Age of Adepts

However, after self-examination, Grim found that his greatest growth still came from flame sorcery.

With the step-by-step parsing of the Rule Heart, Grim had initially fused multiple flame laws to form the Rule Flame with its own style - the Indestructible Flame.

It was so terrifying that even those superpowers would be afraid of it!

The only thing Grim needed to do now was to follow the quenching method provided to him by that Flame Monarch, quenching the flame energy in his body little by little into a rule fire, and then using the rule flame to slowly radiate and transform his body.

When his own body was completely in tune with the special flame rules like the Indestructible Flame, Grim would have completed the legendary transformation of his rule body and could prepare for advancing to the 5th rank. And before that, he was always just a half-rule sorcerer!

For the transformation of the rule body, the chip gave an estimated time of 218 years. This was already paving all the paths, only needing to slowly accumulate the Rule Flame and raise the spirit power. The moment both of these two reached the peak of stage 4 at the same time was the moment when Grim would successfully advance to stage 5.

After completing today's quenching medicinal bath, Grim put back on the soft leather armor made of fire dragon skin. Although after becoming a 4th level sorcerer, he had been able to use sorcery to animate all sorts of simple clothing, it was clear that energized items could not have all the strange characteristics of magical items.

The internal structure and rune system of the enchanted item was too complex for him to be able to animate with his knowledge and power.

Thus, he still treasured this Fire Dragon Leather Armor that possessed superb defensive effects!

After putting on his clothes, Grim just took a step, and his entire body disappeared into the flames that rose up in the sky.

In the corner of another voodoo chamber, flames suddenly appeared, and Grim stepped out lightly from it.

Inside a small pool in a corner of the room, it was overflowing with a dizzyingly strange wave of light. The standard 7-meter long, 5-meter wide, 3-meter high pool was filled with a strange liquid filled with a rich light elemental atmosphere, and the liquid was also imbued with some kind of inexplicable strange life atmosphere.

If Grim didn't explain, I'm afraid that no one would be able to connect this pool of liquid that emitted strange light fluctuations with human blood.

But it was indeed blood!

Yes, not even Grim had expected that the blood he had parsed a drop of that Light Sorcerer Geraldine's original blood and replicated using a large amount of rare resources and parsed genetic information would look like this.

Standing by the side of the pool, one could feel that the liquid light within the pool was crystal clear and pure to the core.

With the ripples of the water, all sorts of mysterious and fantastical brilliance entered the bottom of the eye, straight to the heart, even Grim could not help but be slightly moved, the spirit of a little trance.

Seemingly sensing Grim's gaze, the light liquid vibrated, and a humanoid form rose up in the center of the pool, then the light and shadow changed, appearing a transparent humanoid form that was no different from Grim's physical appearance.

"Oneness, what exactly do you plan to do with me? You can't just keep me prisoner forever, can you? Life is free! Though you gave me my life, I still want to pursue freedom!" The transparent humanoid faded, even his voice was identical to Grim's.

Grim's eyebrows knitted together.

In the meantime, he couldn't believe that the blood of the Light Sorcerer Jeradin, who had spent such a huge amount of money to replicate it, still maintained a strange spiritual connection with his original body.

Although it was impossible for Geraldine, who was far away in the eastern part of the continent, to sense the sudden addition of a duplicate of himself due to the isolation of the Witch Tower, the transparent humanoid in front of him did possess some of the power of the Apostle of Light.

The transparent humanoid in front of him possessed blood filled with a strong light element, and possessed a law of light similar to that of Jeladin. The only difference between it and Geraldine was probably that the latter had centuries more memories and emotions than it did, while the former was just a pure soul that had been coalesced with part of Grim's spiritual power.

Other than that, there was little difference between the two.

Moreover, as long as it was released outside the tower, with its sense of the Laws of Light, Geraldine could immediately detect the abnormality here even if it was located at the end of the world.

At that time, once Geraldine chased after it, it would be difficult for Grim to explain the whole thing to him!

So, until he figured out how to use the strange light man, Grim wasn't about to let it out to invite trouble.

"If I let you go, what will you do?" Grim couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Go find that Geraldine and fight him. If he wins, he fuses me. If I win, I fuse him. Anyway, there can only be one Apostle of Light in this world, and it's either him or me!" Transparent Lightman only had basic spiritual intelligence, and had yet to learn the complex and cunning ability of humans to lie. And he was even only a 4th rank beginner, a small step lower than that Geraldine.

"There's no way you can beat him!" Grim shook his head, "He has a real body that can continuously breed light energy as long as his life is not terminated, but not you. When you leave this pool of liquid light, you lose the ability to produce light energy, and your own power will only diminish the more you fight until it is completely exhausted..."

At this point, Grim couldn't help but sigh again, "You'll never beat him! Because you aren't really a living being after all..."

