Episode 6: The Road to Revenge Chapter 2: The Decision

Among the Yulan Continent, only the emperor of an empire had the right to anoint his brother as a ‘king’.

The status of a ‘king’ was comparable to the king of a kingdom. And a king of a kingdom could at most appoint his own brother as a duke. That was already to the top.

And the grand duke of a duchy was actually a duke.

Empire, Kingdom, Duchy. It’s in descending order.

Duke Patterson?

His Majesty King Clyde’s own brother?

Linley knew very well that the royal family of the Finlay Kingdom, the ‘Boleyn Family’, was a very powerful family. The two brothers of the Boleyn family were also very powerful warriors. The king, ‘Clyde’, was even known as the pride of the Finlay Kingdom, as he was a rank nine powerhouse.

As for Patterson, although he was not as good as his brother, he was also a rank seven warrior. It was at least considered a strong man.

“Duke Patterson?”

A hint of killing intent surged from the bottom of Linley’s heart.

Linley continued to read on – “I infiltrated Duke Patterson’s residence as an underling, and after many crises and the use of some special means, I ended up capturing the leader amongst that mysterious team of people in the first place, that rank seven warrior. To him, I used some torture means, he finally explained …… that Duke Patterson instructed them to do so, just according to this seventh level warrior’s statement, when they captured your mother Lina, your mother seems to have been sent away by Duke Patterson to send another team. Apparently, there is another figure behind Duke Patterson.”

“Before I had time to continue investigating, the disappearance of that rank seven warrior caused Paderson’s alarm, and although I was prepared, I was already seriously injured when I killed a few experts and escaped from Finlay City. I carefully sneaked back into the middle of the family. In addition to your uncle Hillman, I did not let anyone else know. I knew that my earthly injuries were too severe to wait long, and I only had time to leave such a letter for you.”

“Linley, father was not a good father, and was too cold to you in the past. I’m not asking for your forgiveness, I just want you to calm down a bit. You have seventh level strength, so I’m afraid you have a bit of a backbone to investigate.

But you must be careful. Neither I, nor your mother Lina. Neither want you to die because of us. “”Linley, I’m leaving. Now that you’re the head of the Baruch family, everything in the family is in your hands.”

“This moment. How much I want to see the Warblade ‘Slaughter’, but I know that it’s just a luxury. Lin Lei …… work hard, the family’s everything depends on you and little Walton, father in this life is most proud to have you, and Walton these two sons.”

Looking at the trace of blood on the drop.

Flames emerged from Linley’s hands.

“Snort,” the letter was burned to ashes in the blink of an eye.

Next to him, Hillman couldn’t help but look at Linley.

Not only was Hillman not angry that his father’s last relic had been burned by Linley like this. Instead, he nodded secretly in his heart. This letter was a relic though. But it also contained that secret, and it would be bad if it fell into the hands of an outsider.

Linley turned his head to look at Hillman, “Uncle Hillman. I’m going to ask you for something.”

“Say it.”

Hillman looked at Linley.

Hillman already had preparations to go help Linley take revenge.

Linley reached out and picked up the giant warblade ‘Slaughter’ before looking at Hillman: “Uncle Hillman, this warblade ‘Slaughter’ is the inherited treasure of my Baruch family’s land. I hope that you can send this battle knife ‘Slaughter’ to my brother Walton in the O’Brien Empire and hand it over to him!”

“O’Brien Empire? Then here ……”

Hillman was getting a little worried about Linley.

Linley solemnly said, “Uncle Hillman, don’t worry. I’m a rank seven dual system magician now, and it’s the Illuminati that holds me in high regard. Even His Majesty Clyde, King of the Nafenrai Kingdom, treats me with great courtesy. You don’t need to worry about my safety.”

Hillman was only a warrior, and was not clear about what a seventeen year old level seven dual system magician really meant.

Even more than that, he didn’t know that Linley was a stone carving master whose status was close to that of a stone carving master like Proulx and Hopkinson, whose status was exalted.

“Like this, then.”

Hillman’s brows furrowed.

“When you deliver the Warblade ‘Slaughter’ to my brother, stay with Grandpa Healy and take care of my brother. I have everything here, and one person is enough.”

Linley’s voice was low but with a hint of indifference.

There was only one person in the entire Holy Alliance, and none of his loved ones were present. What was he afraid of then?

Linley already had the determination to avenge his father and find out what happened to his mother. Was mother alive or dead? In the depths of his heart, Linley still expected his mother to be alive, and although the hope was very slim, Linley didn’t want to give up.

“Stay in the O’Brien Empire?”

Hillman mused for a moment, he did have a family on this side of Usan Town after all.

However, for a rank six warrior like him, he wasn’t worried about running out of food anywhere he went.

“Uncle Hillman, you bring your family over. Also, here is a magic crystal card, there is no fingerprint record on this magic crystal card, there is one million gold coins deposited on this magic crystal card.

You take this one magic crystal card with you and bring it along to the O’Brien Empire for me. “Linley took out a magic crystal card from his bosom and handed it to Hillman.

“One million gold coins?”

Hillman looked at Linley in shock.

One million gold coins, that was an absolutely enormous amount of money. When Hogg was alive, he had to sell the family’s belongings for a few thousand gold coins. And even if he had sold his entire ancestral home, I’m afraid it would have been less than a hundred thousand gold coins. But Linley had pulled out a million gold coins on a magic crystal card in one go.

“Linley, you, where did you get this money?”

Hillman couldn’t help but inquire.

“Uncle Hillman, don’t ask too many questions here. You’ll naturally know in the future.”

Linley was indeed annoyingly uncomfortable in his heart right now, and was in no mood to show off his achievements in stone carving.

Hillman nodded slightly.

“Linley wait a moment.”

