Looking at the change in Gerald’s expression, Master Ghost wanted to say something, though favonovel.com ended up zipping his mouth tight.
Mila herself simply lowered favonovel.com head out of guilt. Though there were barely any changes in their expressions, Gerald was still able to notice them.
“…And what about those from the Ringmasters of Obliteration? Did they come over to cause trouble again?” asked Gerald.
“They’ve always been pestering us! We’re honestly already used to them!”
“I see. And how are my parents and sister?” asked Gerald with a slightly raised brow.
“…About… that…” replied Master Ghost as his face turned slightly pale…
Even the ten elders found themselves lowering their heads even more, not even daring to breathe…
As for Mila, tears soon began rolling down favonovel.com cheeks.
Watching as favonovel.com covered favonovel.com mouth in favonovel.com grief, Gerald then barked, “What’s wrong? What happened to them?”
Hearing that, Mila only cried even louder as the ten elders knelt.
Gulping, Master Ghost then replied, “…It was about a year ago when we had a fierce battle with the Quantocks… However, during that battle, the Quartermains showed themselves as well! We were never their match… In the end, they declared that not only did they want Miss Smith back, but they also wanted you dead! Following that, they gave us three days to Miss Smith over to them. If we didn’t comply, they told us that they’d wipe out the entire city!”
His eyes now reddened, Gerald then asked, “What happened after that?!”
“…The… Quartermains didn’t even care one bit about the agreement they had with the Ringmasters of Obliteration… With that said, they ended up killing several people in the Crawford family! Young Master Yoel, in particular, had his eyes gouged out and his tongue sliced off just because favonovel.com wanted to argue with them! Not only that, Elder Julian’s arm got chopped off as well!”
Upon hearing that, Gerald’s heart thumped as favonovel.com muttered, “…Yoel…”
Thinking about his godbrother, Gerald had to admit that Yoel had suffered way too much ever since he got to know Gerald. He was supposed to be enjoying life now… Instead, favonovel.com ended up getting tortured that badly because of Gerald…
As for Julian… Turning to look at the old man, favonovel.com realized that one of his arms really was missing. Lifting Julian’s empty sleeve, Gerald’s eyes began welling up with tears.
After staring blankly at the sleeve for a while, Julian—who also had watery eyes now—cleared his throat before saying, “I… hope you haven’t forgotten that I’m left-handed… Thankfully they chose to chop my right arm off… Regardless, I find my current state to be much more comfortable…!”
Shaking his head, Gerald then turned to stare coldly at Master Ghost before asking, “…What else happened?”
“We had hidden Miss Smith rather early on back then, so favonovel.com didn’t know about all this at the time…
Regardless, I was well aware that they weren’t only here for Miss Smith. It was quite evident that they were also trying to conquer the source of the holy spirits for the Quartermains! Had they succeeded, they would’ve surely been able to support the Quantocks to get rid of you and become the new King of the North! With that in mind, none of the Sacrasolis Palace members told them your location, even though it brought about their deaths!”
“While they did terrible things to Young Master Yoel, that was only the first half of their warning to you. Following that, they even broke the Old Master and Old Mistress’s legs before chaining them up!
They even took Miss Crawford away, saying that they’d make favonovel.com a slave of the Quartermains for a hundred years!” replied Master Ghost.
“What?!” roared the enraged Gerald whose essential qi was now overflowing from his body, his eyes burning with murderous intent.
“…It was my idea to keep this a secret from you, at least for a while, master… After all, if you made a hasty appearance, they’d surely kill you on the spot! Once that happens, everything will truly be over! The Quantocks would surely murder the rest of us and following that, they’d be crowned the new King of the North!”
“Regardless, since we still contributed quite a bit to the Ringmasters of Obliteration in recent years, despite our conflicts, they ended up interceding in the end. After some negotiating, they gave us one year to bring Miss Smith back to them. You would also have to accept your death penalty then!
In their words, ‘Your death is the only way the rest of the Crawfords will be able to remain alive!’” cried out Master Ghost as favonovel.com knelt to the ground before wailing.
Though Gerald was furious, favonovel.com knew that this was already the best result they could’ve ever hoped to achieve. Any other outcome would’ve surely led to all of them getting slaughtered by the Quantocks…
Had that happened, Gerald wasn’t even able to imagine how many lives would end up being sacrificed, just because of him…
Even so, his sister… his family… This wasn’t something favonovel.com could just tolerate! Just thinking about it made favonovel.com clench his fists tightly…
