Age of Adepts

Relying on the constant stream of flame creatures to defend against the invasion of the Shadow Legion, Grim was finally able to free his hands to take care of the two 'nasty' and 'cowardly' rank 4 Phantoms.

As rank 4 creatures, the two of them did not have the grace and demeanor of a strong man in the slightest, turtling behind the rank 3 Shadow Warriors, attacking the Light Corps with their Shadow Arrows one by one, tearing a gap into the interior of the Light Corps for the lower rank Shadow creatures.

On the other hand, they themselves never dared to take half a step near the light cluster!

But they still underestimated Grim's tactics if they thought they would be safe by hiding away. After all, the Legendary Fire Witch was known for the ferocity of its elemental attacks!

Grim stood frozen within the fireball, sneering hehehe, and the golden flames within his body began to gather wildly.

At this time, it was as if half a meter long golden flames were emanating from his burning eyes, and his long black hair was spread out behind him, on which there was a ball of strange flames rolling and jumping. And his entire body was rolled and wrapped within the violent and ferocious flames, constantly spreading out an astonishing amount of light and heat at all times.

"With my rage as power, blazing light!"

Roaring out a flame sorcery initiation spell loudly, the eyes that were already blazing with flames suddenly lit up with two dazzling and terrifying red manes, then converged into two terrifying fiery lights that cut through the long sky and pierced through the army formation formed by the shadow creatures, landing distantly on the body of one of the 4th stage phantoms.

Ah....

A miserable howl that tore through the clouds.

The 4th rank phantom's body was overflowing with a thick and substantial death freezing gas, desperately blocking the penetration of the blazing light before fleeing frantically to the surrounding area.

Unfortunately, no matter how fast it fled, how could it be faster than Grim's gaze lock!

Grim stood as a mountain, resembling a mighty Vulcan, a pair of eyes that were radiant with crimson light slightly adjusting their angle and direction as the phantom fled. No matter how the other party fled, the two fiery lights were firmly locked onto its body.

The death freezing gas and crimson light spewing out from the 4th stage phantom's body were constantly interacting, devouring and annihilating each other madly. But from the scene, it was clear that the intensity of the red light emanating from Grim's eyes was superior, devouring and annihilating the death freezing gas while also etching the Phantom's body, getting closer and closer to the dark core inside the opponent's half-solid, half-hollow body.

The dark core was the place where the soul consciousness of a creature like the Phantom resided.

Once this place was destroyed, even if the Phantom level was as high as 4th, it would be extremely difficult for the Phantom to survive!

So that 4th stage phantom was scared out of his wits and was almost playing around.

Shadow Jump, Shadow Travel, Dark Substitution, Shadow Splitting... a series of darkness-based spells were all cast, either by suddenly flickering to another area, or swapping places with some shadow creature, or splitting into dozens of bilocations that looked exactly like it... ...

However, no matter how it played with its tricks, the two fiery lights were like a lock on it, always falling inch by inch on its body.

The Death Freezing Qi was actually its body, and the Dark Core was where its soul was.

When the jelly of death was melted, the Shadow's body began to shrink, until the overflowing jelly of death could no longer wrap around the dark core of black jelly.

The moment the light of the blazing flame hit the core, the 4th stage Phantom stopped fleeing, and its entire body began to twist and distort, transforming into the shapes of countless creatures it had once devoured. Finally, with a crisp glass explosion, two small holes were drilled out of the Dark Core, and countless pale and miserable soul shadows escaped from it, flying around the Phantom in the sky, before dissipating into the air one after another.

"Target creature is dead, requesting to unlock!" The chip's beep sounded in the back of his mind.

"Unlocked!"

"Yes!"

It would have been nearly impossible for Grim to consistently lock onto a 4th stage Phantom who possessed many displacement abilities from a distance of a kilometer or two by himself. But now with the aid of the chip, he would be able to inch away and use the golden flame to burn a 4th stage Phantom alive.

And this great display of his power had undoubtedly deterred all of his enemies.

The remaining rank 4 phantom was so frightened that he never dared to come any closer to the blazing flames, screaming miserably and fleeing into the depths of darkness in the distance.

A rank 4 creature... that was a rank 4 creature!

Although a 4th stage creature couldn't be equal to a true 4th stage sorcerer, it was still a 4th stage creature after all. Even in a one-on-one fight, most 4th rank sorcerers might be able to suppress and defeat a 4th rank creature, but it would be extremely difficult to kill them.

After all, the base strength of a 4th order creature was there for all to see!

Although they were nowhere near as popular as a 4th rank witch in terms of knowledge, use and sorcery equipment, they were no less than a 4th rank witch when it came to various terrifying supernatural means.

Yet now, a terrifying rank 4 Phantom was actually burned alive by that legendary fire witch without being able to use most of his own powers. This... this was too unimaginable!

