Age of Adepts

In all honesty, if all three adepts were as ferocious as the fire adept, Illhoof would have turned tail and ran without any hesitation. He would rather lose his entire mutated beast army here than risk the death of this clone of his.

Correspondingly, if all three adepts here were as weak as that weird two-headed adept, Illhoof would charge forth without any hesitation.

He would never give up on such high-quality prey!

Unfortunately, the opponent’s group was too strange. Some of them were powerful, and some of them were weak. That made Illhoof somewhat upset.

The weak were the perfect prey, but the strong were simply too difficult an opponent.

Illhoof’s lotus-shaped mouth opened wide as he bent down on all fours. The next instant, his entire body vanished from the spot.

Invisibility, teleportation…or some other unusual ability?

Greem and the others were shocked at what they just saw.

It didn’t matter how many of these mutated beasts there were. The best they could do was force the adepts into a retreat. They had no chance of killing them. The only thing that could threaten the lives of the three Fourth Grade adepts was the bizarre-looking Scourge Lord, Illhoof.

The three adepts immediately went on high alert the moment Illhoof vanished from sight. They were careful of an ambush from him.

Greem looked around him, and instantly his magical vision allowed him to spot a faint silhouette quickly moving through the ground.

“He’s underground. Cherisha, dodge!”

Greem shouted loudly and hurled the Meteor Bombardment he had been preparing towards Cherisha’s feet.

Cherisha was the weakest of the three of them. As such, she had long since prepared herself to be the target of any attacks. Upon hearing Greem’s cry, she quickly took to the air and shifted her bright yellow magic shield to her feet. At the same time, Greem’s blazing meteor crashed into the quiet ground with the force of a thousand hammers.

Just as Cherisha’s feet left the ground, the flat earth suddenly bubbled like mud in a swamp. Four vicious mouthpieces abruptly clamped shut above the ground, the sharp teeth clashed with each other and causing sparks to fly.

Cherisha had barely dodged the enemy’s underground ambush with millimeters to spare.

Only the upper half of Illhoof’s body was visible. His only eye glare at Cherisha viciously before turning towards Greem, a mean gleam flashing within.

At that moment, the crashing meteor was very close to Illhoof already.

Extreme heat engulfed the surrounding space before the violent meteor had even arrived. Traces of white smoke rose from the ground, and the earth itself started to melt and show signs of turning into magma.

Illhoof smiled wickedly before turning and diving into the earth again.

A dirt-yellow radiance flickered over the ground as the earth instantly became harder than stone.

Boom!

A loud explosion sounded as the meteor crashed into the ground. A half-meter deep crater was carved into the land, the bottom of which was filled with fine cracks. Flame shockwaves and streams of fire of extreme heat spread outwards in a ring, blasting away all substances at terrifying speed.

Cherisha, who had just taken off the ground, was clearly too close to the point of impact. The flames immediately engulfed her. The multiple magical defenses around her crackled as they erupted into sparks. The horrifying flames instantly scorched her feet and turned them black.

Cherisha cried out in shock and escaped from the flames. She no longer dared to land after she got back in the sky.

After stabilizing herself in the air, Cherisha took out multiple vials of potions and started to drink them as fast as she could. The wounds to her lower body started healing at a visible rate.

The flame giant that Greem had turned into was extremely tall. Naturally, by looking down from above, his field of vision was much wider than the average person.

Blue light flickered deep in his black eyes as he looked around him to search for Illhoof’s location.

Illhoof had managed to neutralize his violent attack from earlier completely.

A simple halo of earth elementium had blocked a Meteor Bombardment with 1,600 points of power. The friendly fire inflicted on Cherisha was greater than the damage that Illhoof had sustained.

Moreover, Illhoof had vanished once more. Even Greem couldn’t help but go on alert now.

Just as expected, yellow ripples appeared beneath his feet as the earth turned into soft sand, trapping his smoldering legs. Illhoof quickly tunneled out of the ground some distance away. He opened his lotus-shaped mouth and fired a dense clump of dust mist towards Greem.

To think his specialty was earth elementium!

That was clearly out of Greem’s expectations.

The combined effect of the Quicksand Trap and the Halo of Gravity caused his giant flame body to sink into the ground slowly. The mist that Illhoof had fired at Greem contained a terrifying amount of earth energy and was aimed at his heart.

