Age of Adepts

The entire Nightmare Ancient Castle began to tremble slightly.

As if a terrifying ferocious beast that had been sleeping for ten thousand years was slowly awakening, a bloody and cruel atmosphere of tyranny permeated the entire interior of the castle.

The nightmare creatures that had been continuously pouring in from all over the castle no longer pounced on Grim, but swarmed to the corner of the hall, where they converged into a grey soft monster. And as the nightmare creatures continued to blend in, the grey monster continued to expand and grow, gradually filling every gap in the corner of the hall and squeezing over towards Grim.

"Drops, 4th stage energy breath detected... Initially, the creature is a 4th stage primary!"

The prompting of the chip in his mind made Grim's mind stir, it was only the beginning of the second phase and already a 4th stage nightmare creature had appeared, so how much more powerful would the subsequent phases become!

Grim didn't dare to allow the other party to grow so recklessly any longer, and with a witch staff in his hand, a golden stream of flames with terrifying heat met the strange soft creature head-on.

The golden stream of flame and the grey monster collided together.

The hall immediately resounded with the odd sound of frying flesh, and a pungent, unpleasant smell quickly spread.

Squeak....

The grey monster seemed to be in pain as well, and began to twist and struggle wildly.

Its body was overly expanded, almost filling up the hall space, thus the slightest movement caused the castle to tremble and shake.

The grey monster frantically twisted its body and threw out cloud after cloud of strange snot-like liquid. Once these liquids landed on the ground, they slowly bulged and morphed, turning into one after another Venomous Soft Mud Monster-like creatures.

They dragged their slimy jelly-like grey bodies across the floor, writhing and spitting grey slime as they approached Grim.

It was good that Grim had a burning field to stop the enemy and a lava shield to protect him, so he didn't have to be concerned about these tiny creatures that were so numerous. However, their presence did hinder Grim's battle with that grey monster.

The Book of Filth and Darkness that Grim held flat in his right hand began to flip with his heart, and with each flip of the page, a similarly ugly and hideous-looking plague creature jumped out of it. As soon as these fearless servants landed on the ground, they rushed towards those 'soft mud monsters' without hesitation.

When the two sides approached a certain distance, the bell-like abdomen of the corpses immediately burst, and the terrifying tide of plague poison plus hundreds or thousands of broken bones and skin struck in all directions like a violent storm.

The original gray soft mud monsters immediately turned beige-purple, and even their movements and acid-spitting movements became extremely slow.

The most frightening thing about the nightmare creatures was actually the despair attached to their attacks, which could induce strong negative reactions from their enemies. But unfortunately, plague creatures didn't even belong to flesh and blood creatures, so naturally, those so-called negative emotions didn't exist either.

However, plague creatures attacked their enemies mainly by spreading the plague virus, and now that they encountered nightmare creatures that also didn't eat the same thing, their attacks had become futile.

Each other's special methods were ineffective against the other, so when the two sides collided, all that was left was a bloody and ferocious personal fight!

A head of plague servant corpses ferociously pounced on it, either beaten into a sieve by the opponent's acid spew, or swallowed by a head of 'soft mud monsters' and digested into a puddle of black liquid, or self-destructed into a cloud of black smoke, staining the enemy with a green layer of plague spores....

With the middle of the hall as the battlefield, the plague creatures and nightmare creatures fought to a standstill, but in a disguised way, they also tripped Grim's feet.

Compared to the deep waters on Grim's side, Mary's side was calm and peaceful.

Perhaps it was due to Mary's special physique, but this Nightmare Castle did not show any malice towards her, instead, it resonated with a hint of soul.

The message from Mary indicated that she had discovered the clue to that Kirthlin Soul Core and was groping deeper into the Nightmare Frontier.

Since that was the case, Grim had given up on his plan to rendezvous with her and began to fight the nightmare creatures here with all his heart. As for that Kathryn, she was apparently in a deep sleep, used to merge the vast power gained from the blood sacrifice.

The only thing Grim could do now was to draw all the attention of that enemy to himself, giving Mary the possibility to sneak into the depths of the Nightmare Frontier.

Upon thinking of this, Grim immediately transformed without hesitation.

Violent and ferocious crimson flames spewed out from every pore of his body, creating a roaring sea of flaming fire around his body. His body was scorching hot and began to expand and grow rapidly.

The Molten Fire Giant....

Since advancing to the 4th level, only by transforming into the Molten Fire Giant form could he carry the surging pure flame energy and the mysterious and mysterious flame laws in his body!

An ordinary human body was fine for small scenes, but once it wanted to fight at full strength, the flesh and blood body simply couldn't withstand the might of the powerful Flame Law. Before hurting the enemy, I'm afraid that the Laws of Flame would have melted Grim's own flesh and blood body.

