Chapter 1056 - The Bug Adept’s Frustration
Chapter 1056 The Bug Adept’s Frustration
The first person that Greem met for an audience after coming out of seclusion was Goblin ‘God of War’ Tigule.
When Tigule read the comprehensive and detailed report, fine beads of cold sweat couldn’t help but appear on his forehead. His one and a half meter tall body also started trembling uncontrollably.
In the end, Tigule was only an advanced First Grade goblin. He could only unleash the might of a Second Grade while piloting a magical machine. As such, a terror gripped his entire being from the depths of his soul when he stood before Greem and endured his cold and emotionless gaze.
The past few decades had been enough to create a rift between Tigule and Vanessa, causing them to walk down two very different paths. At the very least, Tigule’s name very rarely appeared in the Magic Energy Association observation reports submitted by Meryl.
That was the main reason that Greem had summoned Tigule.
After reading through the entire report, Tigule almost seemed to have aged by a few decades. His spirit, will, and energy utterly had collapsed.
[Billis. Advanced Second Grade. Profession: Bloodline Adept.
Bodily Attributes: Strength 7 | Physique 2 | Agility 7 | Spirit 27.]
One had to admit, as a summoner adept that relied on his insects to fight, Billis lacked the opportunity to compete on the battlefield personally. He rarely had the chance to refine and train his own body. Thus, his bodily attributes could be said to be utterly pathetic when compared to other Second Grade adepts!
However, these low attribute scores were not a big issue. With sufficient time and resources, obtaining decent attributes was hardly a problem. On the contrary, what limited Billis’ evolution upwards wasn’t his body– it was the Queen Bug.
From the very start, the Queen Bug that Acteon had obtained through some unknown means had a limit of its own. The limit of its potential was Third Grade. The decision to switch hosts and separate from Acteon to reassimilate with Billis further exhausted its potential for evolution.
Consequently, when Bug Adept Billis reached advanced Second Grade, he could feel the decline in the speed of his improvement. In fact, it almost seemed like it wouldn’t budge at all.
The reason Billis was in such a hurry to see Greem was naturally to obtain his help in finding a new direction, such that he could continue evolving.
The same problem existed for all bloodline adepts to varying degrees of severity.
The exhaustion of evolution potential would mean that their adept path had come to an end. They would not be able to improve by a single step, even if they were to waste hundreds of years meditating. That kind of despair, which was etched deep in one’s soul, was the most torturous of them all.
With Billis’ potential, he would have required three to four centuries of development before he would have run into the limit of his potential. He would have been in the latter half of his lifespan by then. However, as he followed behind Greem’s meteoric steps and became one of the most capable members of the Crimson Clan, he managed to run into this wall much more prematurely, in a mere hundred years’ time.
It was an unfortunate event, but an incredible blessing of sorts, as well!
Whether this would end up being a fortune for Billis would be up to his luck now.