Due to Gerald having such a powerful weapon on him, the nine people had momentarily fled for fear that Gerald would end up killing them instead.
It was only after they made their escape that they recalled that Gerald wasn’t able to properly control the jade pendant’s power yet. As all nine of them slowly recovered their strength, they each thought about thieving the pendant off Gerald before taking favonovel.com away.
With their mind made up, all of them began making their way toward Mountain Top the moment their strength fully recovered. However, both parties truly hadn’t expected to bump into each other on their way there.
Being enemies, they naturally fought and bickered the entire way there.
“How unlucky we are to meet you again! Regardless, we’ll certainly be the ones who’ll end up getting our hands on both Gerald and that jade pendant!”
After continuing to bicker for quite a while, all nine of them swiftly made it past the restricted area on Mountain Top.
Several of the bodyguards noticed their speedy entry and instantly grew frightened. With that, they immediately informed their superiors about what they had just witnessed.
By the time the guards were done passing the message on, the group of people had already arrived at the top of the mountain in no time flat.
“So you’ve finally appeared!” shouted Chester as they approached the cave’s entrance.
Chester had been sitting cross-legged and on guard atop the mountain for days, and when favonovel.com saw the nine people, a strong sense of resentment was reflected in his eyes. Of course, his hatred amplified the second favonovel.com saw Tiara.
“You traitor! Still, I really hadn’t expected Gerald to have the ability to restore both your sanity and consciousness!” scoffed Tiara, murderous intent in favonovel.com eyes.
Clenching his fist, Chester then retorted, “The fact that he’s done so means that Mr. Crawford has granted me the opportunity to take my revenge!”
Though the old woman standing before favonovel.com was his own grandmother, Tiara had never once regarded Chester as favonovel.com grandson at all. In fact, favonovel.com was pretty sure that favonovel.com had only ever seen favonovel.com as nothing more than a dog.
She didn’t even hesitate to kill favonovel.com and turn favonovel.com into a monster that was barely even human! To Tiara, once a dog, always a dog, and that made Chester hate favonovel.com even more.
“Hah! Take revenge? I guess you now have the same mindset as Gerald after following favonovel.com around so much! To think that you’re actually daring enough to even consider taking revenge on me, Chester! I see how it is! And here I thought that you’d finally be useful for once after I turned you into a killing machine with witchcraft! Yet here you are, planning to betray me! Since that’s the case, I’ll just kill you again and make sure all your limbs are ripped from your body!” scowled Tiara with a murderous look in favonovel.com eyes.
“No matter how one-sided it is, I’m still going to fight you! I won’t allow any of you to take a single step inside, even if I have to die trying!” declared Chester fearlessly as favonovel.com got to his feet.
“Hahaha! Say, you old witch! Do you need our help clearing the path for you? If you do, then we’ll hand Gerald over to you as a bonus! However, we’ll be taking the jade pendant with us! How’s that sound? Regardless, favonovel.com seems to be right inside the cave before us!” said one of the men with a grin.
“Dream on! I’m getting my hands on Gerald, the pendant, and also this traitor today!” retorted Tiara, a malicious smile formed on favonovel.com face.
The second favonovel.com sentence ended, favonovel.com expression instantly turned terrifying as favonovel.com dashed toward Chester! Her movements were so swift that Chester was only able to go on the defensive.
It certainly didn’t help that Gerald’s pendant had suppressed quite a bit of his strength. Due to that, Chester’s combative abilities were much worse compared to before.
Finding gaps in his defense, Tiara managed to land several hits on Chester’s chest, causing the youth to fly backward! His body ended up colliding with a boulder—which then shattered from the impact—and the second that happened, Chester immediately began vomiting blood!
Despite Tiara using all of favonovel.com strength in that deadly attack, the bloody-faced Chester still managed to get to his feet, albeit a bit shakily.
“…You… You can only enter over my dead body…!” shouted Chester whose resolute white eyes contrasted his now-reddened face.
“Heh! He’s still standing after you used such a deadly attack on him, old witch! You sure you don’t need our help?” mocked one of the eight men. The men themselves had been standing at the side, their arms crossed as they watched the show.
“Silence! I only need one final attack! He’ll surely die once I break off all the meridians in his body!” shouted Tiara as favonovel.com prepared to land favonovel.com finishing blow.
Gritting his teeth fiercely, Chester was sure that this was his end when suddenly, favonovel.com heard a voice shouting, “Fight back!”
The voice itself seemed like it came from right beside his ears… No. It felt like… it came from within himself.
