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Chapter 131 : Crater of the Fallen
The wind howled across the barren expanse of the Red Ember Mines. A band of twenty sorcerer apprentices stood gathered beneath the crimson glow of the setting sun. At their center stood one of the ten strongest prodigies of the Umbral Realm Academy—a presence so sharp and commanding that even seasoned apprentices dared not meet his eyes for long.“Who’s in charge of this resource point?” he demanded.Lafey stepped forward, her voice steady. “I am. Lafey of Blackstone Spire Academy.”The apprentice from Umbral Realm Academy turned his gaze on her, and for a heartbeat, his composure faltered. She carried herself like a queen—arrogant, imperious, and dazzling. Years ago, her beauty had been marred by the ravages of an alchemical mishap, but now her once-desiccated skin had fully healed, her regal aura restored. Time and hardship had tempered her arrogance, leaving behind a quiet steel beneath her poise.The man unfurled a worn map, his tone grave. “In five days, you’ll take your people t
Chapter 130 : The Gluttonflame Titan
T“I’ll be waiting to see your performance in the Saint Tower Trials. Don’t let me down.”With that single remark, Millie had already ranked Grimm among the top ten apprentice sorcerers of the Six Great Academies—even though she hadn’t even raised a hand.But Grimm merely blinked, taken aback. Expecting my performance?Perhaps she’d been perched on her high pedestal for so long that she’d forgotten how to see the ground beneath her feet.Three months later.“It worked!”Sitting cross-legged in his tent, Grimm opened his eyes in surprise. He raised one finger, channeling the current of magic through his body. A droplet of water formed and hovered above his fingertip, trembling gently like a living thing.Both the elements of Water and Fire now responded to him with exceptional intimacy and control—tenfold amplification, the minimum threshold for his next stage of research: the explosive conflagration spell.He would deal with the Water Element’s amplification array later. For now, he ha
Chapter 129 : The Pride Beyond Fire
A thousand possible strategies flashed through Grimm’s mind, yet he settled on the most prudent and understated one.Under the transformation of his Biomorphic Alteration, Grimm quietly rewove fragments of his life-code, temporarily concealing the essence of the Body of Pyre within his being. The magnetic pull between him and Mina—the maddened sorceress known as the Sun’s Daughter—vanished instantly.But her fury did not.Flames erupted from her, crimson hair whipping in a storm of radiant power. Her eyes burned like twin suns, and waves of searing energy rippled through the cavern until it felt as though a miniature star had descended upon the world.Even stripped of their elemental resonance, Mina still looked ready to incinerate Grimm from existence.Yoric reacted first. With a guttural snarl, his body elongated, bones twisting beneath the skin as he assumed his lupine form. His enormous axe gleamed before his chest, twin eyes glowing with deep green ferocity while curved fangs pee
Chapter 128 : The Madwoman of Crimson Ash
Nearly a hundred bodies lay piled together.Yatz, Aldas, and Lafey’s teams dragged the corpses into a deep pit and covered them with loose soil, sealing away the stench that would otherwise rot the air. The spoils of battle—dozens of low-grade Arcane Artifacts—glimmered dully among the debris, but neither Yatz nor Aldas cared to touch them. For those already standing at the peak of apprenticehood, such trinkets were as worthless as pebbles on the road.Lafey’s group, however, still lingered on the lower rungs of the ladder. None among them had reached a Cognition Power of forty yet. They eagerly picked through the pile, taking whatever caught their fancy. Grimm selected a small ring—its effect simple but precious: it granted a bonus of two points to one’s mental strength, so long as it had not yet reached its natural limit.As they rested amid the fading heat of battle, an uneasy thought began to gnaw at Lafey and her companions.If the apprentices of the Twelfth District were like th
Chapter 127 : The Sailors’ Legion
Within the shimmering barrier of the protective ward, three separate groups—those led by Lafey, Yatz, and Aldas—stood tense and silent, their gazes fixed on the horizon.Beyond the translucent veil, a tide of enemies surged: a vast formation of apprentice sorcerers from the Nineteenth District, more than two hundred strong. Against them, the mere twenty-odd apprentices within the barrier seemed like scattered candles before a storm.Yoric gripped his axe tightly, voice edged with disbelief. “How in the Abyss are there so many of them?”It wasn’t an overreaction. Even across all the academies under the Blackstone Spire banner, there were only seven or eight thousand apprentices taking part in this war. Spread thin over two hundred contested resource sites, few squads could gather more than a handful of fighters. Grimm’s team, as the advance force holding this crimson-veined mine, was lucky to have twenty.Aldas narrowed his golden eyes beneath sharply furrowed brows. Wordlessly, he dre
Chapter 126 The Light and the Shadow
Two kilometers from the Crimson Crow Mine, Grimm and his squad crouched low among the blackened rocks. The air shimmered faintly with heat and lingering traces of elemental energy. Ahead, Binson had already slipped away into the wasteland to scout, vanishing as silently as smoke.Lafey knelt half-hidden behind a boulder, one eye shifting into a golden hawk’s iris. Through her transformed vision she tracked Binson’s movements until, after a tense silence, she exhaled slowly. “All clear,” she murmured. “Our vanguard seems to have secured the site.”At once, the false vines and bark camouflaging her body sank back beneath her skin, and the bow in her hands folded into an arcane sigil. Grimm and the others—Yoric, Yorkiana, and Robin—rose from cover.Robin grinned, relief softening his face. “That’s good news. Looks like we’ll have competent allies guarding this resource point. Should make our task far easier.”Their group moved out, following Binson’s lead. Before long the desolate terrai
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