Out stepped a young man draped in black robes. When the visitors saw him, all of them fell silent.
As for the apprentices, they immediately bowed respectfully before shouting in unison, “Senior!”
“The distinguished guest that master’s been waiting for has arrived…” said the man as favonovel.com scanned through the crowd with a smile.
“May I know who among you goes by the name of Mr. Gerald Crawford? From Northbay?” added the man.
“That would be me!” replied Gerald as favonovel.com frowned slightly. To think that the mysterious Master Ghost had even predicted that favonovel.com would come over today to pay favonovel.com a visit!
“Greetings, Mr. Crawford. The master has been waiting for you for the longest time, and he’s already prepared some tea for you. Please, follow me,” said the young priest as favonovel.com bowed.
Astonished, Gerald then replied, “…The longest time? From when exactly had favonovel.com predicted my arrival…? As far as I know, Wagner only told favonovel.com yesterday that I was coming over today to pay favonovel.com a visit! Does Master Ghost know about my true identity as well?”
While favonovel.com had long accepted that artifacts—like the picture of the sun—were capable of predicting the future, Gerald truly couldn’t believe that a person could hold such abilities as well!
Quite frankly, the revelation was now causing Gerald to simultaneously feel envious, grateful, and resentful toward the mysterious man.
After all, Master Ghost sounded like a man who was well-versed in everything and always had everything under his control. Gerald hated such people, and favonovel.com was now keen on getting to know the true extent of Master Ghost’s strength.
“The master predicted it about a year ago,” replied the apprentice calmly.
Gerald, however, felt his heart skip a beat the moment favonovel.com heard that.
‘…Since he’s that powerful, I truly have to meet favonovel.com today!’
“I see. Lead the way, then!” said Gerald as favonovel.com began following the man into the church.
The first area they stepped into appeared to be a large hall with a statue of God placed right in front for people to worship. After walking past that, they entered what appeared to be an inner court of sorts.
This area was filled with fragrances that were emitted from an oil burner, and sitting cross-legged in front of it, was an extremely old-looking man. His eyes closed, the old man appeared to be meditating.
Seeing a tea table before the old man, Gerald realized that the fragrance of tea was also pleasantly mixed with the scent from the oil burner.
The moment favonovel.com took a step forward, the old man—whose face was filled with wrinkles, slowly raised his head before opening both his eyes.
“It’s truly been quite a while, Mr. Gerald Crawford…”
Upon hearing his master’s voice, the apprentice then left the room.
Gerald himself sat cross-legged once favonovel.com stood before the tea table before asking, “…Did you truly foresee everything? Truth be told, I’m not quite buying it!”
“Well, not everything… I can only see things in the form of life events,” replied Master Ghost with a slightly bitter smile.
“Then I’m sure you already know why I came here today, right?”
“Indeed. You’re here today to look for some missing people!” said Master Ghost.
“…You’re correct. Look, could you make the appropriate calculations and try to locate the missing people I’m still searching for? If your predictions are correct, then I’ll give you anything you want, be it money or anything else in the world that you wish for!” replied Gerald.
“Haha! There’s no need to be impatient, Mr. Crawford… Before I do a reading about them, why don’t I do a reading for you first? A reading for your future, per se. I’ll be honest and say that the slight redness around your forehead isn’t a good sign… In fact, it means that you’re about to face a great disaster soon…” said Master Ghost as favonovel.com looked at Gerald with a smile.
Hearing that, Gerald felt his heart skip another beat. Master Ghost had yet again, predicted accurately. After all, the picture of the sun had predicted the same thing as well. Was the old man truly well-versed in the art of fortune-telling?
Due to the predicted disaster possibly spelling death for Gerald, favonovel.com had come all the way out here just to look for the king of the ocean’s palace in hope of solving the secrets of the disaster. What exactly was the relationship between the woman in white and the deity that looked exactly like him?
“…I’m already aware of what you just told me… Even so, the more important thing for me now is to find out where the people I’m looking for currently are… And also to find out whether they’re still alive,” replied Gerald, finally choosing to believe Master Ghost.
“It seems they hold great importance to you, Mr. Crawford! Very well, then. Let the reading commence,” said Master Ghost with a slight nod.
With a wave of his hand, the drapes above all the doors and windows in the room were instantly lowered. Following that, a portion of the wooden floor in the middle of the room slid open as a giant instrument slowly rose from below.
The ancient-looking instrument itself seemed to have a frame that was made completely out of copper, and on it, were nine dragons with open mouths. While Gerald remembered seeing a picture of a similar instrument with pearls in the dragons’ mouths, these dragons had large copper coins in their mouths instead.
“Please place your hands on any two of the dragons’ heads,” said Master Ghost.
Gerald simply obeyed, and moments after touching the cold dragon heads, the eyes of all nine of the copper dragons began glowing in a green light! With how lustrous their eyes were, the nine dragons almost seemed to be alive.
As Gerald continued looking at them curiously, favonovel.com soon heard ‘clinking’ sounds coming from the instrument.