But then, that legendary fire witch's terrifying methods also made all the high-ranking shadow creatures in the arena become dangerous. They stared at the dazzling, blindingly large mass of light in awe, but they couldn't see a single bit of it.

For no reason at all, the attacks of all the higher-ranked shadow creatures weakened by a few points, trying their best to make their performance not so dazzling.

Unfortunately, no matter how much they tried to hide and disguise themselves, a terrifying blazing light was still emitted from within the giant light cluster, burning seven or eight 3rd-ranked Shadow Warriors into a cloud of ashes one after another.

This kind of behavior also made the 4th stage dark witch Shani, who was sitting behind the curtain, see her liver flames and heart broken.

It must be known that cultivating a high-ranked shadow creature was not as difficult as cultivating a high-ranked witch, but the resources and various rare materials consumed were astonishing. Every single one of the high-ranked shadow creatures that that legendary fire witch had slaughtered with impunity was an elite subordinate that the dark witch line had spent a great deal of effort and resources to cultivate.

Now, they were all still in this alien plane for nothing, yet they did not bring any intuitive, objective bit gains within the family. This... this was simply an unforgivably huge waste!

If Shani were the leader of the Dark Witch line, such an extravagant squandering of the family fortune wouldn't have sparked too many accusations. But now she wasn't.

At best, she was just a high-ranking witch sent out by the Dark Sorceress lineage on a cross-dimensional hunting mission. The leader had only authorized her to use some of the power of the Origin Gauntlet and to call upon the family's private armies on a limited basis.

But it didn't include a major loss of the private armies!

Looking at a head of high-grade shadows turning to ash under the crimson light, Shani could almost imagine the horrific scene of herself being besieged and criticized by many family elders at the next family meeting.

Those bastards would definitely make themselves make up for this 'transgression' with their personal resources!

It's...simply a certainty!

The bleeding-hearted Shani no longer had the heart to sit at the rear, and hurriedly summoned the only remaining 4th-rank Phantom to her side, acting as a towing force for the Origin Gauntlet instead. She, on the other hand, was swept up in a huge wave of darkness and drove menacingly to the war front.

That dark witch Shani had finally shown up!

Grim, who was standing within the fireball, finally had a smile on his face and began to quickly adjust his state.

One fireball, one black ball, two powerful sorcerers with distinct power attributes faced each other across the sky, their gazes firmly locked on each other.

"Drops, have initially locked on to the target location..."

"The target creature's power attribute is Darkness, and it possesses a variety of short-range displacement methods such as Shadow Travel and Shadow Jump. The probability of consistently locking onto the opponent's position in shadow-like field space is less than 23%..."

"Dynamic trajectory blur algorithm is now online, locking ability increased to 46%..."

"Elemental visual aids are online, lockdown ability increased to 62%..."

"Spatial node distribution has been scanned, lockdown capability increased to 71%..."

"Remind the subject that the number is already the optimal result of the current ability. Unless the subject is able to break the Class Shadow Realm, the Sustained Lockdown ability will always be affected by external factors!"

71%....is enough!

Grim's gaze flickered slightly.

One had to know that he was currently fighting against a 4th ranked mid-level dark witch who had advanced several hundred years. It was already an extremely unbelievable situation for the chip to be able to increase its locking ability to 71% within the Class Shadow Realm that the opponent had deliberately placed.

When two rank 4 witches fought, whether or not they could actually cast their sorcery power on each other was the key to their final victory.

Due to the presence of protective force fields, displacement sorcery, defensive sorcery, and environmental factors, it was almost impossible to continuously lock onto the other party's position and smash all of their sorcery power all over the other party without a single drop.

Not being able to lock on to your opponent meant that there was a fairly high chance that the sorcery you had inspired would come up empty, thus wasting valuable sorcery power as well as the opportunity to attack. This was the most unforgivable!

And with the assistance of the chip, Grim's sustained position lock on that Dark Witch Shani was as high as 71%, which was a terrifying number. On the flip side, if that Dark Witch wanted to lock on to Grim, I'm afraid that her chances of success were less than 30%.

The addition of battle power brought about by this inverse and positive would be unimaginable to an outsider!

"It's a pity that you Dark Witches have chosen to be hostile to me after all... Then I'll give you this chance today to see if it's you or me who will die!" Grim sneered heedlessly, his huge voice that sounded as if Thor had descended into the world trembled throughout the Class Shadow Realm.

On the other hand, that Shani who was standing in a huge black shadow was sneering grimly.

"It's not up to you to decide how we, the Dark Witch line, choose. Today, you'll stay forever for me!"

With Shani's harsh words that were like a declaration of war, the dark forces within the entire Class Shadow Realm suddenly activated and pounced on the Grim who was standing in the golden flames from all directions in a mad rush.

The real battle had finally begun!