Chapter 383 (1/2)

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After introducing Romon to Crick, Miramon left. As the Bishop of a divine temple, he had a lot of work to do and couldn’t leave the divine temple for long. Besides, he didn’t want to get involved in this. He wasn’t scared of killing, but he didn’t like complicated tricks.

That left only Crick and Romon in the study room. Romon took a seat and started a discussion with Crick.

“What’s your plan?” Crick asked.

Romon had made preparations for this discussion, so he answered immediately with his plan in mind. “It depends on your health conditions, Your Majesty. Excuse me, but may I ask if you’re just seriously ill or actually dying?”

That was a rude question, but Crick didn’t care. He smiled and asked peacefully, “Is there any difference?”

“Yes! There’s a big difference actually!” Romon replied, “If you can manage to live a few years more, this time, we should just punish some of them as a warning to others. On one hand, we should leave no mercy to those who

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Since Crick had found someone to pose as him after his death, his original plan had to be adjusted.

According to his original plan, it was time to take the final action of gathering the evil suitors through several events which had been prepared earlier and kill them all at once. Of course, there would be different ways to kill them, such as explosions, poison, and offering them up as a sacrifice to demons. In a word, since Crick was going to take action, he wanted to ensure that all of them would be killed, with no exceptions.

However, things had become different now.

For Crick, the most important thing now was to make arrangements for Romon to be disguised as him. As long as this was done, the residents of Keane Hill would have enough time to defend themselves against those evil guys in the future. With Romon’s help, Crick didn’t have to worry too much about his sister being bullied by others after his death. Thus, his violent means were no longer needed.

It wasn’t a big issue to make a few enemies. But if it wasn’t necessary, Crick preferred not to make extremely powerful enemies.

He had a detailed discussion with Romon for a while and finally made a preliminary plan.

Then he gathered the most loyal and reliable high-ranking officials in the Keane Hill and introduced them to Romon.

“This is Mr. Romon, a master from the Church of Void Mask,” he said. “He’s not only powerful, but also good at deceiving others.

“After my death, he will disguise himself as me. Under the excuse of seclusion to recover, he won’t appear very often. Then others won’t find out about my death.” He said this calmly, totally ignoring his astonished subordinates. “You’ll help him in this act as much as possible so as not to let others find out. Besides that, he’ll also serve as Anna’s consultant. Anna, if you have any problems, you can ask him for advice.”

“I’ll help you solve things directly when it’s necessary.” Romon saluted the girl who was still a bit young. “I’m a good bard. As long as I’m not fighting a Legendary Master, I can win. Well, if I can’t win, I at least won’t get hurt.”

This statement was quite confident, displaying his eye-catchingly strong power. But Anna didn’t care about it at all at that moment. She just looked at Crick with shock and worry.

“Brother! Are you really… really…” She choked several times, but still couldn’t voice her terrible assumption.

Crick sighed and whispered, “Yes, I’m really dying.”

For a moment, the atmosphere of the whole meeting hall was morbid. Apart from Baroness Amyveile, who had already known everything, even Anna, the current Baron, had just learned now.

For a long time, in others’ impressions, Crick had been a knowledgeable sage who could do anything. No matter how big a problem was, he could find a way to solve it. But today, he had told them clearly that he was dying.

Although he had also found a way to help the Keane Hill overcome their difficulties and solve the last problem, he was dying anyway.

All the people who could attend this secret meeting were loyal to Keane Hill and Crick. Now they were all in shock and sorrow, and no one could speak a word for a moment.

Finally, Crick broke the silence. He laughed and said, “Why are you so astonished? It was incredible that I could come back alive from the battlefield of the Sun’s Death Day. Even if I die now, I’ve earned a few more years of life. What’s so sad about that?”

Still, nobody talked.

“You guys are too young and simple! Open your eyes!” Crick smiled and shook his head. “Keeping a family growing and developing doesn’t depend on a person, but the inheritance from generation to generation. For example, Charles, your father, the Knight D’vor, died on the battlefield of the Sun’s Death Day, but you inherited his title and territory, and you have done a great job all these years. If I’m not wrong, your wife is pregnant, isn’t she?”

Charles Oss nodded. His wife was the second daughter of a nobleman living nearby, and they got along well with each other. Charles had planned on inviting Crick to preside over the naming ceremony after the birth of the child, but now that wouldn’t happen.