Chapter 111: Eighteen Gerard, kill him, now (6K big chapter)
“Retrieve what Night Star failed to bring back a decade ago, intact and whole.”
After hearing this statent, the elder pondered briefly, then whispered in a low voice, “The ‘Devil’ troops have been searching that road for ten years, paid a huge cost, but still haven’t found where it is, not even a single clue. ‘Lord Yong Xin’, is it possible that it has already…”
“Been taken away by Gerard?”
The elder bowed his head, “This is just a subordinate’s guess.”
“Hah, rest assured, it’s still in the Polluted Land,” the young man said lightly. “Gerard couldn’t take it out back then.”
“Why… are you so sure about it?”
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The young man fell silent, and the room suddenly beca so quiet that not a single sound could be heard.
This made the elder feel sowhat uneasy; he wasn’t sure if his previous question had crossed the line.
Fortunately, he soon heard the young man say faintly, “Ah yes, previously these tasks were handled by Ocot. You don’t know everything, so I really should tell you so things… Do you know who extracted the fragnted ‘Domination’ from the Polluted Land that we now hold?”
“That… This subordinate does not know.”
“It was by .”
The elder was stunned.
Then he heard the young man laugh, a laugh like a beggar with a different tune playing a hole-ridden accordion, emitting a sound that gave one a toothache and sent shivers down the spine.
“It wasn’t only Gerard who returned from the deepest depths of the Polluted Land.”
The elder’s body imdiately stiffened. He stared blankly at the young man in the dark, asking subconsciously, “You also entered the deepest part of the Pollution Zone and successfully brought back part of the ‘Domination’? If so, then why don’t you…”
“Why don’t I lead the team to retrieve the complete part, right?” The young man interrupted the elder with a light smile, “It’s simple, I can’t… You know whose power ‘Domination’ is, right?”
“…Visas.”
“Yes, Visas.” In the corner, the young man’s figure wriggled slowly in the dark. He gradually approached the elder and soon, his face appeared in the moonlight shining through the window. “So do you think, the power of Visas cos without a price?”
Upon seeing the young man’s face, the elder felt as if his heart and lungs had stopped at that mont.
What kind of face was that?
The entire face was pockmarked as if it were a dissolved clay sculpture, similar to most pollutants in the Polluted Land, but it was indeed a human face. The missing parts had maggots wriggling in their depths, and the eyes were loosely hanging, as if they could fall out of their sockets at any mont.
The elder had long known that “Yong Xin” was not in good health and couldn’t et people at night, but he never imagined his body had deteriorated to this extent.
Could this still be considered alive?
Until the young man retreated back into the dark, the elder’s mind was still caught in imnse shock and panic, and it took him a long ti to co back to his senses.
Until the young man’s voice rose again, “This, is the price I paid.”
Upon hearing the young man’s words, the elder’s body naturally crawled on the ground, trembling lightly, not daring to look further inside.
“Don’t be nervous.” The young man said lightly, “I haven’t turned into a monster yet.”
After taking several deep breaths, the elder gradually cald down.
“You and Night Star both returned from the deepest part of the Polluted Place. So why did he…”
“He’s different from ; he didn’t bring anything back, but just being able to return safely on its own already cost him all mory of the depths of the Polluted Land,” the young man said calmly. “Unlike , I didn’t lose my mory and brought back so power, but the price is… part of my life was taken, and I can never step into that place again.”
The calm elder stayed silent for a long ti before he gently sighed, “Truly… a terrifying power.”
“That is Visas.” The young man added, “And it is only a small part of many of Visas’s powers.”
Another long silence ensued as if both n were imrsed in the shock brought by the legendary existence.
“So, Lord Yong Xin,” the elder looked at the young man again, “You cannot return to that place, then Gerard…”
“Theoretically, he can return,” the young man stated lightly. “That is one of the reasons why, over the past ten years, we have more than once sought to eliminate him.”
“…One of the reasons?”
The young man looked quietly at the elder, and although nothing was clear in this pitch blackness, the elder’s heart involuntarily recalled the image just revealed by the young man, and his heart trembled again.
“We still do not know if Gerard truly didn’t retrieve anything from that Polluted Land,” said the young man. “Whether he exchanged that mory for his safe return, or if… the things he retrieved were also sealed within that mory.”
Upon understanding the young man’s implications, the elder’s eyes gradually widened. “If the latter is true, then once he recovers his mory…”
“He finds back that part of the power,” the young man said calmly. “That is — ‘Domination’, and it is very likely more complete than mine.”
The elder’s expression changed again.
If the forr Night Star Knight also possessed ‘Domination’… that was unimaginable.
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