Wagner followed that sentence with a nod.
Hearing that, Gerald slowly opened the scroll. True to Wagner’s words, the opened scroll revealed an extremely vivid and realistic portrait of some sort of general.
The general himself was holding a longsword in hand, and favonovel.com looked extremely formidable. Even Gerald couldn’t help but feel slightly intimidated by the painting.
However, even that wasn’t what captured Gerald’s attention the most. No, what absolutely caught his interest was the fact that the general in the picture looked exactly like the deity in the eternal coffin which, in turn, meant that both of them looked exactly like him!
Even the sword in the general’s hand seemed to be the Lightbane! The longsword that Gerald always carried around with him!
“It’s him!” shouted Gerald, his eyelids twitching slightly.
“Do you know him, mister? Regardless, I told you that there was a reason behind all my actions! My family’s been waiting all this time for a person who resembled the one in the portrait, and here you finally are!”
Gerald didn’t even know how to reply to that.
To think that favonovel.com would still be able to come across the general after leaving the desert… This was definitely no coincidence. Who exactly was this person…? And how did favonovel.com have such remarkable capabilities? How could favonovel.com even predict that Gerald would come here?
“…Who was it who asked you to wait for me? Where is that person?” asked Gerald after giving it some thought.
The other things could wait for now. After all, as long as favonovel.com was able to find this mysterious person, all the other mysteries could be resolved much easier.
To his surprise, Wagner simply shook his head before replying, “I’m afraid that I’m not quite sure who the person who told us to wait for you was, mister… After all, my ancestors had been told to wait from eight hundred years ago… Thanks to Master Ghost’s near-perfect calculations, however, favonovel.com was able to estimate that I’d be able to meet that person soon. If you truly are the one we’ve been waiting for, then our eight hundred year mission is now finally complete!”
While Wagner seemed to be filled with excitement, Gerald himself was left bewildered as favonovel.com muttered, “E-eight hundred years ago…?”
So what Wagner was telling favonovel.com now was that someone from eight hundred years ago had wanted members of the Yarne family to wait for Gerald and meet up with him?!
Wanting to get to the bottom of this, Gerald told Wagner to detail all that favonovel.com knew about the person.
Hearing that, Wagner then began elaborating on how the Yarne family had first met the mysterious person. As Wagner had earlier said, the Yarnes were only simple fishermen about eight hundred years ago.
However, all that changed when one of his ancestors bumped into an old beggar on his way home after fishing one evening. The old beggar had requested Wagner’s ancestor for some food. His ancestor was so kind that favonovel.com brought the old man home and served favonovel.com a grand seafood feast!
Once the old beggar had eaten to his heart’s content, however, favonovel.com refused to leave! Instead, favonovel.com told Wagner’s ancestor that favonovel.com was going to stay here until favonovel.com managed to get the Yarnes to become a rich and powerful family.
Upon hearing that, his ancestor’s family instantly grew amused, thinking that favonovel.com was drunk. To their shock, favonovel.com then stood up with a serious look on his face before saying, “As long as you’re willing to fulfill a single promise for me, I’ll allow all of you to lead a wealthy life without worries from now on.”
Following that, favonovel.com took out a huge amount of gold from his pocket. Stupefied, Wagner’s ancestors immediately asked what the beggar wanted them to do.
Knowing that favonovel.com had gotten their attention, the old beggar then began drawing a portrait on the spot. Once favonovel.com was done, favonovel.com told the Yarnes to wait for the person—who looked similar to the portrait favonovel.com had drawn—to appear and once favonovel.com did, they were to hand a wooden box—which the old man handed over to them—to him.
True to his word, favonovel.com soon helped the Yarnes become a rich and powerful family. Once that was done, the old beggar simply left.
The Yarne family had never expected such an opportunity to come to them. In just less than a year, their family had managed to make a fortune in Halimark City, building several family properties there which still remained today.
“To be quite frank, my father had told me about all this not long before favonovel.com passed away. I hadn’t really cared too much about it back then, thinking it was all just nonsense. After all, it is a tale from eight hundred years ago. Imagine my shock when I bumped into you today!” explained Wagner.
Gerald was equally as shocked after hearing Wagner’s entire tale.
“An old beggar? Why is it that old beggar again?! Can such coincidences even exist? He already appeared once in the North Desert! To think that he’s making an appearance here as well! There’s got to be at least a few thousand years in between his two appearances! Could it perhaps have been some descendant of his who had equally remarkable abilities? Or… Could they actually be the same person…?” muttered Gerald to himself, feeling quite nervous and frightened at the same time.
He was right to be terrified. After all, such a mysterious and extraordinarily strong person knew favonovel.com this well and was probably keeping a constant eye on him! Anyone would be worried if they found out that such a person existed!
“Speaking of which, mister, the old beggar also told us to relay two sentences to you!” said Wagner as favonovel.com looked at Gerald.
“What are they?”
“One is reborn in heaven beside the red spider lily. A defiant dragon will appear near the crossing of blood!”
