Age of Adepts

With Grim bearing down on them, the efficiency of the witch squad had definitely increased a lot.

It took three quarters of an hour before that plant-based sorcerer carefully finished collecting all of the Ithra seeds in the cavern.

That male witch captain immediately informed Grim of the information.

Grim nodded silently and said indifferently, "Let them all gather here, we'll go straight back!"

"Yes, my lord!"

At the signal of the male witch captain, the remaining wizards gathered around Grim in an apprehensive mood.

Before they could understand Grim's intention of having them over, countless firefly-like dazzling fire elements began to gather in the periphery of the crowd, then quickly condensed into a huge flame witch formation. Flames dazzled within the witching formation, but the temperature could not be felt in the slightest as it curled around their bodies.

Just as the crowd was inexplicably surprised, the surrounding light and shadow suddenly shook violently, also making their hearts and minds like falling into a bottomless abyss, turning the heavens and earth upside down simply unable to distinguish southeast and northwest.

The good news was that this inexplicable dizziness was not for long.

Two or three flexes later, with the silent collapse of the Flame Witch Formation, several of the witches couldn't help but hold their foreheads and shake with dry heaves. It was only after the two 3rd stage witches had recovered faster that they quickly suppressed their squirming stomachs and spinning hearts, and were horrified to find that in just a few moments, the 4th stage fire witch had moved to the front of the 5th teleportation array.

The Silver Alliance Puppet Master who was guarding the teleportation array was raising his head and examining the group of guys who had suddenly teleported in front of him with astonished eyes.

When his gaze fell on the imposing young fire witch in the center of the witch squad, the astonishment on his face was finally replaced with a smile.

"So you've run off to rescue these juniors of the Martin family, I say why come and go in a hurry! You're probably Grim, the newly promoted legendary fire wizard of Sandi Talin? It's just like the legend, young enough and tasty enough..."

"I'll be on guard duty here for the next six months, I can't leave, if I'm free in six months, why don't I come and talk to the Witch Tower of the Silver Alliance us? I've heard that the magic weapons you make are exquisitely shaped and incredibly powerful, perhaps we can exchange ideas on this more..."

"Your Excellency is?" Grim asked hesitantly.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Douglas, and I am employed in the position of a magician. You and you can have quite a bit in common in that regard!"

By the time they reached the 4th level, most of the past Sorcerers who had relied on luck, family, and resources had been eliminated. Therefore, every 4th ranked wizard who was standing in front of others was almost always a terrifying guy who possessed all kinds of strange methods and terrifying abilities.

Therefore, facing the 'hand of friendship' offered by a 4th stage wizard, Grim naturally wouldn't refuse.

After a few simple courtesies, Grim stepped into the teleportation array with a few sorcerers.

After two teleportation relays, the group soon returned to the Witch Tower.

After entering the Tower, several witches took their leave of Grim and rushed back to report to Lord Martin. Grim also went straight back to his residence.

As for the share of resources that Martin had promised him, it would definitely be delivered to him afterwards in no small part.

In this regard, no wizard would risk damaging his reputation by taking this advantage.

After returning to his residence, Grim went straight to the alchemy lab and took out the magic storage box that stored the Starman's arm.

The magic storage box had various witch formations etched on it, which could seal off and isolate the flow of most of the magic power, and could also ensure that the magic power on the collected witchcraft materials would not be lost over time. But in order to ensure freshness, Grim felt that it was better to parse the secrets inside the parasitic organ as soon as possible.

On the black marble-like flat and polished lab bench, Grim carefully placed the Starman's halved arm on it, then dimmed the intensity of the illumination stone and began to use the chip's depth scanning ability to parse the secrets within.

In the depths of Grim's black pupils, a blue mane continued to flicker, transmitting various special spectral lines of astonishingly high frequency. In the midst of these lines, the skin of Starman's arm gradually became transparent and began to reveal the flesh, tendons and bones beneath.

Grim pressed it with his hand, the other's skin was tough and rough, and seemed to have a special protective layer on the surface. As his mind moved, his fingertips also bared a small orange flame, while the skin that was in contact with his fingertips remained indigo, without the slightest hint of being ignited or scorched.

Grim gave a soft snort, and the element of fire condensed in the small flame at his fingertips grew thicker.

The orange flame quickly became a reddish red, and the energy level instantly increased from 70 degrees to 200 degrees.

But unfortunately, that skin remained unchanged.

Grim didn't give up, and the fire element still continued to coalesce.

The small flame began to slowly gather, not as big as before, but the energy level within had quickly climbed from 200 degrees to 300 degrees, and the color had also changed from crimson to somewhat white.

