Chapter 982 Sudden Increase in Power
Gangsas Volcano, beneath the lava.
There was a lava cave deep within the volcano crater.
If one stood in front of the crimson barrier of light at the entrance to the cave, they would see the thick, heavy sea of magma rumble past their eyes. The volcanic rock that had yet to lt completely had wrapped around the lava, along with so unusual ores glinting with tal.
The elentium magical machine guarded the entrance like a loyal hound, its eyes occasionally gleaming with an odd light as it monitored all the movents in its surroundings. Various wavelengths of detection lights firmly protected this seemingly crude cave in layers, along with a variety of fire traps scattered across the pool of lava.
Greem was lying down upon a stone bed in the cave. The soul-gathering crystal was on his chest, and he was performing a strange breathing exercise.
The frequency of his breathing was unusually slow. He inhaled and exhaled an average of only five tis a minute.
He would inhale with his nose then exhale with his mouth, continuing to breathe at this odd frequency. Every ti he inhaled, all the air in the cave would be instantly drawn empty. One could even faintly hear the hissing sound of the air as it traveled into his lungs. anwhile, every ti he breathed out, a small stream of fire would co surging out of his mouth, scorching the ceiling above until it was black.
It didn’t matter whether Greem inhaled or exhaled. It sounded like thunder in the cave, as if a fire dragon was crouching and sleeping in his den.
While Greem was engaged in his deep ditation state, his mind was faintly connecting to the soul-gathering crystal. A small and gentle stream flowed into his mind, nourishing and strengthening his ntal world.
In all honesty, even Greem had never expected that devouring all the unowned holy light and pure power of faith within the crystal would have taken such a long ti. So completely unexpected changes even happened along the way.
After such a long ti trapped in the soul-gathering crystal, the souls of the holy knights that rested within the clusters of holy light had already been worn down to pure and unconscious spirit energy. That was why Greem’s split soul could devour all of them to its liking, like a tiger among a herd of sheep.
However, its actions had unintentionally awakened the pure, holy light left behind by that Third Grade Gold Knight.
The Holy Light that the holy knights worshipped had one big feature- ‘inclusivity.’ This was also the ‘Purification’ that they so liked to talk about. Supposedly, when an ordinary holy knight died, their soul would find rest within the last cluster of pure holy light, where it would return to the origin and once again enter the system of the plane.
However, when Greem intercepted the holy light, all of these things beca trapped in the soul-gathering crystal. The souls of the other holy knights had already been ‘Purified’ by the holy light they were resting within. However, the soul of the Third Grade Gold Knight lived up to its grade. It had managed to endure the Purification of the holy light and managed to preserve part of itd consciousness.
Without the stimulation from Greem’s split soul, this portion of his consciousness might never have awakened. It would have slowly exhausted its power over ti until the holy light completely assimilated it. However, the appearance of the split soul activated the instinct for survival left in its remnant soul.
The awakened soul of the Gold Knight started to instinctively retaliate against Greem’s split soul, having lost most of its mories and consciousness.
Thus, an unusual battle broke out within the fist-sized crystal!
Given the resilience of the soul of a Third Grade Gold Knight, Greem’s split soul was not a match at all, even though the Gold Knight’s soul had lost most of its power. After all, Greem’s split soul had not grown to its fullest strength yet. Avoiding it and hiding beca the only possible course of action for the divided soul.
Greem had no choice but to personally direct the split soul to aid it in its struggle against the Gold Knight’s soul. With the help of the Chip, he avoided the opponent’s pursuit while furiously devouring as much holy light and pure spirit energy as he could.
After five long years, he finally managed to beat the soul of the Gold Knight and convert it into part of his own Spirit energy. Today was the day Greem would harvest his rewards.
As he focused his Spirit and constructed a ntal tunnel with his split soul, the split soul transmitted a stream of extrely pure Spirit back to Greem.
After five years of complete stagnation, Greem’s Spirit finally started to increase exponentially beneath the monitoring of the Chip.
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As his Spirit continued to grow in strength, an overwhelming surge of spiritual pressure started to rise from Greem’s body as well. Dense fire elentium automatically gathered around him, forming into invisible flas that burned wildly in the air.
The cave silently descended into a sea of invisible flas. All material substances slowly started to lt before the heat of the terrifying flas.
Even the Third Grade elentium magical machine had no choice but to erect an energy forcefield to keep these flas away from it. The transparent flas gently licked its energy forcefield, silently wearing away at its magical energy. Even the elentium magical machine could feel its power quickly drain away.
