Age of Adepts

It's no wonder that only the split-brain Gru has been out and about all these years.

With Brain Monster Gazruvi's ever-expanding brain, I'm afraid it would be very difficult, extremely difficult, to get out of the house once.

As Grim sauntered into this steel palace, thousands of hidden and insidious threads of mental energy coiled and entangled from all directions. If Grim was unprepared, he would most likely be penetrated into the depths of his mind by these spiritual threads, resulting in some unforeseen special circumstances.

If placed in the past, with Gazluvi's methods, it might have been possible to succeed. But now, with the leap of equals, Grim's mental energy was far less powerful than Ghazluvi's, but it was more than enough to protect itself.

The heart moves at will, the mind moves to!

The transparent and twisted life force field that lingered on Grim's side immediately burned brightly, even causing the air temperature in this steel palace to start rising rapidly.

Grim's body size did not change at all, but his violent and incomparable spiritual consciousness had invaded the entire hall along with the bursting flames. As soon as those thousands of threads of spiritual energy made contact with the transparent flames, they quickly retreated in defeat.

Quietly floating in the huge glass vessel, the brain of Ug moved, and a huge and grand spiritual consciousness descended slowly.

Grim didn't have the slightest bit of cowardice, his head held high, two clusters of dazzling bright yellow flames ignited in his black pupils, his entire body wrapped in transparent flames, and his burning pupils stared coldly at that huge brain without a moment's notice.

And in his mental consciousness, the chip's series of warning alerts had sounded into one.

"Drip, traces of strange mental intrusion detected...Traces of strange mental intrusion detected...Thought barrier and mental protection have been opened, please move the subject away from the source of the mental foreign body as soon as possible... ..."

But allowing the chip to prompt, Grim didn't make any move to escape from the Steel Hall, instead raising his own flame energy to the limit. In Grim's chest, the large heart sealed from the Abyssal Inferno was also pulsing wildly, each pulse pumping out flame magic energy of astonishing intensity, supplying the needs of Grim's vast burning field.

Several parts of Grim's tall body lit up with dazzling magical fluorescence one after another.

The exquisite and magnificent burning corona on top of his head, the Flame Emblem arm bands around his arms and shoulders that shone like rings of fire, the Dreadnought Belt that seemed to be coiled like a magma fire snake, the fire dragon pendant that hung from his neck, the fire dragon pendant that shone like a small sun, and the Boots of Ashes that burned with terrifying flames........

The magical power imbued within these powerful sorcery tools, along with the lighting up of the strange rune lines and witch formations, also quickly hooked together to form a strange burning field that enveloped the sky and the earth.

Within this pale red burning field, all matter was ignited by the strange flames.

The sky was burning, the earth was burning, and even the nothingness of the void ignited with strange bright yellow flames and rapidly expanded outwards.

Burning fields and spiritual abilities immediately strangled and fought wildly everywhere in the void.

Like two huge legions, one was as violent as fire, its invasion both fierce and fast, while the other was like a knife, layers and layers of threads entwined, enough to strangle any matter or spirit into pieces.

The two sides in the void everywhere in the constant collision and entanglement, a moment is the flame prevailed, a moment is the spirit supernatural prevailed. The two sides fought each other, treating the entire space of the palace as a battlefield for fighting, and the fight was extremely brutal.

On the whole, Gazluvi's mental body was undoubtedly dozens of times larger than Grim's, but in terms of mental attack and defense, it was clearly Grim who had a slight upper hand.

One huge and scattered, one tiny and condensed....

The two sides did not seem to be above a power level, but through one collision and entanglement, it was the smaller Grim Burning Field that was clearly superior.

The Burning Field grew and expanded a little bit in the collision and entanglement with the spiritual supernatural powers, and soon overturned hundreds of meters of the temple space, already about to touch the edge of the giant glass vessel.

Once Ghazluvi's brain was drawn into the battlefield, it too was doomed to lose!

"Congratulations to the master for successfully advancing to rank 3..." in the next instant, the vast spiritual consciousness suddenly withdrew all of its power, and then an extremely calm spiritual word resounded throughout the entire hall.

Grim also took the opportunity to close the burning field, leaving it to burn quietly less than half a meter in front of the glass vessel. He, on the other hand, slowly floated up to the same height as the giant brain.

A hetero-brain that seemed like a behemoth, and a tiny, almost negligible human....

The two were silently facing each other, rather tit-for-tat!

"We didn't need to get into this mess!" Spiritual words resounded through the void again.

A smile finally appeared on Grim's solemn face as he said lightly, "Powerful power certainly requires a powerful mind to govern it... There are some things we do need to get rid of sooner..."

