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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1021

“It’s me, Gerald!”

Before Gerald could even say anything, the door to his room was pushed open and Haven popped her head in before entering.

“Didn’t you head back to your room to rest, Haven? Why are you here again?” asked Gerald with a resigned smile on his face.

Haven had immediately looked for him the moment he returned to the manor, intent on finding out how he was so powerful.

Not seeing any reason to hide anything from her, Gerald had earlier chatted with her for a while before sending her off.

He truly hadn’t expected to meet her again so soon.

“Well, the more I thought about it back in my room, the more I felt that something just wasn’t right! Humph! You’re not being a very good friend at all! Have you already forgotten that we had agreed to be friends back when we were still on the train? It took me a moment to realize, but you never came looking for me in the end! How do you plan on explaining yourself?” said Haven as she took a seat.

“Haha… Guilty as charged!” replied Gerald with a wry smile on his face.

Staring at him for a while, Haven then smiled sweetly before asking, “Then answer me honestly. Do you truly treat me as a friend?”

“Of course I do!”

“Great! So… Could you please teach me how to throw daggers? I want to learn how to do that too!”

“What kind of society are we even living in now? Why would you even want to learn a skill that could be used to kill?”

“Well, it’s because by this point, I’ve already encountered several powerful and skillful people who have abilities that easily surpass the limits of ordinary people! I want to be like them too!”

“You’ll have your chance in the future… Fine, why don’t we do this? I’ll teach you a trick or two tomorrow under the condition that you’re fully energetic to learn them. In order for you to achieve that, you’d better leave now and get some well-deserved rest!” replied Gerald as he smiled.

“Deal! Remember to keep to your word, or you can’t call yourself a man anymore! Well, I’ll be taking my leave first!” said Haven before skipping happily toward the door to leave.

As soon as she opened the door, however, she immediately said in a surprised tone, “Sister? Why are you here?”

“So you were as well, Haven! I’ve come to discuss some things with Mr. Crawford, so run along first!”

Hearing that, Gerald realized that it was Xareni’s turn to meet him. Haven herself was too busy daydreaming about learning new skills tomorrow so she simply left without thinking too much about her sister’s motive for being there.

“And here I was worrying that you’d already be asleep by now, Mr. Crawford! After all, it is pretty late now,” said Xareni as she walked in with a smile.

Looking at her briefly, Gerald then asked, “Is there anything else you’d like to say?”

Well aware that she was a person who enjoyed scheming, Gerald didn’t really have a good impression of Xareni.

“Indeed! You know, I heard from my father that you’re here in the Logan Province because you wish to look for holy blood within the Everdare Forest, Mr. Crawford. Perhaps our family could help you with the matter since we’re already well acquainted by this point. Also, while this may feel out of topic, what are your plans in the future, sir?” asked Xareni.

Since Gerald had already proved his strength, Xareni herself no longer had any traces of contempt in her eyes.

“I’d very much prefer if you stopped beating around the bush. If you haven’t noticed, I’m ready to retire for the night!” replied Gerald casually.

“Alright, so here’s the thing, Mr. Crawford. The Lovewell family is willing to treat you as an honorable guest, just as we treat Mr. Merrett. If you join us, then all your descendants will also receive the same benefits as you will! What do you think of that, sir?”

It was obvious by now that Xareni had been sent over by her father to pitch the idea to Gerald. Though she looked to only be around the age of twenty-five, she was extremely witty and smart, making her a master at negotiating. Even if she were to face the most experienced businessmen in the world of business, seven out of eight of them wouldn’t be able to outwit her.

Regardless, after seeing how casually Gerald dressed, she was certain that he wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation of money and women.

“Are you trying to hire me to work for the Lovewells?” asked Gerald.

“That’s right! I honestly see absolutely no reason for you to turn down our offer, Mr. Crawford. After all, you’ll be able to live a luxurious and extravagant life if you agree, and you’ll also be respected by everyone!” said Xareni as she squinted her eyes slightly, feeling that it was going to be a piece of cake to get Gerald to join them.

“Who even are the Lovewells to want to hire me?” replied Gerald casually.

Xareni was instantly startled upon hearing that statement.

