Age of Adepts

Half a month later....

The Burning Cave.

Grim's mighty body, a hundred meters tall, stood atop a small volcano, silently surveying the black and red world of smoke and flames around him.

As the former king of this place, that ruled the Burning Cave nearly two thousand years of embers web spider arachnid Lakebeth full of scorched prostrate at the feet of Grim, the bulbous belly is still shining indestructible flame left behind the golden rune.

Lakebeth was now very miserable!

Three days ago, this mysterious Flame Giant suddenly appeared in her territory, demanding his submission and loyalty.

Flame creatures are all brutal and cruel, so they will not give up the freedom of their souls!

Thus, an earth-shattering war broke out.

What Lakebeth didn't expect was that this Flame Giant was a terrifyingly strong man of rank 5. He instantly destroyed the Burning Cave that Lakebeth had worked so hard to create over thousands of years with his fury, and also wiped out the innumerable traps and descendants of the Ashes Web Spiders within the cave.

The battle between the two fought from the Burning Cave to the Singa Volcano, a full two hundred miles before ending with the defeat of the arachnid mother, Lakebeth.

Lakebeth is a fire-attributed embers web spider that reaches a height of 5 meters, with six pairs of sharp jointed feet and a pair of giant pincers. As the Arachnid Mother of the Embers Web Spider, Lakebeth excels at laying fire web traps and breeding large numbers of fire spiders.

She placed a large number of web traps near her lair to hunt down the wandering fire creatures, and then relied on sucking the magma and fire from the elemental wreckage to live, and grew stronger little by little.

She may not be very strong, but she has the toughest fire webs and a surprising number of offspring. It was because of these two points that she was able to stand out from the many flame creatures, becoming the only 4th rank flame lord within a thousand miles.

However, this Flame Lord was a bit of a misnomer, with no other flame creatures of any other race following her besides the offspring she bred herself. As for the reason, just look at her round, never-endingly-full belly and you'll know why.

Faced with such a sneaky and cunning Ashes Web Spider Arachnid who liked to hide in the shadows and sneak up on her enemies, Grim naturally had a great deal of means to deal with her.

One of the main reasons why Lakebeth was so difficult to deal with was that her lair was built underground, and the cave passages were extremely narrow and twisted. When she encountered those overly powerful flame creatures, she would hide and lurk underground. And when she encountered those who were a little weaker, she would make a big move, using little guys like self-exploding fire spiders, embers web young spiders, and web-weaving spiders to lure them into the fire web trap.

Against such bullying, sinister and despicable guys, Grim was even more insidious than her!

The first thing Grim did upon arriving here was to block the entrance to Lakebeth's lair, then drummed up the Burning Flame and blew the Indestructible Flame all over the underground lair.

Smother the burning spider!

Although embers web spiders were fire attributed creatures, they could survive even in thousands of degrees of lava. However, in the face of a regular flame like the Indestructible Flame, the fire resistance they possessed was instantly nullified, and they could only shriek and howl to death in the golden sea of fire.

Not to mention these little guys, even the 4th stage spider mother Lakebeth were forced out of the underground lair, can only drag the scorched black body full of golden flames to fight with Grim.

Embarrassingly, although Grim was a rank 5, his strength, physique and agility were far inferior to that of the rank 4 Arachnid Mother. However, his powerful Flame Jump allowed him to dodge Lakebeth's Rapid Bite, Boiling Splash and Yin Burn Destruction in time.

Rapid Bite: Lakebeth's speed increases by 300% in the area covered by the web of fire, and it has a certain chance to paralyze enemies when it hits them.

Boiling Splash: Sprays a 20 meter long searing venom into a 60 degree cone in front of you, dealing 3000 degrees of flame damage and 2000 degrees of venom damage to enemies within the cone.

Cathartic Burning Destruction: spews a 5x5 meter, venom-soaked terrifying fire net at enemies, and enemies bound by the fire net will lose their ability to move and take massive damage from the venom igniting the energy of the body's flames.

It had to be said that those who stood out from the many Tyrannical Flame Lords and became the best among them all possessed great skills, some terrifying skills that were unattainable by outsiders!

Even though Grim's rank crushed the other party, and he still had a double artifact to protect him, and two flame rules to injure the enemy, he still had to be careful in the face of the Ashes Web Spider Mother's bizarre Yin Burn Destruction.

It was impossible to be defeated by the other side, but a carelessness, being entangled in its web of fire and then biting hard twice, that was a very humiliating thing!

That's why Lakebeth was able to force Grim back again and again with its constant spewing of fire webs.

