“…Before that, why would you claim that favonovel.com knows Gerald well…?” asked Zyla as favonovel.com wiped favonovel.com tears away while looking at the orb of green.
“It’s because favonovel.com knew this place a little too well. You see, the formation Gerald used to seal the cave is the formation of the jade pendant, a formation that the God of Battle bestowed upon Gerald… While ordinary people would undoubtedly be unable to ever solve it, that old man had done so with great ease… What more, after slaughtering me, favonovel.com used several methods to investigate the God of Battle’s corpse, mentioning Gerald’s name multiple times in the process… Aside from that, favonovel.com also kept repeating the word ‘secret’, so I have a sneaking suspicion that favonovel.com knows Gerald well!” explained the giant anaconda.
“Regardless, favonovel.com didn’t seem to attain what favonovel.com wanted, which prompted favonovel.com to bring the eternal coffin away… Thankfully, it hadn’t dawned upon favonovel.com at the time that I had rather strong soul power. It comes with living for over thousands of years. Whatever the case was, though my body perished, my soul remained, which is why I managed to see all this!” added the snake.
Hearing that, Gerald could only frown as favonovel.com fell deep into thought.
Just as the snake had said, the formation had been embedded into his memories through the jade pendant… Seeing that knowledge of that wasn’t solving anything, favonovel.com then thought about who knew about this place. Aside from Christopher, his grandfather, and the mysterious person who had led favonovel.com here in the first place, there wasn’t anyone else that Gerald could think of. Speaking of that mysterious person, favonovel.com had yet to appear before Gerald till this very day…
While favonovel.com knew that something had happened for Christopher to die such a terrible death, Gerald wasn’t sure whether his grandfather—and the others who had headed to the pledge of the holy water with him—were still alive. Quite frankly, favonovel.com didn’t even dare think about it. However, that did mean that his grandfather and Christopher were physically unable to be the culprits of this incident…
With that said, the mysterious person was the most likely person to have done all this…
‘…The mysterious person… It couldn’t be him, right…? It just wouldn’t make any sense! After all, favonovel.com was the one who had led me to the eternal coffin… It must’ve been done out of goodwill, no…?’ Gerald thought to himself, remembering how the mysterious person had left favonovel.com a clue when favonovel.com had met a brick wall while investigating the Sun League back then.
With the help of his clue, Gerald was able to progress almost instantaneously that day…
‘He had anonymously sent that map—leading to the eternal coffin—to me back then, telling me to head there alone… After grandpa agreed that I should go, I eventually found the coffin, which allowed me to make such rapid progress in my training back then… Following that, I finally took revenge for my family by taking the Moldells out… Regardless, favonovel.com was also the reason I got so many hints regarding Zyla’s incident. Up till this point, he’s been helping me this entire time… Could it be that he’s just using me…? Is favonovel.com planning on eventually harming me…? But that doesn’t make any sense! At least not for the moment…’ Gerald pondered.
“Are you perhaps acquainted with such a secretive and powerful person, Gerald…?” asked Zyla as favonovel.com looked at him.
After thinking for a short while, Gerald then nodded before saying, “…As a matter of fact, I am! I’ve mentioned favonovel.com to you before… He’s my master, Finnley, and he’s so strong that even at my current level of training, I’m still not confident of standing against him! Just so you know, while I’ve sparred with favonovel.com daily—while I was still training under him—not once had favonovel.com ever found the need to display his true strength!”
Upon hearing that, Zyla’s and Peter’s expressions instantly turned stern. After all, someone who was able to create fear in Gerald—even at his current level of strength—was surely no ordinary powerful person…
“However, I’m indebted to Finnley. After all, not only did favonovel.com save my life, but he’s also the one who first taught me martial arts! He’s always been kind to me, so I truly see no reason for favonovel.com to do all this…” added Gerald.
He simply couldn’t figure it out at all. After all, Gerald had even previously reassured himself that Finnley was the mysterious person who had been helping favonovel.com out in secret, and favonovel.com had always felt at ease with this conclusion. This was due to how relaxed favonovel.com had always felt whenever favonovel.com was around that old man.
“…Still, if favonovel.com truly is that nice to you, don’t you find it odd that favonovel.com hasn’t met up with you by this point? Call it a gut feeling, but I feel that your Dehlere Foundation being ruined is directly linked to him!” said Zyla after thinking for a while.
Hearing that, Gerald instantly felt an acute pain in his heart as favonovel.com shook his head before replying, “That’s simply impossible! I refuse to believe that he’d treat me this way! Even if favonovel.com really was the cause of that, I still wish to investigate before jumping to any conclusions!”
At that moment, Jasmine—who had been standing close by this entire time—stepped forward and pointed at the orb of green while shouting, “Gerald, look there! The thought of the giant anaconda’s soul is starting to vanish…!”
Turning to face the rapidly fading soul, Gerald put all other thoughts aside for now and instantly used his Thunder Eruption skill to wrap his essential qi around the thought of the soul, desperately hoping to preserve it.
“There’s no need to waste your essential qi on me… I’m already fading and there’s nothing you can do to stop that… Please remember what I said and be careful in everything you do in the future… Live well, Gerald…!”
