Age of Adepts

After putting away the source mass and the Feather Serpent God's corpse, Grim's gaze fell on the batch of divine power crystals.

The divine power crystals, by their name alone seemed no different from magic crystals, they were all just the essence of some kind of element or power aggregation!

However, what the magic crystals gathered was nothing more than magic energy that could be perceived everywhere in the world. On the other hand, the divine power crystals gathered an exceptionally rare and precious divine power.

Just like water was liquid and ice was solid, the divine power crystals were actually strange crystals formed after the condensation and convergence of high concentrations of the power of faith.

In the natural state, there was no possibility for the power of faith to naturally condense.

Only those deities, who used their divine power to gather the power of faith, could make it possible for it to change its true physical form and appear as such strange crystals.

This also meant that each divine crystallization was imbued with a trace of that deity's divine power.

The value of this thing was quite large for the sorcerers as well!

Unable to figure out the purpose of these divine power crystals for the time being, Grim took them in faith.

Thus, he was left with only the somewhat exaggeratedly shaped... giant egg in front of him.

Just getting close to the other side, and even before Grim could probe his mental energy into it to examine it, the giant egg shook, and a sharp, piercing spirit language came out of it.

It was reasonable to say that with the nature of the spirit language, even creatures of different planes and races could communicate smoothly. However, this Spiritual Language could not express the slightest bit of complete consciousness, and only conveyed an emotion of anger and hatred.

At the same time, a thin bolt of lightning struck straight down, hitting Grim right on top of his head.

The lightning was golden yellow in color, and its power wasn't astonishing, seemingly only a hundred or two hundred degrees in appearance.

Although this lightning didn't hurt Grim in the slightest, it also caused his long hair to float up, and his entire body was numb and swishing in an odd way.

The power of the Laws....

Grim couldn't help but be appalled.

A little guy who hadn't even born a full self-consciousness and was still at the embryonic germination stage had already grasped some of the power of the Lightning Laws... It could be seen that that Feather Serpent God had really put a great deal of effort into cultivating this little guy.

In that case, those divine power crystals and that source substance were also prepared for this little guy.

I'm afraid that the offspring born from a divine creature would be able to possess partial divinity the moment it was born!

Even if the other party was still an embryo inside the Dome that hadn't really transformed, it already possessed a terrifying power that was no weaker than that of a Tier 1 Sorcerer. At the very least, the lightning chains of a rank 1 wizard couldn't hit Grim in the slightest, while this little guy could give him a hint of paralysis.

What should be done about this giant egg?

Hatch them out?

As soon as the idea popped into Grim's head, he vetoed it himself.

The consumption of resources to cultivate divine creatures was not something he could afford right now.

Those divine crystals and source material, Grim couldn't afford to use them on this giant egg. Without the nourishment and care of the Feathered Serpent God, it would be a thousand times more difficult to keep this giant egg incubating.

Smash through the egg shell and devour the flesh and blood inside?

To be honest, this thought had always deeply tempted Grim.

Ever since converting to the Star Beast bloodline, Grim had always coveted the flesh and blood of those higher creatures deep inside. Their flesh and blood, their souls, everything about them, was a tonic for the Star Beast Bloodline.

And in order to have an effect on the Star Beast bloodline in Grim's body, that Higher Creature's rank had to be at least rank 4.

This meant that the effect of the flesh and blood of beasts below level 4 on Grim was already minimal!

Grim's daily food and drink could only satisfy his appetite at most, but to replenish his energy and stamina by eating, it was only possible with those rank 4 magical energy packages.

But rank 4 magical beasts were extremely rare even in the Wizard World.

If it wasn't a particularly powerful wizard family, who would be able to readily feed on the flesh and blood of a Tier 4 magical beast!

Sure, there are still a few 4th level dragons in the Lance bit.

But those guys were not easy to deal with, even if Grim was in his prime, he wouldn't be able to deal with one of them. Not to mention that these guys all had groups of subordinates, and they were all very powerful themselves, far less easy to deal with than those single Tier 4 beasts.

Thinking of this, Grim couldn't help but narrow his eyes and start thinking.

Perhaps, spreading some news within the Scattered Tower Forest, soliciting information and location intelligence on those 4th rank demons in the Black Forest, and then gathering his family's men to go and round up them. This would become a daily routine that he would have to do for a long time to come.

As for devouring the egg, it was true that it would bring some bloodline benefits to Grim.

However, there was always a feeling of profligacy!

Maybe there is a better, more perfect way....

Thinking about it, Grim couldn't help but command, "Chip, search for this Dome's means of exploitation."