It wasn't until it ran here and used up all the venom and fire web slime in its big belly sac that it was blown over by a fireball from Grim and then branded with flames on its body.

"Subjection or destruction?" Grim buzzed and stormed.

"I'd rather die than surrender..." just as Lacabeth hissed pointedly, the flame rune on her belly suddenly transformed into a scorching golden flame that instantly burned all over her body.

This golden flame was the embodied indestructible flame that possessed the rule characteristic of ignoring magic resistance and burning the soul. Thus, even with the fire resistance of a 4th rank flame lord of Lakebeth, she would still be in pain and charred black all around her body.

It was a good thing that Grim had no intention of killing her, so the Indestructible Flame only burned for five flexes before degrading back into a flame rune. And Grim pulled out a bottle of healing potion from his bosom and dumped it on top of Lacbeth's charred black body.

With the strong regenerative ability of a 4th rank creature and the aid of the healing potion, it only took half a quarter of an hour for Lakebeth to recover as normal.

There was a muffled bang.

Grim lifted his foot to stomp on the embers web arachnid that was about to tear through the surface and flee back underground, buzzing once again, "Submit or destroy?"

"You deluded..." this time, Lakebeth didn't even finish his sentence before his entire body was once again overturned by the golden flames that rose up from the sky.

Once again, the arena resounded with a sizzling noise that burned flesh and diffused a burnt and pungent smell.

A moment later, the flames receded and Lakebeth was once again rescued by Grim.

"Hey, hey, little spider, you can talk tough. I've got plenty of healing potions here anyway, so even torturing you for a hundred years won't be a problem. Tell me, what's the alternative this time?" Grim smirked heedlessly, the flatness of his words chilling the spider mother to the bone.

"I..."

As soon as Lakebeth uttered a single word, golden flames instantly swept over her body, and her miserable, sharp shrieks and screams resounded from the arena once again.

A moment later, the flames subsided.

Grim frowned, scratched his head, and said with an 'apologetic' face, "Sorry, the flames were rushed early. What did you just say?"

Sprawled on the hard rock, already dying, Lakebeth swung his knuckles and chevrons furiously, cutting and scratching the volcanic rock beneath him.

"Why? Why did you come to me? There are plenty of Flame Lords here, why are you singling me out for one?" The spider mother obviously had a deep grudge against this.

"Therefore you are the smartest!" Grim smiled and complimented.

That was true to his heart.

Those fools, although their strength was also good and their ranks weren't low, but a hot temperament and straightforwardness didn't know how to change their ways at all. They were all stubborn cows who ran from one path to the other, threatening them with death was useless.

In contrast, only these guys with a different bloodline and smart enough brains know fear and the preciousness of life.

Smart guys are afraid of death!

It was an iron law the wizards had come up with, and Grim knew it well!

"What if I don't submit?" Even with such a serious injury, Lakebeth only slowed down for a moment, and his entire body was in a state of rapid recovery, even his speech became strong again.

"Then I'll play with you a little longer until my patience runs out." Grim explained in a silly way, "At that point, twist off your head as a trophy, break off your spider legs to make daggers, pull off your chevrons to use as scissors, and pull out your silk sacs and poison glands to make magic weapons..."

"Well, let's see, what else is valuable about you... Oh yeah, and you can extract souls... Hey, little spider, did you breed any spider crystals inside you? I hear that's a good thing too..."

Listening to Grim there as if he was counting his words, the embers web spider mother Lakebeth spider body couldn't help but start to tremble. As a high-ranked intelligent being, she could not be the same as those big, stupid creatures with tyrannical temperaments.

She knew very well that when a high-ranked elemental creature like herself fell into the hands of a human sorcerer, death was not the final destination, but the beginning of infinitely terrifying torture!

At the thought of her miserable and miserable life of servitude for the next several thousand years, Lakebeth couldn't help but wail in grief, lying there on her stomach.

Only, as a grotesque spider-like flame creature, she is crying pear-shaped fall in the eyes of humans is also like a hideous, ugly mess.

"Hey, Spider, have you decided yet or not? If you don't surrender, I'll take your spider leg first!" Grim impatiently crushed his big foot, immediately causing the spider mother to squeal in pain.

"Surrender...I surrender!" The horizontal fear of evil, the embers web tarantula mother Lakebeth, who had been rampaging in this region for two thousand years, finally lowered her prideful head and surrendered to Grim.

The next step was simple.

Lakebeth let go of her soul consciousness, and Grim branded his own soul imprint inside.

In this way, the 4th level Flame Lord Embers Web Spider Mother Lakebeth became the first indigenous creature that Grim surrendered to after entering the Fire Elemental Plane.