Episode 6: The Road to Revenge Chapter 1: The Dusty Past

Hillman’s clothes on his shoulders, which had been grasped by Linley’s pair of dragon claws, were pierced, and bright red blood slowly seeped out, staining the clothes red.

But Hillman acted as if he hadn’t realized it in the slightest.

Hillman stared at Linley and said in a deep voice, “Linley, calm down first.”

“Tell me.”

Linley stared at Linley.

Hillman said solemnly, “The cavalry team behind us will be coming over soon, so don’t let anyone else know about your family’s affairs for now. You come with me first.”

Hillman broke away from Linley’s sharp claws and grabbed Linley’s arm, which was covered in black dragon scales, and then tried to yank Linley towards the clan hall, but the yank didn’t budge.

“Linley.”

Hillman turned his head around and came over, somewhat enraged.

“Uncle Hillman, I know how light it is.”

Linley’s face sank like water, but he took a deep breath, and the dragon scales covering his arms were once again incorporated into his body. The entire person returned to his normal appearance. As he squatted down to cradle this warblade ‘Slaughter’ in his arms once more, Linley heard the sound of hoofbeats outside.

That cavalry team from the Illuminati had finally arrived.

Linley glanced back indifferently, but regardless of them, he directly said to Hillman, “Uncle Hillman, lead the way in front of you.”

“Good.”

Hillman also felt better in his heart when he saw that Linley was able to calm down, and immediately led Linley in the direction of the clan hall. As for Linley, he was still sullen, and at this moment, I’m afraid that apart from Linley himself, no one else could even imagine the deep hurt hidden beneath Linley’s calm surface.

The shadowrat ‘Bebe’ and Derinkelwalt didn’t make a sound.

They were connected to Linley’s soul, and naturally felt Linley’s unprecedented hurt and sadness.

The wind rose and swept up the withered leaves on the stone path that had existed for an unknown number of years.

“Creak-”

Hillman pushed open the door to the clan hall before looking towards Linley, who stepped inside with a stoic expression on his face as he held his battle sword ‘Slaughter’. However, his gaze lingered on the rows and rows of spirit seats within the clan hall, and with Linley’s eyesight nowadays, he could clearly see that newest frontmost row.

On the front were only the words ‘Hogbaruch’.

Linley, who still had a hint of fantasy, felt his head spin, but he still stood firm. And then Linley walked forward holding the battle knife ‘Slaughter’, and eventually placed this giant battle knife ‘Slaughter’ on the stone table where the spirit seat was placed.

Linley looked at the spirit seat, a quiet smile appearing on his face as he said softly, “Father, I’m back.”

“I know that your greatest wish in this life is to retrieve the treasure of the family’s inheritance, and even to recreate the glory of our Dragonblood Warrior Clanlands.”

It was as if Linley was worried about startling anyone. The voice that spoke was very soft and very careful.

Linley gazed at the spirit seat, “I have not disappointed you. I’ve brought back my Baruch clan, my Dragonblood Warrior clan’s inherited treasure, the warblade ‘Slaughter’.”

“Now. I brought back the warblade ‘Slaughter’, and soon, I will also bring back the glory of my Dragonblood Warrior Clan. I will let the entire Yulan Continent know about the glory of the Dragonblood Warrior Clan, and I will also let your name be known by the entire Yulan Continent.”

“I swear, I will do all of this.”

Linley’s face suddenly had an extra hint of fury, “Of course before that, I’m going to avenge you.”

There was no doubt. His own father, Hogg, must have been killed.

Otherwise, with his father’s strength as a rank six warrior. Plus being in his prime, he simply wouldn’t have been taken by the usual sickness. If he died of disease. Uncle Hillman would not have covered it up. With Linley’s intuition, his father’s death was by no means ordinary.

“The person who killed you. I will definitely want him to die as well!”

Linley’s eyes seemed to have more than a hint of the cold, dark gold color of the Spineback Ironclad Dragon, the dark gold color that made hearts tremble.

