Age of Adepts

"She's already here!"

The moment Gloria teleported in, Mary sensed her presence through the Nightmare Frontier.

Within Mary's powerful perception, the energy glow emanating from Gloria's body was so scorching and dazzling that it was like a sun suddenly rising on the horizon that she couldn't even ignore if she wanted to.

Mary was no longer the little witch who hadn't seen a big scene in the past, the formidable 4th stage witch had seen a lot, even the peak level superpower had dealt with her. But an individual as powerful as the witch that had suddenly appeared before her was still rare.

If Mary didn't have that part of the power added by the Nightmare Castle, I'm afraid that she would have a not insignificant chance of being injured just by looking directly at the energy glow outside the other party's body.

This kind of oppression, this kind of power, was also something that had never been given by any enemy in the past!

Grim took a deep breath and laughed bitterly, "It's Gloria, the second most powerful superpowered person in the Sorcerer's Association!" Perceiving through the chip, he was one step ahead of Mary in recognizing the other's identity.

"Whoever she is, if she dares come, put her down!" Mary said viciously, the nails at the end of her slender slender fingers were growing wildly, curving into the shape of sharp, sharp hand claws. There was also a scarlet blood mane attached to it, and it possessed the three terrifying witchcraft effects of 'Tear', 'Erosion' and 'Bleed' at the same time.

"Don't you come forward!" Grim shook his head to stop her, "Whether or not we can defeat this enemy today depends on the power of the Nightmare Castle's home field. I'll go and circle her, you stay inside the castle and exert maximum force field pressure on her."

"I'm better at fighting than you are...," Marie's scarlet blood pupils burned, screeching.

"But we need this home field!" Grim was still so calm: "Once you go first and get heavily hit by the enemy, Nightmare Castle's home field advantage will be broken. At that point, our chances of winning are even lower!"

Mary gritted her teeth and hated the sound of her voice, "Why do I have to stay behind every time? I don't need your care, and I'm fighting..."

"You'll have time to fight! Let me wear down her power first, the rest of the duel will be yours!" Having spent so much time with each other, Grim obviously knew how to appease the violent woman who was close to storming off.

"Huh?" Mary was only muffled by this.

But just as Grim turned to exit, Mary suddenly pulled him back in.

"If... I mean if... it's really dangerous, we can give up!" Mary suddenly looked Grim straight in the eye and said seriously, "All external objects are unimportant! The middle, the family, the resources...everything we can give up! As long as we're still around, wherever we go, we'll be able to fight again..."

Grim smiled gently, reaching out and patting the back of Mary's hand, before turning around and walking out of the Nightmare Ancient Castle.

In front of the black hole Nightmare Castle, in the middle of a wilderness filled with scorch marks and deep pits, Grim stood firm, holding the Book of Filth and Darkness in his left hand, and grasping the Fire Coral Wand in his right, waiting quietly for the other party with bated breath.

Without waiting much longer, the distant night fog swirled, and a tall, graceful female figure, whose body was surrounded by a lingering purple light, stepped out of the fog and appeared before Grim.

Due to the purple fluorescence being too dazzling, even with Grim's vision, he was unable to penetrate the energy glow to see the other party's figure and appearance. However, inside his mind, the chip poured out a simple sketch of the other party's basic form and face after stripping the energy force field through a variety of detection methods such as infrared vision, telekinetic touch, elemental perception, and energy spectrum.

There was nothing to say, although she wasn't considered a true beauty, her body shape and looks were still plausible.

At least on her, Grim didn't detect any traces of sorcery transformation!

"You're Grim?" The purple figure stopped and couldn't help but exclaim, "I thought you were going to hide in a rat hole until I pulled you out before you'd show yourself!"

With that, the other party looked up and down a few times with intent and said calmly, "You're good! At least out of all the male witches I've met, you're the best behaved!"

The words were complimentary, but the condescending, superior posture of the words was extraordinarily repulsive.

Grim smirked, sending a swift message over to Mary in his mind.

"Start crushing it!"

In the next second, the purple humanoid who was laughing lightly, Woodland's body shook, and her hot gaze swiftly casted to the dark and sunken castle located half a mile behind Grim.

She perceived clearly, a terrifying domain power overflowed from inside the castle, quickly enveloped and blocked the surrounding bit of emptiness, and then condensed into a powerful force field fluctuation suppressed on her body.

The energy fluctuation on her body was immediately weakened by more than 30%.

Domain range: three mile radius... Energy level: 4th level... Domain effect: power suppression... Energy source: nightmare castle... ...

Hidden in the purple light, Gloria's heart was on fire and her body was surging with power, which intended to break into the castle and first uncover the little rat hiding inside.

