It was silent, but full of hope.
After leaving the civilizational battlefield between the Wizard Alliance and the Metal Destroyers, he had been trapped in the Dimensional Esophagus for five eras. Even if he were to add up all the idle time he had, it would be more than that.
Fifty thousand years.
In the first ten thousand years, Grimm could be said to have spent his time in the most ideal state. However, the last three eras of the Perforation Gate gathering place were a dull torment. Even if Grimm tried the most boring of experiments, he could not squander such a long time. Even a Rank 6 creature, Mesa, withered and died in front of Grimm.
As for the last era of the Coffin of Hope gathering place, it was a long torment, tormenting Grimm's body and mind to the point of being sick. He fully felt the horror of being irreversibly digested by the Endless World!
Without being able to escape the Dimensional Esophagus, all the achievements that Grimm had obtained in the Dimensional Esophagus were meaningless. Instead, they would become deep illusory treasures in the eyes of future explorers.
These five eras …
It was as if Grimm had gone through a cruel and monotonous journey to the real world. The Sorcerer World had become a distant and rich childhood dream. It was just an ideal that was instinctively pursued, an expectation that existed in the heart.
However!
Just when Grimm thought that he could no longer persevere, just when Grimm wanted to fight against three enemies at the end of the Coffin Raiser's challenge and attempt to escape the Dimensional Esophagus with the Scepter of Hope, a turning point had arrived!
Gazing at the several-thousand-meter-long severed limb before him, Grimm's tri-colored eyes were filled with indescribable joy.
It was comparable to the Omnipotent Soul contained in fifty of the Four-Emperor Beheading Eyeballs. It was enough to provide Grimm with the Omnipotent Soul to escape the Dimensional Esophagus and gather in the severed limb. This was no longer like the Omnipotent Soul in the eyeballs, which could be easily separated. This required a long period of meticulous refinement by Grimm.
How should he proceed?
Standing on the spot, Grimm pondered for a moment before ending the activation of the Repulsive Magic Spell. The several-thousand-meter-long severed limb landed steadily on the ground.
Rumble! Heavy and oppressive.
Thump! Thump! Dong!
First, Grimm used his Abyssal Staff to knock on the severed limb. It was hard, and a crisp sound rang out. Even without the support of his Lord's Power, Grimm wouldn't be able to cause any damage to the severed limb without an attack of more than fifty thousand degrees.
Stretching out his palm, Grimm gently touched the severed limb.
"Hiss …"
Taking a deep breath, Grimm retreated as soon as he touched it. He retracted his palm in an instant. His tricolored eyes were filled with disbelief.
Even though the several-thousand-meter-long arm had already been separated from the Sovereign's power, powerful shockwaves still lingered in the air. Although the shockwaves were limited to the insignificant outer layer, they still caused some damage to Grimm's flesh and skin. Blood dripped down from his fingernails.
"The power of a Sovereign is truly miraculous. No wonder the Sovereign Catacombs are able to maintain their environment of extreme laws."
Grimm mumbled to himself as he paced toward the several-thousand-meter-long incision. At this time, the flesh around the incision had automatically scabbed over. It was a kind of dark crystal that sealed the wound layer by layer.
Grimm's tricolored eyes danced as he reached out and gently peeled off a piece of the scab. However, as soon as he touched it, the flesh within the scab wriggled violently. Then, with a "wah" sound, the wriggling flesh let out a strange cry like that of a baby.
Grimm ignored the strange phenomenon and continued to peel off the scab.
Immediately after, the milky white flesh that resembled the fat of a scallop appeared in front of Grimm. The tender flesh kept evading and forcing out some milky white liquid. After coming into contact with the air of the Dimensional Esophagus, it quickly condensed into a new layer of scars.
"Keke, I wonder how it tastes when eaten. Hmm, the Bone Devil should be interested in this fresh Bone of Ruler, right?"
With this thought in mind, Grimm's tricolored eyes danced as he stroked his right pinky with his left hand.
A ball of black flames shot into the sky as a pair of black-scaled claws swelled at an unbelievable speed behind Grimm. They grew larger and larger as black flames curled around them. In the end, it was as if Grimm was standing beneath a mountain, completely insignificant.
"Chirp chirp chirp!"
"Roar …"
"Squeak …"
Waves of deafening sound waves reverberated in the air, accompanied by nine hundred and ninety-nine gigantic meteorite-like Infernal Spirit Bird's eyes that were a hundred meters tall, focused on Grimm from the top of the gray clouds.
What an unbelievable colossus!
After several eras of growth, the Infernal Spirit Bird's thirty-thousand-meter-tall body was a miracle created by the Corpse Refinement Formation!
After all, it had once been a tiny bird egg!
Greatness began with insignificance.
"Sorry for the trouble. Slowly refine and purify it."
After Grimm gave the simplest command, he flew away in his insignificant human form.
The Infernal Spirit Bird looked at the severed arm that Grimm knew about for a while. Its many heads tilted to the side as if it was using its most basic intelligence to think.
Refine and purify it?
How to refine it?
After a while, the ferocious bird's claws shifted and changed the position of its slightly bloated body. It shook its clumsy butt and aimed at the several-thousand-meter-tall severed arm. With a buzz, it slowly sat down.
Following the deep instincts of its cells, the Infernal Spirit Bird was actually slowly "hatching" the severed arm and nurturing the Omnipotent Spirit of Ruler inside.
Standing on a crystal mountain in the distance, Grimm gazed at the colossus on the horizon, a gratified smile appearing under the Mask of Truth.
From a stupid bird that could only chirp and run around behind Little Eight, to a terrifying colossus that could cover the sky and cover the sun, the Infernal Spirit Bird had practically grown with Grimm. Now, it had reached the limit of the third evolution with 999 heads.
He did not dare to imagine what kind of colossus the Infernal Spirit Bird would become after breaking through this limit!
What should he do in the long period of time that followed?
After thinking for a while, Grimm silently sat where he was and tried to completely control his mana and strength. This was a standard that few people could achieve in the records of Magi.
Of course, this was only for Magi.
Having been in the Dimensional Esophagus for such a long time, Grimm had seen too many powerful beings from the unknown world. Among them, many of them could pose a threat to Grimm with their relatively low levels of power. A large part of the reason was that they had complete control over their own power.
In the long and boring period of time, even if Grimm was bored to death and restless to the point of madness, he would subconsciously try again and again. Now, he had already unknowingly made his final attempt towards complete control.
When he was escaping, he had activated his self-sealing spell and extracted his strength to the limit. Now, Grimm finally had complete control over his own strength, and had some clues!
As such, Grimm could not wait any longer and began to experiment.
Based on Grimm's judgement, the result of having complete control over his own strength would be that Grimm would instantly have a power that could topple everything!
The most direct example was Grimm's self-sealing spell.
Once Grimm had complete control over his own strength, Grimm would only be able to maintain 70% of his self-sealing power and use it to accumulate the self-sealing spell.
In battle, he would be able to unleash 100% of his strength. When needed, the self-sealing spell would be fully activated, reaching an explosive state of 140%.
This way, Grimm would be able to unleash 100% of his strength in battle, as well as recover the Robe of Representations' ability!
It was hard to imagine what kind of subversive fear he would bring to beings below the ruler of the Dimensional Esophagus or the Endless World when his attack could easily reach 3 million degrees of damage, and he could even launch sneak attacks from the shadows.
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