Linley snapped his head around to look at Hillman, “Uncle Hillman, tell me, how exactly did my father die? Also, father, where is he buried? And you said that father has been dead for more than three months, so why haven’t you told me.”

Hillman opened his mouth, but no words came out.

“Linley, calm down first.”

Hillman said slowly.

Calm down?

Calm down how?

“How I longed to be able to let my father see the Warblade ‘Slaughter’ with his own eyes, how I longed to let my father see that I too could become a Dragonblood Warrior, how I wanted to see my father’s smile, that delighted smile after seeing the Warblade ‘Slaughter ‘ after seeing the war knife ‘slaying’ the gratified smile, that see himself become ‘dragon blood warrior’ proud smile! However …… none of this is possible anymore.”

Linley felt his heart twisting.

This was when Hillman had to tell him to calm down!

Linley wanted to angrily rebuke Hillman, but he held back. Taking a deep breath he swallowed all his unwillingness and anger into his stomach. Linley stared at Hillman, “Uncle Hillman, tell me everything that happened, I want to know everything.”

“Your father died, three months ago. But before your father died, he instructed me …… not to tell you the cause of his death unless you reach seventh level warrior strength.”

Hillman said solemnly.

“Seventh level warrior?”

“Right.”

Hillman gently nodded and said, “This is also the reason why I went to your academy to look for you, but I didn’t tell you the news of your father’s death. According to your father’s wishes before he died, he wanted you to try to cultivate as peacefully as possible without knowing the news of his death.”

Hillman looked at Linley, “Linley, it’s not that I’m not willing to tell you, but because this was your father’s dying wish, I can’t go against it. Unless you reach the strength of a rank seven warrior, I will be able to tell you everything.”

Linley understood.

A level seven warrior?

Linley sheathed a leather ground book from his arms and handed it to Hillman.

“This is?”

Hillman took it in a daze.

“Proof of magician level.”

Linley’s face was stoic.

Every magician was issued this magician’s certificate from the very beginning when they were assessed for rank. For every level up, there would be a record on this.

Hillman lifted the book, and there were seven dazzling stars on both the Earth and Wind systems.

“Level seven, level seven dual system magician?”

Hillman was shaken. Unbelievably, he looked at Linley.

How old was Linley?

Seventeen years old.

What did it mean to be a seventeen year old dual system magician? Hillman wasn’t sure, but he knew. In the entirety of the Finlay Kingdom, the most powerful magician was only a rank eight magician. But that was an old man of over a hundred years old.

Hillman still remembered when he was in the army, when a rank seven magician arrived, that kind of grandeur, that kind of prestige.

But little Linley, whom he had watched grow up, had turned out to be a rank seven dual system magician in the blink of an eye.

“This, this is true?”

Hillman asked a very stupid thing, and Hillman knew that this wizard proof would never be fake.

“Uncle Hillman. You can tell me the truth now.”

Linley stared at Hillman.

With a nod, Hillman headed towards the middle of the secret room at the back of the clan hall. He came out after only a moment, walking over to Linley and taking out a letter from his arms. Handing it over to Linley, he said softly, ”This is the letter your father left before he died. You’ll know everything once you read it.”

Linley’s slightly trembling hands reached out and took the letter.

There was no handwriting on the envelope.

Opening the envelope, there were a full two pages of content inside.

“Linley: by the time you open this letter, I may have died a long, long time ago.

For you and Walden, I have endless apologies in my heart, but I have no way to make it up to you anymore. I just want you to be able to spend as much time as possible in peace, so I’ll let you Uncle Hillman. I will give this letter to you when you reach the seventh level of warrior. “Seeing this. Linley’s heart sank.

Letting himself spend some time in peace? I’m afraid that his father wouldn’t have imagined that he would become a rank seven magician so quickly. After all, at a normal rate, going from level six to level seven. It was something that took a very long time.

“Linley, I’ve been harboring a secret in my heart, your mother didn’t die in childbirth because she gave birth to Walden.”

