Free Web NovelChapter 338: Chapter 338
Alex had originally wanted to strike while the iron was hot and immediately summon the Roland that Daoist Hundred Harms just mentioned to ask everything clearly.
However, feeling that his previously overflowing dantian had actually been depleted of more than half its spiritual energy, he could not help but secretly gasp.
Good heavens, the spiritual energy consumption of this Human Path is too fierce.
In just the time it takes to say a few words, it forcibly consumed more than half of my peak Supreme Realm spiritual energy?
It seemed this move was only suitable for closing the door to summon ancient and modern sages for guidance, and was not suitable for combat.
In a life and death struggle, summoning two helpers but directly draining all of one’s own spiritual energy in the process, how was one supposed to fight?
Immediately, Alex abandoned the thought of summoning Roland right away. He chose to first close his eyes, rest his mind, and recover his spiritual energy.
While lightly sleeping, his mind could not help but fall into thought.
A hero of the world with unblemished integrity and an aura of righteousness. He truly wondered how majestic and mighty such a hero’s appearance would be.
Hale family Holy Land, within the Dungeon.
Knox was still bound to the iron chair by the Forbidden Magic Stones, his whole body as limp and powerless as mud. He had been locked up for nearly a month now.
Over this past month, he had been imprisoned in the same chair every single day, maintaining the exact same posture. He could not stand up, could not lie down, and could not even move a single finger.
Every day, aside from two meals in the morning and evening, and Adrian showing up at irregular times to slap him twenty times in the face, he had absolutely no other contact with the outside world.
After a month of this, Knox’s face was swollen like a pig’s, making it impossible to see the slightest bit of his former appearance. His mind was also nearly driven mad, clearly having reached the verge of collapse.
Under Adrian’s unremitting efforts, relying on shaving away his destiny slap by slap, Alex had forcibly stripped away a full ten percent of the Providence on Knox’s body.
At dawn, the sky was just barely getting light. Two female juniors of the Hale family, as always, carried in food and walked into the dungeon.
"Take it away..." Knox parted his lips and said hoarsely.
"I will not eat these things. Take it away, scram, all of you scram!"
The two women were long accustomed to this reaction, feeling no surprise at all.
They immediately stepped forward proficiently. One grabbed Knox’s mouth and pried open his teeth. The other picked up food with chopsticks and stuffed it in chopstick by chopstick.
Throughout the entire process, the two maintained expressionless faces, their movements stiff and wooden.
As if at this moment, they were not feeding a person at all, but rather throwing perfectly good food into a trash can.
Although Knox verbally resisted, once the food entered his mouth, his body’s instinctive desire to survive still forced him to swallow it down.
Looking at his utterly undignified appearance, both women revealed looks of disdain.
They were the most trusted confidant disciples of Adrian, which was why they had been entrusted with this errand. Having to come feed him twice a day made them feel endlessly troubled and disgusted. Perfectly good food, even if used to feed pigs, would be more meaningful than feeding this crazy coward.
After finishing, the two women packed up the food box and turned around, just about to leave.
Suddenly, two streams of black mist drifted down from midair, landing squarely on top of their heads.
The two women froze slightly, looking at each other in suspicion.
The next second, the two streams of black mist directly transformed into two withered, skeletal giant hands, deathly gripping their throats.
"Ugh..."
"Let... let go!"
They were hoisted up directly by their throats.
Their faces turned pale, their eyes filled with deep horror and panic.
However, their vocal cords were instantly destroyed by the giant hands, making it completely impossible to utter a sound. After merely struggling for a brief moment, they directly died, collapsing dead onto the ground.
Sitting on the iron chair, Knox watched with a completely dumbfounded face, having no idea what had just happened.
The next second, a black silhouette slowly emerged from the ground. The two black hands that had strangled the two women shockingly belonged to a middle-aged man dressed in black.
The middle-aged man unhurriedly walked up to Knox, pulled back his hood, and sized him up for a moment, his face full of a teasing smile. "You are Knox, right?"
"...Yes." Knox also could not help but scrutinize this black-clothed man from top to bottom, asking cautiously. "Who are you?" freēwēbnovel.com
"Noir Family, Garret Noir."
After declaring his name, a sharp gleam of excitement flowed in Garret’s eyes.
"Alike, truly too alike! You really are the reincarnation of that fellow, even the scent of your blood is exactly the same! It seems this old man truly found the right person today!"
Saying so, Garret drew the sword at his waist and, with a single slash, cleaved apart the Forbidden Magic Stone shackles on Knox’s body.
He said excitedly. "Kid, come with me! This old man is here to save you!"
"I do not know you." Although Knox had always longed to escape from this lightless dungeon, facing this ruthless stranger of unknown origins, he did not dare pour all his trust into him immediately.
"You and I have never crossed paths before, meeting by chance like duckweed on water. Why would you save me?"
"You do not need to care about the reason." Garret narrowed his eyes and laughed coldly.
"I only ask you one question. Do you want revenge? Do you want to chop that Alex into pieces, grind his bones to dust, and slaughter the entire Hale family to the last person?!"
"I want to!" Knox did not hesitate at all. Gritting his teeth, he nodded heavily, a cold and fierce light flowing in his eyes.
