Age of Adepts c1-1513

by Zhen De Lao Lang, 真的老狼

  But when such a massive amount of Wind Elementiums gathered together, a green vortex had become visible to the naked eye.

  These Wind Elementiums came at an incredible speed, causing the night sky to be sliced into thousands of tiny threads. Soon, with the five Wind element cores as the center, the gathered Wind Elementium formed into a human-like body with four limbs.

  A green body, green hands, and green legs.

  When the body of this green giant was successfully formed, a new element core flew out from inside the pouch and threw itself into the broad chest of the giant. In next second, a green head struggled out from the top of this burly giant. Nevertheless, it didn’t have a vivid facial appearance – no eyes, no ears, no mouth, and no nose.

  If the previous five Advanced Apprentice level Wind element cores had been used to construct the body, then this Pseudo-Adept level Wind element core was used to support the entire body, as the bone of this green giant.

  But, this was not yet the end.

  A mini sun gradually rose up from the pouch.

  The Elementium let out a dazzling glow, while the lightning barrier let out crackling noises. When this last primary core merged into the body of this green giant, it brought about an incredible and mystical transformation to the Golem.

  The giant which had looked rather lifeless previously, in this moment, had become alive!

  It had a massive body that stood five meters tall and brilliant green skin, covered by a layer of golden armor. Though its limbs didn’t look as slim and agile as a human’s, it had arms, palms and fingers. Even so, when the two mini golden suns on its face lit up, a magical shield entirely constructed by static electricity emerged on its giant left hand, while a dazzling lightning spear had appeared on its right palm.

  Counting the Wind Vortex Shield and Lightning Armor outside of this giant’s body, the personal defense mechanism of this Golem could make anyone’s jaw drop.

  The Lightning element was in fact, a branch of the Wind element. Thus, there weren’t any obstacles stopping the both of them from merging with each other. The five Wind element cores that scattered across the body and limbs of the giant kept drawing Wind Elementium to the body. Besides using some to form the physical Wind body, all the other Wind Elementiums had been used by the primary core to strengthen and temper. The core turned them into lightning energy to supply the bottomless energy demanded by the Lightning Giant.

  On one side was the Giant Raging Ape who stood four-meter-tall and on the other side was the Lighting Giant who stood five meters tall. Two massive objects stood facing each other with a distance of nearly forty meters in between.

  Though the green armor guy who had transformed into the Giant Raging Ape had appeared to be savage, when it came to facing a formidable opponent whom he had no idea of the true overall strength of, he showed a rather dignified and good control of himself. Nevertheless, the tremendous pressure that the Lightning Giant brought to him had also further stimulated him and made him even more maniacally. White gas could be seen spraying out from his nostrils, as he kept slamming the ground with both giant arms and making loud noises.

  Finally, unable to contain the near boiling fighting spirit in his body, the Giant Raging Ape let out a furious roar that echoed throughout the forest and moved its gigantic body, charging towards the opponent while roaring violently.

  Greem kept backing away from the battlefield. While he was doing so, he continued staring at the Giant Raging Ape, with his eyes flickering with bright blue light. Rows of numbers were pouring down in front of his eyes, flooding his vision with a vast amount of data.

  Soon, most of the irrelevant data had been removed, leaving behind only the data that was provided by the Chip after having scanned the Giant Raging Ape.

  “Target: Toril. Gender: Male. Adept path: Bloodline. Body attributes: Strength – 20 (+2), Physique – 20 (+2), Agility – 11, Spirit – 17(-3)”

  Upon reading Toril’s body statistics, Greem was struck with awe inspiring envy.

  20 points of Strength! A Strength like that could probably defeat every single demon beast who was well-known for its Strength in this Kerala mountain range!

  20 points of Physique! With such Physique, even if this Toril didn’t wear any armor, just the strength of his muscle alone, he could defend himself from all the common weapons used by normal humans in this world. Those common weapons that don’t possess any supernatural force could no longer inflict any damage on him.

