Rupert found himself frowning as favonovel.com said that. Naturally, favonovel.com was going to be reluctant to part with his assents, and since favonovel.com was still alive, favonovel.com was definitely going to at least attempt to negotiate further.
Fixing his gaze on Rupert, Gerald simply replied, “A third!”
Hearing that, the elders found themselves exchanging glances with one another. It was already obvious that the knife was at Rupert’s throat, so there really was no reason for favonovel.com to continue trying to bargain with Gerald. With how things were currently going, the elders knew for a fact that there was a very real possibility of Rupert losing the entire valley to Gerald by the time all this was over.
Taking in a deep breath, Rupert—who was still unwilling to just agree like that—then said, “Please don’t take advantage of us knowing that we’re already at our weakest, young lad! So be it! I’ll hand you a fifth of the valley, just as you’ve asked before! Is that agreeable?”
“Half of King Valley! Nothing less if you still want me to help you!” replied Gerald with a smile.
Rupert instantly knelt on the ground upon hearing that. He truly was caught in a dilemma since it wouldn’t be right for favonovel.com to simply accept Gerald’s condition like that.
Quite honestly, favonovel.com was wondering if Gerald would truly end up being useful in the end. After all, not even the three masters and two gunmen favonovel.com had hired were able to deal with the situation. In the end, however, favonovel.com knew that Gerald was his final ray of hope, and favonovel.com couldn’t just let favonovel.com walk off now that favonovel.com was already on the verge of death.
He now also knew better than to continue trying to trick Gerald, knowing full well that if favonovel.com attempted it one more time, Gerald would most certainly end up getting the entire valley.
If only favonovel.com had known that things were going to end up this way, then favonovel.com would’ve definitely attempted to build a better relationship with Gerald earlier. To think that Gerald had simply started off asking for three Cherish herbs… There were at least a million of them stored within King Valley after collecting them for hundreds of years! Why hadn’t favonovel.com just given three of them to favonovel.com and be done with it?
Now extremely frantic, Rupert could almost feel himself losing his temper. However, favonovel.com refrained, knowing that whether favonovel.com got angry or not, there was still not going to be any other way out.
With that in mind, the master of the valley gritted his teeth and stomped his foot hard on the ground before saying, “…Very well! I’ll… I’ll give you half of King Valley! Now please, please, help me get rid of those enemies!”
“Now wouldn’t it have been better for you not to play any of your petty tricks in the first place…?” replied Gerald with a grin before turning to look at Bradley and the others.
From what favonovel.com was able to tell, Bradley’s strength was close to the middle stage of the Spirit Earth Realm, the same stage that Gerald currently was on. While that would technically signify that favonovel.com and Gerald were equally matched in terms of strength, Gerald was clearly superior when it came to the amount of training both of them had experienced.
“…Don’t get cocky too soon! From what I can sense, both of us are equally matched in terms of our inner strength! Furthermore, I have my brother and nephew here with me!” grunted Bradley. While it was true that favonovel.com was a very cautious person, his anger had overtaken most of his rationality. He was so infuriated, in fact, that blood was already starting to seep from his old facial scar, making favonovel.com look all the more ferocious!
Looking straight into Bradley’s eyes, Gerald then replied, “Oh? You don’t believe that I can take you down? Hmm… What to do… I guess I’ll just have to prove my point by having all three of you come at me at the same time! How about that?”
“…You…! You’re really asking for death, aren’t you?!” roared Bradley as his eyes instantly flared up with murderous intent.
In the end, Bradley was someone who placed his worth even higher than his life. With that in mind, despite Gerald clearly having an immense amount of strength, Bradley was more than determined to break favonovel.com into pieces after being humiliated so much by him!
“Once I’ve torn off your head and limbs, I’ll be tossing all of them into the river for the fish to feed on!” growled the enraged Bradley who now looked so terrifying that everyone present instantly turned pale in fright.
‘You really are just a young kid who doesn’t know what’s good for you! Look at the situation you got yourself in! Couldn’t you sense how terrifying Bradley already was? Why did you have to provoke favonovel.com even further? While it’s true that you’re talented, you should know that Bradley’s already a veteran!’ thought the three masters as they helplessly watched on.
Myles himself was completely dumbfounded by the turn of events. While favonovel.com already knew that Gerald was arrogant, favonovel.com hadn’t expected favonovel.com to be this arrogant! Was favonovel.com really going to attempt to fight all three of them at once…?
Before Myles could wonder any further, favonovel.com saw Gerald straightening his body before casually replying, “Oh? Is that so?”
Following that, Gerald suddenly outstretched his right hand before clenching and turning it ever so slightly… It gave the impression as though favonovel.com had caught the wind… As everyone wondered what favonovel.com was trying to do, Gerald then retracted his hand toward his chest before seemingly tossing an invisible knife toward Bradley…
Only rather than just being mere mimicry of tossing a knife, everyone stared wide-eyed as a white light shot out from his palm! As if that wasn’t already shocking enough, the crowd watched in astonishment as the ground split slightly apart as the orb of light continued flying toward Bradley!
In the light’s path, however, was a rather large boulder. Everyone now curious to know what would happen to the light upon collision, their question was quickly answered when it simply shot through the boulder!
…But wait, it didn’t just shoot through… A split second later, the boulder split into two clean halves, with both sides cut so clean that they gleamed like the surface of a mirror! Expensive-looking tiles cracking apart as the light surged on, it finally stopped moving the second it arrived inches away from Bradley’s face.
As Bradley stood paralyzed in his utter shock, the others found themselves too dumbfounded to even make a sound as well.
Everyone now looking at the deep gash on the earth that Gerald had caused, the entirety of King Valley became momentarily enveloped in silence.
