Episode 5 – Sword of the Gods ‘Purple Blood’ Chapter 12 – Anger

In the middle of the Debus family’s garden, Alice was sitting with the Karan duo talking about the wedding.

“Alice.”

Karan’s face was filled with an excited smile, “I’ve already talked to my father about it, and the day of our engagement is set for the 18th of June, while the day of our big wedding will be on the 1st of January next year, that is, the day of the ‘Magnolia Festival’ next year.”

A smile also appeared on Alice’s face.

“Next year, won’t next year be 10,000 in the Magnolia Calendar? Holding our wedding on the ‘Magnolia Festival’ in the year 10000 of the Magnolia Calendar is just …… too, too wonderful.”

Alice also smiled somewhat happily as she spoke.

Looking at Alice’s happy smile, Karan’s heart burst with fulfillment.

“Alice, discuss with your father as soon as possible, and give me the guest list of your family’s side, so that I can make arrangements as soon as possible.”

Karan urged.

“En.”

Alice nodded softly.

Karan stroked Alice’s hair, his heart satisfied.

However, when he thought of the predicament the family was in today, there was some anxiety in Karan’s heart. Shortly after he got together with Alice, the Debus family had received an unprecedented drubbing – the Dawson Chamber of Commerce had abandoned it!

For the Debus family to be able to have its current splendor, it was inseparable from the Dawson Chamber of Commerce.

However, last December, the Dawson Chamber of Commerce directly announced that it had withdrawn its cooperation with the Debus Family, and handed over all kinds of businesses in the Finlay Kingdom to another family in the Finlay Kingdom, allowing another family to take over the position of the Debus Family.

And ……

Not only that, the Dawson Chamber of Commerce even suppressed the Debus Family, causing the Debus Family’s various businesses to lose money one after another.

“This Dawson Chamber of Commerce, why is it oppressing my family so much? Our Debus Family didn’t mess with the Dawson Chamber of Commerce.”

Kahlan’s heart was also troubled a lot, as the future heir of the family, Kahlan was naturally very concerned about this.

Also because this matter happened just after he told the family about Alice’s affair with himself, making many people within the family nowadays think that ‘Alice’ was a calamity.

Otherwise, why would the Dawson Chamber of Commerce, who had cooperated for so many years, abandon them?

But fortunately, over the years. The Debus family had accumulated a huge amount of wealth, and although they had suffered a huge loss, the Debus family at least still had some. However, the Debus family also understood that the Dawson Chamber of Commerce’s suppression due to unclear reasons had left their Debus family without any hope in ‘business’.

No one was willing to offend the Dawson Chamber of Commerce, a super giant, for them.

Therefore, they, the Debus Family, could only find another way out.

Shaking off his head and putting these troublesome matters behind him, Karan smiled and looked at Alice, “Alice, I heard that yesterday, the Proulx Hall exhibited a new stone sculpture that is said to be comparable to the works of those grandmasters. There are a lot of people watching it, should we go and take a look?”

Alice also felt bored, “Sure.”

Karan and Alice then took a carriage. Heading to the Proulx Guild Hall.

“This stone sculpture is said to be very impressive, these two days I’ve been busy preparing all sorts of things regarding our engagement as well as the big wedding. And I didn’t have the time to bring you here to see it.”

Karan jumped out of the carriage first, and then very gentlemanly took Alice’s hand to lead her down.

The two of them, Alice and Karan, then walked side by side into the Proulx Guild Hall.

“Big brother Karan, look, there are so many people.”

Alice’s eyes glowed as she pointed ahead.

The ‘Master’s Exhibition Hall’ in the deepest part of the Proulx Hall was packed with people. However, the ‘Master Exhibition Hall’ was very orderly, entering through one door and exiting through another. Each person was only allowed to stay for about three minutes.

Every three minutes, the viewers in the Masters’ Exhibition Hall must leave. Want to go back in to see ……

line, queue up again!

“What a long line.”

Karan was also surprised in his heart, he hadn’t seen the Proulx Hall so crowded in so many years.

Karan and Alice both also lined up according to the rules, the two of them probably lined up for a full twenty minutes. It was their turn to enter the master exhibition hall. This group of people entered the master exhibition hall. Immediately, one by one, they walked towards the front.

Curious Alice and Karan naturally also flocked towards the front.

But when Alice first saw the stone sculpture. The whole person was like being frozen, staring blankly at this giant stone sculpture in front of her. That beautiful five women stone sculpture, that each woman sculpture contains a special flavor.

Others were immersed in the meaning of the ‘Waking Dream’ stone sculpture.

But when Alice saw this stone sculpture, her mind couldn’t help but recall a scene from her past with Linley – the first time in despair, Linley descended like a god.

There was the scene on the balcony where the two of them hid under the balcony and talked all night. ……

The scene after scene surfaced, causing Alice to be completely dumbfounded. She really hadn’t thought that the ‘stone sculpture’ that had attracted so many people and reached the level of a Grandmaster was actually modeled after herself.

“Lin, Linley ……”

Alice’s mood was complicated to the extreme all of a sudden.

She looked towards the introduction posted next to her – “The author of this stone sculpture, ‘Lin Lei’, is seventeen years old this year, graduated from the Ernst Magic Academy, and now at the age of only seventeen, Lin Lei is already a level seven dual system magician, and he is the absolute number one magician in the entire Yulan Continent. Magnolia Continent’s absolute number one magical genius, even amongst the Magnolia Continent’s tens of thousands of years of history, Linley is the second magical genius in history.”

“However, Linley not only has such achievements in the field of magic, but his achievements in the field of stone carving are even greater, at the age of seventeen, this ‘Waking Dream’ stone carving ……” ……

A single word completely stunned Alice.

