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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 991

Though winter in Colonel Island had passed, the entire area was still very cold. After all, it had previously snowed heavily for three consecutive days before it finally stopped.

As a result, the chilly island was enveloped in a layer of silver.

Despite the cold, several men donning black clothes could be seen standing respectfully by the stone entrance of a cave on the island. The men consisted of people who held high-ranks in the Soul Palace.

“Judging by the time, it should be almost done by now,” said grandpa Welson to a few leaders as a sudden strong breeze blew snowflakes—which were beginning to fall again—into everyone’s faces.

Seconds later, rumbling could be heard as the heavy stone door was pushed open.

As everyone turned over to look, they saw an old man exiting the cave alongside a much younger one.

“Lord! Young master! Welcome back from your training!” shouted all the present men in unison and with utmost respect.

Daryl then laughed loudly before replying, “That’s quite enough! Go prepare the party immediately! Everyone from the Soul Palace will enjoy ourselves thoroughly today!”

Seeing how great his mood was, Grandpa Welson simply nodded before turning to look at Gerald. It was evident that the current young man standing before him was completely different from the one he had met half a year ago.

Gerald now had a beard and his hair looked much messier than before. His torn clothes also revealed the many well-defined muscles on Gerald’s now greatly strengthened body.

However, those weren’t the reason why Grandpa Welson had such a fierce-looking expression on his face.

No, what he was currently feeling had stemmed from the fact that though snowflakes melted quickly upon skin-contact for all the others there, any snow that fell on Gerald remained intact.

Grandpa Welson’s realization of that made the corner of his eyelid twitch rather rapidly.

Initially a Crawford, he had been together with Daryl for the longest time. He could still distinctly remember Daryl’s hellish transformation all those years ago.

However, the impression Grandpa Welson now had on Gerald felt different from that distant memory. To him, Gerald currently exuded an even greater power compared to the lord all those years ago.

Gerald’s eyes, in particular, reflected how strong, dignified, and calm he was as a person. However, by contrast, they simultaneously hinted at a constant bloodlust as well.

As Grandpa Welson felt a chill run down his spine, Daryl himself gently patted Gerald’s shoulder as he said, “Just head there once you’re done cleaning yourself up, Gerald.”

“Alright,” replied Gerald as he nodded before heading off to clean himself.

On his way to the bathroom, any leader of the Soul Palace whom he walked past would bow their heads to greet him.

Upon opening the door to the large bathroom, Gerald was instantly greeted by warm steam. Inside, more than ten women—both young and old—could be seen attending to their chores at the side.

Closing his eyes, Gerald stretched both his arms out, prompting a few of the women to go over to him and begin massaging his shoulders. The others got busy as well, trimming his hair and giving him a well-deserved shave.

With how masculine Gerald was, none of the women could hold back from blushing.

Once he was all clean, the women then blow-dried Gerald’s body with hairdryers before sliding a bathrobe onto him.

“The suit you asked for has been prepared, young master…” said one of the women shyly.

“Alright. You may leave now,” replied Gerald quite placidly.

After suiting up, Gerald found himself heaving a long sigh. He had gone through great pain in the past half-year, and after enduring through all that, his suffering could finally end today.

As he fixed his tie, Gerald suddenly heard a soft and gentle voice behind him saying, “Allow me to help you, young master.”

Turning around to look at who had spoken, Gerald immediately found a fair and demure-looking hand reaching out to touch his body. The hand itself belonged to a woman who was dressed rather seductively.

As Gerald gently lifted her by her chin, the woman seemed to be eagerly awaiting something.

In her mind, she was thinking that if she was able to bewitch the young master, then she would definitely be able to improve her position in the Soul Palace. Once that happened, she would surely rise above the other beauties!

“Get. Lost!”

His immediate response was far from what she had anticipated, and it was evident that it hadn’t occurred to her that the young master could be this aloof.

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His sudden shout frightened the woman so much that her entire body immediately trembled as though she had just been struck by lightning.

“Y-yes, young master!” replied the woman awkwardly as she quickly left the room.

It was only three days later when the party in the Soul Palace finally ended. On the morning of the day after, everyone from the Soul Palace gathered at the island’s public square.

“You’ve successfully made it through your hellish transformation, Gerald, and I have to say that your final results have far surpassed my expectations. However, while you’re currently able to better control your temperament, it’s still extremely unstable. If you wish to perform the blessings of the dragon to its maximum degree, you’ll need to drink the holy blood of the holy fox. Once you do, it’ll assist in helping you control your temperament. I’ll have Grandpa Welson stay by your side to aid you when you return there.”

