Age of Adepts

In the Great Thousand Places, in fact, rank doesn't exactly mean everything!

Rank was only used to distinguish the change in strength of the same species at different stages.

But once the species is different, the power loss and gain brought about by the ranks won't seem so obvious.

Take for example, several people in the arena today, they are all apparently of the 3rd rank, but if you really want to give it a go, there will be a completely unexpected and odd outcome.

To put it simply, the 3rd stage Thunder Dragon Ames was able to defeat the Golden Knight Lambert.

Both of them were using strength, body, and spirit as a supplement, combining both flesh* body strength and spell strength. But on these items, Ames, with his strong dragon physique, crushed Lambert, who was also a magical martial arts dual cultivator, in almost all fields.

Therefore, the same Tier 3, Thunder Dragon Ams even only needed to pay a small damage as a price to exterminate this Lambert.

The 3rd level Brontosaurus, on the other hand, was no match for Grim, who possessed the Flame Throne Set and the Soden Holy Ring.

If you include the elemental magic weapon, there is even a great chance that Grim will be able to kill the untamed 3rd level Brontosaurus. I'm afraid the only reason why Ames had been acting so tame all this time was because of Grim's rapid growth in strength!

And now, the 3rd stage Thunder Dragon and the 3rd stage Elemental Demonic Armament had joined forces to pinpoint that Holy Knight Commander Lambert, which also allowed him to roar and roar in the air, but still couldn't change the outcome of being beaten by two 'people' all over the field.

If it wasn't for the large number of Level 2 Silver Knights rushing into the battle circle, using their bodies as shields and holy light as weapons, desperately attacking and obstructing the One Dragon One Magic Armament, Lambert would have perished on the battlefield by now.

Grim didn't participate in the siege, but stood quietly at the edge of the field, his burning pupils slowly scanning the surrounding buildings with a hint of disdain in his eyes.

The Holy Light Chapel clearly had two 3rd rank resident guards, but only one came out, so it was self-evident that the other was hiding in the shadows waiting for a chance to sneak in a good attack. And his target, nine times out of ten, was himself, right!

Hey hey, if you won't come out, I'll make you come out!

With a few snickers in his heart, Grim immediately chanted the large scale sorcery of 'Summon Flame Gate' to himself.

The current Holy Light Chapel, with big guys like fire giants, elemental magic weapons, and dragons fighting and killing in it, had already stirred up the place and killed the Holy Knights to the point of rout. If another group of vile flame creatures appeared, I'm afraid that the battle below would be even more impossible.

However, just as Grim was halfway through chanting his summoning spell, the sacred hall behind him, which had been burned through the roof, suddenly flashed white, and a swift rainbow-like, snow-white, powerful sword light instantly appeared behind him.

There was a crackling blast.

The Flame Shield and Lava Shield outside of Grim's body, which was transformed into a Fire Giant, burst with a loud crackling sound, but were broken cleanly by the long sword that was imbued with powerful holy power. The longsword swiftly sliced through the fire giant's waist, cutting open a huge gap in the lava armor that was over a meter long and half a meter deep.

A red stream of flames swirled and splashed out with the tumbling hot lava.

The swift figure darted past the flaming giant's hand that Grim leaned down to grab, and with a flick of his back sword, cut off two more of the flaming giant's fingers.

The successive injuries also made Grim shudder with rage, after transforming into a fire giant, his strength and physique had indeed increased, but his agility had also been suppressed to a point where it was unbearable for him.

Grim, unwilling to play any more cat and mouse games with the other party, lifted his flame giant leg that was as thick as a stone pillar and heaved a foot on the ground. In the next second, a swift aura of flame suddenly erupted around his body, spreading rapidly in all directions in a circular shape.

Any creature within the range of the flame aura would suffer 220 degrees of flame damage and would be pushed 50 meters away by the flame shockwave.

Resist the Ring of Fire!

This was also a 3rd level flame sorcery carefully selected by Grim and optimized by the chip, taking into account the two effects of flame damage and yet enemy, and its actual combat power was astonishing.

The golden knight who attacked was obviously a fast swordsman with agility, and when he saw the ring of fire approaching, he immediately dodged back without hesitation. The flaming shockwave of the heat wave was no more than half a meter away from his toes, but it was never able to catch up with the opponent's retreating body.

The Golden Knight's body stopped abruptly and once again dashed towards Grim like lightning.

Although it was still inevitable that he would be burned by the flames, but with his resistance as a 3rd level Gold Knight, he was able to add a few blood holes to Grim's body before his body's holy light was etched through.

