Chapter 553
Chapter 553 Inside the Banquet
The banquet at Rose Manor was well underway by the time Greem stepped out of the black carriage.
His hasty travel here hadn’t allowed for any other arrangements. He had no choice but to rent a carriage from a nearby city to arrive at Rose Manor.
He wasn’t wearing that conspicuous adept’s robe of his. Instead, he had changed into a black frock coat with gold spectacles and a wig on his head. When paired with his black eyes, he possessed a muted trace of nobility and pride to him, even as he carried himself with elegance and grace.
Things had happened too quickly!
He had already warned Mary not to get too close to Leicester, and he had reminded her only to collect necessary information on the vampire from afar. However, Mary didn’t do as she was told.
The existence of the bloodline limit had caused Mary to stagnate at elite First Grade level for far too long. Greem’s advancement to Second Grade, in particular, had greatly provoked the competitive vampire.
Even though they were already officially intimate lovers, the competitiveness etched in Mary’s bones hadn’t faded away. That was why she held an intense passion and motivation when it came to hunting and capturing Leicester.
Only the head servant waved for an attendant and leaned into his ear to whisper a few words. The attendant then hurried towards the main building of the manor.
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Greem had attended all sorts of banquets since he had arrived in the strange and mysterious World of Adepts. However, most of these were half-business, half-socializing events hosted by apprentices or private dinners held by adepts.
The guests invited to those banquets were of the same nature. The intent of the feasts was often straightforward and simple as well. So much so that the dinners were a little dull and uninteresting.
Greem had never attended a banquet like the one before his eyes, where countless handsome men and beautiful women dressed in eye-catching colors while flirting and laughing among themselves. It was perhaps the kind of lifestyle favored by those adepts that had given up on the path of magic in pursuit of worldly power and desires.
Even though it was the same banquet, there were distinct inner and outer circles.
The inner banquet revolved around the banquet hall on the first floor of the three-level building in the center of the manor. The ones that were allowed in there were mostly great nobles and the wealthiest merchants of the nearby cities. Of course, there were also plenty of beautiful, noble women and young girls that had been specially selected to be allowed in there.
The middle and lower class nobles could only gather in the fields, greenhouses, gardens, and corridors around the main building. Here they could still meet plenty of important figures, who would sneak out of the main hall in search of a romantic encounter. As such, the outer banquet was no less lively than the one inside.
Greem was not a body-refining adept and had no unnatural, tough as steel muscles. However, his two-meter body height still gave him a muscular and nearly perfectly proportioned body. His tailored attire further added a hint of elegance and grace to him.
He didn’t even need to go out of his way to seduce women as he walked towards the main banquet. Plenty of pretty noble ladies were already winking at him. Some of the wilder women even personally stopped him and tried to draw him into a passionate conversation.
These vulgar women might not have the ability to see through Greem’s identity, but they naturally knew how to pursue the strong and powerful. Even though Greem had already limited his overflowing Spirit, that massive and pulsating life force was like a massive magnetic field drawing these women toward him.
Greem’s vision swept through the scene and quickly understood something.
Half of all the women gathered around him were peripheral blood slaves of the Vik family. They spent their days at the sides of high-grade vampires, diligently serving them and selling their youth and bodies to obtain the favor of the vampires.
Individuals with powerful life forces like Greem were their best prey. The moment a victim was seduced into bed, the women would be able to absorb their life force during intercourse secretly. That was also the only way for them to accumulate power and grow stronger.
Once their power exceeded a certain threshold and they became baronesses in their own right, they would be pseudo-adepts and would break free of their identities as blood slaves. It was then that they would be officially recognized by the family and accepted as an internal member of the Viks.
That was why nearly half of all the female blood slaves were attracted when they saw such delicious prey appear at the banquet. They gathered around Greem, trying their best to show off their appeal.
Of course, this was in part due to Greem concealing his identity as a Second Grade adept.
Otherwise, these women would never have dared to so directly tease a terrifying Second Grade adept, even if they had a hundred times the courage than they currently possessed!