Female NovelSilverbell's bellow actually gave Maron pause, but he wheeled on Frank again. "It was during the last blow—Frank releasedsome sort of powder out of his sleeve. | thought | was seeing things, but it's real!"
"| saw it too!" Elder Huxley bellowed and pulled Frank's sleeve, knocking off a pile of Passion Dust from Frank's sleeve."What..." Frank was dumbfounded, as he clearly saw Elder Huxley sprinkle the powder on his sleeve right then.
Elder Huxley simply leaned close, growling a threat under his breath, "Don't you dare argue. You know what happens if you do.""F-Frank? Why.?!" Silvebell was wheezing, sweating buckets as her gaze turned unfocused.
Frank remained silent—if he maintained his innocence, Maron would retaliate by hurting Helen and the others.
"See? He's silent because he's caught red-handed!" Maron laughed darkly at Frank and carried Silverbell to the infirmary. "Don'tworry—our best healers will cure you soon enough!"
"So that's what he's up to." Frank's eyes flashed violently as he watched them leave, finally realizing Maron's game.
On the other hand, Elder Huxley grinned, baring his yellowed teeth. "Well done, Frank. Since you've done this much, we'll refrainfrom hurting your women for now."
"We had an agreement. You'll release one hostage after | win," Frank said, impassive.
"Oh, | wouldn't know about that." Elder Huxley shrugged, his expression smug. "We'll see what Master Maron says after he'sdone."
As the other Sage Lake Sect apprentices left, Frank stood alone at the center of the square, his fists clenched in silence.He was in a dilemma.
Should he charge into the infirmary and butcher Maron just because he did not want Silverbell to be defiled by that bastard? Buthe was also afraid of Sage Lake Sect's cutthroat guild hurting Helen and the others in retaliation.
"Chirp. chirp."
Just then, a rather big cuckoo perched on a tree branch above Frank, skipping around and chirping repeatedly at Frank, its tonesomehow anxious.novelbin
“Hmm.?" Frank looked up to find the cuckoo flapping its wings at him repeatedly, chirping shrilly and seemingly directing Franktoward the shrine.
"Isn't that Lady Quinn's pet?" one of the Sage Lake Sect apprentices suddenly exclaimed.
Frank's eyes lit up at those words, and he started dashing toward the shrine.
The Sage Lake Sect apprentices promptly gave chase while one ran to Elder Huxley. "Sir, Frank is bolting!"
Elder Huxley remained perfectlycalm. "Just keep following him. Lethim go wherever he wishes to aslong as he's not meddling in MasterMaron's business. If he so much asapproaches the infirmary, threatenhim with our hostages! " The contentis on noveldrama.org! Read the latestchapter there!
"Yes, Elder Huxley!"
Nonetheless, Frank soon chargedinto the shrine and found amiddle-aged man with ashen hairlaying limply on the floor, barelybreathing and clearly near death. Thecontent is on noveldrama.org! Readthe latest chapter there!
"Frank!" Quinn leapt out from behind
an altar when she saw him, crying
anxiously, "He's Dahok Ocean, our
sect's chief. You have to help
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Frank said nothing and went to work right away, crouching beside Dahok and checking his eyes.
"Master Ocean?! What happened?!"
The Sage Lake Sect apprentices who had been chasing after Frank panicked when they saw Dahok on the floor!