Age of Adepts

Throne of Fire, Witch Tower, fifth floor.

Inside the secret laboratory.

Grim stood in front of a small and precise alchemy lab bench, silently examining the dazzling shadow diamond placed in front of him.

This shadow diamond was no longer the original dark and profound appearance, but had become shining, radiant and charming.

However, the light emanating from it could not illuminate a certain area, but instead would make the room, which originally had plenty of daylight, become dark and deep, giving the strange feeling that a veil had been cast over the light source.

The surface of the Shadow Diamond had been engraved with fine and dense strange patterns and lines, and delicate and small runes were densely covered all over the entire body, leaving not even a tiny space.

This was a masterpiece that Grim had spent a month's worth of effort to painstakingly complete!

However, at this moment, this strange 'half-finished product' had been set into the body of the 3-meter tall Elemental Demonic Armament. Above them, the Shadow Jewel, with the title of the Original Sorcerer of the Dark Clan, was dripping in the air, and a huge amount of Shadow Matter was pouring out of it, continuously injecting into the Elemental Demon Armament's body.

With the infiltration of the huge amount of shadow matter, the body of the Elemental Demon Armament gradually began to become dark and dusky. The edges of the originally materialized metal body also became somewhat hazy and illusory, and began to transform into a dark elemental energetic direction.

It was hard to help Grim anymore, so in the spirit of 'reusing waste, rational transformation', Grim transformed the 4th stage Shadow Diamond into Demon Puppet Crystals and replaced the original Elemental Crystals of the Elemental Demon.

In addition to the core upgrade, Grim was also unstinting in his use of resources, prompting the Shadow Jewel to transform the elemental magic weapon's metal body into some sort of shadow metal as well.

If all of these transformations were completed, the Elemental Demonic Armament would also be able to successfully advance into a Shadow Steel Demonic Armament, becoming a powerful metal puppet capable of shifting and becoming invisible in the Shadow Matter at will.

Any metal magic weapon in the past had an indestructible metal body and a staggeringly terrifying self-weight. Everywhere you went there was a loud rumbling sound, it was like it came with its own gravity boundary!

And after transforming into a Shadowsteel Magic Armament, all Shadow Metals would be supported by the power of shadows. As long as shadows existed within a 50-meter radius, they could rely on the power of shadows to walk through at will like a light ghost, without a sound.

What's more, even though their prototypes are huge and heavy, they can hide in a palm-sized shadow, so that outsiders can't notice them.

Thus, the Shadow Steel Demon Armament was also a singular branch within all metal puppets that was best at assassination!

In order to match this transformation, Grim had maximized the appearance of the elemental magic weapon as well, replacing its arms and mechanical legs with metal claws that had multiple attack effects. If it was also equipped with an anti-detection amulet and a magic cloak, its every move would be even more bizarre and unpredictable.

Checking the progress of the Shadowsteel Magic Armament's shadowy transformation, Grim nodded in satisfaction.

Without the Shadow Jewel, it would have taken Grim a long hundred years to complete the Shadowsteel Demon Armament's Shadow Transformation. But now, after only half a month's work, the Shadow Transformation progress had already reached 63%.

This was a sign that in half a month's work, this Shadowsteel Demonic Armament with a strength as high as 4th Intermediate would be able to step onto the battlefield and once again fight for itself in blood!

A few days ago, Grim, in order to create an extra-territorial family residence, but in one breath, he had consumed tens of millions of magic crystal resources to 'relocate' the Isobrain Ghazluwe and its Steel Capital to the outskirts of Camp Esoda.

The sheer amount of resources consumed therein could literally bankrupt most of the Wizard Families!

It was that the Crimson family had been sitting on two well-developed resource planes all these years, and the family's small internal savings had been squandered in an instant by such a move by Grim.

Of course, if Grim was willing to take out this soon-to-be-formed Shadowsteel magic weapon to auction, I'm afraid that the financial black hole that had just appeared in the family would instantly be filled in half.

A weapon that possessed steel armor, but was able to go out into the shadows like a ghost assassin, and could also cast most of its shadow abilities. Such a Shadow Steel Magic Armor would be more than enough to fight even a single 4th rank dragon.

What's more, in order to enhance its power, Grim had used the latest memory metal developed by the goblins in building its new body, and added a small magical energy amplifier.

Thus, in Grim's mind, the technical parameters that the chip had calibrated for this Shadowsteel magic weapon were.

Target name: Shadowsteel Armor.

Target level: Intermediate 4

Target base data: Strength 38 Physique 44 Agility 46 Spirituality 33

Target ability description: possesses all low and mid level shadow abilities, as well as most high level shadow abilities, and can freely travel through shadow matter. Target has zero weight as long as there is shadow matter within a 50 meter radius. The target has a small shadow space, and can summon 3 shadow creatures to fight for him.

