Age of Adepts

Grim was cruising fast.

Compared to the Golden Titan on the opposite side, his advantage was sharp fire sorcery and good maneuverability.

If we were to simply compare the power of long-range attack sorcery, Grim was going to have the upper hand with an absolute advantage. However, if you consider the physique and strength factors of both sides, the Golden Titan incarnated by Monash is overwhelmingly superior to Grim's Molten Fire Giant.

Without it, Grim's strength was 27 points, while Monash's strength was 49 points.

In front of the opponent's great divine power, Grim was as fragile as a paper man, defeated!

On the other hand, Grim's Physique was 34 points, which was already considered a perversion level in most elemental sorcerers. But against Monash's 47 physique points, he was still only considered a small wizard, a whole order of magnitude behind others.

Strength determined their melee combat power. Although there was still an element of combat skill and killing experience in it, all skill was a cloud in front of absolute power!

The physique determines their physical resistance and flesh* body resilience, and even more so, the foundation of most alchemist and bloodline shamans. In this regard, most elemental shamans adhere to the simple mindset of enough is enough, and rarely polish their bodies with care.

Spirit determines the strength and size range of their mental perception, and also makes their minds more nimble, their minds more agile, and their memories more vast. The spirit is even more directly determined by the strength, range and duration of their sorcery, as well as its penetration.

At this point, while Monash had also reached a peak of 49 points, the time he had spent in his life to ponder and study sorcery was clearly insufficient. So much so that he was able to perform very few lightning sorceries after his transformation into the Golden Titan, aside from a handful of racial abilities.

Thus pinching and pinching, the only thing Grim could 'crush' Monash with was Agility!

19 points of Agility > 13 points of Agility....

After Monash transformed into a Golden Titan, his massive size did comprehensively crush Grim's Molten Fire Giant. Therefore Grim could only choose the roaming tactic, using the Fire Witch's increased movement in the sea of fire to lead his opponent left and right above the battlefield like a hound teasing a bull, trying to keep his distance.

It wasn't that Grim didn't want to throw the opponent far away, but it was just that it was far too low, far too cost effective to do so!

Once the distance between the two sides exceeded a thousand meters, the trajectory of the Flame Sorcery's flight would be very easily captured by the other side. Once the Flame Sorcery was intercepted by it in advance, the dispersed flame energy, although still incredibly strong, was only a slightly warmer breeze for Monash who had a body mass of 47 points.

The resulting slight flame damage wasn't even comparable to the superb recovery brought about by the opponent's strong physique.

Of course, the Flame Invisibility Law that Grim had mastered at the beginning of the battle had also done a great job in playing a good trick on Monash. The opponent was always inexplicably exploding one terrifying flame sorcery after another on his body as he frantically chased and fought.

Although all of these injuries were quickly repaired by Monash's bloodline power, the injuries were too dense and too frequent, and would also put heavy pressure on his flesh* body recovery.

What's more, flesh recovery was not entirely costless!

This one required the continued consumption of his physical strength and bloodline power.

Once the bloodline power in his body was depleted, he would no longer be able to maintain the Golden Titan's ability to transform. And with the loss of the Golden Titan's increased physique, strength and spirit, it would be impossible for him to defeat Grim with the dual artifacts in hand.

Not to mention him, this was obvious to every high-ranking sorcerer present as well!

In order to reduce the loss of bloodline power, Monash no longer bothered to repair the damage on his body that was too small and didn't hinder his battle prowess, and instead put more and greater energy into attacking his enemies.

His 49 points of great divine power made him invincible, even if it was just an ordinary piece of gravel and slag, under the driving force of his violent power, it could instantly turn into a sharp weapon that could pierce through gold and stone. Every swing of his huge iron fist would bring up a terrifying tornado of wild waves, and the range of his attack would cover almost most of the area within a thousand meters directly in front of his body.

Furthermore, each of his physical* attacks would magically trigger the corresponding thunder and lightning. The physical and lightning dual attacks could also cause twice as much damage to his enemies, and the attacks were incredibly powerful.

So when attacking, Monash would easily create a small sandstorm by driving his feet and splashing large puffs of dirt and gravel from the ground, and then taking advantage of the situation to swing his fist.

Monash's true iron fist swings and rolls of incoming hurricane tornadoes were not far away when the enemy's vision was obscured by the huge puffs of smoke and dust, and when the protection outside the enemy's body was shuddering from the storm of raging* stones and dirt.

Faced with the battlefield advantage created by the enemy's use of strength, Grim had no other way out but to do his best to avoid it.

