The Secretly Rich Man

The Secretly Rich Man Chapter 1401-1410

Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1401

The person standing before them… He wasn’t human at all…! How insanely powerful…!

As the father and son from the Xanthos family gulped, they recalled how they had first thought that Yvon possessed unique capabilities that would allow him to slaughter just about anyone… Now, however, all the youth was, was a lump of flesh! And all it had taken for Gerald to end his life was a single punch!

Being an extremely experienced and slick person, Wesson knew that he, his son, and possibly even his entire family was done for if he didn’t act fast!

With that in mind, he instantly knelt before begging, “B-boss…! Please spare our lives…! Sloan, hurry and get to your knees! Kneel before the boss and start begging for forgiveness as well!”

Following that, Welson tugged on his son’s arm till he knelt beside him. Sloan himself wasn’t about to disagree with his father’s actions. Both of them were well aware that they weren’t in any position to even dare to further offend this group of people…

“…Very good!” said Gerald with a faint smile.

Upon hearing that, Wesson—who already had a face filled with tears and snot—immediately replied, “T-thank you for sparing our lives, boss…!”

“Oh? I never said I’d be sparing your lives, though. I hope you realize that while I’ve already given you several chances to repent, neither of you took any of them! Just so you know, I once swore that I’d kill whoever tried to kill me first… Naturally, I’d have to kill their entire families as well… With that in mind, I’m not about to break my oath, especially not for you two!” retorted Gerald.

“…W-what…?!” stuttered Wesson, now sweating profusely as he feebly sat on the ground.

‘…If only I had previously known how powerful this ferocious demon truly was, I’d never have dared to offend him in the first place…!’

Following that, things proceeded rather simply. After all, it was naturally no problem for Gerald to deal with those small fries.

As the group then began heading toward the ancient tomb, Gerald recalled how he had sealed the tomb with a formation after finding out where Liemis had been hidden. He ended up leaving it back then since there was still a lot he had yet to figure out at the time.

Now, however, several of his previous questions were already resolved. What more, he had even found out a lot more about the Sun League, and he felt that he was much closer to finally cracking the group’s secrets.

Still, according to Zyla, the Mackusion should have revealed more information if his Dehlere Foundation hadn’t been ruined…

Even so, it still revealed enough for Gerald and the rest to be able to witness a few incidents at several key locations such as the ancient tomb and the Crawford Manor. Worrying that something would happen at those places soon, the group had wasted no time in heading to the ancient tomb.

When the cave leading to the tomb was in sight, Gerald explained, “You know, it was honestly lucky that Christopher had forced me into the underground palace back when he was still pursuing me… Otherwise, I would’ve never been able to find Liemis! Regardless, I made sure to seal the place up before leaving!”

As they got closer, however, Gerald soon felt his eyelids twitch.

He distinctly remembered sealing off the mouth of the cave with a large stone… However, someone seemed to have smashed that stone into pieces!

With the cave entrance now open to outsiders and chunks of stone scattered messily all over the place, Gerald felt his heart skip a beat as he said, “Something’s wrong…!”

Watching as Gerald dashed into the cave, Peter and Zyla couldn’t help but turn to look at each other.

Zyla, in particular, was displaying a cocktail of emotions on her face as she attempted to process all that was happening.

Quickly shaking the thoughts off, she then leaped forward until eventually standing by Gerald’s side.

Gerald himself was momentarily paralyzed in shock. From what he could see, not only had the entire cave grown much messier than before, but the anaconda—that had been living here for at least thousands of years—was dead as well! With a clean puncture to the snake’s head, it was evident that it was killed with only a single move.

Even so, the biggest shock yet was the fact that the eternal coffin had disappeared!

“…L-Liemis… Someone’s taken Liemis away…!”

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Despite her high status, Gerald watched as her eyes grew red and teary. Who could blame her? After all, she had been waiting for this moment for thousands of years… To finally be able to reunite with Liemis… To think that even after going through so many twists and turns, Zyla was still unable to see even his corpse! Who was the one responsible for such cruelty…?

‘From what Zyla had told me, Liemis’s thought of the soul had ceased to exist around twenty years ago… It was simply something inevitable that came with my birth… Regardless, while his corpse once lay here, even that is gone now…’

Clenching his fists tightly, Gerald then said, “Putting aside the fact that this place is highly secluded, I even sealed this place using a formation in the dragon blood jade pendant… Who could’ve been capable enough to do all this…?”