However, just as she was about to move, the long-awaited Grim had already taken the lead.

Grim's form expanded rapidly, transforming into a tall molten fire giant in half a fraction of a second. A four-colored glow emitted from the core of the Molten Fire Giant's body, representing the four Flame Laws that Grim had completely mastered. The Book of Filth and Darkness even projected a dazzling light that lingered outside of the Molten Fire Giant's body, forming the outermost layer of a law protection.

The Fire Coral Sorcerer's Staff in his right hand also quickly projected energy, turning into a ten-meter-long Flame Sorcerer's Staff that spewed into a stream of high-temperature flames as thick as three meters, slicing away at the other side.

"Hmph, think you can beat me with this?"

In the front part of the flames, the purple figure forced out an invisible force field, blocking the raging stream of hot flames from its body. Wherever the fragments of flames splashing everywhere landed, a wave of fire rose up.

Where the flames burned, life was extinguished and everything turned to ash!

It was just that this land had already undergone a calamity, and the material and life available for burning had worn away in the last war. Therefore, the flames surged past, and apart from causing the land to turn black again and the air to heat up, it was no longer possible to replicate the terrifying sight of the last time that destroyed the heavens and earth.

There was a bang.

The flames burst....

The purple humanoid even went up against the scorching stream of high temperature flames and rushed towards the molten fire giant, his tiny right hand clenched into a fist and punched out viciously.

Buzz.....

A strange muffled sound, like a jet fighter looming low overhead, the tiny fist broke through the stream of hot flames and rolled up with a terrifying wind pressure, and with a sharp whistle it struck the layer of law protection outside of the molten fire giant's body.

"Warning, warning, the intensity of the attack has exceeded the current protection limit, it cannot be fully defended, please ask the subject to evade immediately..." the chip warning in Grim's mind immediately sounded into the air.

Unfortunately, the short interval of time between when it detected the strength of the opponent's attack and when the opponent's attack was imminent was simply not enough for Grim to launch a Flame Jump.

So, under Grim's all-out magical defense, the giant force rawly penetrated the outer layer of law protection, crushed the swarms of lava shields, and struck the last layer of flame protection on top of the Molten Fire Giant.

Another bang exploded.

The punch was in the front, but the explosion was in the back.

A huge gash burst open on the Lava Giant's broad back, and tons of reddish hot lava and sticky flame energy spewed out in a fan-like pattern, creating a rain of lava behind it.

Grim's molten fire body was penetrated by this purple fire humanoid in just one blow!

The molten fire giant's body leaned forward, two sturdy molten rock legs backwards to support the ground, sliding backwards for half a mile before it barely braked to a halt.

The huge blood hole in his back hit the molten fire giant deeply and severely again, if not for the fact that his energized body was devoid of the human's so-called vitality, Grim would have fallen to the ground after just this one blow.

The molten fire giant that had lost a large amount of 'flesh and blood' on its back slowly stood up, and the heart of the rule that was almost the size of a millstone was still pulsing wildly. Every time it bulged, it pumped out a surging flame energy like an ocean of tide.

The flame energy flowed through the body that was missing most of its organs, part of it was lost, and part of it was transformed back into the abundant fire element that began to outline and repair the severely damaged body and organs.

Visible to the naked eye, the organs and blood vessels constructed by the fire element began to extend within the body, and the pure flame energy filled in the vacant places, reincarnating into a body of molten fire, initially sealing the wounds on the back.

With only seven flexes of the finger, the Molten Fire Giant stood up tremblingly once again.

And with that violent attack just now, the purple humanoid wasn't completely undamaged!

The Law Counterattack of the Book of Filth and Darkness and the Flame Backlash of the Molten Fire Giant overlapped together, rushing away the energy force field outside of the Purple Fire Humanoid's right fist. The tiny fist that leaked out of the storm was completely carbonized on the surface in a matter of moments, even the flesh and blood inside was scorched by the heat, and the slender finger bones were even charred black.

With a grunt of pain, the purple humanoid power was pushed, and purple fire flowed down the arm, wrapping the right fist once again. Insulated from the Flame Law, the fire on the fist was instantly extinguished, and the damaged flesh and tendons rapidly regenerated and healed under the powerful energy rushing through it.

With only seven flexes of the finger, the purple fire humanoid repaired the damage to his right fist and rushed at Grim again.

Grim could only stop the mending of his body and fired a series of explosive fireballs to slow down his opponent's speed. Only then did he jump out at the moment of the new attack's arrival.

A thousand meters away, Grim emerged from another area.

Just as soon as he stood firm, a five-meter-square giant clump of mud came crashing through the air, and the whistling wind was so strong that even Grim's heart trembled when he heard it.