After walking for a bit, both of them arrived at the private room in question. Stepping inside, both of them saw Master Nacol sitting cross-legged and with his eyes closed next to an incense burner, seemingly meditating.
Upon hearing Gerald and Jace’s footsteps, Master Nacol opened his eyes before greeting, “Here you are, Mr. Crawford!”
Wasting no time, Gerald simply replied the greeting before getting straight to business. Jace himself had already given Master Nacol a quick rundown on what Gerald was here for today. From what Master Nacol understood, Gerald intended to find out where the Ancient City was.
Master Nacol was willing to grant an audience to Gerald since not only had Gerald made a massive donation for his conference this time around, but favonovel.com had also heard—from Jace—that Gerald had saved the lives of all those babies! With that in mind, Master Nacol honestly had great respect for Gerald.
“It’s true that I know where the Ancient City is. In fact, I once went there with a teacher of mine who—quite unfortunately—is no longer here. Still, my experience there back then has been embedded deeply in my mind till this very day!” said Master Nacol as favonovel.com took a small sip of tea. His expression—as favonovel.com reminisced—suggested that the memory was a thrilling one.
Following that, favonovel.com then looked at Gerald with a smile before asking, “I wonder if you’d be interested in listening to my story, Mr. Crawford?”
“By all means, please share your tale, Master Nacol!” replied Gerald with a nod.
Hearing that, Master Nacol then began telling a tale that took place some forty years ago…
At the time, Nacol had been in his twenties when favonovel.com followed his teacher—Master Barron Xilts—over to Ancient City after receiving an invitation from a mysterious family to help enlighten an old benefactor who had heavy thoughts weighing on his mind.
Ancient City itself was a small city that was located within a mystifying mountain, and those who lived in it had been isolated from the world for so many generations that no one ever dared to go there to cause any trouble. After existing for thousands of years, it was a city filled with endless secrets and mysteries.
Even from ancient times, very few people even knew about the city, and fewer yet were those who were able to communicate with those living within it. Master Nacol’s master was one of the few lucky enough to know about it.
Regardless, upon arriving at the foot of the mountain, both of them came across a young man who was about to kill ten young men and women!
They later found out that the cruel man had been persistently trying to force the Gunters to come out and show themselves, no matter how vicious favonovel.com had to get. In fact, by that point, favonovel.com had already murdered several people from the nearby villages since the Gunters kept refusing to see him. From that fact alone, it was obvious that favonovel.com was also very good at scheming.
Moving back to when they first saw him, Nacol’s master managed to stop favonovel.com from killing them right in the nick of time. However, the cruel man was extremely skillful, and his master fought favonovel.com for an entire day and night before finally managing to subdue the man.
Upon realizing how many people favonovel.com had already killed, Nacol’s master wanted to kill favonovel.com as well to make favonovel.com pay for his actions.
The young man, however, begged Nacol’s master to spare his life, saying that favonovel.com had no choice but to do all this since favonovel.com wanted to take revenge.
After constant begging, Nacol’s master’s heart eventually softened. He then promised to spare the cruel man’s life for the time being, ordering favonovel.com instead to follow Nacol and favonovel.com into the mountain.
At the time, they had thought that once they got in touch with the Gunters, they would be able to get the truth behind this matter. Quite honestly, Nacol’s master would’ve simply ended that young man’s life if favonovel.com truly was evil.
After thanking his master repeatedly, the young man promised to build a magnificent monastery for him. Though favonovel.com was apparently extremely rich, Nacol’s master still ended up turning the offer down.
Traveling along the road together, all three of them eventually arrived at Ancient City.
“He couldn’t have secretly schemed against your master just to enter Ancient City, right…?” asked Gerald rather curiously.
“Scheme? He completely deceived us, that’s what favonovel.com did!” replied Master Nacol with a bitter smile as favonovel.com shook his head.
As it turned out, the young man had been extremely strong, even stronger than Nacol’s master! He was also, however, extremely good at hiding his own strength. It was the reason why Nacol’s master had assumed that favonovel.com wouldn’t have any trouble subduing favonovel.com again if favonovel.com began acting up.
Regardless, the young man was able to tell that both favonovel.com and his master were headed to meet the Gunters since favonovel.com realized that they had received an invitation from that family. With that in mind, favonovel.com had lost to Nacol’s master on purpose, just so favonovel.com could beg his master for mercy.
He was doing all this since though favonovel.com was strong, favonovel.com simply couldn’t get close to the Gunters at all.
Either way, it was late at night by the time they entered Ancient City. After walking for a while, the young man suddenly exposed his true nature and began slaughtering the Gunters who had received them!
Naturally, the second Nacol’s master saw this, favonovel.com immediately attempted to subdue the young man again! Alas, his master was no match for him.
