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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1661

Now sitting by the riverside, Nori couldn’t help but ask, “…It’s strange that we haven’t come across any others even after walking around for so long, right…?”

“It truly is… It makes me wonder if we’re a little too far off from the others,” muttered Gerald—who was also finding the entire experience to be rather perplexing—in response.

The second his sentence ended, a blast of water suddenly shot out from the river… and the duo found themselves staring wide-eyed at the green dragon that had just leaped out of the water!

Now hovering in the air, the dragon glared at Nori and Gerald before releasing a mighty roar that resonated across the area!

Neither of them could have anticipated that such a creature was living in that river!

However, now wasn’t the time to ponder about that. After all, the green dragon suddenly began diving toward Gerald and Nori without warning!

“Watch yourself!” shouted Gerald as both he and Nori leaped to the side to avoid the attack!

While they were fortunate enough to dodge the attack, the fact that the area they had been sitting on had completely crumbled proved just how powerful the dragon was. Had they failed to avoid the attack, they would’ve surely died on the spot…

“Why the hell is there a dragon all of a sudden?! Aren’t we supposed to only be fighting against other people?!” asked the shocked Nori.

Based on the current turn of events, Gerald felt that the dragon was just another kind of magical challenge within this illusory space…

With that in mind, Gerald then shouted, “Go hide first, Nori! I’ll deal with the dragon!”

Following that, he summoned Jade Infused Blade and turned it into a sword. After tightening his stance, Gerald then began charging toward the dragon!

For a moment, the dragon almost appeared excited as it began diving toward Gerald as well!

“Slaying Surge of Turmoil!” roared Gerald as his aurablade flared red and flew toward the dragon, piercing right through it!

Roaring in pain, the dragon attempted to struggle for a while… until its eyes eventually turned grey and its massive body came crashing down into the river…

With the dragon now slaughtered, Gerald raised a brow when he saw that two shining items had appeared on the surface of the river.

Heading over to inspect them, the items stopped glowing once he got close enough. The first item was a jade charm whereas the second appeared to be a dragon egg…

After taking the two items for himself, Gerald then returned to Nori.

Now that things had calmed down, both of them began inspecting the two curious items. Neither of them had expected to be rewarded for slaying that dragon, and that only served to prove how magical this illusory space was…

A while later, Gerald slipped the jade charm into his pocket and carefully placed the dragon egg in his backpack.

Both of them had been unable to guess what those two items could be used for, so Gerald made a mental note to study them properly once the challenge was over. Whatever the case was, Gerald was sure that both of the items had to be extremely valuable, either in terms of usage or the fact that they could be hiding secrets within them…

Gerald’s train of thought was cut short when he suddenly heard Nori asking, “Come to think of it, what was that move you used earlier? It was super powerful!”

Nori could still remember how amazed she had felt when she saw Gerald’s red aurablade earlier…

“Well… Quite frankly, I have no idea either! It just sort of happened!” replied Gerald as he shrugged. He wasn’t bluffing when he said that.

After all, the one who had earlier launched the attack was Jade Infused Blade. With that in mind, it explained why Gerald wasn’t able to answer Nori’s question.

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Regardless, both of them soon packed up and left the riverside…

It was about ten minutes later when both of them heard the clashes of a fierce battle…

Turning to look at Gerald, Nori then said, “It appears that there’s an intense fight happening up front! Let’s hurry over and have a look!”

Gerald agreed with Nori’s statement. After all, if the fighters were already battered, then there was definitely a chance that both of them could obtain something without any effort. What more, if the fighters were taking on something particularly dangerous, Gerald and Nori could always step in once they were taken out.

With that in mind, both of them then swiftly proceeded forward before masterfully concealing themselves behind a large rock.

Staring ahead at the small forest before them, both of them were greeted by the sight of several black-robed men attacking a youth in white clothes. Since the shoulder areas of his clothes were dyed red, it was only fair to assume that he had been injured there.

Despite his injuries and being severely outnumbered, the youth still fought vigilantly.

Even so, Gerald knew for a fact that the youth was fighting a losing battle. Then again, why were those four people so insistent on taking him down? There had to be a reason for their actions…

“Those four men are clearly bullying that poor youth, Gerald! Let’s step in and give him a hand!” grumbled Nori as she glared at the situation with resentful eyes.

Of course, Gerald saw no issue with that. It was a virtue to play the white knight, after all.

Meanwhile, in the forest itself, one of the black-robed men found himself sneering, “Come on Zelig! Stop playing so hard to get and give us your divine stone already!”

“Over my dead body!” scoffed Zelig in response, clearly still having quite a bit of fight left in him.

“If you insist!” roared the man in anger as he gestured for the other three to attack Zelig at the same time!

Seconds before Zelig was hit, a ray of golden light suddenly engulfed Zelig, shocking the other four men enough to momentarily retreat!

