Age of Adepts

A resonant dragon's roar resounded through the heavens and earth!

Stage 3 Thunder Dragon Ames flapped its flesh wings, soaring into the sky in a monarchical and wild stance, slightly peering down at the jungle sweeping below it as it streaked across the sky.

Its pair of amber-like turquoise dragon pupils stared at the panicked fleeing figure at the end of its line of sight.

After the brutal and long battle of the volcano, Natagoo had long since exhausted his bloodline and was forced to retreat from his serpent form and return to his human form. And this had inevitably lowered part of his physique.

In this way, the pain and injuries that were still bearable in his giant snake form became so unbearable when he transformed into his human form!

As Natagoo flew across the sky, he was unceasingly chattering blood.

His eyes, ears, mouth, nose and mouth, unceasingly spurting out purple and black blood, his face hideous and twisted, not to mention how miserable his form was. However, at this time, he no longer had time to care about his image, all of his attention was focused on how to escape the pursuit of the enemy behind him.

His origin was extremely traumatized, and the Legendary Fire Witch chasing behind him wasn't much better than him.

However, the other party had a rank 3 dragon in his stead, and was clearly in an advantageous position in this chase. Even though he knew it would be hard to escape from a Level 3 dragon, his body was crumbling and he had very little mental energy left, so Natagu couldn't muster the courage to turn back and fight with his enemy.

Damn it, this was just a crossover chase mission that he had undertaken! Although failing the mission would result in very heavy losses for himself, it would be much better than throwing his little life away.

He was extremely injured, and that fire witch was not lightly injured either.

There was nothing else that Natagoo wanted right now, all he wanted was for that fire witch to be one step ahead of him and stop the chase to go back and heal his wounds. And with this 'pristine' thought in mind, Natagu frantically gulped down all sorts of witchy medicines while fleeing forward with all his might.

Unfortunately, as a bloodline sorcerer who had mastered the transformation of a giant snake, agility wasn't something that Natagoo excelled at!

Therefore, in the midst of his little despair, the sturdy and graceful figure of the 3-stage Thunder Dragon caught up with him in the end and drove over him.

With a long, melodious dragon roar, Thunder Dragon Ames lowered his head and sprayed a short stream of dragon breath at Natagoo, forcing the opponent to play an 'S-shaped' drift over the forest and sea.

With each spray of dragon breath, Natagoo's speeding body had to make a sharp turn, grazing the edge of the violent thunderstorm and shifting steeply. The hollowed out blue-hued power grid landed in the forest and sea below, transforming into a wildly raging lightning storm that electrolyzed all matter within range into fine powder.

Only those unusually sturdy-looking thousand-year-old trees could carry this kind of violent thunderstorm, barely standing without toppling over. But their branches, leaves, and outer bark had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a charred and withered trunk burning quietly in the fire caused by the lightning.

If Natagu was still at his peak, then he would have even dared to transform into a Black Mamba Serpent and confront this rank 3 Thunder Dragon face to face. But now, his body was broken, his mental energy was nearly depleted, and his bloodline power was even more depleted to the point of no return.

Without the Giant Snake Transformation, he really didn't have the strength to continue fighting with this dazzling dragon. Thus, even though he was being slowly 'teased' by an almost humiliating dragon's breath from the other side, Natagoo was still unwilling to turn back and fight to the death.

He... couldn't spar anymore!

Unfortunately, the current him wanted to avoid fighting, but the other party clearly didn't agree.

Grim, who had already successively taken the 'Life Original Liquid' and the 'Spiritual Recovery Potion', had actually suffered injuries several times worse than the giant snake wizard, Natagu. Even with these two recovery 'holy medicines', for the time being, they could only barely sustain to keep his injuries from worsening, and it was extremely difficult to recover.

During the three hours of grueling battle, he had fought against the two sorcerers to their heart's content, fighting against the serpent sorcerer. Although the special environment of the volcano had weakened some of the power of the Old Poison Woman and the Mind Warlock sorcery, the accumulation of such a long period of time still caused terrible physical* damage to Grim.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Terrifying Inferno he transformed into was hard enough, and his defense and magic resistance were also exceptionally exceptional, he would have already been beaten into unrecognizable pieces of tattered flesh by his enemies at this point.

The heavier the damage done to his body, the greater the rage in Grim's chest.

In the past, he really might have given up on pursuing the enemy in order to heal his wounds a moment earlier. But today, he had made up his undying resolve to make these enemies who had been pestering him for years pay with their lives!

Blade-Katie was still trapped underground, and there was no way she could win the battle with the elemental magic weapon....

The Mind Warlock's side had Flame Tiger going after them, and as long as Sindar didn't let go of the water, capturing the other side was extremely likely....

As for Old Poison Woman, there was Plague Poison Spirit Remy waiting for her in the direction she was fleeing, and she should also suffer a big loss. However, what kind of level of strength Remy had reached after his advancement, Grim couldn't estimate in detail, so whether or not he could capture the Old Poison Woman was still impossible to say....