Of course, this was also related to the fact that Grim hadn't fully and completely mastered the Laws of Flame. If he had truly made the Laws of Flame a part of himself, how could fire harm fire!

The molten fire giant that Grim transformed into was twelve meters tall, not at all something that could be carried by the small castle hall in front of him.

When his transformation was complete, the top of his head had touched the top of the hall. The frightening flames that coiled around his body licked the floor beneath his feet and the ceiling above his head madly, burning them to splinters but not melting into liquid lava as they had in the past.

Having become a molten fire giant, many of the flame sorceries no longer needed sorcery spells, they were like a racial supernatural ability that could be spawned with a raised hand.

Grim strode forward, and the dazzling flames around his body expanded outward in a crazy curl, instantly bringing the entire hall within the scope of the burning field. At the same time, an inexplicably heavy pressure surged from all directions, colliding and entangling with Grim's spiritual consciousness, trying to push his overflowing power back into his body.

"Hmph..."

Grim grunted and used the Book of Filth and Darkness to protect his body and mind, betting most of his mental energy into the Fire God Pearl. Immediately, a violent and ferocious stream of magical flames began to blow like a whirling hurricane into every corner of the hall.

The grey monster that was in the front of Grim immediately took the terrifying destruction of the flame stream!

So what if it's a 4th order nightmare creature!

Under the repeated blows of the dual artifacts, the gray monster's body was scorched black, and its size was getting smaller and smaller. Even with the continued incorporation of even more nightmare creatures, it couldn't change its rapidly shrinking status quo.

However, just as Grim was furiously torturing that grey nightmare monster, a new prompt from the chip in his mind suddenly appeared.

"Time's up! It's about to enter the third stage of the Nightmare Frontier..."

As soon as the prompt sounded, the situation in front of him changed again in a bizarre manner.

That 4th level beginner's grey plague monster had unexpectedly self-destructed!

The massive grey body exploded into a soft liquid that coated every corner of the hall and quickly blended in.

In the next second, the entire Nightmare Castle came to life abruptly.

The dense grey biological matrix overflowed from the floor, rock walls, and ceiling, and quickly blended in. At one point, inside the entire hall, except for the area controlled by Grim's Burning Field, the entire area was completely covered with this biomass.

They bulged and rose, their surface covered with wet slime and wrinkled lines. From a distance, they resembled the intestinal walls and acidic solutions of flesh and blood creatures.

And Grim was apparently the 'food' located inside their intestines!

In the various corners and chambers of the castle that Grim couldn't see, a fleshy cocoon that looked like it had been haphazardly built up with flesh and blood was rising and contracting regularly, drum by drum, and moving rhythmically. Inside each of these cocoons, some strange and bizarre embryos can be seen sinking and floating inside the pale green liquid.

When Grim's fierce and unparalleled flame wreaked havoc in the Nightmare Castle, the monsters inside the cocoons couldn't help but get restless and crazy.

Those that had matured or were close to maturity eagerly tore open the membrane, emerged from the murky, unknown pus-yellow juice, threw their ugly, twisted bodies, raised their hideous heads, sniffed with their nostrils, and immediately pounced with a shriek in the direction of the flame breath.

Standing in the middle of the hall, the Grim Ug who was cleaning up these nasty flesh walls raised his head, silently perceiving it, and could clearly feel that the cruelty and tyranny in the environment was growing stronger.

And outside of the cruel and tyrannical atmosphere, an odd emotion capable of debilitating the mind was growing in the depths of the soul. Just like the law of flame can generate fire without the help of any combustion materials, this strange emotion can also break through the human mind's defense, rooting the seed of despair in the human heart, and then a little watering and growing.

And the nourishment for it to grow up is all the negative emotions of the human mind!

This meant that in the Nightmare Frontier, as long as your mind wasn't completely cold, the other party would be able to use the power of the Laws to stir up your negative emotions, causing your mind and spirit to gradually sink into darkness.

The only thing that can fight against one law is also the other one!

The Book of Filth and Darkness in Grim's hand held up a light of law, barely excluding the negative emotions added by the Nightmare Frontier. However, unknowingly, Grim's dark pupils were also gradually masked with a dark red glow, and his spiritual luster was beginning to become somewhat dull.

At this time, the creatures fighting Grim were no longer ordinary nightmare creatures, but this gradually revived Nightmare Castle. As for the nightmare creatures that kept attacking with the help of the flesh wall, the individual level had also soared to the 3rd intermediate level.

This made it much more difficult for the heavily wounded Grim to cope!