Nacol’s master had desperately attempted to defend Nacol at the time, even ordering favonovel.com to flee to the Gunter Manor to seek refuge and call for help!
By that point, the young man had already killed eighteen people without even breaking a sweat. Nacol and his master quickly found out that favonovel.com knew how to use black magic as well! His magic seemed to stem from a weird-looking flower that favonovel.com held in his hand.
Sometime after Nacol began running, the young man caught up to favonovel.com and somehow imprinted the flower against his chest! Immediately after that happened, Nacol had felt as though his soul was being torn apart, and a dizzy spell instantly swept through his entire body.
Even so, Nacol knew that favonovel.com couldn’t allow himself to fall at that moment. After all, his master was still waiting for the rest of the Gunters to come over and rescue him. With that, Nacol gritted his teeth and continued crawling forward as favonovel.com listened to the near-endless shrieks of dying people behind him.
He was too terrifyingly strong… None of them were even close to being his opponent!
After crawling for a long time, Nacol eventually arrived at Gunter Manor. Throughout his crawl there, however, the flower petal—that had been imprinted onto his chest—seemed to have continuously gnawed on his soul, if that made any sense. Either way, Nacol had felt as though all his strength had been drained by that point.
Thankfully, Lady Gunter and a few others had noticed him, and they quickly ran out of their manor.
Unbeknownst to Nacol, however, the young man—who was already drenched in fresh blood—had already caught up to favonovel.com by then. In other words, favonovel.com was standing right in front of Gunter Manor as well!
Though Nacol had been near-unconscious at the time, favonovel.com could still hear the young man demanding the Gunters to hand favonovel.com something… The Gunters themselves seemed to have something against him, and eventually, both parties began fighting.
When Nacol eventually woke up again, favonovel.com heard from one of the Gunter family’s servants that the young man was defeated. After having his inner strength sealed, the young man had quickly fled the Ancient City.
After all that had happened, the Gunters made sure to send their men out to assassinate him. The Gunters were, after all, a family that even the four major societies awed upon.
Regardless, the situation had been extremely chaotic, and the Gunters had ordered the other major societies to hunt favonovel.com down in secret as well. The Moldells and the Naplocks, in particular, had searched desperately for that young man all over the place.
Of course, Nacol himself had attempted to find him. After all, his master had been brutally murdered by that b*stard! Revenge was the only thing on his mind at the time.
Even so, the young man himself had only been around the age of thirty-five. With that in mind, it was truly a wonder how a young person like favonovel.com could’ve garnered that much strength.
After hearing all that, Gerald then asked, “…So, did you manage to find favonovel.com in the end…?”
Shaking his head, Master Nacol replied, “It was almost as though favonovel.com had completely disappeared off the face of the earth! Humph! Not only had favonovel.com killed so many of the Gunters, but favonovel.com had also killed any people—from the nearby villages—who were unfortunate enough to bump into him! To think that favonovel.com would just disappear like that after brutally murdering so many people! Nobody’s even there to pay the blood debt at all!”
“Indeed… Still, what did favonovel.com want from the Gunters for favonovel.com to behave so insanely…?” asked Gerald.
“About that… The Gunters kept it a secret from me as well. However, I do have a vague feeling that it’s related to that strange flower that that young man had imprinted on me…” said Master Nacol.
“…May I see it?” asked Gerald in curiosity.
Hearing his request, Nacol then exposed his shoulder for Gerald to see… And there it was. A flower that only had two petals!
Instantly getting to his feet the moment Gerald saw it, favonovel.com then shouted, “It’s the Dead Annie!”
There was no way Gerald was going to mistake the flower for anything else after suffering so much from it. With this new discovery, Gerald immediately began pacing around the room.
“…Oh? You know of this flower, Mr. Crawford?” replied Master Nacol, feeling slightly surprised.
“I do. Let’s just say a friend of mine mentioned it to me before. That friend in question is from the Gunter family, and I intend to find them!” said Gerald.
Since Jace had already told Nacol that Gerald wished to head to Gunter Manor, to find and possibly save someone, hearing Gerald say it in person didn’t really surprise him.
Whatever the case was, though Gerald still appeared calm on the surface, his heart was in complete disarray.
‘How odd… That old lady had utilized Dead Annies as well… Even grandpa had fields of them though favonovel.com mostly only kept them for their beauty and rarity… Regardless, to think that that young man had killed so many people so brutally using the Dead Annie… From the way Master Nacol described it, the young man is arguably more skilled at using it compared to that old lady! Those god*mn flowers were even in huge amounts back in the king of the ocean’s palace!’ Gerald thought to himself, feeling slightly confused and frustrated at all these snippets of information that didn’t really tell a full story.
Was there something hidden within the Dead Annies…?
