Mutated Scale Fruit …
It was a type of Earth-type magic fruit.
It could absorb Earth origin force from the surroundings to supply its own growth needs. Long-term consumption of the ripened fruit could improve one's physique, but it also had severe side effects, such as the growth of strange scales on one's body and the suppression of one's intelligence.
The seed of the Mutated Scale Fruit was evidently one of the high-grade magic ingredients found on the body of a powerful Orc that the Magi had killed. With such magical properties, the Mutated Scale Fruit already possessed traces of the aura of laws.
So far, the Sorcerers had invaded hundreds of orc planes, and found many similar rare fruits in them. However, this was the first one that had reached the level of laws.
Even in the Magus World, the seed of such a rare fruit would be classified as a high-grade strategic resource. As a Great Magus, this was the first time Grimm had seen one, which showed just how rare and precious it was.
It could even be a treasure that a powerful Orc had found by accident and hidden away to improve one's physique. However, fate was full of misfortune. This fellow had not even been able to protect his own life on the planar battlefield, allowing the fruit to fall into the hands of a Grade 3 Magus, which then ended up in Grimm's hands …
Thinking of this, Grimm could not help but sigh at the wonders of fate!
However, even though the Mutated Scale Fruit was effective, the serious side effects were also enough to make people shrink back.
First of all, it needed dense Earth elemental energy to grow.
If it only relied on natural Earth origin force, its growth would be extremely slow. The Orcs might not be able to solve this problem, so they could only try their best to grow it on fertile soil.
However, if it was Grimm, the first thing he would think of was an Earth Elemental Altar.
A standard miniature Earth Elemental Altar cost around 150,000 magic crystals, and it could continuously draw the purest and most refined Earth elemental energy from the Earth Elemental Plane to support the growth of the Mutated Scale Fruit.
This way, the growth of the Mutated Scale Fruit would definitely speed up, and the production would increase.
Secondly, after eating the Mutated Scale Fruit, the body would accumulate Earth elemental residues, which would then grow strange scales.
This was not a big problem for Grimm. He could always improve his physique in the future.
What really troubled him was the terrifying side effect of suppressing the development of his intelligence.
No wonder there weren't many Elemental Spellcasters in the Orc Plane. After eating this kind of thing, their intelligence dropped drastically. It would be strange if they could still use magic!
Therefore, Grimm had to find a way to mix up the ingredients of the Mutated Scale Fruit and remove the harmful substances. This required a lot of time and effort.
And this was obviously not possible on the battlefield!
After asking the A.I. Chip to set up a long-term research project, Grimm put the matter of the Mutated Scale Fruit to the back of his mind and began to think about his own path of strengthening.
Once they reached rank 5, the path of a law-defying wizard would be reflected in their control of the power of law. Using the Flame Rule that he controlled to extrapolate and extend upwards, he would then be able to control a higher and deeper level of the Flame Rule, thereby converging it into his own unique Flame Rule Power.
The last point was especially important!
In a battle between law-defying wizards, the suppression of laws was very important.
Whoever controlled the more powerful Rule Power and the higher the level of the Rule Power they controlled would be able to form a powerful regional effect similar to Planar Suppression during battle.
This ability was called a 'domain' by Magi!
Within the domain formed from the power of one's own laws, one could create a space that was most suitable for one's abilities and suppress the opponent's laws. This was the case with Grimm's meticulously created Burning Domain.
However, the Burning Domain used an area-of-effect fire spell to support a large space of flames. It had not reached the level of a true domain of laws, so it could be easily destroyed in a battle against someone of the same rank.
Hence, Grimm almost never used the Burning Domain against someone of the same rank. He would only use it to clear the field when facing a large number of low-ranked enemies.
Up until now, Grimm had only grasped the Inextinguishable Flame and the Flame Mirror Image, two low-ranked laws of fire. To condense the Flame Rule Power and deduce the most suitable domain of laws for himself … This was an extremely long and arduous task!
However, Grimm's lifespan had already reached ten thousand years. There was no need to rush this. As long as he slowly accumulated his knowledge, there would be a day when he would condense his own unique Flame Rule Power.
Gathering resources, gathering knowledge, and completing all sorts of necessary experiments and magical research … This would become the main theme of his long life, one that would run through him from start to finish!
Since he could not condense the law of fire in a short period of time, the only things that could quickly increase his strength were fire spells and magic puppets.
Ever since Grimm had become a rank 5 Magus, the A.I. Chip's abilities had undergone earth-shattering changes. His data processing, storage, and analysis abilities had all greatly improved, and he could help Grimm grow in all aspects.
