Age of Adepts

As it turned out, the old vampire's silence was only exchanged for Grim's brutal revenge.

Grim's right hand holding the blood crystal ignited a bright yellow flame, and the crystal made of dragon blood began to slowly decompose, turning into a foul, dark red mist of blood.

As the bright yellow flame continued to heat up, the temperature of the blood mist itself began to climb, gathering in front of Grim and turning into a boiling ball of blood-colored water.

When the temperature reached the maximum level that the dragon blood could withstand, Grim pushed forward with a heedless smile.

The ball of blood and water floated into the light formation and touched the old vampire's body.

The continuous bloodletting for more than a month had depleted the old vampire's origin and left him dying. But the moment his body touched the boiling blood water, he immediately sucked it into his body like a whale drinking water and hungering for it.

This kind of behavior was not the old vampire's original intention, but an instinct of this body of his!

2nd rank dragon blood was indeed a great tonic for the old vampire at this time, but not so for dragon blood that had been burned to a boiling state.

As the vampire's body instinctively absorbed it, the boiling dragon blood quickly seeped into Hynes' body and converged with the blood flow to where the heart core was.

"Ah..."

A long, miserable hiss.

The already weakened old vampire was now in complete pain and pleasure.

The boiling dragon blood flowed through the dried blood vessels, continuously nourishing the nearly withered flesh and blood tissues along the way. And while it brought power to the old vampire, it also scalded the flesh and blood tissues around his body, killing him with pain.

The old vampire struggled desperately, the gray bat wings that were originally curled behind his back were suddenly stretched to their limits, and the magical chain that bound his entire body only fought against it for three seconds before it was strangled into countless pieces.

The old vampire's fair body sprouted starry red spots, which then ignited into countless small fires. Hynes raised his head and opened his mouth wide to let out a heart-rending scream, but spewed out a dark red, flesh-scented magical flame.

After a long time, the old vampire who had survived the boiling blood torture was barely born, his entire body shaking and crumbling like a reed in the cold wind.

With his previous weak body, if he had been tortured again, someone else would have died a long time ago.

But the vampire was indeed worthy of being an immortal, and although the boiling dragon blood was causing him extreme pain, it was also rapidly healing the wounds in his body. In almost no time at all, Hynes's body had recovered like new, returning to his peak state once again.

Only his spirit, which had been tortured by this great ups and downs, had sunk to the point where he was left with little more than the strength to breathe!

Grim, who had done all of this, carefully checked the Sealing Witch Formation to make sure there were no mistakes before turning around and leaving the Sealing Room.

Outside the sealing room, two Magic Armament Warriors with 2nd rank strength were separating to the left and right, and were guarding the place in a strict manner.

"Keep guarding the place! No one is to be let in without my orders..."

After a simple explanation, Grim soared into a puff of flame and disappeared.

And when he reappeared, he was already within a magic chamber on the fifth floor of the Witch Tower.

There were no portals to enter or exit here, and it was impossible to break in using ordinary methods. Even if Grim wanted to enter, he had to do so with the brand of sorcery left inside beforehand.

Inside was a huge biological laboratory, and large and small glassware and protective light shields could be seen everywhere. Inside were either magical organs, or erratic flesh and blood tissues, or biological specimens, or some unexplainable strange things....

It's always a creepy, weird feeling to walk through!

In the corner of the lab, a specially crafted blood coffin was silently placed there.

The entire body of the blood coffin was carved from a single piece of huge blood crystal, and the side walls of the coffin bottle were painted with a full array of intricate patterns and lit up in layers as the blood energy rippled within the coffin.

Grim stepped forward and pushed open the lid of the coffin, and was immediately ruffled by a pungent smell of blood.

He held his breath, pulled out that ceramic jar, unsealed it, and poured the blood water inside into the coffin.

The original reserve of blood water inside the blood coffin, plus this time, was about to overflow.

Grim nodded his head in satisfaction.

This blood coffin specially prepared for Mary's advancement was ready, the advancement ritual inside the seal was also in order, now all that was waiting was for Mary to raise her strength to the peak of the 2nd rank!

After pushing the lid of the coffin straight and sealing the blood energy within, Grim didn't leave in a hurry, but strode faithfully to another corner of the lab.

Here, inside a huge magic mask, a unicorn full of otherworldly style was dying on the floor, the color of life in its pupils slowly draining away.

And on its high, bulging abdomen, a fist-sized pouch of flesh was moving rapidly and eventually resting at the location of its heart. Immediately afterwards, Grim could faintly hear the sound of chattering and tearing and swallowing within.

The wait was long and tedious, but Grim was not impatient.