After an even ordinary sandstone was swung by 49 points of berserk power, the entire stone was even able to turn into a small fire meteor that burned at the front end and trailed a red tail flame at the back. Most of the gravel was not strong enough, and was burned up by the air only halfway through the flight.

But the remaining ones, as long as they hit the flame shield, even a 4th-grade flame shield would be riddled with holes. The grit remnants that broke into the shield could even inflict considerable physical damage to Grim's molten fire body.

Unlike elemental sorcerers who tried their best to master the power of the Laws, bloodline sorcerers' thirst for the power of the Laws was not so extreme. They were more interested in pursuing the purity and reunification of their bloodline, and with their research into bloodline sorcery, they strived to reach the peak historical heights of ancient demons.

However, a pure bloodline also brought with it the corresponding power of the Laws!

After Monash's Gold Clan transformed into Golden Titans, they also mastered the Laws of Power and Lightning on their own. Moreover, this kind of law power didn't require them to fathom and study and practice a little bit like elemental shamans.

As long as the bloodline level was reached, the enlightenment and skillfulness of these laws could flow directly from the void to their soul through the strange bloodline inheritance, as if they had studied these things for countless years.

Therefore, the use of the power of the Laws by a High Bloodline Shaman was more of an instinct, and could not be as flexible and versatile as an Elemental Shaman!

Like Grim, he had only been in contact with the Laws of Power for two hundred years, but he had comprehensively crushed Monash, an old sorcerer who had been promoted for more than 900 years, in terms of the use and innovation of the Laws of Power.

The Golden Titan's extremely powerful Laws of Power and Lightning are still so distinct in Monash's hands that they don't interfere with each other. Although from time to time there were instances of dual attacking objects and demons in battle, but that was more of a power extension of the Golden Titan's powerful battle instincts than any improvement or innovation that Monash had made.

On the contrary, Grim, a novice who had been exposed to the power of the Laws for only two hundred years, had created a number of strange contents such as the Flame of the Laws and the Shield of the Laws. This also gave him an advantage in his battle with Monash.

At their level, ordinary physical attacks and elemental damage were no longer even able to leave any traces on their bodies. Only attacks that came with the power of law could break through the force field protection or the body's epidermis and inflict real damage.

To a certain extent, Grim's Law Protection and Monash's superhuman body already possessed a strange effect similar to that of an alchemic sorcerer's immortal body, only the means of reaching it were different!

The ten-hour long horrific battle had also caused Grim and Monash to accumulate terrible wounds on their bodies, and both sides began to decline in strength and energy, no longer finding it difficult to stay at their peak.

As a whole, however, the Golden Titan Monash suffered far more serious injuries than Grim, and the decline in battle strength was approaching a certain dangerous tipping point.

Once this tipping point was crossed, the bloodline power that grew within Monash's body was no longer able to maintain his entire massive body. By then being knocked back to his original form, this 'super strong' level battle would end with his defeat!

However, just on the eve of his line of defeat, a sudden force intruded into the battlefield space, a terrifying power front pointed straight at Grim.

"Drop, detected the emergence of an alien curse energy, capable of posing a moderate threat to the subject, suggesting the subject to move immediately..."

As soon as he received the chip's warning alert, Grim didn't hesitate to transform into an exploding cloud of flames and disappear without a trace.

The sudden aura of exploding flames pushed Monash, who had just arrived there, to stagger backwards, withdrawing a hundred meters before he could barely get his footing.

The dozen or so golden flames split up and fled to different areas, and eventually the other clusters of flames all strangely disappeared, except for the one that fled to the northeast corner, which swelled and grew, once again transforming into Grim's tall and majestic molten fire giant body.

Just after gathering his body, Grim's brow furrowed and he lowered his head to scan his right chest. There, a dark patch of darkness was writhing and twisting... The strange dark lines outlined the form of a strange rune, while an even more treacherous atmosphere of power was being birthed within it.

This was the power of a curse?!

Why is it so weird and difficult?

Just now, Grim had escaped the opponent's curse attack in time, only to be swept away a little by the curse power aftermath as he fled, leaving this strange curse mark on his body.

This curse mark retained an obscure and strange scent of power, and even though Grim had urged the Flame Law to burn it, it could only confine it to an area the size of a palm, but it was never able to completely dispel it.

Furthermore, the cursed mark had bizarrely undergone some sort of mutation after absorbing a small amount of flame energy, instantly transforming into a bizarre insect curse.

Between the black worm curse struggling and twisting, a terrifying foreign worm was transformed and began to frantically tear at the surrounding body of molten fire.

Grim's brow immediately furrowed as he gazed at it!

And his gaze even penetrated the distant space of the battlefield, landing on an enemy who had just revealed his body.

So it was him....