Episode 6: The Road to Revenge Chapter 9: The Engagement

“Lord Falling Leaf.”

Seeing that Linley was so rude, Gilmer hurriedly made amends with ‘Falling Leaves’, “Lord Falling Leaves, this Linley is only seventeen years old this year, I hope that Lord Falling Leaves will be able to forgive him for his disrespect.”

Gilmer was well aware of the influence of ‘Falling Leaves’ in the Church of Light, this Lord Falling Leaves could be considered the spiritual leader of the ascetics. It was the Pope of Light who was unable to forcefully order Falling Leaves to do anything.

Falling Leaf’s right hand, which was as wrinkled and tangled as a chicken’s claw, gently stroked his disheveled beard, looking at the distant Linley’s back with interest: ”Disrespectful? No, no. I can’t say it’s disrespectful, I can only say that this brat does things very decisively.”

Gilmer was stunned.

He hadn’t expected Lord Falling Leaf, who had initially had a bad impression of Linley, to now seem to appreciate Linley.

“Gilmer.”

Falling Leaf looked towards Gilmer.

“Lord Falling Leaf, please command.”

Gilmer said respectfully.

Falling Leaf smiled and said, “This Linley has murderous intent running through his heart, and he’s a resolute person. I think that a person like him wouldn’t hesitate no matter what he does or kills. Such a person is best suited to become a sharp sword for our Illuminati.”

Gilmer understood what Falling Leaves meant.

Although the teachings of the Illuminati were to persuade people to be good. However, the Illuminati was equally ruthless in its treatment of heretics, which required ruthless people. This was also the reason why the Inquisition was formed in the first place.

“Perhaps in the future, this young man called Linley will become the new Inquisition’s first Inquisitor.”

Falling Leaves said softly.

Gilmer couldn’t help but look towards the back of the departing Linley.

Magister of the Inquisition?

Gilmer knew very well that the Inquisition’s ‘Magister’ could be considered the number two figure of the Illuminati. To a certain extent, one could even consider the Inquisition’s ‘magistrate’ to be on par with the Pope of Light.

The Pope of Light was the highest authority in the Holy See.

And the Inquisition ‘magistrate’, is the darkness of the Church of Light. The head of the highest force organ!

“Lord Falling Leaves, are you willing to guide him?”

Gilmer followed up with another question.

Falling Leaves, however, still shook his head.

“Why?”

Gilmer was a bit confused, since he appreciated the other party why was he not willing to guide him again?

Falling Leaves shook his head and said, “My cultivation method is not suitable for him, the path I follow requires people with pure hearts and yearning for light to practice. And the path he …… walks should be the path of killing.”

Gilmer nodded.

“Gilmer, you don’t need to choose a teacher for him. Truly strong people rely on their own comprehension to walk out a path of their own. What others teach is always what others comprehend.”

Falling Leaves looked at Gilmer, “You are now a ninth level Grand Magus. But why have I never guided you? It is this reason. Even if I tell you my comprehension, my sense. You still won’t be able to succeed, because only by experiencing things over and over again. The mind is able to metamorphose over and over again, sensing that deepest mystery. Only then will you be able to finally succeed.”

“Remember. Rely on yourself.”

Falling Leaves said with a smile.

Gilmer nodded.

He hadn’t stepped into the Sacred Realm and couldn’t understand the difference between the Sacred Realm and the Ninth Level Earth. Although he sometimes wondered if ‘Falling Leaf’ was intentionally being selfish, but at this moment, Falling Leaf’s sincere gaze and voice made him believe in Falling Leaf.

“Perhaps, it really depends on oneself.”

Gilmer had also been stuck at rank nine Grand Magus for a long time, and he also longed for a breakthrough.

After all, level nine was the same as a holy realm, and that was the difference between earth and heaven.

Linley’s mansion. The spring water garden.

Beside the hot spring pool water. Linley was sitting quietly with his knees crossed.

Beads of sweat slowly seeped out from every pore in his body.

The effects of cultivating the Dragon’s Blood Tantra were more than ten times better than a normal Dou Qi Tantra.

The requirements for practicing the Dragon’s Blood Tantra were so harsh that it was only right to have such an effect.

“Human cultivation. Why are they all so troublesome, and divided into various fighting qi secret codes, and also divided into different body types?”

Bei Bei lay next to Linley, his small head taking a look at Linley, his heart full of doubts.

