Chapter 845 Expansion of the Crimson n


    The oue was well and truly beyond everyone’s expectations.


    When Greem walked out of the arena while tossing around the strange red eye in his hand, the stands were utterly silent.


    The spectating adepts watched him silently withplicated looks in their eyes. For a moment, not a single person walked forward to congratte him.


    In the end, it was Mary and Billis who, all smiles, gathered at Greem’s side and offered their blessings.


    A trace of a smile finally appeared on Adept Laurent’s face. He strode to Greem’s side and loudly said, “Very good! I never expected you to be hiding such a special trick. Good...very good.”


    Greem knew that Laurent was probably cursing him somehow in his heart right now. As such, he showed no courtesies.


    “Lord Laurent, ording to the contract of the duel...”


    “You don’t need to say anymore. Everything will go ording to the contract!” Adept Laurent’s face turned extremely ugly when Greem brought this up, “As the victors of this fight, the Crimson n has the right to take away a suitable portion of warpensation from the Kam n. As Yurga is dead, thispensation will be shouldered by all members of the Kam n.”


    Laurent took out a yellow parchment and handed it over to Greem.


    Greem took the paper and looked at it. It was a long list of all the territories and resources belonging to the Kam n.


    With the help of the Chip, Greem managed to find problems with this list after a single look.


    “Lord Laurent, ording to what I know, the Kam n seemed to have two First ss resource sites. Why are they not on this list?”


    “Hmph! Yurga pledged those two First ss resource sites to the Zhentarim Association before the contract was signed. What? Do you want to take them back from the hands of the Association elders?” Laurent had a nasty expression on his face.


    He hadn’t managed this thing well enough and allowed this brat to turn the tables. If news of this got back to the Zhentarim Association, he would be scolded by the elders. It was only natural that he bore such a sour expression.


    Those who could be Association elders were all famous Fourth Grade adepts in the Zhentarim area. Greem was smart enough to shake his head immediately.


    Laurent’s face finally rxed when he saw Greem leave atst.


    “Three Second ss resource sites and seven Third ss resource sites. In addition to several stretches of noble’snd that make up over two hundred square kilometers of territory; brat, don’t you be too greedy!”


    As the Kam n was located in the Ailovis area, many of their inherited territories were not far away from Fire Throne. Consequently, the Crimson n immediately rose to be one of the most influential adept ns in Ailovis after taking over these resource sites and territories.


    With Fire Throne as the n headquarters, the fundamental influence of the Crimson n stretched north to the ck Forest, south to the Ironstone Hignds, west to Stopwater Lake, and east to Morgan Stonecastle. This stretch ofnd, mines, civilians, and resources measuring as much as three hundred square kilometers would be the direct territory of the Crimson n.


    Moreover, these ces had already be notably developed. They only needed to go through the formalities with the Kam n and change the noble management at these ces. The Crimson n could then easily take this territory under their control.


    Apart from some local nobles that needed to be cleansed for being too close with the Kam n, there wasn’t much else to be worried about. These nobles had no loyalty to the Kam n. They were only a bunch of pug dogs living at the will of the adepts.


    One or two bones would be enough to make them change their banners and be ‘loyal’ subjects of the Crimson n!


    After obtaining the duel pact, Greem handed it off to Billis and had him deal with the handover from the Kam n. The only Third Grade of the Kam n had already died at Rhein. The remaining First and Second Grades had best stay honest if they wanted to live. Greem didn’t mind cleaning them up should any of them dare bare their fangs.


    Greem might have obtained a wless victory after this forced duel, but he had also exhausted his entire reserve of high-grade magical golems that he had been umting for the past hundred years. At the moment, he only had one me Fiend summoning core left.


    As such, there was no way Greem could sleep tight if he didn’t manage to get back these losses from the Kam n.


    The Kam n was now a toothless tiger. The remaining Second Grade adepts couldn’t even do anything about Bug Adept Billis. Thus, Greem didn’t need to worry about the Kam going against the agreement.


    After the matter at Rhein had concluded, Greem led Mary back to Fire Throne, while Billis hurried to the Kam headquarters.


    When Greem returned to Fire Throne, all the Crimson adepts and apprentices had gathered at the hall on the first floor. They immediately cheered loudly when Greem entered and bowed in respect, “Long live the n leader!”


    Even the submissive adepts who had just joined the Crimson n were exceedingly happy and excited.


