Age of Adepts

Seeing the Holly Sorcerer who suddenly entered, Grim's eyebrows shifted, and not only did his face not show the slightest sign of ending, but a heartfelt laugh sprang up.

The tall astral construct that the Holly Witch had transformed into roared and pounced on Grim as quickly as lightning, propelled by the several starlight behind him. The Shani witch, on the other hand, took a step back, stretched out her hand and began to prepare some large dark sorcery with a series of strokes in the void.

However, halfway out of the box, the Holly Witch suddenly turned in the air and pounded Shani's chest with an iron fist wrapped in a dazzling starlight.

Such a sudden change took one by surprise!

The ghastly and fierce smile on the face of the Shani Witch hadn't subsided before it was instantly replaced with a horrified expression.

In normal times, a dark witch like her, who was primarily agile and spiritual, would have little chance of being attacked by a sneak attack. No one's close-quarters sneak attack could be faster or more stealthy than the shadow leaps she readily made!

Right now, however, she was preparing a large dark sorcery with all her might, and couldn't just let go of it. Moreover, all the shadow matter in the entire hall was absorbed by the Shadow Jewel, and she was unable to dodge the attack even if she tried to use her Shadow Jump to dodge it.

As a result, the Shani Witch was simply going crazy at this moment.

She forcibly aborted her dark sorcery, not caring to quell the backlash triggered by the dark power in her body, with her super-high agility, she barely drew herself up, letting go of her chest, and was fiercely hit on her abdomen by the iron fist that swung at her.

The violent and fierce giant force coupled with the shady and terrifying starlight power instantly turned into a powerful force that pierced through her abdomen. The bloodstained iron fist came through her back, and the purple-black sticky blood sauce turned into a rain of arrows that radiated and splashed in all directions.

Shani screamed, her entire body suddenly exploded into a black mist that shot to the corner of the hall, which was only then reassembled into her miserable body.

As soon as the body was revealed, Shani staggered and fell back two steps, her hands tightly covering the front and back of the transparent abdomen, large clusters of purple and black filthy flesh paste leaked out from her fingertips inside, pattering at the foot of the injection into a pool of blood.

Of course, if there was only Berserk Giant Force, the injuries that Shani's body had sustained, no matter how severe they were, would not affect her subsequent battles. As a high-ranked sorcerer, even injuries like mutilated limbs or flesh and blood could be easily recovered from the witchcraft potions and items she carried with her.

But the real threat to her was the endless starlight power mixed in with the Iron Fist.

These strange and nefarious powers were like countless steel needles piercing into her body, rapidly eroding her muscles, bones, flesh and internal organs. Induced by their strange power, Shani had lost her precise control and power guidance over the injured parts of her body.

She fell back and coughed all the way, unable to stop the blood spurting out of her throat, causing her to start losing her strength rapidly as well.

"For...why? Aren't you... aren't you afraid that... I'll detonate the... seed of darkness within you? "A simple sentence, hard enough for Shani to break off, with a choke when her throat was clogged with blood.

The smooth, beautiful laughter of Holly's contained endless hatred came from within the body of the tall, starry construct that stood frozen in place and slowly withdrew its iron fist.

"Fear! Of course I'm scared! However, His Excellency Grim has already guaranteed that as long as he's around, your Dark Seed will never be triggered... Hehe, with this guarantee, do you think I still need to be afraid of you?"

"Let... fart... the Jewel of Shadows is the original sacred object of our Dark Witch clan, only we know how to manipulate and harness it, with that bastard only having the Jewel of Shadows for just over a month, he ....... "Shani's upper and lower 'big mouths' were overflowing with blood at the same time, her appearance was hideous and terrifying, as if she didn't believe what the other party was saying.

But just as she was shouting hoarsely, a dense black aura descended from the sky, covering the surface of the star construct's body, and the strange power that filled it was the uncompromising power of shadow.

"Darkness Protection..."

Shani's shrieks came to an abrupt halt, unable to help but murmur the name of this dark sorcery repeatedly in a low voice.

With the protection of this layer of Darkness Blessing, it would be a joke for Shani to remotely grasp the Darkness Seed within the Holly Witch's body. It was impossible to re-communicate and link to the Dark Seed without breaking this layer of Darkness Blessing.

It was nearly impossible for other spectrum powers to isolate the Shadow Force, but the Dark Force of the same power spectrum could!

Therefore, when Shani, whose body was heavily traumatized, saw this thin layer of black aura that seemed to leak out with a single poke, she was almost devastated and desperate....