“Look, I get where you’re coming from, but I’ll say right now that anything you try to say beyond this point will be useless. Just bring me the Book of Beasts tomorrow so I can have a look through it. I’ll return it to your family once I’m done reading it. Now if there isn’t anything else, I’d like to get some rest!” added Gerald rather unceremoniously.

‘This man really doesn’t know what’s good or bad for himself!’ Xareni thought to herself angrily.

“Well, while the Lovewells may not mean anything to you, I wonder if you’ve heard about the Moldells from the Logan Province…?”

As soon as she said that, Xareni took a peek at Gerald’s face with her beautiful eyes. She wanted to see how horrified he was since she knew that the more frightened he was of the news, the easier it would be for her to talk to him.

To her dismay, Gerald retained his indifferent expression as he said, “The Moldells? Who even are they?”

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Upon hearing Gerald say that, Xareni instantly retorted, “You!-”

Before she could say anything rash, however, she simply nodded before remaining silent for a while to calm herself.

A few seconds later, she smiled angrily before saying, “Well since you clearly look down on our small temple, then I guess the Lovewell family will just hand over the Book of Beasts to you tomorrow as our token of appreciation, sir!”

The moment she was done speaking, Xareni instantly turned around and left his room. Upon closing the door behind her, she took in a deep breath before glaring daggers at the room.

It was early the next morning when Haven pushed the door to Gerald’s room open before shouting, “Good morning, master!”

“Master?” replied Gerald as he couldn’t help but shake his head while looking at the girl who had brought a cup of ginseng tea along with her.

He didn’t even have a chance this time to remind her to knock first before entering this time. Despite her intrusion, Gerald still ended up smiling.

“Yeah, master! Hahaha! You said you were going to teach me some skills, so of course I’d call you that! Anyway, I brought along some tea to formalize our master and disciple relationship!” said Haven with a grin.

“Now you’re just exaggerating it… I’m just going to teach you some self-defense skills as a friend!”

Clearly ignoring what he had just said, Haven simply replied, “Please accept this tea as a form of respect from your disciple, master!”

Bowing before presenting the tea before Gerald, he simply shook his head before taking the cup from her.

After taking a sip, he gave her a wry smile before saying, “Will this do?”

“But of course! Now let’s go! Teach me something already!” squealed Haven as she hopped excitedly in place.

Smiling, Gerald then stood up to leave with her…

However, the moment he did so, he immediately felt an excruciating pain in his stomach! Holding on to his belly, his pale face scrunched up in agony as he shouted, “The… the tea!”

Getting increasingly worried as she watched Gerald get drenched in cold sweat, Haven instantly replied, stuttering, “H-huh? What’s going on? What’s wrong?”

“T-the tea… It’s been poisoned!” said Gerald in his extreme pain as he sat back on the bed before rolling back and forth, clenching tightly onto his stomach the entire time.

“P-poisoned? P-please don’t scare me, Gerald!” squeaked Haven whose anxiousness had peaked after seeing how much pain Gerald seemed to be in.

By the time her sentence ended, Gerald was already clasping onto his head with his hands.

“I-is your head not feeling well too? Please don’t scare me!” said Haven as she gently began shaking his shoulders.

It wasn’t long after before Gerald stopped struggling. His eyes were now closed as his hands had gone limp!

“G-Gerald…? Gerald! Oh god, please, wake up! Men! Men! Get in here!” cried out Haven.

Almost instantaneously, the door to Gerald’s room was flung open and the first person to enter was none other than Xareni.

“S-sister! Gerald seems to have been poiso-!”

Haven’s sentence ended prematurely for a reason. After all, she had noticed by then that right behind Xareni was her father, Second uncle, and many others as they slowly entered the room as well.

“I have to admit, Second, the Scatter Pill really works its magic! Even the incredibly strong Gerald wasn’t able to resist the pill’s effects!” said Zander as he nodded while laughing.

“Hahaha! Truth be told, I was skeptical as well when the Moldells handed me the pill. After seeing Gerald’s capabilities, I truly wasn’t sure whether he could even be poisoned! What more, the Moldells told me that I didn’t even need to use an entire pill to get him seriously poisoned! From what they said, as long as he takes a single sip of the tea, the poison would work its magic no matter how strong he was. Despite that, I slipped in the entire pill, just to be safe! Thankfully, he seems to have taken quite a big sip of the tea as well!”

