Chapter 29
Greem was completely ignorant to the events that occurred after he went back to the tower.
As to be expected, anytime something good happened to him, it was almost always accompanied by misery.
Before today, he thought he would have time to slowly and quietly developed himself, but, after the day’s event, he realized that things would not be so easy for him.
His previous peaceful life had made him think that his life as an Apprentice could carry on forever at a gradual pace. But, after today’s heart-pounding encounter, he had realized the huge gap between a Beginner Apprentice and an Advanced Apprentice.
As he had witnessed the extraordinary potential of Advanced Apprentices, and how they utilized magic spells that worked perfectly with their talents, Greem realized how slow and backward his progress was.
Following his original development path, perhaps it would take him three to four years of daily meditation, and ceaselessly pursuing the accumulation of magical knowledge, before he could become an Intermediate Apprentice. To become an Advanced Apprentice would take Greem at least another ten years of work. As for becoming a Pseudo-Adept? With Greem’s current potential and innate talent, he didn’t have much hope for reaching that level.
As an Apprentice Adept, every tiny increase of his Spirit was unimaginably valuable to him, and it only resulted from hard work. His innate talent was no better than the others, thus, if he wanted to grow faster than the rest of the Apprentices, the only way was to seize more resources and to get sufficient magical knowledge.
Aside from these, there was no other workaround.
Of course, he didn’t regret this.
This descendant of a Bloodline Adept was only an Advanced Apprentice, so he wouldn’t have too strong of the bloodline inherited in his blood. In order to guarantee Greem becoming a Pseudo-Adept, perhaps he would need at least a dozen of these descendants. Only then could he extract enough blood to purify his bloodline.
This would be as difficult for Greem as fighting a Mega Dragon!
Besides that, according to what Greem had learned from books, currently, among all Bloodline families that were still active in the center of the Adept Continent, the highest level among them was only at the Seventh Grade. The Ninth Grade was the current pinnacle of the Bloodline Adept structure.
As a Bloodline Adept, one was not required to do too much cultivation or accumulation of knowledge. All they needed to do was to keep purifying their own bloodlines, and, eventually, they would be able to obtain the abilities of their ancestor’s bloodline.
For example, let’s say that an Adept was the inheritor of a Fifth Grade bloodline, just by being a Bloodline Adept, he would be able to rank up with the speed that was tens to hundreds of times faster than that of the other branches. This allowed him to press forward with an indomitable spirit for the first half of his life, and live a life of glory. Besides that, Adept who possessed unique bloodline might have some special abilities too, letting them have the advantage when fighting with a same grade Adept.
However, the pinnacle of the source bloodline was also the end of their Adept path.
When Adept with a Fifth Grade Bloodline finally became a Fifth Grade Adept, he would be forced to face the fact that the road ahead of him was completely cut off. He would never be able to proceed further after reaching Fifth Grade.
This was the saddest thing about these Bloodline Adepts!
Once they chose to walk this path, and picked a wrong bloodline, the chances of them reaching the top of this World of Adepts was forever lost.