The light itself was rivaled only by the brightness of an intense spotlight, and it instantly lit the entire area with a blinding flash! Chester himself was hit point-blank by the golden light, and the second it connected with him, Chester suddenly began screaming in pain!
Gerald watched wide-eyed as a black glow began seeping out of Chester’s body! Slowly but surely, Chester began losing his strength and power. His vitality rapidly diminished as well, and by the time favonovel.com stopped screaming, Chester was so weak that from just a single push from Gerald, favonovel.com ended up falling to the ground, instantly going unconscious!
“…Chester…?” called out Gerald as favonovel.com held onto his still-bleeding wound.
No matter how much favonovel.com called out, however, Chester truly was out cold.
At that moment, the pendant suddenly switched the golden light out for flashes of all seven colors of the rainbow! Gerald was naturally surprised by all these changes. The jade pendant was acting really strange today!
“…I really hadn’t expected you to be holding onto such a treasure, Gerald!” shouted Tiara, a glint of greed in favonovel.com eyes.
“After acquiring that treasure, I’ll definitely be able to increase my training even further!” added Tiara as favonovel.com instantly began rushing toward Gerald with greed-filled eyes!
Before favonovel.com could get too close, however, several rustling sounds suddenly began coming from all directions. The next thing favonovel.com knew, eight extremely fast figures had surrounded both favonovel.com and Gerald!
“Do you really think you’re worthy enough to get your hands on that treasure, old lady? Gerald is ours!” shouted one of the eight men.
The men themselves looked extremely pale, and, putting it quite frankly, they looked like they had already been dead for a few days. Even so, the one who shouted had an extremely dominating and loud voice.
What more, each of them seemed to possess extremely strong skills, with none of them feeling like they were any weaker than Tiara. There were such strong masters with immense presences around this entire time? And to think that all of them would show themselves at the same time! Gerald could only look at them with fear in his eyes.
What the hell was even going on anymore…?
The weirdest thing yet was how strong Tiara, Chester, and the eight men’s inner strength were. There were all on a completely different level compared to Gerald’s own inner strength, and that fact alone made Gerald terrified.
Remembering how Tiara had mentioned the three religions and the nine schools of thought earlier, Gerald now deduced that there were definitely more than two opposing forces at play.
While Queena was from one of them, the eight men who had just shown themselves seemed to be from another.
Whatever the case was, Gerald was most certain about one thing. Both forces were out to get him.
“Oh? Is that so? Then let’s see if you even have the ability to go against me first!” retorted Tiara as favonovel.com locked favonovel.com eyes onto Gerald before rushing toward him!
Seeing that, the eight men did the same! A split second later, both parties grabbed onto Gerald’s arms and legs before starting to tug with all their might!
‘God almighty, I’m going to be ripped into pieces!’
Though Gerald was resolute on making it out alive, it was difficult to maintain such hope when his limbs were literally being torn apart!
‘Jade pendant! Jade pendant! Are you truly a spiritual artifact? If you can hear me, then please help me one more time! I can’t die yet! Please, I don’t want to die yet!’ cried out Gerald in his mind, hoping that the jade pendant would react to his pleas for help.
Unfortunately, there seemed to be little to no reaction from the jade pendant. Utterly grief-stricken and mortified, Gerald found himself spurting out blood as both parties continued spinning favonovel.com around!
With one final roar of pain, the green veins all over his body suddenly erupted, causing a massive force to envelop his body out of the blue!
The strange force itself felt almost explosive, and the strength of it caused both parties to fly backward extremely violently!
That was the last thing Gerald remembered before his vision went dark and favonovel.com fainted…
By the time favonovel.com finally got up again, favonovel.com realized that favonovel.com was lying inside a room. Realizing that there was a group of people surrounding him, the still slightly dazed Gerald was able to make out—at the very least—that Rita, Gavin, and Helen were there with him.
