Chapter 796- Changes in the White Tower
Chapter 796 Changes in the White Tower
The World of Adepts. Icewind, the White Tower.
After the past few years of cultivation, the once desolate Icewind had changed completely.
The beginnings of a small village had appeared in a forest clearing just three hundred steps away from White Tower. The buildings there were made of logs and seemed to be heavy, but sturdy. There were about three or four dozen families scattered across the village, with a small plaza at the center of the settlement. A few shops and unique buildings were scattered about as well.
Due to the tower’s protection, the chill winds from the east became warm and gentle before they reached the small town. The average temperature of Icewind used to be around 17.8 Celcius, but it had now stabilized at 0 degrees.
Such temperatures could no longer affect normal outdoor activities for humans!
It was difficult to conduct any farming or animal husbandry in a place like Icewind. As such, most of the civilians there were hunters. They would form groups and enter the edges of the Black Forest on a good day to hunt for wild beasts or low-grade magical creatures.
With the appearance of the White Tower, the magical creatures near Icewind had all retreated into the depths of the Black Forest. That took away the prey that the hunters relied on for their livelihood. However, as more and more Crimson adepts and apprentices ventured into the Black Forest, the hunters decided to settle near White Tower and sought to be recruited and employed by these people.
Such work distribution undoubtedly decreased the pressure of logistics and supply on the apprentice groups, allowing them to divert more attention to the improvement of their combat skills. The acquisition of magical knowledge might be crucial for all apprentice adepts, but for most of them, turning that knowledge into corresponding combat power was undoubtedly even more important!
After handing over the prey, the two hired hunters returned homes with smiling faces and two large pouches of gold. On the other hand, the apprentices walked toward the only tavern in town.
There, they ran into another group of apprentices who were also celebrating their hunt– Bloodsucking Fang.
Just from the name alone, you would know that this was a combat group purely made up of apprentice-level vampires. There were seven members on the team, and all of them were pretty men and women in luxurious clothes. Some of them were even blood elves with sharp ears and sharper fangs.
These vampires might not possess the diversity of spells that other apprentice teams did, but with their rapid movements and bat transformations, they could freely travel in and out of the Black Forest to hunt. With the Battle of Fire Throne, Lady Mary had made a tremendous contribution to the clan. These vampires in the lower levels of the clan also gained more reputation and status this way.
At the moment, the vampire faction had become the most significant faction within the Crimson Clan. Even Tigule, who was backed by an entire lesser plane, could not compare to Mary.
The vampires, the Fate Witches, and the magical mechanic goblins; these three forces owned eighty percent of the Crimson Clan’s resources and authority, each supporting the Crimson Clan as a pillar. Of course, this was only the crude opinions of the lower classes.
Only the higher-ups of the Crimson Clan knew the secret that the largest force in the Crimson Clan wasn’t the vampires, but the mysterious Third Grade Brain Monster Gazlowe.
During the Battle of Fire Throne, Gazlowe had only revealed a bit of his power and had managed to send the Alliance of five clans packing. If Greem was willing to bring him back from Lance to the World of Adepts, then there was a possibility that the Crimson Clan could instantly rise from a small clan to a large one, only one step away from those ultra-clans.
If one were to pick out any weakness of the Crimson Clan now, it would be the lack of a high-grade adept who could support and defend the clan. At the very least, without a Third Grade adept, the Crimson Clan would never be acknowledged as a large clan.
That was not something that could be compensated for with an army of magical machines!