Age of Adepts

Fire Elemental Plane, Throne of Flame.

Grim sat quietly within the chamber, silently flipping through the Book of Filth and Darkness, the beautifully ornate pages of which occasionally had some broken text or a broken model of a spell floating on them.

Every now and then, the blue mane in Grim's pupils flickered, and he would forcefully memorize it and put it into the chip database.

After so many years of sedimentation and accumulation, the information stored in his mind was already too much to count. If there wasn't a chip silently sorting and summarizing behind him, I'm afraid that it would be difficult for him alone to pluck out treasures and high-level knowledge from the tens of thousands of pieces of broken information.

However, just as he was happily sacrificing his spiritual energy in exchange for the scattered fragments of knowledge within the Book of Filth and Darkness, a familiar spiritual fluctuation was gently touching the Witch Tower's protection again.

It was persistent and determined, filled with the smell of not stopping until he reached his goal!

Grim sighed and finally opened a gap in the defense.

The scent of the remnants of Gumanres's soul diffused back in.

"Hey, kid, I remembered another good one!"

"Think about it... Lord Gumanres, you have successively thought of five or six good things. But either inside some dangerous place, or inside some broken half-dimension with either a red dragon or a divine sin inside... every single one of them is something I can easily get my hands on!" At this point Grim couldn't help but snort, "Why do you think I continue to trust you?"

"Kid, you have to understand my old man, too! The soul was broken to pieces, and now it's weak in this bird form, unable to do anything, even getting back its old memories is so difficult..." as soon as it said that, the remnant soul of Gumanres was full of complaints.

"Stop, stop, stop... "Grim was busy interrupting it, fearing that it was still talking incessantly like before, living like a consumptive reincarnation: "What do you have to say, if not I have to busy myself! "

"Don't, boy, I really remembered a good thing this time, or is it something you can use at your current rank..."

"No ancient red dragon to hold the door?"

"No! Guaranteed no..."

"Not in some bit of desperation?"

"No! You're too distracted, there aren't that many desperate situations on the fire elemental plane..."

"So tell me about it..."

"Have you ever heard of 'Elysian Fruit'?"

"Elysium fruit?" Grim hesitated, and the chip in his mind quickly consulted the data, and indeed made some discoveries: "You mean those 'euphoric fruits' that can extremely stimulate mental energy and cause short-term mental hallucinations?"

"It's good that you know, and it saves me the trouble of going to extra trouble... I'll tell you, ordinary euphoric fruits do have great after-effects, but these euphoric fruits I'm telling you about are an improved good, possessing the powerful effect of boosting spiritual energy!"

"How did it work?" Grim was immediately energized.

Now, he had no shortage of resources, treasures, materials, or knowledge, the only thing he lacked was time. He needed a long period of time to slowly meditate and accumulate, to raise his mental strength little by little. As long as his mental strength was up to standard, it would be a matter of course for him to advance to the 6th rank!

Thus, suddenly hearing that the other party had a way to quickly raise their mental strength, Grim immediately paid attention.

"When I obtained these Elysium Fruits back then, I was already at rank 8. Its spirit enhancement was useless to me, I was purely using it as a pastime. As for you... I reckon that a hundred of them will elevate you to 6th rank!"

"Really!" Grim had a look of shock in his eyes, and whirled around to eagerly ask, "Where are those euphoric fruits you speak of? What is the number? How do I get them?"

"The growth of the Elysium Fruit requires extremely harsh conditions, so naturally it wouldn't be placed in the Fire Elemental Plane. That was a resource secret realm given to me by a different dimensional powerhouse back when I was the Flame Lord, and there was a huge amount of it. After so many years, there should be a lot of inventory in there!" However, the remnant soul of Gu Manres turned abruptly and said, "Kid, as long as you sacrifice me a Divine Grid Fragment, I'll have the energy to open the Resource Mysteries and take out those Elysium Fruits. This way, hello to me, hello to everyone..."

"You mean, I'll sacrifice the shard of the Godhead first, and then you're not sure you can give me something?" Grim hesitated with a dangerous glint in his eye.

"Boy, any gain must be paid for! If you want the Elysian Fruit, you have to take some risks. Besides, I'm just a wisp of residual soul, and the energy needed to recover is so vast that it's beyond your imagination. One Divine Grid fragment is far from enough... Do you think that I went to all this trouble just to cheat you out of a Divine Grid fragment? Hehe, not to get in good with you, but you want to get the 6th level resource Elysium Fruit even for a mere divine Grid fragment? Hmmm..."

Listening to the other's blundering, Grim finally couldn't help but thump his heart.

