Age of Adepts

Volcano of Gondas, beneath a pool of lava fire.

This was a molten fire cave located deep in the volcano's crater.

Standing in front of the dark red transparent mask at the entrance of the cave, one could clearly see the thick and heavy sea of lava rumbling before one's eyes, the tumbling and vibrating magma fluid with volcanic rocks that had not completely melted, as well as some exotic iron stones that shone with a metallic luster.

The Elemental Demon Armor is guarding the mouth of the cave like a tireless, faithful hound, with strange light waves shining from time to time in the honeycomb-shaped head hole, closely monitoring the movement of the surroundings. A completely different spectrum of detection light waves combined with the dense flame traps in the lava fire pool, firmly guarding this crude and unusual molten fire cave.

And within the cave, Grim was lying on his back on top of a stone bed, with the Soul Gathering Crystal placed on his chest, doing a strange breathing swallowing.

Grim's breathing rate was unusually slow, only breathing and swallowing an average of five times per minute.

Inhaling through his nose and exhaling through his mouth, Grim was continuously swallowing at a strange frequency. Whenever he inhaled hard, the air inside the cave seemed to be drained out of him in an instant, and the hissing sound of air could be heard vaguely. And when he opened his mouth to exhale, a thin stream of scorching flame rushed straight out, scorching the walls of the cave above the stone bed to a charred blackness.

Whether it was exhaled or inhaled, there was a hidden sound of wind and thunder inside the cave, as if a terrifying fire dragon was coiled there, breathing in and out.

And while Grim was in deep meditation, his spiritual sea was vaguely connected to the Soul Gathering Crystal on his chest, and a trickle of water was slowly flowing into it, nourishing and strengthening his spiritual world.

To be honest, even Grim had not expected that it would take him so much time to devour the Godless Holy Light and Pure Faith power inside the Spiritual Crystal, with some unexpected twists and turns that he had not expected.

The holy light that was contained in the Soul Gathering Crystal, in such a long period of time, had already melted the souls of the Paladins entrusted to it into pure and unconscious spiritual energy. Thus Grim's distracted soul breaking into it was simply like a tiger entering a flock of sheep and devouring it.

But unintentionally, its actions had also awakened the pure holy light left behind by the 3rd rank golden knight.

One of the greatest characteristics of the holy light that the holy knights worshipped and believed in was 'tolerance', that is, the 'purification' that they couldn't stop talking about. After the death of an ordinary Paladin, his soul was entrusted inside the last ray of pure holy light, and according to common sense, he should go back to his origin and reincorporate into the bit system.

But after they were intercepted by Grim, they were also left aimlessly within the Soul Gathering Crystal. Other Holy Knight souls had been 'purified' by the holy light of the host body, but that 3rd rank Gold Knight's soul was worthy of his rank, and had even withstood the 'purification' of the holy light, retaining part of his consciousness.

If not for the stimulation of Grim's soul, perhaps this part of his consciousness would never have awakened, and would have lost a little bit of his strength in the long passage of time, eventually being completely dissolved by the holy light. But the appearance of Grim's soul splitting had actually stimulated the struggle and survival instincts in his remaining consciousness.

After losing most of his memory and consciousness, the awakened soul of the Golden Knight began to instinctively launch a counterattack against Grim's soul.

Thus, an alternate battlefield erupted within the fist-sized Soul Gathering Crystal as well!

With the toughness of the Golden Knight's 3rd stage soul, even losing most of its power would not be something that Grim's split soul, which had not yet grown up, could fight against. Therefore, you chase me and I flee, and hiding in the east has become the only thing Grim's split soul can do.

In order to help the split soul fight that golden knight soul, Grim also had to appear personally, and with the guidance of the chip, while avoiding the other party's pursuit, he was madly devouring the Godless Holy Light and the purest spiritual energy.

After five years of ups and downs, he finally grew up with great difficulty to defeat that golden knight soul and transformed it into his own spiritual energy. And today, it was the moment for Grim to reap the fruits in a big way.

As he clarified his mind and established a spiritual channel with the Divided Soul, the other party also passed a stream of extremely pure spiritual energy to Grim in passing.

Under the chip's monitoring and detection, Grim's spiritual energy that hadn't moved in five years finally surged once again in a long-awaited manner.

32....33....34....35....

With the continuous growth of spiritual power, a surging and exciting powerful spiritual pressure also soared in Grim's body lying on his back on the stone bed. The dense fire element automatically converged around him and manifested into invisible transparent flames that began to burn wildly.

Silently, the molten fire cave turned into an invisible sea of fire, and all substances began to slowly melt away under the terrifying flames.

Even the 3rd rank Elemental Demonic Armament had to hold up an energy force field to isolate this invisible flame from its body. The invisible flames gently licked the invisible energy force field, silently obliterating the magical energy on it, and even an Elemental Demonic Armament could feel the rapid loss of energy.