Maximum jump range: 700 meters

Target Magic Resistance: Basic Elemental (Extraordinary), Dark Elemental (Extraordinary)

Target traits: Constructive traits, Darkvision, Magic Immunity (Intermediate and Elementary), Duskvision, Damage Reduction

Special Skills: Blending into Shadows (constant), Absorbing Light (constant), Shadow Self-Healing (constant), Multiple Attacks, Dark Elemental Shockwave

After the chip's comprehensive strength analysis, once this Shadowsteel Magic Weapon was formed, its basic battle power could reach 4th-rank intermediate. And once it was used to its full potential, it would even be able to exert a terrifying battle power of 4th-grade advanced!

After all, the Shadow Steel Wraith no longer belonged to a hard-hitting, hard-charging fighter like the same, but had been transformed into a ghostly assassin.

It is conceivable that when any 4th level wizard and Grim fight, suddenly from behind the shadow of a 4th level intermediate strength of the steel assassin, anyone who is unable to defend against a big loss.

After dealing with the matters related to the Shadowsteel magic weapon, Grim left the alchemy lab and arrived in another sorcery chamber.

The furnishings here were unusually simple.

A stone table, a stone chair, and a heavy book that lay quietly on top of the stone table.

However, the protection here was extremely tight.

Exotic runes with intricate patterns could be seen on the surrounding walls, floor and ceiling. Together, they formed a small, almost self-contained space that separated this chamber from the rest of the Tower.

Thus, nothing that happened within the chamber could be detected through divination or prophecy-type sorcery!

This was the sorcery chamber that Alice had personally created for Grim, and the 'cell' that was used to house this Wisdom Sacred Book.

It couldn't be helped that the Jewel of Shadows didn't belong to anyone, even though it was also a rank 5 holy object.

Thus by simply applying a Fate Protection, it also eliminated the possibility of the Dark Witches perceiving it.

But the Wisdom Sacred Book was different, it was a 5th rank artifact with a clear owner!

With the support of that God of Wisdom Yero's endless divine power, if he didn't find a way to isolate the divine soul sensing between the artifact and the master behind it, I'm afraid that Grim could only hold it in his hands all the time in order to prevent it from breaking into the air and disappearing.

Therefore, Grim could only ask Alice to create such a small spatial field that was almost breath-isolated from the outside world, which allowed the Holy Book of Wisdom to 'quiet' down.

With a bang of flames bursting, Grim's tall form emerged in a corner of the chamber.

This chamber had been isolated from the outside, and there was no direct passage in or out at all; it could only be transmitted through a fixed spatial waymark. The spatial signposts here were only in Grim's hands, and even Alice and Mary didn't know the difference.

This also eliminated any possibility of information leakage!

After entering the chamber, Grim coughed violently for half a day before carefully sitting down at the stone table and gently flipping open the holy book of wisdom.

"God is omnipotent!"

As far as the eye could see, there was only one simple sentence recorded in the pages of a book!

Gods are omnipotent...hmmm, if the gods were so powerful, how could there still be evil and filth in the world? Hmmm, playing God....

While infinitely despising it internally, Grim tried to flip to the second page.

But no matter how much he rubbed it, the rest of the pages seemed as if they were glued together and couldn't be uncovered.

"Damn, what's going on? Could it be that the artifact that was so easy to get back is still defective? Chip, help me analyze this..." and Grim tried unsuccessfully several times to close the door and release the chip.

"Drop, the presence of a different kind of faith energy aggregates detected... It has been detected that to unlock this faith energy, either become its resonator or follow the faith energy's settings in a gradual manner..."

"Become its resonant body? What does that mean?"

"It is to become a devout follower of this God of Wisdom. As long as the subject's spiritual fluctuations are in tune with the faith energy fluctuations of this God of Wisdom, they will be able to read the rest of this Wisdom Sacred Book without any obstacles!"

"Hell, are you trying to talk me into converting? We witches don't believe in any gods, we only believe in ourselves!"

"Self-worship is a different kind of faith too! If the subject is not ready to change his or her beliefs, refer to the book "Gulliver's Self-Hypnosis..."

An unusually embarrassed smile immediately appeared on Gleam's face.

Gulliver was also a sorcerer, a self-named trickster who was extremely fond of studying the divine arts of the gods.

He found that those devotees of the gods could perform terrifying high-grade divine arts under the favor of the gods with little or no need to conduct too profound transcendent research. At this point, the devotees of the gods were much easier and less risky to grow than the sorcerers.

Because of access to these unearned powers, Gulliver inventively researched a self-hypnosis technique. A magical technique that allowed him to briefly disguise himself as a devout follower of some great deity in order to trick the gods into some boon from them.

If he were to deceive only one deity, then the daily acquisition of beneficent divine arts would be limited after all.

But this Gulliver was also a genius. He was able to deceive as many as a dozen deities at the same time with the power of a sorcerer.

In this way, his own sorcery ability combined with these free magical arts, he actually made him famous and became a hot genius sorcerer at that time. The book he wrote himself, Gulliver's Self-Hypnosis, also became one of the interesting books that most high-ranking sorcerers must read!