As a magical beast, it was very simple to cultivate, it was to directly absorb the darkness elements from the outside world, incorporating them into all parts of the body and into the core of the magical crystal.

There was no mystery, it was just a very ordinary absorption. …… Linley has maintained this quiet life, spending the vast majority of his day cultivating.

Several cultivation methods just happened to work together effectively, making it possible for his body to withstand them.

In the blink of an eye, ten days had passed.

“Whew!”

Linley held the ‘Purple Blood’ divine sword and practiced various basic stances over and over again.

What angle was the fastest to strike the sword.

How to control the tremor of the violet blood to counteract the obstruction of the air as much as possible. Letting the sword reach a faster speed.

Over and over again, the sword was boring.

Every time Linley moved his hand, a purple stream of light flashed.

The speed was so fast, it was mind-blowing.

But Linley still wasn’t satisfied, he pursued the limit again and again. With the wind magician’s perception of the wind element, he worked hard to make ‘Purple Blood’ more ethereal and faster.

“My lord!”

The voice of an attendant came from outside the spring garden.

Linley gave a start, and then with a movement in his hand, the Violetblood Excalibur in his hand disappeared. No one else could even notice that Linley’s Violetblood Softsword had circled around his waist.

It was the average person observing that would think it was a purple belt.

“Come in.”

Only then did Linley speak out.

Immediately, a pretty maid ran in quickly, glancing at Linley with a hint of admiration before immediately bowing her head and respectfully saying, “My lord, the Debus family sent someone to send an invitation.”

With that, he held up the invitation.

Linley looked at the invitation.

The main color of the invitation was red, with gold surrounding the edges. The two large words ‘invitation’ were on the cover.

“Invitation?”

Linley picked it up, and then flipped it open, and what met his eyes was truly as he thought it would be.

“June 18th, Karan is going to hold an engagement ceremony with Lorraine and Alice, who is this Lorraine?”

Linley looked at the contents of the invitation. He couldn’t help but frown.

“You can stand down.”

Linley said blandly.

“Yes, my lord.”

The maid said respectfully before leaving the spring garden.

“Boss, the Debusdi family, is that Alice getting engaged?”

Bebe leapt onto Linley’s shoulder in a single bound, then stretched his head to look at the invitation.

“Huh, Lorraine? Who’s Lorraine?”

Bebe looked at Linley in confusion.

Delinquent Corvette also appeared next to him, and after glancing at the invitation, a smile couldn’t help but appear on his face.

“Grandpa Delin.”

Linley looked towards Delinquent Corvette.

“You’re puzzled as to who this Lorraine is?”

Derin Corvette was worthy of being an old and refined character, and instantly understood. “It’s quite simple, your stone sculpture ‘Dream Awakening’ has caused many people to familiarize themselves with the appearance of ‘Alice’. Although they don’t recognize Alice. But once those people see Alice in the middle of the engagement ceremony. They will definitely recognize that Alice is the prototype of your stone sculpture. The feelings contained in your ‘waking dream’ are felt by anyone who has studied stone sculptures, and because of this, the Debus family will never allow Alice to become Karan’s proper wife, and this Lorraine, I’m afraid, is Karan’s proper wife.”

Linley was stunned.

Alice. Not Karan’s proper wife?

On the Yulan continent. The status of a proper wife was very high, while the status of other wives was much lower.

“Just because of me?”

Linley had mixed feelings for a moment.

Alice was because of her own stone sculpture. Yet it resulted in not being able to become Karan’s proper wife.

“Linley, are you still going to this engagement ceremony?”

Drinkwater inquired.

“Go, of course I’ll go.”

Linley’s eyes instantly firmed up. And then with a smile, he said, “Bernard has invited me a few times, and this time he’s specifically sent invitations over, so how can I not go?”

Linley then looked towards the azure sky, where silky white clouds drifted in the sky.

A long time ago, he had also sat on the grass with Alice and looked at the azure sky.

June 18th.

According to the priests of the Church of Light, it was a very good day. And the Debus family chose this day to hold the engagement ceremony.

On this day, the entrance of the Debus Family was filled with traffic and people coming and going.

