Age of Adepts

Half a day later, the deal was successfully completed.

Schreiber exchanged Flame Impact for Grim's Fire Toughness.

After the two sides exchanged their Law Runes, Schreiber left in a flurry, clearly anxious to get back to comprehending the Laws of Flame therein.

But such a deal wasn't a one-shot deal, and there was quite a bit of follow-up.

Even if that Schreiber acquired the Rune of Fire Toughness, to successfully parse out the correct Flame Law from it and solidify it as part of his own flame instinct... the probability of success in this sequence of events was still quite low.

The world of Flame Laws was a world of many different patterns and laws.

The same flame law fell on different witches, and the effects of the laws presented varied from high to low. For example, for flame augmentation, Grim obtained augmentation effects from 3000m to 5000m, while Schreiber's augmentation effects could reach 6000m....

Often times, the strength of a flame law is also related to the affinity of the caster's talent.

With a high affinity, the power effect of the law is stronger; with a low affinity, the power effect of the law is lower... And most of the energy levels summarized in the sorcery books tend to be in the middle, belonging to the average score after comprehensive evaluation.

If that Schreiber had an extremely high flame affinity talent, successfully parsing the Law of Fire Toughness would be a probability. On the other hand, a failed parsing would probably be just a few more perceptions of the Laws of Flame!

Both sides had a good idea of such a thing, and it was still uncertain as to who would take advantage of this exchange. But with the aid of the chip, the probability of Grim failing to resolve the 'Flame Impact' law rune was almost zero.

After sending Schreiber away, Grim then opened the residence restriction and closed himself off.

This was, after all, the territory of the Sorcerer's Association, so naturally it wasn't suitable for anything too private. However, with Shadow Demon as a guard, there was safety.

The first thing Grim did when he hid in the secret room was naturally to begin a full self-examination.

He was lying flat on the luxurious and extravagant bed, and his mental consciousness was instantly immersed in the depths of the vast and expansive sea of consciousness.

Grim's affinity was for the element of fire, and thus his sea of consciousness became a boundless ocean of flames. The steaming, dazzling flames burned silently, and the entire world was completely crimson.

And in the center of the ocean of flame, a crystal-clear crimson crystal was suspended above the sea of fire. No matter how fierce and agitated the waves of fire below were, it held firm, quietly and peacefully gazing there.

But if you got close enough, you could still see the wind and clouds surging inside the crystal through the countless fine and flat crystal surfaces, as if it contained an extremely terrifying world of flames.

However, at this moment, three Law Runes that were still burning with golden flames descended from the sky and floated down around the crimson crystal, flying around indiscriminately as if they were searching for their rightful place.

When Grim's spiritual consciousness descended on this strange world, the entire world immediately became vibrant and agitated.

The Consciousness Heart Core was not a real substance, but merely a projection of the consciousness of higher intelligent beings after the trinity of soul, flesh and blood and consciousness had merged. Its existence was of incomparable importance to intelligent beings!

If the most important thing for an alchemist sorcerer was the fusion of spiritual consciousness and flesh and blood, then the most important thing for an elemental sorcerer was the deep fusion of soul and spiritual consciousness.

Therefore, the alchemical shamans sought immortality, using various ways and means to repeatedly refine their flesh* body bodies, eventually fusing even their own spiritual consciousness into it. They were using the strength and immortality of their physical bodies to fuse their selves, having already reached a higher level of life.

Most of the elemental shamans would abandon their flesh* bodies and unilaterally strengthen their souls and spiritual consciousness in order to be able to reach the point where their souls were still immortal apart from their flesh. The soul and spiritual consciousness are after all ethereal and still need a carrier.

Therefore, elemental shamans use the nucleus of consciousness projected from their consciousness as a special carrier to carry their soul and all of their spiritual consciousness.

In this way, even if their physical body was completely destroyed, they could continue to survive in their pure energized form!

Especially when Elemental Shamans are upgraded to Rule Shamans, their souls and spiritual consciousnesses are no longer entrusted to the illusory simulation of their own consciousness cores, but to the laws of the plane they control.

They divide their spiritual consciousness into countless pieces of consciousness and insert them into the law system of the surface world. In this way, as long as the law system existed, their souls would truly be immortal!

Even if their flesh* bodies were completely destroyed by the enemy and all their bloodline descendants were decapitated, as long as the laws of the bits were still operating, they would one day regain consciousness as the fragments of consciousness merged.

Take Alice as an example, it had been tens of thousands of years since the first Fate Witch had left the Wizarding World, but her power still continued to influence the will of the Wizarding World.

