Chapter 487
Chapter 487 Rare Runes
After sixty-seven years of grinding, Greem was only one step away from Second Grade.
However, this step felt like the difference between heaven and earth.
If he didn’t manage to get past this barrier, his Spirit origin would wither due to the ceremony’s backlash. This kind of damage was difficult to recover from when one’s potential had been completely excavated.
One could say that First Grade adepts in the World of Adepts were as plentiful as the hairs on a cow’s hide. Just casually counting those in the central area of the continent would give you twenty to thirty thousand First Grade adepts. The strength of the three major adept organizations was even further above the center of the continent. If one were to count in this manner, the number of adepts in the World of Adepts exceeded a hundred thousand.
However, among this hundred thousand adepts, no more than two thousand had successfully advanced to Second Grade. And less than three hundred people of these two thousand Second Grade adepts were able to advance to Third Grade. The number of Fourth Grades was even lower, numbering less than fifty individuals.
Why was it that the World of Adepts could still be a dominant player among all the various plane worlds despite such harsh conditions for advancement? It was all because of their constant accumulation over the years.
As long as the adept’s knowledge legacy system was complete, and as long as there were sufficient adept resources, then there would always be Fourth Grade adepts. Great Adepts beyond Fourth Grade could also continuously appear. Moreover, with the increase of an adept’s power, their lifespan also ballooned at an exponential rate.
Bloody Queen Mary was even more ferocious. She had actually received two runes– the Phantom Rune and the Shadowstrike Rune.
The Phantom Rune allowed Mary to create two phantoms when she moved at high speeds. Each phantom could exist for three seconds and possessed 35% of Mary’s offensive power. The cooldown for this ability was seven seconds.
On the other hand, the Shadowstrike Rune allowed Mary’s attacks to possess shadow damage when she struck.
In that manner, every one of Mary’s attacks would be enhanced with the twin-attributes of blood and shadow. If one were to include the physical effects, then it would be a triple-attribute attack.
While the power of her attacks might not be that much higher, they would be far more annoying and difficult to deal with.
After all, most of the time, shadow attacks ignored defense!
Meryl was a classic scholar adept. She was not good at combat and could not find a rune that suited her, despite picking through all of them. Greem could only gift her a Rune of Wisdom.
She then possessed an eidetic memory and greater ability to find clues when pursuing knowledge.
This sort of ability was beneficial for assessing and evaluating unknown items!
As long as her eyes focused on an item for more than five seconds, she would be able to obtain a faint trace of magical information about the object from the planar laws. That was basically an appraiser with cheat codes activated!
Gargamel was adept at herbology and excelled at synthesizing potions. That was why Greem presented him with the Rune of Disintegration. This rune could decompose any magical material into even tinier and purer energy crystals.
However, this ability required the use of an alchemical lab and the help of magical labs; it could not be used in actual combat!
The last one to obtain a rune was Robotic Adept Sabrina. She gained the Rune of Hardening, allowing parts of her body to double their original hardness. As this rune could only take effect on metallic substances, she was the only one among all the adepts suited for this rune.