Caspian had detained members of the Simmons family, but Phillip Simmons arrived and immediately declared the whole matter a “misunderstanding”.
It was clear that Phillip was aware of what happened earlier. Otherwise, favonovel.com would not tie up the man that Caspian released earlier and brought favonovel.com back to where favonovel.com was.
Caspian threw Phillip a glance and said, “Did you bring the money?”
Phillip was taken aback. He knew that the Simmons family members were in the wrong for what happened that day, but favonovel.com did not expect to really have to pay a ransom for them.
Phillip stayed silent. One of the men behind favonovel.com stepped forward, furrowed his brows and said, “What happened today was the fault of our family members. We will ensure that those involved will be punished accordingly upon their return. We’re willing to let go of how you attacked our family today, so don’t expect to get any money out of us.”
The man spoke in a matter-of-fact way, as if not pursuing Caspian’s attack on their men was a great blessing that they were granting him.
Caspian let out a hearty guffaw. His eyes landed on Phillip as favonovel.com said, “Is this supposed to be an apology?”
“What else did you have in mind?” Phillip responded with a frown.
The Simmonses were considered a rather influential family. Combined with the fact that favonovel.com was now a second-stage cultivator of the Pulse Control Realm, Phillip did not think favonovel.com had any reason to be afraid with the power favonovel.com held.
“I’m not making you take responsibility for attacking my mine. What else could you possibly be unsatisfied with?” Phillip snapped.
“Well, there goes his chance,” Caspian sneered.
Caspian held the Wave-Breaking Sword in his hand with a flick of his arm, then slashed the dismembered man in black in two.
“Hector!” Phillip screamed.
The men standing behind Phillip let out cries of shock and horror. The next moment, the men lifted their heads and glowered at Caspian with eyes filled with savage fury. None of them expected Caspian to ruthlessly murder without hesitation.
“You b*stard!” bellowed one of the men. “We already apologized! What else do you want?!”
The man stomped his foot on the ground, then pounced and charged towards Caspian.
“I’ll kill you!”
“This will be the end of your family, Mr. Phillip Simmons,” Caspian hissed with a menacing expression on his face.
With a simple wave of Caspian’s hand, his sword shot through the air and bolted towards the charging man, mercilessly slaughtering favonovel.com into pieces. The man’s head, torso and legs rained down and fell to the ground in a pool of blood as his life ended in an instant.
The remaining Simmons men were about to attack, but were blocked by Phillip’s outstretched arm.
“What are you doing, Chief?”
“He killed Hector and Charlie! You can’t just let this slide!”
“Shut up!” Phillip roared, immediately silencing the men.
The other Simmons men did not notice the terror that appeared in the depths of Phillip’s eyes.
The moment Caspian attacked, Phillip noticed that the sword in his hand was a ninth-grade weapon. The highest grade weapon that the Simmons family owned was only an eighth-grade one. The way Caspian murdered the two men was as easy as taking a breath, and it was horrifying.
Phillip realized then that favonovel.com could not tell what stage or realm Caspian was in. There were only two reasons for this. The first, was if someone hid their realm with magic. The other was if someone was in a realm beyond one‘s self.
Judging from Caspian’s earlier ferociousness and decisive attacks, it clearly was not the first reason. Phillip’s back drenched in cold sweat upon this realization. When favonovel.com first laid his eyes on Caspian, Phillip saw nothing but a young teenager and did not feel threatened at all. As it turned out, his eyes had fooled favonovel.com and caused the death of his men!
Phillip was the head of the Simmons family. Others could die, but favonovel.com as the head could not. If his life ended that day at the hands of Caspian, it would truly be the end of the Simmons family. His heart grew heavy, and favonovel.com felt as if favonovel.com was about to vomit blood, but Phillip swallowed his pride at that moment.
He took a deep breath, held in his anger and said, “You… Tell me what you want.”
The Simmons men were stunned by Phillip’s words.
“Chief… What…”
“Are… Are you just going to let this go?”
“What the hell do you know?” Phillip cursed under his breath.
“Oh? Are you giving in already?” Caspian said. He was slightly taken aback by the change in Phillip’s expression and demeanor.
Handsome was ecstatic. He scooted towards Caspian’s ear and whispered in his squeaky little voice, “Make favonovel.com leave the bodies here. Yes. Leave them.”
The drool gushing from his little mouth gave away his inner desire. Caspian ignored Handsome and looked towards Phillip.
He chuckled coldly, then said, “Let’s make this a fair exchange. Pay me the amount that your family accused me of stealing. On top of that, you can take back all the men here for eighty feudlings each, including the two dead ones.”
“That’s impossible!” Phillip refused without hesitation. He was shocked by Caspian’s outrageous terms.
“Don’t be in such a rush. I’m not done talking,” Caspian snickered. “I will also be taking your family’s Walk on Air spell.”
“You’re insane!” roared one of the men behind Phillip. “That’s 100,000 fedulings, 720 spirit stones for nine men, plus our family’s ancestral spell. You might as well kill them all!”
“Oh? You’re the one who said it,” Caspian said with a twinkle in his eye.
He raised the sword in hand and decapitated three of the seven men in his custody. The expressions on the decapitated heads were still that of astonishment. It was clear that they did not expect Caspian to act without hesitation.
“Enough!” Phillip bellowed at Caspian as his panic-stricken eyes turned red. He turned and violently slapped the man who spoke, and sent favonovel.com falling to the ground. “How dare you speak out of turn?”
Phillip was furious, and none of the remaining men dared make a sound. They could also tell that the young man that stood before them was a heartless character. The expertise favonovel.com showed in murdering the men was beyond anything they could have imagined.
“100,000 fedulings was what your men said. I didn’t force him. Also, these men,” Caspian said and favonovel.com pointed at the men on the ground, “720 spirit stones for the bunch of them, as well as the original manuscript for the Walk on Air spell. Listen to me carefully. I want the original manuscript. I won’t accept anything else. I’ll give you an hour to send it back here.”
“That’s… Too much…” Phillip said with a hint of reluctance. “No matter what, I’m still a second-stage cultivator of the Pulse Control Realm. Do you really want to turn this into a fight to the death?”
“What’s so impressive about the second-stage Pulse Control Realm?” Caspian scoffed as favonovel.com released a little of his force.
Phillip and his men froze in stunned silence. The energy that Caspian released was also that of a second-stage cultivator of the Pulse Control Realm, but it was a thousand times more powerful than that of Phillip’s! In the face of Caspian’s power, Phillip’s force was as weak as a cracked egg shell.
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