A Sorcerer's Journey 352 Vision

A century later!
In the Burrow World, the Demon-hunting Dark and Bright Sorcerers were like tireless ants, leading huge legions of Soul Slaves and Mechanical Marionettes, traversing recklessly across this world, scraping the resources of the world and sending them into the teleportation arrays.
Although there were almost no missions that could reward the demon-hunting honor badges in this world, there was an endless number of missions.
Some of the Dark Demon-hunting Sorcerers had never rested for the past hundred and thirty years, from the time they first arrived in this world, plowing through missions by missions.
Some of their Sorcerer Essence earnings exceeded a thousand!
Finally, after the skeletal passageways of the Snowthread Burrow had been completely explored, the Soul Slaves of the Bright Sorcerers captured the creatures that were in the burrows of interests almost to a point of extinction. Soon, the Dark Sorcerers turned the claw of the sorcerer's will toward the non-skeletal passageways as well.
There must have been some strong creatures living in the connecting the burrows which had left out the many remains of the Acraepoids.
Once, these creatures were the obstacles when the demon hunters were exploring the Burrow World.
But as the natural resources of the Burrow World were dying off, and the demon hunters grew more acclimatized in the environment, even more so than their native world, they've understood the rhythm of the principles of the Burrow Worlds. Everything became different after that.
These powerful creatures were Sorcerer Essence and treasures in the eyes of the Demon Hunters!
After more than a century of exploration by the million Demon-hunting Sorcerers, the Battle Command of the void fortress's intelligence crystals had recorded sixty-three thousand over entrances from the Surficial Tundra, a hundred and ninety-eight thousand over connecting burrows of various sizes, a super Burrow World that finally led to the Snowthread Burrow!
Even though the crystal had vast records of the super-scaled Burrow World, there were still some unknown regions that had not been explored by the Demon-hunting Sorcerers. The exploration was still going on.
It was apparently going the way as the Myna had predicted. It would take an upward of one hundred and fifty years, or maybe even a few centuries to completely plunder all usable resources back into the sorcerers' world.
It was a thorough plunder, like fishing by drying out the lake.
One could only imagine…
The terrifying scenes of the fierce and cruel ancient sorcerers, when they hadn't had the fate of leveraging the dimensional gates, and under no threat from new civilizations, how they would flock into a new world by the millions along with their infinite Soul Slave legions once they've found a new coordinate.
What really set the ancient sorcerers apart was their absolute submission to the sorcerer's will.
And what really set the sorcerers' will apart was that the complete obedience of the enslaved creatures would far exceed the principles of their own world, sometimes even their own capacities.

