The occurrence of this unexpected event undoubtedly ssed up Greem's cultivation plans.
The urgent matter at hand wasn't how to increase his power, but to create that Emblem of Fire armband as soon as possible. After all, it was the combination of two set pieces that could provide Greem with actual fire immunity, rather than before where he had to turn into his body of flas to be immune to fire.
If he had no choice but to go into the Fire Elentium Plane, he would not have a single companion who could accompany him.
The Fire Elentium Plane was the world of the fire elentium creatures. Second Grade adepts like Mary and Alice would not be able to endure the burning flas for extended periods of ti, regardless of how good their magic resistance was. Even the tough Dragonborn Zacha couldn't last in this aspect, let alone them.
That was why the only person that Greem could rely on was himself!
If his companions couldn't survive in the Fire Elentium Plane, what other options were available to him?
The Fire Elentium Plane was a pure elentium plane. The plane itself rejected all other elentium apart from fire elentium. All magical equipnt or accessories that needed to absorb external elentium to function would only have one use. They could not be replenished after being exhausted.
Magical scrolls, magical potions, wands, accessories; all of these tools could no longer be of much help to Greem.
What about magical golems then?
These elentium golems were what had helped Greem the most since he started his rise to power. Could he still rely on them to break through the storm this ti?
The expectation of his elentium golems quickly fell as he started to delve into more detailed information on the Fire Elentium Plane.
That place excluded all elentium apart from fire elentium to an extre degree. Elentium golems like the Wind Dragon and the Decayer would rapidly exhaust their internal elentium energy reserve there. The only ones he could use there were probably fire elentium golems.
It wasn't necessarily a bad thing!
At the very least, the Fla Fiend of Terror would be able to manifest for extended periods without any damage due to the plane's rich fire elentium. With the aid of the Fla Fiend of Terror, a powerful fire adept like Greem would probably have no problem surviving in the Fire Elentium Plane.
The only trouble was the uncertainty as to what traps the wicked witches had laid around the Fire Lord. If Greem were tracked down by the enemy the mont he entered the plane, he would have nowhere to go in the Fire Elentium Plane where he had no allies or friends!
The event that had happened to him concerned so secrets of the Northern Witches' higher-ups after all. As such, Greem did not reveal anything about the situation to the people around him. He could trust Mary, but she was an impulsive and irritable person. Greem was worried that she would sneak behind him to find trouble with the Deceit Witches if she found out about the incident.
Thus, Greem handed all of his authority over White Tower to ryl and returned to Fire Throne under the excuse of performing a major magical experint.
A fire elentium altar had been constructed in Fire Throne as well, which allowed Greem to open a passage to the Fire Elentium Plane at any ti he wished. Thus, Greem felt like there was a need to first travel to the Fire Elentium Plane for reconnaissance.
The creation of the Emblem of Fire armband still required three to four months. It would be best for him to familiarize himself with the Fire Elentium Plane during this ti.
After returning to Fire Throne from White Tower, Greem first summoned Gargal to ask about the tower's situation. He then set down so tasks to be completed and waved Gargal away.
Once Gargal had left, Greem used his authority as the owner of the tower to move the fire elentium altar from the first floor of the tower into his own room.
The massive fire elentium altar had three tiers. It was twenty ters long and thirty ters wide, while each layer was three ters tall.
The marble surface of the altar's base was carved full of strange magical lines and runes. Many of them were sketches of various fire elentium creatures. An elentium brazier was lit at the four corners of every tier, with a bright yellow elentium fla burning within them.
A wide, thick slab of marble had been placed at the top of the altar. It was the altar platform, where the casters would present their sacrifices to the Fire Elentium Plane.
Ordinary fire elentium altars had two purposes. One was to summon powerful fire creatures from the Fire Elentium Plane through sacrifices, while the other was the Flagate that Greem needed to use. It was only through the Flagate that Greem could successfully travel between the World of Adepts and the Fire Elentium Plane.
Once the fire elentium altar had been placed in his room, Greem used his authority to separate a dedicated power channel from the energy room and connected it directly with the fire elentium altar. This way, he wouldn't need to worry about the Flagate dispersing on its own due to a lack of energy.