A noble lord, a rich man, a beautiful noblewoman, a pretty noble lady, a handsome noble youth. On this day, the entire city of Finlay could say that the Debus family was the place where the nobles gathered the most. “Lord Marquis Linley, to-”

The voice of the Debus family’s attendant grew a little higher, and Linley, dressed in a black gentleman’s attire, stepped into the hall of the Debus family’s residence.

The many nobles in the hall stopped talking almost simultaneously and turned their heads to look at Linley.

Linley looked around the hall with a light smile on his face. Linley’s demeanor was completely attached to the flamboyant aura of the nobles.

“Lord Linley, welcome.”

Bernard, who had originally accompanied the guests in conversation, immediately walked towards Linley, and beside Bernard was the gorgeously dressed Karan. Karan was the main character of the day!

“Mr. Bernard.”

Linley smiled faintly, “Congratulations on your son’s engagement, and two beautiful ladies at once.”

“Thank you, thank you.”

Bernard said enthusiastically.

Karan also said respectfully, “Lord Linley, welcome, I hope you can have a good time today.”

Linley glanced at Karan and just nodded and didn’t say much before looking at Bernard, “Mr. Bernard, you receive the other guests, I’ll go to the side first.” The …… Debus family’s hall was really big, hundreds of nobles and rich people gathered here surprisingly not too crowded at all. The noblewomen and noble ladies wore beautiful and trendy attire, like proud peacocks happily weaving through the crowd.

Especially after Linley’s arrival, many of the noble ladies couldn’t help but get close to Linley.

“Lord Linley, you’re really good. I’ve been studying stone carving for three years now, but I can’t even carve a basic molded shape well.”

A noble girl with long, beautiful brown hair was speaking enthusiastically to Linley, “Lord Linley, you’re really amazing, you’re just a little bit older than me, and you’re already close to the level of masters such as Proulx and Hopkinson… Lord Linley, can you guide me a little?”

This noble girl said and then looked at Linley expectantly with big, beautiful eyes.

“Carving stone sculptures requires sufficient wrist strength, a girl as soft and pretty as you can actually learn oil painting.”

Linley said with a light smile.

As Linley spoke, his heart was helpless.

Probably many noble ladies knew that Linley wasn’t married and was alone. So many noble ladies came to pester Linley.

The parents of those noble ladies, on the other hand, were happy to see this scene.

Because almost all of the nobles in the Finlay Kingdom understood that if anyone was able to make Linley their family’s son-in-law, that family would definitely take off!

What was Linley?

Right now it was the court’s number one magician, and almost all the nobles knew that Linley was just hanging around in the Finlay Kingdom. In the future, he would surely become a great figure in the Church of Light. In the future, his position might even surpass the king of the Finlay Kingdom!

“Linley.”

A bright voice rang out.

Linley dropped his head to look, “Your Majesty.”

The surrounding noble ladies immediately bowed respectfully, one not daring to pester them too much. Only then did Linley let out a secret sigh of relief and hurriedly walked over towards Clyde. With the king, at least those noble ladies didn’t dare pester them.

“Linley, is there a favorite?”

Clyde said quietly and teasingly as he approached Linley’s ear.

Linley couldn’t help but look helplessly at Clyde, “Your Majesty, you don’t have to tease me.”

“Haha ……”

Clyde couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Suddenly – the voices in the entire hall fell silent, and Clyde also turned his head towards the hall’s main door, his eyes lighting up as he said, “Hehe, it looks like the heroine has come out.”

Linley also looked over.

Only to see Karan’s left and right hands, holding a beautiful woman in one hand. Both of these women were wearing gorgeous dresses, and there were sparkling decorations in their long, golden hair.

One was Lorraine and the other was Alice.

“Alice.”

Linley’s gaze lingered on Alice’s body now, this was the most beautiful time Alice had ever dressed up. But this time, the one holding Alice’s hand was Karan.

“Oh, my goddess! Isn’t this the ‘goddess’ from Master Linley’s ‘Awakening Dream’ stone sculpture?”

Suddenly the exclamation of a nobleman rang out.

The entire hall was suddenly reminded of boisterous murmurs.

Other than the very few who knew Alice’s appearance, the vast majority of the nobles in the arena did not know Alice’s appearance. However, they had seen the stone sculpture ‘Dream Awakening’, and many of them even regarded the woman in the stone sculpture ‘Dream Awakening’ as the goddess of their dreams.

And at this moment, the ‘dream goddess’ they thought of appeared in this kind of engagement ceremony.