Age of Adepts

With the aid of the Chip, there was nearly no chance of Greem being controlled through charms or hypnosis.

As such, he had been calmly observing the lich’s each and every action from the start.

If Kanganas had decided to abandon the god’s son and instead target the adepts, Greem didn’t mind surprising him with a savage assault.

Now that Kanganas had chased after the god’s son, Greem had no more need to keep up his disguise. He hurled a Magma Fireball at Anthony before rising to the air without hesitation and chased in the direction that the god’s son had fled.

The explosive power of the Magma Fireball was clearly not enough to kill an archbishop of the Omniscient Eye. However, as Anthony coughed up blood from the flame shockwaves, Holly and Mangus awoke from their bewitched mental state.

With the two of them staying behind, there was no chance for Anthony or the templar knights to escape.

In the end, these believers were merely ordinary mortals. They had only been able to display incredible power through the support of the divine halos. Now that their divine power had reached its limits, two Fourth Grade adepts were more than enough to bury them eternally upon these foreign lands.

Greem traveled through the sky rapidly.

Several Fourth Grade spells crashed against Lich Kanganas’ jade-white skeleton, to no avail. None of them could hurt him whatsoever. Mietzel then gave up on offense entirely, dedicating all his divine magic to increases his defenses and escape.

In doing so, Lich Kanganas was free to become more brazen and ferocious with his assault!

If it wasn’t for the Libram of Wisdom, Kanganas might have already taken Mietzel down.

Unfortunately, it was a Fifth Grade artifact after all. It helped Mietzel weather the ferocious storm of attacks from the lich, saving him from certain death again and again. Even so, Mietzel was coughing up blood from all the death magic he had been hit with. His life force was rapidly draining away.

Awkward. It was extremely awkward!

Lich Kanganas realized his awkward situation. Even if he were to exhaust all his magic power and cast all his spells, the best he could do was beat Mietzel within an inch of his life. Without a means to seal the Libram of Wisdom, his chances of killing Mietzel was infinitely close to zero.

He was a Fourth Grade, after all, and assisted by a Fifth Grade artifact. In truth, his overall power was superior to Kanganas.

However, Mietzel had clearly been too sheltered before this. He had never experienced such a bloody and cruel battlefield. His performance in combat had been greatly affected by his fear. If he could realize his circumstances in time and fight Kanganas more actively and courageously, the lich might just retreat under the threat of mutual defeat to search for easier prey.

Unfortunately, his overly rational thought process and his blind faith in his own deductions pushed Mietzel towards the seemingly safer but truthfully more dangerous approach in combat!

Mietzel had no idea that the lich was silently negotiating with someone else even as they were fighting.

“Help me take down this bastard. I only want the Libram of Wisdom. You can have everything else.”

“Hehehe, Sir Kanganas, as you know, I am only a fire adept. For what purpose would I want his body and soul? I can’t change professions and become an undead adept, can I?”

“What is it that you want then? If nothing else, I can compensate you with some more resources. All excellent loot I collected from the Arcane Empire. Aren’t you here in Morrian for that to begin with?”

“What about the other way around then? I will compensate you with resources, and you give me the Libram of Wisdom?”

“Kehkehkehe. Don’t get greedy, brat! That’s a Fifth Grade artifact. You sure you can seal it? If you mess up even slightly, there is no doubt that Hierro will recall his artifact.”

“You don’t have to worry about whether I can seal the artifact. All I ask is for you to give me a chance. I will only try one time! If I don’t succeed, I will give up on everything here. It will all be yours.”

Kanganas was moved by the proposition and couldn’t help but start thinking about what to do.

“Very well, I accept your conditions. Help me take down Mietzel!”

As soon as Kanganas finished speaking, the state of the battle instantly changed.