Age of Adepts

Heterodox fruit....

A type of earth magic fruit.

It is able to absorb the surrounding earth source power on its own in order to supply its own growth needs. The ripe fruit had the effect of improving basic health after long-term consumption, but it also had the great aftermath of growing strange scales on its body and inhibiting intellectual development.

Apparently, this is one of the high magic materials that the shamans killed a certain Orc and found on him. The Isoscale Fruit with such magical properties apparently already possessed a hint of the flavor of rules.

So far, the sorcerers had invaded hundreds of orcish bits and found many similar exotic fruits in them. Only, this was the first one that could rise to the rule level.

Such rare and exotic fruit seeds, even if they were placed in the Sorcerer's World, would be classified as a high level strategic resource. The fact that Grim was the first to see it as a Great Sorcerer was a clear indication of its preciousness and rarity.

Maybe it was a treasure that a certain Orc strong man had discovered by accident and secretly hid to improve his constitution. It was just that this guy was ill-fated, he didn't even save his own life on the bitter battlefield, and let this foreign fruit fall into the hands of that 3rd rank sorcerer, and then it fell into Grim's hands again....

At the thought, Grim couldn't help but marvel at the wonders of fate!

However, as effective as this fruit is, it has serious consequences that are also prohibitive.

First of all, its growth required a strong earth element.

If it relied solely on the natural earth source power, its growth would be extremely slow. Those orcs might not have a solution to this problem and could only try their best to cultivate them on fertile and fertile soil.

But if it were to be Grim, the first thing he would think of would be an Earth Element Altar.

A standard miniaturized Earth Element Altar was only about 150,000 Magic Crystals, and it was able to continuously draw the purest and most refined Earth Elements from the Earth Elemental Plane to supply the growth of the Mixed Scale Fruits.

As a result, the growth process of the Different Scale Fruit would definitely be accelerated, and the yield would also increase.

Secondly, swallowing the Isoscale Fruit would create a build-up of earthy residue in the body, which would then grow strange scales.

This problem was nothing at all for Grim, and could always be improved later by adjusting his physique.

What really caused him to scratch his head was the terrible aftermath of that inhibiting intellectual development.

No wonder there were hardly any elemental spell casters to be seen on the orcish plane, it was only strange to be able to play spells when one's intelligence brushed down after eating something like this!

So, finding a way to mix up the factor sequences of the Isoscale Fruit and eliminate the substances in it that were harmful to witches would also require Grim to bet a lot of time and energy on it.

And this, obviously, could not be done on the battlefield!

After allowing the chip to establish a long term subject for this research, Grim also put the matter of the Exotic Scale Fruit to the back of his mind for the time being and began to ponder his route to strengthening.

At the 5th level, the path of improvement for a Rule Sorcerer was embodied in the control of the power of rules. Extending upwards with the flame rules you control, and then controlling higher and deeper levels of flame rules, thus aggregating into your own unique flame rule power.

And the latter point was especially important!

It should be known that rule suppression was a very important aspect of battles between rule shamans.

Whoever possessed the stronger power of rules and whoever controlled the more sublime layers of rules would be able to create a powerful area effect similar to bit suppression at the time of battle.

This ability was also referred to by some sorcerers as the 'Domain'!

Within the domain formed by the power of one's own rules, one could, to the best of one's ability, create a spatial environment that suited one's abilities and suppress the opponent's rule abilities. This was the case with Burning Fields like the one that Grim had crafted earlier.

It was just that the Burning Field was a huge space of flames that was supported by using ranged flame sorcery, and it had yet to reach the realm of a true rule field, so it was easily broken by its targeting when fighting against an opponent of the same rank.

As such, Grim almost never holds up the burning field when fighting an opponent of the same level, and only uses it to clear the field when facing a massive amount of low-level enemies.

Up until now, Grim had only mastered the two low-level Flame Rules, Indestructible Flame and Flame Mirror. Trying to condense the power of the flame rules based on this and then deduce the most suitable rule field... this was an extremely long and arduous task!

However, Grim's life length was now ten thousand years long. There was no need to rush things like this, as long as he was settling and accumulating little by little, one day he would condense the power of his own special flame that belonged uniquely to him.

Gathering resources, gathering knowledge, completing all the necessary sorcery experiments and magical research day after day... this would become a main theme of his long life ahead, throughout!

The Flame Rule couldn't be quickened, so right now the only ones that could quickly increase their strength were Flame Sorcery and Magic Puppet.

Since becoming a 5th ranked sorcerer, the chip's ability had changed drastically with Grim's advancement. The data calculation, storage, and parsing abilities had all improved tremendously, and could assist Grim's continued growth from every aspect and perspective.

