Episode 6: The Road to Revenge Chapter 18: The Visit

Alice felt her heart quake all of a sudden, a fiery emotion filling her heart, it was gratitude, it was endless apologies.

“Big brother Linley, thank you, thank you.”

Alice couldn’t help but say, tears already welling up in her eyes at this moment. These were tears of excitement.

Linley smiled faintly, “Go back, I’ll go to the royal palace to meet with His Majesty this afternoon.”

Linley could feel that he was at peace in his heart now that he was facing Alice, looking at Alice as if he were looking at a female friend with whom he had some friendship. That was all!

“En, thank you.”

Alice glanced at Linley and then turned her head away, her heart complex.

Originally, Alice was afraid that because she had hurt Linley in the past, it would cause Linley to hate Karan, causing Linley to not go to Karan’s rescue, but Linley’s reaction was very much out of her expectations. Linley wasn’t the slightest bit agitated and was calm.

Looking at Alice’s departing back, Linley then sat down, picked up a fruit and casually ate it. Bebe emerged from the side at this time.

“Boss, you’re still helping that Alice, if it were me, I would’ve blown her out the door long ago, it’s good that I didn’t slap her to death.”

Bebe said in dissatisfaction.

Linley glanced at Bebe, “Bebe, people aren’t magical beasts.”

Delinquent Corvette flew out of the Ring of Coiled Dragons at this time, looking at Linley with a pleased gaze, “Linley, you’ve done very well. I was a little worried that you wouldn’t childishly drive her away and fall on your sword.”

“Childish?”

Linley was stunned.

In Derinkelwalt’s opinion, that kind of behavior was indeed childish.

“Right, women, when can’t you find one?”

Derinkelwalt laughed.

Linley was instantly speechless, and he was very disapproving of Grandpa Delin’s viewpoint. Derlin Corvette’s views were more similar to his good brothers Yale and Reno.

“Alright, enough of that, I’m going to continue to go cultivate.”

Linley immediately got up and walked towards the spring garden again.

For Linley. Alice coming to beg him was just an episode in his life. It didn’t affect him at all, the most important thing in Linley’s mind today was …… to avenge his parents. His Majesty, he’s in his study working on matters of state, so please ask Lord Linley to follow me to the study.”

That court attendant said respectfully.

Linley nodded.

With Bebe standing on Linley’s shoulder, Linley so followed behind the court attendant towards the study. After walking for quite a while. Linley finally arrived at the study.

“Your Majesty. Lord Linley has arrived!”

The court attendant shouted from outside the door.

Clyde, who was reviewing an article, couldn’t help but raise his head, and when that pair of tiger eyes saw Linley, his gaze couldn’t help but flourish. Laughing excitedly, he said, “Linley, come in quickly, the two of us won’t need to be too formal.”

“Yes. Your Majesty.”

Linley stepped into the study with a light smile. Clyde, in Linley’s opinion was indeed a very brash person, especially towards himself, that was more than courteous, and had never used his position as king to oppress Linley.

“If there hadn’t been the matter of my parents, perhaps I would have become friends with you, but unfortunately one day I will have to kill him. Right now there is a lack of ground. It’s just the opportunity.”

Linley’s heart to kill Clyde hadn’t hesitated in the slightest.

The moment there was an opportunity. It was absolutely possible to kill him with a single sword strike.

Clyde clinked wine glasses with Linley, and after taking a sip, inquired, “Linley. You rarely take the initiative to come to the palace. What is it that you, the palace’s number one magician, have come to see me about today?”

Linley smiled.

The first court magician had many duties, but Linley hadn’t been burdened with any of them. Many things were still left to the other court magicians. And Clyde had never forced himself. Linley was in the Kingdom of Finlay. It was just a name. Sort of indicating …… that he, Linley, was considered to be on Clyde’s side.

“I’ve come today, and there is indeed one thing.”

Linley smiled as he looked at Clyde, “The Debus family is suspected of smuggling, didn’t His Majesty send someone to arrest Bernard and his son, Karan?”

