The Secretly Rich Man

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1151

‘They seemed to have come with a purpose in mind… The master seems to know who they are as well.’

‘The master flew up and entered the flying house to discuss something with them… But none of us know what they’re talking about…’

‘They’ve negotiated for quite some time… Some time while they were negotiating, the flying house submerged below the waves, bringing master along with it…’

‘Night has come… We’re all tossing and turning, barely able to sleep… All we can do now is guard the fairy’s corpse…’

‘It’s late at night now, and it’s my turn to stand guard… Including me, my group had nine people…’

‘…I’m writing this after that terrifying event… The incident that changed my fate forever…’

‘While we were standing guard, the fairy suddenly came alive! Standing in front of us, her expression was livid as she coldly asked us where we were taking her to…’

‘Not daring to play any games, we truthfully told her all that we knew… Upon hearing our explanation, she was infuriated! I still distinctly remember her saying, “So you still wish to burden me even now…? Thank the stars that I regained my consciousness in time!”’

‘Following that, she flew into a deep rage and began attacking us! The moment she made a move, six peoples’ lives were ended… She was terrifying…!’

‘As I attempted to run, she immediately waved one of her long sleeves and tied it around my neck! Before I knew it, I had been thrown up into the air!’

‘If it wasn’t for a tree breaking most of the fall, I would’ve definitely ended up dead from the fall damage alone! I was lucky that I only ended up breaking a leg…’

‘It was in my state of semi-consciousness when I realized something frightening. This was all wrong. I was sure that the fairy was still in the coffin… Then who the hell was this mad beauty? At the time, I didn’t even know what had happened to the rest of my companions. For all I knew, all of them could have already been dead.’

‘Fortunately, the gigantic bronze house flew out of the ocean at that instant, causing an explosive sound! I remember fainting at that exact moment due to all the shock…’

‘When I finally awoke, I was in a kind fisherman’s house… It was only then when I learned that I was the sole survivor of that group of nine. The others who weren’t standing guard, on the other hand, were all saved by the master.’

‘Due to that incident, I was now disabled and I could no longer endure the ocean breeze. It was the reason why I remained on Montholm Island. However, the master was kind enough to compensate me with a lot of money…’

Following that, the epitaph described how the survivor had slowly used the money to become even richer in the coming years. In the end, he even ended up becoming a prestigious person on the island, and that was where the memoir on the stone tablet ended.

“People from ancient times had a tendency to exaggerate, especially those who were successful. They just loved adding extraordinary incidents into their epitaphs, you know? Aside from this example, another story I’ve heard is about a heroic person by the name of Brayden Laban who slaughtered a white snake and created an uprising… Haha! I truly admire the imagination of people back then… It wouldn’t surprise me if the bronze flying house was the inspiration for today’s science fiction movies!” said Tim as he laughed.

“It does sound slightly ridiculous… However, it also makes the epitaphs sound much more special!” chipped in Yume.

Gerald, however, didn’t give any comments on that.

After chatting a little while longer with Tim and more or less getting to know all the facts that he had wanted to investigate, Gerald told someone to send Tim home.

Once he was gone, Gerald casually said, “I’ll be returning to my room first… All of you should turn in early since we’re going to set off tomorrow!”

Before Gerald could get far, however, Yume stopped him before saying, “Hold it. Why didn’t you voice out any of your opinions earlier? In fact, you hardly said anything at all! Is something the matter?”

Being the perceptive woman she was, Yume then added, “I also noticed your eyelids twitching slightly whenever Mr. Yarrow described the flying house earlier… Why was that?”

“Very perceptive of you. Regardless, if I told you that the story that we just heard earlier was true… Would you believe me?” asked Gerald.

“…What? You’re not pulling my leg, are you?” replied Yume, flabbergasted by his question.

“Is there any reason for me to lie? Still, this incident seems to be getting much more troublesome than I initially imagined it to be!” said Gerald before returning to his room.

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Yume herself remained stunned on the spot for quite a while.