Even though there was a thousand years of inheritance that had been severed, as long as the bitmap system didn't collapse, the fragments of consciousness left by the first Destiny Witch Misa would spread and circulate throughout the world along with the bitmap system.

When these fragments of consciousness fused to a certain extent and conformed to certain rules of the bit plane, a new round of 'Fate War' would then appear.

All of the little ones that unconsciously fused the fragments of Misha's consciousness became her consciousness carriers, coming together under the pull of a strange force of fate, frantically mutilating and devouring them. In the end, a 'complete' new Misa was born!

From the moment this New Misa was born, she carried the power of destiny that had been accumulated by the Destiny Witch clan for nearly a thousand years. The moment she advanced to Level 5 and stepped out of the Wizard World was the moment when the old and new Misa chose to fuse.

By this constant accumulation and fusion, even though Misa had been away from the Witch World for tens of thousands of years, she was still continuously drawing the power of fate from here.

A little worm that had been driven out of the Bit World was still continuously sucking its own blood... this was clearly not allowed by the will of the world!

Thus, after several 'reincarnations', the World Will finally struck back.

And its counterattack was to borrow Alice's hand to cut off Misha, the constantly reincarnating 'fight of fate', and then re-purge the Laws of Fate to clean up all those 'unreasonable' parts that could bring harm to the Wizard World.

The World Will, on the other hand, had no hands and feet, so naturally it couldn't accomplish this task with its own hands.

Therefore, it chose to protect Alice and Grim, who had been opposing Misha, and use their hands to complete this grand and massive task!

If the previous Grim was still ignorant of this, then now, as he advanced to the 4th level and became more and more closely united with the World Will, he had a deeper and deeper understanding of the 'historical mission' imposed on him.

Especially now, as Grim completely immersed his mind in this sea of consciousness, he could even clearly and intuitively feel the joy, anger, anxiety, and anticipation of the World Will....

After all, the Sorcerer World was too large, and the bit of consciousness it condensed would hardly possess the same keen and delicate awareness and swift and immediate reactions as ordinary intelligent beings. More than that, it would only be like a giant baby with a violent temper, relying only on its instincts to convey its happiness and anger, unable to express its more intuitive feelings and emotions.

However, in the subconscious of the Wizarding World's bit consciousness, Grim was apparently classified as one of 'its own'. This was particularly evident during Grim's advancement and ascension.

After Grim's consciousness returned to the Heart Core, this consciousness projection space immediately had a soul. The violent sea of fire set off wave after wave of tyrannical and insane flames, and the entire space began to burn, making final preparations for the soul leap that was to come next.

Grim's consciousness condensed body appeared above the crimson crystals, looked at the noisy, boiling world of flames, and without hesitation began to condense the rest of the Law Runes.

Flame Augmentation, Flame Strength, Flame Penetration, Flame Invisibility, Flame Impact, Flame Blitz, Fire Easiness, Fire Toughness....

The eight strange runes that condensed the Refined Flame Laws circled and spiraled around the crimson crystal without stopping, and from time to time, they collided with it, spattering dazzling sparks of fire. Their unconscious actions also caused the Consciousness Heart Core to tremble slightly, causing even the Flame World to become trembling.

If the Law Runes were allowed to clash with the Consciousness Nucleus like this, causing the consciousness space to tremble, I'm afraid that no matter how talented Grim was, he would not be able to avoid suffering from consciousness turmoil.

Grim wouldn't let it go, and began to extend his spiritual consciousness tentacles out, trying to actively draw these Law Runes into the consciousness core.

But unfortunately, it was as if there was a huge repulsive force between these Law Runes and each other, and it was simply a thousand times harder for them to quietly merge into the Consciousness Heart Nucleus.

"Chip, what's going on? Why is there such a repulsive force between them? Aren't they all flame laws that I have condensed?" Grim was puzzled.

"Drip, the subject has missed the perfect point in time to fuse the law runes..."

"The best time to do it...when is that?"

"The moment the subject comprehends the first Law Rune... other elemental shamans do not have the possibility of mastering a plurality of Law Runes in a short period of time... for every Law Rune they master, they will promptly integrate it into the Consciousness Heart Nucleus. Then they rely on a long period of time and medicine to adjust the Consciousness Heart Nucleus in order to take in the second Law Rune..."

"So, it's much less difficult and safer for them to fuse the Law Runes..."

"And the main body is a Law Rune that relies on data manipulation to obtain large quantities, and the first time you choose to incorporate eight Law Runes at the same time, it's naturally more than eight times as difficult as an ordinary wizard..."

Damn, after listening to the chip's explanation, Grim finally realized where he'd gone wrong!