Right now, there were four 5th level flame sorceries simultaneously in the process of parsing and modeling in Grim's mind. Once this was completed, Grim would not have to drive the primordial form flame energy to attack the enemy like before.

It wasn't that the primordial form flame energy was bad, but the attack patterns were too single to create a more complex and varied sorcery effect and could easily be destroyed by the enemy in a targeted manner.

Furthermore, for the primordial form flame energy to attack the enemy, it required Grim's continuous mental lock and consciousness guidance. During this time, his own defenses will be at a lower tier, and he will also be prone to creating a flame backlash due to interruptions to his casting.

These can be the flawed aspects of direct manipulation of the underlying magical energy. The only way to build on the strengths and avoid the weaknesses was to shape and aggregate the primitive form of flame energy into a more powerful and versatile flame sorcery!

The power of the Rule is the source of a Rule Sorcerer's power, and sorcery that is fully compatible with the power of the Rule is the weapon that brings out the full power of the Rule Sorcerer....

They go hand in hand and neither can be without the other!

Those means that relied on transforming past low-level sorceries to push beyond the level of sorcery were outdated. After making the leap from elemental to rule, the origin of sorcery had changed qualitatively and could only be fumbled and rebuilt.

Flame Ignition, 5th Order Guided Flame Sorcery, Grim is able to infuse the power of flame into an opponent's body with his eyesight, thus igniting the magical energy in his body (each bit of magical energy causes 5 points of flame damage)....

Flame Imminent, a 5th level summoning class flame sorcery that can spot summon the powerful legions of flames from a different plane, with ten times the effect of the lower level Flame Gate....

Flame Refraction, 5th level offensive flame sorcery, summons a cloud of sorcerous flames and refracts energy between multiple enemies, increases flame damage by 1000 degrees per refraction, can only be refracted a maximum of 10 times (initial damage 6000)....

Flame Barrier, 5th level defensive flame sorcery, constructs a defensive barrier with the rules of fire against all active and passive magical attacks (base defense 20,000 degrees)....

If these four rule sorceries were formed, along with that 'Scorched Earth' 5th rank divine Art branded in the Fire God's Pearl and the venomous 5th rank sorcery 'Ring of Corruption' formed after the Book of Filth and Darkness was upgraded... Almost at the same time, Grim would have 6 sorcery means in his hands with contents covering summoning, attacking and defending.

This way, he would be able to hold a considerable advantage in a battle at the same level!

However, according to the chip's projection, it would take another 2-3 years for the 4 rule sorceries to take shape. In the meantime, he could only rely on those 4th rank sorceries that were mixed with flame rule power to hold up the scene.

As for the 5th rank intermediate sorcery beast that was handed over to the Mountain Yin Position Caron Sorcerer to build, I'm afraid it would also take several years to finalize it.

As for crafting the 5th-ranked magic puppet on his own, this would again require a large amount of 5th-ranked magic materials to be possible. With how rare and expensive 5th-grade magical materials were, even Grim would find it difficult to start in batches. If he hadn't taken advantage of the last bit war that happened in the Sorcerer's World, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be able to get his hands on the 5th tier materials.

The Magic Puppet was hopeless for now, and it would take time for the Rule Sorcery to take shape....

Thus, Grim could only be 'honest' during this time in order to avoid being caught off guard by the enemy catching him off guard by catching a void in his strength .

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

The three-month mission period was quickly coming to an end.

Except for the battle that had just broken out upon arrival, the entire mission period had been calm and peaceful mind-boggling.

It was only afterwards that Grim realized that he had screwed up those strong orcs in the orc city Winterfell.

The strange strike from the 6th stage Evil Dragon Sinquerra wasn't easy to bear.

Two of the four strong orcs present at that time were wounded by the strange rule power inside the black smoke, and it took a lot of effort to dispel it completely. It was dispelled, but they also fell victim to their own vitality.

It was because of this reason that the orc side's strength had declined, and they didn't dare to come back to Danmojo City to cause trouble. This was what allowed Grim and the others to peacefully pass the second half of the March mission period.

With the establishment of the first Sorcerer's Tower in Danmo Zhuo City, the city became a solid fortress for the Sorcerer's camp to invade the Golgol Position. Now even without the Great Sorcerer sitting in the city, it became an extravagant hope for those indigenous orcs to drive the Sorcerers out of the bit.

With this tower, a steady stream of witch reinforcements can be sent into the Golgol's Plane, and then gradually erode and fight for the land and resources here.

The bit wars that followed were long and intense, often spanning several or even ten years, with various iterations and alternations that could occur in between. But none of this had anything to do with Grim anymore, after all, he was only here to complete a so-called Great Sorcerer mission.

Therefore, once the time was up, Grim and the other five Grand Sorcerers used the teleportation array within the Sorcerer Tower to return to the Giant Rock Castle.