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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1171

With that said, Hendrik ordered for Gerald to be arrested.

Not long after, Gerald found himself within a secret room with Hendrik.

“Tell me, Gerald… Are you aware of any secret techniques to get rid of ancient witchcraft…?” asked Hendrik coldly.

“Secret techniques? Now why would I know anything of the sort! After all, such techniques are only taught to those within the Holy Witchcraft, no?” replied Gerald rather casually as he turned to look at Hendrik.

“You’d best stop putting on an act before me, you brat! I’ll admit that I used a secret ancient witchcraft technique on Chester’s body long ago… That particular witchcraft poisons a person’s heart, making them act in eccentric, unreasonable, and extreme ways! After a long period of time, said person would eventually die from insanity! I was lucky to have come across such an ancient technique, you know? Regardless, when I saw Chester again earlier, the witchcraft I had placed upon him seemed to have been lifted! While he was able to regain his consciousness, I’m glad that old woman still killed him with a single blow! Otherwise, all my plans would’ve been for nothing!” growled Hendrik as he glowered at Gerald.

Grabbing Gerald by his collar, he then added, “Now hurry up and spit out the truth! If it wasn’t you, then is there anyone else among you who’s proficient in ancient secret techniques?!”

In truth, Gerald had noticed something odd about Chester back when he had just cornered him in the woods. After using his mind-reading ability on Chester, he realized that Chester wasn’t actually a person with bad character. In contrast, he seemed to be constantly repenting and confessing his sins!

Simultaneously, Gerald also noticed an inner demon within him that wished to simply act uncontrollably.

Something just didn’t feel quite right about that. After all, while childhood traumas could certainly be linked with having extreme feelings or emotions, the things Gerald sensed within Chester were on a whole new level.

It was then when Gerald realized that someone had used heart devouring witchcraft on him. Such witchcraft was poisonous to the afflicted, and the technique could be used on any part of the body. If a person wasn’t proficient in the technique or if they didn’t know about its existence in the first place, even a master who was skilled with poisons wouldn’t be able to tell if someone was suffering from the witchcraft.

However, Finnley had previously taught and passed on all his skills to Gerald. As a result, Gerald was much more proficient in poisons since he had received legitimate training on them.

Regardless, sometime after that incident, Gerald found an opportunity to remove the poison from Chester’s body. However, he had refrained from telling Chester about it since he only wanted to tell him about it once he fully recovered.

Anyhow, that was the reason why Gerald had treated Chester so well. If it wasn’t because of the poison, Chester pretty much had a simple and kind personality. But there was no use thinking about all this now…

Chester was no longer among the living.

He had died because of Gerald, and Hendrick was the one who had set him up.

Thinking about that, Gerald turned to glare daggers at Hendrik, immense murderous intent reflected in his eyes.

“Not only are you refusing to answer my question, but now you’re even glaring at me so murderously? Have it your way! I have many ways to make a useless person like you speak up! While I can’t kill you, I can still make you suffer by humiliating you to the point where you’d definitely prefer to be dead rather than alive!” declared Hendrik as his eyes widened.

“Men! Tie him up before hanging him out at the port! He’s going to be placed there as an exhibit for tens of thousands of people… Only let him down once he’s willing to fess up!” ordered Hendrik as he laughed aloud.

Swiftly obeying, Gerald soon found himself on the ground as Hendrik’s subordinates began tying his hands behind his back…

True to Hendrik’s orders, Gerald was soon hung up—for all to see—at the port.

Also true to Hendrik’s words, an almost endless number of pedestrians immediately recognized who he was when they walked past him, prompting many to take the time to stare and discuss Gerald’s current plight.

“Oh god, isn’t that Mr. Crawford…?”

“The hell is going on? How did he even end up in such a sorry state?”

“Well, I’m sure you’ve heard by now of how vile the internal committee of the Holy Witchcraft actually is, right? You see, Mr. Crawford was the one who had uncovered their lies and exposed them! Due to his actions, the young lord turned into a new leaf and even announced his departure from the Holy Witchcraft! Since then, Mr. Crawford supposedly took the young lord under his wing!”