“I’m aware, grandpa. Speaking of which, when will you be returning there to have a look around? My dad honestly misses you too,” replied Gerald casually

Nodding, Daryl then patted Gerald’s shoulder as he said, “I’ll return when the time is right.”

It was evident that Daryl had high expectations of Gerald.

Not long after, thirty black helicopters could be heard starting up at the base.

Placing a firm gaze on his grandfather, Gerald then said, “Do take care, grandpa. We’ll be leaving now.”

With that said, he then turned to board one of the helicopters.

As the helicopters took off with Grandpa Welson, over three hundred experts from the island, and Gerald himself, their loud droning slowly faded from the island as they flew south.

Meanwhile, the night was getting darker and darker within the suburbs of the Triangle District within Heavenly City.

There, a pitiful looking woman hugging onto a document folder could be seen desperately trying to escape over ten cars that were driving slowly behind her.

Though her face was pale and wounds could be seen covering her body, it was clear that the woman found the document folder she had in hand to be much more important than her life.

The cars themselves continued moving slowly as a few people sitting inside stretched their heads out the cars’ windows and began shining their flashlights on the woman.

“Haha! That’s right! Go on and continue running! Run faster! We’re going to catch you soon!” yelled one of the men, causing the others to get increasingly excited as well.

As the woman ran, and ran, she eventually tripped and fell to the ground. However, gritting her teeth, she immediately crawled back up and continued running.

It wasn’t long before one of the cars then immediately drove up to her. Shining his flashlight directly at her face, the person sitting beside the driver then said, “We’ve got you now! Honesty, you’d better run quicker than this if you don’t want to fall into Tucker’s hands. After all, once he has you, you’ll definitely be ruined! Hahaha!”

Hearing that, the others began laughing loudly inside their cars as well, teasing the woman’s poor attempt at escaping.

Eventually, the woman found herself falling again. However, she had reached her limit and she simply wasn’t able to get herself off the ground anymore.

Knowing that, the woman immediately tried tearing the contents of the document folder apart with the intent of swallowing whatever scraps she could so that they couldn’t be recovered.

“You mother*cking bitch! Do you really think we won’t kill you?!” roared Tucker Westmore himself as he jumped out of his car alongside a few other of his men. It didn’t take long for him to brutally land a slap on her cheek, causing the woman to drop the document folder in her state of dizziness.

Picking it up, Tucker then sneered, “It would be a pity for a beauty like you to just die like this… Bring her back! I’m going to be enjoying myself with her tonight! All of you can have your turns with her once I’m done!”

“Hahaha! Affirmative, Mr. Westmore!”

Glaring daggers at Tucker, the woman immediately revealed a hidden short blade.

However, before she was even able to take her life, Tucker simply slapped the blade out of her hands.

“Oh? Did you honestly think I would allow you to die that easily? Haha! You’ll only be able to once I’ve sufficiently tortured you!” announced Tucker as he laughed maliciously.

As the woman cried out in despair, a distant droning could suddenly be heard.

It wasn’t long before the droning grew louder and louder. The next thing they knew, over thirty helicopters had appeared, and they now hovered over Tucker and his men!

“What the hell is happening?” demanded Tucker, shocked by the turn of events.

After the helicopters landed, several men dressed in black came out and immediately glared at Tucker and his men extremely coldly.

Seeing how extraordinarily imposing they all were, Tucker quickly added, “Hey now, which side do all of you belong to? I don’t think I’ve seen any of you before! Just so you know, my father is Sven from Heavenly City!”

Immediately after he said that, the door to one of the helicopters—that had landed right in the middle of the others—was opened by one of the opposing party’s subordinates.

Turning to look in that direction, Tucker saw a suited man sitting inside as he sipped on red wine.

Before he could even say anything, the woman—who had clearly seen the man in the helicopter as well—immediately cried out, “S-sir! You’ve finally returned!”

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The person she was referring to was, of course, none other than Gerald.

The woman herself was Yukie, the one who had stayed by Gerald’s side for some time back when he had first established the Royal Dragon Group.

Watching the teary-eyed woman run toward him, Gerald felt an acute pain in his heart as he realized how terribly Yukie had suffered.

“You’ve already suffered so much, Yukie… Fear not, for I have returned!” declared Gerald as he led her into one of the helicopters.

