Facing the creditor's demands, Charlie Kredos showed no trace of panic, instead gazing at the elderly gentleman before him with an unexpectedly intense look.
"Sir, please do not use the word 'deceit'!
It might lead others to misunderstand the integrity of my profession as a 'Spirit dium'!
We rely made a bet.
Alas, you rely lost,"
Old Charlie emphasized.
"Ha, lost?
Facing your sophistry of 'Your death will co right before mine,' I do not consider that I lost!"
The elderly gentleman clenched his cane, the veins on the back of his hands bulging.
Anger filled the elderly gentleman's heart.
Imdiately, the devastating Power of Death began to resonate.
Vast expanses of shadows began to die.
They appeared unknowingly and perished just as unknowingly.
The cycle, seemingly by chance, cleared a vast area.
But no light appeared; there was only more shadows, surging like a tide, with the power of erosion, with the hatred that corrodes the mind, almost like a calamity.
This made the already angry elderly gentleman even more infuriated.
"Begone!
Return to where you belong!"
A low roar queued a skull to appear within the elderly gentleman's composed features.
It was not the skull of the deceased.
Rather, it represented the Power of Death.
Or rather...
It represented the god of Death.
The surging shadows, faced with unprecedented terror, receded even faster, going back to where they rightfully belonged.
In this area, only deathly silence remained.
Pure, white deathly silence.
Assessing the surrounding silence, Old Charlie showed an expression of awe and flattery.
"Your majesty truly inspires awe, even the mindless 'Shadows' fear you."
But witnessing this scene made the elderly gentleman even angrier, He, being Death, actually began to breathe heavily.
Because, He not only knew that Old Charlie did not hold any awe for Him, but He also knew that he had been deceived by him once again.
Just now, He had sensed it.
For the second ti!
This was the second ti he had been tricked!
A growing sense of humiliation made the elderly gentleman want to smash Old Charlie's head in with his cane.
Alas, He couldn't do it.
Unless...
He desired to return to Death itself.
"Do you think you have already won?"
the elderly gentleman murmured.
"No no no!
You have misunderstood from the beginning, just as you sought out from the start—
Firstly, I did not provoke anyone or anything.
Secondly, during the 301 years of your interrogation... uh, that should be the correct ti in our reckoning, sorry, since achieving a lifespan almost like yours, I am still not accustod to your timing. It's rely three days for you, yet for us, it has been over three hundred years, but it doesn't truly reflect the ti I am familiar with.
This blurs my perception, even making feel like I could live until the world perishes.
Aft
er all, at so point, both you and I exist in eternity.
I am truly sorry, did I make you misunderstand again?
Please do not be angry, we can talk about this.
Just as when we first t, I still rember your courteous and graceful deanor,"
the Old Spirit dium spoke slowly and deliberately.
And with each sentence, he hamred away at the elderly gentleman's sanity.
At the final sentence, the elderly gentleman really swung his cane.
However, he stopped at the last mont.
The old gentleman furrowed his brow lightly, pondering sothing.
Suddenly, his brow relaxed, and a smile appeared on his face.
"From the mont I discovered you, you have been trying to provoke —no, you let discover you on purpose, because…"
"…you had exhausted the power you 'cheated' from by pulling your beloved grandson back from the Land of Reincarnation."
But the people you care about are not just him.
His parents, your son and daughter-in-law, you are still looking for them, aren't you?"
Faced with the old gentleman's questioning, the old 'Spirit dium' did not deny it, but still emphasized.
"It wasn't 'cheating'; rather, during 301 years of tornt, I unconsciously mastered so of the power you possessed and wielded."
As he spoke, the elderly Spirit dium with silvery hair took off his monocle and took out a handkerchief to gently wipe it.
But the old gentleman was not angered this ti.
Believing he had grasped the crux of the matter, he maintained his smile.
"Hmm, hmm, you have a Talent that even I admire."
However, you still underestimated my power!
Although you successfully pulled him back from his next life's cycle, you initially failed to notice that your grandson had acquired a trace of the Aroma of Death."
"Now he is like the Child of Death… No, even more favored by Death than the Child of Death, any person not favored by Destiny who appears near him will be watched over by 'Death and Calamity'."
By the ti you realized sothing was wrong, your power was already insufficient to resolve this problem.
So, you chose to expose yourself again, to 'trick' into coming here!"
Seeing the hand of the old 'Spirit dium' wiping the glasses pause with steadiness, the old gentleman, thinking he had discovered another point, imdiately beca more cheerful.
"So, my lord, shall we make a bet..."
"Shut up!"
Upon hearing the word 'bet,' the old gentleman directly chastised, but then softened his tone as he looked at the old 'Spirit dium' and again asked the original question—
"How did you manage to escape the restrictions?"
"What?
What are you talking about?
I don't understand."
The old 'Spirit dium' looked puzzled.
"Very well!
You have renounced my last shred of rcy—you cheated a lifespan of eighteen hundred years from the first ti, deceived the Land of Reincarnation with my power the second ti, and now, you want to deceive a third ti!
Detestable 'Spirit dium'!
I curse all Spirit diums outside the Kledos Family, may they not die a good death!"
The old gentleman intoned lowly.
Suddenly, the pure white desolate land was struck with black lightning.
Amid the continuous black lightning, the figure of the old gentleman grew imnsely, resembling a giant standing tall between heaven and earth, as he issued the curse using the 'Na of Death'.
Cursing all 'Spirit diums' beyond the Kledos Family!
This was misdirected anger!
Unable to strike at the elderly Spirit dium in front of him, nor at the loved ones of the Spirit dium, he targeted the profession of the old 'Spirit dium'.
Of course, he still excluded the old 'Spirit dium' and his family.
After all, he was intimately linked with him.
"You have displayed your arrogance once again.
Such an attitude will lead you into great trouble in the future.
You will most likely regret your actions today."
The old 'Spirit dium' sighed, seemingly peering into the future.
The old gentleman, however, was disdainful.
He boarded his carriage, resud his seat, and didn't entangle further with the old 'Spirit dium' because he had discovered a way to make the old 'Spirit dium' submit.
He would proceed with careful caution.
He wouldn't let the old Spirit dium beco aware.
And this would surely be a long-lasting effort, but what he was never short of was ti.
The white horses pulled the white carriage, carrying the old gentleman away, leaving only the old 'Spirit dium' exhaling a sigh—
"We rely made a bet; I never deceived you.
And besides, we only bet once; how could I possibly beat you three tis?"
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