Adele

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Adele Juste (艾黛尔)
Alias(es)	“Little Seven”; Seventh Sister
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Juste Family; No. 12 Golden Oak Street workshop
Occupation/Role	Juste Family succession candidate; later the family’s First Heir
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 266

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Mid-stage Rank Two Wizard	266, 272	Begins the succession struggle ranked seventh among ten heirs; she possesses no meaningful advantage in strength, resources, or allies.
Child of the Earth Vein	283	Awakens this bloodline through Ian’s Earth Tyrant Elixir, gaining greatly enhanced strength, resilience, earth-vein affinity, and resistance to external interference.
Ussa’s Form	284, 285	Learns to fuse her Time Scar bloodline with the Child of the Earth Vein trait. Her partial Ussa Avatar grants exceptional defense and physical force, allowing her to defeat three late-stage Rank Two magical beasts in succession.

Background

Adele is the daughter of Tito Juste, the comatose patriarch of the Juste Family. Her mother died early, leaving Adele without support from her maternal branch. When Tito fell into a deep coma from what was believed to be a bloodline curse, the family initiated a succession contest; Adele stood seventh among ten heirs and faced marginalization—or death—if she failed. Her elder brothers Edwin and Adrian were openly hostile to her position 266 272.

Before returning to East City, Adele risked her life to obtain an Ice-Soul Jellyfish tentacle intended to treat her father. She returned too late to use it: Tito had already fallen into a coma 266.

To survive the succession struggle, Adele approached Ian Marcus with an offer. In exchange for helping her secure the family head position, she promised to use her eventual authority to obtain a fragment of Eternal Shadow from the Juste Family vault for Gaga’s advancement 266. Ian later registered as her retainer and took residence in her late mother’s potion workshop on Golden Oak Street 274 275.

Appearance

Adele is a delicately featured young woman who maintains a restrained, formal presentation even under pressure.

• Wears formal dark teal robes during her return to the Juste Family estate 275.
• Later favors dark-purple wizard robes embroidered with silver Time Scar patterns 301 305.
• Keeps her hair neatly tied back 275.
• Has deep blue-green or teal eyes; silver Time Scar patterns and dark-golden earth-vein veins appear in them when she mobilizes her bloodline power 292 293.
• Her Child of the Earth Vein defense manifests as dark-golden patterns flowing beneath her skin 285.

Personality

Adele is composed, self-controlled, and difficult to intimidate. Even while ranked near the bottom of the succession order and lacking support, she refuses to beg for protection or allow her relatives’ contempt to dictate her actions 266 276.

Her determination is paired with practical resourcefulness. She exhausts her remaining connections and savings to gather potion materials, turns Ian’s work into a successful public showcase, and steadily converts her family’s old favors into an intelligence network and core team 278 290.

As her power grows, Adele becomes increasingly decisive and ruthless toward those threatening her allies. After Delia is attacked, she leads her team against the ambush and resolves to reclaim the patriarch’s position held by her father 292 293. Despite this ambition, her concern for Tito, Delia, and Ian remains a major motivation behind her actions 297 312 328.

Abilities & Skills

Time Scar Bloodline

Adele is a bearer of the Juste Family’s ancestral Time Scar bloodline, a hereditary advantage tied to the family’s Morning Star lineage 272.

• Silver Time Scar patterns appear on her clothing and in her eyes when her bloodline is active 301 305.
• The trait successfully fuses with her Child of the Earth Vein bloodline during her arena assessment 285.
• Its specific innate techniques are not detailed in the available material.

Child of the Earth Vein

Adele awakens the Child of the Earth Vein trait by consuming the Earth Tyrant Elixir near an earth-vein guidance array 283.

• Permanently raises her physical strength to the standard of a late-stage Second Order body-refining wizard 282.
• Gives her bones the toughness of a Second Order Extraordinary Creature 282.
• Lets her sense and connect with earth veins for scouting and danger avoidance 282 283.
• Produces a natural defensive layer capable of withstanding lightning-enhanced attacks from a Thunder-marked Berserk Ape with minimal injury 285.
• Counters low-level external guidance effects, including the Hatred Guidance Arrays used to rig her beast-arena assessment 284.

Ussa’s Form

Ussa’s Form is the active ability granted by the Earth Tyrant Elixir 282.

• Allows Adele to partially manifest an Ussa Avatar in combat 284.
• Enhances her strength, defense, and control over her fused bloodlines 285.
• Enables her to defeat three late-stage Rank Two magical beasts in consecutive arena battles, despite the beasts being stimulated and manipulated to target her 284 285.
• She can physically overpower opponents such as the Thunder-marked Berserk Ape, lifting and slamming the four-meter creature after enduring its lightning-charged strike 285.

Leadership and Political Strategy

Adele builds influence through careful use of resources, alliances, and family law.

