Chapter 48
According to the annals of the Adept Mainland, the Zhentarim Association controlled thirty-one regions. The smallest region covered seven to eight hundred thousand square kilometers, while the largest occupied more than a million square kilometers. It was a boundless area rich in resources. These areas contained 60% of the entire Adept Mainland’s population.
Greem’s mission site was located in the Kerala mountain range, northeast of the Dagon region.
After discovering an entrance to the Underground, the Zhentarim Association had constructed an Adept Tower nearby, and sent a powerful Second Grade Adept to guard it. Ninth Grade was the highest rank in the Adept hierarchy, so a Second Grade Adept sounded like a weak entity, hardly capable of shouldering such an important task, but, as a matter of fact, within the Adept Mainland, which was the source of most of the Adept population, the highest grade Adept one could get in touch with, or even hear about, was a Fourth Grade Adept.
Even for Zhentarim Association, the highest grade Adepts on duty were Fourth Grade Adepts. As for all the higher graded Adepts, rumors said they had left the Adept World, to explore and conquer worlds in the vast ocean of stars.
This had led to the current power structure of the Adept Mainland: First Grade Adepts were crazily gathering knowledge and enriching themselves so they could grow, and were the most numerous grade of Adept across all the major clans; Second Grade Adepts were the backbone of all different institutes, and most of them were able to undertake tasks alone; Third Grade Adepts could gather a group of followers and build themselves a small Adept clan or family.
As for Fourth Grade Adepts, they were powerful entities that all major clans wanted. Of course, if a Fourth Grade Adept had the will, he could always explore a new region and establish an Adept kingdom that belonged to himself.
Therefore, the ranking of all Adept associations and clans were based on the number of Fourth Grade Adepts they had.
As for the Fallen Adepts in the Underground, Second Grade was as high as they went. Thus, by sending a Second Grade Adept to stand guard at the Adept Tower, it was more than possible to resist surprise attacks from those Fallen Adepts.
While she was frustrated by this, Greem gently nudged her arm and mouthed the word: ‘Illusion’.
Perhaps only Greem could clearly saw the entire process of that extremely short battle.
The Kevin’s ability was the rare ‘illusion’.
While all the other apprentice adepts were going after for more powerful magic spells, Kevin was emphasized on combining his innate magical ability and his own combat ability. Just now, using his illusion to deceive the enemy’s five senses, he never moved, but simply covered himself with an illusion.
While the young Pseudo-Adept was deceived by the illusive figure, which looked like a real human, and turned his body around, he had exposed his defenseless back to Kevin, who was also an assassin who fought with his high Dexterity. Judging from the swiftness of his movement, Kevin’s Dexterity was just slightly lower than Mary, perhaps around 13 to 15.
If a guy like this was moving with his full speed, without Elementium Vision, perhaps Greem couldn’t even find out where he actually was, let alone counter the full force of his attacks.
Thus, among all Body Refining Adept, a high agility assassins like Mary and Kevin, were the biggest threat to apprentices who fought with offensive magic spells.