“…From what I was able to see while we were still outside, your formation wasn’t ruined at all… In fact, it was solved, and rather easily too, from the looks of it! The person who broke in seems to have been very familiar with the topography here as well! They aren’t lacking strength-wise either since they managed to slaughter this giant anaconda!” muttered Peter as he gloomily walked over to the vexed Gerald’s side.

Peter was naturally just as bummed out as the duo were since, in a way, Liemis had indirectly saved his life before this… What more, Zyla had helped him a lot throughout their journey. In the end, not only did he fail to reunite her with Liemis’s corpse, but his corpse wasn’t even present anymore! This only served to increase Peter’s guilt.

As Gerald stood silently at the side in self-reproach, Zyla—who had been standing quite close to the dead anaconda—found herself shedding a tear that rolled down her cheek and onto the giant snake’s corpse…

With a rather clear ‘plop’, Zyla’s teardrop instantly caused a green light to be emitted from the giant snake…!

Eventually forming the shape of a green orb of light, the orb began emitting a somewhat ‘buzzy’ sound, prompting both Zyla and Gerald to curiously walk closer to investigate.

After hearing it make a few more strange noises, they were finally able to discern a few words! The orb of green was trying to communicate with them!

“You’re… back…!” said the rather awkward and unclear voice.

“…Are you the giant anaconda?” asked Gerald in surprise.

While he was glad that they were still able to tell what it was trying to say—albeit a bit slowly—Gerald couldn’t help but feel that the orb of green greatly resembled the thought of the soul of the Gunter family’s ancestor that he had taken out the other day.

“Yes, it’s me… Sadly, I’m only capable of meeting you like this since I’ve died, as you can see… Regardless, I’m only showing myself now since while I was bracing myself for death back then, I had retained my thought of the soul by holding onto the thought that I wouldn’t pass on until I received the tiniest amount of holy strength… Due to the tear, I was able to manifest this form with some effort…!” explained the giant anaconda extremely slowly.

“…I see… What exactly happened here…? And don’t worry, I’ll be finding a suitable body for you to attain rebirth immediately after this! After all, since you’ve managed to manifest the thought of your soul, I’ll just need to use Thunder Eruption to transfer your soul over!” said Gerald who honestly found the giant snake to be quite pitiful.

After all, it had been captured when it was just a tiny snake before being placed in here as a beast to guard the tomb. In other words, it had been locked up in here for thousands of years by now.

Now that its mission was finally complete, Gerald had been planning to get a primary forest for it to live there freely for the rest of its life. Though it was just an animal, Gerald personally felt the need to treat it as a senior. After all, it had helped him back then when he first entered the ancient tomb.

“While I appreciate it, know that your efforts will be useless. It’s taken great effort for me to retain my soul while waiting for your arrival in the past twenty over days… With that said, I’ve had to deplete the primary part of my soul in order to keep this tiny thought of my soul intact for this long. Due to that, once I pass on my message, I’ll sadly be disappearing for good!” replied the giant snake’s soul with a sigh.

Just from the snake’s words alone, Gerald could feel how lonely it was, and how much it yearned to go to the outside world.

“…Don’t say that… There must be a way to save you! I’ve plenty of ideas on how to achieve that!” said Gerald quickly.

Ignoring that statement, the snake then replied in an increasingly weakened voice, “I… Was slaughtered by an extremely powerful masked old man… Be careful if you ever bump into him… After all, not only is he cruel and vicious, but he also seems to know you well… Since he’s snatched the God of Battle’s corpse away, it’s evident that he’s trying to gain something from him…!”

“A… masked old man…?” muttered both Gerald and Zyla as they turned to look at each other…

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“…Before that, why would you claim that he knows Gerald well…?” asked Zyla as she wiped her tears away while looking at the orb of green.

“It’s because he knew this place a little too well. You see, the formation Gerald used to seal the cave is the formation of the jade pendant, a formation that the God of Battle bestowed upon Gerald… While ordinary people would undoubtedly be unable to ever solve it, that old man had done so with great ease… What more, after slaughtering me, he used several methods to investigate the God of Battle’s corpse, mentioning Gerald’s name multiple times in the process… Aside from that, he also kept repeating the word ‘secret’, so I have a sneaking suspicion that he knows Gerald well!” explained the giant anaconda.

