Age of Adepts

The troll commander was dead!

He had died to his own blood.

Due to the over-exhaustion of his lightning powers, he had lost the blessing of the Feathered God. Meanwhile, the bloodline power that Mary had injected into his body with the previous attack was the true key to the Reversed Bloodflow in his body.

The trolls might be able to survive after losing their heart, but when a backflow of blood attacked the brain, even a troll as powerful as himself would die instantly. No troll could possibly survive two of their core organs being destroyed.

As for the mysterious will that had descended on the troll commander’s body? It dispersed silently without a chance to unleash its power due to the sudden death of its host.

In truth, Mary had overestimated the Feathered God.

Given the power demonstrated by the troll commander earlier, he had not completed a ‘god summoning’ at all. It was only the inferior ‘projection’ summoning. The Feathered God had responded to the troll commander’s prayer and projected a part of its power through the channel of faith onto him. In doing so, it had managed to complete a transfer of power.

Demi-gods with immortal souls hardly ever died.

Even if they were killed by enemies, their souls would reform under the blessing of the planar consciousness with the passage of time. They would then be reborn through a reincarnated body.

Fourth Grade adepts of the World of Adepts did not have such a premium treatment.

However, the adepts’ magic system provided them with plenty of means to escape death. For instance: life-concealing magic, soul-escape magic, substitution dolls, and many other techniques. However, these spells could only be used on adepts who were killed by enemies. Should an adept’s origin lifespan be exhausted, they could not be saved no matter what magic they employed.

Consequently, when Mary sensed that the unusual energy in the blood was crucial to her advancement, she ordered the extraction of the energy at all costs.

After over twenty days in the forest, the vampires had finally accomplished this task.

When the vampires finally set out again and moved towards the troll empire based on the marks left behind by the blood servants, Mary had in her possession a light blue crystal the size of a bean.

It was an unusual power crystal. It had lost all blood activity, yet it had a power that could not be rivaled by blood crystals or magical crystals. If Greem were here, he would have been able to tell Mary that this was a strange dual-attribute crystal that contained the powers of lightning and faith.

The most significant value of the crystal wasn’t the energy contained within, but the fragment of the power of the lightning laws!

Without the existence of the power of faith, the lightning laws would not be able to manifest, let alone solidify in such an unusual form. If Mary could bring it back to the World of Adepts, the elementium adepts that practiced lightning magic would be willing to purchase it at the price of a Fourth Grade item.

In the World of Adepts, a Fourth Grade item’s starting price was around two to three million crystals!

Mary rubbed the crystal between her fingers. Finally, she resisted the urge to swallow it.

The power in the crystal was not sufficient for her to advance to Fourth Grade.

Finding a way to extract even more divine blood from the source of this crystal was her best choice!

After understanding this, Mary waved her hand and summoned Vanlier. The two of them started discussing their plans.

As they continued to talk, a grander, more dangerous plan quickly began to present itself.

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World of Adepts, Fire Throne.

The fifth level of the tower.

Greem stood in front of a sizeable magical mirror, communicating remotely with Alice.

Alice had been the one to initiate this meeting, which was what surprised Greem.

Ever since Alice had advanced to Fourth Grade, she and her Fate Witches began to hold more diplomatic weight in the Witch Council.

For the sake of keeping the Fate Witches within the Northern Witches, all of the witch branches changed their attitude of cold avoidance. They started to express their goodwill towards Alice as much as possible.

In fact, they didn’t even let Alice reject their proposal to hold a grand advancement celebration in Werning City for her.

All of the witch leaders would be attending, as well all of the high-grade witches. They intended to celebrate, in high fashion, the return of the Fate branch.

Naturally, Alice couldn’t reject such an offer!

Even though she didn’t like to be dragged along like this, she could only accept the idea for the sake of the Fate branch.

Most of the time, the Fate Witches were like little pets of the planar consciousness.

They could see, hear, and understand so many secrets of Fate, but its powers controlled them. They could not make any decision freely without consequence.

Flowing down the river of history, having a grasp over the beat of Fate.

It might all sound nice, but when you were personally drowning in the river, there weren’t very many things that you could decide with your own will.