“Based on what the Moldells said, Gerald will continue sleeping like this indefinitely, right, Second uncle?” asked Xareni while straightening her hair.

“Indeed!”

“Dad? Sister?! What are all of you talking about? Were you the ones who poisoned him?!” asked Haven in her disbelief.

“You have nothing to do with anything here anymore, Haven. Butler! Take Haven to her room so she can get some rest! And don’t let her leave without my permission!”

“Dad! Gerald’s our ally! He saved us!” cried out Haven as the butler quickly dragged her out of the room.

Seconds later, a subordinate walked in before whispering, “Old master, the Moldells are here!”

“Oh? Then hurry up and invite them in!” replied Zander excitedly.

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“So I heard that you’ve successfully captured Gerald Crawford, Mr. Lovewell. On behalf of the Moldells, I really don’t know how to thank you enough,” said an elderly man—who was leading seven other members of the Moldell family—as he laughed out loud.

“You’re being far too modest, Mr. Yaster. After all, the Lovewells and the Moldells may as well be considered to be one big family in the Logan Province by this point. Gerald himself is a mere outsider. Why would we ever favor an outsider to someone from our side?” replied Zander with a subtle smile.

“Well I’ll be d*mned! That really is him! You have no idea how much effort we had to put in order to find him!” said Yaster, his voice overjoyed as he approached the unconscious Gerald.

Yaster himself was a senior figure within the Moldell family in Logan. In fact, his job was to manage the entire family in the province. Therefore, successfully capturing Gerald would definitely be a great achievement on his part. He was already wondering how his second uncle, Kort, would reward him for his achievement.

“It’s truly been a pain to track you down… Now that you’re finally unconscious due to the potent poison of the Scatter Pill, let’s see how you’ll worm yourself out of this one!” scoffed Yaster coldly.

“Still, even though you described him to be all-powerful, I really don’t see what’s so great about him, Mr. Lovewell!” added Yaster who was clearly in a very good mood.

“I’ll have to correct you there, Uncle Moldell… Most of the Lovewells have already witnessed his true strength and capabilities by this point, and just as my father had described, he truly is that strong. We were only able to subdue him today thanks to my younger sister’s help and the wonderfully potent poison of the Scatter Pill you gave us! Otherwise, it would’ve definitely taken a lot more effort to get him to his current state!” replied Xareni as she straightened her hair while smiling.

“Ah, my niece seems to be an extremely eloquent speaker! You’ve truly made a great contribution in this matter, Xareni! The Moldell family will never forget what you’ve done for us! Regardless, it’s true that anyone who consumes even a little of the Scatter Pill—regardless of how much they’ve previously trained—will end up falling unconscious with little chance of ever getting up again!” exclaimed Yaster.

high time we brought Gerald back to the Moldell

“Right away, sir!”

cold voice from behind them

said that, everyone saw a white-haired old

we’ve retrieved the Everdare Forest map for you. Still, the map is an ancestral heritage from the Merrett family! I still can’t bring myself to believe that you actually gave it to that kid so casually! Gerald wasn’t even content with just having that! To think that he’d eye on the Lovewell family’s Book of Beasts as well! He really doesn’t know how

secretly been observing Kaleb’s behavior for a while now. He had reason to since

wasn’t really all that worried in the beginning since both he and Kaleb had already been friends for so many years by now.

events of last night. After all, it was then when Zander realized that Kaleb had told

was trying to antagonize Gerald now in

day that you’ve colluded with the Moldells to betray Mr. Crawford! He saved the lives of everyone in the Lovewell family, Zander! To think that you’d actually repay his kindness with acts of evil! Do you even still have a conscience?!” yelled Kaleb as

cold as he replied, “He tried to take the Book of Beasts from our family! He was certainly asking for all this to happen! Please, Mr. Merrett! Stay out of all this! I’m only saying this since we’ve been friends for so many years by now! Just go home and rest while the Moldells take care

said, “Go home? As long as I’m around, none of you will even be able to touch a single strand of Gerald’s hair from

a heavy heart as he replied, “…Fine then, Mr. Merrett. Since you can’t tell what’s good for you, then don’t blame me for being rude

to even touch

could instantly tell what Zander was

blame in all of this, it’s yourself for meddling in other peoples’ businesses!” shouted Yaster coldly as he

champion. Due to that, he normally didn’t have to take

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his current opponents were from the Moldell

Gerald had saved his life during the decisive battle with Damian last night. His action

the old man felt as though he no longer had to suffer through any

a result, Kaleb had pledged his loyalty and allegiance to Gerald

was fighting so

it seemed as though the Moldell family’s subordinates weren’t really Kaleb’s

“He truly is worthy of the title of a

the Logan Province doesn’t

Is there even a need to fight so many rounds when your opponent is only Kaleb Merrett?

