Episode 8: A Journey of Ten Thousand Leagues Chapter 23 – The Cardinal

The fat man was puzzled, “Hey, according to you two, this Wharton got it. A character like that should have been famous a long time ago. But why have we never heard of it in the past?”

The bald man nodded his head and said, “I was also puzzled by this question at first, and after checking into it. This Walton has not participated in any competitions in O’Brien Academy for so many years, nor has he fought against any experts. So there is no reputation at all.”

“To have strength and surprisingly not display it.”

The blue-haired man and the obese man both sighed.

“Don’t mention the past.”

The bald man said confidently, “Ever since this O’Brien Academy’s seventh grade annual tournament, that Walton will definitely shine more and more.”

In the quiet tavern, Linley sipped a fine wine, but a smile appeared on his face.

“Little Wharton, two meters two now? But it’s taller than me.”

Back then, Walton was only six years old when he left Wu Shan Town, and at that time, little Walton still had tiger teeth and was extremely adorable. In the blink of an eye, eleven years had passed.

“Little Walden!”

A warm feeling rose in Linley’s heart, a brotherly kinship.

“Walton’s Dragonblood Warrior bloodline concentration is even higher than mine, and this warrior talent is also stronger than mine. Seventeen years old defeating an eighth level warrior? En…… estimated that Walton should have reached the seventh level warrior realm two or three years ago.”

Linley’s guess was not bad at all.

Back then, at the age of six, Walton, along with his housekeeper Hilly, had trekked all the way to finally arrive at the O’Brien Academy, and with Walton’s talent it was naturally very easy for him to directly enter the O’Brien Academy.

However, the butler Hillary understands that the Baruch family still belongs to the Holy Alliance. So he has been letting Walton hide his strength. Don’t expose it casually. If Walton’s light is really too dazzling, I’m afraid that after graduation, O’Brien College will not easily let Walton return to the Holy Alliance.

Wharton has also been following Hiri’s instructions closely, and although he occasionally exposed a little bit of his strength when he was young, he was too young to be affected by it. But he was too young and didn’t receive any attention. When he understood things, he naturally knew to hide his clumsiness.

Long years of bitter cultivation.

Especially amongst the O’Brien Academy, the highest academy in this number one warrior powerhouse, Walton’s cultivation efficiency was extremely high.

When Walden was fourteen years old that year, Hillman was entrusted by Linley. Only then rushed to O’Brien College that.

In fact, when Hillman arrived at the imperial capital, the Day of Destruction had already happened long ago. And the imperial family and some other upper class nobles had long since learned of the news through the special transmission system of the empire. And O’Brien Academy, the elite academy of the empire, naturally knew about this news very early as well.

When Hillman arrived at the imperial capital, Walden already knew that the Day of Destruction had occurred.

Hillman told Wharton the news of Hogg’s death, as well as the news that his elder brother Linley had decided to take revenge. Wharton was instantly baffled. He was at a complete loss as to what to do.

With Hillman, butler Hilly and the others beside him, along with the battle knife ‘Slaughter’ that Linley had asked Hillman to bring. Wharton was determined to take up the family’s responsibilities, except that Wharton’s heart was always worried about his older brother, ‘Linley’, and Wharton didn’t know how his brother was doing.

The distance between the Holy Alliance and the O’Brien Empire was too far, and the journey alone would take a year.

Fortunately, later on, someone from the Dawson Chamber of Commerce found Walton and sent a secret letter to Walton.

The secret letter was written by Yale, detailing Linley’s feud with the Illuminati. The letter was written by Yale, detailing Linley’s feud with the Illuminati and with Clyde. It also told Walden that Linley was fine, and had only begun a long period of bitter cultivation alone.

Walden was relieved to learn this news. He was relieved.

However, Walton was also more and more proud of his big brother, and at the same time Walton was determined to work harder, so that he could join hands with his big brother in the future. The past Walton is very hard, and the back of the three years Walton is even harder. At the age of fifteen, Walton reached the seventh level warrior realm.