It was late at night when Gerald could be seen meditating on his bed, listening to the ocean breeze as he thought about the new discoveries he had made tonight.

According to what the survivor had said, a particularly powerful and wrathful woman had appeared that night, resulting in the death of the other eight people who had been standing guard over the coffin with him.

Who was she? And what did she mean when she said that she had awoken in time?

Whatever the case was, the woman seemed to be filled with immense resentment.

Aside from the woman, the terrible wailing from within the flying house was also something that couldn’t easily be forgotten. Could all those who had been captured by the Sun League be in there? Were Mila and his uncle in there?

The mention of all those wretched wails from within the house had definitely shocked Gerald earlier.

As for the woman in white, she had probably surrendered to the mysterious old beggar in the end. After all, Gerald had already seen the continuation of the story back when Master Ghost had shown him the six stone tablets.

From what he remembered, the old beggar and the remaining men had continued on with their journey quite smoothly. After the old man killed an injured dragon, they all buried the dragon’s corpse together with the fairy’s coffin before making an equally smooth return trip.

After some time, Gerald’s eyes flashed a hint of determination as he quietly muttered, “The ocean king’s palace…”

It was two days later when Gerald and his family’s fleet continued sailing atop the choppy waves. While the extremely high waves from earlier had lessened considerably, the ocean breeze was still very strong.

Looking out at sea, the seemingly endless number of strong waves as far as the eye could see would make anyone feel awe-inspired.

Before Gerald had set off two days ago, he had ordered his bodyguards to send Jasmine and the others to Halimark City first to look for Wagner. Once they were there, they were told to contact the Fendersons to send people over and pick them up.

Once he knew that Jasmine and the others were safe and sound, Gerald could finally rest a bit easier.

While Jasmine herself had initially wanted to head there together with Gerald, it was simply too dangerous. After all, this wasn’t a trip, nor was it an ordinary adventure.

In fact, knowing that there could very well be many unknown dangers down there, even with his current strength, Gerald himself wasn’t sure if he would be able to make it out in one piece.

It was noon when Chester headed to the deck and stood behind Gerald before respectfully saying, “It’s estimated that we aren’t too far off from the king of the ocean’s palace now, sir!”

“I see. Then the place where you ended up drifting off to that year should be nearby,” replied Gerald.

“I’d assume so. I was simply rowing the boat in the direction the ocean breeze was blowing at the time, so the boat was sailing quite fast… While I had prepared food to last me for at least three days back then, I ended up drifting at sea for about ten days… Due to almost a week without food, I remember nearly dying from starvation back then… From the distance we’ve covered, I’d say we should be getting close,” said Chester as he surveyed the area while making estimations in his head.

‘In addition to the clues we found before we set off, I suspect that Angelica could very well be the person we’re looking for…’ Gerald thought to himself.

“Still, I truly think that you’ll be able to find the answers you’ve been seeking once we make it into the king of the ocean’s palace,” added Chester.

“You and me both, Chester. You and me both…” replied Gerald as he looked out into the horizon.

Even with the map that Gerald had obtained from the Minshalls, they were still having slight trouble looking for the exact location of the palace.

All of a sudden, Chester pointed out at sea before saying, “…Huh? Sir, have a look in that direction! It… seems to be a ship of some sort…”

True to Chester’s words, after turning to look at where he was pointing at, Gerald saw a large wooden ship out at sea.

Though its oars seemed to be static, the ship was sailing against the current, and it was headed straight for where Gerald’s ship currently was rather quickly!

At that moment, Yume walked over before asking, “Is something wrong?”

However, the moment she saw the ship that was slowly getting closer to them, even she became slightly stunned.

Recognizing the aura surrounding the ship, the stunned Gerald—whose eyes hadn’t left the sea-faring vehicle—muttered, “…Could that be… force…?”

Quickly snapping out of it, then coldly ordered, “For now, focus on dodging the incoming ship! I’ll be heading aboard that ship to have a look around first!”

