Chapter 851 - 426 The Story of the Spectral Saint Mage (Part 3)_2
"But Perot is, after all, the son of the Pope, with numerous life-saving tricks up his sleeve. Just as the teacher was preparing to take them down with him, he summoned a strike from the Pope using a special method. The teacher was gravely wounded, and yet he still couldn’t bring himself to harm Flo. In the end, all he could do was break out and flee. By the time he finally broke through and found a secret place to hide in Empire City, he was badly injured, having barely survived."
"Immediately after, a city-wide manhunt began in Empire City to find the teacher’s whereabouts. Once, the teacher had saved a beggar in Empire City; it was with his help that he narrowly escaped their pursuit. But just as the teacher’s wounds had healed, he received news as shocking as a bolt from the blue: they had captured his family."
"Knowing full well that the teacher was hiding in Empire City, they issued a decree, sentencing his family to death for treason. The teacher said that day, the sky seemed to turn blood red. When the emperor issued the killing order in front of the Empire City populace, when the teacher watched with his own eyes as that detestable pair, Perot and Flo, clad in armor, used sharp blades to behead his relatives. The last bit of hope and Luminosity in his heart utterly extinguished."
"Can you imagine it? Someone watching all their loved ones being killed before their eyes. Father, mother, elder sister, younger sister, and all his family members, even the young children, they spared no one. They executed the teacher’s entire family."
"The teacher knew they were waiting for him to appear, waiting for him to rush in like a moth to the flame. They knew his character too well. But it was then, a black Token he had obtained during a previous adventure was activated by the hatred in his heart. At that moment, his whole body was cold, yet he couldn’t move a muscle. Just like that, he watched helplessly as his family was killed one by one, right before his eyes!"
"At that moment, the teacher went mad, completely engulfed in madness. The blood of his relatives stained the earth of the Empire City square. Not a single one of the three hundred sixty-seven members of his family survived. They all tragically perished under their slaughtering blades. When the teacher recovered from that numbing cold, not one of his relatives was left alive. He seemed to see their vengeful spirits unwillingly lingering in the sky."
"The teacher didn’t strike back. His family was already dead; he left that place filled with towering hatred. Since the teacher never showed up during the massacre, they believed he had left Empire City. The city-wide manhunt was temporarily suspended, but they continued to search for the teacher’s whereabouts across the continent."
"Having finally left Empire City, the teacher chose a direction and ran wildly. He ran for seven days and seven nights until he collapsed from exhaustion in a valley. Since that day, there was no Luminosity left in the teacher’s heart, only endless grudges and hatred. He swore to live for revenge, to kill all who betrayed him, all who had wronged him."
"For some reason, after he lost the light, the Cultivation Technique of the Chelonian Carapace Technique mysteriously vanished. Perhaps it was disgusted by the hatred in the teacher’s heart. But that didn’t matter to the teacher anymore. From that black Token, he received the inheritance of an ancient wraith mage. Luminosity and wraiths are inherently opposed; however, with the teacher’s talent, he gradually began to merge them. The teacher needed power, power strong enough to overturn the whole Massive Wave Kingdom, to destroy the Glorious Papacy. He no longer had any relatives; in this world, everyone was his enemy, and only their blood and lives could dilute the grudge in his heart. The teacher cultivated day and night, madly increasing his power, all for the day he could avenge his family."