Only at this point did the skin of that 3rd Order Star Citizen change a bit, and a bit of charred blackness appeared on the parts that came in contact with the fire.

Grim finally couldn't help but nod his head and sigh lightly.

No wonder the Witch Squad looked so hard pressed when fighting these stray starfolk.

Don't look at those guys' crudely equipped nearly naked bodies, but their sinewy skin was already enough to be worthy of a quality Tier 2 possessed armor.

With that kind of magic resistance, the damage those 2nd rank witches' elemental sorcery brought to them was almost minimal. Only Alchemy Sorcerers and Bloodline Sorcerers who had fused their powerful battle power with physical attacks could pose a threat to them.

Of course, a magic-resistant skin like that of a Star Realm Hobo was actually only the last among all Starsea creatures. If they didn't even have this kind of magic resistance, how could they wander around and seek out the depths of the Star Sea where magic tides were everywhere!

After examining the skin, Grim cut open the top layer of skin vigorously with a small silver knife enchanted with the three sorcery effects of 'Sharp', 'Armor Breaker' and 'Sturdy', and began to examine the skin The flesh and blood and tendons inside.

As expected, although these starfolk somewhat resembled the apes of the Bit World in appearance, all the substrates inside their bodies were already completely different from flesh and blood creatures.

Their flesh and blood was coarse and hard, one huge particle visible to the naked eye. If it hadn't been certain that these were the flesh and blood of Starfolk, Grim would have thought that their bodies were stuffed with pitch-black colored coals and slag.

The scalpel cut into these 'flesh and blood' with a tooth-cracking, creaking noise, as if it was cutting through a solid rock. No, with the sharpness of this scalpel in Grim's hand, even if it really was cutting through rock or steel, it shouldn't be this arduous.

This was also a strong indication that these 'flesh and blood substrates' in the Star Citizen's body likely originated from the depths of the Star Ocean.

They would devour whatever they found, even if it was metal ores left over from the disintegration of the bit plane, they would be able to gnaw on it with great relish. Most of the essential ingredients in it were absorbed by them and transformed into this intimidatingly exotic flesh and blood.

With them, I'm afraid the physical resistance of the Starfolk would have to be incredibly high as well!

As expected, the species that could hang out in a place like the depths of the Star Ocean didn't have a weakling.

According to this terrifying ability of theirs, if a sorcerer encountered a star citizen of the same rank, the probability of being able to fight and win was less than 40%.

After examining the skin, tendons and bones, Grim painstakingly sliced through layers of flesh and blood to finally reveal that parasitic organ located at the starman's wrist.

Losing the protection of the anti-magic skin and the strange flesh and blood matrix, the internal structure of the parasitic organ was also finally presented without any reservations in Grim's mind.

Seriously speaking, this should be a special body organ that Star Realm Hobbits had evolved after adapting to the Star Ocean environment. It was like a layer-wrapped fibrous flesh and blood tissue that held a pale blue strange crystal in place.

The ability for Starman to inspire that ultra-tearing light blade was rooted in this pale blue crystal.

The pale blue crystal was not an energy organ, but more like some kind of alienated flesh and blood tissue that focused and amplified mental energy.

Grim carefully severed the dozens of tendons that were tightly wrapped around the surface of the pale blue crystal, which was only gently picked out with his scalpel.

"Chip, what's this?"

Grim's pupils radiated a thousand different colored energy spectrums that radically hit the pale blue crystal, and it took a full half a quarter of an hour before they slowly converged.

"Drops, one Unknown Focus crystal found... Crystal's own sturdiness: 310 degrees, magnification factor: 1, 72 times, energy cohesion form: unknown, energy cohesion spectrum: no attribute, incidental elemental effect: none.... "

Spotlight crystals? Amplification factor?

Is this crystal capable of amplifying the intensity of voodoo energy?

With deep confusion, Grim began to squeeze the pale blue crystal in his hand and continuously infuse it with flame energy.

As the condensed fire element exceeded a threshold, a small flame emerged once again with a soft poof sound.

Grim gazed at the small flames beating on the surface of the pale blue crystal, his mind filled with confusion.

The data projected by the chip in his mind showed very clearly that the flame energy imbibed in the small flame was almost identical to the energy he was outputting, and there was no amplification effect at all.

Could it be that there was a problem with the chip's detection?

Grim's heart was slightly moved, and couldn't help but slowly inject a portion of his mental energy into it while outputting flame energy .

There was a puffing explosion, like a bonfire suddenly doused with gasoline, and the small flame Ug soared into a human head-sized witchcraft fireball, suspended before Grim's eyes and rotating slowly....

Spirituality...it amplifies it!