Chapter 1018 - Fourth Grade Force
The war between the two clans concluded after half a year.
One side was a large clan led by a Fourth Grade adept, while the other was a quickly rising clan. Yet, the result of the war was entirely beyond everyone’s expectations. It was the Crimson Clan that had managed to defend against the Fabres Clan’s repeated assaults, finally obtaining the ultimate victory outside of Pinecone City in a battle between the most powerful adepts of their corresponding sides.
The Crimson Clan didn’t currently have a Fourth Grade adept. However, the combination of the Third Grade adept and the Fourth Grade magical machine golem dragon was already as mighty as an ordinary Fourth Grade adept.
Moreover, many experienced adepts estimated that the legendary fire adept and founder of the Crimson Clan had a very high chance of advancing to Fourth Grade. It was undoubtedly incredible information with tremendous implications!
Fourth Grade.
For most planar worlds, this was already the highest limit of power that the plane could contain. Any further increase in power would cause the individual to be restrained and rejected by the planar world. In the end, anyone with excessive power would have no choice but to head to the realms beyond to look for a new place of shelter.
Thus, Fourth Grades were the uncontested emperors within a plane and the so-called ‘deities’ in the eyes of mortals!
Even though the Crimson Clan had suffered colossal losses during this war, the tangible and intangible benefits of obtaining victory were immeasurable.
Disregarding everything else, just the Zhentarim Association’s acknowledgment of the Crimson Clan’s rule was invaluable!
From now on, Ailovis would become the Crimson Clans private asset. Every resource, territory, civilian, woods, and ore reserve found within these lands belonged to the Crimson Clan. It was rare, even for the central region.
There were a total of thirty-one areas of human activity of various sizes in Zhentarim. These thirty-one areas were categorized as individual regions. Each region had a border of sorts that separated them.
Hundreds and thousands of powerful adept clans and organizations lived upon this vast land. They were spread across these thirty-one regions, competing and fighting, all while co-existing with each other.
Despite the number of clans and organizations, only Fourth Grade forces could claim an entire region for themselves.
These so-called Fourth Grade forces referred to an organization that possessed a Fourth Grade adept!
That was the most crucial prerequisite for a clan or organization laying claim to a region of their own. A force that had not been acknowledged by others would not be able to maintain a long and stable rule, even if they managed to drive away all competitors with sheer force.
The Crimson Clan was the best example.
Before this war, they had no Fourth Grade adept. They had only owned a Fourth Grade war machine that had not yet been pressure-tested in a live adept war. As such, the clan’s ruling position was not acknowledged by the people of Zhentarim. It wasn’t strange that an adept war like this had broken out.
Now that the Zhentarim Association had recognized the Crimson Clan’s rule over the entirety of Ailovis, it was an indirect acknowledgment of the Crimson Clan’s status as a Fourth Grade force.
The weight of such status was earth shaking in the Central Region!
It was important to note that there were no more than fourteen Fourth Grades throughout Zhentarim. Moreover, no new Fourth Grade had appeared in Zhentarim for several centuries now.
According to the research of the more curious busybodies, there were only three adepts among the many Third Grades who had a significant chance of advancing to Fourth Grade.