Chapter 354
Chapter 354 The Essence of the Adepts
The witch that Alice wanted to visit lived in the northeast.
It was right on the border between the territories of the Witches of Deceit and the Death Witches. Neither Greem nor Alice had any idea which side the person they were visiting belonged.
It would be pleasant if the witch belonged to the Death Witches, but if she was a Witch of Deceit, then Greem had no choice but to start formulating an escape plan.
That said, this was Alice’s suggestion. Her intuition from fate wouldn’t lead her to her death. As such, Greem chose to treat it as if they were visiting a Death Witch.
The two rested beneath a tree for a moment and dealt with the spoils of war from the earlier fight.
Bill had reverted from his panther form into his human form after death, turning into a headless male adept. It was thanks to Alice’s reminder that Greem found a storage ring on Bill’s right pinky toe.
Even Greem couldn’t help but smile when he saw the rewards within the ring.
But even the witches behaved more like wolves with assignments and duties of their own within an organized pack. Cooperation’s only purpose was to form a stronger power to obtain even more resources.
If we were to get into it, bloodline adepts honestly didn’t seem to be the essence of adepts. Instead, it was the elementium adepts who could claim that title.
Of the three existing Ninth Grade adepts, one was the founder of the Northern Witches. Salem, who bears the crown of Witch Queen, Monarch of the Witches and leader of the Ancient Witches. The other was Ignaz, first President of the Adept’s Association, who had mastered the Laws of Earth. And the last was an esoteric adept; Saint Patrick, known as the ‘Creator,’ and as the founder of the Silver Union.
One could discern something about the true path of adepts from observing the most powerful of them. One was an ancient witch that possessed a legacy of her own. One was a principle adept. One was an esoteric adept. Only the bloodline adepts and the body-refining adepts were missing. That meant that these two types of adepts would never be able to become mainstream in the World of Adepts. They could only exist in various forms and structures within the clans and organizations of the adepts, never to become a dominating force of their own.
The bloodline adepts possessed their unique bloodline legacy. This power saved them from the pain of accumulating knowledge at the mid and low adept levels, as compared to the agony their peers had to endure. The bloodline adepts also possessed advantages far superior to adepts of the same Grade. This advantage was why they were very well-regarded by large organizations and clans.
However, the bloodline limits imposed upon them became apparent when they reached the higher Grades. The bloodline that had helped them and drove them to success was now a pair of shackles that bound their hands and feet. The upper limit of the source of their bloodline was a cage that trapped them!
If they couldn’t shatter the prison, they would no longer be able to improve and become stronger. However, if those adepts did overcome the limits of their bloodlines, they would have lost what they had always relied upon.
The golden period where they could become stronger without even doing anything had passed entirely. Trying to get these people that had been spoiled by their bloodline to once again find a path forward was no easier than asking the blind for directions. It was why there had yet to be an adept who had advanced to Ninth Grade by relying on his bloodline!
It was the same for the body-refining adepts!
They might not have had upper limits to their Grade and their powers. However, their starting point and the potential of the human body was just way too low. It didn’t matter how much they trained or refined their bodies. It was just simply too difficult to improve their physical attributes to the level of the Scourge Lords and the Titans!
Consequently, the best and orthodox path forward for human adepts was the path of elementium. This path was the essence of an adept’s future development!
The bodies of human adepts were far too weak. The only thing they could rely on during their journey to the peak of the universe was the accumulation of generations of knowledge.
The first adepts might have been extremely weak, but the hundredth generation of adepts were beings that were capable of obtaining the dominant position in their plane. The two-hundredth generation was a generation that was capable of causing the multiverse to tremble at their name.
All of this had everything to do with the long and lasting legacy of knowledge!
Human adepts were a group of individuals with minds, wisdom, and knowledge. They were not wild beasts that only knew slaughter and consumption!
Thus, human adepts were defined as communal beings. In fact, they had to be collective beings! How else were they supposed to compete with those dominant species and races that had ruled the multiverse for eons!?