If there wasn't a miniature magical furnace supporting the Elemental Magic Armament, it would have been impossible for any other sorcerer to survive in the transparent flame.

And this was clearly a high level effect of Elemental Sorcery, Annihilation Magic!

Annihilating Demon...this was a few special sorcery effects that went hand in hand with Sucking Demon and Breaking Demon.

Annihilation Magic, also known as Neutralization, was able to annihilate the opponent's magical power with reciprocal magical energy.

Magic Sucking, rather than a sorcery effect, is some sort of racial talent that allows the recipient to absorb some of the attacking magical energy and transform it into their own power.

Demon Breaking, on the other hand, is the use of some special battle skill or sorcery effect to break the opponent's magical defenses. The holy knight's holy light beheading is so powerful because it combines the power of holy light and has both demon-breaking and evil-breaking effects.

Now, Grim had jumped from beginner to advanced as his own spirit power increased, and his creature level was even rising.

Only when the Soul Gathering Crystal shattered into countless shards of crystal clear glass with a clatter did Grim's skyrocketing spirit this finally stay at 37 points. This value still belonged to the category of advanced 3rd stage, but if we take into account the flame suit and Soden Holy Ring's spiritual blessing to him, I'm afraid that the fully armed Grim, spiritual power has not weakened at all compared to those who are at the peak of 3rd stage.

And just as Grim was immersed in the kind of power and invincibility brought about by the soaring spirit, his spirit moved slightly, perceiving and scanning the anomaly on the outskirts of the Lava Fire Pool.

The flame traps placed there were being triggered one by one, and an exceptionally slender and charmingly beautiful figure rushed ahead of him, using a strange psychic ripple to detonate every flame trap along the way.

Behind her, three extremely familiar figures were also advancing furiously, swooping swiftly towards the location of the Molten Fire Cave.

Hmm, the enemy had actually taken the initiative to attack?

Is there something strange going on out there? Otherwise, how could the hunting witches that they had lured a thousand times and never set foot halfway in the Lava Fire Pool suddenly become so wild?

With a hint of puzzlement, Grim slowly opened his eyes.

And the moment his eyes' pupils that burned with golden flames opened, his golden, sturdy and strong body steeply sucked in every trace of fire within the cave like a giant whale sucking in water.

For a time, the fire within the Molten Fire Cave subsided, and the temperature instead became a little milder.

An unprecedented feeling of mental satiety made Grim become extraordinarily active, his powerful mental energy and the rich fire elemental atmosphere outside the cave blended with each other, giving him a strange feeling that heaven and earth were one.

Vaguely, he seemed to be able to feel the sound of the invisible movement of the laws of heaven and earth, and the law of fire that he had dreamed of was close at hand. But when he reached out to retrieve it, he was always isolated by an invisible barrier, making it difficult to touch a fraction.

And just as Grim was on fire, trying to burn through the barrier with all his flames, the Elemental Demon Armament guarding the Molten Fire Cave sent him the most urgent alert.

The enemy had arrived!

Being able to become a rank 3 Sorcerer, it could be said that most of the natural dangers within the bit were not considered desperate places for them. Even if they weren't good at controlling fire, with their strength, soaking in this lava fire pool for half a day wasn't a big deal.

But to fight a fellow Fire Witch here, that was a different story!

"The other side's lair is approaching..." the mind warlock Benija, who was leading the way, whispered, "The fire element here is too violent and interfering with me, I can't keep locking on to that fire witch any longer. However, his mental fluctuations still seem disorganized and chaotic, and it seems like he hasn't gotten out of his witchcraft experiments yet!"

"Then don't hesitate to see that fire witch, let's follow the agreed plan. Today, we must take him down!" While cheering up the crowd, the giant snake shaman Natagu transformed into a terrifying black mamba serpent, swaying his long, thick and strong tail to swing away the sticky and heavy magma fluid in front of him, and swam forward desperately.

His solid and dense snake scale surface spilled out an earthy yellow aura, blocking out the surprisingly hot tumbling magma, blocking out the effects of the heat and heavy pressure on his body, and occasionally protecting the old Poisoness and Daggeree behind him.

The distance of 300 meters was short.

When Natagu saw the dark red flame barrier at the entrance of the Molten Flame Cave, he immediately swung his tail, scampered past Benicia, and rushed ahead of the tall metal demon standing at the entrance of the cave.

Knock knock knock....

The dense, rain-like metallic curtain blasted out from the elemental magic weapon's aloft cannon, turning into a terrifying stream of metallic flames that broke through the sticky magma and struck the giant snake sorcerer's body.

The earthy yellow gravitational aura dazzled up and down, causing some of the metallic flame streams to lose their direction and slide silently past the serpent's body. The solid metal flame streams were also weakened by the gravity aura, weakening the attack by half, cracking the scales on the surface of the snake's body, but they were unable to break through the defense layer.