Chapter 138: What If It Was Him?
Seeing Wraith No. 4’s vulnerable state and the fact that Bella didn’t seem like she could finish the job, Adrian became a bit ambitious.
’What if...’
’What if he could kill him?’ As this thought anchored itself in his mind, it refused to be dispelled. At first, he immediately rejected this idea. He was only a Foundation Establishment realm cultivator. There was no way he could kill a Nascent Soul realm cultivator.
But taking another look at Wraith No. 4, he ultimately decided it was worth a shot. Adrian was not an indecisive person. As soon as he made a decision, he began working on a plan to kill him.
He initially wanted to use another talisman, remembering how much damage it dealt to Wraith no 4 in the first place. However, he ultimately decided against it.
While he had quite a few of them, he couldn’t recognise them. The Sage of Slaughter was not a Talisman master, so there was no knowledge about talismans left in the inheritance.
He didn’t know if the next one he would put out would also be a fire talisman, or whether it would douse Wraith No. 4 with a stream of water. It was too much of a gamble, one that he was not willing to take.
He also didn’t want to needlessly waste one of them on a matter he could solve a different way. For the current Adrian, they were his trump cards. Last-ditch tools to help him get out of tough situations.
While he was listening to Wraith No. 4’s rambling, it suddenly hit him.
"This guy isn’t paying attention to his surroundings at all." He muttered quietly to himself. His whole concentration was on Bella, and he wasn’t even thinking that there could be another threat somewhere else.
Heck, the guy wasn’t even checking his surroundings with his spirit sense. How did Adrian know he wasn’t using his spirit sense? It’s simple, really.
If he were using it, he would have already discovered Adrian hiding in the rubble. That was how close the two of them were. Seeing the defenseless back of Wraith No. 4, Adrian simply decided to take the risk and attack himself.