“There is such a thing.”

Clyde lifted his eyebrows and looked at Linley, “What, are you going to intercede for their family as well?”

These days, there were many nobles who had interceded for the Debus family, and the reason why so many nobles had helped was still that the Debus family’s money had worked.

“If you really want to save their family, I can give you this face.”

Clyde said boldly.

What Clyde really wanted to do was just to destroy the power his brother Padson had built up, as for the Debus family, it was just a matter of settling it in passing. He was completely letting the Debus family off the hook while earning Linley a favor. After all, even if he let the Debus family off the hook, he could just as easily have slaughtered the Debus family viciously.

“No.”

Linley, however, shook his head, “I’m not speaking for their family as a favor.”

“What?”

Clyde looked at Linley in confusion.

Linley said casually, “Your Majesty Clyde, whether or not the Debus family is smuggling, all of this naturally has to be done in public.”

“Oh?”

Clyde looked quizzically at Linley, “Then Linley today you came, is ……”

Linley said with a smile, “I was wondering if the Debus family is suspected of smuggling, Your Majesty, you just arrest the patriarch Bernard, as for his son, there’s no need to arrest him. After all, what’s the point of arresting an heir? You arrest the first heir, they still have the second heir, and as long as their family isn’t extinct, there’s naturally someone who can replace them. “Linley, what do you mean?”

Clyde looked at Linley.

Linley looked at Clyde, “Your Majesty, please also release Karan.”

“Oh, letting Karan go, I heard that Karan is with you?”

Clyde had been checking on Linley very carefully, and naturally knew the relationship between Linley, Karan, and Alice.

Linley, however, smiled helplessly, “Your Majesty, that was all a long time ago.”

Clyde, however, reminded, “Linley, let me remind you that, according to my people’s research, that Karan is extremely narrow-minded and can hold grudges.”

“I know.”

Linley nodded slightly.

After a few encounters with Karan, Linley had sensed Karan’s hostility towards himself. There was also …… the fact that, according to Linley’s knowledge, his own Dream Awakening stone sculpture had once been vandalized by someone in a vain attempt to destroy it during the seven days of the exhibition.

Destroying the stone sculpture was detrimental.

Other than Karan, Linley couldn’t think of anyone else who would send someone to destroy the Dream Awakening Stone Sculpture.

“Then you’re still helping him?”

Clyde continued.

“Sire Clyde. You say that I need to care about a short-sighted little man like him?”

Linley laughed and looked at Clyde, who couldn’t help but stare, then laughed.

“Right. That kalan was an old acquaintance of yours in the past. Nowadays, he doesn’t want to befriend you, and is instead hostile to you. Instead, his father has repeatedly tried to befriend you. Karan is indeed much shorter-sighted compared to his father.”

Clyde said with a big smile as well.

Clyde patted Linley on the shoulder, “Don’t worry, I’ll instruct Merit to be sure to be impartial, and the facts must be investigated clearly. Definitely won’t wrongly accuse the Debus family. But if the Debus family is really suspected of smuggling, I won’t let it escape punishment either.”

“Right, a public matter.”

Linley nodded and said.

Sitting on the carriage going back, Bebe was lying on Linley’s lap.

“Wow, boss, you’re too sinister, that Debus family is definitely smuggling, when the time comes, their family is finished. Even if Karan goes out now, won’t he be just as miserable in the future?”

Bebe said excitedly. Bebe had long wanted to exterminate Karan. Linley shook his head and smiled, “It’s hard to say if the Debus family is really finished. For example, they could send most of the family’s money directly to Clyde. Clyde might let them live. But no matter what. They fall into Clyde’s hands and shed their skin without dying.”

Linley was well aware of the darkness within the aristocratic circle. Saying that it was public service was just a house of cards. “Compared to Clyde, the Debus family is far worse.”

Linley shook his head and said darkly.

A tiny card blue, Linley had never looked at it in the eyes. That kalan wasn’t even on the same level as Linley. It was Clyde that Linley was dealing with!

