Age of Adepts

The two parties in conflict were the adepts, who were mostly human, and the galaxy wanderers.

These wanderers were humanoids that were over three meters tall. They had violet skin with fancy, incomprehensible magical patterns on their bodies. Strange blades of light extended from their arms, each of them over a meter long.

These strange light swords were used to both strike and parry.

They were unusually terrifying when used to strike an enemy. Ordinary magical shields could not endure more than a few strikes from the glowing blades. Only higher-grade defensive magic could last for a slightly longer duration. These swords of light could even quickly turn into shields of light when the galaxy wanderers needed to defend themselves. The shields were broad and covered most of their body.

At least half of the adept’s spells would be deflected by the shields, with another portion of the spells dissipating into the air. There were very few spells that could threaten the wanderers.

There were as many as eleven galaxy wanderers in this group. Their grades varied, with half of them being Second Grade and the other half being Third Grade. Meanwhile, the adepts only had five people. Two of them were Third Grade, while the other three were Second Grade. They were at a disadvantage in both numbers and might.

Fortunately, the combination of professions in the adept party was efficient, and their spells were quite appropriate for the situation.

“Yes!”

With a Fourth Grade adept at their backs, the adepts finally had the confidence to harvest the seeds boldly.

The plant adept flew back to the floating stone and dove into a dark cave to continue harvesting the Ysera’s Seed that had somehow ended up in this place. The other adepts were either on guard duty or skinning the corpses of the dead wanderers.

Greem watched as they worked. Eventually, he couldn’t help but move a relatively undamaged corpse towards himself out of curiosity. He had the Chip perform a thorough scan of the wanderer’s body.

Admittedly, though these galaxy wanderers appeared humanoid, their internal construction revealed an evolutionary path completely different from humans. They had no respiratory organs nor waste organs. That unusual ‘stomach’ of theirs seemed to be able to digest anything.

From animals and plants to dirt and sand and even hard metal ores, they could grind it to dust and absorb all nutrition present in the substance. They would then regurgitate the waste that could not be digested.

Their bones were not dense and tough like planar creatures. Rather, the bones resembled beehives, where the internal structure was filled with plenty of air bubbles and cavities. Every tiny air bubble and cavity was a small magic-storage organ. Chaotic magic energy could be stored and released in these air bubbles and holes.

A strange organ also grew near their wrists. This organ was able to convert the magic energy in their bodies into a peculiar form of light elementium. The state and structure of the light elementium were molded entirely with the galaxy wanderers’ Spirit.

After conducting a deep scan with the Chip, these galaxy wanderers no longer held any secrets for Greem. The Chip estimated that the most valuable part of these galaxy wanderers had to be this parasitic organ growing on their wrists, along with their skin.

If the parasitic organs were removed and taken back for research, Greem might be able to figure out the principle behind the production of that odd light elementium. Meanwhile, their skin had decent magic resistance. There was value in using their flesh to craft armor.

Magic resistant armor was useless for Greem. Instead, it was this parasitic organ that drew his interest. He casually severed one of the wanderer’s arm and put it into his storage device. He then returned the rest of the body to the adepts.

This place was over three hours of flight distance away from Camp Exodar. It was still in the core region of the storm’s eye and was at least five thousand kilometers away from the outer storm region.

Supposedly, this adept party should have gone to the edge of the storm if they wanted to have valuable findings.

However, given their abilities, it would be far too difficult to protect themselves if they were too close to the storm region. They could only scavenge near Camp Exodar in this manner, hoping to find strange items that had somehow made their way into the core region.

Ordinary resources like Ysera’s Seed could not make them rich overnight, but if they got incredibly lucky, they might find things like starsand, star cores, origin substances, or spacestones. Such findings would be enough for these Second and Third Grade adepts to return to the World of Adepts and live a luxurious life for hundreds of years.

It was a far simpler and quicker way to accumulate wealth, as opposed to working clan missions or being stationed inside some lesser plane!