Age of Adepts

Greem slept soundly in the Iron City.

To be honest, with the physique and mental strength of a fifth-level great wizard, even if he has been sleepless for decades, he will not feel the slightest bit of fatigue. But this time he had to lie down and rest.

There is no other reason.

The huge mental power suddenly stretched needs to re-adapt to the current body, and this will undoubtedly take a certain amount of time.

In Greem's mind, the running-in time projected by the chip is: eleven years, three months and eight days... And this is the best running-in period that can only be obtained with the help of chip optimization.

From a certain point of view, the current Greem is already comparable to those giant dragons who are greedy for food and sleep. A short nap may sleep through the short life of some races!

So, in a secret room on the 60th floor of the steel city, Greem fell into a deep sleep, leaving only the chip to guard him faithfully.

And this sleep lasted for eleven years...

Ding……

With the sound of a chip alarm clock, Greem's mental consciousness was slightly shaken, and his dormant consciousness began to slowly and persistently recover.

Without considering the attribute bonuses of the two artifacts, Greem's spiritual power has already reached 50 points. Compared with the 49 points of mental attributes of those peak-level 4 superpowers, Greem may only be 1 point higher.

And this 1-point gap is the key to turning stones into gold!

When the strength reaches high level or above, almost every point of mental power improvement is exponentially improved for combat power support. And this 1 point of mental power is already equivalent to the sum of the previous 49 points of mental power.

This also means that from now on, any slight increase in Greem's main attribute can greatly enhance its combat effectiveness. However, it also illustrates the difficulty of improving the main attribute from one side.

If you were an ordinary rookie, it would be extremely rare for the witchcraft accessories and witchcraft armors you searched for at level 4 to extend to level 5. Take Greem's two Tier 5 artifacts as an example. At Tier 4, they can provide Greem with a total of 5 points of main attribute bonus.

But now, when Greem really advanced to level 5, their attribute bonus to mental power has become 2 points.

But even at 2 points, the current support for Greem is extremely huge!

It was even enough for him, a rookie, to immediately overtake those 'old men' who had been promoted within a thousand years.

Of course, compared to the mental power attribute of 52 points, Greem's other attributes can be called appalling, and the only one that can exceed 30 points is constitution. And this is the result of Greem's physique bonus after possessing the blood of the star beast.

Otherwise, most of the newly promoted fifth-level rule wizards have data below 20 points in terms of strength, physique, and agility.

Although as a regular wizard, Greem's battles were mainly based on long-range flame witchcraft bombardment, and he seldom considered melee combat. But considering that most of the enemies will have excellent magic resistance in the future, it is easy for him to fall into an embarrassing situation with a simple series of elemental specialization.

Therefore, try to improve the overall quality of your body so that you don't have so many shortcomings. At the same time, try to study the high-level application of the fire rules, so that your attack power will be sharper and more difficult to resist.

This is what he should have done most in the hundreds of years since he first came to the outside world!

As for the work of exploring outside the territory, searching for resources, and searching for knowledge, it must be done after the training of one's own combat power is completed.

According to Greem's information, he and the Exodar camp where Iron City is currently located have more than a dozen Tier 5 great wizards. Quite a few of them are not good at fighting, so they rarely step out of the camp to travel and search in the extraterrestrial star sea.

The resources and knowledge they need can only be completed by relying on the crude and primitive trading market inside the camp. This will undoubtedly greatly slow down their witchcraft research progress, but it is more secure than those wizards who have been immersed in the depths of the star sea all year round.

Which of the two is better is a matter of opinion!

Therefore, although Greem has just arrived, with the 2-point main attribute bonus brought by the dual artifacts, he has actually surpassed those fifth-level 'old men' who are resident in the camp.

Closing his eyes and slowly sensing the surging flame energy in his body, Greem could detect that every strand of them was stained with a layer of gold. Although it can't completely reach the level of regular flames, it also possesses part of the magical power of regular flames.

More importantly, the important internal organs and organs in his body have become different from before. The flesh and blood are darker and stronger, and the intertwined blood vessels and tendons are thicker and more powerful. Every time the flame energy surges in the body like a tide, it will make them more condensed, firmer, and heavier.

Signs of crystallization have already appeared on many bones. The speckled fine red grains have replaced the fragile bone grains and become the main material for constructing Greem's skeletal framework.

These grains echo and resonate with the flame energy flowing around them, showing extremely strong fire-melting and fire-resistant properties. This also means that the greater the energy intensity of the flame, the more active the grains will be, and the stronger the physical defense and elemental resistance will be.

However, after this special transformation, Greem's weight has already exceeded one ton, and the strength and density of his body's flesh and blood have reached an astonishing level!

