The blue-white phantom of an ancestral orc took the form of an elderly, long-bearded orc. Even as a mere apparition, it still retained a measure of its former majesty!
This phantom was a mighty ancestor of the deceased Blackvein Clan. Orcs, throughout their generations of reproduction, also faced the problem of racial degeneration. Like dragons, their ancestral bloodlines were often the strongest, while the power of those bloodlines gradually weakened with successive generations.
However, beings with particularly strong bloodline talents were occasionally born. Individuals like Mogeluo Ga, who had become clan chief not through schemes but solely through their own strength, generally possessed distinctly atavistic bloodlines.
That was why Suoluoduo Redbone, who had risen to power by murdering the former clan chief and Prophet, was so despised.
After all, Suoluoduo Redbone was a Dark Troll, merely a branch descendant of the Redbone Clan. The atavistic bloodline within him was not particularly rich, and his rise to power had been built upon conspiracy.
A rich atavistic bloodline affected a Dark Orc's growth potential, but as everyone knew, bloodline inheritance was not the only source of power. Acquired growth was equally important.
Suoluoduo Redbone's strength came from acquired growth, as did Firelick Carlrig's.
But Heibuge Moblood and Mogeluo Ga Blackvein were undeniably the talented sort.
The ancestral bloodlines within them were rich enough to let them use atavistic secret arts, summoning phantoms of ancestral orcs through bloodline resonance.
At this moment, the ancestral phantom of a Black Sinew Orc summoned by Mogeluo Ga raised a hand and swatted the black nightmare apart!
Having suffered once already, Mogeluo Ga also employed the Dark Orcs' methods to counter it.
After the ancestral phantom effortlessly dispersed [Nightmare Slumber], a trace of surprise appeared on Archdemon Atolius's face. He then became somewhat more serious.
Ever since