Age of Adepts

Yet another problem of bloodline limit!

Greem propped up his chin with his hand. He silently lamented as he took a good look at Billis.

Bloodline adepts were at a tremendous advantage in the first half of an adept’s journey. They were more powerful in combat and did not have to so rigorously gather and obtain arcane knowledge as the other adepts had to. Among adepts of the same grade, bloodline adepts had the advantages of both body-refining adepts and elementium adepts, without any of their weaknesses. They were always formidable combatants.

However, should they run into their bloodline limit, they would face down a problem with no solution!

The nature of bloodline adepts was to draw upon and achieve the terrifying power of powerful ancient creatures by repeatedly refining their bloodline. Though there were many adepts with various bloodlines out there, not every creature in existence could continue evolving and improving without limit.

Most bloodline adepts could only try their best to approach the fearsome might of ancient magical creatures, often falling short due to pollution and impurities in their bloodline.

With tens of thousands of years between them, the adepts of the present could only manifest a portion of their origin creature’s ability. The bloodline of a person who was able to reach Fourth or Fifth Grade with the bloodline of a Sixth Grade ancient creature would be considered extremely pure already.

Take the holy light bloodline, for example. Greem had killed dozens of Third Grade Gold Knights in the Henvic Plane while robbing the grave and remains of a Fourth Grade Holy Knight. He had managed to gather the essential data on all levels of holy knights, from First to Fourth Grade.

If he had the opportunity to adequately research the remains of the Fourth Grade holy knight in his storage ring, he should have no problem reaching 100% completion for the information on the holy light bloodline.

Meanwhile, the elf bloodline’s high degree of completion was purely due to his wild slaughter in Lance!

For the sake of helping Alice obtain the pseudo-artifact, Staff of Divination, Greem and his party had slaughtered tens of thousands of elves, spanning every single profession of their race. If it weren’t due to his lack of information on Fourth Grade elves, the elf bloodline completion rate would also be shockingly high.

Apart from these two bloodlines, his data library’s completion of the giant serpent bloodline and the vampire bloodline was also nearly at 50%.

Greem had killed two serpentine adepts as of now and had obtained the valuable serpentine bloodline recreation potions and the bloodline purification potions. It was due to this that the serpentine bloodline’s completion rate was so high.

Meanwhile, the vampire bloodline was largely complete due to Mary.

After all these years with Mary, Greem had plenty of research on vampires of First to Third Grade. Yet, that had only barely been enough to achieve 50% completion on the data library.

Mary was now a pureblood vampire. Given the current circumstances, advancing to Fourth Grade shouldn’t be difficult for her. However, she had no idea what her path after Fourth Grade looked like. Without Greem’s help, it would be nearly impossible for Mary to find her own way, given her talent as an adept and a vampire!

Moreover, Greem himself had now turned into a bloodline adept. His bloodline was a very rare and valuable one– the starbeast bloodline.

The advantage of this bloodline was its unique Chaos Physique, which allowed Greem to directly absorb a portion of chaotic magic energy for his own use. Moreover, in the records of the World of Adepts, starbeasts were powerful chaos creatures that could reach up to Eighth Grade.

Even if the starbeast bloodline that Greem had assimilated were slightly inferior, he would not face the bloodline limit until he reached Seventh Grade.

As such, Greem now walked two paths: that of a bloodline adept, and that of an elementium adept.

The path of a bloodline adept would provide him with a sturdy body and formidable bloodline abilities. In contrast, the path of an elementium adept allowed him to possess unparalleled elementium might.

Both of these paths were worth a lifetime of investment and cultivation for an adept. Now that Greem wanted to walk down both tracks, the number of rare resources he would have to expend and the knowledge he would have to gather would be, at the very minimum, twice that of his peers.

This tremendous amount of resources and knowledge required would be enough to cause a headache for most adepts!