Chapter 1080 - Great Adept’s Messenger
The Empowered Magic Essence was vastly inferior to Breeding Flowers when it came to effect alone.
After all, Breeding Flowers were the optimal solution to the adept’s problem of procreation. Empowered Magic Essence was, at the very best, a sort of stop-gap, an improvisational measure to make up for what couldn’t be achieved.
That said, Breeding Flowers were Sixth Grade items, while Greem’s Empowered Magic Essence was only a Fourth Grade item. It wasn’t hard to imagine which was harder to obtain.
If a Breeding Flower were to appear in Camp Exodar someday, the Sixth Grade adepts would probably be the first to get their hands all over it. Sainz would never even have the opportunity to see the flower.
Moreover, if Greem’s Empowered Magic Essence could indeed provide ordinary mortals with elementium affinity just as he claimed, then it would quickly become a much-demanded resource. When that happened, Sainz would not ever be able to obtain Empowered Magic Essence at such a low cost.
As such, just half a day later, Sainz traded an advanced Fourth Grade focusing crystal with Greem for one person’s worth of Magic Empowered Essence. As for its effects? He would be testing it on a suitable descendant in his clan.
After all, Sainz lacked no resources, knowledge, or magic. It was only unfortunate that his bloodline had regressed to a state where even apprentice adepts could not be found after two thousand years.
He couldn’t help but sigh in exasperation every time he thought about this. Yet, there was nothing he could do!
That alone made it a decent support resource for adepts!
As such, the Chip rated the seed as a Third Grade item that could be somewhat considered Fourth Grade in its effect.
The second item was a memory crystal.
Greem picked it up and lifted it to his forehead. His Spirit moved, and he sensed the information contained within.
It was a Fourth Grade fire spell that was contained within the memory crystal– Torrential Flames.
It could gather fire energy into a single beam of fire that would assault and flood the enemy from any angle. Its power was around 1400 to 1600 points.
Out of considerations of confidentiality, only the first half of the information within was revealed. The other information relating to the actual casting, chants, and spiritual movements were all sealed with magic.
Greem hesitated for a moment and put the crystal back into the air. He turned to look at the third item.
It was an actual fire coral staff.
Its dark-red head, its body, drawn full of strange patterns, and the warm heat pressing against Greem’s face all pointed towards its real identity.
A Fourth Grade fire staff!
It could enhance Greem’s fire damage by seven percent.
Seven percent might not seem like much, but with the improvement in Greem’s magical abilities, any percentage increase often meant over a hundred point increase in energy damage.
As such, a seven-percent fire damage enhancement was already very impressive for the Fourth Grade Greem!
Greem slowly looked at the three Fourth Grade items before him. He couldn’t say he wasn’t moved, but it wasn’t as if he had to make this trade.
If Greem brought the fire coral staff along with him to battle, it would mean that he had completely given up on melee combat. He would be fixing his position as one of a spellcaster.
That was truly a significant waste of his potential, given his great Physique and decent Strength!
He didn’t really have to have the Fourth Grade fire spell either.
The first thing that the Chip had been busy with since Greem’s advancement to Fourth Grade was the calculation and improvement of the Third Grade spells he currently possessed.
Currently, the Third Grade Vicious Fireball had been upgraded to the Fourth Grade Blazing Fireball.
The Third Grade Flamegate had been improved to the Fourth Grade Molten Fire Gate.
The Third Grade Meteor Swarm had been upgraded to the Fourth Grade Meteorite Bombardment.
The Third Grade Magma Armor had been upgraded to the Fourth Grade Blaze Form.
Apart from these spells, Fire Teleportation had also been improved and optimized by a certain degree.
It allowed Greem’s offensive power to increase exponentially, from the 400-500 base damage to the current 700-900 base damage. In addition to all the magical equipment he was wearing and his fire specialization, a tiny fireball from Greem would have around 1300-1500 points of power.
Of course, if he were to combine all this with the focusing crystal he had just obtained, the upper limit of his damage reached a shocking 3900 points.
It was far too shocking for a Fourth Grade adept who had just advanced not ten years ago!
It was all these factors that made these three Fourth Grade items not as appealing to Greem.
Greem’s hesitation and dissatisfaction fell on the eyes of the two-headed adept as well. He couldn’t help but be slightly surprised at this.
Great Adept Anrimus was a Sixth Great Adept from the Adept’s Association. To think that the things he offered would be rejected by a mere Fourth Grade adept. It was unbelievable!
As the Great Adept’s messenger, he could not afford to lose face in this manner.