Yukie clung on tightly to Gerald’s arm as they walked on, clearly unwilling to part. After all, she had yearned for Gerald from dusk till dawn ever since the day he left half a year ago.

Still, what was this peculiar feeling welling within her upon reuniting with Gerald…? Momentarily shaking the thought away, Yukie knew that there were more serious matters to attend to first.

Holding out the document folder to Gerald, she then said, “Sven is back, sir… As a result, Drake, Tyson, Mr. Whistler… They… They’ve all been captured! Even Lucy and many others have been taken away by him! As if that wasn’t enough, he even snatched away many of our properties! The ones in this document folder are the final properties that we have left…”

Seeing how desperately she had tried to protect the properties, Gerald wiped a tear off the corner of her eye as he replied, “I’ve earlier told Grandpa Welson to investigate the incident so I already know most of the details. It’s my fault for disappearing on all of you for over half a year…”

“F*ck! So that’s Tyson’s boss! Also you two, don’t go acting all intimate in front of us! Still, it’s high time that you finally make your reappearance! Once we’re done with you tonight, Boss Sven won’t need to even bother about any of you anymore!” growled one of Tucker’s men, fiercely.

However, the moment his sentence ended, the same man barely had any time to register what had just happened when he felt his eyes widen.

Seconds later, a ‘thud’ could be heard and everyone could only stare as Gerald’s subordinate stood before the now headless man.

Upon registering what had just taken place, Yukie let out a brief yelp before covering her mouth in utter fear.

Tucker himself grew increasingly frightened and anxious as well. It was now clear that the group of people standing before him now were not only frightening, but they also had great martial art skills to boot.

Quickly understanding that he held no chance against them, Tucker immediately said, “M-Mr. Crawford, there seems to be a few misunderstandings between us. I suggest we get my dad over so that you can talk to him in person! After all, I’m only doing all this in accordance with his orders. Killing me would be useless! So how about it? Should I call my father over?”

When he got no reply, Tucker’s fears spiked and the anxious man immediately got to his knees. As his last resort, he gulped before pleading, “P-please spare my life, Mr. Crawford!”

Watching as the terrified man quivered before him, Gerald slowly poured a glass of red wine before replying, “Honestly, I had earlier been wondering whether I should prepare a gift for your father upon meeting him. While thinking about it, I realized that you had quite a few subordinates and some of them are even carrying cameras around! Thanks to that, I now have an idea!”

possibly be thinking of,

like what he had done with Yukie earlier. He saw his actions as something that should be commemorated, which was why some of his subordinates made it a habit

a short video. I’ll present it to your father

cooperate! I’ll do it, Mr.

The subordinate in question immediately got the cue to enter the

widened as he saw the subordinate carrying a fuel container

pleaded Tucker as he immediately crawled back up

felt a stone piercing through his chest. Blood now spurting out

horror, completely paralyzed as Gerald’s subordinate doused Tucker’s entire body with

your eyes, Yukie,” said Gerald as he blocked her view with his

Gerald then ordered, “Light him

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died down. With that, Gerald, Yukie, and his men returned

lie down and get some rest first. Turning to look at Welson next, he then asked, “So, where’s

into it, we found that he’s organizing a party at Heavenly City Hotel at the moment. He’s invited several big shots from Heavenly City over since he wants

learned that Sven had gone to a Southeast Asian country half a year ago to toughen himself up. Due to that, he now

to cause any more trouble in the future.

the holy blood yet… With your temperament currently still unstable,

all, if Gerald had no problem with killing others the moment he left training, Welson was afraid that he would only grow to become more and more

“I can control it.”

that, Gerald selected around thirty people to go with him before setting off for the

itself, a sudden chill could be felt as

Mom’s been trying to find you everywhere! With Boss Sven back today and the recent terrible event in Heavenly City,

mature and seductive looking woman who looked to be around twenty-four.

to, she seemed to be slightly younger, at

how loud they were being, the older woman instantly straightened her

in the first place to get some fresh air, you know? I’ll head back up there in a bit,” replied

me… Promise me that you’ll head up again once you’re feeling better, okay?” said the woman in a slightly

however, that the young woman wasn’t too enthusiastic about going back inside. Crouching to the ground, she picked a few stones up before

pouted before dragging herself back

be a secret passage from behind a wall mirror. As if the shock wasn’t

“…Huh? Isn’t that…?”

