Mage Adam

Three days had gone by since the battle.

Once the Devourer's level-nine features vanished, he no longer posed a threat to the nearly fifty transdimensional mages who had arrived on Titania.

By this time, the seal set by His Holiness Maxis had weakened. The Devourer had shrunk to a fifth of his original size, lying weak and frail inside a force field created by six warships. Now, he could only surrender as Ayesha and Transcendent Mage Wendy worked on his soul.

Wendy was Ayesha's younger sister and looked just like her, even matching her in strength. Though she had once been a familiar spirit, she had the soul of a mage, able to gather magic power. When her soul was fully restored, Ayesha prepared a body for her, making her a level-eight mage.

Ayesha seemed cold and distant. The only reason she sometimes appeared approachable was due to her sister's influence on their shared twin souls.

Wendy, however, was the complete opposite---unlike any mage Adam had met in the Third Tower. She was full of life, maybe even too much.

Adam thought he understood the feeling. When he first truly woke up, he felt a wave of joy too. But back then, he wasn't in the mood to talk to others, and he certainly wouldn't have clung to someone he barely knew, chatting endlessly.

Wendy was thrilled. She felt she owed her "resurrection" to Adam. His research had caused the Devourer to regress, allowing her to capture the level-nine soul energy and revive so perfectly.

As they stood in the air, watching Ayesha cast spells on the Devourer, Wendy held onto Adam and excitedly said, "Did you know? The Dilus lineage is fascinating. Their species are split into four branches: Calamity, Plague, Inferno, and Devourer. The Inferno Diluses were wiped out by His Holiness Maxis, but the Calamity and Plague branches still wander deep in the void. The Devourer branch came to this void hundreds of thousands of years ago and left a colony on a distant plane. Who would've thought he'd meet the newly ascended level-nine Titan God and perish with him?"

In her hand, gray energy moved obediently like a pet as she shaped it into different forms. "Devouring power, huh? Want it? I could transplant it into your soul."

Adam quickly declined. The gray energy didn't represent true devouring power; it just had that characteristic. If he wanted that kind of power, he could achieve it by researching gravity. There was no need to implant something so strange into his soul.

He felt a bit of a headache. He was quite busy and didn't have much time to chat with Wendy.

The recent battle had cost the mages dearly; nearly half of the hundred thousand battlemages had fallen. Of course, they weren't truly dead. As long as they didn't die repeatedly in a short time, they could be resurrected in the Mage World. The only cost was the resources needed for the Mage Network to reshape their souls and repair the damage.

But this meant the remaining mages were overloaded with work. They had to sweep through the remaining Diluses under the leadership of the transdimensional mages---destroying the lower-level ones and capturing the transcendent ones if possible. They waited for their triumphant return, hoping to sell these creatures for a good price.

Right now, they were gathering every resource they could find and preparing Titania to help them relocate.

These tasks, though not dangerous, were extremely tedious.

Adam's work was more critical. He was supposed to be studying the Flame more thoroughly with several transdimensional mages, trying to find a way to repair the Genesis Flame, but now...

"I get devouring, but what about the other three?" Adam decided to go with the flow. Since he couldn't study the Genesis Flame, learning some secrets about the Diluses wasn't a bad alternative.

"Inferno is fire," Wendy explained. "The Inferno Diluses can ignite anything in their sight---explosions as large as a plane or as small as a speck of dust. It's said that His Holiness Maxis let three level-nine Diluses set him on fire and then used his body as a medium to reverse their magic, defeating them in one move. As for the Plague and Calamity Diluses, I'm not sure. They haven't shown up within the mages' exploration range and are probably still in some distant void."

At that moment, Ayesha called out, "Wendy, it's your turn."

"Coming!" Wendy replied, then turned back to Adam with a playful smile. "Mage Adam, little one, you better work hard to reach the transcendent level."

Adam ignored her teasing. He couldn't help but think about how, the stronger you become, the more you realize your own insignificance. There seemed to be many powerful species in the void; after all, even the Diluses had four different branches. Although one branch was unfortunate enough to be destroyed, no one knew how strong the other three had become after so many years of growth.

Ayesha approached Adam and softly said, "Wendy is nearly twenty thousand years old, but she's still quite immature."

Adam nodded. "I know, you..."

"This time, I want to thank you. Your regression model helped me a lot," Ayesha said seriously, bowing to Adam.

"That was my duty, and the Tower will reward me accordingly."

Ayesha shook her head. "The Tower's reward is what you deserve, but it doesn't express my gratitude. You can make a request---anything within my power, and I will grant it."

Adam was most interested in the core knowledge of the true Reincarnation Spell, but it was obviously too much to ask for right now. As for other knowledge, there wasn't much value since he and Ayesha followed different paths. So, he couldn't think of a request right away.

Ayesha waited a moment, and seeing that Adam didn't speak, she offered, "I can give you a perfect resurrection opportunity. Even if you fail on an exploration mission, as long as the soul wave in the Mage Network isn't crushed at the same time, even with a microsecond delay, I can ensure you come out unharmed. My promise stands; whenever you have a request, you can come to the Third Tower."

"Thank you..."

The mage waved her hand and continued, "I will leave Titania in a few days. Not long after, His Holiness Maxis will personally arrive to trace the Devourer Dilus's remnants. If you have no pressing matters in the Mage World, I suggest you stay. Following him in battle will be a rare chance. You're lucky---you'll get to see true power and encounter powerful races in the void that can rival mages. You might even..."

Ayesha paused, then added, "Never mind, that possibility is very small."

Adam didn't press further because, with his current level of authority, a transdimensional mage wouldn't reveal much to him.

After thanking her again, he left the sky and flew toward the newly rebuilt Titan Royal City. The transdimensional mages were there, studying the Genesis Flame.

Besides research, Adam also had to continue his work as the 'bridge between the two races.'