Chapter 258
Chapter 258 Flame Fiend’s Heart
A spacestone!
Before any display of its power, the gray and dirty stone looked just like any ordinary pebble from the roadside. However, when its power finally activated it lasted for only a short moment. In the blink of an eye it began disappearing in front of the two.
Alice wasn’t idling about as she screamed either. She reached forward with her small hand and pierced through space, forcefully yanking the spacestone out.
Greem watched the whole thing unfold before him speechlessly. The corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.
The odd spacestone!
And what was even weirder- Alice’s space affinity!
Greem had seen it all with his own eyes. Alice had reached into the spatial rift barehanded. She wasn’t concerned about being sliced by the space fragments at all! Of course, the chip’s high-speed motion capture had discovered a thin membrane of space wrapped about Alice’s white and delicate hand. The membrane was as thin as a cricket’s wing.
Greem opened his eyes and straightened his body. He looked intently at the heart, unable to suppress his excitement and intense desire.
With the slow increase of Spirit, this Flame Fiend’s Heart might be his last hope at maintaining his absolutely dominant strength!
Ever since the first day he received this heart, Greem had been thinking about how to utilize the powerful strength within it. According to the massive number of calculations and filtering done by the chip, the only time Greem could use the Flame Fiend’s Heart was during his Flame Fiend Transformation.
It was only during the Transformation, when his Physique and Spirit were amplified several times, that Greem could completely master and use the power of the Heart. Otherwise this energy heart taken from a Second Grade Abyssal Flame Fiend would turn out to be an unstable incinerator, instantly reducing Greem’s human form to ashes.
Having run through hundreds and thousands of methods of utilizing the energy heart, the chip presented Greem with a single feasible solution.
The Flame Fiend’s Heart would be sealed within his body on normal occasions, and Greem would use his powers and aura to slowly modify the heart. Then, when it came to a battle, Greem would unseal the Heart after completing his Flame Fiend Transformation, allowing the Heart to become the energy-supplying core of the Flame Fiend’s body.
Just like that, Greem would be able to reinforce his battle strength!
However there were a couple of problems to be solved before this could be done.
First, Greem had to do away with the thick abyssal aura that was shrouding the heart. Or at least, he would have to suppress the abyssal aura to an acceptable thickness. Otherwise, if he used the heart for extended periods of time and assimilated with the heart, the chances of him being contaminated and turned into an abyssal creature would also increase.
Even though abyssal creatures were well-known for their prowess, and Greem was not averse to possessing any sort of power, the chaos and violence in their nature was not something Greem wanted in his blood. From Greem’s understanding, abyssal creatures were basically brainless magical creatures with +10 Physique, Strength, and Spirit, but also with -100 Intelligence.
Was power without control still power?
Thus, before he was able to eliminate this factor from the Heart, Greem had to be very careful with his use of it. He would not become overly reliant on the Heart.
Secondly, according to the chip’s scans, there were still many areas in the Flame Fiend’s Heart that could be improved. If Greem wanted to maximize the benefit he got out of this, he would have to use up a massive amount of resources.
The data the chip provided was plentiful, but the most important info was what he had filtered out.
The muscle activity of the heart determined the working efficiency of the heart. A mere 46% meant it could only operate at half of its peak strength.
The energy storage capacity and energy output threshold, on the other hand, determined the current power level of the Flame Fiend’s Heart. As the magic organ of the Abyssal Flame Fiend, the energy heart could store a certain amount of flame energy within itself. This meant that it could store 1155 points of flame energy while in a non-combat mode.
And all of this was energy Greem could draw upon during a fight!
However, regardless of the amount of storage capacity, the output threshold still limited the strength of the flame energies that Greem could use.
135 points meant that every single one of Greem’s fire attacks could not exceed 135 points.
Of course, this was still far beyond Greem’s current powers.
It was important to note that most of the spells of an actual First Grade adept were around 60-80 points. It was only because Greem had chose fire mastery, and in doing so gave up the spells of all other elements, that he was able to push the might of his fire spells all the way up to 115 points.
This energy level was already Greem’s limit.
However, even at half capacity, the Flame Fiend’s Heart still had a shocking energy output threshold of 135 points. It was clear how powerful Second Grade Flame Fiend’s were!
Moreover, an energy storage of 1155 points would be enough for Greem to fire eight attacks at 135 points with more than enough to spare. This……this was why the heart was so significant to the enhancement of his powers!
On the other hand, the life energies conversion rate of 41% also meant that Greem would be able to convert his own life energy into flame energy, even if he was in combat. This kind of ceaseless supply of power would turn Greem into a terrifying instrument of war.
As long as he lived he would have an endless supply of power to tap into!
Sadly, there was still much to be done before he could use this powerful heart. All of this would take time.
Greem nodded in satisfaction and put the black cloth back over the heart.
Even though the black cloth looked very ordinary, the moment it was draped over the heart the thick abyssal aura that filled the room instantly disappeared.
This evidently meant that this ordinary-looking black cloth was also a magical tool! A magic tool that was used specifically for covering all kinds of energy auras!
Apart from the Flame Fiend’s Heart, other things were also stored within this hidden room. Namely: two spacestones, four adept-level elementium cores, the mysterious Golden Apple, the Orb of Deception, the Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal, the Emblem of Fire, and Shandera’s Sheepstick.
However, most of these treasures were still far out of reach for Greem’s current abilities. If he wanted to see through all of the arcane knowledge contained within these items, he would likely have to wait until he was several Grades higher!