This sentence from his father’s ground shook Linley’s heart.

From a young age, Linley had known that his mother had died in childbirth because she gave birth to Walden. But now it seemed that it was actually just a lie.

“Back then, your mother was pregnant again, she and I were both very happy, but the medical conditions in our Wushan Township were too poor, your mother and I set off for Finlay City, in the middle of Finlay City, your mother safely gave birth to little Wharton, little Wharton was very adorable, your mother and I were both very happy, not long after little Wharton was given birth, your mother and I took little Wharton to the Temple of the God of Light to pray for Wharton’s blessing. That day your mother and I were both very happy, and afterward we left the Temple of Light and stayed at a hotel in Finlay City for one night.”

“It was that night that a group of mysterious people came to the hotel and directly snatched your mother. I was outnumbered and only managed to save Walden, but I also saw that one of the murderers had the birthmark of a red spider on his arm.”

Seeing this, Linley felt as if he had traveled back to that night a dozen years ago.

With a group of mysterious people besieging and robbing him, his outnumbered father could only keep Walden, and could only watch as he was powerless to save his beloved wife.

“I know, that group of people are not ordinary people, the weakest is a level 4 warrior, the strongest one is even stronger than me, fortunately those people’s purpose is only your mother, otherwise I would have been killed long ago. To be able to send out such a team, they are not small people in Finlay City. I did not dare to make a noise, I returned with little Walden, and to the public just said that your mother died in childbirth. And this secret is known to the housekeeper, Hilly, and your Uncle Hillman.”

When Linley saw this, his mind was puzzled.

Among that group of people, the strongest was even stronger than his own father. But they didn’t care about their father, they just snatched their mother. But what exactly was it about the mother that was worth snatching from the other side?

“I can’t tell you guys about this, for more than ten years, I have been hiding this secret deep in my heart. I don’t dare to say …… to the outside world even I can’t go alone to inquire about your mother, whether she is alive or dead, who is that group of people in the end? I dare not inquire.”

His father’s words also caused Linley’s heart to clench painfully.

“I am the heir of the Dragonblood Warrior clan, so at the very least I must raise you all. I can’t let the Baruch clan break its roots. I have held back year after year, yet every late night I have trouble sleeping, whether your mother is alive or dead, this has always tormented me. I endured …… I endured for eleven years!”

“Linley, you very much make me proud. First, you became a student of the first magic academy of the Yulan continent, and then you became a genius of the Ernst Magic Academy, I have great confidence in you. Even the concentration of the Dragonblood Warrior bloodline in Walden’s body has reached the required level. I’m proud that both my sons are so outstanding, I can afford to be worthy of the Baruch family’s forefathers! But even at this point in time, I didn’t dare to inquire about your mother’s matter because Walton still needs a lot of money to pay the expensive tuition fees.”

“I have endured for eleven years, when you handed me a large number of magic crystal cores that you obtained from the magical beast mountain range, that day I knew …… that I could finally drop everything to inquire about your mother’s life and death, even though for these eleven years your mother has not come back, and in all likelihood, your mother is already dead. But I don’t want to give up, even if I die, I still want to avenge her.”

Linley’s hands trembled as he saw this.

Linley understood that in the past, because his father had been responsible for his younger brother’s expensive tuition fees, he hadn’t dared to go and look into his mother’s affairs without regard for life or death. But his own magic crystal core, which was worth nearly eighty thousand gold coins, had completely unburdened his father.

“I was finally able to go and investigate, I changed my appearance and changed my identity to sneak into the middle of Finlay City. I began to track down the events of that year.”

“But it was too long ago, I only knew that there was a red spider’s birthmark on my arm, and it took me nearly a whole year of probing before I finally found the person with the red spider’s birthmark. Along this line I continue to check, gradually …… I finally know the characters behind this group of people.”

“The instructor behind this group of people is none other than Duke Patterson, His Majesty King Clyde’s own younger brother, among the royal family of the current Finlay Kingdom.”