Age of Adepts

Since tasting the sweetness, Grim can't get enough of this euphoria!

Whenever the effect of one Euphoria Fruit wore off, he couldn't wait to swallow the second one, and then fight the hallucinogenic effect with the chip and his own mental fortitude.

And his mental fortitude, too, was unceasingly stimulated to grow and expand by this confrontation and grinding, skyrocketing in a way that was far more powerful than before!

Taking one pill at a time, a firm confrontation, a little bit of venom discharged, a strange fantasy that boils and rolls in the mind but disappears one after another....

It had to be said that Grim did indeed have a toughness and perseverance that was hard for others to match. Hardly relying on his own strength, he survived the toughest of times, in exchange for the scuffling of his spiritual attributes.

51....52....

Sensing the abundant and powerful spiritual energy in his body, Grim was simply ecstatic.

In the blink of an eye, several years had passed, and only 3 of the 20 Elysium Fruits were left for him to swallow. And according to the chip's calculations, if he swallowed one more Elysium Fruit, his mental energy would skyrocket to 53 points.

This... for a great sorcerer who had just advanced to Level 5 for less than a hundred years, it was simply divine speed!

So, with infinite hope for success, Grim resolutely swallowed the fruit of bliss.

However, as soon as the fruit of bliss went into his stomach, Grim sensed a hint of something wrong.

There seemed to be something strange inside!

Yes, there lurked in it something bizarre that was by no means euphoric pulp pulp!

Unfortunately, the moment Grim realized that something was wrong, a cocky and familiar mental wave suddenly penetrated from his own body.

"Hey, kid, we meet again!"

The ghost of Guman Res!

It... it was secretly hidden within the flesh of the Elysium fruit pulp, escaping the scanning and detection of the chip and witch formation, and now invading within your own body.

"Hehe, ungrateful little one, since you know that my old man is anxiously waiting for resurrection, you still dare to bring it to my door yourself. Hehe, if I don't swallow you, I'll be ashamed of my name!"

"Fine, fine... Guman Res, you're cunning enough to know how to distract me with a diversionary tactic, using the Divine Grid Fragment. So your real target is the Elysium Fruit!" Grim cried out hoarsely.

In his mind, the chip's warning alerts had sounded in a blur, projecting warnings that were all blood red and red.

"Warning, warning, subject control is in the process of being lost... A terrifying soul force is invading the subject, and the subject's mental protection is inadequate against this level of invasion..."

"Drip, the subject has lost 6% of body control..."

"Chip, come up with a quick idea on how to evict the other guy."

"Drops, cannot be banished... the power differential between the two sides is too great for the subject's spirit to resist the invasion, existing resistance will disappear in 31 seconds..."

"Where is the Book of Filth and Darkness? Where's the Vulcan Pearl? Tune them all out and carry it with the artifact!"

"Drops, both artifacts are bound to the main body soul, and it is the main body soul that the other party is invading... Preliminary prediction, the other party wants to invade and devour the main body soul and take control of the complete main body.... "

"Then use the artifact against it!"

"The subject's loss of physical control already includes the two artifacts, and the other party will enjoy the same percentage of subject control for every portion of mental space they invade..."

"If you can't control them, let them blow themselves up! Even if I destroy this body completely, I don't want it to fall into that bastard's hands!"

"Drip, subject control has fallen to 72% and has lost the authority to drink the artifact to self-destruct..."

"Then don't hesitate, execute the Soul Shattering Plan immediately!"

Seemingly sensing Grim's panic and helplessness, the mental fluctuations of that ancient Manres remnant's soul popped back up.

"Kid, I didn't expect you to build this body crystal quite well! Hehe, after my old man devours you, I'll change it for you to be even more perfect and powerful. Little one, your understanding of flames is still too poor, you simply wasted so many resources and power for nothing. Don't worry, when your soul completely falls into my hands, I'll correct all these mistakes one by one..."

