Age of Adepts c1-1513

by Zhen De Lao Lang, 真的老狼

  Upon the appearance of the Lightning Giant, deep and muffled thunderclaps immediately echoed throughout this spacious underground space. With its entire body covered by a crackling lightning storm, the Lightning Giant opened up its dazzling eyes and hovered in the air over ten meters from the group. It took the lead and charged into the demonized forest.

  Greem gritted his teeth and briefly organized the equipment on his body, before following behind the Lightning Giant without another glance backwards. Meanwhile, the massive Rock Snake was slowly slithering behind Greem, keeping its high vigilance towards any possible attacks that might come from his back.

  A man and two monsters were slowly walking in the demonized forest.

  Greem didn’t need to waste his time or effort cleaning any of those troublesome vines or bushes on their way, as the Lightning Giant’s tall body flashed through any plants that got too close to it, turning them into a pile of ashes by the sudden strike of the thunderstorm. Even those little animals hiding in the dense woods couldn’t escape from it! As long as their life aura was detected by the Lightning Giant, they would be greeted by a lightning strike.

  With the peak Pseudo-Adept level overall strength of the Lightning Giant, even those Iron Rhinoceros who were known for their strong vitality couldn’t withstand the lightning strike it casually unleashed, let alone those small demons who only had with their strange abilities and the ability to hide!

  Completely advancing while crushing everything in their path!

  Wherever they passed, everything would be turned into ashes, even the ground was filled with burned cracks caused by the lightning strikes!

  Though the demons wished to protect the magical source which brought them endless power, when the largest pack of violent wolves were totally wiped out by the Lightning Giant, these demons had finally become scared and started to crazily flee from the messenger from hell who could bring death upon all of them.

  At the same time, right in front of the collapsed Adept Tower where Greem had visited last time, the seductive body of Fairy was seen gradually emerging from thin air.

  It was overlooking the rocking dark cloud that had formed above the forest. From time to time, a dazzling lightning strike would struck out from it, following by a series of muffled thunderclaps. Though it couldn’t see the numbers of the enemy from here, but judging from the power of this summoned thunder cloud, the Fairy had furrowed its brows slightly, as if trying to make a tough decision.

  Looking at the direction where the thunder cloud was headed, it seemed its destination was right where the Fairy was.

  If these intruders were allowed to bring those flames of war to this place, perhaps they would cause an inestimable damage to the life source hidden underground. Finally, a firm expression emerged on the beautiful and delicate face of the Fairy. With its hand making a grabbing movement in the air, the magical bow that it had owned since the day it had been born appeared in its grip.

  Following a whisper from the Fairy, the demonized plants around the ruins started to grow crazily and soon a dense green foliage had totally covered up the secret entrance to the ruin.

  After finishing all these, the Fairly shouted angrily, flipping its near transparent wings, before leaping towards the enemy with tremendous speed.

  Chapter 100

  The Fairy had an incredible flying speed. It actually intercepted Greem and his golems in the middle of the demonized jungle.

  “It’s you again? You don’t know the difference between life and death! This time, don’t even think about leaving this place alive!”

  Looking at the rather familiar face of Greem, two Spirit flames of anger immediately shot out from the Fairy’s eyes. Even though there were nearly a hundred meters of distance between them, the intense Spiritual pressure still cause Greem’s heart to tremble violently. He struggled to maintain a calm mentality.

  Damn it! As expected, he couldn’t handle an Adept level demon at his current level of strength!

  Greem kept backing off. It was only when the Rock Snake coiled its body around Greem and protected him inside its coils that he could calm his panicked mind down and regain his thoughts.

  ‘Lightning Giant, engage it. Don’t let it have any opportunity to attack me!’ Greem transmitted his order through a hidden Spiritual channel.

  Almost straight away, the Lightning Giant placed its palms together and unleashed a huge lightning strike that had the diameter of a washbowl. It flew straight at the Fairy, who was hovering in the air.

