BEFORE the man wearing a domino mask could speak again, a bolt of lightning struck down on him. He imdiately disappeared from where he was standing. But when he reappeared sowhere, Lei Feng already flashed to where he was. He surrounded his fist with lightning and attacked. But the masked man disappeared again, showing his fast reaction. He reappeared on the courtyard's roof, but then he was imdiately surrounded by Lei Feng's three dark guards.
Harlequin raised both hands as if in surrender. "I ca here in peace."
But the three dark guards still attacked him, giving him no choice but to teleport again. The three imdiately scattered around the garden limiting the places he could go. But instead of teleporting to one of the free spaces, he appeared behind An Qi. Before Harlequin could touch An Qi, a thunderbolt ca flying at their direction. He wanted to use the dark guard as a shield but he didn't even notice that the guard already dodged sideways, making him the only target of the thunderbolt.
Harlequin imdiately teleported but he still felt the thunderbolt grazing his left arm. He's really starting to get annoyed now. He decided to just teleport Argent Blackbourne out of here and deliver him straight to His Excellency. He never really understood why His Excellency told him to extend an invitation to the young duke instead of just teleporting him to the place personally prepared by His Excellency.
He appeared behind Argent and imdiately held his arm. But when Harlequin tried to teleport, nothing happened. They were still standing on the sa place. He was so bewildered that he didn't even notice the incoming approach of the young general. Not until a powerful punch hit his face and he was sent flying.
Harlequin's back hit a tree and he felt the domino mask on his face slowly cracking. He didn't feel the pain because his mind was still thinking of why he didn't manage to teleport just now. Was it just an accident on his part or sothing else entirely? He felt his blood surging, his whole body filling with excitent. Like a kid wanting to discover the truth about sothing.
That's when he felt his domino mask completely crumbling. He suddenly ca back to his senses. He imdiately took another mask from his space ring and put it on before his face was revealed in front of everyone here.
Lei Feng and his dark guards were about to attack again but Argent stopped them.
"Let him speak," she said, looking at the man with domino mask.
Argent, of course, recognized him. How could she not? She could still rember him at that underground auction, telling those n to fight a seven year old child. So, her guessed was correct. He was really part of the Apostles of Gaia. But since he was not wearing the sa mask, he might just be connected to them in so way. He was definitely not just so run-of-the-mill grunt. From what Argent observed, he might even have so kind of a high position in the Temple.
Obviously, his Gift was teleportation. It was probably at a high level too if he managed to teleport her mother from the Northern continent to here in Xing. Thinking that this guy played a big part in her mother's abduction already made her want to cut him into pieces. This guy's offence againts her family just doubled. But she needed to calm down. She couldn't just kill this guy right now. Because from the looked of things, he was here as so kind of ssenger. Killing him might make the deal between her and the Pope fall through. And if he didn't return in one piece, that Lucern Faust might just retaliate against her unconcious mother.
So she would endure. For now.
"Talk, bastard," she said, looking down on the masked man.
"My na is Harlequin, milord. This would be our formal eting. I hope you could rember my na."
Argent looked like she didn't care about his na at all. And she didn't, really. Because she's pretty certain that was not his real na. "I said talk not blabber, dipshit."
Harlequin literally felt a muscle on his face tick. This cheeky brat. "His Excellency cordially invites you to be his guest at the annual Festival of Creation that would be held at Victoria City a month from now. You could give him the sword there and he will return your mother. In perfect condition, of course."
A month from now? And at the city where the main church of Gaia was located? Argent almost laughed out loud. That was just perfect. "Tell him I'll be there."
"As you wish." Harlequin made a bow.
When they thought he would teleport out of there, he disappeared and reappeared behind Argent again. He just wanted to test if what he thought earlier was right. But before he could even touch the young duke, the tip of a sword was already pointing at an artery on his neck. He looked down and saw that Argent was the one holding the sword.
The young duke glanced back at him, he didn't even bother to hide his killing intent. That kind of intense bloodlust almost made him shiver. "Don't push your luck, cretin."
Harlequin laughed, he was not even sure if it was because of too much anger or just because of pure frustration. "See you next month then, milord."
Then he completely disappeared from there.
Argent turned her sword back into a bracelet. She had to leave Xing as soon as possible if she wanted for her plan to work. When she raised her head, she was almost startled when she saw Lei Feng in front of her and staring quite intently at her. "What?"
"Are you really going to do as that clown said?" he asked.
"If what you an is going to Victoria City to et the Pope, then yes, I will go."
Lei Feng was suddenly filled with a cluster of emotions - panic, fear, worry. "You can't go. It might be just a trap. There must be another way for you to save your mother instead of just going there."
Argent wasn't annoyed, because she could clearly see that the other party was really just worried about her. "It's fine. Even if it's just a trap, I'll just lay a much bigger one for them. And I have a plan. I won't be stupid enough to go there unprepared."
Hearing that, the worry in Lei Feng's heart slightly alleviated. "Then allow to go with you. You know I can be a great help."
"You can. But you won't be going with . You don't have any obligation to join in my fight."
In this short journey they had, Argent already considered Lei Feng as a friend. So she didn't want to use him in a way that could jeopardize the life that he had. And there's a high chance that would happen if he directly fought with the Pope. She might be indifferent to so extent but she never would have wanted for sothing bad to happen to the people she acknowledged.
"What if I volunteer?" Lei Feng said, quite a bit persistent.
"Even then. And let that be the end of the matter." She turned around and walked inside the courtyard.
The three dark guards looked at their master. Upon seeing the determined and deep expression on his face while staring at the back of the young duke, they just knew that was definitely not the end of the matter.
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