Age of Adepts

By the time Karin woke up again, she was in another weird, enclosed space.

The space wasn't large, only about ten thousand square meters.

But at a glance, one could see all kinds of landscapes and strange geological formations.

From the dense forest area in the southeast corner to the desert in the southwest corner, from the green grasslands in the northeast corner to the highland hills in the northwest corner, plus an abrupt and solitary peak in the central core....

Although the entire scene was small, it was complete with all the scenery and terrain.

Look at the style layout, seems to be a small arena.

The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the top of the page and see if you can find a way to make it look good.

A tall and strong body, long black hair with golden rings, black eye pupils, a gentle smile with a hint of evil taste, and red, somewhat piercing witch robes....

Without much words or introduction, Karin instantly recognized it.

Standing in front of her own eyes was none other than the target of her trip, the legendary and terrifying legendary fire witch... Grim!

Behind the other party, there was also a strange metal puppet floating quietly.

It had a bizarre metal body like a skeleton frame, its hands and feet were so slim and lean, while the ends were inlaid with terrifying metal blades that resembled ghost claws. A black mist curled around its body, making its body appear hazy and illusory.

The area where the strange metal puppet was located was as if it could absorb light, appearing much darker and gloomier than the rest. Anyone's sight falling on it would involuntarily become hazy and mesmerizing, making it difficult to truly see its form and physical appearance.

A 4th rank Fire Witch... a 4th rank Shadowsteel Magic Armament....

The other party didn't kill themselves in the first place, which originally gave Karin a slight hope of escaping.

But seeing such a combination, the fighting spirit that was ignited in Karin's heart was instantly extinguished, and she could no longer afford the slightest thought of resistance or escape!

"You're a dark witch?" The young fire witch stood frozen in midair, his voice wasn't loud, but it strangely shook the heavens and earth.

Rumbling reverberations rolled through the heavens and earth, like that world-shaking thunder!

This also showed the young fire witch's terrifying control over the world.

Karin had erased any Dark Witch symbols from her equipment and body before she arrived, so no one could prove her Dark Witch status from appearance alone, except for the signature Shadow Energy in her body.

Hmm? The other side didn't imprison their voodoo energy? Is it inexperience or simply not caring?

Karin crawled to her feet, looking up at the legendary fire witch high above her and hissed, "If you want to kill, kill, no need for so much nonsense! I'm not going to answer any of your questions..."

Grim snickered heedlessly.

The dull laughter was like muffled thunder that rolled across the ground, shaking this part of the world.

"That group of crazy women in the north really are some unreliable fellows! You dark witches, who just promised no more scheming, have just sent you here... What, does Cersei want to test my resolve to see if I dare to kill you? Or do you think a 3rd rank witch can come and go inside my witch tower?"

Karin's face was cold and expressionless, as if she hadn't even heard Grim's question.

"You're quite good, it would be a pity to kill you like that. How about this, you play with my Shadow Demon for half a year, and I'll let you go, how about it?"

Hearing Grim's words, Karin raised her head, her eyes falling on the strange fiendish weapon behind him and smiled coldly, "This is one of your newly created Shadowsteel fiends, right? What, it still has a strange ability to learn? You want me to help you exercise its dark fighting skills? Hmm, delusional..."

"Delusions of grandeur? That's not necessarily true...Shadow Demon, kill her!"

At Grim's command, the black mist surrounding the Shadow Demon floating silently behind him swirled, and his entire massive metallic body had disappeared.

In the next moment, it swiftly appeared like a ghost in Karin's back, two pairs of strange metal blades silently thrusting into the four parts of her body.

Having witnessed the Shadow Demon's mighty power, Karin naturally knew that she could not block the attack with force. So Karin quickly returned, two Lightless Daggers silently surfaced in her hands, slicing through the hard thrusting metal blades from the side, and then the rebound of power directly escaped.

In the next second, two strange figures with disparate sizes, strengths, and agility dodged and moved inside a dark shadow, jumping and moving quickly. The sound of clanging metal blades hitting each other was endless, but strangely there was not half a flash or spark bursting out.

Karin's strength simply couldn't carry the Shadow Demon's violent power, and her agility obviously couldn't match the Shadow Demon's swiftness. Therefore, when fighting, Karin could only rely on her flexible body and strange shadow sorcery to restrain the opponent, or use her strength to escape, or dodge and move, barely not to be killed by the opponent.

