Chapter 250 Chaos Everywhere
ne feedback!
This was ne feedback!
Greem shouted out silently in his heart.
Even though he had yet to fullyprehend the mechanisms and principles of these nar feedbacks, it didn’t stop him from reveling in the joy of having his powers increase exponentially.
Countless narw chains were incessantly merging with certain contents within his mind. All of this was happening at a narw level that Greem couldn’t ess with his naked eye or his Spirit. If Greem had advanced to a Fourth Grade adept, he might have realized that all of the contents of his mind that were merging with thews were runic knowledge that he had brought back from the knights’ ne, as well as the resentment of powerful individuals that he had in.
The narws trembled slightly. The ends of the nar chains hadpletely sunk into Greem’s soul. They were slowly merging with theplete set of runic knowledge Greem had just obtained. Even though most of the runic knowledge was simr to the World of Adepts’ widely used system, the part about merging energies waspletely new content.
Most of Greem’s ne feedback hade from this particr knowledge!
The fact that Greem’s base attributes could explode up to two or three times their original value was mostly thanks to thispletely new knowledge of merging runic energies.
The other adepts might have been able to obtain varying amounts of knowledge concerning the merging of runic energies, but who couldpare with Greem? He had robbed the knights’ kingdom treasury of knowledge– the drafting room of Runeforge Camp! The knowledge fragments that the adepts brought back with them from another ne had helped the World of Adepts inpleting part of its narws. As a result, the nar consciousness had naturally rewarded them with positive feedback!
Of course, Greem got the most out of this process. Even the gains of the other three adepts added together would notpare to half of Greem’s.
The resentment of powerful knights that clung onto Greem’s body had also provided him feedback from the ne. This sort of resentment couldn’t be obtained by just any random acts of killing. One had to ughter, with his own hands, a powerful individual that had been acknowledged by the ne to gain such resentment.
Having in mountains of witcher-knights, scores of spellbreaker knights, and even a radiant knight, the amount of resentment that had gathered about Greem was tremendous. All of these resentments had been exchanged for an immense ne feedback.
If one were to look at it from this point of view, the World of Adepts actually encouraged killing beings of other worlds. The cruel, evil, and invasive nature of the adepts had infected the entire nar consciousness as well. This caused the World of Adepts to be a chaotic, evil, and savage nar consciousness towards other worlds!
That said, the adepts possessed a trace of elegance amidst their brutality, aspared to demons of the lower realms. They were calm and measured madmen. It differed from the utter chaos and insanity of the abyssal demons!
However, these nar secrets that ured at the level of the narws was not something that Greem could ess as he was now. Thus the only thing he could do, apart from passively receiving the ne feedback, was to record every change to his body using the chip. This could be useful for his future research.
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The abnormality of the returning Sarubo n adepts didn’t draw any attention from the outside world.
Of the seven adepts that set off from Feidnan City’s adepts’ tower, only four had returned. Mary and Acteon had chosen to stay in the knights’ ne. Another adept had unfortunately died on the nar battlefield.
Even though the war this time had sessfully given the Sarubo nplete control over a lesser ne, the headquarters had to endure the consequences of the sudden decrease in their number of adepts.
The reason the Sixth-Grade Great Adept Sarubo had given such extravagant rewards to Greem was to keep him in the n for a hundred years. This was done in order to ensure that the n could sessfullyst through this period of weakness. The Sarubo Adept n had to wait for the resources from the knights’ ne to be sent back before it could regain or even exceed its previous strength.
Before they were able to do so, they had to keep a grip on powerful new adepts like Greem in order to avoid their weakness from attracting their enemy’s attention!
The Zhentarim Association’s Forest Territory. This was a ce where countless adept ns stood and survived. Theplex geography, along with theplex rtionships of the ns, caused this to be an area of intense conflict where battles broke out every so often and tensions never ended. Large-scale adept conflicts had been forbidden in this area. However, small-scale territory wars and the skirmishes between individual adept ns were not included in this rule.
Big fish eat small fish, and small fish ate shrimps!
If any adept n showed weakness in its affairs, all of the territory and resource sites it owned would instantly be attacked and conquered by the surrounding adept ns. Every so often, news of wars and battles between ns and n leaders would spread throughout the entire Zhentarim Association.
Moreover, news of the massive decrease in active adepts in the Sarubo n headquarters could not be hidden from the public. This meant that, in the short term, the thirteen worldly territories and nine resources sites belonging to the Sarubo n would most likely attract the greed of their enemies.
Some small skirmishes were unavoidable!
Now that Greem had performed so outstandingly in the ne war, and had signed a new adept contract with Lord Sarubo, he could be considered a trustworthy core adept of the n. Thus, some of the core secrets of the Sarubo n were gradually being exposed to him.