“It’s Linley, it’s Linley.”

Alice stared at the introduction in a bit of a daze, “A level seven dual system magician? He’s already a rank seven dual system magician? But, but last year he was only a rank five magician.”

Alice didn’t realize that before he broke up with her, Linley was already a rank six dual system magician. It was just that Linley had never had the chance to tell her.

“Dream Awakening, this stone sculpture is called ‘Dream Awakening’.”

Alice looked at the five humanoid sculptures of the stone carving, especially the last one that contained a desperate emotion, and she suddenly understood the true meaning of Linley naming this stone carving ‘Dream Awakening’.

“Dream, awake?”

Alice felt her mind in turmoil.

For the first man she had ever truly loved, Alice had always had Linley’s place in her heart. But when she realized that Linley had named this stone sculpture ‘Dream Awakening’, she suddenly felt as if she had lost something in her heart. -That feeling, it was hard.

Alice suddenly noticed that next to her, Karan’s face was extremely ugly, his fists were clenched tightly, his veins popping out, his face gloomy and terrifying. Eyes flickered with unspecified light, dead staring at that piece of stone sculpture.

“Big brother Karan.”

Alice shouted worriedly.

Karan simply ignored Alice.

“Linley, you, you’ve gone too far.”

Endless rage was all over Karan’s heart. In the past, although Karan’s attitude towards Linley had been very good, in the bottom of Karan’s heart, he had also somewhat despised Linley. In Karan’s opinion. It was that if Linley alone worked even harder, it would be hard to compare to a family of his.

After all, his family was relying on the giant ship that was the Dawson Chamber of Commerce.

But how long had it been? It had only been five months.

His Debus family had been abandoned by the Dawson Chamber of Commerce. And Linley? But Linley came out of nowhere, and at the age of seventeen, he had entered the realm of a Level 7 Dual System Magician. He was also known as the number one magical genius in the entire Magnolia Continent.

In the recorded history of the Yulan Continent, there was only one person who was slightly stronger than Linley.

“At only seventeen years old, a rank seven dual system magician, and a figure comparable to a stone sculpture master.”

Karan felt a wave of powerlessness.

The other party was too excellent.

But whirling around. Karan was endlessly furious.

Because the blue book of this stone sculpture was his fiancée!

“Hehe, you guys see, the woman in the ‘Waking Dream’ stone sculpture resembles this one?”

A voice suddenly rang out amongst the ‘Master’s Exhibition Hall’, and a dozen or so gazes looked towards Alice at once, and a murmur of discussion erupted.

Linley’s earthly stone carving ability was too strong, and had already brought out that divine charm completely.

Those watchers at the first sight of Alice. There was a feeling …… of this girl in front of them. With the ‘waking dream’ stone carving in the woman is too similar. It could simply be considered one and the same, that unique eyes. That slightly pointed nose.

“Miss, may I ask what relationship you have with Master Linley?”

An old man with hair that was all a little gray, now over a hundred years old, inquired politely to Alice.

In the art of stone carving, a master was a master.

Linley’s skill had already caused these collectors, who had studied stone carving for decades and centuries, to admire him. Calling them ‘masters’ was also from the bottom of their hearts. With this old man’s vision of studying stone carvings for over a hundred years, he naturally guessed that the woman in the stone carving was afraid to have an entangled relationship with Master Linley.

Alice was a little embarrassed and couldn’t help but look at Karan next to her.

“Oh, Karan, you’re also here.”

This old man looked towards Karan, old as he was, he could naturally see that Karan had a great relationship with this Alice, “Karan, who is this young lady?”

Although Karan was dissatisfied in his heart, he still bowed humbly and said, “Lord Duke Bernard, this is Miss Alice, my fiancée.”

“Fiancée?”

Duke Bernard thoughtfully glanced at Karan and Alice, smiled and said nothing more.

Karan pulled Alice and quickly fled back to the Debus family residence as if fleeing for his life.

The Debus family’s patriarch, Kahlan’s father ‘Leonard’ was looking at his son incredulously: ”What did you say? That the blueprint of the piece exhibited at the Proulx Guild Hall was Alice?”

Bernard still favored his son.

When his own son said he wanted to marry Alice, Bernard did not deny it. But when his own son’s relationship with Alice was finalized only a few days later, that Dawson Chamber of Commerce abandoned the Debus family for no reason. For this, Bernard had been begging the upper echelons of the Dawson Chamber of Commerce to seek a meeting.

For the past few months, Bernard had been busy with this matter. Even yesterday, when that piece of work from the Proulx Chamber was on display, he was too lazy to not go over there today.

“Alice, Blueprint is Alice?”

Bernard’s face instantly hardened.

Karan nodded, “Yes, father. Nowadays, Alice and I aren’t engaged, but once we are engaged, and Alice is known by a large number of nobles in the Holy Capital, then that stone sculpture work of Linley’s, ‘Awakening Dreams’, will surely be the biggest joke of our family.”

Bernard pondered for a moment, frowning as he looked at Karan and inquired, “It’s serious? Is there anything unseemly about this stone sculpture?”

“Father, between Linley and Alice, there was a ……”

Karan said vaguely, “And that stone carving work is about him and Alice.”

Bernard no longer spoke, but his brows furrowed deeply.

After a moment, Bernard looked at Karan, “Karan, if I ask you to give up Alice, are you willing to do so?”

Karan firmly shook his head, after all, he was only eighteen years old this year as well.

Bernard nodded slightly, “Alice, don’t worry, I’ll solve this matter, you just ignore it.”

Kahlan nodded, suddenly Kahlan clenched his teeth and looked at his father, “Father, I’m with Alice, that Linley must be very dissatisfied with me, and nowadays Linley’s potential is too great, I think …… we can find a way to kill Linley?”