Her stiff neck slowly twisted and turned to the young fire witch who was smugly watching her sneer with her jewel in hand. The other's face was full of mockery, and his eyes were even more filled with intense disdain.

"Just one or two small sorceries of darkness, it's not that difficult to learn... What are the shortcomings of this Darkness Shelter, please don't hesitate to point them out oh Lord Shani!"

Shani's face instantly turned pale, and her eyes even surged with an endless rage.

Darkness Shelter was a minor witchcraft? That damned bastard, that's a level 4 gain type dark sorcery. Even Shani herself couldn't cast it with such speed and ease!

Is he really a fire witch who specializes in the elements? How...how the hell did he do that?

And under the fierce gaze of Shani's furious eyes, the smile on Grim's face did not diminish at all, but grew brighter and gentler.

Flame Specialization was supposed to be unable to cast dark sorcery!

However, ever since obtaining the Shadow Jewel, Grim also did not hesitate to order the chip to start quickly parsing the dozen or so dark sorceries stored in the database.

Grim's footprints had been all over the Silver Alliance, Northland and Scattered Tallinn over the years, and the number of sorceries of all spectrums collected and organized in the chip database was as high as four hundred.

Due to the limitation of his own power specialization, Grim was unable to cast any other sorcery other than flame power. Therefore, these sorceries in the database only existed as model templates for transforming and optimizing flame sorceries.

Now with the Shadow Jewel as the source of darkness, which was also equivalent to having a sorcerer that continuously exported shadow power, Grim only needed to have the chip store the model of dark sorcery and then infuse the power from the jewel into it, and it would also naturally be able to cast dark sorcery.

During this casting process, the Shadow Jewel was the source of power, the chip in his mind was the manipulator of power, while Grim watched the whole process, just need to put on an act.

And this, was the set of ways he had figured out to harness the Jewel of Shadows!

But Grim's pretense was something that outsiders could not see through.

In their hearts, the Grim at this time appeared particularly inscrutable, surprisingly able to cross the threshold of the power spectrum and achieve such an almost unbelievable thing!

Shani's heart was broken and desperate when she encountered such a thing, and that Holly wizard attributed it to Grim's strange elemental talent, but didn't suspect anything else.

It was already difficult to deal with just one Grim who had mastered the Jewel of Shadows, and now with the addition of that Holly who hated her deeply, Shani immediately knew that nothing could be done, and without hesitation, she was ready to flee again.

Unable to shadow-jump, Shani's entire body exploded into a cloud of black smoke and pounced like an arrow towards the only entrance of the library.

As she fled, Shani used all the shadow power in her body to form a dark, deep, solid and substantial shadow arrow and shot it at the two enemies, hoping to stop their progress.

The Holly wizard was in a hurry, and charged towards the broken door against the dense rain of arrows, trying to block Shani's progress. The legendary fire witch was still standing in place, his body not moving a bit, looking at Shani who was fleeing madly, his face filled with a sneer that could not be concealed.

Instantly sweeping up that fire witch's demeanor, Shani's heart trembled slightly, and an ominous premonition could not help but rise.

Damn it, that fire witch must have a back up... what could his back up be?

In the midst of rapid pondering, Shani Ug, who had turned into a black mist, froze in front of the wooden door that had broken into a large hole, coalesced back into her human form, and never moved a step forward again.

There, against the light cast from the passageway, a tall and powerful figure stood majestically pinned.

Looking at that strange stance, perceiving the familiar fluctuation of breath, Shani's heart sank abruptly below the abyss, so cold and stiff that even beating a beat seemed so difficult.

"Mangus...Qiu Lisa..."

Shani spat out the two names with difficulty, finally understanding what that legendary fire witch's backer was.

That timid, two-headed witch sibling!

Although Shani didn't care about the power of the Mangus siblings, they were after all a genuine 4th rank sorcerer after transforming into a two-headed wizard. If unleashed for a real battle, the full-blown Shani was confident that she could defeat or kill the pair of siblings who had barely managed to squeeze into the 4th rank in half a quarter of an hour.

But now....

Feeling the nearly depleted blood and shadow power in her body, and sensing the Holly Wizard who was rushing over with a violent force, Shani finally completely despaired.

Unless the Witch God descended, with her current strength, it would be impossible for her to break through the blockade of the Mangus siblings before the arrival of the Holly Witch.

A wild burst of power erupted in front of the wooden door!

The dark witch Shani was attacked back and forth by Holly and the Mangus siblings, and in a violent bang she was finally blown into a black mist once again. This time however, not waiting for her to escape elsewhere to condense again, Grim manipulated the Jewel of Shadows into a large dark hand to save it in his palm and bind it securely.