Age of Adepts

For the next two days, Greem toured all of the public areas in Molten Fire City, accompanied by the pretty Freina.

Molten Fire City’s scale was not small at all. If it had been built on the surface instead, it would have been the size of an intermediate city. However, the entire population of the city was no more than three to four thousand people. Moreover, seventy percent of these were servants that lived in the outposts of the outer areas.

The core area, which could sustain up to twenty or thirty thousand people, was populated by a mere two to three hundred adepts. Moreover, most adepts spent their time in the libraries and the laboratories. Even on the rare occasion that they emerged from their shelters, they would be occupied with business. It caused the massive central area to be a ghost town, void of any life despite all the pretty gardens and parks.

Greem could tell that Freina was lusting after him. In fact, he probably only needed to beckon with his finger, and this female adept would make her way to his bed at night.

However, Greem was occupied with his thoughts at the moment and was in no mood to play such a game with her. Thus, for the next two days, the resentment in Freina’s eyes grew until it was obvious to any bystander.

Greem honestly couldn’t be bothered to care. That was because the more information he obtained, the more of a strange feeling he got.

It was very likely that his ‘enemy’ on this trip was an acquaintance!

Greem’s eyes swept across the lava, and the Chip scanned the crimson lava sea that filled the world beyond the barrier.

“The environment in the lava sea is a bit more complicated. I will accompany you inside!” Freina smiled as she said.

Greem shook his head and said, “I won’t be going far. I will just take a look at the environment nearby. It will give me more confidence in the battle to come.”

Having said that, he spared the courtesies and strode toward the light barrier. A scarlet magical barrier suddenly appeared around him before he slowly passed through the wall and entered the lava sea.

The lava sea might seem static, but its viscous liquid was continually flowing. It was only because the entire space was filled with boiling lava that it gave people the illusion that it was unmoving.

Greem had just passed through the light barrier, and the barrier around him immediately sustained a crushing force of over five hundred kilograms. The sizzling lava was pressing toward the center of the sea. Naturally, Greem had to endure this strange force as well now that he was in the sea.

He hesitated for a moment before slowly retracting the barrier back into himself. The boiling lava around him instantly pressed down and enveloped him.

The boiling lava made contact with his warm skin, but it did not sizzle; instead, warm surges of energy coursed through Greem’s body. It was such a comfortable sensation that he almost moaned.

If he were still Second Grade, he might have been able to endure the extreme heat, but he would never have been able to endure the terrifying pressure. Now that he had advanced to Third Grade, his body’s affinity for fire elementium had reached an extremely high level. Not only did he feel no pressure while immersed in this sea of lava, he felt as free as a fish in water.

However, Greem still had to separate a portion of the fire energy within him to protect his robes. Though he could endure the extreme heat, his clothes could not.

He would have to protect his clothes with fire energy if he didn’t want to run about naked!

Other adepts might find traveling through the lava sea a difficult matter, but there was no such problem for a fire adept.

Greem chuckled as his entire body immediately dispersed, turning into a humanoid cluster of fire as he traveled through the lava. Greem dashed about the depths of lava with flame jets of various angles, moving at speed several times that of his flight in the air.

For a fire adept, fire was truly their home field!