Age of Adepts

The bloodline energy, its greatest characteristic is its ultra-aggressive nature.

It was able to erode almost all the magic energies of the known elemental spectrum within the bit, and only a handful of powers such as space energy, time element, and curse power were immune to its erosion.

The violet light outside of Gloria's body was apparently not yet immune to the erosion of blood energy, so under the rushing of the sea of blood, the already paper-thin layer of violet light protection finally broke open a crack.

"Ah.................................."

A terrifying scream like Gloria tearing through the clouds was suddenly heard from within the sea of blood.

The rolling waves of sound carried with them a violent and unparalleled power that instantly rippled out the blood within a thirty meter radius of the body, shaking the entire castle to its core. Inside the spherical space cleared by the sound waves, Gloria had her hands clenched and was raising her head and mouth in a roaring manner.

At her revealed body, the left arm, right leg, and waist side were all covered with striking blood moss. It was a sign that blood energy was converging, and she was too late to dissipate or annihilate it.

The sound waves rolled endlessly, and all the blood water that rushed into the sonic envelope was instantly annihilated. Even the emptiness around Gloria's body appeared with a visible crack, apparently her sonic attack had reached the point where even the emptiness could be torn apart.

Although the sonic attack displayed by Gloria was equally awe-inspiring, the hidden Grim and the others could not help but be secretly pleased. Because... the violet light protection outside of Gloria's body had disappeared!

From the beginning of the battle until now, Grim was physically exhausted, and the Nightmare Castle had been destroyed in small half. That Gloria, on the other hand, remained unharmed.

Of course, Grim's flames and Mary's sea of blood had also inflicted considerable damage on Gloria. However, this damage was clearly not beyond the limits of a top-tier Body Tempering Sorcerer.

As long as she was given time, as long as she was given the chance to work her power, some flesh wounds would soon recover!

Unfortunately, in high warfare, one could never pin one's hopes on the mistakes or mercy of the enemy.

Just as Gloria invoked her origin power to force open the damned High Rot Blood Sea and prepare to break free from it, she looked up from Ug, looking horrified as a bloody figure descended from the sky and lunged at her in the same manner.

"You're looking for death!"

"Give it down!"

Two top witches with very different voices but equally fiery temperaments slammed into each other over the Sea of Blood.

If this was flat ground, with Gloria's strong constitution and berserk strength, Mary wouldn't have been able to shake her form by even a little bit of her strength. Unfortunately, this place wasn't....

Gloria pounded out a fist, and Mary on the opposite side didn't even dodge, rigidly carrying the iron fist with her body. The fist hit Mary's right shoulder, and immediately there was a terrible sound of bones bursting and blood spurting in the void.

The place where the fist was struck was the right shoulder, but Mary suddenly burst open a huge line of blood from shoulder to waist. The shattered bone fragments, the shattered and twisted organ fragments were crushed into a fine blood paste by the violent giant force, and mixed with the sticky purple-black blood water, splashing out, creating a ten-meter high fountain of blood behind Mary.

The severely injured Mary instead became even more ferocious, ignoring her own injuries and forcefully knocking Gloria, who had just risen into the sky, back into the sea of blood once again.

Thud....

With two dull noises, Gloria and Mary frantically wrestled and tore, sinking together into the depths of the sea of blood. The two of them could not be seen on the surface of the tumbling and trembling sea of blood, and they could only notice the fierceness and danger of the battle below through the rising and falling waves of violent blood.

In addition to the Sea of Blood and Mary, some hidden chambers of the castle opened and out rushed some powerful and specially conditioned witch beasts. They roared and rushed into the Sea of Blood, not caring about the erosion of the blood water on their bodies, and frantically rushed towards Gloria who was in the midst of the fierce battle.

Thud....

Another earth-shaking explosion, under the matchless power, the blood water along with everything inside was shaken ten meters away, Gloria, whose body was densely covered with all kinds of strange wounds, roared and tried to rush out of the sea of blood.

Unfortunately, the slender figure of Mary in the sea of blood on the side rushed out once more, and the powerful blood energy coils wrapped around the dark red sticky blood water turned into two blood shackles wrapped around Gloria's calves.

"The fight isn't over yet, don't you dare run..."

Mary's once beautiful as ever face was now covered with wounds of all sizes, many of which had flesh and blood rolling outwards, living like a grinning baby. The flesh on top of many more wounds had been crushed into a bloody paste by the violent force, revealing the white bones beneath.

Her chest had completely collapsed, and her back had even split open several terrifying openings, with the skeleton inside no longer intact, soaking in a sticky, murky blood paste. As for the internal organs and tendons and bones, they were all shaken by the undisclosed force into a blood paste, mixed and stirred into a muddy blood that no one could distinguish its contents.

