Chapter 787 - Growth of the Clan
Chapter 787 Growth of the Clan
The shock of the Battle for Fire Throne only grew with each passing day!
Five adept clans joining hands to exterminate a clan that had been established for less than ten years had ended up defeated. Not only were their mortal armies completely slaughtered, more than half of the one hundred official adepts had also lost their lives. Only a few of them had made it back to their clans.
It was entirely beyond everyone’s expectations. It also caused many high-grade adepts to cast their attention on this insignificant new clan.
Full ownership over a lesser plane with access to all its resources and population was the dream of all adept clans. It would allow them to turn the lesser plane into a talent and soldier manufactory. However, any adepts who had participated in a planar war knew very well how difficult it was to conquer a foreign plane perfectly. It was simply too hard to have the proud natives submit with the limited number of adepts in a clan.
Most adept clans only occupied their lesser planes as outside forces or plane merchants. That was the only way to reduce and lower the fear and rejection of the natives toward them. Of course, after years of infiltration and encouraging conflicts amongst the natives, the adepts would eventually be able to manipulate the actual rulers of the plane and indirectly gain the ability to exploit its resources.
However, such a process often took an extraordinarily long time.
These clans could barely even defend themselves at the moment. Where would they find the resources to spare for ransoming their clan adepts?!
When the Crimson Clan conveyed this information to the prisoners, they fell silent. In particular, the alchemist adepts of the Magic Forest Hut were boiling with anger. There would be no doubt that they would have started a fight with the adept prisoners of the Kamala Clan if they hadn’t had their magic powers restrained and their magical tools taken away.
After another two months of painful waiting, only the two Kamala adepts were ransomed by their clan at an exorbitant price. The rest of the adepts became abandoned pawns that no one cared about.
These adepts were not going to be resigned to the rest of their lives being spent wasting away in prison. One by one, the prisoners started to initiate discussions with the Crimson Clan in regards to their welfare and treatment after submitting to and joining the Crimson Clan.
Naturally, as defeated enemies, their status could not be compared to ordinary adepts who had come to offer their talents.
They would have to accept being enslaved by magical contracts for a very long period of time and serving as vassal adepts of the Crimson Clan. They could only regain their right to choose for themselves once they had made it through the entirety of their service.
Finally, after some difficult discussions and negotiations, both parties came to a conclusion.
The adept prisoners would serve as vassals for twenty years. During these twenty years, they would sign a magical contract with the Crimson Clan and become half-enslaved clan members. It was only after the twenty-year period was up that they had the freedom to choose whether to leave or remain.
The first adepts to submit after they settled the discussions were naturally the alchemist adepts. Their Magic Forest Hut had already been taken over by the Kamala Clan. They would be submitting to the Kamala even if they went back. Rather than that, they might as well establish their roots in the Crimson Clan.
The addition of these alchemists instantly caused the Crimson Clan adept forces to increase in power. In fact, with the lead and guidance of Gargamel, a new alchemist branch was founded within the clan.
With the alchemists of Magic Forest Hut serving by example, the remaining adepts didn’t last for much longer. Gradually, all of them dejectedly accepted the magical contract and served as the lowest of adepts in the Crimson Clan.
The addition of twenty-four official adepts caused the Crimson Clan’s initially lacking adept force to swell in number. Apart from the crippled Fire Throne having to undergo repairs slowly, the entire clan had benefited from the war. Even White Tower, far away in the Northern Lands, had obtained some benefits as a few vassal adepts were sent their way.
With these adepts forming the foundations of the tower’s framework, many lessons and combat divisions that couldn’t be sustained in the past slowly started appearing.
The entire Crimson Clan continuously absorbed nutrition from the blood and flesh of their defeated enemies and were once again slowly rising on the path toward power and prosperity!