    After this battle, there would no longer be an adept group that couldpare to the Crimson n in Ailovis. From here on out, the Crimson n would step into a historic period of explosive development.


    Those weaker ns of Andorra, Cenas, Layton Academy, and the Magic Forest Hut that had merged with Kam would all have to face the pressing offensive of the Crimson n.


    They could either give up on all worldly territories and resource sites, pulling back all adepts and apprentices to their headquarters, and holding in there in hopes of a miracle, or they leave far and wide, giving up everything they had in Ailovis and find some way to nt their roots in a public adept city to preserve their adept legacy.


    Both of these paths were difficult and harsh!


    Should the core figure of a n fail to keep control over the situation, it was very likely for n members to defect.


    As expected, once the news of Yurga’s death had spread throughout Ailovis, Layton Academy was the first to announce their seclusion from all external matters. They sealed the gates of their academy and transitioned into a semi-reclusive state.


    Meanwhile, though Layton Academy did not expressly say so, they had already cut off all contact with their resource sites and territory, as if anyone who wanted them could take over.


    Meanwhile, the Andorra n, which had the worst rtionship with the Crimson n, had no choice but to pack their bags and move their n headquarters into Rhein. As for those worldly territories and resource sites that they couldn’t take away? They were left empty and became ces without owners.


    Only the Kam n had been doing well in the region due to their assimtion of the Magic Forest Hut.


    Before they could even catch a breath, the only Third Grade of their n, n Leader Yurga, had mysteriously died at the hands of that Second Grade Crimson n leader. Such a heavy blow caused the entire Kam n to fall into a state of ruin.


    After bing the Kam n leader, the most powerful Second Grade adept could only suppress his anger and humiliation to hand over much of the n’s property to the visiting bug adept. In particr, the handing over of the already developed resource sites caused the Kam n’s power to be cut by seventy to eighty percent. From then on, they had be a weak and powerless small n of Ailovis.


    With the protection of the agreement, they did not need to worry about the continued devastation of the Crimson n for the moment.


    However, when the entire Ailovis region had be thend of the Crimson n, the Kam n would still have an exceedingly hard time trying to continue living in the gaps between the Crimson n’s influence.


    Without resource sites, they lost their spring of adept resources. Without worldly territories, they lost their source for new apprentices. These two things were the foundation for any adept n tost long.


    Now, the Kam n had lost both!


    Following Layton Academy’s announcement, the Kam n also announced their retreat into their headquarters, no longer involving themselves with any of the local matters in Ailovis.


    Thus, with the stepping down of one adept organization after another, the Crimson n truly started rising!


    Greem immediately hid within his room once he returned to Fire Throne. Mary and Gargamel were the ones to give the order for three dozen Crimson adepts to walk out of the tower and be stationed in various resource sites across Ailovis.


    For a time, the Crimson n had a total of one First ss resource site, seven Second ss resource sites, and sixteen Third ss resource sites. The number of worldly territories and human cities was uncountable.


    After five busy years, the Crimson n finally finished its initial distribution for the worldly territories and the change in management. The Crimson n’snds took up over sixty percent of Ailovis. It was an area of over two thousand square kilometers that was split into one dukedom, three marquisdoms, four counties, and plenty of viscounties and baronies.


    There were a total of seventeen human cities in this massive territory, along with two hundred and sixty-three towns and viges, one million subjects, and seven mines and quarries.


    The Crimson n’s adepts were simply far too insufficient after gaining all thisnd. Thus, they started to hire and recruit a group of wandering adepts as well and barely managed to keep the entire area running.


    In terms of just the number of adepts and the area of their territory, the Crimson n had already far surpassed their old masters– the Sarubo n. They were now a sizeable adept n that couldn’t live up to their name.


    The only thing that the Crimson n wascking now was presentable high-grade adepts.


    It was fortunate that they had a Third Grade thunder dragon and a Third Grade emerald dragon as their ultimate fighting force. That was the only thing that kept the Crimson n’s highest military power from being toocking. Otherwise, such a ‘bloated’ and ‘fat’ body would have attracted the scheming eyes of the outside world.


    During this period of change and turbulence, the Crimson n leader that obtained the first victory ever in the World of Adepts against an adept of a grade above him had been hiding in his tower. He had not shown his face at all.


    Thus, the years passed by just like that, one by one.