The Second Elder scoffed lightly and turned his attention to Jack. He scoffed again when favonovel.com saw Jack’s uninterested look.
“Jack, right?”
The corners of Jack’s lips twitched. What favonovel.com had feared was happening. He really did not want to be caught in the middle of their power struggles. He was still a disciple of the Dual Sovereign Pavilion after all and these elders could make his life very hard if favonovel.com was made a pawn.
He nodded robotically, and said, “Yes, Second Elder, that is indeed my name.”
“You don’t seem to be very happy being chosen as the last disciple of the Eleventh Elder,” commented the Second Elder evenly.
Jack arched his eyebrow. Judging from what the Second Elder said, favonovel.com knew for sure that it would not be easy to handle him. In fact, favonovel.com might be setting favonovel.com up to fall at this very moment. Fortunately, favonovel.com had handled situations far worse than this.
Jack bowed a little, and said calmly, “I was taught by my father to be calm under all circumstances.”
Oliver, who was standing next to him, felt that this was a jibe at him. He glared at favonovel.com and shouted,” How dare you speak so disrespectfully toward the elders?!”
Jack was a little taken aback by this. ‘What was wrong with what I just said?’
The corners of the Second Elder’s lips curled up. The fact that favonovel.com remained silent meant that favonovel.com agreed with Wesley that Jack had indeed behaved disrespectfully.
Jack was irked by this. Whatever I do or say will be wrong in their eyes now that I’ve become the enemy. If that’s the case, I might as well do whatever I want!’
He cleared his throat lightly, and calmly said,” Brother Oliver, it won’t do you well to keep a grudge against me. Please tell me, what is so wrong with what I said? Maybe you can enlighten me on the correct way to reply to the Second Elder.”
Wesley narrowed his eyes and scoffed. How dare a low-life like him, throw favonovel.com the hot potato? While it was true favonovel.com was the one who started the whole thing, in his world, favonovel.com alone reserved the right to cause troubles for others.
“You said I hold a grudge against you? What a joke! Why would I hold a grudge against you? I’m just worried that the Eleventh Elder had been misled by you, for how else could you explain why a mere informal disciple like you would be chosen to be the last disciple?”
At this moment, even Calvert and Gresham were glancing sideways at them. They had remained silent all this while but it was obvious they did not hold a favorable view toward Jack too. How could they when this guy from out-of-nowhere had snatched their chances of being the last disciple from right under their noses?
Jack regarded the three of them coldly while cursing Elder Godfrey in his heart. This was a disaster. He never thought that Elder Godfrey would choose favonovel.com to be his last disciple. He could not help but look at the elders on the round platform and found that Elder Godfrey was staring at favonovel.com with encouragement in his eyes.