"Trying to blow yourself up...hehe, with my old man here, you can't do anything but slowly watch yourself lose everything!"

Grim wasn't stupid, naturally knowing that the other party was an offensive mind tactic. If he lost his morale due to fear and frustration, the opponent's encroachment into the mental space would only be faster....

But what could he do if he knew all this!

After all, what he was facing now was a strand of the remnant soul of a rank 8 Flame Lord, and even if he was beaten to death, once it invaded his body, it was not something that a rank 5 Minor Sorcerer could resist.

Thus, as time slowly passed, Grim's resistance grew weaker and weaker....

Finally, on the 31st second of the invasion of the remnants of Gumanres' soul into his body, Grim's mind went askew and he gradually lost his soul consciousness!

After a full half a quarter of an hour, the 'Grim' body moved slightly, his neck rattled, and his entire body regained consciousness.

"Ah... what kind of body is this! Why is there still such a weak human body left? What was that little guy thinking, and how could a human body match a perfect body of flame! Hmph, transforming my body will take me a lot of time again..."

Grim rose to his feet and slowly moved his limbs, attempting to mobilize all the power he could control.

As the spirit drove it, a book-shaped sorcery emerged in its left hand, and a fiery, scorching bead flew out of its chest as well.

"Two 5th rank artifacts... Well, this Fire Gathering Bead does fit in with the flame origin, although the power is a bit weak, it's worth it to cultivate it. Damn it, what's with this broken book? What's that stinking venomous power stored in there? Bastard, doesn't that idiot know the consequences of impure power are serious?"

Seemingly dissatisfied with the Book of Filth and Darkness's origin attribute, 'Grim' stormed out and pulled out that rank 5 Poison Spirit Remy from inside the artifact. At this moment, the Poison Spirit Remy also lost its ability to resist and was burned to ashes like a fragile marionette doll by a stream of its golden flame.

The Book of Filth and Darkness Artifact was destroyed, and immediately blossomed with a dazzling green spiritual light, trembling and shaking violently endlessly, faintly emitting the mournful howl of a soul before it perished.

"Hmph, change the attribute for me!"

Grim grunted, transmitting a golden flame into the Book of Filth and Darkness from his left hand, modifying the Book of Filth and Darkness's origin properties with a fierce and violent origin flame burn.

Such an ability, such a means, could never be mastered by a 'little' 5th stage Fire Witch. But this absurd scene was actually happening, and it was shifting to an even more terrifying and frightening side!

In just a mere fifteen minutes, the Book of Filth and Darkness, which was originally a dual attribute of knowledge and severe poison, changed its origin dramatically, becoming a 'Book of Flames' sufficient to hold any knowledge of fire!

The means to forcibly change the origin attribute of a 5th stage artifact was difficult even for those powerful deities that were high up in the world to do so. Even if that 7th stage Flame God Sinai was here, it might be able to do it, but it would never be possible to do it with such ease.

From this, one could also taste what powerful and terrifying flame abilities and knowledge the 'Grim' possessed at this moment!

After reforming the Fire God Pearl and the Book of Flames, 'Grim' aimed his gaze at the storage space on his body. As his mental energy poked around inside, he couldn't help but laugh wildly.

See what this is?

There were 5 fragments of the Divine Grid, a large number of divinity and divine power crystals, and a wide variety of resources and higher-order items.

Such items might not even be interesting to look at if they were placed when he was an 8th rank Flame Lord. But now, he had just been resurrected and could only forcefully inherit this little fire witch's body and equipment.

Thus, having such a collection of items could already be considered extravagant at this 5th rank level!

Once again, 'Grim' was extremely satisfied with his eye for picking his prey.

That little guy's soul hadn't completely perished yet, and unknown to him, he had employed some bizarre means to blow it apart into countless fragments that lurked in various parts of his body.

What was even more surprising to 'him' was that this body seemed to have a relatively independent mechanical soul that was silently covering for those broken souls.

