Age of Adepts

He had only mastered three fire laws?

The very idea of that was laughable.

As a veteran adept that advanced over three hundred years ago, there was no way that Schreiber had only mastered three laws. The ones he was showing now were only the less crucial ones he had selected!

Greem smiled as he listened to Schreiber’s explanation and assessed the three runes hovering in front of him. Naturally, without Schreiber’s permission, he couldn’t extend his Spirit into the law runes to investigate their structures. He could only faintly and vaguely make out their law auras.

Greem might have created fire runes countless times in the past, but those were low-grade runes: magical circuits constructed with a series of energy nodes to simulate specific effects.

However, ever since he reached the level of planar laws, Greem felt like he was starting to fall behind when it came to runecraft. The Chip had created every rune he now grasped through a long sequence of calculations. He didn’t do anything apart from using the runes once they had been constructed.

His power had always been built upon the Chip’s robust calculation and simulation abilities, as well as the multiple pieces of powerful magical equipment he had. His understanding of the law powers was still, in truth, lacking.

In all honesty, before Schreiber showed him the law runes, Greem had never realized that something as immaterial as the fire laws could be materialized in this fashion.

“Just as its name implies, Fire Penetration allows me to penetrate the fire resistance of a target creature, causing them to be further damaged by my flames!”

Greem called the Fire Penetration rune to his fingertip as he explained, allowing it to spin in place.

Schreiber looked at the rune, calm and composed. It was obvious he was not moved by its effect. Instead, it was most likely that he had already mastered this fire law himself, which was why he appeared so calm.

Greem’s wasn’t frustrated. He waved his hand, and the Fire Penetration rune returned to its original spot. Another rune then floated to his finger.

“With Fire’s Fragility, I can reduce a target’s fire resistance below zero at the cost of nullifying all of my defenses. In doing so, I can inflict greater fire damage than what is possible!”

Schreiber narrowed his eyes when he heard this. It seemed like he was thinking about the applications of this fire law in combat.

In all honesty, nullifying your defenses wasn’t the smartest thing to do in combat. However, when you needed to apply extreme pressure on the enemy at certain moments, this could be a very good way of doing so!

Greem glanced at Schreiber but did not pause. Instead, he started introducing the last rune.

“Fire’s Resilience; the flames that I have ignited on my enemies will never extinguish on their own. If my enemies don’t take the time to put out the fires on themselves while engaged in combat, they will have to constantly endure the flames’ damage.”

Schreiber’s eyes finally glowed when he heard the effect of this fire law.

Even though Greem’s explanation was vague, he still quickly figured out the viciousness of this fire law. He was a veteran fire adept, after all.

Ordinary elementium flames would often burn out by themselves in battle, even when lit upon the enemy, simply due to a lack of constant energy supply. However, magical flames enhanced with this special law would burn perpetually unless countered with law magic of a similar level.

It was a very cost-effective and efficient way of slowing the opponent down, especially in a high-grade adept battle where every second mattered.

A fire law like this was a proper representation of what it meant to be a principle adept!

Schreiber’s breath couldn’t help but become more rapid.

Even though these were all fire laws, there were still differences in quality between them. Laws like Increased Fire Range, Increased Fire Effectiveness, Fire Penetration, and Fire’s Frenzy were of the lowest quality. Meanwhile, Fire’s Fragility, Fire’s Blast, and this Fire’s Resilience were obviously of a higher level. Their power and effects were far superior.

In all honesty, even though Schreiber already thought plenty of this legendary fire adept Greem, he never expected he would be able to produce such powerful laws so easily.

Moreover, these were obviously not his real hidden aces!

Schreiber couldn’t help but become even more excited at the thought of those invisible fires and the unique double-damage effect that Greem had displayed in his fight against the Adept of Torture.

Unfortunately, those two fire laws clearly formed the core of his combat style. He would never trade them away!

As such, Schreiber could only turn his attention back to Fire’s Fragility and Fire’s Resilience.