Chapter 857 - Flame Jet Combat Suit
Chapter 857 Flame Jet Combat Suit
The World of Adepts never lacked high-grade adepts.
These high-grade adepts were continually trying new methods of reproduction in hopes of extending their bloodline.
Be it by natural reproduction or laboratory cultivation, the chance of producing a talented descendant was always present. However, it was much more likely for a bloodline descendant with no elementium talent to be born.
Given the difficulty of high-grade adepts giving birth to bloodline descendants, such untalented progeny could only be abandoned and left to live an ordinary life of luxury and decadence in the worldly territories. A high-grade adept might even see dozens of generations of descendants die if he lived for a longer time.
The magical essence extracted by high-grade alchemy lacked vitality and life force. It could not provide mortals with new magical attributes even after refinement. However, this magical essence that came from the mutated moonwell possessed a strange aura of life. When refined to a certain degree, it even possessed the ability to turn the rotten into the wondrous and allowed even a mortal to possess magical power.
It was undoubtedly further insurance for many high-grade adepts who were desperate for bloodline descendants. It would allow them to leave no regrets behind.
However, given the current production output of the moonwell, only fifty grams of magical essence could be extracted per month. It would take six months to gather enough magical essence for refinement into Empowered Magical Essence.
White Tower.
In a secret room.
A blast of fire erupted as Greem’s towering figure stepped out into his room.
His mastery and control over fire were increasingly refined now. As long as he left a magical brand in a location ahead of time, he would be able to instantly teleport to that place using the subtle senses between the flames.
Of course, a mid-ranged Fire Teleportation like this could not exceed twenty-five kilometers. It also required some degree of setup ahead of time, making it impractical in combat.
However, ever since reaching Third Grade, many combat strategies that he had long since thought of but couldn’t enact in reality had become possible.
Currently, what Greem wanted to optimize most was his mobility!
As an elementium adept, being a cannon on the battlefield was the best way to make use of his powers.
However, his severe lack of mobility spells in the past had often forced Greem to transform into the Flame Fiend and serve as a half-baked flame warrior. Now that he was Third Grade, his fire magic was increasingly elegant and excellent.
After a long time of calculation and deduction with the Chip, Greem finally came up with a feasible enhancement plan.
A Flame Jet Engine!
Flame jets were a simple application of fire magic to begin with. It involved firing out concentrated fire particles in a cone shape toward a specific direction to inflict area-of-effect damage.
Now, Greem combined his usual flame jets with the Fire Molding ability of the Fire Throne set and created flame armor for himself. The purpose of this armor wasn’t for defense, but mobility.
Much like having many tiny jet engines, the fire armor could expel searing flame jets under the effects of Greem’s immense fire energy. It used the counterbalance force from the flame jets to employ rapid movement in a limited area.
However, this kind of movement based upon sudden acceleration required Greem to get used to its application slowly.
Thus, Greem took two to three hours from the coming days to train his reflexes.
He set up hundreds of sharp stakes in a chaotic fashion within the room. He then forced himself to activate the Flame Jet Engine and weave through the stakes at an extremely high speed.
Of course, out of concern for his safety, Greem also made sure to cast a few Fire Shields around himself.
Unfortunately, during the first two weeks, Greem only succeeded at turning himself into a flaming cannonball. Every time the Flame Jet Engine was activated, he became a flaming meteor that crashed through the wooden stakes and smacked into the stone wall.
If it weren’t for the Fire Shields, he would probably already be half-dead.
These tragic days lasted for half a month before he finally managed, barely, to control the speed of the Flame Jet Engine. However, every time he weaved through the array of wooden stakes, some unexpected error in his cooperation with the Chip would come up. The result of every mistake meant disaster for the wooden stakes.
They were either burnt to char by the flame jets or smashed to pieces by the scrambling Greem.
Having no progress after so much training also caused Greem to lose confidence in his own athletic talent. He could only transfer all control over the Flame Jet Engine to the Chip in his mind.
Compared to the vague athletic sense of the human mind, the Chip’s control over the Flame Jet Engine was more precise and agile.
Every time the Flame Jet Engine was activated, Greem would turn into a flaming humanoid, rapidly weaving, advancing, and retreating through the dense array of wooden stakes. Unfortunately, though his movements were swift, his expression was utterly distinct from his actions.
Greem’s screams never stopped as he watched the stakes rapidly flash past his eyes and quickly approach him. Though he was completely unharmed after all the practice and had correctly completed all of the actions, his robes were soaked through with bead-like drops of sweat.
Such first-person point-of-view practice was more exciting than riding a rollercoaster from his past life a hundred times over!