Chapter 484
Chapter 484 Of Monster and Man
Time flew by in a flash.
Sixty-seven years.
Any ordinary human would have over half of their lives gone just like that. However, for adepts who had a fundamental lifespan up to two or three hundred years, this was no more than one-quarter of their lives, or even less.
Those who had mutated their bodies, going down the path of bloodline mutations, or elementiumized bodies, even had lifespans up to four or five hundred years. Vampires like Mary could reach a thousand years easily.
The same Fire Throne, the same adept’s tower.
However, the apprentices living within had undergone a massive change.
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When Mary saw that Eva’s life force was still falling continually and that Eva’s life was at risk, she immediately suggested cutting apart Eva’s stomach and taking out this naughty fellow. However, this suggestion was swiftly rejected by the agonizing Eva.
As the mother of this strange being, she could sense that such an act would cause a life backlash that would severely affect the child’s future development. Interrupting or stopping this would create tremendous consequences in its future that could never be compensated for.
Thus, out of her desire to nurture her child, Eva stopped everyone from interfering. She even shouted at Gargamel and got him to get out of the delivery room. It was only then that she started leaving behind her will.
Faced with this sort of awkward situation where they couldn’t help, fight, or blame anyone, the girls could only retrieve bottle after bottle of life potion. They were trying their best to maintain Eva’s life.
However, the effects were minimal.
Substitute Dolls, False Life Potions, Ring of Damage Reduction; they had put to use all of these magical items, yet they still couldn’t stop Eva’s life force from fading away.
Gargamel was heartbroken at this, but he also understood Eva’s feelings. That was why he no longer dared to bring up the idea of forcibly taking out the child. He could only strike his head while periodically taking out strange potions or herbs for Eva to consume.
Watching your lover slowly die in front of your own eyes was the most horrifying torture in the entire world!
The coldly observing Billis was also an elite adept now. As a bloodthirsty and cruel bug-man adept, he was extremely confused by everyone’s unwise action.
Was there any value in preserving a descendant that would bite the hand of its master?
There was no second answer to this question in his mind!
In his eyes, all lifeforms in the world were either targets to be hunted or servants to be commanded. Why would he ever sacrifice himself for someone else and use his own life to provide for a descendant that he had never been acquainted with?!
That had already exceeded the limits of his comprehension as a bug-man adept!
Adept Am and Adept Deserra, who had joined the tower after the others, could only stand by and wait for the results in silence. They had no right to intervene in the decisions of these more veteran adepts.
Am had advanced to adept fifty years ago. He was the second pseudo-adept among Greem’s disciples, after Meryl, to have progressed to adept. The last batch of the other two pseudo-adepts under Greem–Toril and Lena–hadn’t met good ends. One had died due to failing the advancement ceremony, while the other had returned to their clan after exhausting eighty percent of their life force after failing the ceremony.
After Greem had utterly isolated himself, he had never accepted any apprentices after Am and the rest. That was why Adept Deserra, who had unexpectedly advanced, was actually a disciple of Adept Meryl.
If one were to consider it in that manner, Adept Deserra could already be considered to be a third generation adept of Fire Throne!
“No, this can’t continue like this!” Meryl performed a simple calculation of the speed at which Eva’s life force was withering, and she couldn’t help but speak worriedly, “Lady Mary, you had best contact Teacher Greem! Maybe… maybe he might have some idea of what to do.”
Gargamel, who was almost tearing out all of his wispy beard, suddenly lifted his head. The light of hope shone out of his beady eyes.
Indeed! If he went to look for his master, maybe, perhaps, he could have a useable idea!
Yet, just as Mary was about to speak, a deep and thick voice rang out in the room.
“No need to shout for me. I’m here.”