"So how does one become a real living being?" The Transparent Light Man inquired curiously.

"First of all, you must have a core that carries your spiritual will and soul origin, and secondly, you also need to construct yourself a body that fits the origin of light..." the Grim was not hiding anything selfish from this light man, but was genuinely planning to help 'it'.

After all, the light man was a spiritual intelligence that had been condensed with a strand of his spiritual energy. As soon as he moved his mind, the other party's consciousness would dissipate and his spirit would be annihilated, so there was no worry that the other party would suddenly turn against him.

If he really could solve some problems, Grim would immediately have another trustworthy 4th rank helper!

"Don't worry, I'll try my best to gather some sorcerer materials that fit the light element and build a real body for you. By then, you'll be able to move freely! Maybe we can find a way to take that part of Geraldine's power as well..." reassured Grim.

"I see! Thank you, ontology! Remember to wake me the next time you get something..." the transparent light man nodded and his body crumbled into a liquid of light, falling back into the pool again and disappearing without a trace.

Leaving the pool of light liquid, in another corner of the chamber, Grim arrived inside an alchemy workshop.

On top of a bizarre platform, Shadow Demon's 4-meter tall pitch-black and dark body was lying flat on it, and there were countless alchemical beams of light engraving intricate and fine sorcery runes and magic patterns on the surface of its shadow steel body.

In the last battle of Nightmare Castle, the Shadow Demon had suffered a great loss under that Gloria, and its entire body shell had been smashed and crushed countless times.

Although Shadow Demon had the ability to breathe darkness and could heal itself in the Shadow Space, such a serious injury still caused it to lose a lot of its basic battle strength. Thus, Grim had tailored some more Dark Transformations for it, enhancing its abilities in subterfuge and raiding to break defenses.

At the very least, the transformed Shadow Demon would no longer have the ability to even create a little threat or pressure on the super-powered like it did earlier!

According to the chip's projection, the transformed Shadow Demon rank would leap from 4th-rank intermediate to 4th-rank advanced, and its killing power against elemental sorcerers would even increase exponentially. With this kind of strength, there would be almost no problem in crushing a 4th rank beginner sorcerer.

Waiting in silence until the Shadow Demon's new magical pattern was successfully drawn and floated back up on the lab bench, Grim gave a slight wave of his hand and the other party disappeared like a ghostly apparition into the dark shadows beneath him.

Grim put away the shadow magic and had just turned to teleport out of the sorcery chamber when a sorcery message came straight into his mind.

"Starling Tulas? What does it want with me?"

With a curious question, Grim turned around and returned to his residence, taking out a nail-sized blue crystal from a hidden cabinet against the wall and placing it on top of the communication crystal on the desk.

As strands of strange energy emanated from the blue crystal, the communication crystal suddenly became brighter and clearer.

Soon, as the light and shadow changes gradually stabilized, the strange cloud-like body of Starling Tulas and the starry skeletal nodes covered in it slowly emerged.

"Long time no see, Grim!"

"Long time no see indeed! Why did you suddenly think to contact me?" There was no joy in Grim's tone of voice for the reunion of 'old friends'.

They were nothing more than a combination of momentary interests, there was no such thing as trust or friendship. Every word the other side said had to be carefully responded to, lest they become the victim of some trap or conspiracy.

However, as a 4th rank powerhouse on each other's side, it was much better to have multiple paths than to be alone and unsupported. Thus, after that mission to seize the Casket of Harsh Winter, Grim had also contacted this Starling for the purpose of cross-dimensional trading, and the two sides did have some interaction.

However, after a hundred years, the other party suddenly contacted him again, and it didn't look like they wanted to exchange resources. Therefore, Grim also asked directly.

"Old friend, the demonic tide has erupted, how is the situation there?" The two dark white lights at the orbital position of Starling Tulas' eyes stared at Grim with deadly intensity, clearly concerned about his answer.

"Not bad. It's worse, but it hasn't deteriorated to the worst kind of outcome!" Grim stalled vaguely, obviously not informing the other party of the true situation in the Wizard World.

"Of course, your Sorcerer World is considered one of the few high civilizations in the multiverse, and with a 9th rank Grand Sorcerer behind it, it is impossible for an early outbreak of the magic tide to hurt you at all..." sighed Starling Tulas. "Our Spirit Realm is no good, it's full of scattered soldiers, and while they're all not weak individually, it's hard to unite to defend against the invaders."

"Oh, you already have foreign invaders there?" Grim couldn't help but be curious as well.

"It's the Star Beast Hersimoto! That bastard broke into our Spirit Realm and forcefully laid a Stone Heart Egg here, and we're now searching around for that embryo!" At this point, even with Turas's calm and steady demeanor, he couldn't help but crack a curse.

Hearing the three words Stone Heart Egg, even Grim couldn't help but shiver in agitation.

Damn, what an unlucky realm of spirits!