Chapter 130: The Toxic Rose
"T-That’s not it, my Lord. We got there as quickly as possible and were told he ran into an alley. We immediately tried to chase him down, however there was no trace of him there.
It was almost as if he had -".
"Vanished." It was Julian who completed the sentence.
As soon as Julian spoke the words, a heavy silence fell over the room. Both father and son were now in deep thought, pondering over the matter.
Well, Julian wasn’t doing much pondering. In his mind, this individual was definitely the same person he had encountered in the Misty Mountains.
That meant that he had somehow successfully avoided him during the inspection and was now residing in the city, his city. The thought of this made him very angry.
Thinking about all the humiliation he had suffered because of him, his anger intensified, and he wanted nothing more than to crush him.
However, City Lord Richards had different thoughts. This was the second time he was hearing about a Foundation Establishment realm cultivator supposedly vanishing.
At first, when he heard Julian telling the story, he had not paid much attention to it. He merely thought it was Julian embellishing the story to hide his embarrassment from failing to capture a Foundation Establishment realm cultivator.
As for the part of the story where he was a righteous cultivator saving him from beasts, he didn’t believe it for a second. Julian was his son; he knew his personality best.
Later, when they were alone, he got the true story from him. Although Julian still hadn’t told him how he was doing in the inner region. He knew his son was still hiding some secrets, but didn’t press further.
However, now that the same vanishing act was used and now inside his city, he had no choice but to pay close attention to it. For a Foundation Establishment realm to be able to escape capture twice by those stronger than him and quite easily at that, it had to be the work of an artifact.