At their level, it was simply a thousand times harder to kill the enemy harmlessly with their combat skills and killing methods. Very often, what they were fighting for was the word 'ruthless'.

As long as you're hurt worse than me, as long as I have better recovery than you...that's all that matters!

But what Kennett didn't expect was that the otherworldly fire witch he was facing wasn't an ordinary wizard, but a melee wizard who also possessed powerful melee fighting abilities.

By virtue of the Flame Emblem's elemental shaping ability, Grim's incarnation of the Fire Giant began to slowly shrink and condense, eventually turning into a terrifying 3-meter tall fellow with bright yellow flames bursting all over his body. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you're looking at, and what you're looking for.

And within Grim's Burning Pupil's vision, all the material interfaces disappeared, and the entire vision was all reassembled by mottled blocks of color of different sizes and shapes. With elemental vision, Grim was able to directly see the flow of magical elements within the field of vision. With telekinesis, Grim was able to roughly see the distribution of power within his opponent's body.

Clusters of red halos of varying sizes and shades were distributed all over the Kennet Knight's body, especially thickest on his legs, chest and right wrist. They weren't fixed, but in slight changes with each stance and movement of the Golden Knight.

Whenever Kennett's feet point to the ground in a bizarre folding to change line, the red glow on both of his legs and feet is simply red and dazzling. And whenever Kennett rushed to Grim's side to attack, his right wrist, which held his sword, exploded with power from time to time.

However, what made Grim most concerned was the huge milky white halo on his opponent's chest.

From there, countless white threads stretched out, connecting through most of his limbs and internal organs around his body. It was with the support of the white light mass that Kennett was able to maintain this kind of forward and backward dodge like a ghostly and swift body shape.

Relying on his analysis of the flow of power within the enemy's body, Grim, aided by the chip, finally managed to defend himself against the many sneak attacks of this Min Rider. The other side of several strange melee were detected by Grim in advance, if not for Kennett's agility is too much higher than Grim, I'm afraid that the trajectory was caught, he would have been wounded under those flaming spears.

This was the multi-functional battle support system that Grim and Chip had been brewing for a long time before working on.

According to Grim's initial conception, this system should at least help him take complete control of the battlefield. Even if there were many enemies, even if the enemies were powerful, his power would always be impossible to be everywhere, all the time. So, being able to peer into the battlefield, the unpredictable Grim could wander around the battlefield at will.

Wandering where the enemy's power was weakest, wandering where the enemy was powerful and difficult to use, and then finding gaps to advance, strangling the enemy on the spot with minimal energy loss and minimal battle risk.

But the idea is beautiful, the reality is boneheaded!

To take control of the battlefield, you need early insight into the enemy's dynamics. Against ordinary people, the chip's existing capabilities are sufficient. But to deal with an opponent of the same level or a super-level opponent, a series of abilities such as energy perspective, elemental vision, telemetry, dynamic capture, and a massive amount of data calculation were needed.

The use of these various abilities required a great drain on Grim's mental strength.

His current mental strength wasn't enough to support prolonged use, at least, in a watery life and death battlefield, Grim couldn't do it yet.

No, it should be said that the chip couldn't do it!

The current chips could only provide simple elemental vision and energy perspective, but they could not grasp the full dynamics of the opponent without missing a beat. After all, the higher the level of the enemy, the more instantaneous their reactions were also exceptionally sharp. When they noticed changes in Grim's combat stance and attack style, they would also instantly revise their battle strategies.

Therefore, when calculating the enemy's next position and attack stance, the chip must not only take strength, physique, agility, spirit, battlefield environment, and battlefield posture into account, but also calculate the enemy's possible response to the change in attack stance of the party already in place.

And all of this requires an extremely powerful data crunching ability!

Current chips obviously can't do that.

However, even if it only provided the simplest of a few aids, it would be too much help for Grim combat!

At least from that Kennet Knight's point of view, the fellow he was fighting against was simply a devil who possessed the ability to read minds. No matter what kind of tricks he used or what kind of confusing posture he took, the opponent would always be able to throw a flame spear at the place that would cause him the most pain.

Even many flame throwing spears that were originally thought to be thrown crooked by the other party would verify the other party's cleverness and terror after a couple of flexes. This was because Kennett was even forced by the opponent's force to automatically send himself to the place where those flame spears burst.

Although most of the flames were blocked by the protective holy light, the holy light power condensed inside Kennette's body was also rapidly depleting. Once the holy light power disappeared, it would be impossible for Kennetty to remain in that terrifying burning field outside the other party's body as unscathed as he was now.

At that time, I'm afraid it would be Kennette's turn to be hunted down by the other party all over the field!