Age of Adepts

The blade wheel whirled and the fierce wind whistled.

The fully-fighting Blade-Katie was like a metal hedgehog covered in thorns, spinning wildly around Grim, her sharp, almost metallic hand blades stabbing the flaming shield that flipped outside his body.

A flaming shield with a defensive strength of 350 degrees often couldn't even hold on for 3 flexes before it would explode into a sky of fire debris.

Fortunately, such a flaming shield, Grim summoned as many as seven in one breath, which barely lasted until the activation of the next sorcery.

Due to the existence of bit suppression, due to the difference in bit laws, those swift sorceries that were readily activated in the past now had to be guided through 2-3 flexing spells and gestures in order to be activated. Therefore, in close combat, Elemental Sorcerers are naturally at a disadvantage, and are not as smooth and natural as Saberge's Mechanical Sorcery.

Pillar of Red Flame!

A widespread pillar of red flame fire swept away in all directions with Grim at its center, while the green-gray stone slabs on which his feet stepped rapidly softened and melted under the terrifying heat, quickly turning into reddish lava that flowed freely.

Even with Blade-Girl's magic resistance, she didn't dare to fight Grim in the midst of such violent and ferocious flames.

Her swift figure suddenly darted forty to fifty meters away, avoiding the area where the red flame pillar was most powerful. Her silvery white right hand opened, her palm facing Grim, her five fingers flicking lightly, still controlling the five hovering metal wheels in the air.

The five metal wheels were made of unknown materials, but they were fearless of Grim's elemental flames, and were still wildly striking and cutting at the only two remaining flame shields outside his body.

Grim grunted, pointing forward with one hand, a suddenly erupting wall of flaming magic was placed between him and Daggeree, cutting the entire stone bridge in two. His flaming lava hands fished into the air and grabbed the two metal blade wheels in his hands.

Even though the metal blade wheels were clamped down, they were still crazy and still attacked with full force.

In the terrifying hands made from a combination of flames and lava, the metal blade wheels were still spinning and vibrating madly, as if they were trying to break free with great effort.

Grim couldn't care less about the pain of his hands being rapidly cut, and with a large hand, the violent flame energy wildly surged towards the two metal blade wheels. Under the impact of the extremely violent flame energy, the two silver-white metal blade wheels were burned red, but they were still vibrant.

Grim shouted violently and slapped his hands together, and the two burned red and white metal blade wheels crashed together under the tendrils of the berserk giant force.

There was a cracking sound, and spider web-like cracks finally appeared on the two metal blade wheels, which then disintegrated into a piece of metal fragments the size of a finger's stomach.

On the other side of the Flame Demon Wall, Knife Katy softly grunted, apparently the spirit power attached to the metal blade wheels had also caused some damage to her after being destroyed.

After realizing that Grim was capable of destroying her own blade wheel, the remaining 3 metal blade wheels immediately flew far away, avoiding Grim's large lava hands that were fishing around for grabs.

Just as Grim was dealing with the attacks from the three metal blades, the Flame Wall suddenly burst into flames, and a silver-white metal thorn pierced through the fire wall and stabbed Grim's left shoulder. Originally the metal thorn was aimed at Grim's heart, but he moved his body in time to avoid the real damage.

Grim roared wildly from the pain and raised his large hand with the intention of legally destroying the metal spike. But with a clattering sound, the metal spike retracted like a fish, and incidentally made a terrible wound on his big hand.

Red magma immediately flowed out of the wound, dripping down on the sturdy stone bridge slab, burning a large hole.

Only then did Grim notice that there was a finger-thin silver-white chain attached to the end of the metal spike, and that Blade Kathi was using the chain to control the metal spike.

As soon as the wall of flames that had lasted for seven seconds was extinguished, the Blade-Kitty pounced again. Or blade wheel cutting, or spike raid, or hand knife piercing, her multiple modified mechanical body seemed to carry an arsenal of weapons with it, ready to eject all sorts of strange attack weapons.

Compared to an elemental sorcerer, all of her attacks do not require a spell to cast, nor do they require elemental shaping, they are almost as strong and ferocious as a single thought. How could a weapon that could be taken into the body of a rank 3 Mechanical Sorcerer be a mere mundane item?

Whether it was a metal blade wheel, a metal mane, or a sharp hand blade, the magic power on it was luminous and clearly had a variety of demon-breaking means attached to it.

Penetrating... tearing... sharp... sturdy... armor breaking... ...

Almost every attack effect that Grim could have heard of could be found as a ready-made example on the swordsman's personal sorcery. If it wasn't for the stacking of these terrifying effects, even if these metal wizards were sharp and sturdy, it would be impossible for them to penetrate the layers of flaming shields and sturdy lava armor outside of Grim's body and harm his real body.

