Chapter 239 - Chapter 239: Chapter 229: Turning Against Each Other (2/2)

So he followed Renzo’s advice and used the method he had always used most frequently: sending trained subordinates disguised as orphans, merchants, and servants to infiltrate the Fischer family from within.

Soon, Viscount Bast began to notice some strange clues, which were substantial enough to be used as leverage to destroy them.

He was smart and had long noticed that something was very wrong with the Fischer family—for instance, the destiny’s trajectory of every single person in the family seemed to change.

Combining this with past events, Viscount Bast gradually formulated a guess in the depths of his heart that was ever nearer to the truth.

Then, the subordinates he sent out began to die one after another.

For a time Viscount Bast suspected whether Byrne had discovered he was testing them and whether Byrne had decided it was time to turn against him.

So not long ago, he self-directed and acted out a play, pretending to suffer from a demon’s backlash, in excruciating pain, and completely unguarded.

In reality, as long as Viscount Bast’s demons were fed the corpses of extraordinary exponents in time, they would never riot or backlash.

At that time, he deliberately pretended to be weak and put on a show, but Byrne was always wholeheartedly assisting him, without any intention of harming him, which made Bast feel relieved once again.

Add to that the fact that Byrne later took the initiative to reveal the forged journal of Zavier and completely believed in his own inducement, so he trusted the man once more.

“Who would have thought, Byrne, you’ve become smarter and better at disguising yourself since before!”

He burst into laughter and continued to say:

“Renzo was right, loyalty isn’t eternal, even if you can be loyal to me for the time being, your descendants, your family, may not necessarily be loyal to the Lion clan!”

“And you yourself are a betrayer! Byrne, you actually colluded with the people from the Stars Embrace Order, huh huh, so for the sake of killing me, you don’t care about Zayne’s life either, do you?”

Byrne remained silent and did not respond.

The person who brought the followers of the Stars Embrace Order was not him.

Taking a deep breath again, since he found out that Zavier’s journal was a forged item, he actually felt enormous unease and confusion.

In fact, combining the fact that the journal was led to by Viscount Bast for Byrne to find, Byrne had already sensed that the person colluding with the Meyer family might be that old man.

But he didn’t want to believe it, so he asked Chris to carefully investigate the whole truth.

The investigation wasn’t very difficult because the scope was very small; the only people who had initially mastered the kingdom-protecting barrier spell were Earl Hovern and Viscount Bast.

Now, Earl Hovern was dead, and the last direction of the investigation was only…

As a result, Chris brought back the truth.

Indeed, decades ago, a caravan from the Meyer family had secretly arrived in Fein City and Viscount Bast had been missing for a full month afterward, with no clue as to where he had gone.

Now in hindsight, he very likely went to Rhea and subsequently made some sort of deal with the Meyer family.

It became apparent, therefore, that later on, Viscount Bast kept his oath and helped Meyer invade Nasir Town.

“I’ve been in great pain recently because your collusion with the Meyer family indeed indirectly led to my father’s death, but afterward, the Fischer family indeed rose to power with your help.”

In Byrne’s eyes were the most sincere emotions—complex, conflicted, and not easily clarified.

“Debts of gratitude and hatred, I can’t discard either end… but your recent actions have finally made up my mind, Bast Leone, since you’ve touched the core secret of the Fischer family, I can no longer hesitate!”

Bast’s expression was calm, but within that calm seemed to be an anger like raging waves, startling many.

“Whether it’s you, or gold, or certain others, you’ve all betrayed me one after another.”

“Yet I’m not afraid of betrayal, because from the beginning to the end, I’ve always been alone.”

He swung his giant sword, his words filled with the most terrifying malice; his tone was very calm, but it still made Byrne sweat on his forehead.

“Rest assured, Byrne, once you’re dead, I’ll smoothly reach the Monarch Level, and I myself will end all the grievances between us.”

The silently hiding follower of the Stars Embrace Order suddenly transformed into black smoke to approach and launch a surprise attack at an astonishing speed, while the originally berserk Viscount Bast instantly became utterly calm.

He was prepared and violently swung his blade, the next moment unleashing a terrifying Sword Qi, astonishingly powerful and precisely cutting the black smoke in two.

“Ah!”

The follower of the Stars Embrace Order screamed in terror, half of their body falling to the ground, struggling for a moment before dying completely.

In just an instant, Bast had easily killed a top-tier Transmutated enemy!

Byrne watched the scene quietly, his expression icy, maintaining the highest level of vigilance.

The old lion suddenly turned his head and looked coldly at Byrne, who was summoning a large number of fire birds. His gaze was sharp, crazed, and ruthless, as if to say, the next one would be you!