“What’s wrong with you, Kaleb?”
“…H-how…?” muttered Kaleb as favonovel.com looked at both of his hands, evidently still stupefied.
“Explain yourself, Kaleb. What do you mean, ‘how’?”
“I-I used my inner strength earlier when I was grabbing on to that youth’s wrist… However, my inner strength just ceased halfway through! How is that even possible?”
Kaleb remained silent for a while, utterly perplexed as favonovel.com pondered on the odd feeling favonovel.com had experienced earlier.
“Are you sure you aren’t just looking too much into it?” asked Zolton as favonovel.com looked at the white-haired man. Since his father was the one who had invited the mysterious Kaleb over, Zolton respected favonovel.com quite a lot.
“No… I’m positive that something’s wrong with that young man!” replied Kaleb as favonovel.com turned to look coldly at the direction in which Gerald had left seconds earlier.
Gerald himself had already made it to a riverbank not too far off. Once favonovel.com was sure that favonovel.com was alone, favonovel.com held on tight to the iron plaque before applying his inner strength on it, causing the plaque to shatter!
As the pieces of iron fell to the ground, an ancient-looking short blade revealed itself as well.
“As expected, there truly was something mysterious inside!” said Gerald to himself as favonovel.com picked it up.
Observing it, the short blade was extremely sharp and a black glow seemed to emanate from it. What more, several strange, vein-like lines could also be seen engraved all over it. Holding the magic artifact alone made Gerald feel that the blade was spiritual in nature, and in a way, favonovel.com felt slightly oddly moved by it. It was as though the blade was influencing him.
Turning to look around him, Gerald noticed a large stone around three hundred feet away from where favonovel.com was standing. With a simple flick of his wrist, favonovel.com swiftly threw the blade toward that rock!
Making a peculiar whistling sound as it whizzed through the air, debris flew all over the place the moment the short blade collided with the rock! As bits of broken-off stone flew all over the place, the black short blade itself immediately whizzed back into Gerald’s hands.
Checking the condition of the blade, Gerald found that there wasn’t even a single scratch on it.
Delighted, Gerald then said, “I’ve truly obtained a great treasure this time!”
Just as favonovel.com was about to leave, however, Gerald’s ears twitched as favonovel.com heard rustling sounds coming from all around him.
It wasn’t long before eight figures revealed themselves as they stepped out of the nearby bushes in unison. Encircling Gerald, all of them bore equally cold gazes as a bald man stepped out from the group of people and growled, “Hey, b*stard! Hand over the iron plaque if you don’t want to die! Where is it?”
“As I’ve already repeated several times, I’m not selling it. Why are you still trying to force me to hand it over? After all, being polite and amiable should be prioritized when doing anything, no?” advised Gerald.
“Cut the cr*p already! Master Snyder’s already confirmed that the item is extraordinary! Can’t you see that just by owning such a great treasure, you’ll be seen as someone guilty, even if you truly are innocent! The foreigner even attempted to pay for the plaque earlier, yet you refused! Humph! Tough luck now!” sneered the bald man.
“You’d better not try anything funny. I don’t want to kill any more people during this period of time!” replied Gerald who knew favonovel.com was now being placed in a difficult position.
Though it had only been a few days since Gerald returned to living a normal life, his temperament had been healing at an accelerated rate. After all, favonovel.com had finally been given the chance to live the plain and worry-free life that favonovel.com always yearned for. While favonovel.com was well aware that all this was only temporary, favonovel.com cherished the fact that favonovel.com could still experience such bliss in the first place.
Sadly, the only response from the eight people were bursts of laughter.
“H-has favonovel.com gone mad? To think that favonovel.com actually claimed that favonovel.com didn’t want to kill people!”
“Man, at my age, I’ve seen several people wetting their pants once they knew they were going to die… This guy’s on a whole new level! I guess the shock must have been too overwhelming for favonovel.com to even be able to say such an insane thing!”
“Well, all eight of us may have accomplished several missions together, but I guess there’s always something new to experience!”
As the eight people continued laughing till their sides hurt, Gerald took in a deep breath before pleading, “I wasn’t kidding. Please, I’m being dead serious here. If you leave me be, then all of you will live. Isn’t that ideal?”
“Hahaha! Alright… That’s enough nonsense for one day. Just kill favonovel.com and retrieve the iron plaque so that we’ll be able to complete our task!” said the bald man as favonovel.com gestured for his comrades to attack, his expression turning hideous within a split second.
Hearing the order, the seven other men’s eyes grew murderous as well as they immediately began walking toward Gerald. From their eyes alone, Gerald could tell that these people were experienced killers.