Not even half a quarter of an hour into the fight, Karin seemed to suddenly understand something, stopping abruptly, throwing away the Lightless Dagger, closing her eyes, and not dodging the metal blades that the Shadow Witch swept at her, looking like she was but seeking a quick death.

"Stop!"

With a harsh cry from Grim, the Shadow Demon's metal blade came to an abrupt halt, hovering above Karin's beautifully slender neck. But the fierce wind whistled, and the violent energy had already cut four inch-long scratches on the other party's delicate white skin.

The purple-black blood instantly swirled and soaked Karin's tight leather armor.

"Kill me ah... you bastard, why don't you dare to kill me?" Despite the injury on her neck, Karin seemed oblivious and was still cursing angrily.

"Hmph, you Dark Witches really are all a bunch of guys who aren't afraid to die!" Grim floated leisurely over Karin, "But you don't have to be arrogant, you'd better look up at this strange space!"

Hearing Grim's words, Karin looked around and immediately turned pale.

At some point, the sky above the vault of this strange space had become pitch black, and a dull, dark sun high above the dome was spilling out.

"The Jewel of Shadows... "Karin mouthed a terrifying name.

The reason the Dark Witches were so brave wasn't really a lack of fear of death, relying on psionic energy pools and strange dark sorcery.

Once they die in battle, the dark sorcery attached to their souls will be triggered, drawing their souls into the pre-programmed pools of spiritual energy.

To become a Dark Witch, the prerequisite is to complete the energization of their body and soul. Therefore, after death, a Dark Witch can use the energy of the Spiritual Energy Pool to recreate a body as long as her soul escapes back.

Since the souls of Dark Witches were filled with Shadow Energy, they could use the Shadow Realm as a springboard to travel through the dimensional space, so it was difficult for most sorceries to capture their souls.

However, the best means of dealing with Shadow Energy was still Shadow Energy!

Thus, when Karin discovered that this space had been blocked off by the power inside the Shadow Jewel, she became completely desperate.

"You... you... you wouldn't dare to kill me! I... but the leader of the dark group in the Scattered Earth Tallinn region, if you kill me, the clan will definitely unleash bloody vengeance!" Karin hissed.

As she hissed and roared, the Shadow Demon pestling at her side moved his hand and claws as if he had pierced a leather bladder through his stomach, four sharp, razor-sharp claws coming out from behind his waist.

Karin's voice came to an abrupt halt.

She lowered her head and looked at one claw through her belly with a look of incredible horror.

In this area, if she was killed, it would be difficult for her soul to pass through the barrier laid by the Shadow Jewel and return smoothly to the central hiding spot. Did the other party spend so much energy and resources just to kill themselves completely?

With a muffled puff, the Shadow Demon drew out his claws.

Purple-black blood ricocheted from inside the four through holes, and Karin fell to her knees, her tiny, delicate hands apparently unable to plug all the wounds. Through her fingertips, there was still bubbling blood spurting out of her abdomen, gathering into a small pool of blood beneath her.

A burst of icy cold air poured into Karin's body, making her truly feel the approach of death.

However, at the moment she was on the verge of death, a black daylight spilled down from the vault of the sky, shining down on her body. Her body, which had been severely damaged, actually began to recover quickly under the light of this strange black sunlight.

The dark energy gathered on Karin's wound, causing the area to heal and level out quickly.

And more dark energy poured into Karin's body, transforming into strange energized blood that began to flow and fill up again. Karin's life force was also growing rapidly as far as the eye could see....

In less than three minutes, a 3rd rank dark witch who was originally dying of injuries became alive and energetic once again.

"At my place, it's not your turn to be in charge!" Grim still stood frozen in the void, looking unconcerned, "If you don't behave yourself..."

In the next second, with a single snap of Grim's fingers, the Shadow Demon's claws penetrated Karin's abdomen again and churned around inside.

The damage this time was clearly not worse than the last.

Karin fell to the ground with a howl of pain, the shattered small intestine and shards of stomach wall inside the cut abdomen spurting out with black blood, creating a horrible fountain of blood.

Grim watched Karin's rapidly dissipating life force with an icy smile spilling out of the corner of his mouth.

Only when the other party was on the verge of death did he stretch out his hand, and a black sunlight was cast from inside the dark sun, shining down once again on Karin's broken body.

A surge of dark energy surged wildly, and a moment later, Karin once again climbed up from the ground with full vitality.

Beneath the tight leather armor that had been cut open with several huge slits, the slightly brownish abdomen was flat and shiny, with no trace of scars or wounds visible at all.