Age of Adepts
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chapter-99
Right from the start, the Underground Cave was a place where one was apt to get into trouble.
Though no one had purposefully spread the news, early next morning, nearly the entire Adept Tower was startled by a frightening news that had spread like the plague.
In a fair one-on-one match, an individual who had recently broken through to Intermediate Apprentice Adept had defeated Toril, the member of the Wharton family who had the highest chance of becoming an official Adept in the shortest amount of time. When the news was freshly heard, countless Apprentice Adepts simply sniffed at it to show their contempt.
In the World of Adept, even within the same grade, but just different by one or two minor tiers, let alone the gap between two major grades, there would be a jaw-dropping difference between their overall strength. Some busybodies actually performed a statistical study before. In a normal battle, a Pseudo-Adept could easily defend himself from the joint attack of two to three Advanced Apprentices and could just as easily defend himself against the joint attack from a double digit number of Intermediate Apprentices.
Therefore, when they heard the news for the first time, most of the people just treated it as a lousy lie used by an enemy of the Wharton family to bring shame to them. But as time went by, the ‘lie’ had grown hotter and hotter, so much so that many guys who were well-known among the elite apprentices vowed solemnly that it was real.As the result, a massive storm broke out in the circle of Apprentice Adepts within the Adept Tower of Underground Cave!
Countless Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Apprentices ran around, spreading the news, while inquiring about the genuine version of that ‘rumor’. Soon, all the rumors gathered through the grapevine had pointed to a name that everybody was unfamiliar with – Greem. Hence, more news about Greem was dug out.
For example, when Greem had arrived at the Underground Cave, he had just been a Beginner Apprentice. Also, during his first trip to the Underground World, he had killed the frightening Demon Vine Lady and gotten himself the first head of a Fallen Apprentice. Not only that, when he was invited to join the training camp, he actually had defeated two elite Advanced Apprentices…
When the series of outstanding results were pieced together, every single apprentice who heard about it was struck with astonishment.