Yet this giant serpent sorcerer before him, Natagu, Grim dared to assert that he was dead!

When Grim, perched high atop the brontosaurus' back, joined the attack, the serpent sorcerer Natagu finally couldn't hold on any longer. A dodge missed and was caught in a swiftly flying ball of violent fire, and by the time he escaped from the fireball with a sharp shriek, a small half of his body was charred black.

"Grim, you don't want to drive me to extinction..." even in a life-or-death situation, Natagu still didn't change his fierce and courageous nature, hissing and threatening, "If you drive me to fight you to my death, are you sure you can carry my A dying backlash?"

And the answer was two swiftly flying violent fireballs.

With the power of his bloodline exhausted, Natagu was unable to transform into a black mamba serpent again, so he could only hold up an elemental barrier on his hands and knees, barely able to withstand the swift shockwaves formed when the fireballs burst.

A wave of fire swept through the surrounding area, incinerating all the green vegetation and tall trees into scorched black withered carbon, and Natagoo staggered backward incessantly, no longer able to recover his previous unstoppable arrogant appearance.

"Phaili Morgonoth...empty bite poison teeth!" Natagoo's face was fierce, and he raised his right hand to shout.

On the end finger of his right hand, a snake eye ring suddenly erupted with a dazzling light, penetrating the dense flames and shooting straight at Grim on the dragon's back. At the same time as the light erupted, Natagu's mouth opened and spewed out a ball of venom the size of an egg, silently hitting Grim and the Thunder Dragon.

After spewing out such a ball of venom, Natagoo's energy scent plummeted by half again, unable to care about observing the outcome of the attack, turning around and stumbling into the jungle.

Even though his flesh* body and spirit had fallen below the alert line, with the strong physique of a 3rd level Bloodline Sorcerer, Natagoo's running speed in the dense forest was no less fast than that of a jungle cheetah known for its agility.

While fleeing wildly in the dense forest, Natagu kept looking back and was momentarily distracted, tripping over a vine and crashing into an ancient tree. He was so distracted that he tripped over a vine and bumped into an ancient tree. He held on to the trunk of the tree and stood up again, continuing to race forward.

No one noticed that the moment he stood up holding on to the tree trunk, the back part of his left little finger was cut off and turned into an arrow which pierced into the trunk of the ancient tree without a sound.

And he continued to stumble into the jungle as if unaware of it.

In a forest clearing, a large puff of flame burst suddenly, and Grim emerged from it coughing violently, just in time to cut off Natagu's path.

After a short but intense firefight, Natagu, who was completely cornered, burst out a terrifying ring of poison with bloodshot eyes and a wild hiss. In order to maximize the lethality of the poisonous ring, Natagu even exploded his own blood to enhance the power of the ring.

Therefore, as a miserable green aura spread through the forest, anything within a radius of one mile, be it plants or animals, turned into green liquid emitting a faint fluorescent radiation the moment it touched the aura.

Even though Grim was protected by the Burning Realm, the poisonous aura invaded the space around him, causing the flames that were originally burning dark red to turn a bit green.

Grim grunted, and with the Soden Holy Ring, he quickly transformed the power of the flame into divine power to cloth layer after layer around his body, which was how he was able to resist the invasion of the poison with the 'purifying power' of the holy light.

After blocking this attack, Grim stood straight and looked around, his heart couldn't help but feel a little horrified.

That Natagoo had completely vanished, even his body, soul and the equipment he was carrying had melted into that terrifying ring of poison. All the plants in the one mile radius around you, whether it was the ancient trees like giant umbrellas, or the vines, thorns or shrubs tangled all over the forest, they had all turned into a pale green poisonous liquid, making the place you were standing on a terrifying poisonous ground with no life left in it.

That Natagoo had self-destructed?

He's a tough one!

Grim was wrapped in a layer of milky white holy light and looked around without sobbing.

But just as he was lamenting over the lamentable fall of a 3rd rank wizard, the statistics that the chip brushed down on his retina caught his attention.

"...Soul Integrity 63%..."

Well, what happened?

The chip's calculations based on the dying blow that Natagoo had just erupted projected that the opponent's soul integrity was only 63% of that of the last war. This... there seemed to be something strange about it!

Without the chip's statistics, I'm afraid Grim would have been so shocked by the other side's bristly scene that he would have overlooked some of the doubts. With Natagu's character and style of acting, was this the kind of warrior who would die with his enemies?

From Grim's observation of him over the years, the other party was not only not called a warrior, but was instead exceptionally treacherous and tricky. If he was really going to die, Grim believed that the other party would never take the route of suicide even if he was on his knees begging for mercy.

If one analyzed it from this point, the other party's self-destruct would instead have a hint of suspicion of covering up his lack of soul integrity!

Grim lifted his eyes to scan the jungle that Natagoo was running all the way to, and couldn't help but see a coldness in his eyes.

Hmph, 37% of its soul combined with some secret technique is enough to resurrect it from its borrowed body!

Nice try....