Obviously, Illhoof had also picked up on the power of the Heart of Principles in Greem’s chest!

Greem’s body was immobilized; he could not escape this attack. As such, he raised his arms and created two one-meter-thick Lava Shields in front of himself.

Pu!

The yellow mist crashed against the Lava Shields, instantly putting out the red flames. The surface of the Lava Shields quickly solidified and turned to rock before crumbling as dust.

The two Lava Shields that could have defended against a total of two thousand points of elementium damage couldn’t even last more than three seconds beneath the mist. They were quickly blasted into bits of stone.

Just as the Lava Shields were destroyed, an even purer beam of earth energy pierced through the explosion and landed on Greem’s extended left arm.

A strange petrification power quickly corrupted Greem’s arm, causing him to lose all control over it.

[Beep. Attacked by a Petrification Beam. Energy intensity is 2,100 points.

[Chaos Physique activated. Absorbing 270 points of earth elementium.

[Burning Domain magical effect activated. Neutralizing 240 points of earth elementium damage.

[Body of Flames elementium defenses activated. Ignoring 650 points of earth elementium damage.

[Magic resistance countering 410 points of earth elementium damage.]

……

A series of notifications from the Chip instantly filled Greem’s vision. Under the effects of multiple spells and his own Physique, the petrification power that had invaded Greem’s body was greatly weakened. However, the powerful attacks of a Fourth Grade minor Scourge Lord were not to be scoffed at. Even after the series of resistances, Greem’s body still had to endure nearly five hundred points of elementium damage.

Moreover, these five hundred points of petrification power were true damage after all resistances had been applied. Greem could only endure this damage with his 31 points of Physique.

The yellow petrification powers of the beam clashed wildly with the red fire energy, turning the arm into a battlefield of its own. Patches of yellow and red appeared all over the limb as the energies fought for dominance.

Greem let out a pained cry and let out a breath of invisible golden flames from his mouth. Flames surged around him, and multiple flame shockwaves ravaged outwards around him.

Illhoof cackled and stomped the ground with his two front feet. A thick and firm earth wall rose in front of him.

By the time the flame shockwaves tore the earth wall apart, Illhoof had already disappeared.

When he appeared once more, he was thirty meters behind Greem. His mouth trembled, and the ground beneath them started to shake as if there was a massive earthquake. Several thick earth spikes rose from the earth and stabbed towards Greem from every direction.

Seeing that this attack was even more potent than the last one, Greem didn’t dare hold back. He beat his chest with one arm, and an unprecedentedly powerful flame shockwave burst forth, ripping the earth spikes to shreds.

By the time the two Blazing Fireballs he fired landed at Illhoof’s former position, the Scourge Lord was already gone from sight.

After multiple failed attacks and almost being wounded at Illhoof’s hands, Greem’s anger and frustration had reached its peak. He lifted his feet and stomped. The earth beneath him instantly shattered as red lava started to spew forth, turning the area around him into a massive pool of lava.

Heatwaves began to spread outwards from his Body of Flames, causing the temperature to rise from two thousand degrees to seven thousand degrees. An egg-shaped dome that covered over three hundred square meters enveloped him, the inside of which was filled with terrifying golden flames.

Having completed his defenses, fires burned in Greem’s eyes, turning them into two miniature suns as he looked at the ground around him. The two beams of fire from his eyes left behind clear scorch marks in the ground where he looked. Where his gaze lingered, the earth melted, the stone softened, and a small pool of lava was quickly created.

Adept Holly, who was still battling with the mutated beasts, snuck a look at the battlefield over there. The muscles in his face couldn’t help but start twitching violently.

“Monsters. Monsters…all of them, monsters!”

After advancing to Fourth Grade, Adept Holly had become very formidable and powerful due to his unusual astral senses and incredible astral construct. He might not be invincible among Fourth Grades, but he was undoubtedly a well-known rookie among beginner Fourth Grade adepts.

However, today, on this otherworldly planar battlefield, he finally knew what an actual Fourth Grade adept was meant to look like.

Dammit! Those two bastards had already raised the intensity of the battle to such a degree, even though the fight had just barely started.

At this point, the attacks that Illhoof and Greem were exchanging easily reached two thousand points of compound elementium damage. Even with the toughness and magic resistance of his astral armor, Adept Holly would have a hard time against such attacks.

How was he supposed to join a battle like this?