Inside the Great Library.
Aaron closed Noble Writings and Royal Bloodline Genealogy, a thoughtful expression appearing on his face. "Interesting!"
Stryker considered this book rotten and antiquated... filled with records of useless things.
But if one studied it carefully and traced the nobles' tangled bloodlines, one would discover something very interesting.
"These duchies and kingdoms... not only are their rule extremely stable, but they intermarry with one another and even revere inbreeding... yet their thrones remain remarkably secure."
"Even... tracing it all the way back, every royal house and great noble family came from those few families... the entire Adersen Continent is like this."
"Even if there are occasional upheavals, within a few decades—never more than a century—order is immediately restored!"
"It is as though... an invisible giant hand periodically combs everything back into place..."
Aaron closed the ancient tome, anticipation in his eyes. "According to my estimates... the next cleansing will come sometime within the next one to five years..."
"So... it is time to pull myself out as well."
With that thought, he took a crystal vial from his robe, pulled out its stopper, and poured the crimson liquid inside straight into his mouth.
This was the latest Red Mountain Potion Aaron had concocted.
After consuming it, it would stimulate the mind and directly usher a demon hunter into the second stage of mutation!
Naturally, before this, he had made every kind of preparation, training his physical condition to its peak.
And he had deduced the meditation method most suited to himself.
When the potion entered his stomach, Aaron bent over slightly.
After becoming an official demon hunter, being tortured half to death by a dose of medicine and losing all composure was something that would never happen to him.
His lips trembled as his consciousness began to