so the girl was eager to greet their leader. Before she could do so, however, a gruff

and several other of Sven’s guards were able to catch the infiltrating

reply, the men from the opposing group chose to swiftly dash toward each of Sven’s present guards instead. With breakneck speed, multiple snaps could

guards with broken necks, a waiter—who just so happened to be in the lobby—immediately let

In her utter shock, she instantly began running up the

came into view of a family member, the older woman quickly said, “There you are!

woman sighed before adding, “With Boss Sven finally back, big changes are bound to happen in Heavenly City… Because of that, we Yowells will need to grab any opportunity that presents itself. Since you and your sister take after me, both of you are extremely beautiful. Due to that, please be on your best behavior once Mr. Tucker arrives. Who knows, one of you could end up charming him! If that were to happen, then our family will definitely be able to rise up

this point that the three women were none other than Tulip, Juliet, and

half a year ago, she was able to fairly easily catch on

then asked, “What’s wrong, Tulip? Why’s your face so

deep breath before slowly saying, “…Earlier… When I was downstairs… I… I

“Him?” asked Heidi.

mind was, Juliet immediately had a hunch of who her sister

her heartbeats quicken, Juliet then added, “Who exactly did you see,

quivered in fear as she cried

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love of god, give us a name!” replied Juliet who was

met Gerald!” exclaimed

replied both Heidi and Juliet as their eyes

what if you met him? Why are you

“…B-because-”

another word, Sven—the organizer of tonight’s event—stepped atop the high stage before saying, “Do be silent for a brief moment, ladies and

to signal everyone to keep quiet, the entire hall

First off, allow me to express my gratitude since despite my half-year absence, so many of you still chose to show your support by attending this party. During the time I was away, many things have happened. Thankfully, everything is finally over. On another note, the Sven

to look at him in the eye, and that was exactly the effect Sven

Heavenly City, and

Sven couldn’t help but smile subtly as he briefly clapped his hands. Hearing their cue, his subordinates marched into the hall—from another hall beside it—leading over ten

are certainly attractive! Haha! However, I don’t think I’ll be able to properly appreciate them…

think that he would even go

While Mr. Crawford upheld morality and justice, Sven himself is just an inhumane

which, have any of you heard about what happened to the Westleys? Since they had a good relationship with Mr. Crawford, Sven completely took over their family. What more, he even kicked all the Westleys out of their own home! We’ll

stage—were now whispering among themselves about how unacceptable Sven’s behavior was. Though many

his fingers, Sven then said, “Without further ado, let the

suddenly turned dim as half of the lights in it were

life, forming a white rectangle

butler as the people offstage exchanged glances

shock when the projector began playing a video

man in the video. It was none other than Mr. Tucker Westmore himself! What more,

can talk to him in person! After all, I’m only doing all this in accordance with

widened as he clenched both

it was, the person must have been

video played on, the audience watched as Tucker crawled up and attempted to escape. However, before he could even take a step

instantly began gushing out of his chest, resulting in

when someone approached the struggling man and poured fuel all over his body! A match could briefly be seen being tossed

the attendees immediately ended up vomiting! Several others soon did the same and their legs shook

didn’t were so shaken up that they held onto their heads while

the video finally ended, the lights were

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Sven, enraged as he slammed his fists onto the table before him, sending it smashing into pieces! Even the muscles on

certainly terrifying, many of the businessmen were secretly rejoicing after they realized how much pain Sven was now in. What went around, came around,

themselves were now huddling close to

my! I wasn’t expecting it to be so lively in here!” said a voice out

was daring enough to say that, they were all shocked to see Gerald entering the hall together with a

influential forces in the hall immediately stood up and bowed, submitting to Gerald’s authority as they simultaneously shouted, “Mr.

muttered Juliet as she looked at him with a dumbfounded expression on her face. Her heartbeat quickened as she recalled the last time

had revealed that his true identity was the boss of the

he got his hands on the Ginseng King! Due to that, she came to

the person who had brought her so much misery was finally out of the picture. However, Tulip had told her that he was finally back before the video even began,

she knew that he truly had returned, she was filled with complicated feelings as she observed how different Gerald’s demeanor and appearance

from the Royal Dragon Group? You seem quite young. Pray tell, were you the one responsible

glared at Gerald with his eyes dyed red with murderous

he roared, “If that’s the case, how dare you come all the way here?! Fine, then! We’ll settle all our grudges today! I’ll make you suffer terribly if

and flexed his muscles so hard that his shirt exploded into shreds! Now topless, his bulging muscles made him look as impenetrable as a

had plans to begin educating Tucker on the right ways to be his proper heir once Tucker

mad. Now looking like a complete maniac, the hulking man

away from

to get caught up

the hall, warning everyone to retreat to

from the two

there certainly was a loud collision, that wasn’t why

all flabbergasted by the fact that Gerald had casually grabbed Sven’s fist before it could even land!

