Age of Adepts

Just as Mary's ruby-red, magnificent pupils turned from confusion to clarity, a lazy and magnetic male voice sounded abruptly in her ears.

"Successfully promoted? Come out and meet me!"

It was Grim.

Hearing this familiar voice, Mary's lips grinned in a conditioned, strange smile.

In the next second, blood energy detached from her body and swiftly condensed on her surface to form a fine set of half-body leather armor, an elaborate armor skirt, and red leather boots. After advancing to the 3rd level, this simple material transformation became a small means, and aside from being unable to simulate magical items and special metallic substances, she was able to replace almost all of her ordinary personal items by consuming blood energy.

This means of high level elemental conversion was also a unique ability of a high level witch, compared to the material transformation of alchemy, the basic material structure formed by alchemy was more stable, and its properties were generally the same as the original substance. Compared to the substance transformation of alchemy, the basic substance formed by alchemy had a more stable structure, and its properties were similar to the original substance.

Once this kind of leather armor left Mary's body, it would disintegrate and revert back to the original blood energy within a short period of time.

Within the Grim Residence.

Mary strutted in with her head held high, full of pride and an undisguised smugness.

Grim, on the other hand, gently closed the thick sorcery book in his hands, squinted his eyes and carefully examined Mary for half a day before finally sighing in relief, "3rd stage... you're finally 3rd stage!"

After seven years of not seeing him, Grim's appearance had not changed at all, and he was still as handsome and plump as ever. Only with the settling of the years, his young and vibrant face also has a hint of the taste of elegant calmness and mournfulness, in the handsome compelling at the same time also more of a long time as the supremacy of the Wei Ling and domineering.

Seemingly dissatisfied with the sentiment from Grim's mouth, Mary's eyebrows were lightly raised, and her delicate and feminine face showed a hint of indignation.

"What? You're still worried I won't make it through this?" Mary ground her little tiger teeth lightly, looking like she was going to pick a fight.

"A little!" Grim smiled faintly and spoke straightforwardly, "To be honest, there is too little and too little information in the book records about the advancement of the Blood Race, and I can't guarantee that all of the means I've prepared will be used and be successful, so..."

"So... you have doubts about my strength now, eh?" Mary's tone gradually began to rise, a dangerous glint in her eyes.

"It's not that I'm doubting your strength, but I'm worried that the lack of preparation will affect your potential for future development... "Grim wasn't stupid, and when he saw that Mary looked like a female panther who was about to get furious and pounce at any moment to do battle, he also quickly switched his tone.

Unfortunately, he still underestimated Mary's competitive nature!

Mary whistled sharply and pounced on him, grabbing Grim by the collar and dragging him outside.

"Don't you dare doubt my strength, we're going to spar in the spell practice room right now..."

Grim laughed and suddenly swooped his arms around Mary's waist, attaching a whisper to her ear, "If you want to fight, why bother going to the practice room so much, come with me!"

With that said, the flames spread and the two disappeared.

When they resurfaced, they had already appeared atop a high cliff in the Black Forest.

The top of the cliff was flat and covered with bright green moss and vines.

Looking to the left and right, the forest and sea were lush, pine waves, and within sight was a vast black forest full of lush greenery that covered the entire land. It's also a great place to see a lot of people," he said.

There was a hint of tranquility and peace in the stunning natural scenery!

Although Mary didn't have the huge mental power of Grim to inspect all the surrounding movements at a glance, she was able to detect that there weren't any overly fierce and powerful demons in the vicinity with her 3rd rank perception.

"Where is this?" Mary looked up at the distant, bright red sunset at the edge of the forest and sea that was about to fall below the horizon and asked softly.

"Two hundred and thirty miles east of the Throne of Flame..." laughed Grim, "As for here, I call it Green Cliff!"

"The terrain here is so good, there's no way it's devil-free!"

"There was originally a Wind Eagle nest here, and I've captured them all back..."

"I'm afraid that the one who can nest here isn't some little person, 2nd or 3rd rank?"

"3rd class..."

Mary returned the flirty smile.

"Looks like you've improved a lot over the years! Now even 3rd rank demons can be easily taken down..."

Grim shook his head and laughed, "Why don't I feel any joy at your compliments? You don't really want a fight, do you?"

"Of course I fight! Must fight!" Mary ground her teeth lightly, "I told you a long time ago that if you can defeat me, I'll listen to you. Otherwise..."

Grim opened his mouth to argue, but a feeling of extreme danger suddenly enveloped his body.

It wasn't fatal, but if he couldn't dodge it, it would certainly be no good!

Without hesitation, Grim's body abruptly exploded into a stream of flame and disappeared.