Hillman once again ran into the middle of the secret room at the back of the sect hall, from which he took out an altar and handed it to Linley.

“This is …….”

Linley’s gaze was already unable to shift away from this altar, he was even able to guess what was in it.

Hillman instructed, “Linley, this is your father’s ashes, when your father died. I didn’t dare to publicize it to the public. I didn’t even dare to bury your father publicly, so I could only place the ashes in the middle of a secret room and wait for you to return.”

Linley received this urn, but felt that it was very, very heavy.

Powerful winds whistled, there was a graveyard on a cemetery not far outside of Wushan Town, and at this time an extremely luxurious brand new graveyard had already been constructed. The short-haired Linley was sitting cross-legged in front of a tombstone.

This graveyard had been constructed by Lin Lei in one night, and with Lin Lei’s strength nowadays, moving those boulders was a breeze. Coupled with the fact that Linley had already reached the carving level of a stone carving master, this cemetery was indeed very lavishly constructed.

The wind was howling, but Linley stayed still.

“Linley.”

Hillman appeared behind Linley, carrying the box of that warblade ‘Slaughter’.

Linley didn’t open his eyes. It merely said, “Uncle Hillman, the warblade ‘Slaughter’ is given to you. My brother Warden is also in your hands and Grandpa Hilly’s. Take care of everything on the road. I won’t see you off.”

Hillman looked at Linley’s back as he sat cross-legged on the ground, and then at the tombstone. Finally, he nodded and wordlessly left.

Hillman left.

Taking the battle knife ‘Slaughter’ with him, he left.

From today onwards, apart from the servants, Linley was the only one left in the ancient mansion of the Baruch family in the town of Wushan.

Suddenly – Linley opened his eyes and gazed at the tombstone.

“Father, I swore that I would make all murderers pay.”

Linley instantly turned around and left. And the shadowrat ‘Bebe’ stood on Linley’s shoulder not daring to make a sound in the slightest. …… “Lord Hogg has unexpectedly died. This, this is really.”

A group of residents in the land of Wushan Town were feeling bad about Hogg’s death.

“What a good nobleman. Surprisingly, he died just like that. I don’t know what the future holds for us in Wu Shan Town, Lord Hogg has kept his taxes so low for so many years, even going so far as to subsidize money to the kingdom. Where can we find such a good noble lord.”

The beaters learned the residents of Wenteng Boiling Wushan Town. Also remembered Hogg’s kindness.

Nowadays, the Baruch family residence is hung with a white cloth, and Linley is also wearing a suit of mourning, quietly kneeling in front of the spirit seat in the center of the living room. Shadow mouse ‘Beibei’ also lying on the side of Lin Lei did not dare to make a sound, as if also in the feeling of Lin Lei’s pain.

Seven days of mourning.

Although this mourning came a bit late.

And today was the first day of mourning.

“Master Linley, Lord Gilmer and the others are waiting for you, Master Linley.”

The leader of that Illuminati knight squad whispered beside Linley.

Linley turned his head and gave him a cold look, and this knight leader couldn’t help but feel terrified at the bottom of his heart.

“Observe your filial piety for seven days, and within seven days, I won’t pay any attention to whatever is going on.”

Linley said indifferently, before falling silent again.

This knight squad leader couldn’t help but feel helpless in his heart.

However, he understood what was in Linley’s heart; when a father died, it was only natural for a son to observe filial piety. The knight squad leader immediately walked out of the living room and ordered his men to go to Finlay City to report the matter about Linley to the Church of Light.

“Young Master Linley, don’t be too sad.”

Some of the residents of Wushan Town also came in in an endless stream, kowtowing to Hogg’s spirit. They all remembered the favors that Huo Ge had given them while he was alive.

Linley didn’t make a sound, only bending over to thank these residents.

The news quickly spread to the Illuminati, whose Cardinal Archbishops Gilmer and Lampson weren’t very surprised.

“Linley’s father died?”

Gilmer nodded slightly, “No wonder when Linley reached level seven Dual System Magician, I sent someone to check on Linley’s father, but I couldn’t find out anything at all. It turns out that he’s already dead.”

There were a total of five Cardinal Archbishops in the Church of Light, and Linley’s matter was mainly the responsibility of the Gilmer and Lampson duo.

“Gilmer, let’s quickly prepare something and go pay our respects to Linley’s father.”

Lampson proposed.

Gilmer nodded as well.

In fact, with Hogg’s identity, wouldn’t he cause the Cardinal to pay his respects, it was just that Hogg was Linley’s father after all. And Linley’s future achievements were unlimited, and he was also an important pillar of the future that had been internalized by the Illuminati.

“Good, now that it’s already dark, then, we’ll immediately depart first thing in the morning.” …… As soon as Hogg’s death was made public, coupled with the fact that the Kingdom of Finlay had already designated Linley as an important figure, the news of Hogg’s death reached the Palace of the Kingdom of Finlay in just half a day, and the speed was only a little slower than that of the Illuminati.

“Linley’s father is dead?”

Clyde also nodded his head secretly, when Linley had reached a level seven dual system magician, he had also looked up information about Linley’s father, and had even told Linley that his father had disappeared. He hadn’t expected that this Linley’s father would actually be dead.

“Let’s go pay our respects first thing tomorrow morning.”

Clyde made the same decision.

Not only Clyde, some of the powerful figures throughout Finlay City had quickly gotten this piece of news from the palace, and quite a few of the people who worshipped Grandmaster Lin Lei, or those who had the intention of befriending Lin Lei, were all prepared to immediately go to this small place of Wushan Town first thing the next morning to pay homage to Lin Lei’s father.

And at this time, Linley was still quietly observing his mourning in the middle of his ancestral house in Wu Shan Town.