Age of Adepts

The greatsword used by Shattered Face Gallo was quite powerful and far more powerful than an ordinary 3rd rank witch weapon.

After witnessing his battle with Psychic Dante, Grim even suspected that it was also a 4th-rank witchcraft weapon. The sorcery effect it possessed was 'Devour', and all matter it touched, whether solid or imaginary, would instantly disappear.

In the case of biological flesh and blood, this part of the flesh and blood could not be regenerated again through natural recovery. At least during combat.

And such a sorcery effect was obviously extremely restrained against body refining or bloodline sorcerers who were known for their high body mass. When their strong bodies were swallowed piece after piece by this magic sword left and chopped into skeletons, even the most powerful battle techniques would be powerless to be executed due to the loss of their vehicle.

The psychic sorcerer Dante suffered from this. After two high-level spirits were swallowed by the magic sword, he lost the ability to confront the opponent head-on, and could only desperately change the field, using the length of the battlefield to offset the opponent's unstoppable violent attack.

Here we have to talk about the flaws of Shattered Face Gara.

With 39 points of Strength and 34 points of Physique, such terrifying figures also gave him an unimaginable berserk megalomania and an almost indestructible strong body. Every move he made would bring up a wave of earth-destroying fury, and ordinary 3rd level sorcerers simply couldn't fight him head-on.

However, short legs were still a huge flaw that Shatterface Gallo couldn't compensate for!

In fact, 17 points of agility derived into battle was enough to transform Gallo into an alternative swordsman who was as light as a swallow and as fast as a fly. Unfortunately, in front of an elemental sorcerer who had mastered a large number of maneuver sorceries, this agility was really nothing.

No amount of strength, no matter how evil the magic sword was, it needed to slash at the enemy to be useful.

When Dante, the psychic sorcerer, made up his mind to fight him in guerrilla warfare, Shattered Face Gallo's shortcomings leaked out for sure. He was allowed to chase after Dante for three days and three nights without sleep, but the other party just avoided fighting, and then constantly sent all kinds of spirits, voodoo dolls, ghost dolls and other such evil things to harass him.

These evil creatures are difficult to harm Gallo, but he got him annoyed.

And once Shattered Face Gallo was hit and possessed by the evil things, Dante would instantly switch back and attack his opponent with the death necklace that could inspire the 'One Finger of Death' and the evil feats that kept countless ghosts and spirits crazy.

Almost all of these attacks were aimed at the soul consciousness body of the shattered face of Gallo, not involving his flesh* body, so even with Gallo's super strength and super physique there was nothing that could be done but to stiffen up and compete with each other for soul toughness.

This was actually the dangerous part of a high level sorcerer battle!

Don't look at the fact that after fighting for half a day no one could do anything about it, but if the enemy seized an opportunity to break through the defense, there could be annihilation at any time. And the attacks of high-ranking sorcerers were never easy to withstand. The enemies attacked by Dante's ghosts and spirits are seemingly intact on the surface, but the most important part of their souls are riddled with holes, which are difficult to heal without a long period of repair and recovery.

And this is actually the main reason why the psychic sorcerer Dante made his fame!

The vast grasslands were free to roam, and Dante was constantly releasing evil objects to harass Gallo while releasing numerous low-ranked ghost spirits to scatter in all directions. On the one hand, these ghosts can find living things to devour their flesh and blood to feed Dante's spiritual wear and tear, on the other hand, when Dante is in danger of losing his life can quickly and distant ghosts to swap positions, so as to avoid Gallo's deadly blow.

As for the broken face of Gallo, its own strength is clearly far above Dante, is because 'short legs' to catch up with each other, which can only bite the teeth to endure each other's unbridled evil attacks.

Both sides rampaged across the vast grasslands, and wherever they passed, creatures died, all becoming 'blood food' for Dante to make up for his losses. This included a large nomadic tribe that was very unfortunate to be in the path of the two fighters.

This nomadic tribe was already large enough, with a population of thousands and hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses. Unfortunately, with Dante and his two men passing through the center of the tribe, this indigenous nomadic tribe that was famous throughout the steppe was wiped out in an instant.

Although the association had intentionally placed the battle grounds of several 3rd rank witches in some sparsely populated areas to avoid the indigenous communities being affected by the aftermath of the sorcery. However, the battle between Shattered Face Gallo and the Psychic Sorcerer Dante still caused irreparable damage to the steppe.

It must be known that a casual sword swing of the Shattered Face Gallo, the combination of violent giant power and sorcery energy would easily leave a violent sword scar that stretched for hundreds of meters on the savannah. Wherever Psychic Dante's army of ghost spirits passed, there was no human or animal left, and life was forbidden.

As for the place where the extreme power of the two 3rd level peak sorcerers collided, it would leave behind long-lasting dense energy particles, which would slowly penetrate and change the topography and the balance of elemental energy in another way.