“Regardless, he didn’t seem to attain what he wanted, which prompted him to bring the eternal coffin away… Thankfully, it hadn’t dawned upon him at the time that I had rather strong soul power. It comes with living for over thousands of years. Whatever the case was, though my body perished, my soul remained, which is why I managed to see all this!” added the snake.

Hearing that, Gerald could only frown as he fell deep into thought.

Just as the snake had said, the formation had been embedded into his memories through the jade pendant… Seeing that knowledge of that wasn’t solving anything, he then thought about who knew about this place. Aside from Christopher, his grandfather, and the mysterious person who had led him here in the first place, there wasn’t anyone else that Gerald could think of. Speaking of that mysterious person, he had yet to appear before Gerald till this very day…

While he knew that something had happened for Christopher to die such a terrible death, Gerald wasn’t sure whether his grandfather—and the others who had headed to the pledge of the holy water with him—were still alive. Quite frankly, he didn’t even dare think about it. However, that did mean that his grandfather and Christopher were physically unable to be the culprits of this incident…

the mysterious person was the most likely person to have done

all, he was the one who had led me to the eternal coffin… It must’ve been done out of goodwill, no…?’ Gerald thought to himself, remembering how the mysterious person had left him a clue when he had met a brick wall while investigating the

Gerald was able to progress almost

go, I eventually found the coffin, which allowed me to make such rapid progress in my training back then… Following that, I finally took revenge for my family by taking the Moldells out…

with such a secretive and powerful person, Gerald…?” asked Zyla as she

“…As a matter of fact, I am! I’ve mentioned him to you before… He’s my master, Finnley, and he’s so strong that even at my current level of training, I’m still not confident of standing against him! Just so you know, while I’ve sparred with him daily—while I was still training under

someone who was able to

the one who first taught me martial arts! He’s always

was the mysterious person who had been helping him out in secret, and he had always felt at ease with this conclusion. This was due to how relaxed he had always felt

met up with you by this point? Call it a gut feeling, but I feel that your Dehlere Foundation being ruined is directly linked to him!” said Zyla

impossible! I refuse to believe that he’d treat me this way! Even if he really was the

entire time—stepped forward and pointed at the orb of green while shouting, “Gerald, look there! The thought of the giant anaconda’s soul is starting

thoughts aside for now and instantly used his Thunder Eruption skill to wrap his essential qi around the thought

essential qi on me… I’m already fading and there’s nothing you can do to stop that… Please remember what I said and be careful in everything you do in the future… Live

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giant snake say that, Gerald intensified his force, delivering more

that I’d actually be able to make a friend after so long… And such a caring one at that… Thank

like fireflies taking flight in the night, the thought of the anaconda’s soul rose

tightly. While he had only met the giant anaconda once before this, it had previously helped him. What more, the snake had even sacrificed the thought of its soul just to warn him about that masked

that situation. The soul had completely

him want to beat himself up badly. Quite honestly, he didn’t even feel like showing his face to anyone at the moment due to his immense guilt

not, I don’t blame you for any of this, Gerald… Maybe it’s just my fate, and with that in mind, please don’t feel guilty over this incident… Whatever the case is, we need to leave for the Crawford Manor, quickly. After all, since the tomb ended up just like how the Mackusion had predicted, I’m truly worried

that, both Gerald and Peter’s gazes instantly turned

eerily silent ancient tomb back then… And the same atmosphere was present in the Crawford Manor that it showed us! With that in mind, we

him, the murderer knew him very well. With that in mind, it was safe to assume that the masked man also knew about

couldn’t allow

to stay back and bury the giant anaconda’s carcass. After that,

the trio immediately

only take about a few hours for Gerald

his journey there, he couldn’t help but wonder how Lyra, Queta, and Giya—who had

the Soul Palace were currently guarding the place, that masked man had been able to kill that giant anaconda with barely any trouble. With

shouted, “The manor’s

first to land on the island. However, he was already worried the second he set foot there. After all, despite the island being so massive, there wasn’t a single

was also

family’s misfortune as accurately as it had foreseen

now felt like they were made

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and worry, he didn’t even dare take

the truth of the situation for himself. With

Manor used to be, Gerald couldn’t help but get the creeps with how devoid of people the

to ease detection of any signs of life—Gerald quickly found that the current area

next area within the manor. With how fast he

end of it, his search results made him simultaneously happy and

within the entire manor, he was glad—at the very least—that the situation here wasn’t similar to the conditions on Warhill Island that the Mackusion had displayed. In other words, he was relieved that he hadn’t come across any corpses. That meant that there was a chance that

thought to himself, disappointed that

any hope that they’re all still fine…?’ Gerald thought to himself as Peter and Zyla

they already knew the results of

he already had a bad feeling about all this before he even reunited with

my holy sense to locate them, but I haven’t been able to find anyone at all…! They’ve just vanished into thin air…!”

