Female Novel
Chapter 2391
“They’re from the Morningstar family! Those b*stards have been forcing us to hand over the Crawfordfamily’s assets for the longest time! As if that wasn’t already enough, they kidnapped Leo and Aiden aswell! Either way, the now armless man goes by Harlo, and he’s here since today’s the deadline for us tohand our assets over!” explained Zack.
“Hah! The Morningstars are the most influential family now, kid! While I admit that you’re strong, don’tthink for one second that you’ll be able to take on all the other fighters in my family! Regardless, if youhave the balls, why don’t you challenge me to a one-on-one duel in public? If you allow me to returnand heal up, I’ll surely give you a true taste of my family’s power! What do you say?” scoffed Harlo whohad his hand over the nub of his shoulder as he slowly got to his feet, desperately trying to hide hispain under a facade.
Upon hearing that, Stephanie was prompted to taunt, “Yeah! Challenge us to an official duel! Though Idoubt you have the guts!”
Glaring at Gerald the entire time, Harlo couldn’t wait for the boy to take the bait. Like hell he wasissuing an actual challenge! The second he got out of this place, he was ordering his men to chop thatkid to pieces! Realizing that Gerald had gone silent, Harlo then added, “Aww… Too big of a coward toaccept my challenge? If so, why don’tyou just kill me now so that nobody knows you did the crime…”
Before Harlo could follow up with a sneer, he felt something penetrating his throat. Apparently,Stephanie had felt the same thing. Looking at Gerald who was now pointing toward them, Harlorealized that Gerald had sent out two aura blades to pierce through their throats!
“Y-you…! ” stuttered Harlo before flopping to the ground, dead…novelbin
After silently staring at all the fresh corpses for a while, Gerald simply shook his head before muttering,“As if I’d be worried about others finding out about this! Either way, get some of our men to clear thisplace up, Zack. Once you’re done, meet me in the office.”
Following that, Zack watched as Gerald placed his arms against his back before walking toward theoffice…
On his way there, Gerald saw that not much had changed about the manor. Regardless, after orderingsome men to deal with the bodies, Zack hurriedly made his way to the office to start reporting the entireincident to Gerald…
As it turned out, it wasn’t long after the Crawford family’s crisis when the Morningstars came out ofnowhere and quickly became a powerful family. Their rapid development was mostly due to their topprinciple which was to kill anyone who got in their way! The fact that they were all cultivators certainlymade things easier for them!
Regardless, in order to continue protecting and expanding the Crawford family’s business, Zack hadmade sure to befriend several secret technique experts, with some even from the cultivation world!Sadly, none of them were the Morningstars’ opponents, leading to Zack’s allies either surrendering tothe family, or losing their lives.
It was because of that that Zack no longer had any power to fight back for some time, resulting in theMorningstars nearly acquiring all of the Crawford family’s assets…
Also, as Zack had earlier mentioned, the Morningstars kidnapped Leo and Aiden as well. Though Leo’skidnapping had happened a while back, Aiden’s was fairly recent. It happened when Aiden was on hisway back to discuss the formation of an investigation team with Zack. After bumping into a Morningstarwho had come looking for trouble, Aiden and that b*stard got into a fight. Understandably, Aiden lostthe battle, and he was promptly captured.
Once he was done reporting all that, Zack who was now in tears again fell to his knees beforedeclaring, “I apologize, Young Master Crawford! To the Crawford family and to Miss Crawford as well!All of you have entrusted me with your assets, but I’ve nearly lost all of them!”
“Get up, Zack, this isn’t your fault. I could already sense that the Morningstars from before had accessto their inner strength. With that in mind, it’s completely understandable that you weren’t able to take onthem! Putting that aside, they’re not exactly cultivators… They simply know how to use basic secrettechniques!”