"Good boy." Adrian patted Adrian's face. "I’d say you won’t dare to try and come after me for this, right?"Johnny remained silent. He thought he would be able to vent his frustrations out on Adrian, but the latter never gave him the chance to do so. However, there was nothing he could do about his resentment toward Adrian. The man in black waved his hand, and Rozi was brought out. She had been tied up and thrown into the coffin where the roc was laid to rest. She was pretty badly shaken. "Adrian!" Rozi cried as she threw herself into Adrian's arms. "The roc’s body was all cut up!" "What?!" Johnny looked at the man in black angrily and in disbelief. "Did you do that?"The man in black did not dare meet Johnny's gaze. He was supposed to carry out the dissection discreetly. Nobody would have known what happened if Rozi had not been placed in the coffin. "No, I didn’t," the man immediately denied, “The roc is our leader's precious pet. All of us revered it as a divine being. Why

"It was me," Adrian confessed.Caroline was in disbelief. Gazing at his skin tone which was completely different from theirs and assuming he was much weaker than them, she wondered how Adrian could have possibly killed her bird."Are you serious?" "Absolutely." Adrian had no plans of cowering away from his actions.Caroline was devastated. Their leader forbade his apprentices to leave the mountains. When the roc was gone for a day, Caroline thought that it was just playing hide-and-seek and had been looking for it in the mountains. Yet, she was now met with such tragic news."I'm going to kill you!" she screamed.Adrian was displeased. He had been forced into killing the roc out of self-defense, after all. "Aren't you going to ask me why I killed it? Don't you think you're being too hasty?" he questioned.Caroline did not want to waste time. She thought that the trio were their guests, but after realizing that Adrian was the murderer, her mentor would surely not let him liv

Johnny sensed that something was off and that Sylvas was trying to drive Adrian away. He refused to let Sylvas go after Adrian and chose to do it himself instead. "Stay here with Caroline. I'll go after him. He's not getting out of my sight,” Johnny said.Sylvas gulped, knowing he could not let Johnny go after Adrian. He grabbed Johnny by the collar and said, "I heard you being all chummy with him earlier. It's clear you two are in cahoots."The men in black believed in Sylvas and looked at Johnny doubtfully as they surrounded him. Furious, Johnny said, "You're clearly guilty about something, Sylvas. I know you stole the roc's core. Our leader will kill you for that."Everyone was standing halfway up the mountain at that point, which was still some distance from the peak. Although the ruckus they were causing could not be clearly heard by those above, it was enough to alert them.Sylvas panicked. He had taken Johnny for a fool, but it turned out he was sharper and more formidab

Despite having lived on Ivory Cloud Mountain for twelve years, Johnny had never strived to truly hone his skills. Instead, he relied on his cunning and bribery to win over others. "F*ck!" Caroline despised Johnny. She watched helplessly as Sylvas and his cronies prepared to leave. Turning to Adrian, she bit her lip and pleaded, "Please. Please help me.""No,” Adrian responded coldly. Though Sylvas was undoubtedly a bad person, he only took a roc's core. Moreover, he was well-respected among the men in black. This was proof of his abilities. There was no need for him to offend Sylvas.Caroline felt aggrieved. "You have no sense of justice. You know very well he's a bad person, but yet, you're letting him go."Adrian, deep in thought, wished he could just walk away. This whole situation seemed pointless since they were arguing over a mere beast.Sylvas, mistaking Adrian's silence for fear, taunted, "He's nothing more than a coward!"Adrian suddenly rushed forward. Before Sylvas

“Really?" The old man immediately rushed into the bushes and caught the rabbit. He was ridiculously quick. "Haha! How do you feel about rabbit meat tonight?"Adrian was now in a dilemma. He looked at Ivory Clouds’ entrance in front of him, then back at the old man who had a large smile on his face. "Go prepare a fire, and I'll be right back.""Sure!" The old man strode into Ivory Cloud like it was his home. "Come on!" he urged.Adrian took a deep breath. "You realize you're going the wrong way, right? That's the Ivory Cloud faction, and there are a lot of people walking around. How are you going to take that rabbit inside?""I've lived here all my life," the old man said as he giggled. "The kitchen's at the back of this area, or were you planning on roasting it outdoors?" Adrian was speechless. He looked at the unkempt old man up and down. There was a cracked crystal pendant by the man’s waist, which made Adrian assume he was a janitor. Soon, the old man disappeared from sigh