too much! There’s a chance that they’re all

all this is the masked old man as well… If it is, not only has he stolen Liemis’s corpse, but he’s also kidnapped all of my family members!’ Gerald

ended, both Gerald and Peter’s ears perked as they slowly turned to look behind them. There, lay an indoor well

sure that they had heard a voice

Peter then dashed toward the well, arms outstretched

instantly dragged them out of the well… And out came a plump, middle-aged man who was

submerged this entire time… With how chilly the water in there is,

you? And why are you hiding in the well in my house?” asked Gerald with

person looked, Gerald was

the economic areas in Weston…!

question, Wes. Why were you hiding

because something’s happened to the economic area I’m in… While I’ve contacted those from your family through the headquarters, I couldn’t get to them at all, even after quite some time! In the end, things couldn’t be delayed any further so I decided to come here in person two days ago to make a report. While I did hear rumors that something happened to the Crawfords, I paid little notice to it till I actually arrived. However, upon arriving, I found it odd that there weren’t even any bodyguards at the entrance… Curious, I then stepped in to have a look and see if everything was going

you see?”

I saw corpses… Many of whom were your family’s bodyguards…! Aside from that, I also clearly remember hearing a terrible cry coming from the back… Panic took over me at the time, and the only thing I could think of was to

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breath, Peter then asked, “…A

eight of them, if I recall… I was too terrified by the terrible cries

the well and simply stayed there till now…? Is that what happened?”

earlier used his divine vision to detect any lies. As it turned out, everything that

I fell into the well, I started hearing people running toward me! Fearing the worst, I instantly dived deeper into the well! I’m assuming that that’s the only reason I’m still alive!” explained

His blood and qi were boiling

terrified that I didn’t even dare reveal myself up till the point

before you arrived at this manor… Who exactly told you about that rumor?” asked Peter

in Weston! From what I know, they were

something to report

wanted to immediately report that incident, I couldn’t find anyone relevant! I truly hadn’t expected for something like this to

a thing

response, Gerald then said, “I’ll be capturing and interrogating them

enemy before you further investigate the details regarding this incident. After all, the fact that the regional managers actually dared to transfer out the properties in secret is already highly suspicious. From what I know, the Crawford family’s regional managers always passed their trades down to the next generation, and each generation—up till this point—has been loyal to the Crawfords. With how loyal they are, betraying the Crawfords when they’re in danger seems highly unlikely. With that in mind, let’s

Gerald nodded though he also began eyeing the man rather curiously before eventually asking, “…You seem to know quite a

time Gerald had a hunch about that, and he was curious as to why Peter knew so

know me from long ago, sir? Or did we meet when

first half of your guess is true. See, I first got

didn’t feel the need to hide all this anymore, and his statement was—as to be expected—greatly surprising to

this entire time, sir?” asked

really the correct term here…” replied Peter, seemingly thinking about

know so much about me, sir… With that in mind, how else could you have gotten to know me so well if you hadn’t been observing me?” inquired Gerald, not understanding Peter at

frankly, I’ve been observing another person who’s been observing you this entire

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observing me this

he had been closely monitored by others his entire time! Not only that, but he had just found out that people

Gerald had found Peter to be quite odd from the moment he woke up after being saved by him. After all, Peter knew him well, and it was definitely no coincidence that Peter had been present to save

Peter, Gerald had found that the man even seemed to have a good grasp on his temperament and

had occasionally wanted to ask Peter about that, every time he led the conversation in that direction, Peter

Peter’s slip of his tongue, it reminded Gerald to try his luck asking him why he knew

time you left Serene County to start your freshman year. While he laid low for a while, he started appearing more frequently after your identity was

things to you, I—in turn—began observing him. You know, for convenience, I even disguised myself like this and occasionally snuck into the back kitchen of your university’s cafeteria under the guise of

into my university’s cafeteria? But I’ve never come across you!” replied Gerald, failing to recall ever meeting Peter before

that such a remarkable man had been watching over him from his

wasn’t any reason for you to pay attention to such a random person! Besides, I mostly remained in the back kitchen, and even if I went

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