The Secretly Rich Man

Chapter 1030

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1030 With that, he laughed. While he was excited to find a source of blood, he was also genuinely surprisedby the old man’s statement.

“Indeed! You’ve been a huge waste of time and effort, you know? Regardless, since I managed tobump into you while looking for one final essential ingredient for my medicine, I believe that both of uswere destined to meet here. While it was a pity that I wasn’t able to kill you back then in the SalfordProvince, it seems that you’re just itching to die since you brought yourself right to my doorstep thistime! It’s high time we settled all our past grudges and grievances today, Mr. Crawford!” replied the oldman, his gaze frigid.novelbin

“Ah, yes, you were still working for the Schuylers back then in the Salford Province if I remembercorrectly. We didn’t even hate each other yet at the time. Sometime after that incident happened,however, I was surprised that you weren’t even present when I returned to the province around sixmonths ago. So it turns out that you had moved to the Northern region!” said Gerald as he stared backat the old man.

The old man quite literally had both halves of his face painted black and white respectively. It made hisface look like the symbol of yin and yang.

Back when both of them had first met, the old man—who went by the name of Julian—had been underthe guise of Yael’s butler. From the moment they met, Gerald could already sense that Julian wasn’t anordinary person.

His gut feeling eventually turned out to be right, and Julian had left a deep impression on Gerald eversince that incident. Gerald had also found it odd that Julian wasn’t present back when he destroyed the

Schuyler family for good.

“Well, I was initially under the impression that the Schuylers would eventually be able to overtake theFendersons. If all had gone according to plan, then the Schuylers would’ve easily and consequentlyused their newly acquired power to destroy the Crawfords! However, from the moment I realized thatNoah had secretly tried to curry favor the Crawfords under the pretense that he was going to destroythe Fendersons, I knew from that point on that even if Noah managed to eventually take over theFenderson family, he would never have the balls to actually go against the Crawfords! After all, Iunderstood him far too well by that point. That was the main reason I left them!”

“Wanting to continue improving my strength, I ended up coming to Everdare Forest in search ofingredients for me to brew an elixir to grant me just that! After searching for so long, I’ve finallymanaged to gather all the necessary medicinal herbs that I need to brew it. However, there is still onelast ingredient I need that is essential to perfecting the elixir. And that’s a heart! Since I actuallymanaged to meet up with you here, I’ll definitely be using the heart of a Crawford to complete the elixir!What perfect timing for you to show yourself at this moment! Hahaha!” explained Julian with his handsstill behind his back.

“What did the Crawfords even do to you for you to hate them so much? For you to resort to all sorts oftrickery and make endlessly attempts to get me?”

“Heh, it’s simple really. Did you know that the Crawfords are far too powerful? Your family holds somuch power that even a single order that they give is enough to wipe out an entire clan. Even thoughthose from the Laker family only hurt one of the Yaleman’s young masters back then, your familyretaliated by taking the lives of hundreds of the Laker’s family members! And just like that, my familywas almost completely wiped out, despite the fact that we were one of the four major families inYanken at the time!” growled Julian, his rage reflected in his eyes.

Upon hearing that, Gerald was finally able to see the bigger picture. Recalling what his grandmotherhad told him, there were once four major families in Yanken. Since his mother had eloped with hisfather back then instead of going through the arranged marriage that the Yalemans had promised withthe Lakers, the Laker family had expressed their dissatisfaction by attacking his fifth uncle who was stillin a vegetative state today because of them.

In retaliation, his father then exterminated most of the Laker family. It was now evident that the old mannow standing before him was a descendant of the Lakers.

“Hahaha! God truly is on my side this time! I guess my trip to the Logan Province wasn’t a wasteddecision after all!” added Julian with a booming laugh.

“…I’m sorry!” replied Gerald.

“Heh! How ridiculous! Do you think apologizing will help you evade death?” scoffed Julian as hepointed at Gerald while shaking his head.

“Well, it’s less to do with that and more to do with the complicated feelings I’m currently experiencing…After all, I don’t even know whether I should thank or sympathize with you!”

“…You want to thank me?”

“Indeed. After all, I’m in dire need of human blood now since I wish to lure the holy fox out. Not only areyou human, but you’re also fairly capable and well-trained! You’re the perfect sacrificial candidate to getit to show itself! I don’t really know how else to express my gratitude since you’re going to be deadsoon anyway, but I’ll promise to kill you quickly and painlessly! I’ll also be leaving your body fully intactso don’t worry about that!” said Gerald extremely sincerely.

Immediately frowning, Julian then retorted, “You… You brat! Did it only take a year for your mental stateto regress that much? Do you honestly think you can even lay a finger on me?!”

“You’ll see in a second. Please understand that I have no better choice!” replied Gerald.

“That’s enough nonsense! You’ve clearly gone bonkers! Regardless, I’ll be taking your life now, Mr.Crawford! I really want to see the look of Dylan’s face once he receives your corpse! Hahaha!”

Upon ending his sentence, Dylan immediately made a mad dash toward Gerald, aiming a punch athim!

Gerald himself retaliated with his own punch, and as their fists collided, the sound of snapping bonescould instantly be heard.

It took Julian a second to register the pain, but when it finally hit, he realized a second too late that hewas already falling to the ground. Spurting blood in between screams of anguish, the old man had aterrified expression on his face.

It was as though he had come face to face with the most powerful force he had ever encountered in hisentire life.

Not giving in that easily, Julian immediately got up again—albeit a bit wobbly—as he attempted tomake another punch! However, the moment his fist collided with Gerald’s chest, it felt akin to himpunching an immovable mountain. In fact, the impact of the blow probably hurt Julian even more!

“…Y-you… You…!” growled Julian, spurting blood the entire time as he looked at Gerald in utterdisbelief.

All the paths to his vital energy flow had been severed by this point, just because of a single punchfrom Gerald. It had only been a year since they had last met.

How was he this strong now? It was simply impossible, right?