The magical machine was fortunate to be sustained by a miniature magic generator furnace. Any other adept would have had difficulty surviving amid these transparent flas.
It was clearly one of the high-grade effects of elentium magic– Arcane Oblivion!
Arcane Oblivion was a unique effect that could rival the likes of Arcane Absorption and Magic-Breaking.
Arcane Oblivion was also known as neutralization. It allowed one to use magical energy of equal amount to neutralize or reduce the opposing magical energy to oblivion.
Arcane Absorption, on the other hand, was better described as an innate talent of certain races. It allowed those who possessed the ability to absorb part of the offensive magical energy and convert it into their own strength.
Magic-Breaking was used to pierce and penetrate an enemy’s magical defenses through specific techniques or magical effects. The reason the holy knight’s Holy Light Strike was so terrifying was that it possessed both Magic-Breaking and Exorcising effects.
Now, as Greem’s Spirit continued to increase, his creature grade also rose from beginner Third Grade to advanced Third Grade. In fact, it was still rising even after crossing the threshold of advanced Third Grade.
By the ti the crystal shattered into countless pieces of glass shards, Greem’s Spirit finally stopped at thirty-seven points. This number was still at the level of an advanced Third Grade, but considering the Fire Throne set and Sodden’s Holy Ring’s bonuses to his Spirit, Greem’s Spirit was no less inferior to an adept at peak Third Grade.
While Greem savored the feeling of power and invincibility from his massive increase in Spirit, he picked up on the abnormality on the outskirts of the sea of lava.
The fire traps he had placed there had been triggered, one after another. An exceptionally slender and seductive figure charged at the very front, using her strange ntal waves to detonate all the fire traps along the way.
Three extrely familiar silhouettes rushed behind her, quickly making their way toward the cave’s position.
Hm? Was the enemy taking the offensive?
Did sothing happen outside? Why else would these hunter adepts suddenly beco so bold, after refusing to step into the pool despite him having tried to bait them in here hundreds of tis?
Greem slowly opened his eyes, a trace of confusion still lingering in his mind.
However, when his eyes that were burning with golden flas opened, his muscular, glowing body instantly absorbed every trace of fire in the room, like a whale sucking in water.
For an instant, all the fire aura in the cave vanished, and the temperature fell slightly below average.
An unprecedented feeling of replenishnt in Greem’s Spirit made him feel exceptionally active. His powerful Spirit rged with the dense fire elentium aura outside the cave, making him feel as if he was one with the world itself.
Very faintly, it seed as if he could hear the shapeless sounds of the laws of the universe as the ground and moved. The laws of fire that he had always dreamt of appeared as if they were right in front of him. However, when he reached to grab them, he was obstructed by an unseen barrier, making him utterly incapable of touching them at all.
Just as rage boiled in Greem’s heart and he prepared to muster all his flas to burn through this damned barrier, the elentium magical machine sent him an urgent alert.
The enemies had arrived!
As Third Grade adepts, most natural environnts in the plane could no longer be considered hazardous to them. Even without the ability to manipulate fire, their power allowed them to easily remain within this pool of lava for an entire day.
However, it was a completely different matter to fight a fire adept of the sa grade under such conditions!
“We are almost at his base,” Benija sent a ntal ssage to her companions, “The fire elentium here is too vicious and wild. It’s too much disruption for . I can’t continue locking on to the fire adept. That said, his ntal flux still appears to be chaotic and unorderly. It seems like he has yet to turn away from his magical experint!”
“No more hesitation, then. Act according to the plan once we see that fire adept. We must capture him today!” Serpentine Adept Natagu encouraged his party as he prematurely started to transform into a fearso Black Mamba, shaking his thick and long tail as he swam forward into the lava.
Dirt-yellow halos radiated from his thick scales, keeping the shockingly hot lava away from his body and preventing the heat and pressure from affecting him. The halos also occasionally spread out to protect the old witch and the Blade Princess as well.
They crossed three hundred ters in a matter of monts.
When Natagu saw the dark red fire barrier at the entrance of the cave, he imdiately shook his tail and surged past Benija, charging headfirst at the elentium magical machine standing at the front.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
A storm of bullets ca firing out of the magical machine’s hands, turning into a terrifying current of tal and fire. These projectiles shot through the viscous lava and crashed against the body of the serpentine adept.
A yellow Halo of Gravity wrapped around the barrage of bullets, causing them to swerve in a different direction and slide past his serpentine body harmlessly. Even the shots that found their mark were greatly weakened by the Halo of Gravity. They crackled against Natagu’s scales, but they could not pierce his defenses at all.
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