Age of Adepts

It had been three days since Grim had returned to the Flame Throne.

Just as that Freed Chairman had said, carrying around 500 Sith Source Material with him was really not a good idea for him to be running around.

In the middle of the entire continent, the number of witches who had spent hundreds of years still trapped in the 3rd rank was not small. There were many who were willing to take the risk when they knew that Grim had in his hands the source material that could change their fate.

Although Grim was backed by the Scattered Tallinn Association, it still couldn't stop the witches from going nearly insane in order to advance to the next level. In the meantime, even the Crimson Family had to become cautious, with several core members within the family living in shallow depths and never taking a step out of the Tower without a problem.

In order to avoid being held hostage by the crazy ones and thus threatening the family head!

And Grim would be forced to consume the source material earlier, advance to the 4th level, and break the thoughts of those crazy and greedy guys, otherwise, the Crimson Family would never have peace either.

Therefore, as soon as Grim returned to the Flame Throne, he locked himself inside the top level chamber, isolating himself from all contact with the outside world.

Inside the chamber, Grim sat cross-legged with five blood-colored crystals floating in front of him.

The crystals were the purest, attributeless diamonds in texture, and there was a strange blood energy floating within them.

When Grim saw this blood energy for the first time, whether it was the Infernal Heart beating inside his chest or the soul source deep within his consciousness, he swallowed for no reason, and then a voice gushed out from his limbs, every cell in his body, and every piece of flesh and blood.

Swallow it....

This sound was very subtle and chaotic at first, but as Grim gazed at the blood energy for a long time, it gradually gathered into a terrifying torrent that rushed and roared wildly through his body....

And while he was unaware of anything, his right hand actually trembled and extended out, slowly grasping at the blood crystal.

It wasn't until the outstretched right hand blocked his view that Grim was shocked to realize his disposition, and then with great perseverance, he rigidly took it back.

It was such a simple action that made Grim, who was at the peak of the 3rd rank, sweat profusely. And only then did Grim's mental inward vision realize that the warning prompt from the chip in his mind had filled the entire space.

"Drip, warning, warning... Perceiving high energy mass crystals, please instruct subject whether to start absorbing?"

"Drop, strange force field fluctuations detected... Attributes unknown, source unknown, effects unknown..."

"Drops, subject mental confusion detected, please instruct whether to perform mental intervention?"

........

A series of warnings all in red and blinding blood, but unfortunately at that moment just now, Grim's entire mind was absorbed by the blood energy, literally deaf and blind to it. After retrieving his mind at this moment and quickly recalling it, Grim couldn't help but sweat coldly on his back as well.

That kind of blood energy was probably the source mass!

According to the sorcerer, they were actually a portion of the Origin of the Plane that was dispersed within the Plane, and could be said to be the 'blood' that supported the development of a Plane to nurture the growth of new life and new matter. In most cases, they were dispersed within the bit surface, and flowed with the operation of the bit surface system.

It was only when the system was destroyed and the power of the rules scattered that the origin of these bits could manifest, becoming a strange creation between the solid and the virtual body. These bit sources that were captured and absorbed into the high purity, attributeless diamond crystals were the source material that was passed down orally by the witches.

Of course, even if you don't capture these bit sources, they will naturally combine with some bit matter, resulting in the birth of some 'contaminated' source matter.

The greatest value of these source substances is the portion of the bitmain law fragments that are imbibed within them.

Once any life form had absorbed the source matter, it was possible for them to comprehend some of the bit surface laws, and this would undoubtedly be a great arm for them to comprehend the world's underlying rules.

The rules of the world and the laws of the bits were never hidden outside the perceptions of the bite-beings that operated silently. Without the help of such a visible law fragment, those who are less talented or have less affinity with the world would never have a chance to touch the reality of the world.

According to the laws of the world, it was impossible for a powerful individual to be born from within the plane that transcended the rules of the plane and the world. However, in the actual operation of any system, there would be mistakes, big or small, and when these mistakes could not be corrected, terrible existences such as witches, gods, or calamity lords would appear.

And now the reason why the Sorcerer World was able to give birth to so many high-ranking Sorcerers and Great Sorcerers had to be related to their opportunistic and ingenious use of source material to cross the rule threshold!

The source of these source qualities, however, is unquestioned and must come from those hostile planes or those they have forcibly enslaved and conquered.

The many powerful sorcerers of the wizarding world have stepped out of their bits and conquered and enslaved countless bits.

Only the resourceful ones are preserved, providing free slaves and inexhaustible resources to the sorcerers. As for those resource-poor or overly rebellious bits, they would be selectively destroyed, thus artificially concocting source qualities.

