355 Just As Planned (1/2)
”Is that so, Crane? All of that has really been your doing till now?!”
”Who is this? Reveal yourself!”
The black-bearded man, who was called by the name Crane, frowned as his countenance grew a bit pale, shouting in response to the angry voice.
”There is no need for you to act this way Crane, I already know it's you, you can't deceive me...”
The source of the voice appeared to be coming closer as a human youth silhouette emerged from one of the shadowy corners of the room.
While I was still shackled by something and incapable of moving my face to observe the situation in the room, 'Omni-viewing Eye' was already working, so I got a full view of the show.
”How?”
The frowning bearded man's expression immediately dissolved into a passive yet sharp one as he stared at the white-haired youth.
”How were you able to find this place, Blade?”
That's right, the youth was exactly the sect master of the Elemental Blade Sect, his face showed that he was extremely unpleased…
”How? You are really asking how? Are you not going to try and explain yourself and deny the words you just said instead of being too focused on how I found out?”
”Sigh… this guy is really too troublesome, failure on my last mission, destruction of the fail-safe gate as well as exposure of my true identity, my lord is going to be quite angry for this.”
The black-bearded Crane's expression has morphed into a completely passive one, he seemed as if he didn't care about anything anymore as he just disappointedly looked at the ground.
”...So you have long been a loyal dog to this lord of yours… Outrageous, not only have the demons resumed activity, but my old friend who I housed within my sect had been using the authority I gave him to help achieve the demons' aspirations. Simply outrageous!”
Blade only appeared to be lamenting at the beginning as his face seemed to be extremely depressed before he finally exploded in anger as even I felt the pressure caused by that.
”Alright, it's too sad that I'm not able to spend more time with you friend, but I will have to leave now, so please make way.”
Patting the dust that fell on his shoulders from Blade's rage, Crane passively looked back at Blade as he demanded.
”And why do you think I will let you leave after all you have done?”
Blade's expression finally calmed down as he looked back at Crane, there were less than two meters of space between them, a clash between both of them wouldn't even require more than a second to start.
”Let's be real friend, you must have realized by now that the current body I'm using is a clone of my normal body, my regular one which had been usually in the sect had already departed under the pretense of visiting a branch sect of our beloved sect… now then, if we say you do manage to kill this version of me, the other version would still be capable of escaping. However, I obviously don't plan to lose my only priceless sacred avatar for no reason, and while I can't say that I would be able to take you down with me, I can still pretty much take down this genius of yours… Don't you think it would be better for both of us if you act like the civilized great person you are and let me leave so that little genius here won't lose his life?”
Hearing Crane's blabbering about me losing my life as collateral damage, I didn't even bother to have a change of expression both on the inside and the outside, this guy was simply…
”Ah, I see, you still can't realize the situation you are in nor the person you are dealing…”
”Huh?”
The black-bearded Crane's expression immediately darkened…
'Just as planned…'