At this moment, in Grimm's mind, there were currently four rank 5 fire spells being analysed and modelled. Once this was completed, Grimm would no longer be like before, only able to control the primitive form of fire energy to attack his enemies.
This was not to say that the primitive form of fire energy was not good, but that the attack form was too simple. It was unable to form complex and varied spells, and could easily be destroyed by enemies.
Moreover, if the primitive form of fire energy wanted to attack his enemies, Grimm would need to continuously lock onto it and guide it with his consciousness. During this period, his own defence would be at a lower level, and it would be easy for his spell casting to be interrupted to cause the flames to rebound.
These were the flaws of directly controlling low-level magic energy. If he wanted to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, he would have to form the primitive form of fire energy into a more powerful and varied fire spell.
The power of laws was the source of power for Magi who comprehended laws, and spells that were compatible with the power of laws were the weapons that Magi who comprehended laws could use to their fullest potential.
The two complemented each other, and neither was dispensable.
Methods that relied on modifying low-ranked spells of the past to deduce high-ranked spells were already outdated. After transforming from elemental spells to laws, the source of spells had undergone a qualitative change. They could only be explored and reconstructed from scratch.
[Flame Ignition, a rank 5 guided fire spell. Using his eyes, Grimm can infuse the power of fire into his opponent's body, igniting the magic energy within them. (Every point of magic energy causes 5 points of fire damage.)]
[Flame Advent, a rank 5 summoning spell. Able to summon a powerful army of fire from another plane. Its effects are ten times that of a low-ranked Flame Gate.
[Flame Refraction, a rank 5 attack-type fire spell. Summons a ball of fire and refracts the energy between multiple enemies. Every refraction increases the damage by 1000 points. Can only be refracted 10 times. (Initial damage is 6000 points)]
[Flame Barrier, a rank 5 defensive fire spell. Using the law of fire to form a defensive barrier, it can resist all active and passive magic attacks. (Base defence is 20000 points)]
If these four spells of law were to take form, along with the rank 5 divine spell 'Scorched Earth' in the Vulcan Orb and the rank 5 poison spell 'Ring of Decay' from the Book of Filth … At the same time, Grimm would have six spells that covered summoning, attack and defence.
This way, he would have a huge advantage in a battle of the same rank!
However, according to the A.I. Chip's calculations, it would take another 2-3 years for the four spells of law to take form. During this period, he could only rely on the rank 4 spells that had the law of fire mixed in.
As for the rank 5 mid-grade magic beast that he had given to Magus Charon in the Mountain Yin Plane, it would probably take a few years to complete.
As for creating his own rank 5 magic puppet, that would require a large amount of rank 5 magic materials. With the rarity and price of rank 5 magic materials, even Grimm would find it difficult to obtain them in bulk. If not for the fact that he had gained a huge advantage during the Magus World's Planar War, he might not even have been able to obtain rank 5 materials.
There was no hope for a magic puppet for now, and the spells of law still needed time to take form …
Hence, Grimm could only be more 'well-behaved' during this period of time. This was to prevent his enemies from catching him off guard when he was lacking in strength.
… …
The three months of the mission ended very quickly.
Apart from the battle that had erupted when he first arrived, the entire mission period was so peaceful that it made people suspicious.
Grimm only found out later that he had caused a lot of trouble for the Orc powerhouses in Winter Castle.
The strange attack from the rank 6 Evil Dragon Sinclar was not so easy to deal with.
At that time, two of the four orc powerhouses present were entangled by the strange power of laws in the black smoke, and it took them a great deal of effort to completely disperse it afterwards. Even though they managed to dispel it, they had also suffered a great deal of damage.
Because of this, the orcs' strength had weakened, and they did not dare to cause trouble in Danmodor City anymore. That was how Grimm and the others managed to get through the second half of the three-month mission safely.
With the establishment of the first Wizard Tower in Danmodor City, the city had become a solid fortress for the Wizard Faction to invade the Guler Plane. Now, even without the Great Wizard overseeing it, it was impossible for the indigenous orcs to chase the Wizards out of the plane.
With this Wizard Tower, an endless stream of Wizard reinforcements could be teleported into the Guler Plane, and then slowly invade and fight for the land and resources here.
The subsequent Planar Wars were long and intense, often spanning years or even decades. In between, there might even be various twists and turns. However, this had nothing to do with Grimm. After all, he was only here to complete a so-called Great Wizard mission.
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