Chapter 238
Chapter 238 Transaction
The conversation with Diviner Mas was pleasant and delightful!
Mas sensed what was going through Greem’s mind to varying extents.
When two smart men gathered together, discussions were easily completed. There was no need for roundabout small talk or probing questions. In a matter of sentences the two of them quickly arranged a possible future frame for collaboration.
Although Greem couldn’t make decisions in place of Lord Sarubo, he could recommend this batch of people to him. This was the main reason Diviner Mas was in such a hurry to meet Greem!
It was only after the talk that Greem found out Mas wasn’t alone. There was a large group of casters who had potential as adepts gathered around him. On the way here all the people Greem had seen possessed, at the very least, power rivalling advanced apprentices. Moreover most of them had pseudo-adept level casting abilities.
Their leader Diviner Mas was a terrifying Second Grade.
Sadly, the class characteristics of prophets required them to abandon all casting abilities in exchange for the more powerful powers of divination. Even though his Grade was exceptionally high, he did not have much offensive ability. Quite the contrary– most of the time he needed the protection of his followers.
To defend against the possibility of a dragon attack, the amount of military force amassed there was truly impenetrable. The possibility of Greem breaking through all that defense and killing the king was miniscule.
The more he read the parchment, and the more he understand about the palace, the more helpless he felt about his task.
His power as a First Grade adept might have been enough for him to live a good life in the World of Adepts, but it was still a difficult and dangerous thing to walk about a planar battlefield. It was like walking on thin ice. A slight misstep and he would die!
Just as Greem was engulfed in frustration and hesitation, footsteps sounded from outside the wooden hut, quickly followed by light knocking.
Diviner Mas personally came to visit him!
“I’m sure you have seen the information. What do you think about your odds for the two missions?” Mas had just sat down and already he couldn’t help but ask.
Greem was honest as well. He spoke frankly, “If it’s just me alone, there is no possibility of completing either of these tasks!”
“Do you intend to give up?”
“No! Not at all!” Greem smiled slightly as he said, “If it’s just me, it’s not possible. But if I had Sir Mas’ help, I’m sure things would be different!”
Greem could clearly see how unbelievably detailed the information provided to him was. There was no way that this was information those half-ass casters obtained on their own. The only way this could have been obtained was through the prophecy powers of the diviner before him.
If he had such a powerful ability, he might be able to use his amazing prophetic powers to find loopholes and flaws in this sturdy defense that outsiders were not privy to. Wasn’t this what he was the best at?
That said, Greem probably needed to give something in exchange for using Mas’ powers. After all, the information provided by Mas was more than enough for Greem to recommend them to Great Adept Sarubo.
If he wanted the full cooperation of Diviner Mas, Greem had to offer something new and of value!
For the rest of the night, the two negotiated within the wooden hut.
Starting from the next day, Greem never took a single step out of the hut. He remained within the building, furiously writing on parchment after parchment. In just three days, he had completely transcribed some of the more common magic books from the World of Adepts.
This included the meditation techniques provided to the apprentice adepts, methods to train the Spirit, the branches and paths of the adept system, as well as basic templates of some apprentice-level spells.
With a complete magic system as reference, Diviner Mas could continuously cultivate more and more casters in this plane as long as he could survive the impending disaster. This was something that Lord Sarubo would never give him.
Of course, in order to ensure Mas upheld his end of the agreement, Greem had sealed most of the content when he transcribed the scrolls. Without him personally undoing those seals, all the parchments would turn into ash in a blazing fire.
Now with the full cooperation of Diviner Mas, Greem finally had a small chance of successfully completing the missions!