Age of Adepts

The battle was surprisingly savage and exceptionally bloody!

The Great Demon was like a frenzied boar. He ignored the barrage of arcane attacks from the towers entirely and demolished palace after palace amidst the colorful torrent of magic.

The arcane apprentices hiding in these buildings scattered in horror while under the effects of the Halo of Fear. One by one, they were cut down by the Great Demon with his massive executioner’s blade. At the height of his excitement, the Great Demon picked up arcane apprentices and tossed them into his mouth. His sharp teeth snapped together, and the screaming would come to a sudden end, replaced by the crunching of bones and flesh.

The eyes of a Fourth Ring arcanist hiding in an arcane tower turned red when he saw this. He drove his arcane tower down from the sky, charging at the Great Demon while drowning him with ferocious torrents of arcane magic. However, before he could finish his attack and return to the skies, the Great Demon appeared behind the tower with a long bang. He swung his massive sword against the arcane barrier of the tower.

The arcane tower was forcefully struck down from the sky by the immense strength of the demon, trembling as it crashed to the ground.

The arcane tower did not suffer any damage from the fall; it could still attack as ferociously as before. However, it had lost its original mobility and agility. It could only remain rooted to the ground, barely hanging on with its rippling arcane barrier.

It caused Greem to frown as he observed everything from the shadows.

He had been impressed by these arcane towers and envious of the arcanists for possessing such a powerful structure. However, from the looks of it, these arcane towers had their flaws and weaknesses.

Firstly, they were not heavy enough.

The adepts had their adept towers, and the arcanists had their arcane towers. Compared to the adept towers, the arcane towers could fly and, therefore, freely move. In this aspect, they were far superior to adept towers.

However, it was for the sake of being able to fly that the arcane towers had their weight significantly reduced during construction.

Adept towers often used unique magical materials in their construction, ensuring both physical and magical defense. In particular, steelrock, the most common material used in adept towers, greatly increased their physical defense. Correspondingly, it made the towers incredibly heavy as well.

Meanwhile, arcane towers were made almost entirely out of lighter materials. Specifically, it was a collection of special arcane alloys.

These alloys were sufficiently light while maintaining an acceptable level of physical and magical defense.

It caused arcane towers to be a hundred times lighter than adept towers of the same size.

It was for this reason that the arcane tower had faltered in a direct clash against a massive behemoth like the Great Demon. It was also why this strange scene of a five-meter tall Great Demon chasing after a hundred-meter tall arcane tower with a sword in hand came to be.

The Great Demon was not foolish.

He used the unique Pinpoint Teleportation of all demonic creatures to avoid the ferocious attacks of the arcane towers, appearing unexpectedly beside them instead. He then used his own brutal attacks to beat the towers into submission.

However, such a method of combat was only possible for someone as sturdy and resilient as the Great Demon.

His powerful and distorted forcefield, his unreasonably magic resistant skin, and his exceptional Physique as a demon; if any one of these had been missing, he would already have been blown to pieces by the fierce attacks of the two arcane towers.

It was his ability to rely on his toughness that let the Great Demon continue fighting as fiercely as before, even when his body was already tattered from all the arcane attacks. His combat prowess was not affected by his injuries. On the contrary, he had managed to force both arcane towers to the ground, where they would not be able to return to the skies without the aid of their allies.

The battle between the demon and the towers had been going on for a long time. Their battlefield spanned several kilometers as the demon chased after the towers.

All arcane buildings along their way were destroyed, and all intermediate-grade arcanists and arcane apprentices inside these buildings were slaughtered. Meanwhile, the Great Demon was injured, but not dead. He was still as lively as ever, wildly fighting against the two arcane towers.

Greem hid nearby, taking the opportunity to gather necessary information on the Great Demon.

[Great Demon.

Intermediate Fourth Grade. Demonic creature.

Bodily Attributes: Strength 43 | Physique 45 | Agility 27 | Spirit 31.

Combat Skills: Pinpoint Teleportation, Halo of Fear, Sinister Strike, Savage Body.]

In particular, Pinpoint Teleportation allowed the Great Demon to freely teleport to any location within his vision, as long as the location was not shielded by a barrier of any sort. The effect of the teleportation was far superior to the Fire Teleportation used by low-grade demons.

Meanwhile, the Halo of Fear was an area-of-effect spell that resembled a domain. It caused every creature within the range of the halo to feel fear towards the Great Demon from the depths of their heart, making them incapable of confronting the Great Demon, much less fighting against him.