If it were any other sorcerer, with only one or two fragments of the Godhead in their hands, they wouldn't dare to try it recklessly. It would definitely be a case of not seeing the hare and not spreading the hawk, and would have to pay with one hand and deliver with the other.

However, Grim still had six Divine Grid Fragments in his hand right now.

Such an abundance of pockets also gave him the strength to try to fight his way out!

After hesitating, Grim finally sacrificed a shard of the divine Grid in the altar within the Witch Tower. Last time, the object of the World Sacrifice was chosen to be the Fire Elemental Plane Consciousness, but this time, he chose this strand of the remnant soul of Guman Res.

As the world altar engulfed the divine grid fragment, the strand of remnant soul that was hiding somewhere abruptly raised its neck and emitted an extremely evocative and long mouth shin koujin.

"Stop moushin koujin ghostly screaming and hurry up and give me the thing!" Grim urged impatiently.

"What's the hurry, here you go!"

Above the altar, as a strange light shifted, a gap in the void inexplicably broke open, revealing itself as a miniature resource secret realm inside. Through an illusory light curtain, it was difficult to see the specific contents inside.

But at the next moment of Grim's uncertainty, the light curtain opened a small opening, and from within rained out a group of white light points that landed on top of the altar and piled up into a small mountain.

Then the light curtain closed, the void closed, and everything disappeared again without a trace!

Grim silently examined the void, feeling for the first time the magic of the Void Mysteries. Only after a long time did this lowered his head to slowly examine the trade goods.

They were white translucent strange berries, each the size of a fist, thin-skinned and coreless, with milky white pulp flowing inside.

As soon as they appeared, they caused the entire field to be filled with a refreshing and exotic fragrance.

Lifting the nose and smelling them, it truly awakens the mind!

"Boy, this is the euphoric fruit you deserve! We're clear..." the remnant soul of Guman Res simply explained and sailed away.

Grim scanned it with a glance, and the chip quickly came up with a more accurate number.

Twenty!

That Gu Manres seemed to have said that eating 100 of them would raise him to 6th rank. With only 20 of them in front of him, this was clearly the other party pinching his weakness and preparing to use these Elysium Fruits to swindle away as many of the Divine Grid fragments in his hands as possible.

Such a small intention was simply obvious at a glance, but Grim didn't care.

Honestly, if it was possible to pay 5 divine Grid fragments to allow himself to advance to 6th rank in a short period of time, the deal was worth it!

And with Guman Res being so tightly focused on the shards of the Divine Grid, could it be that they were really of great help to his remaining soul?

With infinite reverie, Grim put away these Elysium Fruits and turned around to return to his residence.

Inside a secret room, Grim couldn't wait to pierce an Elysium fruit with his dagger, extracting some of that strange, milky liquid pulp from it.

He wouldn't entirely trust that treacherous residual soul, whether it was effective or not still needed to be verified a little by himself. Anyway, with the chip in place, the efficacy of this Elysium Fruit could definitely be detected.

With the help of the sophisticated alchemy lab and the detection witch array, Grim quickly came up with an answer that made his heart race.

It worked...it really worked!

That Gu Manres Remnant Soul wasn't lying, this Elysium Fruit did indeed possess the strange effect of stimulating the mental space and causing the spirit to soar again. However, its powerful mental psychedelic effect was also serious.

Even with Grim's mental toughness, I'm afraid it would take more than a month to dispel the infesting spirit hallucinogenic effect after taking one. From this, I'm afraid that that Gu Manres was using these Elysium fruits as psychoactive hallucinogens back then.

With the mental strength of high ranked creatures and their strict control of their own mental energy, they almost never dreamed!

So, if you want to indulge yourself, you'll have to use the 'poisonous fruit' with its strong hallucinogenic effect!

After discovering that there was nothing wrong with the Elysium Fruit, but it was as effective as the residual soul said, Grim did not hesitate and immediately swallowed one.

It had to be said that the 6th level hallucinogenic 'Poison Fruit' was really incredibly powerful, and after taking one, Grim was immediately dragged by the terrifying medicinal properties into the illusory and real world.

This terrifying medicinal properties lasted for two days before Grim was initially freed from the illusory state under the stimulation and guidance of the chip. However, once the drug backfired for the second time, it was feared that Grim would be trapped in it for an even longer period of time.

In order to resist the hallucinogenic effect, Grim swallowed a lot of psychotropic resistance-enhancing drugs in one gulp, and only then was he able to reject the negative components of the Bliss Fruit little by little by his own efforts.

The first Elysium fruit, it took Grim a full month and a half to repel all the harmful components from it. And during this arduous and long period of fighting against illusions, Grim's mental strength had indeed made a sudden leap forward.

0.3 points!

After attempting the first Elysian Fruit, Grim's mental strength had actually increased to 50.3 points!