  Greem even speculated that with 20 points of Physique, even if there was really someone who could chop off one of Toril’s arms, he would probably be able to regrow it in just a few days, because it seemed as though all creatures who had their Physique reach the level 20 would possess the passive ability to regrow their limbs.

  Analyzing the data provided by the Chip, the normal body attributes for Toril should be: Strength – 18, Physique – 18, Agility – 11, Spirit – 20. Once he had completed his bloodline body transform, then his Strength and Physique would be boosted to 20, however, it was surprising that his Spirit had dropped to 17.

  Perhaps, this was one of the weaknesses of the bloodline of Giant Raging Ape!

  Though it seemed as if Greem had spent a long time in thinking all this, in reality, it had all happened within a split second.

  While Greem was backing off, the Lighting Giant chose to charge at the Giant Raging Ape.

  With a wave of its hand, the Lightning Spear held in the right hand of this Lightning Golem had disappeared, flying out with a speed that no naked eye could detect and nailed into the broad chest of the Giant Raging Ape. The spear suddenly exploded and the mini Lighting Storm instantly flooded the body of the Giant Raging Ape.

  From the projection of Greem’s vision, the basic strength of this mini Lightning Storm was 21 points.

  However, a lightning damage of this level was insufficient to stop a powerful magical creature who had both its Strength and Physique reach level 20. Through the body transformation, Toril was temporarily given the intrepid body and magic resistance of the Giant Raging Ape. Besides bringing him intense pain, these crackling electric arcs would never be able to halt his movements.

  A loud boom rung in the air, as the massive body of the giant ape pierced through the Lightning Storm, spread out its large palm and forcefully waved toward the Lightning Giant. Compared to the savage and brutal manner of a giant ape, though Lightning Giant had a bigger body, its movements were rather nimble.

  With just a slight dodging movement, the Lightning Giant avoided the large palm of the Giant Raging Ape and reappeared behind its opponent within the blink of an eye. It then shook its right arm and unleashed a lightning whip that coiled around the Giant Raging Ape’s waist. Through the lightning whip, streaks of brutal and violent high voltage electricity instantly transmitted over to every single corner of the giant ape’s body, causing it to continuously let out a furious roar into the sky. Soon, the smell of burning flesh emitted from the point of contact.

  The failure in executing its first strike and the severe pain coming from its body both greatly agitated the Giant Ape, causing it to become even more maniacal. It stretched out its hand, grabbed the long whip on its waist and with just some light force from its hand, it simply shattered the whip into pieces. Having freed itself from the trap, the Giant Ape turned around and punched out both fists at the same time that came crushing towards the Lighting Giant, while producing two loud booms that pierced through the air.

  Though it had a double the defense from the Wind Vortex Shield and the Lightning Shield that carried in its left hand, under the heavy blow of the extreme raging force of the Giant Ape, the outer defense of the Lightning Giant was shattered in an instant.

  A loud boom rang through the air.

  The Lightning Giant sailed through the air and drew out a pale green trail in the sky, flying away nearly hundred meters before it could stabilize its body once again. At this very moment, the end of its left arm had disappeared, while a huge d
ent could be seen on the chest part of its golden armor.

  Greem, who had back off to the edge of the forest in the far distance, knitted his brows with a tight frown.

  Compared to the bloodline transformation which possessed a physical body, the body of Lightning Giant formed by pure Wind Elementium was rather fragile. Therefore, during the a melee battle with a big guy like this whose body emphasized Strength and muscles, obviously it was at a disadvantage.

  But because of the two-layer defenses, the iron fists of Giant Raging Ape couldn’t penetrate the basic defense of the Lightning Giant, or else, it would have been too troublesome for it to recover.

  Within a few blinks of an eye, followed by the golden flashes on the huge dent on the Lightning Giant’s chest, it was once again restored to its original shape.

  And right at this moment, the raging and furious Giant Ape had once again charged towards it with tremendous momentum.

  “Don’t fight it in such a close range, keep a distance of thirty to fifty meters and attack it with lightning!”

  From the far distance, Greem transmitted his thoughts to the primary core of the Lightning Giant.

