladies, but their feet were eagle claws.

A harpy princess wearing eye shadow placed her left hand on her hip and waved to Sophia with her right hand, "Hey, Sophia, I'm here."

"These barriers are indeed troublesome. It took us some time to get here, but we harpies are naturally born with the special bloodline talent to break barriers and seals."

"Our bloodline passive spell can easily destroy barriers."

Harpy Princess Arya placed her eagle claw on the surface of a crystal skull. Immediately, a crack appeared in that crystal skull's cranium.

A seven-colored crystal skull floated before her. Bright red curse spirit threads emerged from the eye sockets of the crystal skull.

"Princess Arya, please don't forget that our Blood Curse Court and your Harpy Royal Court have signed a non-aggression pact. We are allies. Now the princess brings so many people to help Blood Curse Court's enemies. What does this mean?"

Arya sneered and crossed her arms. "Does this princess need your humans' consent to do things? You humans always love talking to yourselves like this."

"It's just a non-aggression treaty, not an offensive-defensive alliance treaty."

"When you allowed your ghoul troops to pass through our harpies' territory to attack that small wizard organization called [Frost Choir], did you think about our pact?"

"Sophia saved me once. This time I'm here to repay her favor."