After a full five hours, with a muffled poof, a palm-sized exotic beast broke out of the unicorn's body and landed on the floor.

From the looks of it, it was a foreign beast similar to a small mastiff, with no hair all over its body, and its body was full of sticky blood and broken flesh and tissue organs brought out from the unicorn's body. It only had two sturdy hind limbs, no forelimbs, and half of the bald flesh*ball-like head was occupied by the bloody maw alone.

After drilling out of the unicorn's body, the exotic beast crouched in place, opened its mouth wide and poked out its half-meter long flexible tongue from inside, and began to lick the blood and debris on the surface of its own body.

The unicorn's skin suddenly lit up with a cluster of milky white flames, burning its remaining body along with its fur into a pile of charcoal, leaving only a glistening unicorn in its place.

Through the light curtain, the exotic beast suddenly saw Grim and immediately pounced intimately.

Its thin and frail body hit the light cover with a bang, fell down, and after struggling to climb up, it let out a weeping shriek at Grim in aggravation.

Just looking at its densely packed, still bloodstained and shredded teeth, it was hard for anyone to associate it with a pet.

"Come on, devour a unicorn and show me what kind of abilities you've inherited from it?" Grim gently said at the foreign beast.

This exotic beast was the Source Stealing Bug that Grim had gone through a lot of pains to cultivate to its third stage of maturity.

Just why a worm became so much like a beast when it matured was beyond Grim's ability to understand and explore.

Grim placed his right hand on top of the light shield, only half a meter away from the source-stealing insect foreign beast.

The Origin-stealing Source Worm, which was originally docile and obedient, immediately became restless, and through its teeth, its sticky saliva flowed down and dripped onto the floor, corroding the metal floor with anti-magic properties into a tiny hole.

The source-stealing worm's pair of dusky, cloudy eyes stared at Grim's near-dead right hand, leaping at the sight.

Compared to the dead unicorn, Grim who was a 3rd rank sorcerer was undoubtedly another more tasty prey!

Source-stealing exotic beasts of the parasitic type had no such thing as loyalty or emotion, and any intelligent creature in heaven and earth that they could hunt was on top of their hunting list.

"Be obedient and show some skill, or else..."

Grim's smile remained unchanged, but the black pupils of his eyes were slowly floating with a murderous aura.

And that Source Stealing Insect was still coveting his flesh and blood.

Grim flicked his finger, and a fire the size of a finger's stomach suddenly appeared on the Source Stealing Bug's back.

The flame and flesh met, emitting a strange burning sound.

The Source Stealing Insect immediately hissed in pain.

But strangely enough, as it hissed, the strange spiral horn that had fallen into the unicorn's ashes suddenly erupted with a strong mane. When the milky white light landed on the Source Stealing Worm's backbone, it immediately annihilated the magical flame.

And the remaining milky light flooded into the Source Stealing Bug, obliterating the burn marks left by the flames almost instantly.

"Divine power..."

Grim pronounced the name in an aria-like mouthing now.

The power that Grim had just perceived clearly was the unique divine power of the Unicorn race.

And this divine power combined two special magical effects of purification and dispersal, which was unattainable by any other race.

Source Stealing Insects, which were gifted predatory beasts, certainly couldn't have this kind of divine power. But when it had completely devoured the bloodline talent of an adult unicorn, it was able to inspire this strange divine power with its horn.

This meant that the Source Stealing Insect's talent plundering had been initially successful!

Grim didn't hesitate to immediately activate one of the witch formations within the light shield.

A grey anesthetic gas spurted out from the corner and quickly filled the entire light mask.

Sniffing and inhaling the grey gas, the Source Stealing Worm's body immediately became shaky.

However, it quickly inspired a large mass of milky white light to wrap around itself and stubbornly fight against the grey gas mist.

Grim wasn't interested in waiting for the narcotic poisonous mist to exhaust its divine power, and with a slight lift of his hand, several crimson burning rays drilled into the light shield, drilling several blood holes in the Source Stealing Worm's body.

With such a breakthrough, the grey mist immediately swarmed in and seeped into the Source Stealing Worm's body.

The Source Stealing Insect wobbled a few times and finally collapsed without support.

Although it had stolen the unicorn's powerful natural ability, it was limited by its own physiology and always lacked enough magical power to support it, nor did it have the powerful anti-magic skin of the other party. Thus, unable to even resist the 1st stage searing rays, the Source Stealing Insect fell asleep.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the Source Stealing Worm was placed on a cold autopsy table.

Grim put on a grey witch robe, turned on the bright magic lamp, and dissected the Source Stealing Worm's body with a single slash....