  Obviously, the Fairy was very confident in its Rose Armor, since it actually didn’t speed up and dodge the attack. Instead, it pushed through the raging Elementium Lightning and ferociously leapt onto the Lightning Giant, who was in the middle of attracting lightning.

  While it did so, numerous rose stalks burst out from its body and started twisting and interlocking with each other. The stalks formed an exquisite looking rose armor that protected its body within. After that, it braved the splashing electric arcs, stretched out one of its hand, and forcefully pierced toward the target’s chest.

  The Fairy had extraordinary combat instinct, which allowed it to clearly identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Lightning Giant.

  When fighting an Elementium Golem like this, reducing its strength slowly was definitely not the best method. Though doing so would allow the Fairy to suffer less attacks, it would also drag the battle into an unpredictable and tough to control fight of attrition. Therefore, it had to kill the Lightning Giant using the least amount of time possible, even if that would consume some of its defensive strength. This was, in fact, the best method of preventing the enemy from controlling the pace of the battle.

  In the face of the enemy’s solo onrush, the Lightning Giant showed no emotion at all. A sudden thunderclap emanated from its body, and immediately, the Lightning Chain unleashed from its palms became thicker. Also, half a second before the sparkling arm of the Fairy drilled a hole through its chest, the electricity surrounded the Lightning Giant’s body flashed, and it suddenly vanished from the scene.

  Lightning Jump!

  Though it had ‘jump’ in the name, the actual result was no different than a short distance teleportation.

  A loud thunderclap was heard from hundred meters away. With its body shrouded in violent electricity, the Lightning Giant reappeared where the noise had originated. There wasn’t any delay or hesitation. Right as it reappeared, a brand new Lightning Chain streaked across the hundred-meter distance and struck the Fairy’s delicate body.

  It was worth mentioning, among all of the Elementium magic spells, Lightning element magic spells held the top position in speed. It had nearly reached the stage of reaching the enemy with just a thought. Only those who had Agility at level 20 could dodge an attack with such incredible speed.

  A joyful expression emerged on Greem’s face.

  But, before the smile could fully bloom on his face, Greem couldn’t help but show a bitter expression.

  Indeed, with the overall strength of the Lightning Giant, it was more than enough to deal with the frightening Fairy. But, it was also because of the extraordinary overall strength of the Lightning Giant, that it had clearly portrayed the weakness of its master, Greem. Thus, when the frightening Fairy couldn’t find any loophole on the Lightning Giant, perhaps it would switch its attention to…

  While Greem was pondering silently, as expected, after quickly exchanging a few rounds of attack with the Lightning Giant, the Fairy suddenly halted, slowly turned its head, and looked over at Greem.

  Damn it, damn it, damn it…

  Without saying another word, Greem simply turned around, taking the Rock Snake, and fled into the distance.

  …………

  While the thunder cloud hovered over the demonized forest and the loud boom of lightning strikes echoed throughout the entire cavern, at the edge of the forest closest to the cavern entrance, a dense clump of Earth Elementium suddenly sprayed out from underground. It quickly formed int
o a ring-shaped magical array with a three meter diameter.

  A massive gray dust cloud burst out from the magical array. Soon, five incorporeal, strange looking human figures formed.

  Following a muffled boom, a light yellow ring made of Earth Elementium flashed and the dust pillar hovering in the air suddenly exploded, revealing five Fallen Pseudo-Adepts, who had arrived via teleportation.

  Langdon, Philip, Hegel, and the other two Fallen Pseudo-Adepts whose names were unknown.

  All five men were swaying, but, relying on their powerful Spirit, they quickly dispelled the Earth Elementium which had invaded into their body and once again calmed their minds.

  Though Stratum Teleportation provided greater speed compared to running on their feet, they experienced a short period of dizziness after each teleportation. Thus, it was totally unsuitable to use in a sudden ambush, but instead, a supplementary method when traveling long distances.