Evil Strike, on the other hand, was a racial ability available to all demonic creatures. It allowed the demon’s attacks to possess the corrosion and corruption effects of hellfire. Any individual the demon attacked would not be able to heal their wounds so long as they didn’t dispel this sinister effect.

Savage Body was an even more fearsome spell.

It gave the Great Demon the strange ability to become stronger the more injured he was.

Consequently, you could not let down your guard when fighting against the Great Demon, not until you lopped off his head. Otherwise, it was easy for the Great Demon to turn the tables once backed into a corner!

Greem couldn’t help but click his tongue in wonder as he appraised the Great Demon’s combat techniques.

Even though he once possessed the ability to transform into a Flame Fiend, Abyssal Flame Fiends were still only intermediate demonic creatures. Meanwhile, the Great Demon before him was a real blue powerhouse of the Abyssal World.

Greem would benefit greatly if he could defeat this demon and bring his body back with him.

However, the feedback from the Chip made Greem cast away any such thoughts.

The Great Demon’s body might seem battered and broken, but his life energy aura remained above 87%. His injuries and wounds were more of a sort of disguise and bait to tempt the enemies hiding in the shadows to attack him.

Faced with such a ferocious fighter that relied on his sheer toughness to crush his enemies, Greem could only shake his head and slip away from the battle.

However, though he could discern the Great Demon’s actual condition, this wasn’t necessarily the case for other invaders.

Greem had only taken a few steps away when the werewolf and the foxgirl charged at the Great Demon without hesitation.

Greem immediately hesitated. Should he stay and watch for any opportunities to intervene, or should he simply leave?

Just then, a sinister and chilling aura of death erupted somewhere in the distance. Mixed within that aura of death were Mangus’ panicked roar and Cherisha’s scream.

Mm? Was the lich fighting against the two-headed adept?

Greem hesitated for a brief moment but chose to make his way to the other battlefield to see what was happening.

The floating city was now a chaotic swamp of endless fighting that engulfed all the invaders and all the arcanists.

The arcanists wanted to rely on their geographical advantage to beat back the enemies. In contrast, the invaders wanted to take advantage of the chaos to obtain as much loot as possible.

Any small battle on the floating city could potentially catch the attention of even more predators, causing the fighting to grow in intensity and scale. Like a snowball rolling down a hill, things were slowly scaling out of control.

Mangus and Cherisha were undoubtedly the weakest among all these bloodthirsty predators. It made them most likely to become prey for all the others.

As such, the lich had launched a ferocious attack at the siblings upon sensing their aura. There was no hesitation at all.

Liches were terrifying magical creatures!

They were not products of nature. Rather, they were once powerful spellcasters that had turned themselves into liches using special rituals in an attempt to continue living despite their lifespan coming to an end.

At their core, liches were undead creatures. They had near undying bodies and immortal souls.

However, this was only a rumor spread by mortals with no actual knowledge of the occult!

Liches could not achieve true immortality. Even as undead, there was a limit to their lifespans. However, ordinary liches could still live for thousands of years, while demi-god liches (Fifth Grade) could easily live up to tens of thousands of years. Such an incredible lifespan could indeed be considered immortality to mortals, who barely had a hundred years to live.

However, compared to other supernatural creatures, liches only had slightly longer lifespans. At the end of their lives, their souls would slowly rot with the passage of time until they turned into dust.

It was precisely because the liches were an unusual existence between life and death that most of their attacks were death magic.

Finger of Death!

Proclamation of Death!

Heartstopper!

Array of Death!

Power Word: Death!

Dust to Dust!

Disintegrate!

Soulbind!

Horrid Wilting!

……

It was the overwhelming options of death magic that reduced most lifeforms to shivering rabbits in front of the liches. There was no fighting against a lich without a sufficiently powerful soul or equipment that defended against death magic.

The two-headed adept was in a terrible condition!

Mangus and Cherisha naturally had no thoughts of holding back against a powerful lich. They had transformed into their strongest state almost immediately. Mangus’ elementium magic and Cherisha’s mental powers amplified each other’s abilities, while also allowing them to cast multiple spells at the same time. As such, an ordinary Fourth Grade adept might just be beaten back while they were in this peak condition.

Unfortunately, they were fighting against an incredibly powerful veteran lich.

All the spells they fired were ignored or resisted by the lich when they crashed against his jade-white skeleton. Meanwhile, the lich’s storm of death magic had them coughing up blood as their life force quickly drained away.

If it weren’t for their magic resistance increasing significantly after their souls had merged, the lich would have destroyed their souls with the first round of attacks!