When seventeen years old that year. Wharton used the combat knife ‘Slaughter’ and thought that he had achieved something in the sword realm, he finally resolved to participate in the grade level tournament. It was this one grade tournament. Wharton was a revelation, and became the brightest new star amongst the Imperial Capital in no time. His Majesty the Emperor even bestowed upon him the title of Count.

Linley sat in the nooks and crannies of the tavern in an unprecedentedly happy mood.

“Boss, Walden? That’s that brother of yours, right?”

Bebe was curled up on a chair, currently looking at Linley with those ebony eyes.

Linley smiled and nodded.

“That little brat is capable of defeating a rank eight warrior.”

Bebe marveled, “Boss, that brother of yours is also capable of turning into a dragonblood warrior, right?”

“That’s for sure.”

Linley was very proud of his earthly brother, “Bebe, I was able to trigger the dragonblood warrior bloodline in my body by drinking the blood of the Spineback Ironclad Dragon. My younger brother, the concentration of his dragon blood warrior bloodline is much higher than mine, so he can directly transform into a dragon blood warrior. His transformation, however, is different from mine.”

Linley still remembered the ‘Dragonblood Warrior’ records in that family book.

Dragonblood warriors had a high enough bloodline concentration, and then after practicing the Dragonblood Secret Code directly into a dragonblood warrior, the normal form was a body with green dragon scales, a green dragon tail, and a dragon horn on the forehead.

Linley’s form, on the other hand, was black dragon scales all over his body, with black spikes on his forehead, back, elbows, and knees, and his dragon tail was also black.

“Give each person a bottle of emerald green.”

A voice familiar to Linley rang out in the tavern.

“This?”

Linley was struck by lightning as if he had been struck by lightning, and his entire body stiffened for a moment before he immediately soul-sentenced Bebe: “Bebe, come over to my side and don’t venture out.”

Linley placed Bebe on a chair inside himself.

This tavern was very dim.

And each table, was separated by a screen. Linley’s body was almost entirely blocked by the screens, and that acquaintance couldn’t see Linley at all.

Linley turned his head over, revealing a bit of his eyes to look over – that chubby body, eyes that squinted into a line when he smiled.

“It really is him.”

Linley immediately retracted his head, “Cardinal Lampson, how did he appear in the O’Brien Empire. Also, the few people next to him aren’t weak hands. One of them is none other than the ascetic who was at the highest level of the Temple of Light.”

That ascetic, was precisely one of the ascetics who had set up the formation with Hastings back then, that person was also strong.

Lampson alone, and that ascetic were two rank nine powerhouses.

“I don’t recognize the other few people, but looking at that aura, it shouldn’t be much worse than Lampson. Maybe they’re also rank nine powerhouses.”

Linley’s heart rose in shock.

“In a place like Chill County City, so many experts from the Illuminati have appeared. Could it be, could it be ……”

Linley’s heart was shocked, “Could it be that my identity has been exposed?”

Linley knew. An existence as colossal as the Illuminati definitely had an intelligence network in other empires. Just whether or not that intelligence network was even as dense as a county?

“Boss, what’s going on?”

Bebe was still in a state of confusion, and he was also puzzled by Linley’s order to stay in the nooks and crannies and not be allowed to come out.

Linley looked over at Bebe, a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth, and transmitted, “Bebe, that Illuminati’s experts have come over, there should be a few level 9 powerhouses.”

“Illuminati?”

Bebe’s eyes flashed violently with killing intent.

“They’re going to make a move. I’ll make it so that none of them will be able to leave Chill County City.”

Linley also had a murderous streak in his heart. Nowadays, Linley’s strength was far too much stronger than it had been back then.

When he was dragonized, he was completely at the peak of level nine. And now that the Black Yul Heavy Sword Ground was being utilized, Linley had already reached the peak of ‘potential’, gradually touching another higher level of existence.

Linley listened carefully with his ears.

Apparently those few people from the Illuminati hadn’t noticed Linley’s presence.

“It’s taken two years for this fellow. Finally, in ten days and a half months, we’ll be able to go back.”

Lampson’s voice was low.

Lampson was also careful to speak without revealing anything that might reveal his identity.

“Two years.”

