Upon hearing Gerald’s question, Lord Ethern was prompted to reveal a few samples of the herbs they were locating and it wasn’t long before Gerald felt his eyes twitch. After all, those samples were herbs inherited by the ancient witches… In other words, they were the ones favonovel.com was for as well!
Naturally, Marcel recognized them as well, and favonovel.com was quick to say, “These..?”
Noticing how the two were looking at the herbs, Darkwind muttered, “I take it that the herbalist they’re looking for really is Ms. Phoebe, Mr. Crawford?”
“Well, it’s hard to say if favonovel.com is since Marcel already said that the timing wasn’t right… Regardless, this is an important clue. Lord Ethern, was it? Could you elaborate a bit more on your master?” muttered Gerald as favonovel.com turned to face the man again.
“I really can’t say…! Look, Master always appears before us in a shadowy form, so none of us have ever seen his face!” replied Lord Ethern while shaking his head.
“Is that the truth?”
“I swear on my life!” exclaimed Lord Ethern with a gulp.
“Very well, then. Lead us to the valley so that I can meet up with that herbalist!” replied Gerald as favonovel.com grabbed the three in his arms, prompting them to helplessly point in the direction they needed to go…
Upon arriving at the valley’s entrance, however, a voice suddenly yelled, “Halt!”
Following that, the earth began rumbling and all of a sudden, eighteen masked people donning black clothes leaped out of a crack in the ground! Among them, one of them stepped up before declaring, “I can see you aren’t malicious people, so why don’t you let go of them so that we can properly discuss things?!”
Watching as they surrounded them, Gerald couldn’t help but notice that their auras were similar to that of Lord Ethern’s… Well, a little stronger than that old man. Shaking his head, favonovel.com was then prompted to ask, “Who are they?”
Gulping once more, Lord Ethern replied, “T-they’re the Eighteen Hellfire Rats… They’re capable of merging into one, and their cultivation will amplify after that… Uhm… Since we’re both looking for that herbalist, why don’t we just… Work together? With your capabilities and our experience, we’ll definitely be able to weed favonovel.com out! There’s no need to continue fighting each other, r-right…?”
“W-we agree! Please release us so that we can discuss things peacefully…!” whimpered the other two.
“Apologies, but we both walk different paths. With that said, stop playing a fool and get the other ambushers to reveal themselves!” growled Gerald as favonovel.com clenched Lord Ethern’s neck.
With how thunderous his voice was, Lord Ethern couldn’t help but tremble and it wasn’t long before dark clouds began swirling in the sky! As the area plunged into darkness, huge strips of black smoke started dancing around like giant pythons and after a crack on the ground emerged, the eighteen masked men leaped into it!
Following that, everyone watched as the snake-like smoke conjoined, sending blue blasts of lightning flying out and suddenly, the earth began trembling like never before!
Placing his hands against his back, Sanchez scoffed, “Looks like we’ve entered their formation, Gerald!”
“So it would seem. Blancetnoir Double Lords, protect Marcel. Sanchez and I will put their formation to the test!” ordered Gerald, prompting the double lords to swiftly make their move.
The second Marcel was between them, the snake-like smoke began rising again and shortly after, a few figures began forming…
