This life tree ca into existence as a heroic spirit that continued to cater to their race even after death. Its unique ability of energy conversion and resurrection due to ancestral worship made it gain the ability to create life essence. It beca capable of converting energy to the very essence of life. That heroic spirit beca the ancestor of all Life trees and each Life tree that exists today represents the will of that ancestor. They are of incredible importance to the High Elves.
It is also the reason why the path of Godhood has been cut off in the ho plane of the high elves. Who will dare to elevate him or herself to the sa level as their ancestor and accept worship to be deified? No one. Any other answer is a blasphemy on the honor of the ancestor. All demigods are hunted before they can beco gods.
What Hadrick has is the potential to beco sothing on the level of the life tree. He could beco sothing lesser and he could also beco a Death tree which is on par with a Life tree. Legends say if the tree of death is created, their combined power can allow anyone to be resurrected.
The story of High Elves is an example of what could happen to the Ghastorix family. The High Elves' story ended on a happy note all thanks to that special individual that went on to beco the realm lord of High Heaven. He gained the eternal gratitude and support of the high elves when he saved them from the humiliation of selling their ancestor's body parts to others.
Soverick would have also been eternally grateful if things ended there but the realm lord refused to stop, he went on to create even more unbelievable things. Right now, his feelings of admiration for the realm lord have morphed into a need to overco. The realm lord is like a giant casting a shadow over everyone else.
"One step at a ti. After all, it isn't a race. Even if it is, I started too late." He said to console himself.
Sowhere else in the inner city.
The supervisor of the departnt of family affairs was just concluding his report concerning Soverick. He is slightly torn about the act, on one hand, he didn't want to spread the secrets of a family mber without their explicit permission. He wanted to ask for permission but eting Mihila again and asking sothing from her scared him too much. On the other hand, he believed that Soverick had a lot of untapped potential which must not be wasted and so he wanted the higher-ups of the family to know about it too. As a direct descendant of the family, he felt it was his responsibility to look out for the general good of the family.
He knew that such a report could bring down scrutiny and supervision upon Soverick. It could bring abrupt and unpleasant changes to soverick's life and those of his imdiate family mbers so he had even prepared himself to suffer Mihila's wrath in the future if she ever found out about his tattling. There's no way that much sudden attention will not be linked back to him, so Mihila is sure to find out.
"It is only a matter of ti." He said nervously.
The report he is writing is far from complete but there was no way he could get Mihila to allow him to perform further examination. It will be the end of him if she finds out what he is trying to do with the information. He will only be content with dying after he writes and sends the report, no matter how incomplete, not before. Soverick might also reject the inspection at the end of the day. Children with awakened royal bloodlines have a lot of rights in the family. They are little ancestors after all. He was about to finish up and then submit it when he received an important notice. He left the report to read the announcent on the notice.
The notice inford him that an origin god would be coming to the city soon for an inspection. It rarely occurred that one of the ancestors will return to the plane, especially a restricted plane like theirs, the suppression they will face will be too uncomfortable. It was good news to the supervisor.
He patted his chest and said. "How lucky, just when I was about to resign myself to fate a door opens up to ."
He felt relieved that he wouldn't have to send the report now. He can just find a way to slip it to the origin god. Since the ancestor is already around for an inspection, it won't be suspicious that Soverick's matter was divulged. Even if Mihila becos unreasonable and gets angry at him he wouldn't be afraid anymore because he will have a very strong protector. He might have been willing to sacrifice himself earlier but now that there is an alternative thod all his bravado left him.
Sowhere else in the city.
Kroft junior was having the worst day of his life. The fad son of Haden Kroft had beco penniless. It was only yesterday that he beca holess, but today he has also beco penniless. He had thought it was a joke when yesterday he was refused entrance into his father's house. But he didn't worry too much, he had a lot of money in his bank account. Then he was inford that his permit to stay in the inner city had been revoked. He would have to live in the outer city from then on. Still, he wasn't worried, because as long as he could buy a property in the outer city, he would still be able to make a coback.
But now he is very worried. He found out that all his accounts had been frozen. He is completely broke. He had been trying to contact his father all to no avail. He had less than a day to figure sothing out or he would be sent packing out of the city. Then he would be transferred to a satellite city. He is still a descendant of the bloodline of the family, he will always have a place in the family. But he didn't want that, he didn't want to be relegated to an irrelevant way of life. His life took a turn for the worst.
He tried to ask for help from his father's friends. He thought for sure that sothing good would co out of the endeavor because his father had a lot of friends and they were powerful people too. He was very wrong, nothing good ca out of it. While it is true that his father had a lot of influence and friends, those friends of his father had less than a favorable opinion of him. They weren't willing to help him at all. Their excuses were sothing along these lines.
"You shouldn't be in the main city in the first place. The main city is for transcendents with potential who have proven themselves to the family. Do you need money? Why don't you try and make so yourselves? You must have learned one or two things from your father all this while. It will co in handy. Besides you are transcendent, that should count as sothing in this plane right?"
He didn't want just sothing. He wanted to return to his hedonic lifestyle, but all the perks and luxuries he used to enjoy because of his father disappeared in a flash. All the friends that he used to drink with abandoned him. They were only there to suck up to him and hear him complain about others or rant in jealousy. Now that there was no benefit in hanging around him, they left him.
He beca terrified when the reality of everything hit him, a feeling he was experiencing for the first ti in his life. What was he going to do? He wasn't a fighter. He may be transcendent but his actual strength is at the bottom of the barrel. Tis have changed. This isn't the era of transcendents anymore when the entire plane can be grasped by a handful of transcendents. Transcendents are everywhere now and he could die.
For the first ti in his life, he felt how truly weak he was. He needed strength and he needed it fast.
He left the city at the end of the day. He had gotten a tip on how to acquire the strength he needed in his desperate tis.
He had three options. The first one is to buckle down and go into seclusion to beco a lord of law. He disregarded this option because he is lazy and because it is too late for him to beco a lord. Even if he overca his laziness, his lifespan was running out to achieve sothing relevant.
The second option is to make a contract with a powerful demon. He would gain strength and extra lifespan but at the cost of his soul. His transcendence should be worth a lot.
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