Age of Adepts

The Nightmare Castle is revived, but it has no arms, legs, or sharp claws after all, so all the work of cleaning up foreign enemies is left to this group of nightmare creatures under its control.

Essentially, the nightmare creatures should just be a group of spirits, appearing in the Nightmare Frontier by way of soul projection.

However, since the Kirthlin Blood Sacrifice had devoured all the Entom Wraiths, it had transformed from a mere alchemical being into a different kind of monster with the characteristics of a flesh and blood creature.

In other words, it had a life and soul as well, with everything that an intelligent life should have!

The only problem now was that Kirthlin ascended by means of blood sacrifice, and the soul origin was filled with murder and violence. Once it woke up again after its slumber, it would most likely mutate into some kind of terrifying forbidden life.

Once such a fellow could not be controlled and let it make a scene in the Scattered Earth Tower Forest, it would be a catastrophe for the entire central region. But if it could be brought under control, it would be an excellent sorcery slave for any sorcerer organization or power.

After all, it was rare to find a sorcery slave with the potential to develop right up to rank 6, and even fewer could be used by a sorcerer!

Not to mention, if Mary was able to successfully control Kathryn's soul core, then the combination of Mary + Kathryn would definitely be as good as that Witch Demon Kangonas. Of course, this was referring to the Witch Demon before obtaining the Casket of Harsh Winter, not the extremely powerful Cold Witch Demon now.

Ever since obtaining the Casket of Severe Winter, the Witch Demon Kangenas had been hiding inside his skeletal bits and had never shown his face again. Even if Grim was kind enough to invite it, it would only send some of its 4th rank men out to deal with the situation.

If Grim hadn't used the Graveyard of the Dead to transfer it out for a while, it would have been difficult to see its true self for hundreds of years.

As observed by the chip, the Wraith Kangenas fused the Box of Severe Winter very smoothly. At this time, it had also reached the peak of the 4th stage and possessed the strength of a super-strong man. Furthermore, the cold ice power it absorbed had fused perfectly with its own death power, condensing an extremely unique death freezing gas.

In battle, it was even able to extend this death freezing gas to its undead slaves in the form of an aura plus, attaching another magical effect to their physical attacks - soul freezing.

Think of the undead armies that filled the entire surface, and the fact that each of them possessed the ability to freeze their souls. Every attack that landed on the enemy would cause their souls to freeze and their minds to freeze, allowing them to attack without being able to fight back....

Such a powerful and terrifying ability yet it was only the result of the other party's initial fusion. Once it was given hundreds of years to completely fuse the Casket of Severe Winter into its soul source, Congenas would immediately leap to the 5th rank and become the first cold witch demon in the multiverse to possess death freezing gas.

Everyone was silently advancing or in the midst of being powerful, and Grim naturally didn't dare to slack off in the slightest. Even though he was now firmly in the middle of the continent, he still did not let go of any opportunity or challenge that could enhance his strength.

Compared to Grim's smooth sailing, Mary's future was a lot more troublesome.

Vampire witches like her, succeeded and failed by blood.

Everything they possessed was thanks to their bloodline, and their early advancement speed was like a demon as if they were open. However, once they lost their bloodline or touched the shackles of their bloodline, it meant that their future was cut off, and it would be difficult for them to take another step in their lives.

For bloodline witches, if they didn't have a great opportunity in their lives, they wouldn't be able to break the bloodline shackles and leap into a true higher life without experiencing a great deal of bloodshed.

Mary's natural potential was good, but it was only 'good'!

Compared to those wizard geniuses and gifted guys, Mary's vampire talent was simply inferior. Along the way, if it wasn't for the nourishment of the large amount of dragon's blood in the Lance Plane, I'm afraid that if Mary wanted to reach her current level, she would have to simmer for at least seven or eight hundred years more.

That would be the time when she would race against life with her efforts and talent!

It had to be said that Mary's meeting Grim was also an opportunity and destiny for her. And she was able to trust Grim wholeheartedly, which was simply a strange person that shouldn't exist in the wizard world that only cared about benefits and advantages.

But it was this odd mentality and feeling that freed both Mary and Grim. There was no bloodline, no contract, no entanglement of benefits, yet both sides were able to trust each other from the bottom of their hearts.

This... could no longer be described as ordinary affection!

It was precisely because of his trust in Mary that Grim was going all out to confront the Nightmare Castle in front of him.

Under Grim's elemental vision and spiritual perception, the interior of the Nightmare Castle was filled with all kinds of distorted and strange force field fluctuations. These force field fluctuations overlapped and interlaced with each other, tangling and mutating, thus changing the original force field properties.

It was precisely because of their overly complex changes that it was difficult for any external probe to get an inch here.

When Grim first entered the castle, the main reason why the field boundaries and spiritual perceptions were compressed to the point where it was almost impossible to leave the body!