Just one word from the ferocious ancient Celestial Sorcerers would form the sorcerer's will. They would upheave the principles of a world and make all life on the world go against the currents.
It was a dark, yet glorious time for the sorcerer's civilization.
It was also exactly the reason why so many sorcerers that have survived from the ancient times missed those years so much, that they were able to accumulate unimaginable wealth by traversing the wide worlds that transcended the gates of time and space.
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Grimm was in the temporary laboratory of the Burrow World.
The Thousand-eyed Carcinus was guarding at the entrance toward the laboratory. There weren't any Demon-hunting Sorcerer of native creatures that were there to disturb. Grimm calmed his mind down, focusing only to carry out his planned experiments.
Grimm's experiments consisted of more than the second phase of the chimera experiments.
"Ice Hornet Spell!"
There was a buzz. Grimm did not enhance the spell with his Sabbatic Goat Staff.
An ice hornet the size of a palm that flapped its wings in a high frequency was animated at the tip of Grimm's finger.
"Good, it's completely stable now. The spell is now ready."
After observing the stable internal structures of the ice hornet spell, Grimm started to study the attack points of the ice hornet using his crystal ball.
"About two hundred and fifty points, it could now leverage the principle by a multiple of twelve. Not bad."
Grimm nodded and continued to observe the ice hornet for a while. He waved his hand and made the hornet vanish. A silent sigh followed.
Grimm mumbled. "Yet, compared to the effects brought on by the principle of second leveraging of an elemental transformation, this leverage principle of an elemental enhancement is nothing."
After a normal elemental sorcerer had become a real sorcerer, he would improve himself like what Grimm was doing. He would spend more time to enhance his elemental spells from the basis of his apprentice spells, churning out more powers using the principle of leverage.
Thus, the formula of a spell point could be calculated as such: Basic mental strength point used x multiples of spell leverages.
What real sorcerers would do was to increase the multiple of leverages incessantly.
But looking back at Grimm, after his fire explosion spell that leveraged the principle at a multiple of thirty in his apprentice days, he had not chosen to further increase the multiples of the leverage. Instead, he planned to complete an elemental transformation!
And so that's why.
Since Grimm became a real sorcerer, his base as an elemental sorcerer and the multiples of his leverage principles hadn't had any improvements. He relied completely on strengthening his own body to make up for his base weaknesses to make himself powerful.
Yet in terms of base points, Grimm was gradually returning back to becoming average. He could no longer return to his peak during his apprentice days, where he was far greater than most of the apprentices of his batch.
But!
Once Grimm had completed his elemental transformation, his potential would once again go through a tremendous transformation.
By that time, Grimm's spell point would be calculated as such: Basic mental strength point used x multiples of leverages used in the fire explosion spell x utilization rate of the destructive energies = attack point of the destructive forces after elemental transformation.
There's more to it…
On top of the new destructive force caused by the elemental transformation, Grimm would attempt to complete the destructive bat spell, and leverage it by a multiple of ten!
A simple calculation was in order.
If Grimm had completed his elemental transformation into the destructive forces while he was still a Level-2 sorcerer, by mobilizing about thirty-five points of his two hundred points of mental strengths, Grimm's fire explosion spell that could be leveraged to a multiple of thirty times would mean that his attack points would reach about one thousand and fifty points.
The attack point was calculated on the basis of an elemental sorcerer. The implications of talents, items that enhance sorceries, as well as the compounded effects of the despairs of the occult code of life and death of the Demon-hunting Sorcerers were not yet taken into account.
Based on Grimm's long-term experiments, the fire explosion spell could utilize a destructive rate of about twenty-three percent, almost at a quarter.
To put in in another way, once Grimm had mastered the basic control of the destructive forces while he was still a Level-2 Sorcerer, his most basic destructive elemental attack point would reach four thousand five hundred points!
For a Level-2 Sorcerer, this was an astounding attack point!
If he were to take into account the three hundred basic attack points of his Sabbatic Goat Staff, as well as the occult despair of life and death that he could gather, one of Grimm's attack at a creature of a foreign world would cause damage of more than five thousand points!
All these while he was still a Level-2 sorcerer.
Moreover…
In the distant future, once Grimm had completed his destructive bat spell, or even the destructive hornets, and leverage the destructive forces by a multiple of ten, and then taking into account how Grimm's basic mental strength would have been greatly increased by then…
An attack that could yield more than ten thousand points could be possible in the near future.
More than ten thousand points!
Grimm drew a cold breath.
Now, Grimm finally understood how those top Stigmata Sorcerers would produce huge stigmata craters when they dropped down from the skies.
It was very possible that those top Stigmata Sorcerers had completed the elemental transformation in their existence.
Compounded with the principle of second leverage after the elemental transformation, it would be so much more than ten thousand attack points. An attack point that was beyond Grimm's wildest imagination could even appear.
Thus, Grimm could understand why a sorcerer's apprentice within a certain range from a Celestial Sorcerer could be killed without knowing.
It was all due to the huge differences between their hierarchy of life.
Even a breath would cause a quake in the elements unknowingly and collapse the sorcerer's apprentice.
The ice hornet spell that leveraged a multiple of twelve was based on Grimm's 'foolish' investigation of a huge ice hornet invasion as he was about to leave the Slush Burrow. The sample that he was able to capture became his inspiration.
Other than that, Grimm had also developed a defensive spell similar to the rejecting fire ring spell during his apprentice years based on the specimen of explosive frost jellyfish.
Grimm named it the Explosive Flaming Frost Jellyfish spell.
The basic principle of the spell was based on the conflicting nature of explosive fire and ice.
At all times, there would be an illusory image of an explosive frost jellyfish around Grimm. It had a resistance of about five hundred points. This was the defensive points that had been enhanced by his Sabbatic Goat Staff.
On its own, the defensive points of the spell wasn't that high.
What was truly scary about this spell was that underneath the elemental frost jellyfish, there was a much tougher layer of flame!
Once the layer of frost jellyfish was exposed to an attack that had gone beyond the threshold of five hundred points, it would automatically trigger the layer of flame beneath it and set off the destructive forces from the conflicting elements, forming ice spike projectiles which would be launched in retaliation.
The attack points of the ice spikes, under the enhancement of the Sabbatic Goat Staff, would reach up to a thousand points.
And so, the spell would satisfy Grimm's need of defense for the time being.
But the explosive flaming frost jellyfish spell had quite a weakness. When it retaliates against an enemy's attack, Grimm would also be affected by some of the destructive forces or around a hundred and fifty points.
A hundred and fifty points of damage wasn't that high against Grimm's constitutions. It was well within the threshold.
Therefore, the explosive flaming frost jellyfish spell was considered complete. It could be now used as a mature conventional defensive spell in the future.

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