Chapter 1777

The very next morning, Gerald took Rey with him and set off.

“Where are we headed to this early in the morning, Gerald?” asked the puzzled Rey.

He hadn’t been able to get a good night’s sleep in the past few days, and when he was finally able to sleep in his own bed, Gerald had come early in the morning to drag him out! It truly made him feel helpless.

“We’re going to the Dark Sect of Ghost City!” replied Gerald.

As they talked on, they soon arrived at the tower of the Dark Sect of Ghost City...

Since the manhunt for the Ember Lord was still on, the construction of the Dark Sect had been put to a halt, leaving the entire tower sealed. Due to that sudden halt, however, many people ended up losing their jobs.

Just as the saying went, ‘Karma would always come back to bite’.

Regardless, upon stepping before the tower’s entrance, both of them found that the door had been locked with chains. There was even a strip seal attached to it!

“How do you propose we get in, brother Gerald?” asked Rey.

Giving no response, Gerald simply walked around the tower, looking here and there until eventually, he found an air vent connected to the back of the tower.

Removing the lid, Gerald then began squeezing into it! Seeing that, Rey knew that all he could do was follow...

After crawling for a while, the duo eventually made their way into the tower’s third-floor bathrooms.

Knowing that the Ember Lord’s chamber was on the sixteenth floor, Gerald then headed for the stairs and began running all the way up! Even after running all the way to the top, however, Gerald’s face barely reddened, nor did his heart race. In fact, he didn’t even feel the need to gasp for air!

Rey, on the other hand, found himself lagging far behind. Taking at least ten minutes to get to where Gerald was, Rey immediately flopped onto a nearby couch the second he saw one.

Gasping for air, Rey then muttered, “C-could we... please... not go so fast next time...? I’m dying here...!”

He really had no idea how Gerald could just bolt up sixteen fleets of stairs... It was simply an inhuman feat!

Then again, Gerald wasn’t a regular human to begin with. By this point, he was already a half-phantom, so his body no longer functioned like a regular human’s. With that said, sixteen fleets of stairs were nothing to him.

Regardless, Gerald didn’t bother replying to Rey’s statement and instead began looking for clues about the Ember Lord within the chamber.

After what Juno had told him the day before, Gerald knew that he couldn’t afford to remain passive anymore. They had to take the initiative to make the Ember Lord come to them, and the only way that was going to happen was if Gerald managed to find something that the Ember Lord cared about.

Once he managed to get his hands on such a thing, Gerald would surely be able to catch him.

Either way, after searching for a while, Gerald eventually managed to find a small wooden box in the chamber. It was just a simple-looking old box that didn’t look particularly special. Even so, the fact that Ember Lord—a person with such high status—would even possess such a normal-looking box was strange in itself.

With that in mind, Gerald figured that the wooden box must certainly contain something important to the Ember Lord, and that he must have forgotten to take it with him.

Immediately opening the box to see if he was right, Gerald was greeted by the sight of a ring made of green jade... With how dull the jade ring looked, it was clear that it was extremely old...

After examining the ring for a bit longer, Gerald then placed it back into the wooden box before slipping the box into his pocket with the intent of bringing it back with him.

At that moment, a furious voice could suddenly be heard shouting, “Who’s there?”

Hearing that, Gerald and Rey instantly turned to look at the door... only to realize that it was Old Flint and a few other men!

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