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Chapter 487 Rare Runes

After sixty-seven years of grinding, Greem was only one step away from Second Grade

However, this step felt like the difference between heaven and earth

If he didn't in would wither due to the ceree was difficult to recover from when one's potential had been completely excavated

One could say that First Grade adepts in the World of Adepts were as plentiful as the hairs on a cow's hide Just casually counting those in the central area of the continent would give you twenty to thirty thousand First Grade adepts The strength of the three anizations was even further above the center of the continent If one were to count in this manner, the number of adepts in the World of Adepts exceeded a hundred thousand

However, a this hundred thousand adepts, no more than two thousand had successfully advanced to Second Grade And less than three hundred people of these two thousand Second Grade adepts were able to advance to Third Grade The nu less than fifty individuals

Why was it that the World of Adepts could still be a do all the various plane worlds despite such harsh conditions for advancement? It was all because of their constant accue legacy syste as there were sufficient adept resources, then there would always be Fourth Grade adepts Great Adepts beyond Fourth Grade could also continuously appear Moreover, with the increase of an adept's power, their lifespan also ballooned at an exponential rate

As each adept could be of a different race, study different ic, and evolve in different directions, there was no fixed measure of their lifespan Still, over the years, a system had been created with the hue of lifespans

An ordinary human's lifespan in the World of Adepts was around a hundred and twenty years A First Grade adept's lifespan was between two and three hundred years A Second Grade adept's lifespan was between three hundred to five hundred years A Third Grade adept's was seven to eight hundred years, and a Fourth Grade adept's beyond a thousand years

That was only a simple calculation with fundamental nuical energy were taken into account, then the individual values o sizeable variations

Take, for exaht only be a First Grade adept, but she walked the branch of bloodline adepts that was the Vaevity They could easily live up to seven or eight hundred years with no probleed to the mechanical lifeform branch of the bloodline adepts As the corrosion of e aent to maintain a balance of bodily functions, robotic adepts often had one-fourth to one-third less lifespan compared to an ordinary adept

However, they also obtained powerful offensive abilities in exchange; it was a worthy trade!

As for adepts like Greem that played with elementiuinal body's ele to adept-level Otherwise, long periods of using eleinal life force That hy ele their body was the only way to avoid elementium corrosion, and why it was a path they certainly had to walk upon

However, most adepts only took steps to ele to adept That hy their average lifespan clearly couldn't compare to Greem, who had completed that process when he was still an apprentice

The advancement from First Grade to Second Grade was truthfully more of a transition from a manipulator of eleht still y to draw upon wandering elementium to amplify the effects of their spells However, a Second Grade adept begins to borrow the strength of planar laws to incline the eleet area towards themselves

The only problem was that a Second Grade adepts could only come into contact with the most superficial of planar laws They couldn't yet be considered true controllers of laws Even Third Grade adepts were only slightly better than Second Grades They too hadn't reached the goal of expert control

Within the Continent of Adepts, the Fourth Grade adepts were the only group of individuals who could be considered to have truly grasped control over the planar laws

Fifth Grade adepts, on the other hand, had already jumped out beyond the limits of planar worlds They understood the laws of the world at a profound level That hy adepts were only qualified to call the from the Fifth Grade Below Fifth Grade, all First to Fourth Grade adepts could merely call theradual development and maturation of the World of Adepts, the baseline power of the current Fourth Grade adepts was also slowly increasing Many adepts had already started to categorize them into the ranks of principle adepts, be it with some external motivations or not

It was because of the rade that no adept had an absolute guarantee of succeeding when co an advancein, causing it to wither While all of this could be treated and recovered through an extended period of rest, it would still be an unprecedented blow to an adept's psychological state

Moreover, an adept's lifespan was limited Even if the road up till then had been entirely sh tirade repeatedly Theadepts so ain!

Consequently, even though Gree to Second Grade, he was still steadily and slowly gathering the necessary resources and knowledge, trying his best to increase the success rate of his advanceht runes he had brought back froanization and deciphering, they had all been analyzed and cracked

A them, the most useful ones to him were the three runes related to fire elementium

Variant Fire Rune of Explosion!

Rare Fire Rune of Coldflame!