Age of Adepts

Three months later.

Still in the sea of ashes that stretched for tens of thousands of miles, Grim once again saw that extremely powerful Flame King Gromth.

The moment he took out the Light Flame Divine Stone from his bosom, the entire Hall of Flames boiled in an instant.

The fire of the Laws on Gromth's body flipped violently, and at the position of the humanoid flame's eyes, two striking blue flames shot out, living like the fireworks set off during a festival.

"Good... great... I knew you kid could be trusted... now give it to me!" Gromus stood up and shouted in an urn.

Faced with the Flame Monarch's outstretched flaming hand, Grim didn't move a muscle, and a strange look appeared on his seemingly smiling face.

"My lord, did you forget something before you obtained the Light Flame God Stone?"

As if a blazing fire, Gromus couldn't help but shake his head and say, "You human sorcerers are never pleasant enough when it comes to making deals. What, do you think that we flame creatures would coax with people like you?"

With that, Gromus casually pulled out a flame crystal from his chest and tossed it to Grim, saying loudly, "This is where the method to refine the origin fire is stored, now, you can give me that Light Flame Divine Stone!"

Grim took the flame crystal and leaned over his forehead, briefly browsing through the information stored within, nodding in satisfaction. Only then did his right hand loosen up, allowing the Flame Monarch to take away the Light Flame God Stone.

"Alright, the deal is done, you can leave now!"

After both sides had taken what they wanted, that Gromus was clearly eager to comprehend the effects of the Light Flame God Stone, and almost couldn't wait to 'drive' Grim out of the Sea of Ashes.

In such a place of righteousness, Grim didn't dare to stay long, and directly pulled open a portal to the Flame Throne Witch Tower, disappearing into the spot.

Why so many high-ranking sorcerers preferred to build a unique sorcerer tower of their own could be seen from this. No matter where they were on any different plane, as long as the other party was not isolated from long-distance inter-dimensional teleportation, they would be able to cross billions of miles to return to their residence instantly with the guidance of the Witch Tower's Waymark.

It was just that such a method required profound sorcery knowledge and powerful sorcery methods to do so. It was currently an ability that was only unique to 4th level sorcerers.

After returning to the Voodoo Tower, the first thing Grim did was to run to the foreign dimension to collect the finished devoured Wisdom Sacred Book.

Seriously speaking, after being completely devoured by the Voodoo Secret Scroll, the Holy Book of Wisdom had completely ceased to exist.

In that space, there was an additional special voodoo codex, the Book of Filthy Darkness.

It was a thick and somewhat frighteningly large book, with a hard cover lined with magic dragon skin and sharp fine gold pagelets inlaid around the edges. The first thing you see when you turn the pages is a pale green wooden doll on paper, and its body is painted with all sorts of strange magical patterns.

Remy the Plague Poison Spirit!

With the promotion of the Voodoo Secret Scroll to the Book of Filth and Darkness, Remy has become a summoned creature from this book of sorcery. Grim was still able to summon it at any time and continue to fight for himself in the battlefield.

And as Grim and the Book of Filth and Darkness rose, Remy's rank surprisingly became a 4th rank.

It belonged to Grim's soul armament after all, and was so closely related to Grim's soul that it simply couldn't exist in this world on its own.

Flipping to the second page, what Grim saw was the old poisonous woman that Remy had turned into his contract servant. However, her level was still 3, and there was no improvement like Remy's.

Flipping backwards and forwards, Grim helplessly discovered that this Book of Filth and Darkness should simply be called the Book of Plagues, and from beginning to end it was almost all about the various strange plague creatures that Remy had collected and concocted.

And as Grim kept flipping through it, the chip's prompt rang out with it.

"The Book of Filth and Darkness, a 5th-rank witchcraft, which contains all the indirect and perceptions of the God of Wisdom on the planes, space, knowledge and power, and also carries a vast system of plague communities..."

"It is expected that it will give the ontology a +5 spirit, faster knowledge understanding and acceptance. It will also give this entity additional expertise in breaking through the limits of elemental specialization and mastering sorcery of other spectrums no higher than -2 to this entity's rank..."

"This sorcery comes with a highly poisonous aura that allows the body to master all venom-based sorceries on its own..."

Ssshhhhhhhh....

Grim couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air as he grabbed this Book of Filth and Darkness.

For the Fire God Pearl, Grim was only forcibly driving it, unable to completely obliterate the Fire God brand within it yet. This Book of Filth and Darkness was completely different, but Grim's soul armament, from the inside out, belonged completely to him.

As a result, the ability increase that the 5th level Book of Filth and Darkness brought to Grim was simply shockingly high.

Not to mention, the +5 points of spirit power alone was already amazing enough.