The vampire's powerful life force kept it from dying after such severe injuries, but instead dragged Gloria even more heroically back into the depths of the Sea of Blood.

The Sea of Blood was Mary's home turf!

Here, she possessed an almost unlimited and powerful recovery ability.

Whenever the flesh and sinew and bones of her body were blown to pieces by Gloria, the endless energy from the Sea of Blood would frantically pour into her body, mending all injuries and defects at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

As long as the sea of blood was inexhaustible, and as long as Gloria was unable to instantly destroy every single cell in her body, Mary would be able to mend her body again through the influx of the massive amount of blood energy. Only the pain of the process was unavoidable!

Thus, fighting frantically, Mary's body was blown up by Gloria over and over again, and then repaired back again and again. Her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys and other organs in her body alone had been reborn dozens of times one after another, and the main weapon of battle, the two arm bones had been repaired up to hundreds of times....

The pain that should be endured in this one burst, one repair, but a little less! The intense pain in her flesh* was severely stimulating Mary's mind and spirit, making it more and more violent and insane, almost as if she was tangling with that Gloria without wanting to die.

And her efforts were duly rewarded, and the most wretched and miserable fight Gloria had ever had in her life appeared.

By the end of the fight, even Gloria was somewhat admiring and fearful of this Mary.

The soft ones were afraid of the hard ones, the hard ones were afraid of the horizontal ones, and the horizontal ones were afraid of the lifeless ones!

Even Gloria had some numbing claws when it came to this kind of lifeless and undefeatable enemy.

She tried time and again to break free from the sea of blood, but every time she was stopped by Mary in the most brutal way. The entire quarter of an hour of fighting was vicious, brutal, and violent, even above the past day and night of bitter fighting.

Having exhausted her protective violet light, Gloria could only force open the ubiquitous sea of high corruption blood in the form of power outflows. And this was precisely the time when Mary's 3rd-rank Bee Sting Dagger showed its might.

A mere 3rd-grade witch weapon could barely break Gloria's epidermis, and it was almost impossible to even think about damaging her flesh and bones. But this was the kind of defense-breaking effect that Mary wanted.

As long as the bee stinger was able to break Gloria's skin, the tearing and bleeding effect unique to the Bloodline Plus would be enough for it to drink. Moreover, after the skin was broken, the huge blood energy would have a breakthrough, and the blood energy entwined on it desperately dug into Gloria's body, causing dark blood spots to appear on its surface one after another.

In just fifteen minutes of fighting, Gloria was also knocked from the clouds into a muddy pond, and dark red blood spots and blood moss could be seen everywhere on the surface of her entire body.

This also meant that the blood energy had invaded Gloria's body and was trying to corrode her bones and internal organs. Once it had invaded her energy circulation system, I was afraid that the damage Gloria would suffer would be even more terrifying.

However, just as Mary was shedding her life to fight with her blood, Grim, who was hidden in the shadows, suddenly issued another warning to her.

"Retreat!"

Hearing Grim's warning, Mary, who vaguely had the upper hand and was planning to make another effort to open another bloody gash on that Gloria's arm, escaped without hesitation.

As expected, right after it escaped a hundred meters away, a purple cloud-like energy overflowed from the depths of the blood sea, quickly rendering the rushing and surging blood sea purple. Several rays of light shot out from the depths of the sea of blood, crumbling stone walls and snapping floorboards wherever they went, as the terrifying glow penetrated the castle and reached the clouds, turning the vault of heaven into a glowing white.

Even the main five-story castle was riddled with holes. A once towering spire building was even in the violent shaking one by one fractured and collapsed, swinging a huge column of dust can be seen more than a dozen miles away.

Gloria was furious, her entire body frozen in a huge purple gem-like cloud like a goddess of war, slowly rising into the sky. The sea of blood rushing beneath her feet is still tossing and shaking, and from time to time, a tall pillar of blood is stirred up.

The Sea of Blood seemed to be trying to leave Gloria behind, but every blood-colored tentacle it probed out was instantly dyed purple when it touched the purple mist, and then crumbled like a withered plant that had lost all its moisture and crumbled into red dust.

What kind of power was this?

Grim, who had been invisible behind the curtain, finally showed up, with a dark red halo of light that was unique to the Laws of Flame around his body, slowly rising into the sky and facing away from Gloria. Behind Gloria, Mary, who had a horrific form and a horrible body, also flew up with her bat wings flapping, and a pair of scarlet blood pupils stared at the other party fiercely, quite like she was willing to give up her life for another battle.

"Good... good..." although Gloria's form was much better than Grim and Mary's, her strength had become a bit timid since these purple mists had erupted. But Gloria didn't care about that, still fiercely sweeping at the two who remained in a pincer state one in front of the other, and said harshly, "I didn't expect that two strong enough witches like you could appear in the middle of the country, so let's let go and fight."