Chapter 307
Chapter 307 Doubts
Having a weakened bloodline was a difficulty shared by most clans!
The massive change in genetic makeup due to adept advancement made it impossibly hard for them to continue breeding like ordinary mortals. Even the occasional fortunate adept often gave birth to mundane humans or deformed infants.
However, if the parents were sufficiently powerful or had adequately concentrated bloodline powers, their offspring would most likely inherit their powerful bloodline talents. Still, powerful adepts often found it harder to conceive.
Most adept clans, mainly bloodline clans, would try and keep their bloodline free of impurities. They forbade marriage with individuals who did not belong to the clan.
The disparity of treatment between clan members who had awakened their bloodline powers and those who hadn’t was shockingly large in the Ximan Clan.
The clan would cultivate bloodline descendants like Celia. If she was fortunate, there was still a chance for her to advance to First Grade. However, if they judged her bloodline powers insufficient for advancement, her fate would be sealed. She would become a breeding tool for the other high-grade bloodline adepts of the clan.
Celia had the luck of being born from a strong grandfather. She was able to live out her childhood in Wylick Castle peacefully.
Greem shook his head and moved on.
The Sarubo clan had investigated the other four apprentice adepts. They had no bloodline relations with Sak. They had only gone to Sak for knowledge and resources. There was no need to kill them off.
Greem forced them to sign a new contract of servitude and left them with the recovered Alice. He had her bring them back to Wylick Castle to settle the assets and servants there.
Greem could grit his teeth and live with the fact that the Ximan Clan had taken back Sak’s bloodline. If even Sak’s resources and personal collections in the castle had been ‘retrieved’, Greem would have no choice but to go and ‘speak’ with the Ximan Clan.
The next concern Greem had, now that Sak was dead, was the escaped female illusionist.
He had a feeling that she was the key to unraveling this mystery!
After thinking it through, Greem felt like this issue wasn’t as simple as he had first thought. Bloodhand Butcher might be associated with the Black Glove Association, but there was no way they could have hired someone like Sak.
Greem had a vague feeling that there was another mastermind behind this attack. Their plan didn’t seem to include him alone but included Alice as well.
That was obvious from how they sent the Bloodhand Butcher after him while dispatching two of the more powerful adepts after Alice and Snorlax.
Snorlax survived because of his unparalleled mastery of Invisibility and Partial Transformation. Alice had survived only because of her luck.
Honestly, Greem would never believe that a pseudo-adept would be able to survive the naturally talented attack of an elite adept. If Greem hadn’t given her the spacestone, the only thing he would have seen was an entirely petrified statue of Alice.
All these signs point towards a truth. It seemed that the enemy’s priority was Alice, but not himself.
These were incredibly suspicious on their own!
The investigation into the female illusionist hadn’t yielded any results, despite scouring the entire Zhentarim area. It was as if no one had heard of someone of her appearance. Greem couldn’t help but start thinking. Her looks that night might not have been her actual appearance.
Why was it that they went to such lengths to hide their own identity?