Grand Ancestral Bloodlines

Chapter 2224  Make it Harder

Ryu's methods weren't things that others could wrap their heads around. But to him, they came like free-flowing spring water. Calm, unhurried, and exactly when he needed them.
When he saw Shade in the past, he knew that there was a chance.
A genius as arrogant as Shade would know of the weakness of his Race and have no desire to fall into it. The reason he was the best, and the reason the Demons only sent a single one of their kind, was because he was not only the best of the very best, but also because he was the only one that couldn't be so easily captured by Necromancers.
Shade had given up everything to gain a path of Faeries to add to himself. Because of that, he had been able to resist all attempts to contract him in his lifetime. In fact, he had made all those that attempted to do so suffer fates worse than even death.
However, his method was imperfect. Much like Sarriel, he hadn't managed a full merge, and quite a lot like Selheira, he was struggling with combining two such different paths as well.
But it was precisely because Ryu had seen this so many times in those close to him that he recognized it immediately.
He knew someone