from Gerald’s grasp,

said Gerald rather casually

opened them again, however, his eyes were tinged red and his entire body gave off an aura akin to

standing behind him this entire time took turns taking

spine as his imposing aura grew weaker, now almost completely overshadowed

feeling frightened as he stared at the demon of a man standing before

kept your hands off my

Gerald placed both his hands on Sven’s

done things to

“And thirdly, you shouldn’t ever have humiliated my subordinates right in

was done lecturing him, he took in a deep breath before yanking both of Sven’s shoulders forward! The disgusting sound of skin and flesh being torn apart filled the room and soon

long as many of the people within the room instantly began screaming. Their screams of pure

found themselves having severe nervous breakdowns, some of

demon of

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it frantically tried finding ways to cope

to maintain their sanity by curling up into balls near the corners of the room, those who were less lucky ended up foaming on the floor due to

by this point.

a deep breath. Completely silent, he stayed that way for a brief moment before finally opening his eyes again. By then, the terrifying redness in

he then asked,

vigorously before ultimately vomiting blood and falling to the floor! Though the butler’s body continued twitching for a brief moment, in the end, he stopped moving

so terrified that all his blood went up to his brain, causing a rupture in his blood vessels there.

by his feet, Gerald simply turned to face the

“Right away, young master!”

off to investigate, Gerald was just about to leave when he caught a glimpse of the mother and daughters from the Yowell family huddling closely together in fear. However, he simply averted his

to even move a muscle, even after an hour had passed! Throughout that time, an almost ungodly silence

District would be fear-stricken whenever they heard the Royal Dragon

the holy fox, I’ve glad to say that I’ve finally located it, young master! As it turned out, someone came across the holy fox about a year ago within the dense forest west of the Logan

fox. Let me remind you that if you fail to nourish yourself with the fox’s holy blood, there exists a chance for your temperament to be influenced by your hatred. Once that happens, it’ll be incredibly difficult to salvage your old personality,” added Welson before

though his expression contrasted how touched he was feeling from Welson’s

a bush fire. Once a single bush was ignited, it was extremely difficult to stop the flames from spreading to the rest of the forest. In other words, Gerald was well aware that he could

had resolved the issue with such brutality the other day, a near irresistible urge to kill had constantly lingered around Gerald throughout the

are coming from, Welson… I don’t want to end up becoming a killing machine either. Very well, relay my command to the others that we’ll be heading off to the west of the Logan Province immediately in search of the holy

“Right away, young master!”

giving his order, Gerald stood up and walked toward a window where a flower pot—with fresh flowers inside—had been placed. As he gently held on to one of the flower’s petals,

of exacting his revenge on Kort when he arrived in the Logan Province, his grip tightened slightly. At that moment, all of the

incident happened, and he felt his eyelids twitching. As was expected, it was right for the lord to be worried

hellish transformation had greatly improved the young master’s strength, and from what Welson could remember, the young master was actually even

worried about Gerald falling into immorality, he wouldn’t have told Welson to

though I’m not sure whether I should actually say

“Go on, Welson.”

back properly. See, when the lord himself was learning the blessings of the dragon back then, he found a solution to mediate his bloodlust. I was wondering if you’d like to give it a

“What sort of solution?”

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lord himself was feeling troubled by his inner demons. As a result, he searched high and low for a way to better control his temperament. After all, he was fully aware that until he could easily and skillfully manage the blessings of the dragon,

he would be able to gain more insight into

stopped trying to seek out help out of fear that he would end up killing another innocent person. Oddly enough, he found the answer to his question himself one day. In his moment of enlightenment, he sealed his strength away and reverted to living life as a regular human. Once that happened, he looked just

high resolution, it isn’t exactly for everyone. However, since you’ve led a poor life before

“Well, Grandpa did teach me a method to seal my strength… I’ll do it. After all, I’ll be trying my best to stay away from disputes and fights anyway since I don’t have the holy blood yet. Besides, by sealing all that power, I should be able to manage my strength with greater ease