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While both Chester and Yume had already been stunned, their jaws truly dropped the moment they saw Gerald leap toward the other ship!

The moment Gerald’s foot touched the wooden ship’s surface, it instantly caused a huge wave to form as the ship bobbed up and down due to the impact of Gerald’s landing!

Eventually, the ripples slowed down and Gerald took the chance to begin looking around.

From what he could see, it seemed to be an average-sized wooden ship that could accommodate about forty to fifty people. It also seemed to have a bit of history to it.

Stepping into the cabin, there seemed to be an old and torn curtain hanging outside the cabin’s windows. As a result, though it was quite sunny outside, the inside of the cabin remained quite dark.

After looking around for a while, Gerald began trying to feel his surroundings. The force he had sensed surrounding the ship earlier was now nowhere to be found… It was odd, to say the least.

With that, Gerald slowly drew the curtains before making his way deeper into the cabin.

With partitions separating the rooms within the cabin, the corridor in the middle led to small guest rooms on either side of it.

All of a sudden, the faint sound of footsteps could be heard coming from the control cabin that was located at the ships’ bottom level. Someone was walking upstairs!

With that in mind, Gerald stood motionless, looking around attentively until he finally saw who was making their way up the stairs.

Gerald watched as a white-haired old woman with a stooped posture slowly swayed her body while ascending the steps. Aside from the fact that her clothes were old and torn and her hair was particularly messy, the woman’s most defining feature was the many scars that covered her face.

In the dimly lit area, Gerald couldn’t help but admit that she seemed rather spooky.

Regardless, he took the initiative by asking, “Good day, madam. May I know your name?”

“Dead Annie!” replied the woman with a subtle smile. Despite her friendly gesture, Gerald found himself growing slightly nervous. After all, anyone who smiled with such a scar-filled face would definitely create slight feelings of unnerve among those who saw it.

“…Come again? You said your name was Dead Annie, madam?” asked Gerald for confirmation.

“Dead Annie! Two petals bloom and each petal represents a world!” replied the old woman in a rather mysterious manner.

Gerald found himself raising a slight brow as he heard her talking about some mysterious plant. A flower that only bloomed two petals… Why did that sound so familiar? Thinking about it, he knew he had come across such a plant before. After all, natural flowers with only two petals were rare, so he would definitely remember if he had seen one before. But where?

The more Gerald stared at the woman, the odder he felt.

At that moment, he heard someone shouting, “Sir! Here you are!”

Turning around to look, Gerald saw that both Chester and Yume had boarded the ship as well.

“Why did both of you come here?” asked Gerald.

“Well, since you’ve been gone for quite some time and we heard nothing from you, we got slightly worried!” replied Chester as he and Yume immediately began scanning the old woman—who was now staring at the end of the corridor—from head to toe.

While Chester immediately let out a frown, Yume began smoothening her hair, though Gerald could tell that her breathing had grown slightly more rapid.

“There’s nothing to worry about. For now, head back first!” ordered Gerald.

through the extremely weird old woman, he was worried that both Yume and Chester would end up

the old woman suddenly began laughing coldly. Her laugh sounded almost raven-like, making

feeling extremely anxious of her laugh, Gerald’s unease peaked the moment he realized that several extremely weird-looking

petals,

at that moment when Gerald finally remembered where he had

a garden back

of flower. Gerald remembered finding the flowers

found in the Western Regions, and

had decided to plant

turned out, the flowers were called

he realized that fine pollen was starting

pollen spread a unique fragrance around, and as soon as Yume and Chester smelled it, they instantly began feeling dizzy. Soon enough, both of them lost consciousness

“The pollen’s poisonous!”

