Etching magic runes on one’s own body was not sothing that could be easily accomplished!
It required special magic rune ingredients, a Master of Magic Runes who possessed peculiar innate talent, exclusive drawing experience and skill... and not a single requirent could be omitted. However, Greem didn’t have even one of them.
Inside of the Alchemy Laboratory of the Swampy Tower.
The radiance from dozens of illuminating crystals had made the laboratory as bright as day; not a single shadow could be seen. Unlike in the past, Greem didn’t stand in front of the Alchemy Station. Instead, he was lying down on top of the Alchemy Station. Today, he was both the operator and the target of the operation!
He didn’t have any of the special ingredients required for the drawing of magic runes, so Greem could only use the thod of crafting golems to carve the magic runes; he couldn’t hire any professional Master Magic Runes, so Greem could only do it himself, drawing on his own body; he didn’t possess any of the experience and skill in drawing magic runes that were passed down for generations, and he was solely depending on the optimized combination and simulated experints carried out by the Chip in his Spiritual Domain...
Today, it was destined that Greem would beco a bull in a china shop, as he would throw every single pot and bottle that represented all of the previous expectations and rules onto the ground and then break a new path that belonged solely to himself.
In a normal process of magic runes drawing, the Master of Magic Runes would usually need the aid of so dicines, so that he could reduce the recovery ability of flesh and blood in a particular region. Every single rune array that functioned properly was composed of hundred and thousand of runes and magical lines. If the target of the drawing was soone with high Physique, before the last line of rune could be drawn, the first line of rune would have completely self-healed.
This would completely destroy the entire process of magic rune drawing!
Using a special dicine to anesthetize and repress the recovery ability of blood and flesh on a particular region of the target’s body, and using the magic rune ingredients ticulously concocted to etch the corresponding magic runes on the skin of the target, and finally, interconnecting them with the magical energy organ inside of the target’s body. This was the elentary theory that let magic runes stimulate the human’s body, which could make the target unleash a special ability.
It was because of this tedious and complicated process that the importance of a Master of Magic Runes was so significant. There had been so fellows who wished to save the hefty amount of magic crystals that one cost, and fancied that they could use the simplest thod of drawing magic runes on themselves. They thought such magic runes could bring them so effects for a short period of ti, and following the self-recovery of the body, every external change made to their bodies would eventually fade away.
And very soon, they had realized that they were just drawing water with a bamboo basket – it achieved nothing. Not only would the magic runes not be solidified forever, it also cost them a dearly expensive amount of ingredients.
Unfortunately, the magic rune suit of the Fla Fiend that Greem was custom making for himself was an example of that ntioned above. Nevertheless, relying on his extrely high control over his Fla Body, the process of losing effectiveness would definitely be slowed down. Also, he had never had the hope that the magic rune suit could be used forever; so long as it could support him in making his way through this ‘calamity,’ it would be enough.
Greem lay flat on top of the Alchemy Station. Using his Spirit, he activated the alchemy equipnt.
As the needle-sized heat beam hit his body, Greem started to sll a pungent burning scent coming from the burning of his muscle and fat and he heard the hissing sound of boiling fat. The heat beam moved slowly across the surface of his body, scorching his skin and turning it black, leaving behind lines like shallow trenches.
Expressionless, Greem silently endured the burning from the heat beam. At the sa ti, he had to pour in all his effort to repress this Fla Body’s instinctive defense and counterattack against the heat beam. In addition to that, he had to hold down the regeneration speed of his flesh. Before those shallow trenches could recover, Greem controlled the other alchemy arm, using it to inject the filler that he had prepared beforehand into them.
The strange hissing sound of the heat beam burning his flesh, the pungent stinking sll that ca from the filler slowly corroding the muscle of a human body... the weird sound, the strange sll, both filled the entire Alchemy Laboratory almost imdiately. It would make soone feel like he had co to a dark, ugly room of torture!
Greem was trying to draw a rune array composed of complicated, hard to understand runes, and full of nurous winding lines onto a random part of the body. At the sa ti, the core nodes of the rune array had to perfectly overlap with the magical nodes found on the body itself. During this process, any slight deviation would cause the total destruction of the entire rune array.
Therefore, even though the severe pain coming from the surface of his body kept stimulating his nerves, Greem still retained the sa expression and focused his vision on the tiny light beam that kept jumping over his skin. With an attentive gaze, he watched the entire process as his skin turned red, softened, collapsed, turned dark, and eventually, beca coke.
There would be a total of fourteen rune arrays drawn on his body, each of them an independent entity, and all possessed the effect of stimulating the body function of that particular region. But when they were interconnected and activated, they would create an extrely complicated, profound and mysterious magic rune suit – the transformation of a Fla Fiend.
And this was the direction of advancent Greem had set for his Fire Elent magic spell!
The Fla Fiend was a dreadful creature of the Abyss that ca from the lower tier plane. They usually possessed a huge and nacing body, however, their combative strength actually ca from their terrifying fla ability that was beyond any comparison. Once they flew into a rage, their entire body would ignite, turning them into a horrible flaming humanoid. Any living beings that got too close to their body would have to withstand a constant fire damage.
Without high fire resistance, ordinary enemies didn’t even have the qualifications to fight a battle with it, and would be turned into coke by the constantly burning fla. As for the enemies that had the qualification to stand face to face with the Fla Fiend, they would have to deal with raging Fire elent magic spells that blotted out the sky and covered the earth, and the hand-to-hand combat skills of the Fla Fiend, which were not weaker than those of ordinary demons.