“You know, Mr. Crawford’s provided no shortage of economic-based projects for the Yonwick family… In fact, he’s even taken the initiative to invest and start several development projects on Montholm Island! You can already tell that Mr. Crawford is a good man from all that he’s done!” explained a passer-by.

While they clearly viewed him positively, none of those discussing Gerald dared to speak out loud. After all, there were two guardians from the Holy Witchcraft who were keeping a close watch on Gerald, and everyone knew that those from that clan were proficient in witchcraft that could easily be used to kill others.

Though they were aware that attempting to rescue him would definitely spell trouble, many of the pedestrians chose to remain there. To them, since they couldn’t actively help him, keeping him company was the next best thing.

Around that time, a car slowly drove past the area…

“…Hmm? M-miss Queena, look! It’s Mr. Crawford!” exclaimed the shocked driver when he saw who had been hoisted up at the port.

Hearing that, she immediately rolled the car’s windows down to have a look for herself. Naturally, the sight of Gerald in such a condition made her feel quite distressed.

While she was extremely tempted to lower Gerald right this instant, she kept reminding herself that his current situation was pretty much ideal for her plan to work out. In her mind, she summarized that after Gerald arrived at the point where he couldn’t bear the humiliation anymore, he would eventually come to realize that she was the only person who truly cared about him. By that point, he would surely choose to approach her, begging for mercy!

For her plan to come true, she knew she had to endure her own pain, even if it made her slightly distressed.

“So it is! Well, he has nothing to do with us! Drive on!” replied Queena as she closed her eyes.

Not daring to delay the car ride, the driver simply obeyed and drove off.

Meanwhile, Gerald was thinking to himself, ‘I have to quickly think of a way to recover my strength! If this goes on, then I’ll definitely miss out on the pledge of the holy water! However, even after I’ve escaped, I have no real way of contacting grandpa at all…!’

Hours passed and soon, it was late at night…

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By that point, out of fear that those from within the crowd would attempt to rescue Gerald, the two guardians—who were tasked with keeping an eye on Gerald—quickly drove away anyone who had chosen to stay behind.

As a result, only silence remained when Gerald looked up at the moon in the midnight sky.

Throughout the afternoon earlier, Gerald had remained focused on thinking up a way to break free of his seal. After all, not only was the clock ticking, but Gerald had also come to realize something from Chester’s death.

That being, he couldn’t allow anyone else around him to suffer any more harm or die because of him!

With that in mind, he was eventually able to come up with a method to break his seals.

Back when he had first come across the deity, Gerald had found a ring-shaped jade pendant that embedded several memories into his mind.

Though he now had memories of learning several new skills, despite previously attempting to use those skills for himself, Gerald realized that he could only actually practice a small portion of the skills.

Regardless, while thinking of ways to remove his seal earlier, Gerald recalled a training technique that he felt could easily and quickly allow him to break free of all three of them.

However, said technique was also evil in nature, and if the user of the technique wasn’t careful, they could easily get corrupted after receiving such a surge of power. What more, the execution of the technique was also rather cruel, even for Gerald’s standards.

Due to that, he spent much of his remaining time wondering whether he should take the risk and use such a dangerous technique. Even after quite some time, however, Gerald knew that in the end, he didn’t have much of a choice. There simply wasn’t any other way, and he was well aware that he couldn’t afford to allow anything bad to happen to Joshua and the others due to his hesitation.

Anyhow, in order to actually use the technique, Gerald first needed to practice it for some time, so he figured that midnight would be the best time to do so. With Gerald already having memories of the technique implanted in his mind, he knew it wasn’t going to be too difficult for him to practice it.

Now that midnight was here, the determined youth felt that it was high time that he began practicing it. Since he was left hanging mid-air now, Gerald simply closed his eyes, resting while simultaneously manipulating the flow of the meridians in his body in accordance to the paths that his implanted memories showed him.

Fast forward to a week later, Gerald finally determined that his soul was ready. It was now finally time for Gerald to use the Dawnbreaker!

‘Come forth, Dawnbreaker!’ Gerald ordered through his mind.