Kaleb for a moment… Before suddenly firing up an immense aura from his body as

Yaster’s initial analysis on the old man, he could tell that Kaleb’s injuries—that Damian had inflicted on him last night—had

advantage, Yaster acted swiftly and immediately struck Kaleb’s head with a

moment Yaster’s attack connected, Kaleb ended up flying backward as blood spurted out

an old man like you would be more skillful and capable! It turns out that you’re nothing more than a piece of trash! Since you were clearly courting death by opposing us, I’ll gladly oblige to ending you right now!” announced Yaster as he slowly

despicable than a

bad luck to blame this time around! To think that you had trained and developed your strength and abilities all this time for nothing!” sneered Yaster as he

blow to end the old man for good, a voice suddenly

everyone heard that, the room instantly fell into complete silence. Turning around in utter shock, everyone now had their eyes on Gerald

had gone fully

that?” said Zander who was so stunned

be that he didn’t truly pass

you poisoned him,

just

discussing the current situation—with their eyes still glued on Gerald—they all froze in place the moment they saw Gerald sitting

though he had just woken from a nap, Gerald then rubbed his sleepy eyes as he looked at everyone

Gerald’s voice turned frigid as he asked, “I’m assuming everyone is already

You weren’t affected by

point, everyone was beyond

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call that a poison? I used it as a sort of medicine to supplement my health over half a year

much in all sorts of medicinal herbs and other materials—that Finnley had provided him with—back then, Gerald was already immune to certain poisons. It was evident that the poison that they had tried to use on him was one of

already tell that the tea—that Haven had served him earlier—was poisoned, long before he sipped

aware back then that Haven would never try to harm him. With that in

so that he could wait for the true culprits to show

hard the Moldells have been trying to find you this entire time? Though

other hand, immediately stood up and smiled while holding onto his chest

fine! What

I appreciate that you stood up for me

whether he was sincerely loyal to him sometime after all of this was over. Now that he had personally witnessed Kaleb risking his own life to save him, Gerald knew

brought Yaster’s attention to him when he saw how close Kaleb

with this brat, Mr. Moldell! Allow me to take care of him once and for

out and grabbed him by the face! Immediately after, the man’s

wrist for a loud ‘crack’ to be heard from the subordinate’s

that, Gerald tossed the lifeless body before the seven remaining Moldells who were

stunned since the younger generation of the Moldell family all had excellent strength and capabilities. Despite that, Gerald had ended that man’s life so easily. It was almost as though

powerful after

then ordered, “Gang up

the remaining six Moldells obeyed

head brazenly as he glared intensely

air in the room suddenly felt much colder than it should have. Even the subordinates couldn’t

was now ready to

desperate situations before. The family that had forced him out of his own home. The family that had utterly humiliated him as though he was nothing but a deprived dog

family was still trying to rob the Crawfords of their assets and

heart as he made his first

revenge, Gerald was now practically invincible. As a result, the six men

the men approached him and promptly died without even getting a single chance

across the room, Yaster’s eyelids twitched violently

first attack, Yaster already knew that he was never going

he felt

dagger was now lodged there!

words he managed to

covering her mouth before rushing to a corner of the

none of them even dared to breathe as they stared at Gerald, fully paralyzed in

however, was well aware that he was the one who had played the biggest part in the decision to call the Moldells over. As a result, he immediately

his plea for forgiveness. The moment his hand came into contact with Gerald, however, Gerald revealed that the murderous intent hadn’t left his eyes as he grabbed Zayn by

Snap.

