Age of Adepts

It's a strange and mysterious world!

The sky was dark red.

The earth was densely covered with terrifying volcanoes that rose and fell high and low.

These volcanoes were all extremely active and violent, and dense black columns of smoke soared up from the tall volcanic cones. Due to the continuous influx of black smoke, even the dark red and gloomy sky was covered by thick and tumbling black clouds.

The sticky red magma on the exposed lava flowed everywhere, gathering in small and large lava pools in the low-lying areas. In each lava pool there were hordes of flaming creatures frolicking, playing and swimming.

In the center of the world, a majestic volcano of doom stood tall. The tip of the volcanic cone had even disappeared into the black clouds rolling in the sky, revealing only half of its black and red body.

The apocalyptic volcano is still active, the rumbling undercurrents of the volcano like muffled thunder providing a never-ending soundtrack to the world. On the edge of the volcano were tens of thousands of powerful flame creatures, all of them with power of more than 4th stage, and many of them were powerful existences that had advanced to 5th stage.

Without exception, they all gathered near a small flame altar at the foot of the volcano, where they meditated and prayed day and night, and spontaneously formed a patrol to refuse all non-flame creatures from approaching their sacred mountain.

Today, however, as they were performing their routine prayers, the towering, majestic holy mountain suddenly erupted in a heaven-shaking and utterly furious roar.

"Fire God Pearl! I can smell the Vulcan Beads...who? Who was so bold as to steal my treasures?"

The violent sound waves rushed and stirred in the heavens and earth, instantly dispersing the black clouds over the Sacred Mountain for nearly ten thousand miles, and displaying the majestic body of the Doomsday Volcano for the first time to the endless believers.

Wherever the terrifying sound waves passed, the earth cracked, the volcano erupted, and the entire heaven and earth rattled. But the flame creatures living in this country were not only not terrified, but also obediently worshipped the earth, silently praising the great fire god Sinai.

In front of the largest flame altar at the foot of the holy mountain, a huge fireman with a height of 5 meters kneeled there piously and asked in a buzzing voice, "My master, what makes you so angry? Your most pious servant of God, Arihi, awaits your command!"

This Fireman was indeed a terrifyingly strong person of rank 5!

The Fire God Sinai, who had suddenly awakened from a deep and furious sleep, vented his anger, and only then did he slowly restrain his crazy and tyrannical great divine power. Only then did the large and small volcanoes that stretched for hundreds of thousands of miles and numbered as high as ten thousand in the entire territory of the Flame God Kingdom stop erupting and trembling, and began to become calm and steady.

"I remember, my Fire God Pearl was stolen by a group of despicable and shameless shamans... Arish, I just sensed the existence of the Fire God Pearl, and the 5th rank divine technique 'Scorched Earth' that I sealed inside was touched. You immediately send someone to investigate now, and if you find the whereabouts of that thieving witch or the Fire God Pearl, send back the bit of Waymark... Hmph, these ungrateful bastards, I'll descend my billet and raze their world to the ground!"

"Yes, my lord, all will be as you wish!"

Having received the order, that 5th rank tall fireman, Arihi, turned straight away from the Flame God Country and teleported to another sub-dimensional world that belonged solely to the Fire God Sinai.

Here, it sat in the Great Temple and issued the Fire God Oracle to dozens of secondary planes. As a result, these huge sub-dimensions affiliated to the Fire God Temple immediately took action and began to search for specific information about that Grim and the Fire God Pearl.

However, to their surprise, this unintentional move like looking for a needle in a haystack was a huge success, as an anonymous wandering witch provided the Fire Temple with a valuable lead.

As a result, the Fire Temple's forces turned their spearhead and immediately locked onto a bit war that was taking place in the Wizard World.

It seemed that... the Vulcan Pearl's scent was leaking out from there!

....................

Scorched Earth, a 5th rank divine technique.

This was a powerful divine art sealed within the Fire God Pearl.

It was also said to be the first rank 5 flame divine art that that Fire God Sinai had researched after sealing it!

As for the power of it....

From the tragic encounter with the five faces of the multi-headed snake lizard, it's easy to guess!

The Five Face was really miserable this time.

Although its original body had a rank of 5, its own strength was compressed to the peak level of rank 4 within the Wizard World. This gave the human sorcerers that it normally didn't even care about a chance to touch and harm it.

Sure, the power was limited, but its strong 5th rank physique was still there, and it still had no problem abusing a peak 4th rank human sorcerer.

But unfortunately, it was really unlucky!

First of all, the Grim it encountered was also a very strange existence.

Obviously, his mental power hadn't even reached the peak of 4th stage, but he had strangely mastered the powerful Rule Flame. This was an unthinkable thing within most bits.

Secondly, Grim was also protected by two rank 5 artifacts.

It was with the strength of the Fire God Pearl and the Book of Filth and Darkness that Grim was able to carry the violent attacks of a 5th-ranked Calamity Minor Lord and fought with it with a slight advantage.

