Age of Adepts

As a large and powerful beam of energy from the energy core connected with the humanoid projection, the energy aura from the projection began to rise in intensity and power.

“Energy Spear, Arcane Phantom, Filiast…Truth’s Light!”

As the projection shouted, a three-meter-thick beam of white light shot out of his hand and landed on the star devourer’s head.

Strangely enough, while other energy beams and arcane blasts would be distorted, refracted, or dissipated by the star devourer’s defensive forcefield, this did not happen to the white beam. It was almost as if it did not belong to any elementium attribute. It ignored the star devourer’s defensive forcefield and its tough scales, and instead pierced straight into the star devourer’s head without any difficulty.

The star devourer that had been marching forward with unstoppable momentum stopped almost immediately. A massive hole erupted from its forehead, and a tall pillar of pungent blood spewed forth like an active volcano.

The star devourer lifted its head and let out an earthshaking roar upon receiving this grievous wound. Its ghostly green eyes that were over a dozen meters in diameter quickly locked onto the strange human projection hovering a few kilometers above the arcane palace.

One of the two Arcane Emperors of the Arcane Empire. It was the terrifying Administrator Garcia!

No, it wasn’t him. It was just one of his energy clones.

“Kill them all!” Also invisible using her mental powers, Cherisha suggested with a cold, gleaming light in her eyes, “Those disaster creatures are our competitors as well. It’s best if we can weaken them, even by a little!”

Adept Holly snorted at Cherisha’s suggestion.

It was important to note that she and her brother had been keeping a low profile since the start of the battle. They had seldom provoked a fight. Now they were going the opposite way instead! To think they would dare to poke the hornet’s nest of disaster creatures!

Was the two-headed adept so benevolent as to want to help the natives of Morrian Plane?

Of course not.

The reason Cherisha had given such a suggestion was because she had seen through what Greem was thinking. She was merely suggesting what coincided with his thoughts. Cherisha had been retaining control over the body. It had been a long time since Mangus was the conscious personality.

The implications behind this were…interesting!

“We have completed most of the mission tasks handed out by the main party. We have attacked seven of the ten target locations. Reisin Garden should not be much further from here.” Greem paused for a moment here. “At this point, I think it’s best for us to take a rest first. If we kill these beasts, we might be able to obtain some information on the disaster creatures from their minds.”

“Leave it to me!” Cherisha immediately became overjoyed when she saw that Greem had accepted her suggestion. “You two go look for a place to rest. Leave these little critters to me!”

Greem agreed with a soft grunt. He was the first to dispel his flames and reveal himself as he walked towards the village. Adept Holly shrugged and revealed himself as well, following closely behind Greem.

After the battle of Maple Forest Town, both Holly and Cherisha had acknowledged Greem’s power and status as the team leader. They became very obedient after that.

However, Adept Holly was only respectful. He did not behave like Cherisha, desperately trying to earn the good graces of Greem.

The beasts immediately sensed the presence of the two adepts when they revealed themselves. They looked at the human figures from a distance. They then screeched and took to the skies, anguished humans still clinging to the tips of the metal spears in their hands.

“Human…flesh…death.”

These otherworldly beasts muttered some strange, meaningless phrases as they flapped their wings and dived from above. They were charging ferociously at the two adepts.

However, before they could arrive in front of them, an invisible mental wave brushed across the sky. These beasts quickly halted their movement and ran into each other instead.

For a moment, countless green and gray feathers filled the air as the bloodied and contorted bodies of the beasts crashed to the ground.

The First Grade beasts had snapped their necks and crushed their organs on impact. Not one of them got up from the ground again. The only four Second Grade beasts struggled to get up and remained stunned on the spot even when they did. They had lost all their ferocity and courage from before.

Greem and Holly walked past and across the black pools of blood and entered the village.

Meanwhile, Cherisha appeared beside the four surviving beasts. Crimson light glowed in her eyes as she stabbed her fingers into their foreheads.

A short moment and a few chants later, Cherisha withdrew her fingers. The four beasts collapsed to the ground, pungent purple blood flowing out of the holes in their heads.