Another black-robed man with his back to Linley shook his head. “In order to deal with this old man, all of my good brothers died.”

“As long as we catch him, it’ll all be worth it.”

Lampson said. ……

Hearing those few people talk on the ground. Linley frowned.

“What do you mean?”

He was the one who had once killed six Extraordinary Deacons, but he couldn’t be considered an old man himself, could he?

“Old guys? And saying that they’re going back?”

Linley understood somewhat, these people had come here to deal with another person.

Linley was beginning to wonder what kind of person was worth the Illuminati expending so much effort on.

“Old man. What are you looking at.”

One of the black-robed men chided in a low voice.

“Arrogant what?”

An old voice rang out, “If it wasn’t for you guys bullying the few with the many and that kind of tactics. I would have fallen into your hands, what a dream.”

Linley’s eyelids lifted.

It seemed that this old man with the pale voice was someone the Illuminati valued extremely highly.

“It was against me, and the Illuminati didn’t specifically send a large number of experts to other countries to hunt me down. Instead, it’s treating this old man …… What kind of character is this old man?”

Linley thought darkly in his heart.

“No matter what, and no matter who this old man is, I am definitely going to save.”

Linley sneered in his heart, “Being able to destroy the Illuminati’s important plans is also slightly able to make my heart feel better.”

It was too difficult to uproot the Illuminati.

For now, let’s take it one step at a time.

After waiting for about an hour or so, Lampson and the other group of people finally left the tavern with the old man, and from beginning to end, Lampson’s group of people didn’t see Linley behind the screen.

Linley walked out from behind the screen.

“Bebe, let’s go.”

Linley casually threw a few gold coins to pay the bill and immediately led Bebe out of the tavern quietly, trailing behind Lampson’s group.

Nowadays, Linley’s comprehension of ‘potential’ had reached a peak. Simply by relying on his comprehension of ‘potential’, he could step on water without sinking, which was something that ordinary ninth level powerhouses couldn’t do. This was the realm, not just being strong in fighting qi and strength.

Walking on the road, as long as others couldn’t see Linley, they definitely couldn’t feel that there was actually someone behind them, trailing behind Lampson’s group of people, Linley finally got a good look at the other side.

“Six people on the Illuminati side, plus a mysterious old man being escorted.”

Linley had a feeling at the moment that the six people on the Illuminati side were all rank nine powerhouses.

Six rank nine powerhouses, escorting an old man. And having Cardinal Lampson personally lead the group.

Listening to them talk, it seemed that Lampson was equal to a group of people who had spent two years for this matter, and a lot of people had died in the process.

“What exactly is this old man’s origin?”

Linley also slightly noticed the old man’s appearance from the back.

Extremely thin, that white eyebrow-length ground surprisingly hanging down to his chest. The most important thing was that this old man was carrying a pair of shackles in his hands. Just have a piece of cloth on the shackles. The average person wouldn’t even notice unless they looked closely. Linley had also been trailing for a long time, because the cloth was blown up by the wind, before he could see the shackled ground beneath the cloth.

“Eh? That’s ……”

Linley saw this legendary tool for the first time, “Forbidden Demon Handcuffs?”

It was recorded in the books that anyone who was carried by the magic banning handcuffs would no longer be able to use a bit of the magical power in their body. Even a stronger magician would have to be like an ordinary person. However, forbidden magic handcuffs were rare and precious, and this was the first time Linley had seen them.

Linley’s entire person swayed in the crowd of people on the street, sometimes dodging, sometimes moving forward, drifting so much that Lampson’s few people could hardly feel it.

After a while, Lampson’s few people arrived in an alleyway, stopping in front of a small two-story courtyard, and a black-robed man knocked on the door.

“My lord.”

The door to the courtyard opened, and a middle-aged man who came out respectfully said, “Everything is ready, please rest, my lords.”

Lampson and the others nodded.

“Cosathes, you two brothers will watch this old man for now. We’ll take over the shift later.”

Lampson said.

Linley was secretly astonished, “Even with the forbidden demon handcuffs, he has to be watched so closely, this old man really isn’t ordinary na.”

Linley wanted to sabotage the Illuminati’s plans more and more.