Age of Adepts

"My lord, that wizard seems to have recognized me. You see..."

Billis, the worm wizard, licked his lips with a hungry look.

"Keep an eye on him. Let them be if they just report the information, but if there are any other attempts, I don't mind bloodletting the route..." resolved Grim as he looked around the scenery.

"Understood! Leave it to me..."

The insect wizard Billis smiled sardonically, and the insect body hidden beneath the black robe squirmed gently. A torso the size of a tail finger fell to the ground, scattering into countless tiny black beetles that silently surged down the floor in all directions.

It only took less than fifteen minutes for the entire floating airship to be monitored by the giant and tiny.

In particular, the 2nd rank association sorcerer Ralph, who was in charge of controlling the floating airship, was attached to the sole of the shoe by a group of black insects, becoming the focus of the insects' surveillance and censorship, and he was unaware of it.

In the middle of the night, the floating airship flew above the thick clouds, with the vast black forest beneath it.

A faint layer of invisible boundary enveloped the periphery of the floating airship, fading away its traces.

With this layer of invisible boundary, most of the demons with low intelligence would not be able to detect the existence of the floating airship, which ensured the safety of the voyage. As for those who were able to detect the existence of floating boats through the faint witchcraft fluctuations, they were already scared by the Association's sorcerers, and naturally wouldn't dare to loot a vehicle with the Association's logo.

At night, in order to maintain the secrecy of the floating boat, all the sorcerers on board were forbidden to use any sorcery. Therefore, when they are bored, they either go up to the flight deck to admire the dark forest at night, or hide in their dwellings to do some research or meditation.

At the bottom of the cabin, inside a heavily guarded room, that Ralph was sitting at a wooden table, communicating with someone at headquarters through a diamond-shaped strange crystal.

"...Are you sure it's that legendary fire witch?" On the other side of the crystal was an older wizard, who was now frowning at Ralph's story, and finally managed to interject.

"Well... not so sure! But it's very likely..."

"Why so judgmental?"

"For it has been established that one of the two black robes is that Worm Witch Billis, and he can be considered one of the core warriors within the Crimson Family over the years. But according to my observation, that Worm Witch seems to have a special respect for the other one, showing a predominance of the other in every way. That's why I presumed that the other person was most likely that Crimson Clan Chief Grim..."

"Well, according to you, there's a really good chance that the other one is Grim. At least he seems to be the only one in the Crimson Family who fits those traits. What time do you reach the end of this voyage?"

"Thirty-seven days later..."

"Understood, then keep the surveillance going... Never mind, don't do anything or pay special attention to these two, I'll arrange it at my discretion. Be careful not to anger these guys, there's no such thing as a good 4th rank wizard!"

"Yes, my subordinate understands."

And where did Ralph know that while it was hiding in the room protected by the multiple witch formations to secretly communicate with the far side, more than a dozen tiny black dots on the floor beneath his feet that were indistinguishable to the naked eye were silently monitoring his every move.

Inside a crude cabin on the second floor of the ship.

The Worm Wizard Billis is sitting on an empty wooden bed, his black robe shrouded body swelling and writhing from time to time, looking extremely creepy.

On his fierce insect head, the numerous compound eyes surrounding the pupil of the insect were alternately flashing, which faintly reflected hundreds of strange images. Some of them were the silently moving figures in the cabin, some were the figures chatting on the deck, and even more were the figures browsing books or meditating deeply.......

It should be noted that most witches had a perverse fear of their own safety, so they would never enter deep meditation if it wasn't an absolutely safe place to do so.

And the Insect Witch Billis spread out was able to conceal the monitoring witch formation on top of the floating boat, and was able to conceal the alert witch formation that these witches had placed inside the cabin, diving so close to monitor their every move. This also meant that the life and death of the other party was actually in his hands.

With Billis' methods, it would be easy to kill any of them. Even more elaborately, Billis could set up their deaths as an accidental sorcery experiment backfired, so that no one else could see any flaws.

This sense of dominance where the enemy lives and dies and the situation is under control is what Billis is most fascinated by!

However, as arrogant as he was, there was still one area on the ship that he would never dare to approach.

That was the room where Crimson Family Master Grim rested.

Perhaps the rest of the sorcerers on the floating airship were too low level to comprehend and feel the nearly explosive terrifying energy radiation inside Grim's body. In their eyes, Grim was just a 1st level wizard who was a little more isolated and quiet.

