Age of Adepts

Greem silently opened his eyes.

The blazing hot heart in his body was still beating firmly and rhythmically, sending surges of pure golden fire all over his body. This golden fire was entirely different from the fire energy of the past. Apart from a vicious and violent destructive energy, the fire also contained a subtle trace of unusual power.

Greem’s mental consciousness was like a baby chick that had just emerged from its shell. It extended out of his body and stretched out of the house in every direction, sustained by his powerful Spirit.

The entire town was now a world of darkness!

It was not just a description; it was the cold, objective reality.

No one knew when, but dense shadow energy had spread to every corner of the small town, and it was still spreading and growing in power.

At this moment, Maple Forest Town had already been dragged into an interspatial layer of the Shadow World. It was now an unusual pseudo-shadow domain.

In this domain, all shadow creatures and dark magic would be at their strongest, unaffected by suppression or interference from the Morrian Plane.

Unfortunately, the forces sent by the Arcane Empire were still too weak. They could not truly threaten Fourth Grade adepts. As such, Shani had no choice but to remain in hiding, working alongside the party itself.

What she never expected was for the legendary adept to bring the party to this remote region after he had picked up on her bare killing intent instead of fleeing immediately. It seemed like he intended to resolve their ‘little disagreement’ here.

Naturally, Shani couldn’t be happier. She wouldn’t pass up on this opportunity either. She had immediately used the Orb of Shadows to project a portion of the Dark Witch’s origin tower to this village, with herself as the coordinate.

Shani was currently like a bridge. She projected the power of the origin tower onto the town endlessly and used that power to summon wave after wave of elite shadow armies.

This power did not belong to Shani. Rather, it was a subordinate force that the Dark Witches had been cultivating and raising in the Shadow World. The fact that Shani could freely mobilize this army undoubtedly reflected the Dark Witches’ attitude on the matter of killing Greem.

As she drew upon the shadow energy to surround the legendary fire adept, Shani communicated with the origin tower, hoping to drag this pseudo-shadow domain even further into the Shadow World.

However, the state of the battle caused her to frown in confusion the moment it began.

The legendary fire adept’s power was too unusual. How…how was it that even the spiritual appendages he extended outwards carried with them a trace of fire energy? How exactly had he achieved this feat?

Had he not just advanced to Fourth Grade, according to the information She sent? Why did he have such mastery over the fire laws?

It was important to note that even with Shani’s incredible talent, she had only barely grasped the shadow laws despite six hundred years passing by since her advancement to Fourth Grade. There was still a long way to go before she could master the use of this power.

However, it had only been a dozen years since Greem had advanced to Fourth Grade.

This strange discovery caused the hatred in Shani’s heart to grow even more significant.

If the shadow energy could not penetrate his domain, then something more substantial should be able to do the job!

Under Shani’s command, the shadow army that had been lying in wait in the town finally moved!

It was like dark black ink had been poured into black water. Packs of shadow panthers leaped out of hidden corners, stepping through the air and jumping across the buildings as they quickly surrounded the room where Greem resided.

The more intelligent high-grade shadow creatures quickly gathered in the meantime, forming squads of shadow warriors and marching in an orderly fashion towards the burning sun in their shadow world.

Indeed, in the eyes of all the shadow creatures, it was like an overwhelming, oppressive, and proud sun was hidden within that shabby house.

Golden threads of light penetrated the floorboards and the ink-black shadow domain, shining upon the swarming packs of shadow panthers. It didn’t even take three seconds for a Second Grade shadow panther to disintegrate under the golden sunlight, reduced to unconscious shadow energy once again.

Rather than the shadow panthers desperately attacking their target, it was more like the shadow panthers casting themselves into the flame like suicidal moths.

If the legendary fire adept were only a small candle flame, it would be devoured by the darkness eventually, with the endless hordes of shadow creatures. However, if that legendary fire adept was not a candle, but a wildfire blazing across an empty plain, then what awaited the shadow creatures was not victory, but……

Dark Witch Shani’s heart suddenly sank!