Age of Adepts

Bloodline sorcerers and elemental sorcerers ascend in very different ways.

Elemental Shamans almost never consider physical* physical hardening, instead focusing on knowledge gathering and model building for elemental sorcery, focusing more on the affinity and harmonic frequency of magical elements and spirituality.

Elemental sorcerers' view of the flesh* body is that it is good enough.

They would also find ways to improve and adjust their bodies to a certain degree, so that it would be enough to withstand the various harsh environments of bitspace. The remaining resources were mostly allocated to mental enhancement and gentleness.

Of course, the necessary sorcery equipment, sorcery items, and the collection of sorcery models were essential as well!

Moreover, the collected knowledge of sorcery that wanted to be transformed into their own abilities, the conjecturing, purification and improvement of sorcery models, the warming and improvement of mental strength, the creation of sorcery equipment... all of these required a considerable amount of resources and time.

Therefore, time was never enough for sorcerers!

As for bloodline shamans, they paid more attention to the integration of body, soul and bloodline in their cultivation.

Finding ways to improve their physique so that they could also push to amplify the physique additions brought about by the power of their bloodline. Using special sorcery techniques to constantly purify the bloodline in order to reproduce more of the power of the bloodline's source.

These were the most common cultivation methods used by bloodline sorcerers!

More bloodline sorcerers preferred to devour the same bloodline and use the other party's bloodline power as nourishment to fuel their own bloodline power. This method was somewhat forbidden, but it could not be completely banned.

Therefore, the Bloodline Sorcerer Families supervised every individual in the community extremely closely, and also had special sorcery methods that could detect if a member of the clan had ever devoured a bloodline of the same bloodline. Once a violation was discovered, the offender would be directly executed for a lesser offense, or the bloodline talent would be withdrawn.

One of the two bottles of Giant Serpent Bloodline Reconstruction Potions that Grim had once obtained was the original blood of the Giant Serpent Sorcerer. And naturally, their sources came from those failures who were punished by the family!

Now, Grim was both a Bloodline Sorcerer and an Elemental Sorcerer, which meant that he needed to both polish and harden this body, as well as learn and master new sorcery knowledge and sorcery models. The time and resources needed to be consumed by this was naturally twice as much as that of a witch of the same rank.

Without a huge, dependable force to help him complete the collection of resources and knowledge, he might not be able to complete this basic work on his own until the end of his life.

The star beast bloodline that Grim now possessed gave him the possibility to directly devour chaotic magical energy.

According to the chip's feedback, in order to nourish the star beast bloodline, Grim would need to regularly devour some 'great tonic'. For star beasts, the so-called 'great tonic' was nothing more than chaotic energy, elemental hearts, source material, and other things like star beast blood and flesh.

And these things were either rare and hard to find or exceptionally precious, each of which were not that easy to obtain!

As for the necessary work of the elemental sorcerer, with the chip, there was no need for Grim to spend extra time to learn and become proficient in a little bit. The sorcery models were also directly input into Grim's mental consciousness after the chip finished its analysis, saving him a huge amount of time in speculation and practice.

The fact that Grim was able to advance five times faster than other elemental sorcerers had to be directly and inevitably linked to the chip's assistance.

Hearing Chip list so many rare resources in one breath, Grim couldn't help but have one head two big.

"Chip, isn't there an easier way to raise the Star Beast bloodline?"

The few things that the chip mentioned, Grim only had some rare reserves of source material and none of the rest. And these source qualities were still to be used to strengthen the soul origin and improve the comprehension of the Laws, it was impossible to use them to nourish the star beast bloodline. Therefore, Grim could only hope that the chip would be able to retrieve some 'cheap' resources that were easy to find.

"Drop, finding a viable substitute for Star Beast bloodline enhancement..."

"What is it?" Grim inquired with surprise.

"Chaotic magical energy... using the magical melting pot to communicate with the bit void, drawing unmodulated chaotic magical energy and using it in sufficient quantity to replace chaotic energy..."

"What will the effect be?" Grim couldn't help but ask in concern .

"Drop, after data calculation and deduction, the subject absorbs 4 hours of chaotic magic energy per day, and after 1 month of persistence is able to increase the quality of the star beast's bloodline by 1%, while increasing the chaotic physique by 2 or 7%..."

"Why is it so short when you only inhale for 4 hours a day? Couldn't you extend the time a bit to make the lifting frequency a bit faster?"

"Drop, although the main body has a chaotic constitution, absorbing chaotic magic energy for 4 hours straight will still cause the body to accumulate some elemental damage. So it must be stopped for a period of time so that the body can repair and absorb it on its own... 4 hours a day is the calculated optimal time to absorb it!"

So that's it!

Grim chanted for a moment, but couldn't help but ask again.

"What will happen if you absorb enough Hundred Moons to raise the quality of the Star Beast bloodline to 100%?"

