Chapter 98
“You mean, the minimum requirement to join this competition is being an official Adept? Could it be… could it be…” Greem spoke hesitatingly, as he recalled some relevant content from the vast information about the Adept World he had stored in his mind.
“That’s right. The competition I want you to participate in is the Advancement Competition of Profound Adepts, which will be held in the Sky City in five years. As long as you can help us, the Byron family maintain our selling rights in the Sky City, when everything is over, our family will also reward you with a great gift.”
“I see what you mean now, what you need is a promise. As long as I can promise you that I’ll become an official Adept within three years and represent the Byron family to participate in that competition, you’ll provide us with three years of protection. This is a deal where both of us benefit and fulfills the usual practices of fair deals between Adepts. Hence, I accept the deal!”
“Hehe, excellent! Remember, you will only have three years. Once that Toril becomes an official Adept, the agreement between us will be voided. After all, no one is willing to had a fall out with a Bloodline Adept who is a good fighter.”
“I understand. I’ll definitely become an official Adept before he does!” Greem pledged with sincerity and seriousness.
Looking at Greem’s seemingly sincere expression, Adept Angus waved his hand, and a clump of gray smoke instantly exploded in front of Greem, before condensing into a magical contract within a split second.
Greem took a step forward and seriously and detailedly read the magical contract multiple times. After making sure there weren’t any wording or style traps, he carefully inked his magical mark.
Under normal situations, when a spell caster signed a contract, they disliked leaving behind their soul mark. Though that provided a higher binding effect, it made it rather easy for an outsider to obtain his soul aura. Therefore, in order to deal with such situations, Adepts had created the magical mark. It was a special mark formed with the individual’s unique Spirit wave and the energy of their element.
It was not because they were incompetent, but because this rascal had strange abilities!
Since Kevin was experienced in such scenes, he pushed Greem and brought him out from the place.
“Brother, since you have become a part of us, then as your brother, I’ll not regard you as an outsider anymore. Don’t worry, in Dagon region, as long as you show the badge of the Byron family, no one will give you any trouble. If someone does, tell me and I’ll bring our men to annihilate him!”
A big smile was immediately brought to Greem’s face and he expressed his gratitude to Kevin.
Kevin was not bragging, what he had said was actually real.
According to the Chronicle of Adept Families, there were more than twenty Adept Families with the proper name who could be found in this Dagon region. Among these families, the Byron family, which Kevin was working for, could easily be ranked among the top three of all Adept families in this region. Also, the Byron and Mises family had supported a small human kingdom which had occupied a huge area of fertile land in the central area of the Dagon region.
Therefore, the promise of providing him protection within the entire Dagon region wasn’t a lie at all.
In fact, not only the entire Dagon region, this kind of situation was common throughout the entire Zhentarim territory. In this world ruled by Adepts, the noble or even imperial families of human were just tools and servants who helped Adept families manage ordinary mortals. If any of them offended the Adept family who supported them, even if he was a king of a human kingdom, he would have to step down from his throne or even die of ‘sickness’.
For Kevin, as the nephew of Adept Angus, if he paid a visit to a human kingdom, he would be welcomed with the most luxurious, grandest reception and treatment. As long as he nodded his head slightly, even if he wanted some princesses to serve him on his bed, those kings would personally send them to his bed with a bright smile on their faces.
This was in fact, the most realistic yet cruel reality of the current Adept World!