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look at the old

Gerald suddenly felt all four of his limbs weaken

how is this possible?! I’ve long been immune to all poisons!’ Gerald thought to himself as

she slowly began walking toward him while saying, “I can see that your physique is quite different compared to ordinary people… However,

that he was going to pass out soon if he didn’t do anything quickly, Gerald placed all his remaining focus on using his

Dawnbreaker instantly shot

resort planned quite literally under his sleeve. By the time she noticed the blade flying right for her, however, she was already too late to react

attack, the Dawnbreaker ended up stabbing her right in her left arm, sending the old woman toppling to the

moment she fell down, the intense dizziness that Gerald

my dizzy spell!’ Gerald thought to himself as he quickly regained

Gerald soon deducted that the old woman had launched a mental attack at him instead of using actual poison, and that she had only used

out of it, getting to her feet and running into

be greeted by the sound of shattering glass as the old

got to the window, the old woman was nowhere

Chester and Yume slowly began regaining consciousness. Not long after, even the Crawford bodyguards began

“Take Chester and Yume back to the ship… Also, begin a search around the area to locate an old woman! She’s

guards immediately

fact that we bumped into her so close to where the king of the ocean’s palace is, makes her all the more suspicious!’ Gerald thought to himself a

she could have actually been trying to prevent us from entering the king of the ocean’s palace… Then there’s her weapon of choice as well. While I could already tell that the

ended, the alarm in the cabin of one the Crawford family’s ships began

the old woman around the area. With the blaring of the alarm, it was apparent that they

over to Gerald before excitedly saying, “The moment we saw her, that old woman instantly dived deep into the ocean, Mr. Crawford! While we haven’t been able to capture her, our sonar detector found that she was quickly swimming

providing support for us while a few of us head down there

replied Chester though

your mouths and follow me below the

them then dived into the

specialized electronic equipment with them, they were able to quickly and precisely locate both the palace’s and the old woman’s location. With the help of the water repellent stones, the trio

people arrived before a dark cave that had a rather small and narrow opening, about half the

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swam in just

enough, they came to yet another cave entrance, though there was one stark difference to this

Dead Annie pollen floating around

remain focused!” ordered Gerald as he looked at the dashboard of the tracking device. While the old woman was nowhere to be seen on it, she had last been spotted right where they currently

been any less cautious, then he

was at that moment when both Yume and Chester began feeling slightly uncomfortable. Gerald figured that it was due to

was aware of that and was actively trying to retain control over himself, Gerald still found

old woman must be up

out again while Gerald continued persevering through the strongest mental

his surroundings became distorted, Gerald saw a strange and ugly face appearing before him before

unknown period of time,

memories of that deity or even when he was physically attacked with martial arts skills! In fact,

the water repellent stone with him, otherwise, they would’ve all drowned by now, seeing that they

side, Gerald saw that the now extremely pale-faced Chester was still

his headache, Gerald then turned to

nowhere to be found. What could’ve happened

disappearance sobering him up quite a bit, Gerald then supported

he searched, there was

Gerald thought to himself, feeling slightly guilty. However, he

of

he truly hoped that Yume had just gone deeper

Chester awoke and both of them continued

Both of them were suddenly hit by a massive surge of water that seemed to be pulling both of them

to resist being pulled in, he still ended up losing to

deeper into the cave, Gerald noticed that

crush!” shouted Gerald as the space continued getting smaller and

immediately began performing the skill to

knew that if they had performed the bone

out of the other end of the

that Gerald found surprising about where they had just landed was

how injured Chester looked, Gerald immediately helped

being so useless,

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shoulder before saying, “It’s fine… After all, we’ve… We

while, utterly stunned by what

His eyes widened the moment he did, and he found his

palace looked befitting of a dragon, and in the middle of the structure, was an enormous high platform. What stupefied Gerald most, however, was the fact that hovering about twenty

another eternal coffin!’ Gerald thought to himself

was true… The woman in white truly had been buried

from each other… What could the old man’s intention have been by disallowing the two

surrounding murals as he said, “…There are

more time at the woman in white’s eternal coffin, Gerald

this place was also filled

they talked about the burial process and the origins of the woman in

Gerald, for one, had no idea what they meant. After all, they were vastly different