Zayn—who was now spurting blood all over the place—found himself being tossed out the window, he could only twitch a few more times after landing before

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Zander as he immediately knelt in fright. Seeing

a brief moment before opening them again. The rage

Zayn had made the fatal mistake of touching him while he was still in

“…Spare your lives? After you’ve gone against your promise to hand the Book of Beasts over to me? And don’t even get me started on the fact that you colluded with the Moldells

a face filled with tears

about to amplify the force of his grip, Haven suddenly rushed in while shouting,

terrified Xareni as she

I know what my father did was wrong… But he wasn’t in the right mind when he agreed with the plan! Here, I’ve brought the Book of Beasts along with me! You can have but please,

in tears, she then walked toward Gerald

you!” pleaded Xareni as she grabbed

that we were friends, so I’m

continuing to walk over to Gerald. Once she was standing before him, she held the Book of Beasts out before saying with teary ears, “…Gerald… If you really have to kill my father just to relieve all your hatred, then please kill me instead… Once you’ve done that, I hope you’ll be willing to let my father and everyone else go… Though

planned on killing off the rest of the Lovewells. After all, they

After all, the girl had been extremely nervous earlier when she found out that he had been poisoned. Knowing that, Gerald

be taking the Book of Beasts for the time being. I’ll return the book

the book from Haven’s hands and immediately left. Seeing that, Haven jogged after

in his kneeling position, still too terrified to even feel his legs. At that moment, a young man suddenly rushed in, shouting, “M-Mr. Lovewell! Something bad is happening! There are many people

behind in the room.

A lot of men in black suits are

was already at the door since she had seen Gerald out—was already staring at the many men standing in

They were Welson’s subordinates.

as he got into one of

gone, Haven found

man… She realized just how wrong she had been as she recalled all of Gerald’s cruelty

sister had done, then her entire family would’ve probably already been wiped out by this murderous demon

truly are, Gerald… Now I finally know…’ Haven thought

was sometime after Gerald left that Xavia came along with her bodyguards. Seeing Haven standing at the door, she approached her before saying, “What a coincidence, Miss Haven! Your father should

wasn’t even listening to her. Instead, the girl was simply muttering what seemed to be the same word over and over again in a tiny voice. Seconds

nervously, finally finding her voice as she watched the girl slowly walk

in a bad mood today, Miss. I propose that we go visit Mr. Zander directly,” suggested the

her guard’s comment, Xavia then muttered under her breath, “…No… She couldn’t

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who Gerald is… Unless… Could he truly be in the Logan Province…? Hold on, she may not even be talking about

questions swimming in her head, Xavia couldn’t hold herself

to two days later, Gerald found himself in the hinterland of Everdare Forest which was located at the

Everdare Forest grew extremely densely atop the many mountains that also grew particularly close to each other. Aside

with how cunning it is!” said one of the many men standing in front of a hole that the holy fox had been

charge of the operation, it was evident that the group consisted of Gerald and

effort in their search for the holy fox. After all, the map was

were successful in locating the holy fox’s tracks at dawn yesterday,

extremely cunning fox. None of them could

pointless. Though they had confronted the fox for well over a dozen times by

however, they were finally able to trap the holy fox within the hole it was currently

Welson was now extremely

fast, but though its body is completely white, it’s an expert at concealing itself as well! However, the most worrying thing is the fact that it’s capable of quickly seeing through plans and routines. Once that happens, it’ll easily find a way to escape! The book specifically states that its IQ is even higher than

for the fox, he had learned everything he needed to know about

were to allow the fox to escape their grasps this time, tracking it down again would be

hush!” ordered Welson as he gestured for the

surrounded the hole’s entrance. Gerald himself could

Due to the subordinate—who had been stationed on the other end—constantly fanning smoke into the hole, the fox was finally

away from the entrance, thick, suffocating, green smoke

others had been lying in wait right in front of the hole, only Gerald managed to

soon be heard as everyone turned to look at the fox.

one final squeal, it dashed out of the hole with lightning speed, running past Gerald’s men and

It escaped again!”

Gerald as he swiftly began chasing after the fox himself. Not wanting it to escape again, Gerald made sure to run as fast as

their heels, eventually, they lost sight of both Gerald and the holy fox! They couldn’t find any

do, Mr. Welson? We’ve lost sight of him!” said one of

them first! If we still can’t find them, then we’ll just have to return to

bolted to the top of