Age of Adepts

Throne of Fire, fifth floor.

Inside the lab.

Grim regretfully put down his scalpel and began to slowly clean the lab bench.

The talent plundering experiment was going very successfully, and the exotic beast had perfectly inherited some of the unicorn's talent skills. However, how to then transfer the talent from the foreign beast's body to a third party became a new problem.

Bloodline was something that had always been about pure and pure essence, and once mixed with a trace of impurities, it would affect the probability of subsequent advancement. Grim only had an elemental talent, and was an orthodox and pure human on the bloodline item.

Even after going through 3 promotions, he hadn't given up his human body.

The so-called Body of Flame and Body of Inferno were still, in the end, nothing more than a transformation skill from his elemental talent. If it was completely transformed into an elemental body, although there would be a certain amount of flame damage added to it, it would be somewhat more than enough to pay for itself when it came to subsequent advancement.

As a spell caster, everyone knew that although elemental beings all had extremely long lifespans, the road to advancement was especially rough and long.

If Grim had chosen to become a flame creature when advancing to Level 2, he would never have been able to advance to Level 3 so quickly.

This might be what you get for gaining and losing!

So on the bloodline item, Grim was like a blank sheet of paper with a huge amount of room to play with.

It was only necessary to carefully select the bloodline so that the expected bloodline could merge with his current Flame Talent, instead of clashing and interfering with each other.

But before that, Grim also needed to gain some basic experience with bloodline stripping and transplanting. And these were the hardest things to get right. After all, among any wizard family and organizational forces, bloodline related research and secret techniques tended to be the most secretive.

Although Grim had spent some time in the Sarubo family, but with his strength and status at that time, it was absolutely impossible for him to get access to such layers of secrets. And to obtain it from the outside world was even more of a delusion.

No family or power would release the results of such research. As for those Bloodline Sorcerer Families, they would crack down on all the Sorcerers who were privately researching the secret art of bloodline stripping and transplantation. This was because once such a secret technique was spread, it would put all bloodline witches in an extremely dangerous situation.

Bloodline, this was a strange power that could not be seen or touched.

It existed in the flesh and soul of creatures, incredibly powerful yet mysterious and treacherous.

In the past, bloodline research had more often focused on the blood of the target creature, believing that as long as the impurities were constantly removed and the concentration of the blood's high-energy substances purified, it would also be possible to find the source of the bloodline creature's powerful power.

After this burst of chip analysis and induction, it also basically agreed with the direction of the witches' research.

Other witches didn't have the aid of the chip, but their minds weren't necessarily much weaker than the chip. During the tens of thousands of years of diligent research before and after, the witches had been able to excel in their bloodline research. A problem that even the chip could see, and they would have no sense of it?

Therefore, the source of the bloodline's power had to fall on the study of blood!

And in this regard, Grim had natural and unique conditions.

Grim smoothly extracted all the blood from the exotic beast's body and tried to find what was distinctive about it.

With the aid of the magnifying witch array on the lab bench and the microscopic scanning of the chip, Grim, just like the scientists on Earth in his previous life, began to magnify the slices of the exotic beast's blood layer by layer.

It had to be said that in the slices of the exotic beast's blood, Grim saw too many mysterious substances that were different from his previous life.

After delicate dehydration, most of the water molecules in the exotic beast's blood had been removed, leaving behind trace protein substances, active molecules, cellular residues, bacterial corpses, microscopic parasites... Although these things were usually invisible, they accounted for 96% of the total composition of the blood, and there were hundreds of types.

In order to get rid of these substances one by one, each of them needs a special process to deal with.

If there was a problem with any of these processes, the blood purification work would be rendered useless.

To be honest, the fact that the Ancient Sorcerer had completed a similar bloodline study with a fine witch array without a high-powered microscope or high-tech equipment such as heaters, condensers, evaporators, filters, separators, and so on, had already made Grim feel genuinely amazed!

Now, Grim knew nothing about how the older wizards actually did it. So he would have to follow his own knowledge and Chip's guidance to break the path again.

High energy matter? What exactly is this substance that brings great magical power? What does it have to do with the soul? And by what means has it been passed down from generation to generation?

Grim couldn't help but scratch his head.

I'm afraid this was all a problem that he would need to study and face one by one!

From the biology lab, Grim went to take a shower first to get rid of the blood on his body. Only then did he enjoy the most sumptuous food feast of the day in a slow and methodical manner.

With his current basic strength, even if he didn't eat for ten days and half a month, he wouldn't starve to death, but eating and meditating was still an important way for him to improve his strength.