It had to be said that most of Knife Katie's abilities were still very restrained against elemental sorcerers.

With the transformation of mechanical sorcery, Knife Katie's own magic resistance had reached an astonishingly high level. Also, she had clearly intentionally strengthened her fire resistance this time around, so Grim's wide-ranging flame sorcery hit her almost harmlessly. Only those single flame sorceries that had been reinforced would give her any scruples!

Her powerful ability to break demons and defenses also made most of Grim's defensive sorceries lose their power. Often times, when forced to her side by a blade hag, Grim would have to resort to some self-inflicted means to push her back.

So the battle between the two sides lasted only fifteen minutes, but it had already ended in a lose-lose situation.

Blade-Kitty was burned to a crisp and scorched, while Grim's tall Inferno body was also bruised and dispirited.

And after the battle, Grim had also initially discovered some of the problems that existed in himself.

Some of the problems that one must pay attention to as a high ranked sorcerer!

Compared to low and mid-tier sorcerers, higher-tier sorcerers, especially those who were high level combat sorcerers, or hunting sorcerers like Knife Katie who specialized in killing, were no longer after fancy and flashy high-powered sorcery, but rather small and fast, with more concentrated power and swift attacks for killing.

Fighting Knife Katie, she flipped through just a few of those attacks, and almost never saw her perform ranged sorcery that required spells and hand gestures to guide her. All of her attacks are so crisp and direct, savage and violent, that she seeks instant explosive power and concealment of her attacks.

This fighting style also made Grim extremely uncomfortable, and on several occasions, she could barely cast a high-powered sorcery while having to stiffly withstand Bladesinger's attacks. And this, undoubtedly, also gave the other party more opportunities to attack him!

Even when fighting against Daggerji, Grim didn't dare to perform Flame Jump easily, otherwise that tiny pause of less than half a second would have been enough for the opponent to attack him for three rounds. Moreover, Grim didn't dare to guarantee that the short distance of Flame Jump would be enough to shake off the opponent's melee.

Once the other party had the means to chase down the short range teleportation technique, I'm afraid Grim would pay a huge price for it!

Both sides, as 3rd ranked witches who came from across the border, had been subjected to terrifying bit suppression, and their strength had been more or less affected. But even so, the battle between the two Sorcerers still brought a devastating blow to this beautiful and peaceful lakeside town.

Waves of overflowing flames, a fireball of molten lava that flew freely, a huge sea of fire that was casually scattered... all these brought horrific damage to Lakeside Town.

The sprawling houses were ignited by the bursting fragments of the lava fireball, plunging the entire Lakeside Town into a sea of splintering fire. One by one, the town's inhabitants cried out and ran around as a wave of flames swept past, and everyone slumped over, leaving only an unrecognizable pile of charred bones and ashes in their place.

Although they weren't the main targets of the witches, the aftermath of the unbridled battle between the two 3rd level witches was enough to completely destroy the entire town.

Neither of the two witches were in their best state, so the attack power they displayed was not enough to instantly defeat the other. Thus after a bitter battle, Grim chose to withdraw from the battle without hesitation.

Using the high level sorcery 'Fire Dragon Exhale' stored in the Fire Dragon Pendant to temporarily force Dagger Kitty back, Grim quickly summoned a 'Flame Gate', from which hundreds of flame creatures emerged.

Although these flame creatures couldn't harm Knife Katie, they were able to block her on the other side of the stone bridge. Using this tiny bit of time, Grim quickly chanted an incantation and borrowed flames to teleport away from the battlefield.

The furious blade Katie wielded her spinning blade wheel and cut down most of the flame creatures in one breath, rushing across the stone bridge and smashing the Gate of Flame into a cloud of fire debris as well. It was only in this way that the flame creatures in front of her lost their source of replenishment and became less difficult to deal with.

Not bothering to tangle with these summoned flame creatures, Saber Girl quickly came to a certain part of the battlefield and carefully picked up the metal particles left behind after the destruction of the two blade wheels one by one, before following the direction of the disappearance of the flame breath.

As for those flame creatures that were not wiped out, after losing their attack target, they began to wander aimlessly in the wildly burning fires of Lakeside Town.

Wherever they went, the sea of fire extended, turning everything into ash, as well as turning the entire town and the surrounding mountains into a place of extinction where life dared not set foot!

At this time, the two 3rd ranked witches who had crossed the border had already shifted the battlefield and began a great escape in the depths of the Cedric Mountains in pursuit of me....