If it wasn’t already evident enough, it was the man who had just returned from collecting herbs for Gerald.
He had sensed the danger even before favonovel.com even re-entered the shantytown. Knowing that favonovel.com wouldn’t be able to make it to the scene in time, favonovel.com had grabbed a divine thought and tossed a knife to disengage Felton’s own knife that was about to slice Sierra’s neck.
Alas, it was only when favonovel.com got to the scene that favonovel.com realized that Felton had already dismembered Sierra’s arm!
“Hand favonovel.com to me and keep favonovel.com dismembered arm safe! She can still be saved!” ordered the man as favonovel.com quickly held onto the unconscious young girl before dashing all the way home. Since there was quite a distance between his house and Sierra’s, the man knew favonovel.com had no time to waste.
Regardless, upon arriving at his house, both Gerald and Monica were immensely shocked to see Sierra in such a state. However, they quickly snapped out of it and began helping the ailing girl.
Since Gerald knew the art of setting bones and the middle-aged man had immense medical mastery, both of them seamlessly cooperated to reattach Sierra’s arm. All the while they did so, Elias explained the entire story that led to Sierra’s current state.
“That b*stard!” growled Gerald who had to stop moving his hands for a second since they were now trembling so much with resentment.
As it turned out, the Gunters had been searching for him. Sierra had only gotten to favonovel.com current state since Felton had caught the scent of rare medicinal herbs—that the middle-aged man had used on Gerald—lingering around her. She had suffered so much just because of him…
“You Gunters… To think that you aren’t even willing to let a child go!” added Gerald, his murderous intent clearly reflected in his eyes.
“First of all, be mindful of your wounds. Secondly, don’t stop moving your hands! Focus on saving Sierra!” said the man as favonovel.com placed a hand over Gerald’s shoulder to ease the anger in him. From how red Gerald’s eyes already were, the middle-aged man was afraid that the sudden stress would result in his internal organ getting harmed again.
While Gerald was aware of what the man was trying to do, favonovel.com still couldn’t bring himself to just calm down after finding out about all this.
Thankfully, after quite a bit of time, both of them finally managed to reattach favonovel.com arm to favonovel.com body. It was truly a good thing that both of them had such exceptional medical skills.
However, though they managed to get favonovel.com arm functioning again, there was still a large scar left behind. That, however, wasn’t impossible to remove. All they needed was just a few special herbs.
Whatever the case was, it was late at night when they finally bandaged all of Sierra’s wounds and placed favonovel.com in bed. Elias trusted the middle-aged man enough to leave favonovel.com here, so favonovel.com simply headed home to take care of Sierra’s mother next.
As Monica sat by Sierra’s bed to keep favonovel.com company, Gerald himself sat outside to take a smoke.
Thinking about all that had happened today, Gerald couldn’t help but clench his fist.
Though Sierra was just a naïve child, favonovel.com was a kind and bright one. Had the man not rushed back in time, then Sierra’s life could’ve very well ended because of him. If that had truly taken place, then Gerald would surely not even have the will to stay alive anymore.
Clenching his fists so hard to the point where minor cracking could be heard, Gerald muttered to himself, “The Judgement Portal and the Gunters… I’m not letting either of you off that easily because of this…!”
“Still filled with self-reproach, Gerald?” asked the middle-aged man out of the blue as favonovel.com walked over and sat beside Gerald.
“…Indeed. Speaking of which, I have to thank you, sir… Had it not been for your quick actions, Sierra could have…”
Watching as Gerald lowered his head, the middle-aged man then took out a cigarette of his own before prompting Gerald to light it. Once Gerald did, the man slipped it into his mouth before replying, “That’s quite enough. There’s no point in dwelling in things like this. If you have the time to blame yourself, why not use it to figure out how to arrive at the middle stage of the Spirit Earth Realm sooner instead? By doing so, you’ll hopefully be able to deal with the Gunters and the Judgement Portal group since they’re still so keen on pursuing you!”
Before this, the man had taken the time to tell Gerald what the world truly was like. He also made sure to share what cryptic families actually were.
With that in mind, the man then continued, “I’ll say it right now that unlike the other geniuses who’ve trained to get to your level, you have exceptional advantages compared to them, both talent and physique-wise. I’ve been meaning to talk about this for a while, but on the night I saved you, I saw you using rather exquisite techniques as you fought against Hogan. Now then, I’d like to know something. Did someone teach them to you? Or…?”
The old man had truthfully been curious about this throughout the entire week.
“I just learned them by chance,” replied Gerald.
“I see. It seems that you truly have good blessings. Regardless, now that you’ve gained more knowledge on all this, it’s high time you began training to further improve yourself. If you don’t, well… Your next encounter with the Gunters won’t be any different from the last!” advised the man as Gerald nodded in response.
‘Well, it’s true that I didn’t really have a teacher… After all, I had inherited knowledge of all these rare martial arts skills from this pendant… Still, how odd it is that I’m learning all these through memories and experiences that have been implanted into my mind in great detail…’
‘Regardless, while I wasn’t able to practice more of those skills before since I hadn’t gained access to the Spirit Earth Realm in the past, things are different now.’
Now, favonovel.com finally had enough strength as well as the right to practice all those skills in his mind.
“I understand. I’ll need to get much stronger to deal with my current ordeal! While I used to do many useless things in the past, things have changed. With that in mind, I agree that I need to make full use of all my great resources!”