Greem carefully inspected the fire elentium altar once again after he'd done everything. He confird that there were no problems before waving his hand and activating the fire elentium altar.
As abundant fire energy surged into the fire elentium altar without stop, the altar started to light up, tier by tier, from the base. The runes and arrays etched upon the altar began to activate wherever the fire energy coursed through, slowly but surely burning with dense and blazing flas.
Greem stood atop the altar platform and hesitated for a mont before taking out the Blaze of Destruction from his storage ring. It was a staff that had accompanied him for a long ti. Alice had given him the Blaze of Destruction shortly after her own advancent to First Grade. With the increase of Greem's powers, this First Grade magical equipnt was no longer suitable for him.
If that was the case, then let it unleash its power one more ti!
Greem raised his arm and lightly placed the Blaze of Destruction into the narrow socket located at the center of the platform. As overwhelming fire energy flowed into the staff through the altar, the Blaze of Destruction turned bright red in color before turning a blinding white as it grew brighter and brighter.
By the end, the light it emitted was so strong that one couldn't look straight at it.
The lights glowed and hovered above the altar. They then slowly gathered together and ford into the shape of a phantasmal door of light. Through this shimring door, Greem could vaguely sense the destructive pulses of fire energy on the other side.
The Flagate leading to the Fire Elentium Plane slowly opened.
The temperature in the magical room started to rise rapidly. The glimr of elentium defenses began to show on the surrounding walls, floorboards, and ceiling, repelling the fire energy radiating into the air. Otherwise, the intensity of the fire energy from the opening of the Flagate would have lted even the enchanted stone materials.
If that happened, Greem's little secret could no longer be concealed!
Greem's towering body stood in front of the Flagate. He looked around him to ensure that all the defense and security arrays had been activated and that all his preparations were going according to plan. It was only then that he turned and leaped into the Flagate.
…………
This was a burning world!
The sky was burning. The ground was burning. Everything in the world was burning.
There was no air here, nor food, and naturally no water.
Of course, just when you thought this place to be a land void of life, this unique world would prove otherwise with its own odd and twisted planar laws– sotis fire could also be life!
Greem quickly lost all his physical senses after stepping through the Flagate.
He had no vision, hearing, sense of touch, and no sense of sll. Even his sense of space had vanished. The only thing that could help him in this strange and twisted world was his extended Spirit.
It was like falling into a dark and bottomless abyss. Everything around him was hidden behind a heavy shroud of darkness, making it impossible for Greem to see anything, even if his eyes were wide open. Greem quickly regained his composure after a brief mont of panic. He started to converse with the Chip.
"Chip, what is it with ? Why can't I see anything?"
[Beep. According to the planar laws of the elentium world, no other elentium particles aside from fire elentium particles exist here. That is why normal human organs are no longer suited for this new world. Host must direct the reconstruction of the sensory system with his Spirits as the frawork.]
"Begin construction now!"
[Beep. Host's instructions received. New sensory system in process of construction. Estimated ti required: Seven seconds. 7…6…5…4…3...2…1.]
As the countdown ended, Greem felt the darkness before him fade away. The shape of nearby objects started to beco clear and appear in his vision. The strange ntal flux extended in every direction like ripples on the surface of the water, feeding everything it sensed back to the source of the flux.
A brand new world slowly presented itself to Greem, just like that!
Greem slowly turned about and earnestly sensed the world around him.
It was a desolate and quiet plain. Apart from two or three sharp broken rocks around him, there were no other lifeforms or objects.
Greem squatted down in curiosity and felt the soft grass under his feet with his hand. The grass here was utterly different from material planes. All the grass and flowers were of a single color: red. If it weren't for the fact that the tactile sensation resembled that of grass in the material plane, Greem would have suspected that they were only flas of a different state.
Greem applied so force and plucked a handful of red grass from the ground, placing it in his palm for better observation.
It was an ordinary handful of grass, but everything from its roots to its leaves was bright red. Even the dirt entangled in its roots was a dark red. The fire grass seed to have lost the constant nourishnt of fire elentium upon leaving the ground. It quickly wilted and withered away, losing all of its life force in an instant.
The next second, the grass in Greem's hand–along with the dirt on its roots–exploded into sparks of fire in a sizzling blast.
Greem could sense pure and concentrated fire energy in these sparks!
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