Chapter 61 - Chapter 61: Chapter 59 The New Elder (2/2)

“I will need a lot more money in the future, whether it is for improving my strength or going even further, I hope the Fischer family will continue to support me.”

Irene nodded, speaking calmly, “The Fischer family will support you, as long as you can provide sufficient feedback first. We need to see a return within the year.”

Aaron stared at Irene, who had just spoken, for a long time, stood up, and then knelt down on the ground, apologizing with extreme sincerity and exaggeration:

“Madam Irene, I originally looked down on you because you are a woman. Now, I offer you my sincere apologies. From now on, Byrne, you, and the entire Fischer family will all be my best friends!”

“…”

Irene was stunned for a moment, then forced a slight smile, finding it odd why her “Listening for Malice” Extraordinary trait hadn’t triggered.

Even if gender discrimination exists in ordinary social groups, it is increasingly rare at higher levels among Extraordinary Exponents. More common were discriminations based on strength, lineage, and talent.

It wasn’t unusual at all for powerful female Extraordinary Exponents to have many male lovers in service to them. Indeed, someone once said, “Extraordinary Exponents are a third gender, beyond male and female.”

She really hadn’t expected that Aaron’s initial provocation was due to gender.

Moreover, this guy was too straightforward in both speech and action, and in a sense, it was somewhat uncomfortable. No, it was very uncomfortable.

Byrne broke the awkwardness, speaking immediately to the kneeling Aaron:

“Let’s discuss the details of our future cooperation. The content discussed before wasn’t sufficient, but the collateral you ultimately put forth has given us great confidence.”

The original voting result was that Irene was in favor, while Byrne was against.

Initially, Aaron did not want to offer anything as collateral, but having been burnt by his “good friend” Robert before, Byrne firmly opposed “verbal agreements,” unwilling to try for benefits promised by the empty promises of a white wolf.

In the end, Aaron had no choice but to offer something extremely valuable as collateral to the Fischer family—a Class 3 Extraordinary Material worth more than two hundred Gold Coins.

So the Byrne siblings weren’t afraid of him running away and suffering too much loss in case of failure, and ultimately they all agreed to invest.

He had realized that often times, one needed to be sufficiently greedy. It wasn’t that the other party couldn’t provide collateral; they just didn’t want to offer anything valuable as collateral.

After Aaron stood up, he remained silent for a long while before speaking directly, “I need your help to kill someone.”

“Who?” Byrne’s eyebrows rose.

Aaron recalled the man who was full of confidence, who had convinced him to leave the selection, and afterward led the accusation of his cheating, Emil.

“Emil, a failed candidate, a high-level Beginning Spellcaster, a pathetic clown. He will never listen to me and his status is not low, I must act before this guy does anything!”

After he finished speaking, his expression became sorrowful. Byrne and Irene, who thought they could accept his strangeness, hadn’t anticipated that he would turn out even more abnormal.

Byrne could not help but ask, “Why do you look so sad?”

“Of course, it’s because I can’t help but have to eliminate a fellow silver descendant who possesses extraordinary power. Emil should have contributed to all silver descendants.”

Aaron shed genuine tears, his voice filled with sorrow as he continued.

“I loathe stupid people. However, even a stupid silver descendant is still my precious kin. He should have been working for me and the silver descendants under the watchful eyes of our ancestors, but I know his arrogant nature of overconfidence, and I simply must erase him.”

Irene keenly noticed something—that he had just mentioned “under the watchful eyes of our ancestors” without saying “the Lord of Salvation.”

Aaron kept talking, obviously very adept at coveting grand things:

“The silver descendants have made too many sacrifices. Now we must make new ones, but all for the sake of a powerful future!”

To be honest, Byrne occasionally felt that Irene was a bit abnormal, but deep inside, he could understand. After all, the extraordinary power of the Lord of the Lost indeed inspired awe.

But the man in front of them appeared to be genuinely mentally unstable, seemingly positioning himself in a very peculiar place.

The Fischer family had invested in a madman, a madman with capability and status.

They had concluded from their investigation that Aaron was very capable and, though somewhat paranoid, he often achieved success and had considerable hidden influence among the younger silver descendants.

Those young people who yearned for change, who did not want to forever remain complacent, silently supported Aaron.

But Byrne hadn’t expected him to be so paranoid, and couldn’t help but ask:

“Aaron, who do you think you are for the silver descendants clan and all the silver descendants on the East Coast?”

The sorrowful Aaron finally revealed a smile he had never shown before and declared confidently:

“The Savior.”