A Sorcerer’s Journey

Chapter 697: Chapter 697: Power Struggle

Over the years, Amrond and Isabelle have expanded the Isar Family’s enterprises significantly.

After the Heisota Sorcerer Academy was renamed, many Arcane Wizards chose to leave the new academy, among them many who joined the Blood Sail Alliance. Thanks to the founding connection of the Blood Sail Alliance, Amrond managed to recruit some Arcane Wizards as trusted aides for his endeavors.

After years of struggle within the Isar Family, Amrond has become an indispensable member of the family, managing its enterprises, and his feelings for Isabelle have remained unchanged, as if the silent love from their days as wizard apprentices was only yesterday.

"Green, it’s wonderful that you could come this time."

Just having settled into his seat, Amrond spoke these words, causing Green to look over in surprise.

"What’s going on?"

When Lord Isasar was present earlier, Amrond didn’t say a word, and it was Isabelle who accompanied him throughout. This is the plight of a ’live-in son-in-law,’ though Wizards themselves don’t care about such things.

"It’s a power struggle!"

Amrond shook his head, sighed, and said, "The family head has consciously started to seek successors from the family’s Wizards, gradually relinquishing power. Although I have accumulated some strength over the years, it is only at the basic level. Currently, I can’t compete with those few successors."

Saying this, Amrond looked expectantly at Green.

Power struggle!

Demon-Hunting Wizards have a strict operational system and hierarchy, so Green has not been involved in power struggles. Similarly, Demonic Hunter Dark Wizards assert themselves through personal power, emulating the Stigma Sorcerers and True Spirit Wizards of the Wizard World.

However, the internal Arcane Wizards of the family do not act this way.

To some, plotting and scheming are seen as a waste of precious time, but there are a few Wizards who are passionate about it and enjoy it tirelessly.

Similarly, this is behavior Green intensely dislikes!

Pursuing the Truth Mystery, exploring the rules of knowledge, and the joy of success after enduring long periods of tedious solitude should be the lifelong sources of motivation for Wizards. Scheming is truly detrimental to a Wizard’s growth.

Everyone understands this, but such schemes are also an indispensable part of the rules of the Wizard World, as Wizards ultimately operate within a framework of status and order. It’s impossible for them to act based solely on individual power everywhere; otherwise, how would they differ from the passively evolving beings of the Different World?

"What do you need my help with? I fear I won’t be able to stay here for too long."

After contemplating for a long time, Green eventually said this.

In the future, achieving Stigmata to establish a Sorcerer’s Tower will require forging alliances with other forces for investment and implementing interest binding. Green can’t abandon Amrond, whom he’s collaborated with on investments for a long time.

Moreover, Amrond holds control over the Blood Sail Alliance, which consists of many Arcane Wizards with rich experience in teaching wizard apprentices, forming a crucial foundation for Green’s ambitions of establishing a Wizard Academy.

Amrond’s eyes gleamed, as he excitedly and assuredly said, "It won’t take much of your time!"

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The Isar Family has forty-seven designated successors by Lord Isasar.

Among these forty-seven successors, based on their strength, connections, and relationships, they are generally divided into three levels.

The two most promising successors of the Isar Family are ranked in the first tier, holding unmatched advantages over other successors. These are the Eldest Young Master and the Third Young Master.

Next, twelve successors are ranked second-tier, holding control over various forces, connections, resources, or possessing immensely strong personal strength.

The remaining successors belong to the third tier. These successors can only manage some business for the family and conduct field inspections in Different Worlds. Although they are listed as successors, they hardly have the qualifications to compete with other successors for family power.

Amrond managed to elevate himself from a third-tier successor to the end of the second tier only after gathering a substantial number of Blood Sail Alliance Wizards. If he stabilizes his position, he can eventually secure a position as a family elder after the family head steps down in the future.

The forces that Amrond can mobilize now, besides him and Isabelle as Second-Level Wizards, include one Third-Level Arcane Wizard, six Second-Level Wizards, and over fifty First-Level Wizards, making a considerable force group.

However, even with this force, he is only at the bottom of the second-tier successors within the Isar Family.

