Age of Adepts

What others do in eight separate sessions, they actually plan to tackle in one go....

No wonder the fusion of the Law Runes seemed so difficult this time!

Grim sighed under his breath and could only pin his hopes on the chip.

"Chip, search and see if there is any solution to the current problem. This Soul Leap opportunity is invaluable, and I don't want to squander it because of my own cheap mistakes!"

"Drops, the difficulty of fusion is that the subject's soul strength is not strong enough to reach the peak of 4th rank, and is incapable of restraining the number of Code Runes up to eight... There are two solutions: one, give up most of the Code Runes and fuse only some of them... ..."

"According to the subject's mental estimation, the number of Limit Code Runes that can currently be held is four..."

Grim listened quietly.

He clearly knew that his current mental strength was only 44 points. This meant that after he advanced to the 4th stage, for every point his mental strength increased, he would be able to hold one more Law Rune. When he gathered ten Law Runes at the peak of 4th rank, he would have the opportunity to completely fuse them into his own unique Flame Law.

At that time, it would also be the moment when Grim would successfully advance to the 5th rank!

That is to say, what a 5th rank Grim drove was not a flame law within a certain bit system, but a rule flame that was completely and exclusively its own. This also allowed a 5th rank Grimoire to break free from the shackles of the bit's laws and explode with a terrifying power that far exceeded the limits of what bit space could endure.

"Give up some of the Law Runes? It won't affect me adversely in any way, will it?" Grim asked cautiously.

"Drops, the abandoned Law Rune will automatically disappear, and the subject will then forget about it!"

"In addition, there is a certain number of times that the Consciousness Heart Nucleus can transform, and this number is related to various factors such as the strength of the soul of the condensed heart nucleus and the toughness of the spiritual consciousness. If these hard conditions are not up to standard, the number of transformations the Consciousness Heart Core can endure will decay to a certain extent..."

Grim was so shaken that he had to ask rhetorically, "In the wizard books, it is repeatedly mentioned that the limit of a wizard's developmental potential is related to the number of transformations the conscious mind core can receive?"

"Extrapolating from the available information, there is a 97.36% probability that the subject's judgment is correct! Those sorcerers whose development potential was determined to have a limit of 4th rank intermediate are most likely because their Consciousness Heart Cores can only receive 5-6 rune transformations, which is far from the 10 times needed to advance to 5th rank...."

"Understood! Now I know what the so-called limits of potential development really mean." Grim sighed grudgingly, "An individual's base constitution, soul strength, and talent for sorcerer potential... these combined factors determine the strength of his conscious mind core, which in turn limits the highest level he can reach... ...It seems that those 4th rank witches consciously improve every aspect of themselves from body to soul, and it does have a tonic effect to some extent!"

"Drops, innate basic qualities dominate the main factor, and later adjustments and optimizations can only improve potential qualifications slightly, and never fundamentally achieve the effect of 'changing your life against the sky'!"

"What about me? Chip, can you detect the limits of my potential development?"

"Drops, limited by the strength of the chip's function, the limit of the subject's development that can be detected is above stage 5... If a more detailed and accurate determination of the limit of potential is needed, the subject will also need to provide stronger mental support!"

"By the way, you just said there are two solutions to the current situation, what's the other one?"

"Drops, if the subject is unwilling to give up the Law Runes that come to hand, they will need a strong core to suffer the backlash of the Law Fusion instead... and the only one around the subject that meets that condition is.... "

"The Vulcan Pearl?!" Grim sighed with emotion.

At the same time, he instantly understood the significance of the chip's prompt.

The time for his own advancement was still too short and too short.

Eighty years of settling and honing was long enough for an ordinary person, but it was still too short for a 4th rank wizard whose life length had reached a thousand years. Grim had used eighty years to span the five or six hundred years of accumulation of others, and by now, his own mental strength had instead become short, dragging down the overall progress.

And that couldn't be rushed!

Since my own mental strength was not enough to support the fusion of the eight Law Runes, I would use a Fire God Pearl to replace myself. A 5th rank Fire God Pearl to replace himself, a 4th rank mid-level Fire Witch, would definitely be more than enough.

With two different options in front of him, Grim couldn't help but hesitate.

One was to do it himself, give up the remaining 4 Laws Runes and fuse only the selected 4; the other was to replace himself with the Fire God Pearl and fuse all 8 Laws Runes into it....

"Chip, which of the two options is a little more effective?"

"Drops, in terms of future potential development, suggest that the subject take the first..."