But to Billis, Grim was simply a moving volcano, and a terrifying volcano that had been suppressed for thousands of years and was brewing an earth-shattering explosion. And the cabin he was perched in was filled with a terrifying flame energy that made even Billis' scalp a little numb.

Every time he commanded the swarm of worms to crawl around the floating ship, Billis did his best to stay away from Grim's room. He was genuinely terrified that the insect swarm's proximity would trigger that silent volcano.

If this terrifying force were to erupt, he was afraid that the floatplane, along with the wizard on it, would be completely vaporized by the terrifying flames in an instant, not even a bit of bone scraps would be found.

And within the cabin where Grim was perched, he finally opened his eyes leisurely.

The Fire Coral Sorcerer's Staff that was standing in front of him had burned crimson, and the intense heat had even distorted the surrounding void, making the scene in the room non-sincere and bizarre.

An illusory fire chain was built between the Fire God Pearl at the head of the staff and Grim's Rule Heart, and a stream of pure and extreme flame energy that was like hot magma flowed back and forth between the fire chain. With each operation, it seemed that the energy itself would undergo some strange changes.

The color changed from the original red and nearly white to a golden yellow gradually.

And this color change also meant that the flame energy level was constantly rising.

Ever since seeing that Flame Monarch in the depths of the Sea of Ashes, Grim had a general direction on the energy patterns of the higher-tier creatures. Now, if he wanted to continue to improve himself, he needed to constantly deepen his understanding of flames on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also needed to frantically raise his mental energy.

Without extremely high mental strength, don't even think of manipulating those violent and dangerous fire elements in a huge and subtle way; without extremely high mental strength, don't even think of compressing and purifying the untamed fire elements....

When his own level was still very low, Grim's knowledge of the fire element was to treat it as an elemental particle that could be manipulated and kneaded at will. However, as his knowledge of fire deepened, and his mental acuity increased, he increasingly felt the character of the flame....

Yes, flames have their own personalities too!

Just like the gentle and gentle element of water, the untamed element of wind, and the sluggish and solid element of earth, the element of fire that Grim desperately wants to master is so much more passionate and exuberant. By following their elemental characteristics, everything would be very simple. But go against their elemental characteristics, and the caster will find them so difficult to work with.

The power of fire lies in its fierceness, its destruction....

Such flamboyant and wild elements fell into the hands of a warm-hearted sorcerer, and naturally they could not exert their full power. Only those who had a violent temperament and never cared about the consequences would be able to bring the power of flame sorcery to its fullest.

In contrast, Grim was too tied to his nature in past battles, relying too much on the aid of the chip.

While this increased safety considerably, it also hindered the deep integration of his mind and body with the fire element.

Especially at the 4th level, every step forward Grim could feel the resistance and agitation from the fire elemental aspect. The delay in taming the fire element also made Grim's own comprehension of fire somewhat delayed.

However, having figured this out, Grim had no regrets!

A flame that can be controlled in your own hands is a good flame. If you had to sacrifice some of your sanity in order to increase your affinity with the flame, Grim would rather be shut out of the fire element.

But that didn't mean that Grim was going to give up the flame.

Since he couldn't let go of his mind and body to accept the transformation of the fire element and couldn't trust his own safety to the fury and ferocity of the fire element, Grim would have to find another way and use other methods and means to raise the level of his own flame energy.

His own comprehension of fire wasn't enough to continue compressing and purifying the flame energy, so he would have to find a substitute. And Grim's choice was: the Fire God Pearl!

Grim built a fire chain between the Rule Heart and the Fire God Bead, sending the flame energy that had been condensed in his body into the Fire God Bead, using its power to continuously compress and purify it. The compressed and purified strange flame was then transmitted back to the Rule Heart, strengthening it with the strange law power radiation imbibed in it....

Limited by Grim's current mental strength and the tolerance of the Rule Heart, such a radiation transformation could only be done gradually and slowly, and the time was very long and arduous.

Therefore, in the strange perception of Insect Witch Billis, it would be discovered that an extremely terrifying flame energy was constantly drumming in Grim's living room. Its intensity, its intensity, and its power level had clearly surpassed Grim's current level!

And that is what made Billis more and more surprised and horrified, diffusing from deep within a submissive mentality that cannot be matched....