Age of Adepts

Grimmy beautifully slept inside the Steel Capital.

Honestly, with a 5th rank Grand Sorcerer's physique and mental strength, he wouldn't feel the slightest bit of fatigue even if he didn't sleep for decades. But this time, he had to lie down and rest.

There was no reason for it.

The sudden stretch of huge mental energy needed to be readjusted and adapted to his current body, and this would undoubtedly take some time.

In Grim's mind, the chip projected the break-in time as: eleven years, three months order eight days... and this, or the optimal break-in period only arrived at with chip-assisted optimization.

In some ways, the Grim is now comparable to those gluttonous, sleepy dragons. A single nap could sleep through the short life of some races!

And so, in a chamber on the minus-60th floor underground of the Steel Capital, Grim fell into a deep sleep, leaving only Chip still faithfully guarding himself.

And this sleep was eleven years....

Ding.....

As a chip alarm clock sounded softly, Grim's spiritual consciousness shook slightly, and his dormant and dormant consciousness began a slow and insistent revival.

Without considering the two artifacts' attribute additions, Grim's mental strength was now as high as 50 points. Compared to the 49 points of spirit attribute of those peak 4th stage superpowers, Grim was perhaps only 1 point higher.

And that 1 point difference was the key to turning a point into gold!

At strengths above the higher levels, almost every point of mental strength was an exponential increase to the battle aid. And this 1 point of mental strength was already equal to the sum total of the previous 49 points of mental strength.

This also meant that from now on, any small increase in Grim's main attribute would greatly enhance its combat strength. However, it also illustrated the difficulty of raising the main attribute from one side.

If it was an ordinary newcomer, it was extremely rare for the sorcery trinkets and sorcery defenses that were searched for at 4th level in the past to be extended to 5th level. Let's take the two Level 5 artifacts that Grim currently possessed, at Level 4, they could provide Grim with a total of 5 points of added main attribute.

And now, when Grim had actually advanced to the 5th level, their attribute additions to mental strength had become 2 points.

But even at 2 points, it was an exceptionally huge aid to Grim right now!

It was even enough for him, the newcomer, to immediately overtake those 'old people' who had advanced within a thousand years.

Of course, compared to the 52 points of mental attributes, Grim's other several attributes could be called miserable, and the only one that could exceed 30 points was Physique. And this was still the effect that Grim achieved by obtaining partial stats after possessing the Star Beast bloodline.

Otherwise, most of the newly promoted 5th level Rule Sorcerers had numbers below 20 points in the strength, physique and agility several items.

Although as a Rule Sorcerer, Grim's battles are mainly focused on long-range flame sorcery bombardment, with little consideration given to close combat. But considering that in the future, most of the enemies would possess superior magic resistance, a simple one elemental specialization could easily put one in some kind of awkward situation.

So, try your best to improve the overall quality of your body so that you don't have so many shortcomings. At the same time, trying to delve into the advanced use of flame rules, making his attacks even sharper and more difficult to resist.

That was what he should have done the most in his first few hundred years outside the Domain!

As for exploring beyond the domain, searching for resources, and searching for knowledge, it must be left until after the completion of his own battle break-in.

According to the information Grim had learned, there were more than a dozen Level 5 Grand Sorcerers inside the Esoda Camp where he and the Iron Capital were currently located. Quite a few of them weren't good at fighting, so they rarely stepped out of the camp to travel and search inside the Extra-Territorial Star Sea.

They could only rely on the crude and primitive trading market inside the camp for the resources and knowledge they needed. This would undoubtedly slow down their sorcery research, but it was one step safer than those sorcerers who had been immersed in the depths of the starry sea for years.

It was a matter of opinion as to which of the two was better!

So, although Grim was new to the camp, with the 2 points of main attribute addition brought by the dual artifacts, he had actually overtaken those 5th rank 'old men' who were resident inside the camp.

Closing his eyes and slowly perceiving the surging and exciting flame energies within his body, Grim was able to detect that every single strand of them had been stained with a layer of gold. Although it could not completely reach the level of a rule flame, it possessed some of the magical power of a rule flame.

And more importantly, the important internal organs and viscera in his body had become different from before, with his flesh and blood being even darker red and stronger, while the coiled veins and tendons were even thicker and more powerful. The tidal wave of flame energy surging in and out of his body made them more condensed and tighter and more heavy and heavy every time.

Signs of crystallization had already appeared on many of the bones, with specks of tiny red crystals replacing the fragile bone grains, becoming the primary material used to build the skeletal framework of Grim's body.

These crystals echoed and resonated with the flame energy flowing through the side of the body, exhibiting extremely strong fire-melting and fire-resistant characteristics. This meant that the greater the intensity of the flame energy, the more active such grains behaved, and the stronger the physical defenses and elemental resistance would be.

However, after this special transformation, Grim's weight had also surpassed a ton, and the strength and density of his body flesh and blood had reached a shockingly astonishing level!