And most importantly, the 5th stage flame divine technique 'Scorched Earth' that was sealed in the Fire God Pearl, Grim was even able to drive it. This... was the key to the true misfortune of the five faces!

After sparring with Grim in a two-sided, seven-consumption, eight-consumption stall, being hit by a 5th-grade Flame Divine Art intact on top of its body, even with the strength of the five faces, it collapsed instantly.

The violent Flame Divine Art rushed into the five-sided body, rampaging and annihilating inside, causing its huge body that had grown to four hundred meters to instantly turn red.

It was like a doomsday volcano had been stuffed inside the five-sided body, with endless flames and magma wanting to gush and burst out. The snake scales on the body's surface trembled and swelled like the undulating earth, and from the cracks in the scales and armor, a terrifying stream of flames as red as fire erupted.

Through the swollen, almost transparent skin, one could already see that the blood flowing freely inside was no longer blood, but thick, boiling, dark red magma.

Such terrifying flame power had nowhere to be released, and it rampaged through its body, immediately causing four of the five snake heads to explode into a bloody mess. The only remaining main snake head also exploded an eyeball, leaving a shockingly large blood hole there.

"Save me!!! Nell...Dobby...help me!!!! I'm...I'm dying!!!"

The five-sided that had been tortured by the Level 5 Flame Divine Art could no longer care about Grim, and turned around and fled to the Murky Valley. As it fled, its body burst open one terrifying blood hole after another, and what spewed out of it was not blood or internal organs, but a cloud of hot flames and sticky lava.

Even with such a huge body, at such a terrifying rate of loss, it was afraid that it would be burned to ashes by the internal fire before it could escape from the Wizard World.

The remaining four Calamity Small Lords were also shocked. Although they had seen how difficult the Legendary Fire Witch was to deal with, they had never thought that a rank 5 Calamity Small Lord would not be able to deal with a rank 4 human wizard, and they were even beaten and fled like they were about to hiccup.

One must know that the Multi-Headed Snake Lizard Five-Face was already considered the most powerful among them all. If even it couldn't defend against that Legendary Fire Witch, then the few of them would be in danger....

The lip is dead, the hare is dead....

For the first time, the several Calamity Little Lords actually felt a tremendous chill from the bottom of their hearts. Could it be... could it be that this invasion of the Wizard World was actually their death journey?

Without hesitation, a few Calamity Little Lords dropped their bodies and likewise followed the five sides and rushed towards the underground side of Murky Bottom Valley.

Thus, a chase battle was wildly played out all over the battlefield!

"Now you want to get up and run away? Late!" Towering high in the center of the battlefield, Grim roared harshly, paying such a high price, if he let the enemy escape again, he would be dead.

Grim took a big step forward, grasped with one virtual hand, and condensed a large mass of flame energy from space, then under his skillful manipulation of the flame technique into a meter thick flame chain, clattering through the void and wrapping around the five-sided body that was intent on escaping.

A muffled thud sounded.

The flame chain instantly collapsed straight, Grim's huge flame body was driven forward by the crazy fleeing multi-headed snake lizard can't stop sliding. No matter how hard it tried to lean back and exert power with both hands, it couldn't stop its body from sliding bit by bit into the valley crack.

"Declan... Clara... come help me!" As he pulled hard, Grim shouted at the top of his voice.

"Coming, coming...I'm coming!" At the end of the sky, Declan and a few Central Sorcerers came over in a gust of wind, all helping Grim to drag down the gobbling chain of flames.

With the help of Declan, the 4th rank Body Refining Sorcerer, that multi-headed snake lizard's five-sided fleeing momentum was finally curbed. With the crack in the valley less than a hundred meters away, its huge body was being dragged by a group of human shamans, unable to take another step forward.

Moreover, with the participation of more and more shamans, Five-Face was even dragged by them, leaving deep scratches on the ground, farther and farther away from the valley rift.

The Five Faces finally let out a miserable, ear-piercing scream in despair and fear.

Boom boom boom....

The mists dispersed and the earth trembled.

Three equally large and hideous bodies landed on the edge of the valley rift, and they were some of Five Face's companions.

Seeing them was like seeing a savior, and the only remaining head of the Five-Faced's highly venomous snake tried to scream.

"Save me!!! Dobby...you get me out of here, you get all the bits under my hand..."

The object of the five-sided call for help was the multi-armed giant with more than ten arms, which also had wounds on top of its body, and had barely escaped from the Association's sorcerers before escaping here.

Hearing the five-sided cry for help, the multi-armed giant was due for a bit.

While it was pondering whether or not to send help, Grim had released the flaming chain and strode towards the valley rift.

The many-armed face turned pale and had a fearful look at Grim's huge and majestic flaming body before finally plunging headlong into the valley mists regardless and disappearing.

"Mix..."

The five faces instantly despaired at the sight of it.

Before it could utter its earth-shattering rage, a heavy and coiled giant iron fist with golden flames exploded its last snake head.