Chapter 907 Crimson Prospects


    The Crimson n appeared to be unusual among all the adept ns!


    In total, it had only been less than six decades since they went from an unknown to a rising star.


    And how long did five or six decades mean to an adept n?


    For a worldly kingdom, it might mean the end of a dynasty, but for a low-grade adept, it was only an increase in a minor grade. For a high-grade adept, it was only enough time toplete a major magical experiment.


    Yet, these five or six decades were enough for the Crimson n to grow from an unknown small n to a massive force that was rivaled only by the major ns.


    This process would take other adept ns up to hundreds and even thousands of years toplete.


    Even more miraculous was their legendary n leader.


    He had barely be an apprentice adept with his lowly talent, and he suffered arduous days in a low-level resource site of the Sarubo n. Yet, with onepulsory mission from Zhentarim, thispletely ordinary apprentice ascended into the skies, rapidly growing in strength and power.


    The legends even imed that he had been a beginner apprentice when the mission started but had turned out to be an advanced apprentice when it waspleted.


    Jumping two minor grades in a single mission was enough to demonstrate his extraordinary and legendary background, even if it was only two minor grades as an apprentice.


    From then on, his momentum was unstoppable, advancing to a pseudo-adept not long after returning to the resource site, thereby earning him the attention of the Sarubo n.


    However, no one had any idea how it was that Greem came to be an adept.


    Even though some adept organizations had expended significant efforts in their investigations, they could only barely figure out that some ident had urred at the resource site that Greem was stationed at. Even the stationed adept had died an unnatural death. Greem, Mary, and another adept who manipted bugs benefited from this misfortune to advance and be adepts sessfully.


    Half a year after advancing, the three of them were tossed into a nar war by the Sarubo n. It was said that Greem’s performance there was exceedingly outstanding, earning him the favor of Great Adept Sarubo. He had sessfully made his way into the circle of higher-ups of the Sarubo n.


    Moving forward, Adept Greem appeared to have multiple disagreements with the leaders of the n. Stories of internal arguments and conflicts were often heard.


    Thus, Greem and Mary officially left the Sarubo n once their contract of service was up. It was said that this event caused an internal split in the Sarubo n. A substantial number of adepts and apprentices followed after the two of them and left the Sarubo n.


    However, this was when Greem finally started on the legendary path of his life!


    In less than a hundred years, Greem had managed to establish the Crimson n with his small personal tower as its headquarters and had even made multiple ventures into other worlds. He advanced once again, less than a hundred years after he first advanced, to be a famous Second Grade adept.


    It was during this time that the name of the Crimson n became more and more widely known!


    However, the incident that truly spread the name of the Crimson n was the existence of the dragons.


    The Crimson n seemed to have forged a path to a dragon ne and were able to continually obtain dragon resources as well as the enviable treasure hoards of the dragons. These two elements were the springs of wealth that allowed the Crimson n to rise to power as quickly as it had.


    With the wealth and resources they stole from the dragon ne, the Crimson n immediately multiplied their assets and rapidly went from an insignificant, tiny n to a small n.


    It was the excessive speed of their rise to power that attracted a pack of ‘wolves’ to them.


    Five adept ns and organizations led by the Kam n united and found an excuse tounch an adept war against the Crimson n. However, the results of the war were simply unexpected. The Crimson n was able to beat back the allied forces of the five adept ns with an army of metal golems while their legendary n leader was absent from the World of Adepts.


    It was this miraculous turning of the tides that allowed the Crimson n to feed upon the blood of the defeated and grow even faster. They broke free of the constraints of Fire Throne, grabbing much of thend in the Ailovis region and threatening to be a medium n in the span of a single night.


    To suppress the continued growth of the Crimson n, the Third Grade n leader of the Kam n–veteran high-grade adept Death Heralding Crow Yurga–chose to issue a n challenge. It was the unbelievable battle that forged Greem’s identity as a legendary adept.


    A Second Grade fire adept and n leader of a newly risen n had killed a veteran Third Grade adept in front of the public using his miraculous means.


    Such an unprecedented incident in the history of the World of Adepts passed just like that!


    After devouring Kam and a few other ns, the Crimson n quickly established their footing in the Ailovis region and started to extend their influence to the territory of the Northern Witches.


