Chapter 501: Dispute
Chapter 501: Chapter 501: Dispute
"It’s the Bishop Clan!"
From his hiding spot, Julian Shaw watched with pleasant surprise.
The Bishop Clan Members they had been searching for for months had finally appeared!
’I never expected these two would be the ones to draw them out.’
"Mr. Shaw, should we go support Miss Quentin?"
one of his men asked from behind.
Julian Shaw shook his head. "No. You have to play the long game to catch the big fish.
I will make sure their deaths serve a greater purpose."
Down below, the battle intensified to a fever pitch with the arrival of the Bishop Clan Members.
Nina Jacobs tapped the tip of a Gold Spike with her foot, launching herself behind Viggo.
Her movements were light and swift. She dodged the attacks from several other Superpower Users and simultaneously sent a Fireball flying toward Viggo’s back!
BANG!
Viggo scrambled to dodge, looking flustered.
"How in the world are you doing this?!"
Viggo asked, her eyes red with envy. Nina wasn’t just skilled at long-range attacks; her close-quarters combat was overwhelmingly strong too.
"You’re not worthy of knowing."
As Nina finished speaking, a smile touched her lips. Only then did Viggo realize the ground beneath her feet had suddenly changed.
Seeing her companions struggling only to sink deeper, Viggo managed to stumble out of the quicksand and leap into the air.
Seeing the several metal steps hovering in midair, Nina gave her no further chance to escape.
An Invisible Diamond Sand Wall descended from above, slamming Viggo directly back into the quicksand!
BOOM!
The few who were still struggling were instantly engulfed in flames, turning into human torches.
Watching her companions burn, Viggo finally realized the truth.
Even as the flames consumed her, she looked back in a certain direction and screamed:
"Julian Shaw! You traitor!"
[Detected that Host’s actions will save 636 humans in the coming days. "Selfless Savior" title triggered. Reward: 636 bottles of "Healing Potion"!]
[Detected Host has completed an act of self-defense. "The Best Defender" title triggered. Reward: "Thunder Skill Book"!]
Viggo’s voice still echoed through the mountains.
’I never thought killing Viggo would end up saving so many people.’
By now, a pile of charred corpses lay around Wayne Warner as well.
Trevor and his men had already finished off the rest of the enemies.
He ran over, a worried look on his face. "Are you two okay?"
"We’re fine," Nina said.
"I was planning to visit you at the City D Base, but too many people have been coming to Mornfell lately. We can’t kill them all.
But I saw you came from that direction. Have you been somewhere else these past few months, Master?"
Trevor’s tone was sincere, yet tinged with a hint of grievance.
"Yes, I’m on my way back to City D now. I just happened to run into these people. Do you know who they are?"
Nina asked.
She had originally planned to just pass by Mornfell and not disturb the peace of the Bishop Clan.
But now it seemed that Trevor and the rest of the Bishop Clan were not having a very peaceful time.
"As far as we know, they’re probably Veridians, coming from the direction of Stenmore.
But there are also some Drakonians and Aeridorians working for them."
Trevor had thought Nina had come specifically to find him, but it turned out she was just passing through.
He was about to share his happy news with Nina when she asked,
"You advanced?"
According to the system, Trevor’s Superpower Value was already 52. Any value over 50 made him an Intermediate Superpower User.
And just now, Trevor’s Wood Element Superpower did indeed look like it was at the Intermediate level.
Trevor’s eyes lit up on his tan face as he said,
"Yes, Intermediate Superpower. I successfully advanced."
"Not bad. You really do have a lot of potential."
After Nina’s praise, Trevor felt his face grow warm.
He owed his advancement entirely to Nina.
"Miss Jacobs, please come be our guest at the Bishop Clan village,
Toya talks about you every day."
Greg Unger added, extending an enthusiastic invitation.
Nina smiled, but her gaze shifted to a specific spot. "Not yet. Let’s wait a little longer."
"There are more people?"
Trevor immediately became alert, but there didn’t seem to be anyone in that direction.
Nina replied, "I’m not sure. It’s just a guess."
"What about you all? Have you run into any danger lately?"
At the mention of danger, Trevor’s expression turned serious.
"Ever since you left, people have been coming to Mornfell nonstop.
Some of them were carrying the same devices as Magnus York’s group, so I think they all belong to the same organization.
They tore the Mutated Animal lairs apart, but they didn’t find anything."
The entire Bishop Clan had absorbed the Mystic Ice Cores, and that, combined with their familiarity with Mornfell, allowed them to hide their tracks perfectly.
This was all witnessed firsthand by the lookouts they had posted.
"But besides them, many others have come, especially these people from Stenmore. They’re not just looking for something; they’ve also killed a lot of people.
We’ve killed many of them from the shadows, but there’s no end to them. And they’re also searching for any trace of our Bishop Clan."
Trevor explained what they had learned.
Just then, a group of people did indeed appear from a spot on the hillside.
They looked disheveled and were stained with a fair amount of blood.
The man in the lead ran down, his face full of excitement, and said,
"This is great! We’re finally saved!
Thank you for killing these people for us."
"Oh? Is that so?
Why don’t you start by telling us who you are?"
Nina asked with great interest.
"We’re Drakonians. My name is Julian Shaw. We were captured by these people a while ago and forced to obey their orders, or they would’ve killed us."
Julian Shaw looked at the mangled corpses around them with a hateful expression.
At the same time, he was secretly alarmed. Just by looking at the extent of the damage to the bodies, he could tell that the Superpowers of the people before him were incredibly destructive.
Nina sized up the twenty-some people behind him and asked, "Then tell me, who are these people?
And why did they capture you?"
For a fleeting moment, Julian Shaw felt as if the woman’s eyes could see right through him.
Nevertheless, he answered,
"They are all Veridians. They probably captured us because they wanted to find something in these mountains.
Oh, right, they were also looking for Bishop Clan Members. You must be from the Bishop Clan, right?"
After speaking, Julian Shaw walked up to Trevor and the others, his expression anxious.
"You absolutely cannot let them find your hiding place! Otherwise, they will definitely harm you!"
"They’re all dead already. By your logic, does that mean not all the Veridians here are dead yet?
It wouldn’t be you, would it?"
Nina asked pointedly.
Julian Shaw quickly waved his hands in denial. "I’m a true-blue Drakonian! My surname is Shaw. We couldn’t run from them fast enough, how could we possibly be on the same side?!"
The moment Nina spoke, Trevor’s eyes also filled with suspicion.
Greg Unger and the others even manifested their Superpower weapons.
"A person’s dying words are said to be true. Those Veridians only spoke their native tongue before they died. But Viggo? She used her last breath to shout that one line. She was setting the stage for you, wasn’t she?
You were on the same side all along,"
Nina said.
Viggo screaming that Julian Shaw was a traitor before she died seemed like a completely unnecessary act to Nina.
If he were truly a traitor, there would have been no need for her to shout it.
’That sentence was meant for me to hear.’