Almost instantaneously, the black blade flew out of Gerald’s sleeve and swiftly sliced open the rope that had been binding him this entire time!

Now freed from his restraints, Gerald fell to the ground, almost losing his footing since his body was still slightly weak.

As Gerald let out a long sigh of relief, he suddenly heard someone sneer, “The hell? How’d the ropes break? Hold up, looks like he had a dagger with him this entire time! Thankfully, the second lord sent seven of us to keep an eye on you, twenty-four hours a day! Otherwise, you would’ve surely made your escape!”

After sliding the Dawnbreaker back into his sleeve, Gerald turned to look at the seven smirking men from the Holy Witchcraft who were all staring at him as they slowly approached the youth.

Despite how cruel his following actions would be, Gerald had already convinced himself that he was only using the technique due to there being no other way to break the seals.

“Hey, brat! Are you going to tie yourself up or do you need us to do it for you? I’ll have you know that you’re just begging for trouble just by attempting to escape!” said the leader of the men as he continued walking over to Gerald in a carefree manner, intent on giving the youth a few gentle slaps to the face to teach him a lesson.

Once the leader was within range, however, Gerald immediately grabbed hold of his guardian’s head before unleashing the technique he had been practicing throughout the week!

At that moment, a surreal and slightly chilling sound could be heard. Soon enough, the guardian’s screams of pain were added to the mix.

To the six other guardians, it looked as though a huge suction force was sucking their leader dry, causing his body to rapidly begin shriveling up as his cheeks sunk so much that his pale face now resembled a skull more than anything.

Their leader’s skin soon turned a purplish-black as it continued shriveling to a point where only ashes remained… Releasing his grasp on the ashes, Gerald turned to look at the six screaming men who were all paralyzed in fear after witnessing the horrors that Gerald had just committed right before their very eyes.

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This evil method was known as the Soul Eater, and by using it, Gerald was able to quickly drain his victim’s vitality, turning it into his own. Naturally, this meant that the more souls he absorbed, the more strength and energy he would gain.

None of the guardians had expected Gerald to possess such a diabolical skill, but it was already far too late for them to escape. With the same technique, Gerald swiftly absorbed the vitality of the six remaining men, resulting in each of them turning into mere piles of dust.

After completing the deed, fierce determination glinted in Gerald’s eyes as he stared off into the distance.

While he had now managed to recover around thirty percent of his strength, Gerald was well aware that even at his peak strength, he still wasn’t going to be a match for Queena by a longshot.

With that in mind, he knew that he needed to get as far away from Queena as possible. After all, his current priority was still to locate the actual woman in white.

Even so, Gerald was sure that it wasn’t going to be as easy since Queena had supernatural powers.

After giving it some thought, he decided to look for Master Ghost to get another reading from him. After all, up till this point, everything that Master Ghost had predicted had eventually come true.

him to settle first before his next reading could take place, Gerald now knew that Queena was most probably the person that the

was actually capable of predicting all these events, Master Ghost would definitely be able to provide a good

before leaving!’ Gerald thought to himself as he instantly began heading toward the land

shouted, “Halt! What do you

waste any time. Extremely swiftly, he decisively ran up to

other guardians

coldly as

lord is drinking with his

the others? Where

how resolute he had been when snapping the neck of the other guardian seconds earlier,

truth but in return, please

“Agreed!”

with a few of his

from his obsession with ancient

the exciting atmosphere that came with playing mah-jong and cards. Due to that, Hendrik had converted his huge living room into a mah-jong and cards room. Of course, he also had an area—in the middle of the room—specifically designated for several beautiful and flirtatious women to dance

himself was currently extremely comfortable and completely immersed in the atmosphere. Not long after, however, the loud ‘slam’

a servant—who was holding onto the young man’s shoulder—attempted to stop him from entering. However, the servant was clearly failing at his

close enough, Hendrik couldn’t help but feel surprised when he realized who the young man actually was. It was Gerald of all

Ignoring that, to think that you actually came all the way here to seek your own death again!” scorned Hendrik before continuing on with his game

that Gerald wasn’t as powerful as the others had described him to be. That was also the reason why he

with their game.

thought he was going to be some powerful man! As it turns out, he’s just some kid! Hah!”

