A good mage wasn't necessarily a powerful mage. There was another saying behind that, but when a good mage was fully prepared, they would become powerful.
Without sufficient preparation, a mage would never attack a formation established by another mage.
Because of the coordination of the formation, a mage's power would multiply exponentially.
Under normal circumstances, Ferde wasn't a match for Marche, after all, even when Brali and her men tried to capture him, he had no choice but to run.
Ferde's strength lay in the fact that as long as anyone still had him in their memories and feared him, he wouldn't die. The other was the perception provided by his spirit sense. Both Ferde's previous self and his current host, Roger, were people with powerful spirit senses, and it was thanks to his spirit sense that he was able to evade capture by the enforcers multiple times.
Other than that, Ferde's direct combat prowess could only be described as decent, as long as he charged into Marche's formation and was reinforced by it, Marche should have been able to easily defeat Ferde.
However, something unexpected had clearly happened. Not only did the formation not become Marche's aid, it instead became his shackles.
Negri was currently tidying up his attire. Three hours later, at 9 PM, the banquet would officially begin, and all major and minor Mystical organizations within the Academic City would receive invitations.
As a member of the House of Mages' Academic faction, Negri, who had inherited his position, would also receive a seat.
While choosing a present, Negri saw the small box Kalanci gave him, and it was the item inside that had sent them into desperate straits.
The item inside the box was a ruby-like crystal, which Kalanci called a "Blood Crystal". From its appearance, it appeared to be a crystallized product of a type of vitality mana.
Anyone who consumed this Blood Crystal would obtain a strand of vitality mana, which could also be used to prolong one's life for one or two days.
It was quite a precious item, and for some lesser mages, this was something they could only wish for, so using it as a form of compensation was quite a solemn gesture.
Unfortunately, the one they ran into was Negri. Combined with the spirit inside the corpse oil, as well as the information he had gathered, Negri was able to confirm what Marche had been planning during this period of time.
The Radical Organization and the Mud Organization. One of them demanded the rights of the Upper-Class, advocating the banishment or even killing of those Sediments who had obtained status, while the other was an organization formed by Sediments who had obtained status to protect their own rights.
Before, if Negri hadn't gotten rid of that identity, the Sludge Organization would have come knocking on his door and asked Negri to join them. Then, they would gradually turn Negri's business into the Sludge Organization's business, and Negri would instead become a manager of the company.
Due to the frequent conflicts between the two organizations, some people who didn't know better would think that the upper echelons of the two organizations had an unresolvable grudge against each other, but the two organizations were actually Marche's left and right hands.
These two organizations were the key to Marche's plan, the Artificial Evil God plan.
From Marche's point of view, part of the reason Archmage Stim was so powerful was because he had complete control over an Evil God.
It was impossible for Marche to capture and modify an Evil God, as he knew his own limits, but could he create an Evil God that was closely related to him?
It must be said that Marche was a man of his own ideas. After studying the information of both Evil Gods and Righteous Gods, he found that each God represented a certain thing.
Marche still didn't fully understand the concept of 'Path' and 'Principle', but he had found something from it, which was to replace the impression of certain things in people's minds.
Just like how Eternal Heat was the incarnation of the sun in people's eyes, Life Bearer was also the symbol of life.
And so, after a long period of planning, Marche prepared to create a bloodline incarnation.
He took control of the two organizations and intensified the conflict between the Upper-Class and the Sediments, at the same time deeply instilling the concept of bloodlines into both organizations. At the same time, both organizations gradually came up with their own theories.
The reason why the Upper-Class were naturally noble was due to their bloodline, while the reason why the Sediments were able to succeed was because some of the bloodline of the Upper-Class had flowed into their bodies.
For this reason, the Upper-Class wanted to kill the Sediments who obtained status and reclaim their bloodline, while the Sediments could also kill the Upper-Class and offer sacrifices to the God of Bloodlines to obtain the status of an Upper-Class.
This way, both the Upper-Class and the Sediments would believe that their success or failure was determined by their bloodline.
After that, through the use of a magic formation, every so often, the members of the radical organization and the Mud organization would be sacrificed, the target of which would be the non-existent God of Bloodlines.
After joining both organizations, each member would have to undergo a ritual to show that they had joined the organization, but in truth, this ritual was connected to the magic formation that Marche had set up.
The mana inside the magic formation would be influenced by the members of both organizations, their sacrifices and thoughts would gradually change the nature of the mana. Those who were influenced by this nature of mana would become stronger, smarter, and more likely to succeed.
In the end, this mana would become the so-called bloodline of the two organizations, which would then take root in the bodies of every member of the organization.
Due to the nature of the bloodline's inheritance, as the members of the two organizations spread out, more and more people related to the bloodline would be born, eventually creating a God of Bloodlines from nothing.
The blood crystal was a by-product of this so-called God creation process. Because the members of the organizations who were sacrificed didn't have a true Evil God, most of the energy from the sacrifice was wasted, leaving only the remaining energy to condense into these crystals.
Negri's evaluation of this process was that it was a good idea, but in reality, if someone like Marche who only saw the surface did it, it would only create a monster, far from being an Evil God.
Furthermore, the biggest possibility was that before the monster was created, it would be discovered by another Evil God or powerful entity, then devoured and stole the results of the process.
Furthermore, this God creation process had a huge weakness. In order to control the Evil God that would be born in the future, Marche desperately tried to connect himself to the magic formation. Every single member of the organization was related to this ritual, their sacrifices and influence caused a huge loophole in Marche's control over the ritual.
One of the sources of the corpse oil, the radical organization's member, was one of Marche's disciples. Aside from Marche's own son, Kalanci, and his former disciple, Cade, who was relatively good to him, all of his other disciples were experimental subjects.
That disciple was one of Marche's disciples, after becoming a part of the ritual, he discovered some of the ritual's secrets and betrayed Marche, cursing and killing him, becoming a corpse in the sewers.
All four corpses were discovered by Negri through his spirit sense. Two of the corpses had their mana extracted, some of their vital organs removed as well, but the person who killed them clearly didn't have a way to extract mana further, so they threw the half-processed corpses into the sewers. This was the common practice of low-level Mystics, which benefited Negri.
There was also one corpse that had been incinerated by magic, so it didn't die on the spot and escaped into the sewers. Together with the disciple who was cursed to death by Marche, there were a total of four corpses.
At first, Negri had only recorded this information, but there were many other similar information that Negri had recorded, so when the blood crystal was delivered to Negri, Negri, who had a general understanding of what Marche wanted to do, pushed for this current situation.
Ferd had used his spirit that had fused with Roger's soul to avoid the detection of Marche's magic formation, even disrupting its operation.
During normal times, Marche would still be able to deal with the disruption of the magic formation, but during the period of the mana tide, this would be fatal.
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