The Sarubo n. A mid-tier adept n within the Zhentarim Association. They had seventy-three official First Grade adepts, four Second Grade adepts, and two Third Grade adepts. The number of adepts in even higher grades were not something that Greem could ess with his current status.
It was with such a meager force that the Sarubo n had to defend their headquarters, while managing three lesser nes and a pseudo-ne that served as a transit hub between these four locations. If the adept forces were split between all of these worlds, there would be a slight shortage in manpower in all of the locations. The number of active forces were not enough.
In recent times the n had gathered most of its adepts on the newly acquired knights’ ne, causing a power vacuum in the other areas. Thus, the most urgent task was to gather the limited manpower they currently had to drive away the greedy enemies looking at them.
As a result Adept Keoghan, who was being raised as one of the n’s core adepts, had to deal with the worrying n wars the moment he returned from the nar battlefield.
The Sarubo n’s territories had already received severe provocation from their enemies for the past two or three months. A viscount’s territory, about fifty square kilometer wide, had been invaded by the lord of a neighboring territory. The defensive strongholds on their outer rim had been lost one after another. The viscount could only turtle within his castle at the center of his territory with his remaining troops, barely fending off the attacks of the enemy.
The territory was in danger of being taken over!
At the same time, several resource sites belonging to the Sarubo n had also sent back alerts of a simr nature.
A severe conflict had broken out between the apprentice adepts stationed there and the apprentice adepts of a neighboring n. They were desperately asking for adept reinforcements from the n headquarters!
The trading firms and arcane shops that the Sarubo n had stationed in the territories of other ns had also reported incidents of robbery and raiding. The managers of those establishments were all frantically requesting help from the headquarters!
Wave after wave of messages asked for help, and multiple magic notifications were streaming back to Feidnan City’s adepts’ tower like rain in a downpour. As there were too few adepts stationed in the headquarters previously, they could merely suppress the problem. Apart from sending out some pseudo-adepts and elite apprentices to stabilize and dy the damage, they had no means of solving the actual problem.
This was why the first thing Keoghan had to deal with was such a chaotic and annoying situation.
Of course, this didn’t necessarily mean that a certain adept n was intending to wage a full-on war against the Sarubo n. The reason this situation had broken out was most likely because the other adept ns had gotten wind of the Sarubo n’s abnormality. Thus they wanted to apply pressure on the n through several means in order to test the waters.
If the Sarubo n’s weakness proved to be true, then they wouldn’t be able to send out enough adepts to deal with the provocations of the neighboring ns. The loss of a few world territories, and even a couple of resource sites, would be a natural result! As long as the Sarubo n was able to drive away the enemy with overwhelming force, all of these harassments and problems happening at the borders of their territory would instantly vanish.
In the end, the battle between adept ns was still determined by the strength of their adept forces.
It was fantasy to dream of upyingrge numbers of resources without enough adepts to defend them!
Drive them back! Smash all the ws that the enemies extended into our territories!
Simr battlecries and calls for action had be the unanimous opinion of all Sarubo n adepts.
The n adepts were all highly confident in themselves, having just survived a brutal ne war. They shouted out their opinions during the n meeting organized by Keoghan. Everyone agreed to beat back the ambitions of their enemies with even more brutal attacks than the onesunched at them.
Thus, what happened next was a frenzy of mission assignments!
The silhouettes and shadows of enemy n adepts had already been reported at several battlefields. If they didn’t hurry over, they wouldn’t be able to keep the n’s profits intact!
After a quick discussion, Adept Kiel was headed towards Ker. There was a First ss resource site there that absolutely could not be allowed to fall into the enemy’s hands.
A First ss resource site. This was one of the ways the adepts ssified resource sites. The value of the resources cultivated within the sites could be divided into three sses. Third ss was the lowest. Usually, these sites were in charge of cultivating some low-level magic creatures or moremon resources. The magic swamp Greem hade from belonged to the Third ss!
Second ss resource sites often cultivated unique adept-level resources. On the other hand, First ss resource sites often contained resources of strategic value to the n’s development. This was why the safety and security of these sites had to be guaranteed.
Adept Ferrier would be heading to Emerald Hills. An important batch of goods had been stolen from there. They desperately needed an adept to go over and defend the location.
Adept Loris would continue to stay in Feidnan City.
Thus, the task of going to Locker Castle in Kartia Hills and saving the losing viscount fell on Greem and Keoghan’s heads. It was rumored that several enemy n adepts had already appeared there. A slight mishandling of the situation and the whole thing could escte into a small adept skirmish!