Following that, slight rustling could be heard, and the next thing everyone knew, two people were already standing guard before Zelig!

“How villainous for four of you to take on a single person!” scoffed Gerald as he stared at the four people with contemptuous eyes.

Hearing that, all four of them took turns exchanging glances with each other. They hadn’t expected to be interfered with halfway through what they were doing.

Shortly after, what seemed to be the leader of the group then glared at Gerald before warning, “Look, buddy. Beat it and leave us to our affairs. Otherwise, don’t blame me for killing you too!”

“Hah! I’d like to see you try!” retorted Gerald as his eyes suddenly began glinting murderously.

Before any of the black-robed men were even able to reply, Gerald tossed two secret technique talismans—that he had earlier hidden inside his sleeves—toward the men!

Appearing to burn up just inches away from the talismans’ targets, the duo that Gerald had attacked found themselves being engulfed in flames before they were even able to react! And just like that, the two black-robed men had been burned to death…

“…W-what…?!” shouted the two remaining men, momentarily unable to process what had just happened.

Quickly snapping out of it, the shocked leader of that group then shouted, “You… You’re a Talisman Master!”

To think that they would actually bump into a Talisman Master here of all places! With that in mind, the two men instantly attempted to bolt off.

‘Bold of you to even attempt escape!’ Gerald thought to himself. It was evident that they weren’t going to be leaving alive!

With that, Gerald then tossed another two secret technique talismans! Upon collision with the escaping duo’s bodies, were instantly ensnared by vines that appeared out of nowhere!

Fully bound, the duo flopped to the ground, utterly terrified as they watched Gerald slowly walk toward them.

Staring back at them, Gerald then casually said in a frigid tone, “Well then, thanks for giving us your divine stones!”

With that, Gerald summoned his sword before swiftly ending the remaining two men…

There was no mercy in his attack since Gerald was well aware that not being cruel to his enemies would mean that he was being cruel to himself…

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Regardless, Gerald then took all four of their divine stones before slipping them into his pocket. Gerald now had five of them.

Either way, he then turned to look at Zelig before asking, “Are you alright?”

Shaking his head, Zelig then replied in a gratuitous voice, “I’m fine, thanks to you saving me! Also, where are my manners! My name is Zelig Lear!”

Upon hearing that, Nori found herself momentarily stunned.

second young master of the Lears of Jaellatra?” asked

who he was—found himself raising a

Zahn family! I didn’t think I’d bump into the second young master of the Lear family here! What an honor!” said Nori as

Lears were an extremely strong family in Jaellatra, and many of its members were so strong that some

that he had been caught in the process of failing to defend himself against only four assailants…

then sighed before replying, “You’re exaggerating it, Young Lady Zahn!

couldn’t even breach the Sage Realm had caused his family to collectively label him as being useless. With that

“…I can sense that due to some odd reasons, you haven’t been able to progress past the

is true and from what I’ve managed to gather, there seems to be a strange aura within my body that’s keeping

incurable. You just haven’t been using the

quickly overtook that feeling. The fact that Gerald was

are my manners indeed! How should I address

call me Gerald. Gerald

the point, if you truly have a way to help me, then I’ll be willing to offer you my entire life in exchange! I’ll be there for you at your every

show how sincere Zelig’s words were. Adding that to the fact that Zelig wasn’t

fine with helping you, you should focus on gathering five divine stones first. We can talk about this in more detail once we leave this illusory space!”

had two, Zelig hadn’t managed to gather a single stone.

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right, Mr. Crawford!” replied Zelig as he instantly began tending to his

set off

were rather weak, so in no time at all, the trio managed to gather the remaining eight divine

quickly rushed back to the exit to get themselves authenticated. Once that was successfully done, they then left

were proof that they had passed the challenge and served as ‘passes’ of sorts that granted them

to enter the Leicom Continent for quite a

white light, they

this was Gerald’s first time here, he was momentarily taken aback by how beautiful this place was. Not only did everything look marveling, but the

it when he suddenly heard someone jeering, “Well, well, well! If

voice, the trio was greeted by the sight of a youth—who had a dark green

scowled Zelig as

was the young master of the Bayfield family in Jaellatra, and he had

master of the Lear family would be able to make it past that challenge! Someone must’ve helped you, right?” scoffed Lev as

having to rely on others to fight for him, but before Zelig could even reply, Lev had already turned to leave, laughing

I’ve witnessed it first-hand, I can safely agree with those rumors!” scowled Nori rather contemptuously

was clear that though she hadn’t met Lev before,

they weren’t going to be able to use earth or Jaellatra’s currency here, all three of them knew that they had to start thinking of

around, they found out that gold coins were the main form of currency here. They also came to realize that there was a famous auction house here that went by the name of the Aurum Auction House. That was definitely going to be

that, the three people then swiftly

auction things there came from Jaellatra. With that in mind,

due to how different the two cultures looked. If that wasn’t already enough, many of the Leicom Continent’s residents appeared to resent