Hendrik this entire time—said, “So this is the person who killed the young lord! How absolutely perfect! I was planning to head to the port one of these days to look at how miserable he was hanging there, you know? To think that he managed to escape yet decided to show himself before us! Please allow me to take him down first before you deal with

expression was, Hendrik simply casually replied, “Very well, but be careful not to

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Holy Witchcraft, young man! There’s never been room for any negotiation in the past, nor will there ever be any in the future!

he then launched

faster than him. In one swift move, he grabbed hold

others could only widen their eyes in disbelief as the decapitated body—that was now

as Gerald tossed his son’s head—which still retained a frozen expression of shock—to

nobody at the table dared to even make a move in their immense shock. Hendrik

second he did, he immediately stood up trembling. The

hadn’t expected that Gerald would possess such great

already killed his only

was at that moment when screams filled the room as the dancing girls finally snapped out of their horrified states and immediately began scattering to get out of there! Even the servant—who had earlier been trying to stop Gerald from entering—instantly turned around to run after witnessing

utter dismay, he was only a few steps away when he felt Gerald’s hand on

body! Though he was now still standing in place, the others watched in horror as a strange red mist began seeping out of every orifice

cruel! Frightened to death by all this, everyone’s

to get the hell out of this

was the only thought in the minds of

he was a good friend of theirs whom they could play cards with, there was no way in hell they were staying to die with him here today,

a futile effort, to

After all, Chester’s murderer was now standing right in

recalled how Chester’s death had filled Gerald with immense sadness and guilt. After all, he had only died

simply wanted all of them to die here together with Hendrik today, simple as that. Not one of them was leaving alive

Gerald released the

everyone was undoubtedly fast, the Dawnbreaker

door, one by one, decapitated

had earlier been filled with both anger and resentment after witnessing his son’s murder, after watching Gerald kill off all his friends so effortlessly, all the previous feelings were instantly replaced with sheer panic as he began trembling

was no ordinary man! He… He was a death god! A death god who didn’t even need to blink or think twice before killing! And his aura… What a terrifying aura he exuded… The pressure from Gerald’s aura alone made

Hendrik immediately knelt and hit his forehead against the floor quite loudly before begging with a quivering voice, “P-please, Mr. Crawford…!

been obsessed with ancient witchcraft techniques, right? With that in mind, I’m sure you’d love to personally witness and experience one of the more vicious and terrible ancient techniques! Here’s how it’ll go. I’ll plant the witchcraft within you, and from there on out, it’ll begin to slowly

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been captured as well since Hendrik had planned

done

the ninety-year-old man had to go through had taken a clear

ask, “…Speaking of which, senior… Are you leaving again after

out Master Ghost. I simply cannot continue staying on Montholm Island anymore! Worry not, I’ll make sure to order a few of my family’s guards to safely escort all of you back to the Salford Province,” replied Gerald as a hint of helplessness and bitterness was

take on right now. If he didn’t make a quick escape while he could, she could easily trap him for all of eternity. Should he allow that to happen, he

avoid that, Gerald needed to get out of this

“…Senior, I…”

thought, he felt that he would only end up becoming

a way to free her sooner or later. Regardless, all of you need to leave first. If I’m able

Joshua simply nodded before saying, “…Alright then. You take care

swiftly heading into

Yonwick Manor. Once she was done, she placed it on a table in the living room before turning to look at the bed. Sitting on it, was a calmly meditating

in the beginning, after spending some time with her and listening to what Jasmine had to say, Queena

she didn’t say much, Queena truly hoped that Jasmine would remain by her side in the long run. Simply being able to chat with

that Queena wasn’t a good person, with both of them

the same

felt not to be able to be with their loved one, it

sitting cross-legged the entire time—suddenly opened her eyes before standing up

again? Who’s

replied

his meridians… How was he able to get rid of the Holy Witchcraft without his inner strength? Thinking about it now, she realized

cunningness

a heavy

before saying, “It’s best that you don’t get too happy yet! He’s not slipping out of my fingers that easily! Not this time! I’m holding onto him firmly

stepped out of the room,

in making escapes underwater—was already leaving

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Gerald immediately took the sea

