Age of Adepts

The Focus Crystal amplification was surprisingly mental....

This was a bit unexpected, but it also made Grim ecstatic.

After advancing to the 4th level, the threshold that shackled his mental strength ceiling had been raised to 49 points. At least for nearly a thousand years, he didn't have to worry about his mental strength not being able to improve.

However, corresponding to this, the speed at which the spirit power could be raised was tortoise speed!

Even with the aid of the chip, after several years of arduous meditation, the spiritual power raised was not even 0 or 1 point. In the foreseeable future, if Grim wanted to get rid of the 4th stage beginner stage, he might not be able to do it at all without 200-300 years of effort.

It was only at this point that he had fully realized why those 4th stage sorcerers of Scattered Earth Tallinn were still several sadly stuck at the beginner stage after so many years. Either their potential had been exhausted, or the meditation technique had lost its effect, or else they would never have allowed this situation to exist for a long time!

Thus, in a situation where the progress of mental power was slow, if one could use an external object to amplify the effects of every point of mental power. Then... wouldn't that be a form of strengthening in disguise as well?

Upon realizing this, Grim immediately set to work on the Focusing Crystal.

First of all, it wasn't a natural creation, but a biological crystal that had been naturally nurtured by the Starfolk during their millions of years of wandering evolution. This meant that Focusing Crystals could only be harvested from Starfolk, and could not be found in the outside world.

Secondly, each Focusing Crystal has its own amplification frequency and spectrum.

In other words, the Focusing Crystal that Grim captured had its upper threshold when it came to amplifying mental energy.

It was taken from the body of a 3rd rank beginner Star Citizen, so the limit of the mental power it could amplify was 3rd rank beginner. If you use this crystal with Grim's 4th level mental energy, there is no problem in limiting the power to below 3rd level. Once the injected mental energy exceeded the crystal's carrying limit, it would instantly disintegrate and shatter.

So, if Grim really wanted the Focusing Crystal to help him, he would need to do everything he could to hunt down those 4th rank starfolk, and the higher the rank of the starfolk he hunted, the better.

And that was obviously difficult to do!

Since discovering the function and limitations of the Focusing Crystal, Grim's mood was like riding a roller coaster, with constant ups and downs, ups and downs, first ecstatic, then disappointed, and then a little unhappy....

Could this Focus Crystal only be used on those 3rd level witches?

With a heart full of reluctance, Grim gave orders directly to Chip.

"Chip, search for ways and means to strengthen this crystal... Also, search for any other wizards who have found a special use for this focus crystal?"

"Drip, mission established, data retrieval underway..."

"Drops, the amplifying effect of Focusing Crystals on mental energy has long been recorded in witchcraft books. However, according to the records, wizards cannot directly apply this ability..."

"Why?"

"Because Focusing Crystals are biological crystals that have solidified their host's mental wavelengths and frequencies in the process of growth and conception, other creatures would not be able to apply them directly even if they got them..."

"You mean, I was able to succeed last time because you changed my mental band and frequency to overlap with the inherent frequency of the crystal?"

"Yes!"

Grim couldn't help but chant.

It was no wonder that the witches who were more careful about protecting their anti-magic skin while harvesting the starfolk's bodies didn't care much about the focus crystals. After all, not every sorcerer could adjust and change their mental frequencies at will, like Grim, with the aid of a chip.

In that case, if you put out the word to collect these crystals, you might actually have a chance to exchange them for one or two Focusing Crystals that fit your own use from those Sorcerer Powers.

Just because you couldn't hunt those 4th rank Star People doesn't mean that those great sorcerers couldn't do it.

The Focus Crystals were useless in their hands anyway, so if they could trade them for some useful resources, I'm sure they would be happy to do so.

However, if such news was released, it would easily cause some unnecessary trouble.

Those Sorcerer Powers weren't stupid, and if they found that they couldn't wait to collect the Poly Energy Crystals, they would naturally associate themselves with having the means to be able to use them. At that time, if some great sorcerers came to their door, I'm afraid I would be in big trouble!

Thinking of this, Grim hesitated and contacted the Martin sorcerer with faith.

A moment later, the sorcery message was answered.

"Grim, your copy has been sorted out, I'm sending it to you now..."

"No rush yet, Martin. You can have my share, but I'd like you to post a requisition for me."

"A requisition for what?"

"Seeking for one of those light blue crystals in a 4th rank Star Citizen's body, the higher the quality the better!"

"Hey, you've noticed the strange effects of that crystal, too! I'm telling you, that kind of thing is only for the Starfolk, and we witches can't use it even if we bring it. You're purely wasting resources collecting them..."