Fla Fiends may not be the strongest creatures among all of the experts of the Fire elent, but they were definitely the creatures that stood out from the rest who practiced Fire elent magic spells. That was why Greem had drawn fourteen rune arrays on his body; he wanted to use them to fully arouse his potential and mimic part of the Fla Fiend’s abilities.
This was also the main reason this magic rune suit was called ‘the transformation of a Fla Fiend!’
Of course, all of this was based on Greem’s first and earliest assumptions and speculations. If he really wanted to transform into a true Fla Fiend, the best and most straightforward thod would be to pay a visit to the lower tier plane, slaughter, and dissect a real Fla Fiend himself. As for now, he could only mimic and improve his design.
The process of drawing the magic runes lasted for one whole day and night, until noon of the second day. Only then did Greem drag his exhausted body back to his residence. anwhile, Mary, who had just co back from outside, had been waiting for him in his room.
When she saw that Greem was completely exhausted, yet still trying his best to keep up his spirit, a saddened expression erged on Mary’s pretty, travel-worn face.
After she helped Greem lie flat on his bed, Mary gently touched his face and softly said, “Sleep well! I’ll guard you right here!”
Greem was barely able to give her a smile before he sank into deep slumber.
............
Inside another room.
Within the faint, transparent force field of a barrier, Alice could hardly tear herself away from the Adept level elent crystal core; she kept turning the summoning core over and over in her palm. The fist-sized, transparent crystal core was emitting an enchanting glow that could grasp the soul of one who looked at it.
With each turn and new angle, the transparent crystal core reflected another gorgeously bright and colorful, yet extraordinarily beautiful halo. Alice’s gaze rested on it, and her face had an expression of obsession; for a very long ti, she couldn’t pull herself away from such emotion. With her vision, of course she could peer onto the surface of the crystal core and see the mysterious magical arrays that were as tiny as cow hair, but extrely complicated and profound.
No matter how you looked at it, it was no doubt a great work of art produced by a skillful Grand Master.
Relying on the exceptionally designed magical array, the unique power stored within the elent core was guided and unleashed; by combining this power with the vast elent energy gathered from the outside world, it gave birth to a frightful Adept level elent golem that was capable of causing a major catastrophe!
Whenever she recalled the fact that she was miserably defeated by this crystal clear, extrely beautiful, little object, an indefinable fla of anger imdiately surged up from the bottom of Alice’s heart. But imdiately after that, the fla of anger would lt away bit by bit under the strange, fantastic elental halo of the elent core.
Oh right, I had promised that rasca... ouch... master one thing. It looks like I need to make the best use of my ti and practice!
While rolling about on her bed without care over her own image, Alice slowly stretched out her Spirit. Through the slight spiritual sense brought to her from the magical contract buried deep in her soul, she quietly confird the current location of her master.
That... he was in his own room now, and he hadn’t fully activated all of the defense chanisms. Also, it was obvious that his Spirit was on the low side, and he had sunk into a deep state. He should be sleeping now. Wow, isn’t this a great opportunity? As long as I can teleport one object into his hand, then I’ll have this precious thing accompany for a few more days!
Her mind filled with a restless excitent, Alice stretched out her hand and drew a magic rune in midair. After that, she took out an earring and tossed it over. The magic rune was covered by an extrely complicated magic ring; when the earring traveled through it, it was like penetrating a layer of transparent water mirror. Within a split second, it disappeared without a trace.
anwhile, inside the other room, so enshrouding runes suddenly appeared on Greem’s right palm. Following the vibration of these runes, an elegant earring slowly penetrated through the spatial distortion; in the next mont, it would fall into Greem’s palm.
Pap! Mary stretched out her hand and swung gently; the earring was instantly slapped into the corner of the room.
“What a nuisance, it must be that little girl again! Hmph, trying to secretly give her earring to Greem, I knew she was up to sothing bad!”
As the earring was slapped away, Alice imdiately sensed it. “Eh, what happened? It is obvious I’m going to succeed this ti, why was it slapped away suddenly? Could it be so kind of new defense chanism? No way, I have to give it another try!”
It wasn’t an accident; the second ti, the third ti... all of Alice’s attempts were interrupted by so kind of unknown defense chanism. Instead of giving up, it actually aroused her anger. “What’s all this about? It is obvious that guy is sleeping now. Why there is still such a strange defense chanism? You’re the one who forced now!”
Gnashing her teeth in anger, Alice started to move both her arms quickly in midair. She actually unleashed a total of four spatial magic runes at the sa ti. However, before she had the ti to teleport anything through them, all four spatial magic runes that had appeared on different part of Greem’s body vanished at the sa ti.
Damn it, you’re challenging right now!
Alice, who had her competitiveness evoked, imdiately started continuous and endless attempts, but to no effect. Unsurprisingly, every attempt was interrupted by sothing or soone. This made her even angrier, and she poured in more effort to try harder.
At the sa ti, inside of Greem’s room, Mary was seen yawning and stretching her back while moving her fingers to quickly poke the air. Whenever a new spatial magic rune was ford, before it could establish a stable minor spatial tunnel with the other room, it would be instantly broken by Mary’s finger, which had been injected with Blood elent energy.
Therefore, unknowingly, Alice had started to play a ga of ‘cat and mouse’ with Mary!
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