No matter how much he attempted to get rid of the person who was tracking him down,

truly God’s will that I won’t ever be able to find

she was probably the only other true top master whom Gerald had ever met

what little strength he had left as long as

morning when Gerald

was before. Knowing that she could very well catch

he arrived at Langvern Church, he was left completely astonished.

long evacuated the building. Not wanting to give up without trying, Gerald tried to locate any

could this be…!” said Gerald to himself, looking slightly lost and desolate as he stood in the room in the back that Ghost had once

after much difficulty. However, before

after going through so much, this was a visualization of how disheartened

most, however, was finding out that Ghost and the others had left so suddenly.

moment, a child-like voice could suddenly be

almost immediately, Gerald realized that the voice calling his name was coming from the living room. However, even after searching the place with his mind, he

the soft, child-like voice again as the squeaking of what sounded like wheels could

watched as a loose plank suddenly began shifting… Seconds later, a small robot

completely out of bamboo, the robot itself had a unique appearance that resembled a very lifelike young girl—somewhere around

green, it looked at Gerald

“…Yes?”

you’re finally here! I’ve been waiting for you for so long that I’m already

were waiting for me? Could you actually have consciousness?” asked Gerald

do! Master Ghost was the one who had left me here to wait for you, you know? I’m his most special and mysterious piece of work! In fact, I’m even more intelligent compared to most

to meet you, Zenny. From what you’ve said, I’m assuming that Master Ghost had already predicted

that you had left behind. After getting to know everything that would happen, he realized that what was going to happen next would most likely affect the lives of at least a hundred people within the church. As a result, Master Ghost and the others had already left a long time ago. However, he left me behind so that I could

a bit too self-righteous and arrogant back then… Regardless, what did Master Ghost wish to

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Ghost said that while you’re currently trapped, you shouldn’t feel upset or troubled since this is simply your fate playing out, Gerald! He also added that your fate won’t be ending within a day, and nor will you be able to solve the answer that you’ve been seeking in your heart within a short period either. All of this is simply inevitable, so with that in mind, all you can do is face all your hurdles bravely!” explained

simply nodded. When he had last met Master Ghost in the church, Ghost had given him a reading which Gerald hadn’t really taken to heart back then. To his eventual surprise, everything that

the people around you! My master had been awaiting your visit for the longest time, but you came a bit too late! You see, he couldn’t just secretly

destiny get greatly reduced between the tenth and

made sure to note

of time, I’ve noticed that my inner strength can’t

of course it wouldn’t! Your inner strength hasn’t gone through the baptism of heaven yet! Just so you know, ordinary inner strength doesn’t possess the functional aspect and yin energy from heaven! As a result, no matter how strong your inner strength is, it’ll still be completely useless against her since her inner strength consists of righteous yin energy from the

baptism of heaven, you’ll first need to find a stone called the Zircobsite. Once you locate it, you’ll have to touch it with both your hands to absorb the essence of the sun and moon. The stone will definitely aid you greatly

“Zircobsite…?”

making it extremely strong! In fact, it’s the strongest functional yin energy in the world! As long as you’re able to obtain the stone, you’ll surely have

to slowly search for it since she’s already hot on my tail! I’ve really been cornered like

several countermeasures for you, Gerald, so please focus and take what

you’ll never truly be able to shake her off and even if you manage to do so, she can easily find you again no matter where you go! With that

hide the scent, you’ll need to locate two people with strong yin physiques and once you do, you’ll have to obtain invigorating blood droplets from them, though to be quite honest, just a single drop of blood from each of them should be sufficient. The blood is

location of the stone. After all, yin and yang naturally oppose each other, so once you get close enough to the Zircobsite,

with strong yin physique…? And what on earth is invigorating blood droplets?” asked Gerald, puzzled. As far as he

offered by the person you’re asking it from! To put simply, if the person is willing to help you, then their blood will surely remain active and spiritual! If