"Drop, mission accepted... data data query in progress..."

As expected, the information that the chip searched out covered almost every aspect of hatching, devouring, blood sacrifice, and cultivation. The most cost-effective one was naturally to hatch the little feathered snake and then cultivate it back into a terrifying divine creature.

However, such a process would easily take thousands of years, and the cultivation period would also require the depletion of all sorts of rare resources. To be honest, Grim was not at all confident that he would be able to survive until the little feathered snake grew up.

The other way was to use the blood sacrifice method, using the little feathered snake's strange bloodline talent to nourish Grim's body in turn. According to the chip's estimation, if everything went smoothly, Grim would not only be able to repair the damage to his soul origin, but also allow his physique and bloodline potential to grow by a considerable amount.

Therefore without hesitation at all, Grim directly chose the blood sacrifice method.

And with Grim's choice, the chip immediately projected a list of items in his mind.

These were all the supplies necessary to hold the blood sacrifice ceremony.

Grim took out a blank sorcery scroll, leaned over his forehead, and etched the list of items into it. Then with a stroke of his finger, a dense red mane ripped a small opening in the space, and only then did Grim shove the sorcery scroll right in.

At the same time as he was doing all this, Gargamel, who was far away in the Crimson Wing Witch Tower in the middle of the Alois region, was hunched over a desk and struggling to write. While Emelia and the forest demon Ava were accompanying him, together helping him with his many family affairs.

A cluster of red mane emerged above him in Woodland and ripped a small opening in the space before a scroll of sorcery shining with fiery runes landed on top of his desk.

"Here are the items I've been needing lately, gather them up as soon as you can and send them to the Throne of Flame. If there are any that are hard to find, remember to report back to me..."

As soon as Gargamel touched the flame runes on the sorcery scroll, Grim's deep, majestic voice came out of it. The sorcery scroll then opened, projecting out the dense text.

"One 4th level soul altar..."

"30 grams of snake hemp flower..."

"A set of high level spirit shifting items..."

"One Dingling Crystal..."

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Row by row, column by column, almost all of them were exceptionally hard to find top-tier witch resources.

Even with Gargamel's years of experience, many of the resources were only known by name, but never actually seen. Therefore the moment he got the list of items, he locked his eyebrows, full of hesitation and difficulty.

"What is there to be embarrassed about?" Emelia at the side still looked like she was in the clouds, "Our family's resources are placed there, it's not like the family lord doesn't know. Some of the resources in here will be sent over first, and those that aren't will be borrowed from other family weeks."

Hearing her daughter's enlightenment, Gargamel was a little more relieved.

"You send a copy of this list to Meryl as well, and we'll try our best to make it up on both sides. If the family lord said it, he must be in a hurry to use it, I'm going to visit those 4th rank forces one by one."

"No, Father, don't rush yet." Emelia's eyes rolled, and she couldn't help but smile sweetly, "Lord Mary has just advanced to the 4th rank, our family will definitely have a celebration. Just let this news spread out first, and you can visit them again on the eve of the celebration. The prosperity of our Crimson Family is obvious to anyone who can see it. At that time, are you still worried that these Xu resources will be unable to be borrowed by Zhou?"

Gargamel thought for a moment and nodded in approval.

And as the news of Mary's advancement spread, the entire Scattered Tallinn region witch community was once again plunged into a turmoil.

This time, not to mention those small and medium ranked witch families, even the dozen or so 4th rank forces were somewhat unable to sit still. And among them, the most excited were none other than those vampire families.

In the entire middle of the continent, there hadn't been a 4th rank vampire for thousands of years!

Thus, both the little-known vampire families and the vampire witches who lived in seclusion all over the world couldn't hold back their restless blood and rushed to the Crimson Family.

In less than a month's time, there had already been four vampire clans committed to Mary, also bringing the number of 3rd rank vampires in the Crimson Clan to as many as six!

Of course, before joining Mary, these vampire families had their own territories in the Scattered Tallinn region. Thus, the emergence of a small enclave also allowed the Crimson Family's influence to quickly spread to 5 regions.

And the vampire branch also quickly rose to become one of the strongest and most promising groups of the Crimson Family!

An ordinary wizard family had advanced two 4th rank at the same time, and the relationship between these two 4th ranks was extraordinary, most likely forming a couple.

To be honest, upon hearing this news, all the 4th rank forces in the middle of the continent felt that overwhelming sense of oppression.

All discerning people couldn't help but howl in agony within, the Scattered Earth Tallinn was going to change!