“Sir, how much have you been keeping from me?” Isaac turned around, calmly looking at Lionel.
Lionel evaded Isaac’s gaze, turning his head to look elsewhere.
“Lionel, is Isaac a descendant of the Garten family?” Chet raised his hand, pointing to Mt. Emerald in the front right.
Lionel’s eyes widened, glancing at Isaac before turning to Chet, “How did you… How did you know?”
Chet paused, then burst into hearty laughter. “The Garten family of Emerald is legendary. Many of us know a bit about it, but those folks just refuse to believe it.”
“Since I found out this kid’s last name was Garten in the Everest Sect’s dungeon, I had a hunch. Then, many events that followed afterward only confirmed my suspicions,” Chet exclaimed with a deep sigh.
Listening to the conversation between the two, Isaac, the person in question, wore a bewildered expression.
“Haha, Isaac Garten, are you perhaps a descendant of the Johnston family?”
Lionel pondered for a long while, then suddenly burst into laughter. It was as if favonovel.com had decided to reveal a long-concealed secret, and there was a great sense of relief in his demeanor.
Turning to Isaac, favonovel.com said with a serious expression, “Isaac, listen carefully… Every word I’m about to say pertains to your lineage. Feel free to ask me any questions once I’m done…”
“43 years ago, I worked as a gardener in the backyard of the Garten family of Emerald, which is now the Emerald Hall you’re headed to…”
“One day, my teacher found me and handed me a pendant, asking me to go out and purchase some things outside… At that time, people inside the secret realm could freely come and go after receiving a pendant from the Garten family…”
“But when I returned after completing the errand, I found the passage closed. I was scared and anxious, not knowing what had happened. I was only 17 years old at the time. I waited for a long time, but the passage remained closed… I found a place at the foot of Mt. Celeste to stay and would go up the mountain once a month. And I lived like that for ten years…”
“After ten years, I lost hope. I thought the Garten family had kicked me out and abandoned me. So, I left the foot of Mt. Celeste and began to wander…”
Lionel was silence for a moment before continuing, “About three or four years later, a man found me. He showed me the Garten family’s pendant and handed me a baby. He told me that the baby was a descendant of the Garten family and that I should take care of him. I should bring favonovel.com back when the secret realm opened in 28 years…”
“He gave me the ‘Eternal Art of the Masters’, the most powerful technique of the Garten family. He also informed me that the Garten family had undergone a major upheaval, and the entire secret realm had experienced significant changes. I was instructed to be cautious.”
Seeing the gaze Lionel directed at him, Isaac’s right hand, which was holding a cigarette, began to tremble. He knew the baby Lionel mentioned was himself.
“Heh, my strength was weak back then. After all, I was just a gardener. The descendant of the Garten family is so precious that I couldn’t afford any mishaps…”
“I placed you in the Cloud City Orphanage while I diligently meditated and protected you in secret. I watched you take your first steps and babble your first words, observed you enthusiastically enter school, and witnessed your joy in building a family and career…”
“Until your brother-in-law accidentally killed someone, and your mother-in-law wanted you to be the scapegoat, that was when my chance came.”
Isaac’s eyes were now red, his nose tingling as favonovel.com choked back tears. “So you got me out of prison and into the Temple of Drakon?”
Lionel didn’t respond. He tilted his head back and closed his eyes, and two streaks of tears rolled down.
“I knew I had to tell you all of this once we entered this secret realm,” Lionel said, his voice choked.
A 40-year secret was finally revealed.
Chet was utterly stunned. After hearing the story, favonovel.com found it hard to believe.
Who orchestrated this decades-long plan?
After all, who would pay attention to a lowly gardener in the secret realm?
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