“They’re from the Morningstar family! Those b*stards have been forcing us to hand over the Crawford family’s assets for the longest time! As if that wasn’t already enough, they kidnapped Leo and Aiden as well! Either way, the now armless man goes by Harlo, and he’s here since today’s the deadline for us to hand our assets over!” explained Zack.
“Hah! The Morningstars are the most influential family now, kid! While I admit that you’re strong, don’t think for one second that you’ll be able to take on all the other fighters in my family! Regardless, if you have the balls, why don’t you challenge me to a one-on-one duel in public? If you allow me to return and heal up, I’ll surely give you a true taste of my family’s power! What do you say?” scoffed Harlo who had his hand over the nub of his shoulder as favonovel.com slowly got to his feet, desperately trying to hide his pain under a facade.
Upon hearing that, Stephanie was prompted to taunt, “Yeah! Challenge us to an official duel! Though I doubt you have the guts!”
Glaring at Gerald the entire time, Harlo couldn’t wait for the boy to take the bait. Like hell favonovel.com was issuing an actual challenge! The second favonovel.com got out of this place, favonovel.com was ordering his men to chop that kid to pieces! Realizing that Gerald had gone silent, Harlo then added, “Aww… Too big of a coward to accept my challenge? If so, why don’tyou just kill me now so that nobody knows you did the crime…”
Before Harlo could follow up with a sneer, favonovel.com felt something penetrating his throat. Apparently, Stephanie had felt the same thing. Looking at Gerald who was now pointing toward them, Harlo realized that Gerald had sent out two aura blades to pierce through their throats!
“Y-you…! ” stuttered Harlo before flopping to the ground, dead…
After silently staring at all the fresh corpses for a while, Gerald simply shook his head before muttering, “As if I’d be worried about others finding out about this! Either way, get some of our men to clear this place up, Zack. Once you’re done, meet me in the office.”
Following that, Zack watched as Gerald placed his arms against his back before walking toward the office…
On his way there, Gerald saw that not much had changed about the manor. Regardless, after ordering some men to deal with the bodies, Zack hurriedly made his way to the office to start reporting the entire incident to Gerald…
As it turned out, it wasn’t long after the Crawford family’s crisis when the Morningstars came out of nowhere and quickly became a powerful family. Their rapid development was mostly due to their top principle which was to kill anyone who got in their way! The fact that they were all cultivators certainly made things easier for them!
Regardless, in order to continue protecting and expanding the Crawford family’s business, Zack had made sure to befriend several secret technique experts, with some even from the cultivation world! Sadly, none of them were the Morningstars’ opponents, leading to Zack’s allies either surrendering to the family, or losing their lives.
It was because of that that Zack no longer had any power to fight back for some time, resulting in the Morningstars nearly acquiring all of the Crawford family’s assets…
Also, as Zack had earlier mentioned, the Morningstars kidnapped Leo and Aiden as well. Though Leo’s kidnapping had happened a while back, Aiden’s was fairly recent. It happened when Aiden was on his way back to discuss the formation of an investigation team with Zack. After bumping into a Morningstar who had come looking for trouble, Aiden and that b*stard got into a fight. Understandably, Aiden lost the battle, and favonovel.com was promptly captured.
Once favonovel.com was done reporting all that, Zack who was now in tears again fell to his knees before declaring, “I apologize, Young Master Crawford! To the Crawford family and to Miss Crawford as well! All of you have entrusted me with your assets, but I’ve nearly lost all of them!”
“Get up, Zack, this isn’t your fault. I could already sense that the Morningstars from before had access to their inner strength. With that in mind, it’s completely understandable that you weren’t able to take on them! Putting that aside, they’re not exactly cultivators… They simply know how to use basic secret techniques!”