• Uses Ian’s First Order Bloodline Potions to cultivate fifty strategically placed personnel into an intelligence network 290.
• Reassembles the core foundation left by her parents, including Neisenge and several Rank Two wizards 290.
• Presents evidence of Edmond’s Abyssal contamination and role in her father’s condition, leading to Edmond’s removal as heir and her receipt of Level Three family authority 304.
• Secures compensation and a twenty-year reduction in Hawkwood trade fees after confronting the Hawkwood Family over Collins’ attempted assassination of Ian 327.

Relationships

• Ian Marcus — Her retainer, potion-making partner, and key ally in the succession struggle. Their arrangement begins as a calculated transaction, but develops into substantial mutual trust and support 266 282 328.
• Tito Juste — Her father and the comatose Juste patriarch. Adele’s efforts to gain power and develop purification potions are driven largely by her determination to save him 266 297 312.
• Delia — Adele’s close attendant and loyal supporter. Delia assists with Adele’s potion sales, supports her through the succession conflict, and is personally avenged after an ambush 275 278 292 293.
• Neisenge — Her father’s former personal guard and a mid-stage Rank Two body-refining wizard. He becomes the central military figure of Adele’s core team 290.
• Aishia Juste — Adele’s fifth sister and a Potion Master. They establish a limited alliance through a blood contract, though Adele remains cautious of Aishia’s motives 279.
• Edmond Juste — Her eldest brother and former first heir. Adele exposes his Abyssal contamination and connection to the threat against their father, resulting in his removal and imprisonment 304 305.
• Edwin Juste — Her second brother and an early rival who allied with Adrian against her. He later withdraws from the succession contest in exchange for trade-route management rights 276 327.
• Adrian Juste — Her third brother and a hostile succession rival who cooperates with Edwin and attempts to undermine her faction 290 294.
• Old Finn — Caretaker of Adele’s late mother’s workshop. Initially wary of Ian, he becomes a cooperative supporter after witnessing Ian’s potion-making skill 274 277.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Juste Family Succession

Adele returns to East City with Ian and registers him as her retainer despite the contempt of other heirs and family officials 275 276. She stakes her remaining resources on Ian’s potions, gathering high-quality materials through her connections and savings 278.

Her first public success comes at the family resource exchange, where she sells all 195 enhanced Starlight Potions and 42 First Order Rock Bear Potions produced by Ian. The sale establishes her as the patron of a highly capable Potion Master and makes her a serious political target 278.

Beast Arena Assessment

Faced with a mandatory assessment against three late-stage Rank Two magical beasts, Adele obtains thirty-seven Star Crystals and consumes the Earth Tyrant Elixir 280 283. Her opponents are secretly enhanced with stimulants and directed toward her by a Hatred Guidance Array, but the Child of the Earth Vein trait counters the interference 284.

Adele defeats all three beasts, including a Blazing Fang Flame Bear, Thunder-marked Berserk Ape, and Shadow Demon Wolf. The final battle allows her Time Scar and earth-vein bloodlines to integrate more deeply 284 285.

Building a Faction

Following the assessment, Adele assembles a core group led by Neisenge and begins activating fifty carefully selected people across the Juste Family’s warehouses, workshops, patrols, and other key positions 290.

When Delia is attacked by nine Rank Two wizards, Adele personally joins the counterattack. Her group kills or defeats most of the ambushers, while the surviving leaders escape using artifacts 292.

Exposure of Edmond

Adele works with Ian to investigate the contamination afflicting Tito. She supplies family records, restricted materials, and a secure laboratory while directing Neisenge’s investigation into the Rose Merchant Guild and Black Crow Alchemy 297 302.

At a family gathering, Adele presents evidence linking Edmond’s contamination to the same Abyssal source affecting Tito. The elders strip Edmond of his heir status and grant Adele Level Three authority, including control over his assets and the mandate to purge his properties 304.

Rise to First Heir

Adele handles the punishment of corrupt personnel who interfered with Ian’s retainer review, choosing exile over execution for the principal offenders 327. She then confronts the Hawkwood Family and obtains compensation for Ian, the exposure of Hawkwood agents within Juste territory, and a twenty-year trade-fee reduction 327.

Her successful negotiations secure the elders’ support and establish her authority as the Juste Family’s First Heir. Edwin subsequently withdraws from the succession contest, leaving Adele as the family’s sole heir 327.

Administration of the Juste Family

After attaining First Heir status, Adele continues to protect Ian’s position within the family and helps secure his access to higher-level resources after he becomes a Third-Level Wizard 328. She later oversees an expanding commercial network, reporting quarterly net profits of 820,000 magic crystals, a fifty-person Potion Master team, and monthly production exceeding one hundred third-tier bloodline potions 408.

Notable Quotes

“I, Adele Juste, am no longer the Seventh Order candidate whom others can manipulate at will.” 293

“I have fangs, and I have the confidence... to tear apart every enemy and reclaim the patriarch's position that belonged to my father.” 293

“I will... walk this road to its end and sweep aside every obstacle.” 294