a sudden, he heard Chester mutter, “…Hmm? Cavern

also staring at a few abstract words that had been etched

Gerald as he went

skin rolls belonging to said cave dwellers, and my grandma had forced me to learn the meaning of some of their words and characters when I was much younger…”

then replied, “Does that mean that you’re able to read and understand the

words, Chester then scratched the back of his head as he said, “…At most, I feel that I’ll only be

do tell me what you think

trying to decipher

seems to be talking about some mysterious prophecy… It also keeps repeating

at a few words, guiding his finger along each word as he explained what they individually

getting repeated says, ‘Two petals bloom and each petal represents a world.

represents a world… That’s what it truly says?”

right, sir!” replied Chester as

had said the exact same thing to him back then… Speaking of the old woman, Gerald had earlier used his mind to search his surroundings, yet

make any sense! With the currents so strong out there, even I can’t go against them,

the thoughts off. That wasn’t the main

back to what Chester had told him… Each petal represents a world… While Gerald was definitely sure that it was referring to the Dead Annies,

which part of that made you feel that it sounds like

of time… Once they’ve been reunited, the person who brings them back together will also be able to find his answer…

most of the words, he still needed a great deal of

to carry away the eternal

“A key?”

at least something very similar to a

for a while, Gerald then said, “…Could it perhaps be referring to

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curiously as he watched Gerald carefully take a square, wooden box out from

to Gerald after an old beggar gave it to his ancestors about eight hundred years ago. From what Wagner had told Gerald, not only had the old beggar anticipated that Gerald would head to the king of the ocean’s palace centuries later, but he had also accurately predicted Gerald’s meeting with

old man actually managed to predict that Gerald would find the eternal coffin and transport the woman in white

that old beggar from ten thousand years ago actually be the same person from eight

shuddered at the thought and didn’t dare to dwell too much on it. Just thinking about it was enough to make him filled with

discern one thing from all of this. In the message the old beggar had left for Gerald, he had said that Gerald would gain the answer he sought for as

and try to understand as much as you can, Chester!” said Gerald after his brief silence of deep

the world before long, and many will die because of that event… Nobody will be able to prevent the calamity from happening, and the prophecies will come true one by one! It’s simply our destiny! Beyond that part though, I… I can’t really

And a bad incident where many would die? What event

he looked at the words, why did he have a feeling that the

After all, even though he wasn’t able to read the words now, that didn’t mean that that

he then brought Chester toward

while, they found that the last mural seemed to state that as long as someone was able to get the key to open the life gate, they would be able to find their way

what was inside the box, the ‘key’ on the mural was drawn in the shape of a goldfish’s

over to the eternal coffin—with Chester following right

dreams—as a person with the temperament of

at her. After all, he kept hearing that she was a beauty that

lid open halfway. Immediately after that, a

woman in the coffin could now

His tone, however, hinted at simultaneous feelings

seemed that Gerald’s guess really was true. The person who had saved Chester from before really was the woman in white! However, a new question was now posed.

that the person inside

to admit that she was probably the prettiest

still exuded a fairy-like aura. From what Gerald

absolutely beautiful!’ Gerald thought to himself,

because I wish to find Mila and uncle so that my family can finally be reunited again… Regardless, I’ll be reuniting you with him first, and once I’m done with my task, I hope you’ll help me as well. Even if it’s just the tiniest of hints, I’ll gladly accept it as long as it truly leads

that said, he then re-sealed the lid of the coffin before jumping off the high platform together with

in the middle of the high platform. The indentation itself matched the shape of the fish tail ‘key’

exit this place the moment I slide the key inside…’ Gerald

it in, however, he suddenly heard Chester shout, “S-sir!

the dim area that Chester was pointing at, Gerald soon

tied shut with a number of sturdy-looking chains. The way the chains were tied, it was almost as though they

in mind, it really was no wonder

didn’t the murals show the origins of this coffin?” muttered

turned over from the ship? And though there was also