"Giving up the 4 Laws of Fire? But you said that once I gave them up, I would forget about them forever! That's 4 laws of fire! It's so hard for an ordinary wizard to get one, and you're asking me to give up four at the same time... What's the reason?"

"From the current information, it can be estimated that the prerequisite for advancing to the 5th level is to master a sufficient number of bite-rules and then fuse them into their own unique rule power. Then in the process, the base flame law chosen by the subject determines the power level of the fused rule flame!"

Grim sucked in a breath of cold air and said, "You mean that the Laws of Flame can't just be fused yet, and that you have to tailor your preparations for future advancement and only pick those that truly suit you?"

"Yes! The reliability of this guess is 86.93%... The future rule flames that the subject may generate are directly related to the flame laws that it chooses to incorporate now. If there is a fundamental conflict between the flame laws chosen to be fused, it will certainly weaken the power of the future rule flame!"

Hearing the chip's deduction, Grim also instantly understood why the three major wizard organizations would always be stronger than those stragglers. I'm afraid the most fundamental reason was the accumulation and inheritance above....

If a 4th level sorcerer like Grim was born within one of the three major sorcerer organizations, I'm afraid that the first moment of advancement, he would have received a tilt of resources and proper guidance from within the organization. There was simply no way that a low-level mistake like Grim's, who had already mastered the 7 Flame Laws himself, would have never attempted to integrate into the Consciousness Heart Core!

It was only in the 'chaotic lands' like the Scattered Tallinn in the middle of the continent, where both high level knowledge and advanced spell casting techniques were monopolized by the major clans, that ordinary sorcerers had no one to guide them when advancing, like a blind man riding a blind horse, and relied purely on luck and resources to tough it out.

Even Grim had this incredibly 'expensive' joke when he lacked the necessary pointers!

"Chip, how should I choose between these eight flame laws? Is there no plan?"

"Drip, now the subject has also reached the moment when it is time to make a choice...it must make a trade-off between the eight Law Runes, and the trade-off is based on the future path the subject chooses to move forward..."

"Tell me more details!"

"Flame is an exceptionally lively and violent magic element, belonging to one of the four basic elements, with huge development potential and astonishing power. However, the world of flames also has countless different directions of development, such as the explosive flow that favors brief flame attack power, the destructive flow that favors sustained flame damage, the violent flow that favors flame maneuvering ability, and the control flow that favors flame effects..."

"There are many genres, and it is recommended that subjects determine one as their main advancement direction based on their own preferences and realistic factors... As for other aspects of development, it would be a good idea to wait until after advancing to the 5th level to fill in the gaps!"

Grim nodded silently.

Previously, his heart was still fuzzy about advancing to the 5th level. But now that he had heard the chip's explanation, he had a clearer picture of the direction he should develop.

The eight flame laws that he currently mastered, of which Flame Augmentation, Flame Intensity, and Flame Penetration belonged to the basic flame laws, applicable to any flame spectrum.

Flame Invisibility and Flame Impact were all flame effects, taking the route of damage control. Whereas Fire Vulnerability and Flame Blitz belong to the explosive streams that explode a large amount of damage in a short period of time, as for Fire Toughness, they are obvious streams of destruction....

Judging from the Higher Flame Laws that I currently mastered, I have a good foundation for development whether I take the route of damage control or the route of explosive flow. As for how to choose specifically, it would only depend on your own preferences!

Damage control...damage bursts....

Grim closed his eyes and pondered in silence.

In fact, only Grim could enjoy such worries. Other 4th stage elemental sorcerers were already overjoyed to be able to comprehend an elemental law, so how could they be like him, picking and choosing, and thinking about the future direction of the 5th stage.

Other elemental sorcerers naturally fused one elemental law after comprehending it, but no one had the foresight and vision to consider the future. As for what exactly can be obtained after advancing to the 5th level in the future, naturally everything is left to fate.

And this was the main reason why the sorcerer community was trying to curry favor with the position consciousness in every possible way!

If the bit consciousness overshadows you, it will naturally give you back a better rule ability; if the bit consciousness hates you, the rule ability that comes back will naturally be trash beyond trash....

As a member within the bit world, any individual is inevitably subject to the domination and control of the bit consciousness, just to varying degrees!

In the future of high level battles, if Grim still liked to do things himself, then Burst Flow was the only option. But if he didn't want to take that huge risk anymore, Control Flow was his best option.

As for the real damage, let's leave it to the Demon Puppets who aren't afraid of life or death to do it!

With that in mind, Grim had his own idea and finally made his final choice....