Age of Adepts

Chapter 341 The Geniuses Begin to Show

It was decided that the celebration banquet would be held at Alice’s dwelling.

Aside from the apprentices and adepts of Greem’s faction, the elite apprentices of numerous other adepts would also be attending. Most of them had amicable relations with Kodar, Am, and the others.

One thing to be noted of was Greem’s personality. His easygoing attitude as their teacher had caused the apprentices under his care to be affected. The atmosphere within his entire faction was harmonious. The two adepts he cultivated were known as the least adept-like adepts. They had none of the attitude and fearsomeness of normal adepts.

As the teacher of the adept’s tower public lessons, Meryl had made contact with almost all of the apprentices within the clan. Consequently, she was known as the most friendly, caring, and beautiful adept in the headquarters. Alice, on the other hand, seemed to have no idea what it meant to be an adept. She continued to mingle about with the apprentices under her care.

In the past few years, she had traveled throughout the mountains and rivers around the Zhentarim area. She would bring along her gang of apprentices and charge to wherever there were magical creatures or ruins without any hesitation whatsoever.

With the spider golem to protect her, the Infernal Tyrant as her aid, and her all-seeing divination, Alice had been able to get her hands on pretty much anything she wanted. Moreover, her divination arts also allowed Alice to attract fortune and avoid misfortune. She would always dodge disaster and traps as if she had god backing her up.

This good luck made going out with Alice one of the most comfortable and relaxing things for an apprentice.

Flame Demon Greem, the violent little Alice, and the gentlest Meryl; the three of them added together were such a significant force that even Second Grade Sir Fügen didn’t dare to make light of them.

And so their positions within the clan rose, again and again. The number of resources and benefits that the clan gave them also increasingly favored them.

The second circle of the banquet contained the elite apprentices of various adepts.

These were mostly pseudo-adepts. The occassional advanced apprentice was also a talented individual with unique and powerful abilities. They were the type of people who were never ignored wherever they went.

They might not have belonged to Greem’s faction, but they maintained good relations with the members of the group through various means. These people were also the most powerful here, aside from the real adepts of the clan.

They might have been apprentices, but all of them had the potential to become adepts. It was not wise to underestimate any of them.

This potential was why there were so many incidents of apprentice tensions resolving themselves when an opposing apprentice advanced to an adept. Most of the apprentice were smart people. They knew not to provoke a pseudo-adept without good reason. At least on the surface, everyone was friendly with each other. Everything seemed to be peaceful.

The third circle contained the largest population in every clan- the advanced apprentices.

Take the Sarubo Clan as an example. They barely had double digits worth of adepts. The clan had to station most of these adepts at resources sites and essential outposts. Only a few remained in Feidnan City.

After the adepts, there were the pseudo-adepts.

They were slightly more abundant in number, but not by much.

There were only about twenty to thirty pseudo-adepts within the Sarubo Clan. The pseudo-adepts were also the people that the clan would invest the most in. It didn’t matter which one of them advanced to an adept. They would instantly find that their status had risen immensely. They would become figures of authority with plenty of resources to their name.

Apart from the adepts and the pseudo-adepts, it was the massively populated class of apprentices that maintained and supported the rule of the adept clans. They were the advanced apprentices.

Apprentices that were chosen from the resource sites and outposts to move on to the headquarters were mostly advanced apprentices. Even the occasional intermediate and beginner apprentice would possess unique talents such as enchantment, herbology, or alchemy.

There were over three to four hundred of these advanced apprentices in the Sarubo Clan!