"Among the two Third-Level Great Sorcerers supported by Mount Issabo, neither Elder Sha nor Elder Shadow are commonplace; both are Seventh-Ring Holy Tower Demon Hunter Wizards with formidable power. Because I support the Third Young Master’s faction, while Mount Issabo supports the Eldest Young Master’s faction, he began pressuring me about a month ago to relinquish my interests in a mine in the Different World. His offer isn’t even a tenth of my asking price!"

Amrond bit his teeth, filled with resentment, and said, "Today is the deadline set by Mount Issabo for negotiations. Elder Long isn’t at the family currently. I sent him to the Quadruple Ring Sacred Tower three months ago to discuss a cooperation with another family. This time, I hope you can help me during the negotiation to deter some of their excessive actions."

Elder Long is the only Third-Level Great Sorcerer Amrond supports.

"Understood."

In the sky, Green followed Amrond, with Isabelle and two other Second-Level Wizards accompanying them, preparing the negotiation contract, flying toward the palace where Mount Issabo was located in the distant horizon.

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The route to Mount Issabo’s administrative area was relatively long.

In a palace enveloped in bright Magic Lamp Light, Mount Issabo held foreign wine delivered by a maid, appearing slightly inebriated, with a flushed face, and he immediately pulled the maid into his arms, chuckling lowly as he glanced toward a Third-Level Great Sorcerer across from him, who resembled a small giant.

Standing over two meters tall, bald, with a face full of coarse black stubble and beard, his eyes wide like bells, and a body so round it resembled a sphere.

This Great Sorcerer, even when seated on the floor, exudes an indescribable oppressive aura, whose rough hands were busy shoving medium-rare, bloody meat into his mouth.

This was indeed a Legendary Knight!

Of course, a Legendary Knight who has trained his bloodline power to such an extent is no longer called a Knight in the Wizard World; he is now a Wizard.

"Heh heh heh heh, it will all depend on Elder Savage, Elder Sha, and Elder Shadow in a moment. Keep all that foreigner’s followers outside, I want to see if he’s got the nerve to refuse me today! Even if his Third-Level Great Sorcerer returned, what difference does it make with Elder Savage on our side?"

On either side of Mount Issabo, two Third-Level Medal of Honor Demon-Hunting Great Sorcerers sniggered quietly, casting glances of fanatic enthusiasm towards the newly joined Elder Savage!

Unlike these two who only wanted to earn some easy extra income away from the Holy Tower, this incredibly powerful "Legendary Knight" who came to the Wizard Continent from the Abyssal Deep is indeed a famously formidable Legendary Knight from the Abyss Knights Academy of Perseverance.

It’s utterly bewildering that he was able to channel bloodline witchcraft to such an extent through sheer perseverance!

To think, he was once just a regular human; a Legendary Knight of this caliber might be rarer than a Stigma Sorcerer in the Wizard Continent.

It’s unknown what means Mount Issabo used to successfully invite such a powerful Legendary Knight, even temporarily, to join his faction.

"Remember, the conditions you promised cover only three of my interventions."

After wiping the grease from around his mouth with a large hand, Elder Savage stood up with a valiant and composed expression. His eyes flickered with an aggressive amusement as he gazed outside the palace.

"Here they come!"

Crack, crack, crack,

As armor made of animal hide mixed with metal rustled, Elder Savage gestured with an empty hand, and a battle axe enshrouded in a bloody aura spiraled into his grasp from afar, landing with a "thud," frightening two maids nearby to sit on the ground, visibly shaken by Elder Savage’s intimidating presence.

Chuckling lowly, Elder Savage confidently strode out of the palace first, standing at over two meters tall, with arms folded at the entrance of the palace. His thick black stubble around his beard hinted at a wry smile at the corner of his mouth.

Feeling sober, Mount Issabo released the maid in his arms and signaled to Elder Shadow and Elder Sha with a glance, as several maids quickly tidied up banquet utensils. Wizards hastily approached with negotiation contract drafts in hand, preparing with urgency.

Two of the Third-Level Great Sorcerers performed an Elemental Teleport, also appearing at the palace entrance, ready to give Amrond and his party a discouraging welcome as soon as they arrived, keeping everyone beside Amrond outside the palace.

The three Great Sorcerers wore varying expressions of cold smiles, awaiting the slow approach of the flying Wizard team on the horizon. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to support it with recommendation votes and monthly tickets on ReadNovelFull.com. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m..)