Age of Adepts

Most swamp creatures had probably never expected that the true ruler of the sporepeople of Marsh Wetlands wasn’t Fahssn, but this podling of unusual power.

The sporepeople, at their core, were only servants split off from the podling for the sake of taking care of it.

Upon sensing the potent threat approaching its home, the podling shook its green branches, and its dozens of green mouths snapped loudly. It was calling for its servants with its unique mental flux.

As for the fact that those servants were currently trapped in a bitter battle far away from here? That was not within the podling’s considerations!

As the podling’s odd, screeching cries rang out, a portal suddenly opened in the cave. Fahssn scrambled out of the opening in a hurry, enduring a barrage of attacks from the enemies as he retreated.

Fahssn turned around and fired a green beam at the portal after he exited. He was trying his best to sustain the gate to allow his two allies to return as well.

Unfortunately, Krach only managed to set a single foot through it before he was dragged back by a green tentacle that had appeared out of nowhere. The portal shimmered and disintegrated into countless sparks in front of Fahssn’s pained gaze.

“O’ great master, why have you summoned me back in such a hurry?” Since there was no turning back now, Fahssn stopped worrying about the two puppets that were lost among enemies. He knelt before the podling and asked.

Greem spat out a mouthful of blood. The blood landed on the crushed rocks by his feet, and a purple fire started burning on the ground. He pulled himself out of the stone wall with considerable difficulty. His muscular chest had caved inwards, and cracks covered his blazing body.

Some of the cracks were so large that lava was flowing out.

The enemy was scary. Even with a plant’s slender body, the podling had as much as 46 points of Strength. That was more than enough to crush Greem, with his mere 27 points.

Greem had only been so severely injured earlier because he had been caught unaware, which allowed the enemy to shatter his defenses.

Greem looked at Fahssn as the Giant charged at him. He waved his staff, and three torrents of fire blasted forward, stopping the Fungal Giant from advancing any further. Meanwhile, white light appeared around Greem as he used the pure, holy light to heal himself.

His caved chest started to swell up as his damaged body recovered with the surge of fire energy from the Heart of Principles.

However, this healing only persisted for a while before Greem had no choice but to leap away with Fire Teleportation.

His tall outline had just vanished when another thick branch from the podling smashed the ground where he had just been.

Those thin, slender branches were actually as sturdy as rods forged of steel. A single strike from these iron whips was enough to pulverize the ground and shake the earth. Web-like cracks spread out from the point of impact.

Greem had just appeared in another corner of the hall three hundred meters away when the podling immediately detected his presence. Its terrifying body that took up nearly half the space in the hall twisted slightly, and the branches whipped at the adept at howling speed.

The green mouths on the ends of the branches also lashed out viciously as the branches struck.

Greem had a feeling that he would end up much worse off being bit by the branches than being struck by the branches.

Dammit! Where did such a terrifying monster appear from?

No! I must force out its true power, slowly, bit by bit.

Greem grit his teeth and grunted, once again teleporting away.

He had prepared to dodge this time. The moment his body rematerialized, he hurled a fearsome Scarlet Firestorm at the podling’s stationary roots.

The dozens of green mouths on the podling hissed simultaneously and spewed out green smoke to resist the flames. The green smoke clashed with and neutralized the explosive tide of fire in midair.

A Firestorm of eight hundred and ninety points of power was neutralized, just like that!

Greem frowned slightly.

What tremendous poison.

Such incredible Strength and such ferocious poison attacks. This enemy was not going to be an easy opponent!

However, Greem was no ordinary fire adept either. The power he possessed was beyond the imagination of the average person.

Greem teleported away once again, dodging the combined attacks of Fahssn and the podling. He planted his staff in the ground upon appearing, waving his hands around. In a single breath, he had summoned several fireballs and shot them at the podling’s stem.

The podling screeched and whipped the fireballs to shards with its branches.

However, just as the podling twisted its body in a gloating fashion and prepared to lunge at Greem again, a terrifying tide of fire erupted on the pile of skeletons where its roots grew.