Age of Adepts

“Clan leader, that adept seems to have recognized me. Do you think we should……?”

Billis licked his lips as if he couldn’t wait to dig into his food.

“Keep a close eye on him. Let him report to his superiors if that’s all he’s doing. If he tries anything else, I won’t mind bathing this path with blood,” Greem looked at the scenery around him and said.

“Understood! Leave it to me.”

Billis smiled viciously as his body, hidden beneath the black cloak, started to squirm. A piece of his body, about the size of a little finger, fell to the ground and split into countless tiny beetles. These insects silently spread out all over the ship along the wooden planks.

In less than fifteen minutes, the entire floating ship was under his surveillance.

In particular, a swarm of beetles was now hiding beneath the boot of Second Grade Association Adept Ralph. He was the focus of Billis’ surveillance, and he had absolutely no clue.

Midnight. The floating ship glided above the clouds with the vast Black Forest below.

Much like water elementium was gentle and tame, wind elementium was free and unbound, and earth elementium was slow and firm, the fire elementium that Greem wished to master was passionate and wild. If one went along with its elementium trait, everything would be exceedingly simple. However, go against its elementium quality, and you would find it difficult to control.

Fire’s power came from its explosiveness and its destructiveness.

Naturally, such wild and berserk elementium could not be unleashed to its full potential in the hands of a calm and gentle spellcaster. Only adepts with explosive tempers and reckless behavior could fully maximize the might of fire magic.

In contrast, Greem had been restraining his instincts in battles in the past. He relied far too much on the Chip’s aid.

It undoubtedly kept him safe, but it also became an obstruction in the assimilation of his mind and body with the fire elementium.

In particular, now that he was at Fourth Grade, Greem could feel the rejection and unruliness of the fire elementium at every step along the way. His inability to tame fire elementium had slowed down his understanding of the flames.

However, Greem did not regret anything even after realizing this!

Only fire that bowed to his will was good fire. If he had to sacrifice a portion of his rationality to increase his affinity with fire, Greem would rather reject the fire.

However, this didn’t mean that Greem intended to give up on fire.

If he could not open himself to the fire elementium or leave his safety in the hands of the frenzied and ferocious flames, he could only find a different path to increase his flames’ energy levels.

If his understanding of fire were not enough to continue compressing fire energy, he would have to find another replacement. And Greem’s choice was the Orb of the Fire God!

Greem constructed an energy chain between his Heart of Principles and the Orb of the Fire God. He then transferred the fire energy he had gathered in his body into the orb and used its power to compress and refine the flames. He moved the compressed fire energy back to his Heart and used the strange principle powers contained within the fire energy to strengthen his Heart of Principles.

Given Greem’s current Spirit and the capacity of his Heart of Principles, this process of modification was extremely slow and challenging.

That was why Billis always sensed an overwhelming and surging fire energy in Greem’s room. The intensity of the energy here had obviously exceeded Greem’s current grade!

However, this only made Billis even more shocked and surprised. The defeatist notion of submitting before Greem only grew in his heart.