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and the other two finally got their chance to reveal their auction

jade charm to him, the trio watched as the appraiser’s eyes momentarily

it for a while, the appraiser then

him deeper into

inside, they were soon greeted by the sight of an old man who had a

he then whispered something into his ear, prompting

asked,

replied, “I obtained it after I slaughtered a

man’s initial surprise

to obtain it is by defeating that dragon!

jade charm was, Gerald couldn’t help but ask,

the old man then replied, “How do I even say this… I can say for sure that even if you auction it for a few million gold coins, you’d still find a buyer! That’s how

two instantly found themselves getting excited. After thinking about it for a little longer, Gerald finally declared, “Very well! I’m agreeing to have it

the end, no matter how valuable the jade charm was, money was still the priority since without any, they wouldn’t be able

the Aurum Auction House will get a share of thirty percent off

look at Nori and Zelig, they didn’t appear to object to the idea.

to the waiting area! We’ll be auctioning the jade charm of the green dragon very soon!” said the auctioneer as he led the trio to an area where

sat side by side as they

was only a few minutes later when they saw the crowned old man walk up the

throat, the elderly man then declared “Ladies and gentlemen! We have a wonderful array of valuable auction items today as well! Without further ado, here comes the first item, the

pulled the red cloth off the first auction item, revealing a golden fan! Since the feathers

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coins! As a reminder, each bid’s increment has to

process had officially begun, the crowd instantly went into

thousand gold coins!” shouted a wealthy-looking man. Since he had increased the bid by a hundred thousand gold coins right off the bat, it was only fair to assume that he

fat man—who was sitting opposite of the previous bidder—stood up before shouting,

Even so, who were they to judge? These people were filthy rich, so they could do anything they

the businessman from before who had

that, it took about two more hours for the next two items

of the green dragon was the fourth and last item to be auctioned for

three of them instantly began focusing on

“For our last item for today, we have the jade charm of the green dragon! I’m sure I don’t need to elaborate on how rare this treasure is! With that said, the bid starts with three million gold coins, and any further increment must

sentence ended, someone

up! I’m paying six million gold

gold

the jade charm, it wasn’t long before the

a whopping twenty million gold coins! By that point, the crowd had quieted down, and nobody dared to further increase the already outrageous bid amount. After all, twenty million gold coins was already far beyond what anyone could have anticipated the final price to

the crowned old man then hammered on the podium before looking at the final bidder—a young man wearing a royal-looking outfit who was seated at the front-most row—and declaring, “Prince Severin has bid twenty million gold coins! Even if anyone else wishes to compete against that, I’ve decided that Prince Severin will be the rightful owner of the jade charm! With that said, congratulations, Prince Severin! The jade charm of

prince of the Leicom Continent’s royal family, that amount was nothing much

as though they had hit the

hold herself back from exclaiming, “By god! Twenty million gold coins! You’re definitely

jade charm of the green dragon alone could be sold for this much,

the egg yet. Besides,

as the crowned old man ordered his men to carry three

he was extremely wealthy on earth, Gerald himself had never seen so many gold coins at once! Due to that, all three of them found

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then turned to look at Gerald before asking, “…That’s… quite a lot. How on earth are we going to

each, it was going to be far too much

was stressed over how to bring all that money around, the crowned

a ring, Gerald couldn’t help but ask, “…I’m

a particularly huge storage space! You can keep your gold in that so you won’t have to fret about carrying it about!” explained the old

I can’t just accept something like this for free! How about this? I’ll buy this ring off you for a million gold coins! Is

not to refuse. And just like that, the money was traded for

it, prompting a pocket space to suddenly

inside, Gerald quickly placed the remaining money within that space, making sure

ring was, Gerald couldn’t

Zelig when the old man suddenly called out, “Please wait

trio was instantly puzzled. After all, they had just arrived at the Leicom Continent. Who

old man then led them to a guest

surprised to see that the one who had wanted to meet up with them was none other than Prince

the jade charm of the green dragon, Prince Severin had been keen on meeting the person who had even considered selling

were here, the old man bowed respectfully before the prince before saying, “Lady and gents, this young man goes by the name of Prince Severin, and he comes from the royal

really know how to greet a prince,

mind, Gerald then greeted, “It’s an honor

gaze, the prince then replied,

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from Jaellatra, you see, and since we had no money, I decided to sell the jade

charm of the green dragon is…?” muttered the confused

one, honestly

jade charm. After all, he hadn’t even studied it yet. Even so, Prince Severin’s tone alone was enough to tell Gerald how extraordinary a treasure the jade charm actually