    In the extreme cold of the north ruled over by the witches, the Crimson n had somehow managed to gain favor with the Fate Witches and took over arge piece of territory in a ce known as Icewind. It was said that the Crimson n’s development there went smoothly, not at all inferior to Ailovis of the Central Region.


    In fact, there were quite a lot of adepts privately spreading the rumor that the legendary fire adept of the Crimson n appeared to have an intimate rtionship with the leader of the Fate Witches– Alice. That seemed evident from the breadth and depth of their cooperation.


    That dissatisfied many of the old fogeys of Zhentarim!


    From their perspective, this meant that the Crimson n had be vassals and vanguards of the Northern Witches, eventually bringing the forces of the Northern Witches into the entirety of Zhentarim.


    Over these years, the influence of the Crimson n was limited within the Ailovis region and other new territories they carved out of the ck Forest. Attempts at expanding into other regions were met with severe retaliation from the local adept organizations and ns.


    It caused the goblin faction of the Crimson n to be able to only extend their influence to some neutral cities, despite all their efforts. Those personal territories andnds did not wee their arrival.


    There were even multiple incidents of goblin merchant groups being robbed and exterminated halfway on their journey.


    With the increasing growth of the Crimson n’s forces, their enemies started to be more subtle with such operations and became better at cleaning up all trails they left behind.


    Unfortunately, with the assistance of the Fate Witches, the Crimson n were always able to find the perpetrators and the forces behind them, regardless of how they tried to wipe away their tracks. After a few medium adept organizations copsed beneath the Motherships and magical machine armies of the Crimson n, no other organization dared to haphazardly strike at them anymore!


    While some Fourth Grade adepts gradually shifted their attention onto the Crimson n and let out word that they would keep the n in line, the legendary fire adept brought a Fourth Grade giant metallic golem dragon back from one of his lesser nes.


    It immediately silenced all the waves that were starting to rise on the outside world!


    Though dark undercurrents were still surging beneath Zhentarim, no adept organization dared to continue opposing the Crimson n on the surface.


    It was fine if the Crimson n had no Fourth Grades; dealing with them would have been a simple matter. However, now that a Fourth Grade golem that seemed to possess tremendous power had appeared in the Crimson n, the Fourth Grade adepts immediately fell silent and extinguished any thoughts of stomping the Crimson n out of existence.


    Even some of the Fourth Grade adepts that had a significant chance of beating a dull Fourth Grade golem were not willing to take such unnecessary risks.


    With their power and reputation, the adept organizations and ns they represented would never fall as long as they still lived. No Fourth Grade adept would make enemies of an adept of the same grade. No amount of wealth or resources would tempt them into striking at another Fourth Grade adept.


    That was because no adept n or organization would be able to stand the all-out retaliation of a Fourth Grade adept, even if they were protected by another Fourth Grade adept.


    Once an adept advanced to Fourth Grade, the difference in personal ability and techniques between those of the lower grades reached an iprehensible level. A bloodline curse or a death spell could cause a n to spontaneously fall apart, suffering from an incredible number of casualties.


    That was why those Fourth Grade adepts were not willing to provoke another Fourth Grade adept over small numbers of resources if not necessary.


    The Fourth Grade golem of the Crimson n might not have the same level of destructive power as a Fourth Grade adept, but who knew what other terrifying trump cards that Greem fellow might still be hiding under his sleeve? That was why, with their longevity andposure, the Fourth Grade adepts were not willing to run into this steel wall unless the Crimson n was the first to provoke them.


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    Northern Lands, White Tower.


    An elegantly-designed Mothership, the shape of a cigar, slowly floated across the skies of White Tower.


    Due to its use of magic energy as a power source, the Patrol Mothership did not emit the same metallic grinding of other vessels that were caused by gears.


    Mothership Chiwa silently crushed the clouds in her way, elegantly cruising across the sky. Goblin Magical Mechanic Little Locke stood at the edge of the ship on his toes, looking excitedly at the dark ck forest, the towering trees, and the rugged mountains racing by below.


    As a newly advanced n adept, Locke had neither the power nor experience to take control of such a powerful Mothership. However, considering his background as a goblin, Meryl assigned him to Chiwa, serving as a subordinate under Second Grade Knight Soros.


    Soros was the captain of Chiwa, while Little Locke was only one of three adepts aboard the ship.


    Their mission was to patrol the stretch of ck Forest between White Tower and Doverand City.


    Of course, the daily resources and construction materials of the newly established Doverand City were all provided by Chiwa.