Age of Adepts
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chapter-69
The meat of Underground Fire Dragon tasted bitter and tough.
Although the thing placed in front of Greem was technically considered cooked meat, he was still having a hard time ripping, chewing and swallowing it. He glanced towards the other two men who were happily gobbling up their own meal. Greem couldn’t help but wonder whether these two had enhanced their teeth with a Piercing and Tearing spell. Without it, how could they actually manage to chew this meat, which was tougher than cow leather?
Greem was eating very slowly, but resolutely.
After switching part of his attention to his increasing Physique and Spirit, he became even more determined to finish this piece of meat. However, it seemed that he was the only one who could have done this. After all, not everybody was able to detect such tiny changes to their attributes.
The second piece of meat was served right after he finished the first one. The total size of both pieces was at least three times bigger than his stomach. But he still swallowed them down through clenched teeth. At the end, he had even given up trying to taste the meat. He had to rely on his strong will to force them into his mouth and desperately swallow them into his stomach.As every single piece of shredded meat and every single chunk of meat cube fell into Greem’s stomach, he found that they were all gradually, yet constantly, emanating an Elementium aura that brought Greem joy. It was the taste of Fire Elementium!
Normally, if Greem wanted to increase his Spirit, he would have had to rely on his daily four hours of meditation to slowly absorb the Fire elementium freely swimming in his Spiritual domain. Usually, this process would increase the maximum level of his Spirit. It was as if his Spirit was a small pond, and his daily rest would refill the pond to its maximum level while meditating would help him expand the pond’s boundary.
Greem had previously thought that the only way one could expand the upper limit of their Spirit was through some specially concocted Spirit Potions. However, today’s ‘delicacy’ had made him think differently. He now knew that, apart from meditation and Spirit Potions, there was another method which could slowly improve the quality of an Apprentice Adept’s constitution.
Although consuming a large amount of these potions could quickly increase the upper limit of one’s Spirit, the increase would usually result in some side effects. This method would bring harm to the normal functions of other body attributes. However, the ‘delicacy’ that he had just eaten came with no side effects. It would increase his Spirit slowly and would show the same results as meditation.
Greem had been told before that the Mind Concentrating Potion, like the one he had just bought, would increase one’s Spirit at the expense of one’s Physique. Therefore, this potion had to be taken in moderation or else Greem would become like Dark Wood and turn into a living skeleton.
