Chapter 193 - Crow and the old man (1/2)
”Senior, how do we address you?” Being the one with the higher ranking identity here, Nightin cupped his hands and asked politely.
”You two can just call me Crow, don't pry into my affairs once you're in the Oracle kingdom as well, unless you're prepared to face off against an expert in the Overlord realm.”
”Senior Crow, pardon me if this sounds rude, but don't you think that it's too abrupt of you to be inviting me this courteously?” Nightin questioned back, his discerning eyes whispering into his head that things aren't as simple as it seems on the surface.
”Young lad, you're thinking too much into this. I'm only doing this to fulfill my duties as the royale servant of the grand oracle.” Crow explained, but the haughtiness and disdain in his voice was clear, he was threatening them to follow him.
”You won't want to force my hands, you may be stronger than me, but do you think that I would have made it far without any ace up my sleeve?” Nightin threatened back, his sword energy rampaging around him.
”Follow me if you still want to live, unless you've seen enough of this broken world.” Crow said, determined to keep his identity a secret.
”What do you mean by broken world? If I'm not wrong, you aren't someone from the oracle race or kingdom, you're merely a personal servant of the grand oracle.” Nightin stated without fear, each sentence of his stabbing into the heart of Crow.
This young lad would have already been dead if not for the master's orders. ”You don't get to question me, secondly, I don't recall claiming that I have no ties to the Oracle kingdom.”
”Of course, you're just a traitor waiting for the perfect moment to ambush and kill the grand oracle. After all, you've already waited for hundreds of years, a few more years wouldn't hurt.” Nightin smirked coldly before retreating backwards, pulling Alexander back with him.
”Space zone!” With a single thought, the scroll behind Alexander's back dashed forward and covered a wide area full of stars before returning to them.
”Sect master, his movement speed should be slowed down slightly in that time zone, make use of this chance to escape.” Alexander told Nightin as they increased their speed once again.
”Grasp of the crow!” Suddenly, the ground beneath Nightin and Alexander trembled as a gigantic black hand spiked up and blocked their way. Retreating backwards, they realised that Crow had already approached them silently.
”Pretty smart of you two, but you two must have underestimated my strength to come up with some foolish sorceries.” From behind, crow grabbed their necks with his two skinny hands wearing a tight fitting black glove.
”I have to be honest though, it wasn't easy for the two of you to arrive at the conclusion that I don't serve the Oracle kingdom when I didn't leave behind any loopholes.” Crow said while laughing in a sinister manner with a scythe in hand.
”Just what is it that you want? If it's my life that you want, then I would recommend you to back down right now.” Nightin replied coldly, the cold metal on the scythe triggering nothing but his laughter.
”What do I want? My master has been paying attention to you for some time now and after performing a background check, he realised that you definitely hold some secrets or your strength wouldn't have progressed that immensely.”
”You want the secret?”
”Of course, be a good boy and tell me the secret right now, I might even break my taboo and leave behind a full corpse of you.”
”You know what?”
Right when Crow was about to ask, he took out a talisman and threw it towards Crow before retreating.
Five mins ago, ”System, what is the strongest talisman I can get with all the system coins I have with me at the moment.”
”Ding!”
”There are three possible choices which are going to be listed below, please take a look.”
[Earthquake talisman: Causes a tremor which will affect any cultivator regardless of their cultivation, effects may weaken according to the strength of the cultivator]
Without any hesitation, Nightin skipped past this option.