Especially after taking control of a Giant Dragon Plane, Fire Dragon Ribs had become an essential daily entry for Grim. Compared to meditating to increase his mental capacity and gather elemental particles, the Fire Dragon Ribs are an excellent dietary strategy.

While ingesting pure fire elemental energy, the high-energy substances in the fire dragon's flesh were constantly nourishing Grim's body. Powerful sorcery power had to be backed up by a strong physique!

Why did the dragons all grow so large in body, to support the need for a strong bloodline.

Like that exotic beast, although it had plundered the unicorn's bloodline talent with its bizarre abilities, it didn't have the strong body and flesh and blood tissues that were imbued with divine power day and night like the unicorn. Thus it was unable to inspire a massive purification aura like a unicorn.

It was like installing a 'super engine' on top of a worn-out carriage, not only would it be difficult to exert its powerful kinetic energy, it would instead lead to the disintegration of the main body of the bloodline and the rupture of the life sequence.

Of course, if the exotic beast was given a few years or even decades to adapt and adjust, it might similarly evolve a body similar to that of a unicorn. After all, only such a body would be the most suitable for that bloodline talent to exert its power.

And Grim, as a human sorcerer, as he ascended the ranks, if he was unwilling to change his form, the total amount of magic he could imbibe with his mere 2 meter body was limited, so how could he exert even more powerful magical power!

So, using dietary supplements to subliminally improve one's physique, so that the threshold of one's flesh and blood to be infused with magical energy would be a little higher. This was actually one thing that all witches were quietly doing.

Humans, after all, were a short-lived species, and their bodies weren't strong enough, nor did they have overly outstanding racial talents. Probably the only merit was that each ability was mediocre, with no overly fatal flaws of its own.

So if you want to be strong, you have to adjust and change yourself by any means, and then enter a one-way street from which there is no turning back.

This is a problem that all witches need to face!

The daily amount Grim set for himself was ten pounds of fire dragon ribs.

Of course, it wasn't a matter of Grim not being able to afford to eat, but a perfect number that the chip had arrived at after careful calculations.

With his current physique, ten pounds of fire dragon ribs would take exactly one day to digest and absorb.

This way, neither spoiling the food nor wasting an ounce of time.

After eating the only gourmet meal of the day, the rest of Grim's time would be spent in the alchemy lab.

After conquering the Goblin Plane, it was only logical for Grim to acquire a large amount of magic weapon technology from the Goblins. After the chip's analysis, these otherworldly technologies could be completely combined with the magic puppet manufacturing technology that he possessed.

A long time ago, Grim had envisioned the combination of elemental magic puppets and metal magic weapons.

However, there were many challenges that needed to be solved one by one in order for this idea to become reality.

First, high magic and gold.

Second, energy effects.

Third, Witch Spirit.

If any of these three points weren't solved, the combination of elemental magic puppet and metal magic weapon would be a fantasy.

High magic and gold, this was the first hurdle that needed to be overcome to create the new type of elemental magic armament.

Out of the nearly 1,000 types of metals that the chip housed and counted, there were less than seventy that possessed the Demon Guide attribute, and even fewer that could possess the full Guide attribute could be counted with one slap.

The elemental magic puppets that Grim was building now covered almost 60% of the elemental spectrum, and without a suitable magic metal to conduct magical energy, there was no way for the elemental magic weapons to be effective.

So these days, Grim was also constantly sifting through suitable magic metals, and then working hard to formulate a high magic and gold that could meet his requirements.

Grim's basic requirements for this high magic and gold were the full guide attribute, and the ability to blend it in large quantities.

As for physical defenses and magic resistances, these things could be dealt with by other means entirely.

Energy effects, this was also a basic requirement for elemental magic weapons to exert strong combat power.

A sorcerer possesses a Consciousness Heart Core that can memorize and cast sorcery models, so how will this new Elemental Weapon fight in a different way?

Act as a fire turret like a magical shooter to energize an energy ray gun or a magical musket?

But this would undoubtedly erase the power of the elemental magic puppet being able to cast spells naturally, and it would be better to simply strengthen the magic shooter!

The Wraith is the only way to solve the problem of intelligent elemental magic weapons.

But then, Grim would have to learn to master some soul sorcery.

At least at the level of a necromancer.

Although Grim had the intention to have the chip to command these elemental magic weapons, with his current attainments in soul science, there was still an unattainable distance between him and concocting a witch spirit with a chip replica as the core!

But the good news is that after advancing to Level 3, Grim has plenty of time to make up for past deficiencies.