Chapter 155
Never once before in his entire life had Greem felt so close to the Will of the World!
In the past, he was always having trouble differentiating between the consciousness of the plane and the will of the world. He kept having the feeling that they was just two different names for the same matter from two different angles. Yet, at this moment when he finally made the advancement and became a Fire element Adept, only then was he profoundly enlightened by the huge difference between the two.
A plane was an enormous vessel that carried all living beings, a place where all things lived, bred, and expanded. At the beginning when a plane was born, basically the consciousness of the plane had also been born with it. After all, it was just a congregation of consciousnesses produced by all living beings and materials within the plane itself – chaotic and unclear. During this period, due to the consciousness of the plane only possessing a simple instinctive response, without developing a clear and direct self-consciousness, it was generally referred as the consciousness of the plane.
So to speak, most of the planes within the multi-verse only possessed the consciousness of the plane!
And it was obvious that the will of the plane was more advanced and possessed higher intelligence than the consciousness of the plane. On the foundation where a plane possessed its own consciousness, when this particular plane developed and expanded to a certain magnitude, the consciousness of the plane would give birth to the will of the plane, which was something similar to the soul of a human.
Thus, most of the consciousnesses of planes were primitive, naive like a babies who just begun to babble. They would respond to any event that might hurt them, but the process was clumsy and slow. On the other side, the will of the world was in fact, a consciousness of the plane that matured and grown up a little bit, and it had given birth to an independent self-consciousness from the chaotic congregation of consciousness. It was capable of using principles of the plane as its weapon to interfere or adjust any event that happening right within its body.
The rare few major planes in the multi-verse belonged to this category.
There was even some more matured will of the worlds, which were able to rely on their preferences to influence and guide those individuals who lived under their protection. Those who do something right would be rewarded and wrongdoings would be punished. Using the power of the world principle, they guided themselves to moving towards the direction they anticipated.
Basically, the power of a magic spell cast by a Beginner Apprentice using his own energy was around 1 to 5 degrees. As for Intermediate Apprentice, it was around 5 to 10 degrees, and Advanced Apprentice could have 15 to 20 degrees. As for Pseudo-Adept, their power was between 30 to 50 degrees.
The power of Anderson’s elemental defense was as high as 120 degrees. This also meant, if the magic spell Greem cast couldn’t break his defense with one hit, by the time the next magic spell was ready, Anderson’s defense would have already recovered back to its peak.
With the energy of Swampy Tower as his support, Anderson didn’t have to worry about his defense.
Contrary to that, Greem could hardly withstand the swift and violent attacks coming from Anderson.
After all, Greem had just completed his advancement. His Ring of Fire hadn’t merged perfectly with his Fire element innate talent, and his basic defensive strength was only 70 degrees, which was far behind that of his opponent’s.
In just the time of fewer than ten seconds, Greem had received waves of bombardment from three large scale magic spells. Part of the power of these magic spells penetrated through the gap of his Ring of Fire and had inflicted some damage onto his body.