Now, after the chip's efficient parsing and data manipulation, Grim had finally gotten a preliminary grasp of the force field curves and fluctuation changes within the Nightmare Castle. Only then did he further unleash the power of the Burning Field, incinerating a swarm of terrifying enemies into withered bones and charcoal, blocking them from ten steps away.

It couldn't be helped, after entering the second stage of the Nightmare Frontier, almost all of the creatures that appeared before Grim were 2nd and 3rd level Nightmare creatures. Although they couldn't become Grim's true opponents, they still held him in the hall with their fearless charge and terrifying numbers.

And using the time that the nightmare creatures had bought, this nightmare castle was also undergoing rapid mutation. That fleshy wall of biological matrix was spread over almost every corner of the castle, and even within the halls, Grim could faintly hear a muffled thumping sound like a low war drum.

Heartbeat... it was the heartbeat of the revived Nightmare Ancient Castle!

"Time's up! Starting the third stage of the Nightmare Frontier..."

As soon as the chip's tone disappeared, the sound of that strange heartbeat disappeared along with it.

The entire Nightmare Castle became abruptly quiet.

An unprecedented amount of violent power washed down from the upper levels of the castle and pressed down on Grim along with the intricately entangled force field fluctuations within.

Before the battle at the Stone Canyon, Grim might have been able to withstand this impact with his 26 points of physique. But now, Grim's face changed and could only gather a massive amount of flame energy to block the powerful force that was pressing against him.

Boom....

With an explosion, the twelve meter tall Molten Fire Giant flew out of the Nightmare Castle like a baseball that had been smacked hard, until it crashed into the outer gate of the castle manor.

At the peak of the 4th stage....

Just the third stage was already at the peak of stage 4 strength, but it had forced itself out of the Nightmare Castle.

This wasn't a good start!

Grim pondered as he slowly pulled himself out of the wall. The hot, dazzling flames baked the wall, scorching the rock inside the human-shaped gap, then turning it into soft, liquid lava flowing down.

In front of him, the nightmare castle that towered silently in place, like an ancient ferocious beast, was slowly writhing its body. An unprecedentedly powerful soul fluctuation rose from the depths of the castle, like a small mountain crashing head-on towards Grim.

Grim's eyes flashed with fierce molten fire, his tall molten fire body stood up like a mountain, and his coagulated spirit combined with the four flame laws to meet it directly.

Thud.....

A silent muffled sound.

The formless and qualitative spiritual power collided together in the void, surprisingly provoking folds and ripples that were visible to the naked eye. The entire Nightmare Frontier's sky was as if a piece of parchment was twisted and crumpled to a frightening degree, and the terrifying sound of paper tearing was faintly heard in the void.

Such a spiritual collision could not be done in the slightest falsehood, that is, two powerful life forms abandoned their spell-casting techniques and combat tactics and directly clashed together with the full force of their hearts and spirits. What was being compared was the strength of their spirits, the strength of their souls, and the tenacity of their wills....

Grim had the Book of Filth and Darkness to protect his mind, and the Fire God Pearl to act as a cohesive core, and was clearly above that Kathryn in this regard. The first time I was in a position to do so, I had to go through the whole process of getting my hands on a newborn child.

After the collision, Grim thudded and retreated in succession.

The thick and strong molten fire giant legs left a deep footprint of two meters deep in every step backward, which was filled with red hot liquid magma, burning the earth with a sizzling sound.

The Nightmare Castle, which was a hundred times larger than Grim's, wasn't so easy either.

As far as the naked eye could see, dazzling flames of light burst from all over the castle. Puffs of thick black smoke drifted out from inside the castle, rising up into the sky.

The nightmare castle as a whole was trembling violently, and the relief decorations on the outer walls were falling down. A deep crack extended upwards from the castle foundation, even spreading to the fourth floor of the castle.

The original lingering in the castle periphery of the huge and complicated force field wall is even more crackling and bursting.

This collision also successfully tested the basic strength of both.

The strength and physique of the Nightmare Castle-based Kslin crushed Grim across the board, while his mental strength was significantly weaker than his.

Perhaps Kirthlin's most obvious weakness was in his ability to move.

It was, after all, just a being transformed from an alchemical castle, with near zero mobility. Without the special field of consciousness like the Nightmare Frontier, it was afraid that it would have to be perfectly restrained by Grim's powerful Flame Sorcery.

After one failed strike, the Nightmare Castle once again trembled its body and began to brew up another consciousness attack. And Grim, who could not retreat, could only shake his molten fire body to meet it once again.

As he clanked and battled with Kathryn, Grim secretly sent a message over to Mary.

"3 minutes and 11 seconds... you only have 3 minutes and 11 seconds! Retreat immediately beyond this time...otherwise, I won't be able to stop this guy either!"