The place where the two Level 3 Sorcerers had fought had basically become a place of extinction. Not only was life now extinct, but even for a long time after the battle, it would become a dead space where life could not set foot.

After all, not any living creature could withstand the radiation of superfluous energy particles!

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Grim was lying on his back on the stone bed, comfortably and cozily enjoying the service and treatment of the three beautiful witches, while silently collecting the battle data of that Shattered Face Gallo.

On the hundreds of strange light screens in front of him, nearly 80% of them were locked onto the Shattered Face Gallo, observing his every move from all angles and directions. As for that psychic Dante's fighting posture, it only occupied 20%, and was also pushed to the corners of the light screen, not paying attention at first glance.

And this point undoubtedly triggered Mary's doubts as well.

"I see you seem to be paying more attention to that Shatterface Gallo...are you sure he's your next opponent?"

"Of course!" Grim turned his face sideways and allowed Winryll to shove a flake of peeled Biro into his mouth, smiling as he tasted the sourness of the crisp, delicious flesh exploding in his mouth and answering carelessly.

"Why? Why do I feel like Dante is still more reliable... That shatter-faced man can't catch up to him, and he still has a whole army of ghosts sucking up his life force and spiritual energy for him, which can already be considered invincible. Once that shatter-faced man runs out of power, I'm afraid it'll be the moment for the ghost boy to take advantage of the situation and fight back!"

"The scenario you described also holds true, but only if Shatterface doesn't have the ability to force the other man to fight him head on."

"Does he?"

"Not only have I, but I have, for sure!" Grim cocked an eyebrow, "You don't think that this is all the Shatterface Gallo, who was ranked number one before the war, is capable of, do you? He can't have gotten his past fame by bullying guys with shorter legs than him!"

Hearing Grim's funny and ridiculous words, Emelia, who had been concentrating on treating him, couldn't help but giggle. Whirling around and whirling up pain with an oops, it was obvious that she was being 'disciplined' by Mary.

The Emelia at this time was already very different from the past.

After becoming a 2nd rank witch, her form had also changed drastically.

The parts above the waist still remained in human form, possessing a slender and graceful posture and lines, still looking like a great beauty. But the parts below the waist split and extended into countless thick or thin strange cane-like tentacles, able to move and coil objects at will with her heart.

She is now lying next to Grim, using her sharp nails coated with bright red cardamom juice to open up or pick apart his flesh and skin, forcing out any foreign energy or toxin residue from his flesh, muscles and bones with a sensitive, precise movement, and then neutralizing it with gentle green plant energy.

And inside a small open wooden box on her side was an assortment of small, oddly shaped metal instruments, which at a glance could be seen to be used for surgical dissection.

Emelia was holding two unusually sharp scalpels, with a dozen or so surgical instruments of various functions and shapes wrapped in vine coils beneath her, allowing her to quickly change surgical plans without having to look up or back.

If any piece of flesh is found to be completely necrotic, she will remove and clean out that portion of flesh with the smallest of wounds, and then casually throw a 'Rejuvenation' or 'Life Bloom' on the wound. Stimulating Grim's own body's resilience with plant energy, the wound would grow and heal quickly with a quick creep.

Broken ribs needed to be reset, necrotic flesh and blood needed to be removed, hidden foreign energy needed to be neutralized, latent toxins needed to be dispelled, broken organs needed to be repaired... Such complicated and trivial repair work, even with Grim's physique, with the many healing and purifying agents, it would take more than ten days to repair as good as new.

However, under the full power of Emelia, the Plant System Dana, Grim didn't even need to move a finger and quickly healed the various aftereffects from the last war.

It was only after all the work was completed that Emelia breathed a sigh of relief, used the cane to put one healing tool back into the small wooden box and put it away, straightened up and asked curiously, "My lord, you haven't answered Mary-sama's question just now? Why are you so optimistic about Shatterface Gallo?"

"Because while Shatterface Gallo's energy reserves are still above 89%, that Dante's are down to 73%..." explained Grim, smiling at the cut and open flesh of his own body, seemingly unconcerned. "I think that face-shattering Gallo is waiting for his opponent's energy reserves to drop to some sort of threshold before he just takes care of his opponent once and for all."

Emelia's heart was slightly shocked.

That Shattered Face Gallo had chased Dante for four days and nights in one breath, leaving terrifying sword scars criss-crossing almost the entire steppe. How come he still had 89% of his energy reserves? This is...this is unbelievable!

Also, how did the head of the family know so well?

But she whirled around to understand that the Lord of the House would not be able to explain too much more. After all, this involved the deepest secrets of the high ranked witches, and even those who were close to them would not easily divulge them.

The 3rd ranked witches who were able to participate in the battle of the mighty were indeed all monsters....

Emelia sighed with a helpless shake of her head.