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    Frank''s pure vigor then manifested into a gigantic hand, seizing Horey''s neck in an instant!


    "Donn... I mean, Mr. Lawrence! Please stop!"


    Yosil quickly shouted when he saw that Frank was ready to kill, wiping the cold sweat off his brow. "If you really kill her, and Cloudnine Sectes for blood... Kornac''s Keep will fall!"


    "Yes, Mr. Lawrence! Please calm down!"


    The other elders quickly tried to dissuade Frank too, but he asked in return, "And, what? What do you think should be done about this? If you''re dead set on giving up, give me the Ster Windroot and I''ll be gone."


    "Oh, uh..."


    Frank''s question left the elders stumped, and they all turned toward Yosil.


    After a moment of silence, he eventually sighed exasperatedly, walking up to Frank and asking quietly, "Do you perhaps remember this old mug, Mr. Lawrence?"


    "You?"


    Frank frowned at Yosil but shook his head.


    "Well, that''s fair." Yosil chuckled self-deprecatingly. "I''m really nothing and certainly wouldn''t catch the eye of a prodigy like you... See, I was there at Mystic Sky Sect over twenty years ago and personally witnessed the moment of your initiation."


    "What?"


    Frank was left endlessly shocked by Yosil''s words. "Are you from Mystic Sky Sect? Why don''t I remember you? And how did you make it out three years ago?"


    Yosil smiled awkwardly at Frank''s quick-fire questions, still keeping his voice down. "I-I have been found wanting. His Eminence had just happened to expel me on the day of your initiation... However, he seemed to have already foreseen what would happen three years ago and entrusted a great treasure to my care before I left."


    Frank blinked. "Could it be..."


    "Yes. It was the Bloodcrane Spiritbloom."


    Yosil sighed softly. "His Eminence told me that it''s an ingredient to an ancient pill and to pass it to his sessor, whom he said would definitelye looking for me.


    "Also, he told me to warn his


    sessor that there are countless schemers across all of Draconia. I he fails to reach immortality, the only path is for his sessor to do so by gathering the right medicinal herbs to make a certain pill


    "What..."


    Frank''s eyes widened.


    Naturally, the eminence whom Yosil referred to was theter chief of Mystic Sky Sect, who was also Frank''s mentor.


    It was only now that FrankContent from N?velDr(a)ma.Org.


    understood why his mentor had sat him through lessons on Draconian. traditional medicine for day and night for years-his mentor had already foreseen the fall of Mystic Sky Sect and thus prepared a contingency n.


    "I see..."


    While various emotions churned in Frank''s heart, his earlier apathy toward Yosil was gone as he now saw the man in a more positive light.


    Despite being over two hundred years old, the man never tried to use the Bloodcrane Spiritbloom for his own purposes, keeping a promise from twenty years ago even now.


    It was a gesture of loyalty that left Frank''s heart aflutter.


    At the same time, Yosil continued, "Mr. Lawrence, since you''vee just as His Eminence predicted, I have no qualms of giving you the Bloodcrane Spiritbloom. However, my apprentices and Kornac''s Keep-"


    "Don''t worry!"


    Frank suddenly looked up with determination, even pping Yosil on the shoulder. "It''s strange, but you won''t have a problem with me addressing you as my fellow apprentice, would you?"