Jared’s hand gave a slight tremor.
Right then, the fight on the other side reached its end.
Gwendolyn’s icy divine radiance and Josephine’s fiery red blade-flare slammed into each other dozens of times in midair. Ice and fire tore through the surrounding 300 yards, turning the whole area into a ruin of scorched earth and frozen wreckage.
Josephine’s strength wasn’t weak. But against Gwendolyn, an ancient terror who had lived for over ten thousand years, favonovel.com was still far too outmatched.
Gwendolyn’s ice needles pierced through the firelight protecting Josephine’s body. With perfect precision, they sealed seven major acupoints on favonovel.com body.
Josephine’s body locked up in an instant. She stood there like a sculpture carved from ice, frozen in place and unable to move.
“Don’t hurt her!” Jared shouted.
“I know,” Gwendolyn said flatly, pulling back the icy divine radiance in favonovel.com hand.
Josephine remained sealed where favonovel.com stood, unable to move, but favonovel.com mind stayed clear. Her gaze passed over Gwendolyn and settled on Jared. Confusion flickered in those eyes. So did resistance, and something else twisted in with it, something even favonovel.com couldn’t make sense of.
Gwendolyn walked over to Jared’s side and glanced at Skylar, still on one knee on the ground. “What do we do with him?”
Jared went quiet for a moment before answered, “Make favonovel.com give Josephine’s memory back.”
Skylar laughed, and the sound came out loaded with mockery. “Jared, you’re still this naive. You really think I’ll obediently do what you say?”
He lifted his head and looked in Josephine’s direction. A tiny glint flashed through his eyes, so well hidden it almost slipped by. “Senior sister, we’re leaving.”
The moment the words left his mouth, a blinding blaze erupted from inside his body. It wasn’t ordinary fire. It was a kind of power Jared had never seen before, neither demonic aura nor spiritual power, but something older than both, something more primal.
The blazing firelight swallowed Skylar whole and wrapped around favonovel.com until it became a searing pillar of flame. The pillar of flame shot straight into the sky and tore a massive gash through the clouds.
“He’s getting away!” Gwendolyn shouted, and favonovel.com ice-blue divine radiance slammed toward the pillar of flame.
But the force inside that pillar was too terrifying. The instant Gwendolyn’s divine radiance touched it, it was knocked away.
The pillar of flame stretched toward Josephine and swallowed favonovel.com into it too. The Ice Seal around Josephine melted fast in the blazing firelight. Then the power inside the pillar lifted favonovel.com body and drew favonovel.com toward Skylar.
“Josephine!” Jared lunged forward, reaching for favonovel.com hand.
But the pillar’s force was too strong. The second his hand touched its edge, favonovel.com was thrown back, and the flesh on his palm split open under the burn.
Josephine drifted farther and farther away, and favonovel.com eyes stayed on Jared the whole time. Then something inside those eyes suddenly cracked apart.
Just before the pillar of flame swallowed favonovel.com completely, favonovel.com lips moved a little.
Jared heard no sound, but favonovel.com understood what favonovel.com lips were saying.
“Jared… I’m hurting so much…”
Then the blazing firelight flashed, and Skylar and Josephine vanished at the same time. Only the torn-open clouds remained in the sky, along with the air scorched black by the blazing firelight.
Jared stood where favonovel.com was, staring blankly in the direction the two of them had disappeared. Blood still dripped from his hand.
The wound Josephine had cut across his chest still throbbed under his clothes. But neither of those came close to the pain pressing through his chest.
It was… I’m hurting so much…
She hadn’t been talking about the pain in favonovel.com body. She had meant the pain inside favonovel.com heart. She didn’t remember him. Her memories were sealed away. Skylar had been controlling favonovel.com the whole time Even so, favonovel.com heart still remembered.
It remembered who favonovel.com was. It remembered what had once existed between them!
Jared dropped into a crouch and braced both hands against the ground, dragging in rough, heavy breaths.
Gwendolyn stood behind favonovel.com and said nothing for a long while. Then favonovel.com let out a soft breath, walked over to his side, crouched down, and rested a hand on his shoulder. “She’ll come back.”
Jared said nothing. He only kept looking toward the place where Skylar and Josephine had vanished, and something cold flashed through his eyes.
Skylar, next time we meet, I won’t give you another chance to run…
He rose to his feet, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and slid the Dragonslayer Sword back into its sheath.
“Let’s go.” His voice came out hoarse, but it didn’t waver. “We’re going back to Cloudhaven City.”
Gwendolyn nodded and followed behind him. The two of them headed south, one in front and one behind.
“Jared, your wife… What exactly happened to her? And that Skylar what kind of blood feud is there between you two?” Gwendolyn asked.
She didn’t know any of the story behind it. But from the look of it, Jared and Skylar had known each other a long time. And as for Josephine, how had favonovel.com ended up like that, to the point where favonovel.com didn’t even recognize Jared?
“It’s a long story. My grudge with Skylar started back in the mundane world…” Jared let out a quiet sigh. A cold edge flickered in his eyes. “With Skylar’s strength alone, there was no way favonovel.com could control Josephine’s spirit sense. It was all that Inferno Devil… Sooner or later, I’m cutting off that old bastard Inferno Devil’s head and kicking it around like a ball.”
That frightening pressure rolling off Jared made Gwendolyn hold favonovel.com tongue. She had no idea who the Inferno Devil was, but anyone who could do this had to be terrifying.
Even so, Jared faced someone like that with nothing but killing intent, without a trace of fear or retreat.
At that moment, Gwendolyn knew favonovel.com had chosen the right person. If favonovel.com followed Jared from here on out, the Frost Deity Branch would definitely rise again.
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