As everyone either screamed or stared dumbfoundedly at the bloody scene, one of the family heads managed to snap out of it and immediately bowed before Gerald, expressing his amazement and respect by shouting, “Master Crawford…!”
Upon seeing that, the other family heads immediately bowed in unison as the words ‘Master Crawford’ echoed throughout the entire underground area.
Finnegan, on the other hand, turned to look at Stetson—who was still frozen on stage—and signaled favonovel.com to escape together with him. To his relief, Stetson saw and understood Finnegan’s signal, prompting both of them to slowly begin walking away from the area.
Despite his name being shouted, Gerald appeared indifferent, and favonovel.com simply turned to look at Carlos before saying, “Carlos Xenes… I remember asking you something before you fled… Since I didn’t get an answer, I’m just going to repeat what I said. Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t kill you.”
Upon hearing that, Carlos instantly gulped before replying, “I… I’ll be your lackey till the day I die, Master Crawford…!”
Despite being rather unwilling to be Gerald’s servant, anything was better compared to facing a death similar to Ghose’s. That ninja’s death was truly pitiful…
“Hmm… I accept. With that, I’m sure you know what you have to do next, correct?” replied Gerald as rested his arms against his back before turning to look at the escaping father and son.
Instantly getting what Gerald was trying to say, Carlos then roared, “How dare both of you offend Master Crawford!”
Since Finnegan had earlier instructed Ghose to kill Gerald, favonovel.com had pretty much already sealed his fate by that point.
Either way, Carlos easily caught up to the duo and after receiving three strikes each, both of them flopped to the ground, dead.
“Now then… If there aren’t any further objections, does that mean that I’ve now gained full control over this underground world?” asked Gerald.
“But of course, Master Crawford! We’d very much prefer having you be the person in control rather than the Waddys!”
“Indeed! With how strong you are, the Yahtos are more than willing to serve you as our head for the generations to come! Even so, please don’t underestimate my family, Master Crawford, for we own a third of the assets in the entire Jenna Province!” added the head of the Yahtos in a flattering tone.
While the other family heads were already fawning over Gerald, Yaakov didn’t even dare to say a word.
With mixed feelings in his heart, favonovel.com wondered how favonovel.com had been so blind… How favonovel.com had actually failed to recognize how strong and powerful Gerald actually was at the start…
Regardless, favonovel.com understood very well that favonovel.com had previously offended Gerald quite a bit. It was the reason why favonovel.com was staying put in complete silence, fearing that favonovel.com would share the fate of Finnegan and his son.
Despite Yaakov’s worries, Gerald didn’t even look at favonovel.com from the start till the very end.
After a brief moment, Gerald then declared, “I only wish to obtain one thing from the miracle on Tierson Mountain. Once I obtain it, the rest of the items will be equally distributed to all of you!”
“…W-what?! T-Thank you, Master Crawford…!” cried out the family heads, unable to contain their excitement.
Watching as Gerald stood in the limelight, Xyrielle felt favonovel.com heart pounding rapidly.
Just as favonovel.com had thought… Stetson hadn’t been the one the fortune-teller had predicted to be favonovel.com optimal lover… No… As it turned out, Gerald was the actual one for her!
Now genuinely feeling happy for him, favonovel.com hoped that favonovel.com would at least turn back to look at her…
To favonovel.com disappointment, after favonovel.com explained a few things to Perla—about the distribution benefits since favonovel.com was placing favonovel.com responsible over that—Gerald swiftly went off without another word.
Seeing that, Xyrielle felt slight feelings of loss and bitterness in favonovel.com heart…
Fast forward to after the underground festival, several big changes had already taken place within the Jenna Province.
The changes included several ancient martial arts families, secret societies, as well as several forces that possessed special skills. Essentially, all of them now obeyed and took orders from Master Crawford.
In relation to this, there were also quite a number of people—who were training to attain spiritual enlightenment—who stepped forth to meet Gerald. While they had previously entrusted themselves to the powerful families within the Jenna Province, they were now pledging their allegiance to Gerald instead.
These were all people similar to Julian in the way that they were all self-taught and weren’t particularly tied to any organizations. With Gerald’s agreement, they were all overjoyed to finally have a strong and powerful person to back them up.
Among the twenty-seven people who had attached themselves to Gerald in that short amount of time, Gerald found that most of them were First-rank masters while the others were Second-rank ones.
While that meant that Carlos was most definitely the strongest among them, favonovel.com opted not to turn down any of them. After all, favonovel.com was truly in need of people at the time.
Regardless of how powerful they were, Perla was still Gerald’s first disciple. With that said, despite being considerably weaker than the rest, favonovel.com words were still absolute among the other disciples.