"Your power has been recognized by me! Until I get a new breakthrough, I won't have any more thoughts of disobedience or betrayal. I hope you can believe that!" The mental mantra slowed down, fully demonstrating the careful consideration of that Ghazluvi.

Grim said bluntly, "I believe you! And, I'm looking forward to your breakthrough. If I can't harness your power, and suffer from your repercussions, I will never blame you, only myself for not trying hard enough..."

The palace was suddenly quiet for a moment.

It took a long time before the strange spiritual words of the brain monster Ghazruvi rang out again.

"You are a powerful sorcerer worthy of respect! May you be strong like this forever!"

It was only after saying this, under Grim's all-seeing elemental vision, that the huge brain floating in the huge glass vessel changed from a harsh crimson to an intimate light green.

Grim finally breathed a sigh of relief deep inside.

These high-ranking slaves really were one tougher than the other, and if the master's strength was a little weaker, he would easily suffer from their repercussions. And in a situation like the one just now, once Grim couldn't resist the invasion of his mental abilities, it would most likely be the end of his consciousness and mind being controlled by the other party.

At that time, Grim would also become the soul slave of the 3rd stage brain monster Ghazluvi, dedicating all of his wealth and knowledge to the other party, and then willingly giving his brain to the other party to feed on.

This, too, was what happened to most of the Mind Snatcher Soul Servants!

"Alice, this guy, she managed to strengthen Ghazluvi's power without greeting me in advance... If she hadn't advanced to level 3 today, and had the Burning Field formed by the Flame Suit on her body, as well as the new Increase Magic Pattern, it would have been extremely difficult to win this invisible war. "Grim thought angrily.

But he didn't really have any intention of blaming Alice.

The current situation must have been foreseen by her beforehand, that's why she was relieved and bold enough to help the brain monster Ghazruvi increase his strength. It was just that Grim, as the party in question, had been kept in the dark and had almost made a 'joke', which was just a bit indignant.

Only after successfully using his strength to suppress Ghazluvi's 'agitation' did Grim once again gain actual control of the Eternal Capital.

To be honest, during the period of time that Grim was closed out, Ghazluvi had only maintained the lowest level of cooperation with Mary and the others. After all, after possessing Endless Energy and tens of thousands of magic armies, and then gaining mind powers, Ghazluvi had even made up for his shortcomings and already had the capital to establish himself in the Lance Dimension on his own.

If it wasn't for the Magical Motion Melting Cauldron and the brand of soul left behind by Grim in its soul, I'm afraid that Ghazluvi would have already driven the Crimson Witch and the witches out of the Eternal Capital and would be living a lawless life on his own.

There was little else that could be done to such an untamed man but to subdue him with force.

These guys also recognize only this.

You're stronger than it, controlling its life and death, and it's the most 'loyal' and smoothly used tool of war under your throne. But once the power is flipped, it can also instantly turn into the most terrifying demon, turning against its master is still second to none, the most terrifying thing is that it also holds the terrifying ability to make people beg for their lives.

This, was the point that Grim feared the most!

However, the current Grim was at the stage where his strength was advancing by leaps and bounds, so naturally, he didn't need to consider these 'minutiae'. But once Grim's power advancement slowed down, he would have to consider the crisis of the Brain Monster's revolt.

It's not easy to be a successful wizard family patriarch!

Grim had just been out of the country for less than ten days, and had already traveled to three places in one breath, using all sorts of means to successively conquer three of the clan's 'big brother' level figures, which was how he had re-secured his position.

But this wasn't the end, but merely a pre 'warm up'.

Because Grim had left a 'boss' level figure at the end, and only by 'overpowering' her could the Crimson Clan be considered to be truly safe from everything!

....................

Wizard World, Tower of Fate.

Ever since Alice became the master of the Tower of Fate, Grim had rarely set foot in this ancient tower with tens of thousands of years of history.

This tower had once had more than a dozen masters, but in essence, it actually had only one master.

It was Misa, the first Fate Witch, who had created a miraculous career.

She was the one who built this tower of destiny, she was the one who created the lineage of Fate Witches that had been passed down for tens of thousands of years, she was the one who embedded the Fate Witches' legacy into the rules of the Wizard World, and she was the one who set out beyond the borders to become the legendary Witch of the North....

Her story will never be finished, her monument has survived tens of thousands of years, and her mark fills every corner of the tower of fate....

Every time he came to this mysterious tower that stood silently, Grim had the illusion that his mind was suppressed and his spiritual consciousness was less active.

But this time he had to come to the Tower of Destiny to meet someone, someone extremely important to him.

Only 'her' could be the feather that he spread his wings to soar; only 'her' could show him the direction to go in the heavy fog....

And 'she' was the one person Grim cared about the most... a woman!

The witch!