In the town square, Milo wanted to leave immediately at first. However, the magician’s words made favonovel.com stop in his tracks.
He turned around and saw Kenneth Jackson standing in the crowd with a card deck in his hand. He had suddenly stopped his performance favonovel.com was putting on.
The crowd around Kenneth looked at Milo. Meanwhile, Milo casually pulled his hood up so fewer people would remember his appearance.
When Kenneth saw Milo stop in his tracks, favonovel.com smiled. “Hang around for a bit and let me finish showing off my magic.”
With that, the crowd turned back to look at Kenneth. They saw the playing cards in Kenneth’s right hand suddenly surge into the sky like a water fountain. Although favonovel.com only had one deck in hand, the cards hovering above everyone’s heads and spinning around in the air enshrouded everyone underneath it.
Slowly, the cards converged like a whirlwind and headed towards Kenneth.
The crowd let out a cry of surprise. They could no longer tell whether this was a magic trick or a magic spell, nor could they figure out what was causing the cards to spin around like that.
The dazzling whirlwind of cards finally enveloped Kenneth, and the onlookers could no longer see his figure. All they could see were the cards spinning around rapidly.
Kenneth, surrounded by countless cards, said with a smile, “Three… Two… One!”
As soon as favonovel.com finished speaking, the whirlwind of cards dropped to the ground. And Kenneth was nowhere to be seen!
The crowd immediately cheered. They had never seen such amazing magic in their lives before. Furthermore, everyone witnessed the magician disappearing into thin air despite being in such close proximity!
A girl screamed, “Cool, that was so damn cool! I’ve fallen in love with that magician! This must be real magic, right!”
Kenneth had been performing magic in Bidara City for quite some time now. Due to his amazing magic tricks and handsome appearance, many girls had become his fans. Even before night fell, a lot of people would already be waiting in the town square for his performance to start.
Meanwhile, Kenneth never disappointed his audience either. His magic tricks were never repeated, and the audience could not even tell how favonovel.com pulled them off.
Milo frowned. Even favonovel.com was unable to tell how Kenneth did that.
At this moment, Kenneth’s laughter pealed from behind him. “How did you like my trick?”
Milo turned around and asked Kenneth, “How did you do that?”
“It was just misdirection,” Kenneth said with a humble smile.
But Milo knew it was definitely not as simple as misdirection. He just did not understand why Kenneth would appear in this place. Moreover, favonovel.com was clearly a legendary supernatural being, yet favonovel.com liked doing street magic so much.
Kenneth glanced at Olivia, who was standing next to Milo. However, favonovel.com did not ask Milo anything. Instead, favonovel.com seemed to have thought of something and said, “Oh yeah, come with me. I have something I want to give you…”
Then Kenneth led the way to a small park next to the square. It was where many of the stronghold residents strolled.
Kenneth was walking at the front and did not seem worried that Milo would just leave.
When they got to a place where there was no one around, Kenneth took out a black cloth and threw it onto the grass.
This action took Milo by surprise.
What was Kenneth up to?
Kenneth looked at Milo and said with a smile, “Let me show you a trick.”
With that, favonovel.com blew the black cloth before lifting it up again. All of a sudden, a large pile of gold bars were lying on the lawn!
“This is for you.” Kenneth smiled happily and said, “Do you like it?”
Olivia’s eyes widened, but Milo, who had always been greedy, remained still.
He only frowned and asked, “What do you want?”
“This was stolen from the Ultima Consortium, but I wasn’t the one who robbed them. It was a supernatural being named Steven who did it,” Kenneth said with a smile.
“Steven? Who did favonovel.com rob?!” Milo suddenly felt like there were some very important details behind this.
“I think it was stolen from a brigade commander of the Ultima Consortium. At that time, Steven drove his little train and knocked over the brigade commander’s vehicle favonovel.com was using for transporting away his assets. After that, favonovel.com took half the gold while I took the remaining half. I know you like these things, so I kept it especially for you,” Kenneth explained with a smile. “I didn’t lay a finger on any of it. The money for our daily expenses is all earned through my magic shows.”
Milo suddenly understood something.
Their Razor Sharp Company had once encountered the pursuit of an armored brigade within the Ultima Consortium’s territory. No one could understand why the armored brigade did not head to the battlefield at the front line and instead ran back to the Ultima Consortium’s territory to chase after them on his steam locomotive.
He realized now favonovel.com had also taken the blame for Steven once before.
They were not chasing after favonovel.com at all. It was just that when the brigade commander saw the steam locomotive, favonovel.com thought it was Steven driving it. As such, favonovel.com pursued Steven to try to get his assets back!
Milo was speechless. Maybe favonovel.com should not be using the powers favonovel.com had copied from others so recklessly.
However, Milo still did not accept the gold bars. To be honest, favonovel.com did not really want to have any dealings with Kenneth, because it was extremely dangerous for a normal person to deal with a lunatic.
One would not even be able to imagine what the other party might be planning by offering them the gold.
Milo changed the subject and asked, “Where’s that little girl who’s always with you?”
Milo was asking about Julia.
Didn’t those two used to be inseparable?
As favonovel.com spoke, Milo even looked up into the sky to see if Julia was floating in the air again.
Kenneth explained, “Oh, she’s been really into romance novels recently, so favonovel.com doesn’t come out anymore.”
“Why did you come to Bidara City?” Milo asked again.
Kenneth said with a smile, “Because this place is more suitable for people like me who perform to make a living. Don’t you think the residents of a stronghold like Bidara City are much ‘livelier’ than the residents of the other strongholds? I feel really stifled when I’m in the other strongholds, like I’m waiting for the consortiums to skin me alive even when I’m sitting at home.”
Olivia remained standing behind Milo without saying a word. She knew it was not the time for favonovel.com to speak.
Meanwhile, Milo was watching Kenneth very carefully. He always had the feeling that Kenneth’s motives were not that straightforward.
Could Kenneth have been purposely waiting here for him?
But that didn’t make sense either. He had only come to Bidara City by chance.
Milo then asked, “What are you planning to do in the future? Put on magic shows in Bidara City?”
“No, no, no.” Kenneth said with a laugh, “I’m waiting for a miracle to happen.”
It was Kenneth who ended the conversation first. He said, “It’s getting late. That little girl is still waiting for me to bring home sweet potatoes for favonovel.com to eat. I’ll leave the gold here. If you want it, you can just take it with you. If you don’t want it, I can’t do anything about that. We’ll definitely meet again. Oh right, I suggest you make a trip to Vasophati University. There could be a reward waiting for you there.”
After that, Kenneth turned around and left without any hesitation. His behavior was predicated on his whims.