A blood-colored glowing, slender hand claw, on the other hand, slashed through the flames, leaving behind a blood-colored mark.

Two hundred meters away in the void, fire flashed, and Grim condensed out of his body again through the gathered fire element. But as soon as he manifested, he looked startled and lifted up the sleeve of his left robe, discovering three deep blood marks on his upper arm.

Bright red blood was flowing out from the blood marks, leaving his entire arm bloodied.

What a fast attack....

Grim's eyebrows furrowed, never imagining that he had dodged so swiftly and yet was still injured by Mary's men.

Grim's arm flashed with fire, and the pure flame energy pumped from the heart of the powerful Infernal Demon surged to the blood marks on his arm, washing away the blood clinging to the wounds with a slight crackling sound. Only then did these blood marks slowly begin to close up.

Far above the high cliff, Mary gently licked the blood from her hand claws and smiled fawningly at Grim.

"What? You don't underestimate me, do you? I'm afraid you'll need to suffer even more if you're not careful..."

Grim was dumbfounded, finally starting to face up to this 'contest'!

As the flames surged, the Burning Corona, the Flame Emblem, the Dreadnought, the Ashes, the Fire Dragon Spit, and the Lava Armor... a powerful witch weapon of strange shape and magical fluidity began to emerge on Grim's body in turn.

However, without waiting for Grim to prepare for everything, Mary's figure flashed and instantly turned into a blood shadow that disappeared into the air.

In fact, the blood shadow didn't disappear, it was just that due to her speed, it was difficult for the vast majority of witches' dynamic vision to catch it. Even if the sorcerers had spiritual perception, they would still be able to detect the sudden appearance of more than a dozen of Mary's life breath in the surrounding void due to the interference of her strange phantom body.

And with their spiritual perception, it would be hard for them to distinguish which of the dozen phantom bilocations was Mary's true self!

And Grim certainly couldn't be an ordinary wizard!

With the aid of the chip's all-field dynamic perception, the dozen or so Mary Phantoms spread all around themselves had been replaced by a single red dot, and while the strength of these red dots were close, they still had a slight nuance to them.

It was difficult for other wizards to distinguish the differences between these red dots in an instant of electric light, and neither could Grim, but the chip could!

In Grim's mind, in the perceptual space built by the chip combined with his burning field, a number of intermittent red dots finally linked together to piece together a bizarre and unpredictable path of travel. And the other party's ultimate target was, quite literally....

Grim drank lightly and turned abruptly, thrusting flatly with both hands, a flaming shield instantly coalesced and formed, and quickly crashed outwards.

A muffled puff.

A small hand of a slender and fair woman poked through the Flame Shield and remotely grabbed onto Grim's right waist.

Without this flaming shield that happened to be blocking her attack path, perhaps Grim wouldn't have been able to notice Mary's approach until she was injured. But for now, Grim, powered by the flame-throwing engines on her lava armor, dodged Mary's bloody hand's attack by a hair's breadth.

The Flame Shield that he launched while he was at the moment would slam straight into Mary's body, bringing some 'small' punishment to her as well.

It had to be said that after advancing to level 3, Mary had another breakthrough in speed.

After a missed blow, she even had the spare energy to draw out her right hand and grabbed the flaming shield to scatter it, then rushed to quickly dodge away from her original position before the flames erupted.

A 'trap' that Grim had carefully designed for her hadn't even hurt her in the slightest!

"Chip, what's going on? Why did you miss?" As he moved quickly over the forest and sea, Grim communicated silently with the chip.

"Drip, base data sample collection error... the attack just now was designed according to the previously detected Mary's attributes, and there is a data error with the current target creature..."

"Immediately begin collecting baseline data on target organisms and correct all errors!"

"Drip, target biobasic data sampling in progress...estimated time 27 seconds..."

27 seconds? That's a long time to say the least, but it's long enough to face a hypersensitive wizard....

Grim roared as the pale red burning field popped out, enveloping the surrounding void. The lava shields and flaming shields that followed one after the other even popped out and began to rapidly rotate around his body.

With a piercing burst, a red blood shadow burst into the burning field and pierced 5 flaming shields in one breath before quickly darting away from the burning field and disappearing into the darkening void once again.

Due to her opponent's excessive speed, although Grim caught her attack path, the two berserk fireballs that were sent in response were directly flashed by it. The fire dragon spit that Grim added even chased after her remaining phantoms until it extended beyond the burning field.

Apart from knocking out a bunch of phantoms, it didn't even reach the other party's horns.

But the other party wasn't unscathed either.

Grim's Burning Field was now at nearly 200 degrees of flame damage, and as long as the opponent was inside the Red Boundary, there was no immunity. This kind of full-field flame damage couldn't be avoided by moving at high speed.