Such a tactic would only be able to survive for a while, until the remnant soul of the ancient Manres had complete control of the body and summoned its soul back from all over the Fire Elemental Plane. It was impossible for any dirt to survive under the light flame of the 8th Order Flame Lord's soul.

It was with this kind of confidence that the Gumanres side let them go for the time being, and instead began to amend and transform this future body of theirs.

With the world altar outside of the Witch Tower, Guman Res opened the resource secret realm once again and threw all the various high-grade resources stored inside for tens of thousands of years into the storage space. Then he casually pulled open an empty door and took out a large amount of goodies from inside.

The Giant Dragon Enslavement Contract....

The keys to the treasury of God's kingdom....

A flame stone of the eighth order....

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These were all treasures and resources that it had stored in the past, but due to the fact that it had died in battle, this was discarded and lay dormant in the Flame Dimensional Space for so long.

Now that 'he' had been resurrected, it naturally had to collect them back one by one!

And just as 'Grim' was silently reforming everything, the Witch Tower Ug shook and actually snapped with a click.

Gumaneth looked up in horror, only to find that a large hole had been poked through the barrier of the Fire Elemental Plane, and a ten-thousand-meter tall Titan was grimly waving his hand to break the Witch Tower, staring at him with a pair of giant eyes filled with lightning storms.

"Gumaneth, you have indeed risen! When I got this information earlier, I thought it was false, but it turned out to be true. Hmph, thirteen thousand years ago, I was able to beat the hell out of you, and naturally I can still exterminate you once more now. You evil flame that has alienated its will, go to hell!"

In the next second, the thunder titan waved his large hand and slapped down with a tendril of violent and unparalleled thunder will.

Such terrifying power was more than enough to annihilate this fire elemental space, not to mention exterminating a 5th stage fire witch.

"Bastard, which bastard betrayed me? Misa, is that you? You provided me with a carrier, and now you sell me to the Titans, I curse you..."

Facing the Titan attack, the remnant soul of Guman Res, who was currently only at the 5th level of strength, was unable to confront the Titan head-on.

He immediately blew up the newly arrived 8th rank flame stone, and then used the explosion to block the Titan's hand, pulling open a bitplane portal with all his might and fleeing into it.

However, the moment he escaped, the Thunder God Titan's Destruction Heavenly Thunder also blasted down, and the terrifying lightning aftershocks wrapped around his body. As a result, his entire body exploded into multiple fragments and disappeared into the open portal.

"Abyssal Realm... Damn it, I can smell the unique stench of the Abyssal Realm. Gu Manres, you think you can escape me by escaping to the Abyssal Realm, hmm, just you wait..."

The Thor Titans waved another blow, annihilating everything around the Altar of Molten Fire, before they slowly withdrew from the Fire Elemental Plane's barrier.

The power driven by this stirring of them had far exceeded the upper limit that the Fire Elemental Plane could endure. As a result, the power of flame and thunder continued to intermingle in the void, triggering an aftershock of power that also caused the bit space within a thousand miles to be knocked back into chaos, and everything was broken down into microscopic dust that was indistinguishable to the naked eye.

The Lava Lake, the Flame Throne Witch Tower, the Molten Fire Altar, the surrounding Flame Continent and the flame creatures that lived on it... everything had disappeared, all turning into a chaotic storm that stirred wildly and devoured each other.

And when everything was calm again, an Eye of Destiny slowly opened in the void.

It continuously scanned the space, sensing the wisps of fury and fragmented planetary systems that remained from the chaotic storm.

Eventually, it stared at the place where the portal had once opened.

"Grim, I have sacrificed the title of Daughter of Fate, and I can only help you so much. Whether or not you can survive this catastrophe and make it out of the Abyssal Realm is up to you..." the eyeball silently emitted that Lucia's heavy sigh.

Whirling, the eyeball broke, and the power of fate returned to chaos....

Once again, the whole world was quiet!

(End of the book!!!)