Female Novel
Chapter 654
Chapter 654 Secret Realm
Meanwhile, in Harfush, Sirmoor City, Hades’ Harfush headquarters was in a chaotic mess. “Right now,the whole intelligence network of Chanaea, other than Horbah, has been cleared. I’m going to give youguys twenty-four hours. I don’t care if you use satellites, drones, or send humans deep into themountains.
Find me the waterfall! I’m not asking you to find a freaking water bubble. It’s a waterfall over a hundredmeters, for goodness’ sake! Be prepared to get punished if the lot of you fail to find it!” Hades beratedon the phone.
Meanwhile, the intel department was frantically diverting satellites to locate the waterfall. As for whythis frenzy was happening, it was caused by a phone call from Jonathan.
At the moment, Jonathan was looking at the Heaven Sword in a mansion. In the battle earlier, healmost died from a fall due to his being pulled into the imaginary realm of the sword.
Even if he was much stronger than an ordinary person, the fall from a dozen levels’ height still took atoll on him.
Zebedee and two other Grandmaster Realm cultivators from Jetroina had long absconded.
It would be akin to finding a needle in a haystack to locate them now.
Cultivators like them could easily find some unfortunate men and kill them to reside in their bodies.
Even if they were stranded in the suburbs, given their cultivation level, it would be a piece of cake tosurvive.
To find them, Jonathan would need someone who could turn the whole Terrandya province around in ashort time. However, it was impossible to do so.
Meanwhile, Nina lay motionless on a couch aside.
After ingesting so many laxatives, even an advanced phase Grandmaster Realm cultivator like herwould not be able to take it. She was drained of all her energy as she slumped against the couch.
Beside her, Geoffrey was seated in front of a spacious desk.
It was obviously a meeting room desk, fit to seat around twenty to thirty people.
However, there were ten monitors floating above the desk.
Every monitor was displaying footage from multiple surveillance cameras or some encrypted chats.There were faces flashing on two of the monitors as well.
It looked very professional and futuristic.
Meanwhile, over a dozen oldest models of Nokia phones were on the table. Every one of them wasdistinctly marked.
A ping of notification rang, and Geoffrey approached Jonathan with a tablet in his hand.
“Mr. Goldstein, the number of casualties at Grand Hotel has been finalized. Please take a look,”Geoffrey said.
Jonathan took over the tablet.
Fifty four deaths and thirty eight injured.
Though the number may be a bit painful to look at, the casualty was actually minimal.
If Jonathan had chosen to stop and save the people at Grand Hotel when Zebedee and the otherGrandmaster Realm cultivators were on their killing spree, he reckoned that the death toll could reachover a hundred.
“Mr. Goldstein, I just hacked into the information system at the airport, and I can’t find any informationon Zebedee and the others’ entry. Could it be that they’re using fake names?”
“I don’t think so,” Jonathan said impassively as he tossed the tablet aside.
“Zebedee’s Team Oracle enjoys high honor at Jetroina, especially Zebedee. He has been anointed theholy master by the king of Jetroina. The honor binds them to their names. On top of the arrogance ofJetroinians, it is unlikely that they’re lying,” Jonathan commented.
He furrowed his brows slightly as he recalled the way Zebedee presented himself.
“If the names aren’t right, they must have changed their identities prior to entering the country. Wecould just match their faces in the surveillance camera footage. Even if it’s not the most efficientmethod, it is the best way to find out when they entered the borders and the people who welcomedthem,” Jonathan ordered.
“Understood!”
Geoffrey turned back to his seat.
Meanwhile, Nina, who was seated opposite Jonathan was as pale as a sheet of paper.
If Zebedee and the others had never shown their faces, Nina was confident that she could eradicate alltheir traces.
However, since they had shown themselves, it would only take a moment for the computers to pull outthe information about their entry into the country from the immigration system.
On top of that, even her whereabouts would also be leaked. To make matters worse, she was alsolocked out of her spiritual energy. If Jonathan found out about her true identity, he would not hesitate tokill her.
I have to find a way out of here!
Nina felt apprehensive as she looked at Jonathan who was seated just opposite her.
However, Jonathan could not care less about Nina right then.novelbin
It was not that he did not doubt her, he just didn’t think she was worth the trouble.
As a Superior Realm cultivator, she couldn’t even concentrate her force field. Jonathan wouldn’t evenneed to lift a finger to immobilize her.
Right then, his thoughts were focused on the Heaven Sword in his hand.
The sword had shown three anomalies so far.
The latest anomaly had cemented Jonathan’s surmise that the sword was no plaything.
It was as if the setting in the imaginary realm was guiding him forward.
The most bizarre thing was when the mysterious person who appeared when he entered the imaginaryrealm the second time could actually communicate with him.
This time, Jonathan was finally able to pinpoint a landmark in the realm—the waterfall.
It was a hundred-meter-tall waterfall. It was nothing too impressive, but he reckoned there would be atleast a name or a record of a waterfall within the mountains.
Jonathan decided to check it out if he could locate the place.
The mysterious person had surrounded him with a formation of mountains.
Who is he?
At a deserted mansion in Marsingfill province of Tellmoore City, a man dressed like a beggar washuddled in a corner as he wolfed down a bowl of instant noodles.
Cough, cough…
A violent cough made the man puke his mouthful of instant noodles. However, the noodles werestained red.
He wiped away the blood on his nose and brushed the ring on his right hand, and a bottle of waterappeared in his hand.
The man tilted his head backward and gulped down half the water in the bottle. Then, he leaned backagainst the wall and let out a huge sigh.
“Ancestors, the Secret Realm will open soon. I will retrieve the item and return the Whitley family to itsformer glory at Chanaea.”
The man was none other than Joshua, who managed to abscond from the fight with Wilbur and Evalast time.
Joshua had managed to garner the trust of eight respectable families by groveling at their feet for allthese years. He finally ascended to the position of commander, and everything was in place for him toavenge his family.
He was the final seed left over by Herman. However, nobody had expected that someone left over bythe Whitleys would dare to openly show himself in front of the eight respectable families.
The respectable families were looking to balance the power dynamic between them, afraid that any oneof them would gain power over the other if any one of them was the commander.
Joshua utilized the downfall of the Whitley family, and the other families’ laxity to become the puppet ofthe eight respectable families.
The eight families wiped out the Whitley family, and yet Joshua buttered up to them. Hence, they didn’tsee Joshua as a threat, and he was viewed as the perfect figure to bring balance to the power dynamicof the eight great families.
After a decade of trial and tests of his loyalty, Joshua finally seized control of Zedfield.
Joshua thought he would have the power to discuss with the eight respectable families once he seizedcontrol of the Yaleview Army.
However, he had underestimated one person—Wilbur Xanthos.