Age of Adepts

Three months later.

In the same Sea of Ashes that stretched for thousands of kilometers, Greem once again met the powerful Fire King Groms.

The entire fire hall almost burst into flames the moment he took out the Lightfire stone.

The law fires burning on Groms’ body started blazing furiously. Blue flames shot out of his eyes, like fireworks in celebration.

“Good…simply amazing. I knew you could be trusted…now hand it over to me!” Groms stood up and said in his loud, booming voice.

Greem did not move even after the Fire King extended his fiery hand. He had an odd smile on his face.

“My lord, haven’t you forgot a little something before I give you this Lightfire stone?”

Groms couldn’t help but shake his head. “You human adepts are all like this. It never feels good to make a deal with you people. What is it? You think us fire creatures would lie and deceive as you adepts do?”

Moreover, the Tome of Corruption also had a Halo of Poison on its own. It allowed Greem to use terrifying poison magic with no restrictions. Greem only had even more options to choose from in battle now!

As Greem’s Soul Equipment, the Tome of Corruption also contained the Fourth Grade Remi and his plague army. If all of them were released in battle, Greem could instantly raise an army of cannon fodder to serve him.

All these benefits alone were enough to demonstrate how overwhelmingly superior a Fifth Grade artifact was compared to Fourth Grade magical equipment.

Greem carefully took out a mithril chain and tied the Tome of Corruption to his waist.

In addition to the Orb of the Fire God, Greem now had two Fifth Grade artifacts in his possession. At the very least, he could no longer be defeated by another Fourth Grade adept now.

The suppression effect that Fifth Grade items possessed over Fourth Grade magic was not something to ignore either.

When Greem fought with another Fourth Grade adept, the fire spells he cast with his Fourth Grade staff would mostly be neutralized by the opponent’s forcefield and resistances. However, if he used the Fifth Grade Orb in the casting of his spell, the fire damage would be far greater than if he had used his staff alone.

It was the guaranteed outcome of having an artifact of superior Grade!

After carefully putting away the Tome of Corruption, Greem could finally calm down and examine the fire crystal he got from Groms.

[Beep. Detecting new data stream. Host can receive said data stream. Requesting instructions from Host. Receive data? ]

“Receive!”

The next moment, a searing stream of consciousness surged into Greem’s mind, quickly devoured and absorbed there.

Groms had not lied. It was indeed a special technique used to extract origin fires, or the principles fires, as Greem called them.

Moreover, after refining his consciousness core at the Adept’s Association, Greem now had a better understanding and grasp of the principles fires. He could certainly bring them to fruition now.

That was something that most other Fourth Grade adepts were still unable to do.

According to the typical flow of advancement for a fire adept, the adept would mostly be busy collecting origin substances to grasp fire laws and to assimilate those law runes with their consciousness core. The principle fire was something that they only formed later on. An adept would first have to gather a sufficient number of fire laws and increase their Spirit to the 49 point limit. Finally, the adept would conduct a special ceremony to merge all the fire laws together to form the principle fire.

After advancing to Fifth Grade, fire adepts could then spread this spark of principle fire throughout their bodies, allowing them to get used to the fire gradually. Then, it would take another few hundred years of hard work to modify their bodies and refine the origin fire slowly.

At this moment, Greem was accessing techniques and secrets exclusive to Fifth Grade adepts as a Fourth Grade himself. Naturally, this brought about a tremendous benefit to himself.

In all honesty, if Greem could forge his own principle fire prematurely, it would significantly empower him. In addition to his two Fifth Grade artifacts, he would be like a Fifth Grade Great Adept with a Fourth Grade’s appearance.

Such power would make him a wolf amongst sheep while he remained among the Fourth Grade adepts of the World of Adepts!

However, to forge his principle fire with his current power was still too hasty. After all, his consciousness core had only just recently undergone change. It would not be able to endure much more pressure in the short term.

As such, Greem once again went into seclusion in Fire Throne, silently waiting for his consciousness core to recover.

This wait lasted for five entire years.

This day, a strange fingerbone in Greem’s possession started ringing out.

Greem took out the ringing bone, still radiating dense death energy, and frowned.

This thing was the communication token the lich left with him.

The fact that Kanganas was contacting him now…could it be? Was it time for that mission already?