  When the group of men finally got rid of the dizziness caused by the teleportation, they started glancing over to the forest not far away. They were immediately attracted by the deafening noise of the violent thunderclaps.

  Clearly, that place had turned into a frightening killing field!

  Standing straight and tall, Langdon looked over at the thunder cloud in the far distance. His gaze followed two vague figures who were flying at top speed and attacking each other under the thunder cloud. A strangely satisfied emotion surged up in his mind.

  Damn kid, let me see where can you run this time! No matter how many people you brought here, I want all of you to die in this demonized forest!

  “Let’s go! It is about time for us to make our debut!” With a hideous smile, Langdon took the lead and walked into the forest. Behind him, the remaining four Fallen Pseudo-Adepts exchanged glances with each other, said nothing, and followed his footsteps.

  …………

  While thunderous rumbling was heard in the distance, a red bat was flapping its wings and approaching the entrance of the ruin.

  Upon sensing the life aura that came from the body of the red bat, a long thin vine suddenly shot out from the dense bushes that tightly blanketed the entire ruin. It coiled towards the red bat, who was flying at low altitude but with incredible speed.

  Mary let out a loud shout. Her body instantly transformed back to human form, and she used her pair of razor sharp claws to swing fiercely in the air. Within the time of a few blinks, the demon vine’s tentacle was sliced into countless pieces.

  It was like she had stirred up a nest of hornets! In the next second, countless vines shot out from the foliage, forming into a dense green forest, crazily piercing and coiling towards Mary.

  A hideous expression came on to Mary’s face. She then turned into crimson lightning, savagely streaking into the heart of the green forest. She kept swinging her razor sharp claws. Each strike cut through a thick vine, causing sticky green liquid to spray out from the broken vine.

  As Mary was restlessly fighting with the vine forest, a bizarre demon vine poked out from a huge green leaf, pointing its end right at Mary from a distance. The end of the demon vine spread out like a flower and revealed a strange eyeball that looked steadily at Mary. No matter how she twisted and turned, she just couldn’t escape from the eyeball’s vision.

  While fighting in another battlefield in the far distance, the Fairy recieved the projected image of Mary restlessly slaughtering the demon vine, causing it to slow down its movements slightly.

  For other people, such a slow down was nearly impossible to detect, but in the eyes of the Lightning Giant, it was distinct and clear. A crackling lightning spear instantly hit the flower armor of the Fairy.

  The sudden mini lightning storm flooded the Fairy and fully tested the magic resistance of the Rose Armor.

  So far, though the Lightning Giant had fought with the Fairy for such a long time, it still hadn’t broken through the defense of the Rose Armor. It was like those flower stalks could regrow forever. Whenever one was burned off, soon another would regrow.

  Though the Lightning Giant had tried its best, it still hadn’t inflicted any actual damage. At most, it only managed to destroy some of the Fairy’s defensive magical equipment.

  The new enemy in the distance distracted the Fairy’s mind, making it let out a furious roar and want to leave the battlefield. Therefore, the Lighting Giant, who had been fighting with guerrilla tactics, immediately charged forward, pushing through the violent arrow showers of the Fairy, and entangled them together.

  Meanwhile, at the ruins of Adept Tower, because of Mary’s daring and savage attack, the ground was fully filled with countless twisting and struggling broken demon vines. When the number of demon vines was reduced to a certain level, a concealed dark hole was revealed.

  While the demon vine forest and Mary were fighting with all they had, a gray rock that no one noticed was seen moving toward the hole, one step at a time.

  Carefully dodging the demon vines that rolled all over the ground, trying its best to avoid being stained by the green liquid, Snorlax kept scanning for danger around its body through the opening of its cloak. Then, moving one step at a time, it slowly approached the entrance to the ruin.

  Mary knew what it was doing, and was working hard to attract all the attacks of the demon vines to one side, allowing the goblin, Snorlax, to infiltrate the heart of the enemy using its camouflage skill.

  Finally, after journeying over numerous obstacles, Snorlax arrived at the hole.