“My lord, it’s here.”

The horseman driving the car said respectfully.

Linley lifted the carriage door and stepped down, and Bebe leapt onto Linley’s shoulders. Just as Linley was about to walk into the mansion, one of the guards at the nearby gatekeeper’s land respectfully said, “My lord, a guest has just arrived, and he’s waiting for you in the living room, my lord.”

“A guest, in the parlor?”

Linley was puzzled.

Often, there were nobles who sought to see Linley, but those nobles had to wait outside the gates without Linley’s consent. Only people of high status, such as Duke Bernard, His Majesty Clyde, and Lord Gilmer, would directly enter the parlor. There was no need to wait outside the door.

“Who is he?”

Linley couldn’t help but ask after him.

“I don’t know, but he’s holding a Cardinal Earth token.”

The guard respectfully said, this guard was also from the Church of Light, and was very familiar with the cardinal archbishop’s token.

There was only one cardinal’s token for each cardinal. Of course, some extremely powerful ascetics might also have one. This token represented a status, representing that the person holding the token had a status no lower than that of a Cardinal Archbishop.

“A token?”

Linley was startled.

At that moment, without hesitation, Linley immediately walked towards the living room, and when Linley crossed the corridor and saw the silhouettes in the living room, he couldn’t help but be surprised in his heart.

At the moment, in the living room was a middle-aged man wearing loose robes and long black hair, looking only thirty or forty years old, giving off a feeling of lethargy.

When Linley looked at this middle-aged man, the middle-aged man seemed to be aware of it and immediately looked over, a look of surprise in his eyes, “Master Linley, you’re here?”

“Master Linley?”

Linley was puzzled in his mind, but he quickly entered the middle of the living room.

“You’re, oh, I remember, you’re the one who once offered ten million gold coins.”

Linley recalled that it was this middle-aged man who had quoted for the auction of the Dream Awakening Stone Sculpture.

This middle-aged man nodded happily, “I didn’t expect Master Linley to remember me, it really makes me feel excited. By the way, let me introduce myself, my name is …… Hisser!”

“Hise?”

Linley hadn’t heard of this name at all.

“Heather?”

Drinkwater’s voice abruptly sounded in Linley’s mind, “I didn’t realize that this little pervert, Hisser, was still staying in the material plane that is the Yulan Continent.”

Linley was stunned.

Grandpa Delin knew this Hisser? What era was Grandpa Delin from then? If he knew, then how old was this Hisser?

“Linley, this Hisser is a very perverted fellow. He cultivates very quickly and kills without blinking an eye. When I was alive, Hise had already stepped into the Saint realm. Although he only entered the Saint realm for the first time back then, now that more than 5,000 years have passed, I’m afraid that his strength is even more astonishing given his speed of cultivation.”

Linley’s heart twitched viciously.

The middle-aged man in front of him, who appeared to be only thirty or forty years old, had actually been a Saint realm powerhouse when Derinkovot was alive. Derinkelwalt had only lived for over a thousand years before he died, but this Hisser, if you did the math, had been around six thousand years old at the very least.

A six thousand year old pervert!

“Master Linley, what’s wrong with you?”

Hisser said with concern, “You don’t seem to be looking too good.”

“It’s nothing, Mr. Hisser, please take a seat.”

Linley tried to keep himself calm, but when he thought of the other party’s identity, Linley couldn’t help but feel a little shocked in the bottom of his heart.

A six-thousand year old, a powerful person who had lived until now during the era of the Puan Empire. He had stepped into the Holy Realm back then, and now?

“Ah Master Linley, I’m a great admirer of your stone carving skills, if it wasn’t for that little girl Delia requesting me, I would have bought your stone carving that day.”

This Hisser skimmed his lips and said, then his eyes lit up as he looked towards Linley, “Master Linley, when are you and that Delia going to get married?”

“Marry?”

Even though he was no longer shocked by Hisser’s identity, upon hearing these words, Linley couldn’t help but look at Hisser with wide eyes.