It must be known that the maximum increase in a single attribute that a 4th level top level sorcerer could bring was only 3 points. But here it was 5 points, and it also increased the spiritual attribute that elemental sorcerers valued the most.

With the addition of the Book of Filth and Darkness, Grim's mental strength instantly soared to 49 points. This made him good enough to be on par with those peak 4th stage superpowers!

Of course, the addition of external objects could not represent Grim's true power.

Grim still had a long way to go if he wanted to reach the peak of 4th stage. But when fighting against others, the increase in battle power that could be brought about by these 5 points of spiritual empowerment would be far, far too great!

At the very least, if that Torturing Witch appeared in front of Grim again, Grim could completely crush her opponent with her great individual strength.

On top of that, another great advantage that the Book of Filth and Darkness brought to Grim was a breakthrough in elemental specialization.

In the past, Grim had specialized in Flame Sorcery, and although it possessed the ultimate destructive attack power, it was easy for enemies to target it purposefully. But now, with the addition of the Book of Filth and Darkness, Grim was completely able to cross the line to control other spectrum magic elements. As long as it didn't exceed 2 levels, there was no limit to flame specialization.

So many elemental sorceries and flame sorceries combined to form a hybrid sorcery, which could also allow Grim's attack tricks to become more and more versatile.

Moreover, there was a free poisonous aura and venom-based terrifying sorcery, Grim's attack tricks would only be too many, not too few!

And as Grim's soul armament, the Book of Filth and Darkness also contained the 4th stage Plague Poison Spirit Remy and its plague army. By releasing them all, Grim would instantly have another army of cannon fodder at his disposal.

From all these additions and benefits, it could be seen that the 5th-ranked Sorcerer was indeed able to crush those 4th-ranked Sorcerers in every aspect.

Grim carefully found a fine gold chain to tie the Book of Filth and Darkness around his waist.

If you added the Fire Bead, Grim who possessed two rank 5 wizards at the same time would at least be undefeated in the rank 4 wizard group.

In addition, the crushing characteristics of rank 5 against rank 4 could not be ignored.

When fighting a 4th rank wizard, the flame sorcery that Grim would inspire with a 4th rank Fire Coral Wand would be offset by a large portion of the opponent's force field protection and their own resistance. But if you switched to a 5th rank Fire Coral Bead, the flame damage brought about would have to be much greater than before.

This was the inevitable result of the sorcery rank crushing!

After carefully putting away the Book of Filth and Darkness, Grim then calmly looked over the flame crystal carefully.

"Drop, sensing a new data stream, this body can receive it... please indicate whether or not to receive it?"

"Receive!"

In the next moment, a stream of consciousness with a hint of burning breath broke into Grim's mind and was swiftly taken in and absorbed by it.

It was true that Gromus had not lied, it was indeed a special technique with tips on refining the origin fire, or what Grim called the Rule Fire.

Moreover, after Grim quenched the Consciousness Heart Core at the Sorcerer's Association, his understanding and control of the Rule Fire was even better, and he could completely put it into practice right now.

And this was clearly far beyond the reach of other 4th level witches.

According to the advancement process of past fire witches, at 4th stage, most of them were busy collecting source material, comprehending the Laws of Flame, and melting the Consciousness Heart Core. As for the Rule Fire, it was necessary to wait until one had collected a plurality of flame laws, raise one's spirit to the 49 point limit, and then use a special sorcery ritual to fuse all the flame laws into one, which would allow one to form one's own Rule Fire.

It was only after advancing to the 5th level that they could use this spark-like rule flame to fully radiate their body and adapt it to the intensity of the rule fire. Then they would use hundreds of years of water grinding work to transform their bodies and origin fires bit by bit.

And now, Grim was exercising the authority of a 5th rank sorcerer with a 4th rank body, and the various hidden benefits this could bring him were naturally uncountable.

To be honest, the current Grim, if he was able to melt his Rule Fire beforehand, and with the aid of two 5th stage sorcerers, he would literally transform into a 5th stage Grand Sorcerer with a 4th stage skin.

Such strength was simply the difference between a wolf and a sheep in a group of 4th Order Sorcerers!

Only, with Grim's current strength, it was still a bit too hasty to melt the Rule Fire. After all, his Consciousness Nucleus had just undergone a leap, and it would be difficult for it to withstand too much pressure in the short term.

Therefore, Grim also went silent again inside the Flame Throne Witch Tower, silently waiting for the recovery of the Consciousness Heart Core.

And this wait was five years long.

On this day, the strange bone finger in Grim's hand that had been taking advantage of the situation for a long time finally resounded once again.

In the secret room, Grim pulled out the finger bone that was emitting strange chirps and overflowing with heavy dead air, and frowned slightly.

This... this was the contact token left by that Witch Demon to himself.

The other party contacted him at this time, could it be that... the mission time had already arrived?