  Hesitating for a few seconds, Snorlax touched the magical collar strapped around its neck. Sensing the magical contract that was taking effect in its body, it finally made up its mind to complete the task given by its master.

  What to do? Before they had come, in order to ensure the success of the mission, Greem had purposely paid a visit to Adept Angus and purchased a magical servant contract from him.

  The magical servant contract was currently taking effect on Snorlax. Once it thought or behaved in a way that betrayed its master, that young man could sense it. And at that point in time, all he needed to do was recite some secret magic words, then the magical collar strapped on Snorlax’s neck would instantly crush its head.

  Therefore, if Snorlax wished to live on, it would have to complete its task, according to the order of its master!

  Throwing away all of the unnecessary fantasies in its mind, Snorlax gently shook off the magical camouflage from its body. Then it waved the short wooden stick and cast an Invisibility spell on itself. Finally, it dashed into the hole without looking back.

  Just as Snorlax dashed into the hole, at the far distance, a few of the main characters of the event were instantly struck with a vague feeling. All of them sent a glance over to the location of the ruin’s entrance at the same time.

  Chapter 101

  Within just five minutes, the Lightning Giant had been hurt by an unprecedented torture.

  Though it had the overall strength to crush the strongest Pseudo-Adept, its weakness was as vivid as its strength – its defense was overly weak!

  The Wind Vortex surrounding its body could deflect an enemy’s attack using its powerful airflow, while the Lightning Shield and golden armor also effectively reduced the strength of an enemy’s attack. With these three layers of magical defense, the Lightning Giant could audaciously launch attacks at the enemy and dodge the enemy attacks with its lightning speed without too much worry.

  Due to the Lightning Giant’s Lightning Jump ability, not many enemies were able to catch up to its movements.

  But when using to intercept the enemy, especially the Fairy who had a stronger overall strength than the Lightning Giant, its’ fatal weakness of rather a fragile individual defense and the lack of a solid body had been revealed. Within the period of five minutes, the magical defense outside of its body had been broken through seven times, while multiple parts of its tall, mighty and cloud-like body had been ripped apart by the Fairy.

  If Greem had not sent the Rock Snake as rein
forcement in time, the Lighting Giant probably would have been forced to abandon a part of its body in order to protect the two most critical cores inside of its body.

  Nevertheless, the Transvestite Fairy was, after all, an Adept level demon. Thus, any offensive magic spell or physical attack casually unleashed by it would always cause frightening damage to the Rock Snake or Lightning Giant. Since the Rock Snake had a body made of a thick and dense underground sedimentary rock, even if faced a Pseudo-Adept opponent, as long as it didn’t let the opponent hit the same spot multiple times, it did not have to worry about its rocky body being broken by the enemy.

  But when facing against the Adept level Fairy, the rocky body had not been tempered and the magical defense was overly fragile. Struck by the rain of greenish arrows, the entire body of the Rock Snake looked like it was soaking in a highly concentrated acid, as its surface corroded with countless holes of all sizes. And due the lack of Earth Elementium, the bonding agent on many parts of its body, the rocks on those parts had started to fall off its body.

  The entire body of the snake had become three sizes ‘skinnier’.

  As the offensive strength of the Light Arrow Shower had exceeded the self-regenerating speed of the Rock Snake, thus, it was only a matter of time before the Rock Snake disintegrated completely.

  But in this tough battle, Rock Snake was not the main force. It was only responsible for assisting and supporting the attacks and defenses of the Lightning Giant. Thus, just the shock wave from the battle of those two mighty monsters had nearly made it break down. From this, one could easily imagine how tremendous the pressure the Lightning Giant was enduring right now.

  The once dense and solid green body was filled with holes now, the cloud-like Wind Elementium that had been torn and ripped into shreds were lingering around its body. These Wind Elementiums were originally part of the Lightning Giant’s body, but they had turned green as the result of being corroded by the mutated energy of the Fairy and thus could no longer be recalled to use again.