"Do me a favor! I always feel like there's some secret in them, and I need a higher ranked one for an experiment."

"Fine is fine, but they are still a 4th rank item even though they don't fit the use of a wizard. Therefore, the price you need to pay is not small. Furthermore, I'm afraid that only those great sorcerers have the 4th-rank crystals, and if you acquire them with magic crystals, they won't even look at you. In Camp Esoda, most of the items of rank 4 and above can be bartered... If you can't take the items they are interested in, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to acquire rank 4 crystals!"

Tier 4 items...and also things that would be of interest to the great wizards!

Grim pondered slowly and finally spoke up.

"I still have the skeleton of an exotic 4th rank Paladin preserved intact here..."

"A 4th rank Knight Skeleton? That wouldn't be worth much, at least in the eyes of the Grand Wizards. The Grand Wizards hunt more 4th rank creatures, and if that Paladin of yours is alive, maybe the Grand Wizards will be a little interested, if it's just a wreck, hehe..."

"I've got some strong magic essence in my hand!"

"A Strong Effect Magic Essence is only a Tier 3 item..."

"The materials they use are somewhat special, and after taking a certain amount, they can give ordinary people the ability to have elemental affinity..."

"What? How is that possible? Has the effect been proven?"

"Indeed undoubtedly!"

"........"

As if the news was a bit shocking, it took a long time for the message to come back from Martin's wizard side.

"Grim, I've put this message out to you, and there is a great wizard who wants to speak with you right now. I..." before Martin could finish his words, his witchcraft message was cut off by another strange voice.

By the sound of the voice, it appeared to be the same Saints wizard.

"Little one, why did I hear Martin say that you have something strange in your hand? Can those potent magic spirits really grant ordinary people magical powers?"

"Yes, Lord Saints. The means I used to refine this batch of potent magic essence is a bit different from other witches, so it possesses a bit of a different effect. If it's an ordinary person, taking 50 grams a day for 10 consecutive days will give it the ability to gain elemental affinity."

"Good... good... good... great... "On the other end of the sorcery message, the Cynthian wizard had apparently become a little incoherent with delight: "Say, how do you trade this potent magical essence of yours? I'll pay five million magic essence, that's a fair price, right?"

"Uh... Lord Saints, I'd actually prefer to use them to acquire a suitable Star Citizen crystal!"

"What are you collecting all that stuff for? There have been many wizards who have tried, and those crystals have been completely solidified by the Star People, so the wizards can't use them except for themselves..."

"I want to study how it changes and see if I can grow some focus crystals artificially."

"Well, I don't care what you want to use them for. Get those potent magic goblins ready for me, I'll be right there. I know exactly who has that Focusing Crystal in the hands of those old guys in Esoda's camp. If I find out after the exchange that those magic spirits don't have the effects you say they have, boy, you're in big trouble..."

It was only after the Grand Wizard of Cyrene had snapped the sorcerous connection that Martin's voice entered Grim's ears again.

"Congratulations, Grim. You've found a good buyer for your goods this time!"

"Why is that Lord Saints so desperate to obtain these potent magic spirits? Murphy..."

"Hehe, that's a no-brainer. It's been 1,300 years since Lord Saints left the Wizarding World, and the bloodline he once left behind in the Scattered Earth Tallinn is even more decayed. Although with the Scattered Tallinn Association looking after him, his bloodline descendants aren't going to break their heritage, but there hasn't been another wizard from his bloodline descendants in the past 300 years."

"According to this trend, if no wizard is born for another hundred years, the identity of this wizard family will be abolished, thus relegated to a mere worldly dignitary. Lord Saints has resources and magic crystals in his hands, but Naylor can't even find an apprentice sorcerer in the family, do you think he's in a hurry?"

Grim couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.

This was actually the truth of the many wizarding families that rose and fell in the Wizarding World!

Although there was a great sorcerer 'Old Ancestor' taking care of the family outside the domain, the family's development in all aspects would not be too bad. But the continuation of the family bloodline would degrade from generation to generation with the passage of time until it turned back into an ordinary family again.

This weakening and degradation of the bloodline was also an unsolvable problem!

After all, a witch's fertility rate was rapidly decreasing as the ranks increased.

Whether male or female shamans, too much life energy was very detrimental to the conception of offspring.

If one side was too weak, the terrifying radiation from the other side's life essence would be enough to kill any unqualified fertilized eggs. If both sides are strong, the life essence itself inherits the strength of their own bodies and can easily treat the other side's life matter as an enemy, and thus engage in a deadly struggle for control of life.

And these instincts, apparently, are not controlled by the sorcerer himself!

So, the witches had to breed offspring more than anything else... extraordinary luck!