Time to Move

More than ten years passed, Gremory is now 23 years old. All these years spent in the castle, his friends didn't want to talk with him anymore, not even Kiel. Nogand was still far away with the elves, and the Empire has become an enormous nightmare where only the stronger survive. 

The Blood Temple raised the roots all over the Empire, every village and town heard about it and gained the same privileges as a guild would have,  but it is much bigger than that now, being typical for many adventurers to join at some point. 

They could become strong by offering monsters and such creatures, but the first sacrifice had to be another human. That was the way of destroying their remaining humanity. Gremory absorbed everything alongside the Oracle during all these years, using only her current share of the dark energy to make the adepts stronger.