Such practices flourished during the Wizarding World's infancy, but to avoid attracting the attention of the Titan, the guardian of the multiverse order, the Wizards' destruction of planes and usurpation of source material has been curtailed over the years.

Unfortunately, just like the Calamity Lords, Abyssal Demons, and Heart Snatchers, Sorcerers have been classified as evil by many worlds, and have become objects of their hatred and despise.

The witches also belonged to a chaotic and evil race by nature.

It was said that in the extra-territorial world, the witch community was divided into multiple camps. There were those who helped the Calamity Lords to make waves and wreak havoc on the great planes; there were those who helped the Titans to fight against the Calamity Lords and the Abyssal Demons; however, there were even more who remained neutral and lived a reclusive and pleasant life of research and study in the secret space they had opened up....

It was due to the convergence of the witch camps that such strange creations like source material became rarer and rarer, and became a sought-after commodity within the witch community.

Normally, it would only be turnover traded in the hands of great sorcerers of 4th level or higher.

Only those 4th rank witches who were friends with the great witches or were direct bloodline descendants would be able to obtain a star of the source material resource. Therefore, even among the private treasuries of those 4th ranked witches, the source material was definitely a top ranked resource, and it was impossible to trade it in equal measure.

Therefore, if it wasn't to avoid being chosen to carry out the 'certain death' mission, how could these fourteen 4th ranked witches of the Scattered Earth Tallinn Association be willing to open their treasure trove and put together this 500 sith of source material!

"Chip, search for a way to use the source material!"

"Drops, a total of 12,682 items and information related to the source material were retrieved from the database... After sifting and filtering, 961 pieces of data information matching the subject's current equivalency were found... The information is listed below..."

As a waterfall of data and information flooded into Grim's mind, he closed his eyes and quickly parsed the information that had been sorted and summarized by the chip, eventually coming to some conclusions.

The source material could be used in three broad ways.

The first one would naturally be to swallow it in one bite and then, like a stroke of luck, expect to be able to parse out some useful information about the Laws.

This was the way most sorcerers would go!

The second type, on the other hand, uses some sort of sorcery to seal the source substance within itself, and then with deep meditation, allows it to slowly merge into the body organ. In this way, it would be possible to strengthen a special organ that was completely compatible with one's origin attribute.

As for the third, it was similar to the second way, except that instead of a body organ, the one chosen to be integrated was a specially selected powerful witchcraft. In this way, the assimilated sorcery would not only be able to fit in with one's soul origin, but also imbibe a hint of strange rule attributes.

Grim had reason to suspect that the magic sword in that Shattered Face Gallo's hand was most likely to have acquired its rule attributes this way.

And in order to do some of this, Grim had to prioritize transforming his bloodline talent. Only with a strong bloodline talent, the rule power brought by the source quality could be maximized.

Having figured all this out, Grim didn't hesitate to put away the 5 source qualities again, and then took out a dark blue crystal from his storage ring and ruthlessly inserted it into his chest.

The dark blue crystal was roughly the size of a palm, diamond-shaped, and condensed with a drop of a viscous and intensely energetic glowing liquid inside.

With a soft clicking sound, dense cracks appeared on the surface of the crystal. The wound on Grim's chest not only didn't shed half a hint of blood, but the surrounding muscles continuously squirmed and contracted, and Man gave birth to bright red flesh buds that completely enveloped the entire crystal.

These fast-growing flesh buds were like small snakes wriggling frantically, poking their tips into the cracks of the crystal, producing countless thin, sharp fleshy whiskers that slowly extended towards the drop of liquid.

The moment the fleshy whiskers pierced into that drop of liquid, Grim's body shook, and he finally tumbled to the ground uncontrollably, roaring and shrieking in pain.

Inside the chamber, apart from Grim's beastly shrieks and roars, only the creepy and strange sound of sucking was left!

Anyone's bloodline talent is innate, almost throughout every aspect of the flesh * body to spirit, and then to the soul, can be said to be a major basic attribute of human beings, difficult to modulate and transform.

But after more than a hundred thousand years of groping and research, the crazy witches had in the end researched various means and techniques to transform and replace their own original bloodline. And this, in turn, became a means and way for the witches to strengthen their battle power and broaden their path forward!

However, no matter how much they improved and strengthened it, a terrifying technique like bloodline replacement could only end up in the hands of a very few witches.

After all, the terrifying backlash and intense pain of the bloodline replacement process was not something ordinary people could easily endure!