  Chapter 96

  Within the spacious field shrouded in darkness and silence, two giants were fighting each other restlessly; it was a fantasy that had never appeared in Greem’s memory before.

  But today, in this mysterious and bizarre outworld, such a fantasy had become reality.

  Like a bulldozer that never got tired, the Giant Raging Ape forcefully leveled the forest surrounding this small hill; even the ground was completely filled with deep footprints and cracks, making the ground look like spider webs.

  Meanwhile, the Lightning Giant with a green body and golden armor was like a nimble spirit. It kept dashing around the perimeter of this giant ape, luring its opponent into launching attack after attack, while continuously throwing Lightning Spears and Wind Blades at the giant ape.

  As the battle progressed, the data gathered by Green’s eyes had become more vivid and direct. Though the Lightning Giant was personally crafted by him, throughout the entire process, he was working like a human spirit energy projector, as he knew nearly nothing about all the theories and knowledge in crafting it. Therefore, with regards to the fighting abilities and body attributes of the Lightning Giant, the Chip had only given him a vague estimation. In comparison, the data he had gathered in the battlefield, which was much more direct and detail.

  The Lightning Giant with the overall strength of peak Pseudo-Adept, had the combined element characteristic of both Lightning and Wind. Body attributes: Strength – 12, Physique – 18, Agility – 18, Spirit – 20. Skills: Wind Vortex (Passive), Thunder Armor (Passive), Lightning Shield (Active), Lightning Spear (Active), Lightning Whip (Active), Wind Blade (Active), Thunder Storm (Active), Chain Lightning (Active), Lightning Jump (Active).

  It was a long-range Golem focused on agility. Though it was rather weak in Strength and Physique, its dazzling array of offensive skills made up for these weaknesses, making it the strongest Elementium Golem that Greem owned currently.

  Also, its overall strength had not disappointed Greem’s expectations. In the second half of the battle, relying on its nimble movement, the Lightning Giant kept moving around the giant ape and attacked it by throwing Lightning Spears and Winds Blades. No matter how the Giant Raging Ape leapt at it furiously, there was no way it could catch up to the Lightning Giant.

  Nevertheless, after failing to catch up with the enemy several times, the Giant Raging Ape quickly showed its frightening innate combat ability, as it started to attack using ‘Soul Crunching Roar’ and ‘Rock Throwing’. The former attack consisted of a raging roar that instantly stunned the surrounding enemies, causing the enemies to be struck into a soulless state for three to five seconds. Of course, this skill could also instantly kill those ordinary humans who had no magical protection. This skill covered an area of fifty meters.

  The second skill allowed the Giant Raging Ape to form an irregular shaped rock with a diameter of two meters between its palms and then throw it at the enemy. The rock was enchanted with a raging force, which could easily smash into the gigantic body of the Lightning Giant.

  Though the Giant Raging Ape only possessed a few bloodline abilities, they were all perfectly matched with its incredible Physique and Strength. Once any enemy was struck by its Soul Crunching Roar, as a result of the brief moment of soullessness, the enemy wouldn’t be able to escape from the brutal melee attack from this Giant Ape.

  But too bad, such kind of offensive Spirit skill was useless against an Elementium Golem.

  Therefore, the Giant Raging Ape could only futilely chase behind the Lightning Giant. Although the Giant Ape continued leaping and charging forward, knocking down countless trees in its stead like a crazy monkey, it still failed to even touch the shadow of the enemy.

  Right when Greem thought that he could win today’s battle with such a method, the Giant Raging Ape transformed from the green armored man, Toril, who suddenly ditched the tough to catch Lightning Giant, roaring furiously and leaping into Greem’s direction.

  Greem silently sighed.

  Not any idiot could become an Apprentice Adept. This guy had just been unable to control his anger because of the enticement from the Lightning Giant and his mind was further disturbed by the force of bloodline. Now, having yielded no results for such a long time, Toril’s consciousness had once again obtained control of the Giant Raging Ape’s body. Thus, he had given up chasing behind the Lightning Giant like an idiot and switched his target to Greem, the mastermind behind all this.