"When the Star Beast bloodline quality leaps one level, the subject will gain a new bloodline talent!"

Grim sucked in a breath of cold air, finally getting a taste of the Bloodline Shaman's power for the first time.

If every improvement in the quality of one's own bloodline was accompanied by the emergence of new bloodline abilities, wouldn't the Bloodline Witch have obtained several powerful attacks out of thin air that didn't take up mental energy? It was no wonder that bloodline sorcerers rarely delved into elemental sorcery, yet they were always able to inspire all sorts of powerful sorcery that didn't require spells or gestures to guide them.

It turned out that they weren't using sorcery, but bloodline abilities!

A hundred months was only ten years, and to get a powerful bloodline ability out of nothing was an exceptional deal by any reckoning.

When he obtained the Star Beast bloodline, he had already obtained a bloodline ability called Energy Black Hole, and the chip scored it quite high. If one could get another bloodline ability ten years later, no matter what it was, it definitely wouldn't be weaker than the energy black hole for sure.

At this thought, Grim couldn't help but gently lick his dry lips and began to secretly wing it.

Ten years might be long enough for an ordinary person, but for Grim, it was nothing more than a small journey!

At least for this retreat, Grim was planning to spend more than twenty years to complete his advancement plan.

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Northland, White Tower.

Winnisha, who had dressed herself like a young human girl, was holding a stack of thick sorcery books in her hands, walking slowly through the magic gallery, smiling and nodding in greeting with many of the witches and apprentices who bumped into her along the way.

As the White Tower's little-known mechanical witch, Winnisha had also taken on the two special disciplines of 'Sources of Mechanical Sorcery' and 'Alternative Studies of Magical Energy' for the sorcerer apprentices.

Thirty consecutive years of hard work had also allowed Winnisha to teach and cultivate several qualified witches. Her personality was also extremely gentle, and her attitude was far more approachable than other sorcerers, so she was exceptionally admired and loved by most of the sorcerer apprentices.

Therefore, during their time in the White Tower, almost all the witches and apprentices ignored Winnisha's peculiar identity as a goblin princess, and treated her as a human witch entirely.

Winnisha's face, made of a special magical alloy, smiled warmly and peacefully, and remained that way until she stepped inside her own dwelling.

The 'sweet' smile on Winnisha's face disappeared as the door slowly closed behind her, and she was transformed back into a cold, emotionless metal face.

Waiting for her inside the residence were two goblin organists in the uniform of the Tyranny Blood Group.

When they saw Winnisha return, the two goblin organ warlocks hurriedly surrounded her and leaned in to whisper in her ear.

"What? You say that Grim himself summoned Tigure?"

"Yes, Your Highness, my people saw it with their own eyes. Although the Flame Throne has been closed, if you want to enter or leave the Flame Throne, you will inevitably have to pass through Song Tower City. Therefore, I had already arranged my people there. It saw with its own eyes that Lord Tigure went directly to the Flame Throne via Sonta City and then stayed there for half a day before leaving."

"Who else did that Grim summon besides Tikulle?"

"Before Tigulle, Grim also summoned Cappy specifically, but never saw it leave. And after Lord Tigulle, there was that Worm Witch Billis!"

"What the hell does this guy want? Isn't he busy absorbing that source material right now? Why do you have time to summon Cappy, Tigure and the others? If I remember correctly, it's been over twenty years since they've seen each other alone!"

"Yes. It was because I couldn't figure out the other party's intentions in summoning Lord Tigure, that my lord sent me to ask Your Highness if that plan should be suspended until we can figure out the other party's intentions?" The two goblin organ warlocks lowered their voices when they spoke of 'that plan', and also looked around with probing glances, appearing frightened and panicked.

"No, the plan cannot be stopped, it must continue to advance. I've already made arrangements on the White Tower's side, as soon as we blow up that teleportation array, the inside helpers you've arranged at Machinery City must hurry up and do it. The few resident witches that the other side has arranged there at Mechanical City can't be tossed out, except for Wind Witch Desera who is a bit difficult to deal with. You just need to block them in place and then send someone to destroy the teleportation formation there, and our plan is considered a success."

"But...but...Lord Gunga, Lord Locke, they're all still in the Witch World! Once the teleportation array is blown up, they... won't be able to return to the Goblin Plane!"

"Well, those traitors...they stopped thinking of themselves as goblins a long time ago, so why even consider them? Let them remain in the Crimson Family to suffer the wrath of the other!"

In the hundred years that the witches had ruled and enslaved them, a total of these powerful figures had emerged from the goblin camp, and to abandon them in the wizarding world for nothing was a heartbreaking experience for all the goblins.

However, as Your Highness had said, they no longer considered themselves to be goblins, and if they were rashly dragged into the plan, it was likely that the great plan they had been planning for decades would be exposed.

At that thought, the two Goblin Mechanics looked at each other and could only sigh helplessly.