Chapter 1761


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    Frank never told anyone when he left.


    However, Madfist was already waiting downstairs at the hospital like a prophet, standing beside an inconspicuous Audi parked by the curb.


    Frank stared at him nkly for a moment but soon came to his senses. He moved to ride shotgun, still holding the wooden box containing the Bloodcrane Spiritbloom.


    "Bralog''s Droitner Building, I take it?" Madfist asked bluntly and started the car after seeing Frank nod.


    As he drove, he snuck a look at Frank beside him as he said quietly, "I know what you''re going to ask, and I promise to answer your questions. First of all, I can assure you that Horey Lindt is dead."


    Frank''s scowl eased at his words. "She''s "


    "My adopted daughter," Madfist answered calmly before Frank could finish. "A good friend entrusted her to my care before he died... the girl was not even ten years old at the time."


    Madfist''s expression seemed to soften even as he recounted the story, but he eventually shook his head. "But she was obsessed with avenging her father-unsurprisingly, she assumed a sphemous path, and though I caught on, she had me framed for a crime I did notmit.


    "That''s how I ended up in ckwater prison... But I guess that''s how things were meant to be."


    Pausing, Madfish shed a silent smile as he continued. "I did not think that I''d run into her so soon after I got out... and this time, I didn''t hold back." Frank could hear Madfist''s voice turning hoarse as he finished, and it was clear that Madfist had struggled hard to make that choice.


    As such, Frank did not press the issue, instead changing the subject. "What''s that sphemous path you speak of?"


    "Heh." Madfist chuckled. "It''s an old but depraved derivation of geomantics-by having a living person and corpse share a body. That''s what Horey had nned to do: to use the hellspawn in her belly to fundamentally alter her own physique into something inhuman.


    "That said, though she was nurturing evil inside her, the limits to her potential as well her current strength would skyrocket."


    "Geomantics...."


    Frank suddenly remembered Haply Hall, which was studious on the subject, and Mona Fairfax, who was said to be a prodigy in the discipline. "Don''t underestimate geomantics now. If anything, I''m not surprised that the girl joined Cloudnine Sect."


    Madfist said quietly as he saw Frank musing, "To my knowledge, every single member of Cloudnine Sect is a student of geomantics, and some have even pushed it to new, twisted heights. Their men would even grow to be exceedingly beautiful, even more than women."


    "What?!"


    Frank was shocked, remembering Sienna Noirot, the vice chief of Cloudnine Sect''s Hall of Flowers, just then.


    Moreover, Cloudnine Sect''s close allies, the Soranos, had a monopoly over Draconia''s showbiz.


    Frank shuddered to think that some stunning actress with a pretty face everyone saw on the silver screen might be something else...


    Truly, none of the Southsea Four were really what they seemed-all Frank had observed was just the tip of the iceberg.


    What lurked beneath was definitely beyond humanprehension, and even Frank''s father, the Lord of the Southern Woods, could not move against them.


    "Now, now. I know for a fact that your father is no pushover himself."


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    Madfist smiled faintly. "In fact, there


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    between the Lord of the Southern Woods and Talnam that the Southsea Four would never dare to push him too far-even with all the power and influence they have."