Age of Adepts

Chapter 791 Stealthed Observation

All fire creatures in the Fire Elementium Plane were free!

Unlike the lord-subject relationship in most material planes, Second Grade Fire Lord Artes only had management authority over Dustfire Valley and not lordship over all fire creatures within the city.

The only ones in Dustfire Valley who were truly subordinate to Lord Artes were his molten-giant guards and an army of three hundred fire elementals. The other fire creatures were all free beings and were not under the jurisdiction of Artes.

Thus, when the Second Grade molten-giant captain furiously wanted to capture all the fire spirits for interrogation, he instantly incited the anger and fury of all the fire creatures.

There were no weaklings among the fire creatures of Dustfire Valley. Seventy to eighty percent of them were already advanced fire spirits, flame spirits, and fire elementals with defined forms. Some of them were even Second Grade wanderers.

When the molten giants started to charge into the fire city to capture the free fire spirits, the chaos immediately spread to every corner of the city.

Though Artes had not intentionally increased the intensity of his flames, his fire energy was already sufficient to form a Fire Domain of his own.

All creatures that stepped into the Domain would have to endure fire damage of sixty-eight points at all times!

Greem’s Ring of Fire was actually an embryonic form of the Fire Domain. It was most likely a product of the adepts finding inspiration and knowledge from the fire creatures; a weakened ring of fire replicated with the use of magic.

Greem didn’t dare to get too close to the opponent as he was worried that the fire energy radiating from his body would be detected. He could only analyze and collect data on the opponent from a distance.

The Chip quickly projected an approximation of Second Grade Lord Artes’ attributes based on the degree of light refraction caused by the fire energy and the intensity of the radiated energy aura.

Artes.

Second Grade. Molten Giant. Dustfire Valley FIre Lord.

Bodily Attributes: Strength 27 | Physique 24 | Agility 7 | Spirit 13

Greem couldn’t help but frown when he saw Artes Strength and Physique. Both of them had already exceeded twenty points.

Judging by this, Artes walked the path of physical strength and power. His Strength and Physique were at a shockingly high level. With his 24 points of Physique, he could easily endure two to three of Greem’s Second Grade spells to the face without being severely harmed.

Moreover, his 27 points of Strength would allow him to smash through Greem’s Lava Shield with a single punch and continue to put a hole in Greem’s chest.

There were also two peak First Grade molten giant guards outside the hall. If Greem couldn’t kill Artes in under five seconds of ambushing him, he would have to deal with the guards as well. Greem had no way of dealing with both of the guards while also fighting against a powerful opponent of the same grade.

Greem hesitated for a moment before silently sneaking out of the hall.

Of course, he left a magical eye in a corner of the hall before he left. It was only then that he retreated from Dustfire Valley and found a hiding spot.

After all, there was a time limit to his high-grade Invisibility Potion. He couldn’t enter Artes’ Fire Domain either. Otherwise, the invisibility potion would instantly vanish the moment his body took damage!

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