Greem slowly stretched his body and limbs, and his bones and joints exploded all over his body. A powerful force surged rapidly in his body, giving him a momentary illusion that he could tear the mountain alive.

Greem raised his right hand and admired it upside down in front of his eyes.

In my mind, the dense waterfall of data projected by the chip covered the entire eye.

This sense of power is not an illusion, but real!

Under the fluoroscopy and scanning of the chip, the flesh and blood on Greem's right hand gradually became transparent, and the muscles, tendons, blood vessels and the blood and flame energy flowing in the blood vessels inside were clearly visible.

Golden hand bones, golden blood, golden flame energy...

And when Greem's heart moved with his thoughts, and a large amount of flame energy poured into his right hand, everything here changed subtly and miraculously.

The powerful flame energy, the golden hand bones and the blood of the right hand interacted and vibrated with each other, creating layers of golden ripples that were invisible to the naked eye. The golden ripples were so frequent that the power penetrated the fleshy skin, forming a special layer of flame force field protection within half a meter around the right hand.

Greem stretched out his index finger and flicked lightly in the air, the once indestructible void cracked black cracks one after another. And the fine space fragments slashed across Greem's right hand like a blade, but did not damage his skin at all, and were directly bounced away by the layer of flame force field protection.

Space debris... Its penetration and cutting power are second to none in the plane!

Now even it can't hurt Greem's flesh and blood, so it can be seen that the strength of this layer of flame force field protection has surpassed the limit of the power of the plane.

Greem took out another dagger made of black wrought iron, plated with fine gold, and enchanted with sharpness and magic penetration effects.

He slashed his right hand a few times with the dagger, except for leaving a few dark red marks, it didn't hurt the flesh and blood. It seems that this layer of flame protection force field can also block physical attacks.

Gremius added more strength, and the tip of the dagger pressed down on the skin of his right hand, but it still didn't cut open. At this time, the skin of Greem's right hand was as tough as a dragon's leather armor, so it was impossible to damage his skin unless it was a +3 level enchanted weapon.

Greem hesitated for a moment, before dissipating the flame energy in his right hand. As a result, that layer of invisible flame protection force field disappeared immediately.

With Greem's strength, the +2 level enchanted dagger finally broke through the skin of his right hand, drawing a 30 cm long bloody opening on the back of his hand, exposing the dark red flesh and blood tissue underneath.

The golden blood swam out of the wound, staining the tip of the enchanted dagger, and immediately there was the sound of metal corrosion and burning.

Greem picked up the dagger, and was surprised to find that the blade of the dagger had been bumpy and jagged. The blade body was even more red, showing signs of softening and melting.

It was just the instinctive counterattack of Greem's flesh and blood that made this +2 enchanted dagger almost useless.

And within a short while, the huge bloody gash on Greem's right hand had begun to shrink and heal. Fifteen seconds later, there was only a dark red scar left on the back of his right hand, and the wound had disappeared.

And twenty-seven seconds later, even this scar had disappeared.

The entire back of the right hand became smooth again, pink and tender, and it was impossible to see that it had suffered any injuries just now.

Greem nodded in satisfaction, and took out strong acid, strong rot, and various strange solutions to test his physical strength one by one.

Finally, the chip produced a more detailed and comprehensive physical examination report!

Greem's physique was very ordinary because he hadn't undergone special body refinement. It was only by relying on the accumulation of high-level resources in the past and the nourishment of the star beast's blood that he reached the 35 points in front of him.

Placed inside the plane, this kind of physique is already comparable to those Tier 3 giant dragons.

But outside the domain, among all the fifth-level great wizards, this kind of physique can only be regarded as lower than the middle. He was stronger than those regular wizards, but was left far behind by body refining wizards, bloodline wizards, and level 5 monsters.

According to the chip estimation, Greem's body can only resist magic weapons below the second level without the addition of flame energy. And with the protection of the fire bonus, it can resist magic weapons below the third level.

If coupled with the regular protection of the dual artifacts, magic weapons of level 4 and below would have no effect on his body. Only ultra-level weapons of level 5 and above could bring him real damage visible to the naked eye.

As for physical recovery, Greem was only in the middle.

If the enemy's attack didn't have any witchcraft effects or rules, he could completely recover from damages like stumps and broken bodies within half a day. It just needs to consume a certain amount of energy reserves for this.

And Greem now stores the Vulcan Orb in his body, and the flame energy will never be lacking. Even if he is now sealed in a different dimension without any energy, Greem can continue to maintain this body's high-intensity battle with the continuous fire energy provided by the Vulcan Orb.