Grim slowly stretched his body and limbs, his entire body emitting a gurgling bone joint popping sound. An abundance of powerful power surged rapidly through his body, giving him the illusion for a moment that he could tear mountains alive.

Grim lifted his right hand, admiring it upside down in front of his own eyes.

In his mind, the dense waterfall of data projected by the chip spread across his eyes.

This sense of power wasn't an illusion, it was real!

Under the chip's penetration and scanning, the flesh and blood on Grim's right hand gradually became transparent, and the muscles, tendons, blood vessels, and the blood and flame energy flowing within them could be seen at a glance.

Golden hand bones, golden blood, golden flame energy....

And when Grim's heart moved with his mind, and large streams of flame energy poured into his right hand, everything here changed in a subtle and magical way.

The powerful flame energy and the golden hand bones and blood of the right hand interacted and vibrated with each other, giving rise to a layer of golden ripples that could not be seen with the naked eye. The golden ripples were so frequent that the power penetrated through the flesh and blood skin, creating a special layer of flame force field protection within half a meter of the right hand's perimeter.

Grim stretched out his index finger and casually stroked the air, and the once impregnable void in the past cracked open with a black crack. The fine space fragments sliced through Grim's right hand like a razor blade, but did not damage his skin in the slightest, and were bounced away by the layer of flame force field protection.

The space fragment... its sac piercing and cutting power was second to none within the bit plane!

Now even it couldn't damage Grim's flesh and blood skin, thus also showing that the strength of this layer of flame force field protection was so high that it had surpassed the limits of bit power.

Grim again pulled out a strange dagger made of black wrought iron, fine gold plated, and enchanted with sharp arts and magic penetrating effects.

Using the dagger to lightly slash his right hand a few times, it didn't damage the flesh or blood in the slightest except for leaving a few dark red marks. It seemed that the layer of flame protection force field could still block physical attacks.

Grim Ju added a few more points of strength, and the dagger blade tip pressed down the skin of his right hand a few points, but still didn't cut it. The skin of Grim's right hand was already as tough as the Magic Dragon's leather armor, so no +3 level enchanted weapon would be able to damage his skin.

Grim hesitated, dispersing the flame energy within his right hand. As a result, the invisible flame protective force field then disappeared.

This time Grim pushed, and the +2 level possessed dagger finally broke through the skin of his right hand, cutting a 30 cm long gash in the back of his hand, revealing the dark red flesh tissue beneath.

Golden blood swirled out of the wound and stained the tip of the possessed dagger's blade, and immediately there was a grating sound of metallic corrosion and burning.

Grim picked up the dagger, only then was he surprised to find that the dagger blade had been pitted above, becoming as if it was jagged. The blade was even redder, showing great signs of softening and melting.

Just the instinctive backlash of Grim's flesh and blood made the +2 enchanted dagger nearly scraped.

And just a moment later, the huge gash on Grim's right hand had begun to close up and heal. Fifteen seconds later, only a dark red scar remained on the back of his right hand, and the wound had disappeared.

And twenty-seven seconds later, even this scar had disappeared.

The entire back of the right hand had become smooth and pink again, and there was no sign that it had suffered any injury just now.

Grim nodded in satisfaction, and took out the strong acid, strong rot, and various strange solutions to test the strength of his body one by one.

Finally, the chip came up with a more detailed and comprehensive report of the body tests!

Since it hadn't undergone a special body tempering and quenching, Grim's physique was ordinary, and it was only through the accumulation of high level resources and nourishment from the Star Beast bloodline in the past that it had reached the current 35 points.

Inside the bit, this physique was already comparable to those 3rd rank dragons.

But outside the Domain, among all the 5th rank Grand Sorcerers, this physique could only be considered moderate. It was stronger than those rule sorcerers, yet it was far behind the Alchemy Sorcerers, Bloodline Sorcerers, and the 5th Order Demons.

According to the chip's estimation, without the flame energy addition, Grim's body could only protect against magical weapons of rank 2 or lower. Whereas with the protection of Flame Plus, it would be able to resist magical weapons up to rank 3.

If the protection of the double artifact rule was added, magical weapons of rank 4 and below had no effect on his body anymore. Only super-tier weapons of 5th rank and above could give him real damage that was visible to the naked eye.

As for flesh* body recovery, Grim was only in the middle of the pack.

If the enemy's attacks didn't have any sorcery effects or rule characteristics attached to them, he would be able to fully and completely recover from even a broken limb type of damage within half a day. Only a certain amount of energy reserves would need to be lost for this.

And with the Fire God Pearl stored within Grim's body now, there would never be a shortage of flame energy. Even if he was now sealed to an alien space without half a bit of energy, Grim would be able to continue to maintain the body's high intensity fighting by relying on the constant flame energy provided by the Fire God Pearl.