Age of Adepts

Chapter 1159 Cruelty

When Karin finally woke up, she was in a strange sealed space.

It wasn’t a very large space. It was only about ten thousand square meters in size.

However, she could see all sorts of terrain and unusual geography with a single glance.

There was the rainforest in the southeast, the desert in the southwest, the flat pains in the northeast, the hills in the northwest, and the one towering mountain in the center.

It was a small land, but it had all sorts of terrain and geography.

Judging by the arrangement, this place was a small arena.

At this moment, she was lying on top of a small platform on the mountain. A young, handsome, and tall adept hovered silently in the air before here.

“The Orb of Shadows,” Karin whispered this terrifying name under her breath.

The reason the Dark Witches were so brave and courageous wasn’t that they felt no fear of death. Rather, it was because of their reliance on their soul energy pools and their unusual shadow magic.

When they died in battle, it would trigger the shadow magic cast on their souls, guiding them to the soul energy pool they had prepared ahead of time.

The first condition of becoming a Dark Witch was to complete the energy conversion of one’s soul and body. In doing so, a dead Dark Witch would be able to reforge a body in the soul energy pools as long as their soul escaped.

As the souls of the Dark Witches were filled with shadow energy, they could use the Shadow World as a jumping board to traverse through the planar worlds and return. Most spells could not capture their souls.

However, the best counter to shadow energy was shadow energy itself!

When Karin discovered that the entire world had been sealed by the power within the Orb of Shadows, she fell into despair.

“You…you wouldn’t dare to kill me! I…am the squad leader of Shadow in Zhentarim. The clan will launch a bloody war if you kill me!” Karin screamed with all she had.

As she screamed in anger, Shadow Demon moved its claws and pierced her stomach like a balloon. Four sharp claws pierced through her body and appeared behind her waist.

Karin’s voice came to a stop.

She lowered her head and looked at the claws with horrified disbelief.

If she was killed in this place, her soul would have immense trouble breaking through the barrier placed by the Orb of Shadows to return to her soul energy pool. Could he have expended so many resources just to kill her utterly?

A wet and muffled sound rang out as the Shadow Demon pulled its claws out of her body.

Blood spouted out of the four large gashes, causing Karin to crumple to the ground. Her small hands clearly couldn’t stop her wounds from bleeding out. Blood was still seeping out from between her fingers, where she was clutching her stomach, slowly gathering into a pool beneath her.

A cold aura surged through Karin’s body. She could feel death approaching.

However, right before she died, a black beam of light shot down from the skies onto her body. Her severely wounded body started to heal beneath this light rapidly.

Shadow energy gathered around Karin’s injuries, causing them to heal quickly.

Even more shadow energy surged into Karin’s body, turning into blood in an energy form. This unusual energy blood started to flow through her body. Karin’s lifeforce began to increase at a visible rate.

In just three minutes, the heavily wounded Third Grade Dark Witch was fully recovered and revitalized.

“This is my home. You have no say on what is to happen!” Greem remained in the air, an expression of apathy on his face. “If you are still feeling disobedient……”

Greem snapped his fingers, and Shadow Demon’s claws pierced through Karin’s body again, this time twisting around and ravaging the organs thoroughly.

The injury this time was far more severe.

Karin howled in agony. Bits of her intestines and stomach spewed forth from the cavity in her body along with her blood, causing a terrifying crimson fountain to appear.

Greem smiled coldly as he sensed Karin’s quickly fading lifeforce.

When she was on the verge of death, he waved his hand again, and a beam of light shone down from the black sun onto Karin’s broken body.

The overwhelming shadow energy surged, and Karin once again climbed up from the ground after a brief moment.

Her tan skin beneath her torn armor was smooth and flawless, with no scars and no signs of an injury.