  As long as he could defeat Greem, the bastard who kept escaping him would vanish into thin air. Even if his attack couldn’t reach Greem, at least he could lure that bastard to Greem’s side and with that, he could finally put his raging force into use.

  With such a simple thought in his mind, the Giant Raging Ape’s eyes turned bloodshot, as he slammed into the ground with both hands and jumped towards Greem.

  Greem was easily able to tell the petty thoughts his opponent had in his mind.

  Indeed, the Lightning Giant had an excellent fighting ability, but it also had a deadly weakness – the person who controlled it was too weak! Thus, Greem was the weak link that anyone could use to defeat the Lightning Giant!

  Relying on the Lightning Giant to block off the assault was no doubt the worst decision. With the melee offensive ability of the Giant Raging Ape, perhaps it would only take it a few dozen of seconds to smash the Lightning Giant completely, which would eventually damage to the Elementium cores hiding inside of its body.

  Greem checked his own body attributes, the summon of Lightning Giant had consumed seven Spirit points, which left him with less than six. Staring at the Giant Raging Ape who had lept at him with tremendous momentum and feeling the violent shakes on the ground, Greem once again tossed out a crystal clear Elementium core.

  “Show yourself, my Rock Snake!”

  Following Greem’s loud roar, a wide, bottomless trench suddenly broke out in the ground in front of him and a frightening giant snake made up entirely of rock slithered out from the cracks.

  The place where the Rock Snake had come out from was right in the charging path of the Giant Raging Ape. With a coiling movement from its massive body, the Rock Snake climbed up and entangled itself with the Giant Raging Ape’s body.

  In next second, the frightening scene of ‘King Kong’ fighting a giant snake unveiled in front of Greem’s eyes. Too bad, the violence and savageness brought him no interest in watching this cool battle unfold at a close distance. Instead, he crazily fled from the center of the frightening battle.

  Sand flew into clouds, pebbles swept along the ground, debris of grass flew in the air and huge clouds of dust dispersed quickly in all directions, while countless rock fragments shot out from the battlefield like bullets and smashed into the surrounding forest.

  When the dust cloud had settled down a little bit, Greem finally sto
pped running further away. The green glow on the his Quicken Boots gradually faded away, as he had ran to a place half a mile away from the battlefield.

  Throwing a glance over his shoulder and staring into the shaking battlefield, Greem saw that the Lightning Giant was hovering in midair and had lifted both arms in the air. Over its tall body, a funnel shape, slow revolving Thunder Storm was forming at an incredible speed, while the tail of the Thunder Storm was pointing directly at the Giant Raging Ape who had been violently fighting on the battlefield.

  Though it was in the middle of a violent battle, the Giant Raging Ape had quickly noticed the abnormality over its head. With great efforts, it tried to move away from the location the Thunder Storm had locked down on. However, the Rock Snake, who had had its body nearly broken into pieces by the Giant Ape’s earlier attack, had tightly tangled with the giant ape’s feet. No matter how the giant ape tried to attack it, it showed no signs of letting go.

  Soon, after over twenty seconds of brewing, the Thunder Storm had been finally completed.

  A sudden streak of huge lightning strike sliced the dark night sky into two and filled the entire place with undying flashes of radiance.

  The raging, violent, and scorching hot electricity wantonly slithered around the body of Giant Raging Ape and Rock Snake. The tremendous lightning energy instantly broke through the crimson colored life barrier outside of the Giant Raging Ape’s body and had penetrated straight away into its huge body.

  In next second, the raging energy exploded inside of the Giant Raging Ape’s body and burst a huge bloody hole in its broad back. Blood sprayed out like a waterfall, but before it could touch the ground, it had been simply evaporated by the violent lightning energy that was wreaking havoc in the air.

  It was a brutal attack, one the Giant Raging Ape couldn’t withstand even with its tough Physique.

  Under the uninterrupted attack from the Thunder Storm, it threw its head back and let out a furious roar into the sky. The Giant Raging Ape finally fell down to the ground and the masculine body starting to shrink slowly until the original look of the green armor guy was revealed.