CHAPTER 819: THEIR INTENT FOR EACH OTHER

There was no immediate reply from the other side. Only after waiting for five seconds did a voice finally resound.

"What is it?"

"Do you already know the situation you’re in? Regarding Aldrian the Great?" the master asked.

"I know. There’s a huge possibility that Aldrian the Great has already discovered all the things I’ve done in the past. This is one of the possibilities I’ve also been considering recently," Munez replied.

The master remained silent. If Munez also knew about it, then the probability that everything had happened and would happen according to Luvier’s words grew even greater. That was because Munez had reached the same conclusion as Luvier.

"What is your plan to deal with it? This is not a trivial matter. We’re talking about Aldrian the Great here," the master asked.

"For now I will lay low and create a strong reason regarding the first group that I sent to the Barisan continent. Even if that group betrays us, and even if Aldrian the Great has been playing us for so long, he will not simply attack us frontally."

"If he intended to attack my family, he would have done so long ago. The fact he has not yet attacked might be because something is holding him back. I know you already know this information and worry if it could affect your group, but don’t worry, I have already started to erase any traces of our connection with you."

"For now we have to keep our distance from Aldrian the Great. We are in too fragile a situation now that he has set his eyes on me." Munez stopped.

"Then what if, in the end, Aldrian the Great still decides to come for you in the future?" the master asked again.

"Then I will bring the Valroy family into this matter. After all, everything I did was because they asked me to. They did not want to use their own hands, so they always used mine. I might be a pawn to be sacrificed in their minds, but I will not go down without making them pay the consequences."

The master narrowed his eyes. "All this time you only did all of that because the Valroy family told you to do so?"

"Yes."

The master’s eyes narrowed further. He knew that Munez could reach his current status with the Valroy family’s help and that Munez might have something to sacrifice in this exchange. Still, he couldn’t help but feel shame for the Barevisk family. The family that had once been almost as strong as the Valroy family was reduced to a vassal, like a dog to the Valroys.

However, it seemed the dog did not want to go down without its master if things went south. Or maybe the dog wanted to abandon his master.

"I see. That would be one way out. If that is the case, then the Valroy family will have no choice but to help you regarding Aldrian the Great, right? You want to use them in the end even if that means you abandon them," the master said, but there was no response from the other side. That was answer enough for him.

"I only called you because I wanted to know how you will take care of this matter. There is a possibility that Aldrian the Great might have known about the Silent Reaper movement after all," the master added.

"Why do you think so? Did Aldrian the Great know about your group’s involvement in this? How is that possible when there is no one who knows about your group’s presence inside the Barisan continent? If Aldrian the Great knew about your group spreading the news regarding the Spirit Ancestor, your group would not have been able to return completely," Munez replied.

"That’s why I thought that Aldrian the Great still did not know that it was us who spread it. If that news had successfully attracted many troublemakers, then we could have stayed and watched the chaos unfold. Aldrian the Great would have had no time to deal with us."

"However that news is meaningless now. It has even become an undesirable trace that could be tracked. With Aldrian the Great’s reputation, there is no one who would dare cause trouble in the Barisan continent. Aldrian the Great might instead investigate the source of the news, which could then be pointed at the Silent Reaper."

"Although I believe normal cultivators would never know that it was us who spread it, we don’t know what Aldrian the Great is capable of. We don’t know if he has something that could track the source of the news, so this is one of the things that still burdens my mind."

Hearing the answer, Munez narrowed his eyes and couldn’t help but feel that this could be another trouble for him. If Aldrian the Great somehow found out that the Silent Reaper was behind the spread of the news, and that they had actually received a mission to kill him, then he could be dragged into this.

No matter what kind of patience Aldrian the Great had, he doubted that man would leave alive the ones who employed the assassin group to kill him. Aldrian the Great would instantly come for him and would not care about anything else because of his strength.

This was a problem he did not want to have, and the existence of the Silent Reaper at this moment could instead become the gate to his doom. He now had to worry not only about his family but also about the Silent Reaper, which gave him a headache.

Suddenly, one solution came to his mind.

’If I annihilate the Silent Reaper group, then I will have one less problem to worry about,’ he thought seriously.

However, if he wanted to do that he had to act quickly and cleanly so the assassins could not escape, especially the master. The moment those assassins, or even if only the master, slipped away, only headache and nightmare would be waiting for them. Catching an assassin who had already become legend was a difficult thing to do.

Moreover, if the master used hit and run tactics, the casualties on the Barevisk side would be huge.

While Munez was already thinking of how to get rid of the Silent Reaper group, the group’s master had also begun to think along the same lines. He started leaning toward Luvier’s solution to this problem.

After hearing Munez’s answer, it looked like Munez or anyone who knew about the Silent Reaper’s connection to Munez be a huge problem. From his point of view, killing Munez and anyone who knew detailed information about him or his group within the Barevisk family became more and more preferable.

If they killed those people, there would be one less worry if Aldrian the Great really came to this star. Although there might be a chance Aldrian the Great would discover their assassination plan and attack the Silent Reaper first, they could vanish to hideouts Aldrian the Great did not know about.

Aldrian the Great might be strong, but he would not know every place that served as their hideouts.

However, Munez was a wild factor that could endanger their survival because he knew too much about their organization. What if Munez sold them out in return for his own survival? What if Munez, who knew so much about their operations, ended up bringing them down?

He would not let Munez do that.

Unbeknown to each other, they were already thinking of killing one another, and they seemed ready to do so. And unbeknown to both of them, they were already playing in the palm of Aldrian’s hand.

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On the next day, the avatar was outside Sir Ferix’s manor, strolling through the city. The city, Verlian City, was located on the border with a neighboring power, which was a kingdom. That kingdom was also under the influence of the Valroy family because its royal family was indebted to them. In the past, there was a time when devils had occupied half of the kingdom.

However, thanks to the Valroy family’s help, they managed to drive out the devils. Ever since that time, the devils had not dared to act recklessly as they once did. That single event was what made Randolf’s name soar and become famous.

Sir Ferix had been tasked by Munez to manage this city, which could be seen as Munez’s way of distancing Ferix from the center of power in the capital. This border city was indeed far from the capital, and there was nothing particularly noteworthy about it besides its position on the border.

He strolled through the city, as it was his habit whenever there was nothing he needed to do in the manor. This way, he could see for himself how the people of this place lived. He liked to observe and learn new things in every new place, and there was much he could learn from this one.

As he continued walking, he suddenly encountered a group of six people exuding a familiar aura, and he instantly knew they were from the Barevisk family. His gaze kept following them as the group seemed to be heading toward Sir Ferix’s manor, which immediately piqued his curiosity.

Why were these people visiting Sir Ferix?