Chapter 396: Chapter 371: Ancient Secret (Part 1)

Grace Sherwood froze.

The expression on her face gradually turned cold. "You were the one who betrayed our friendship first."

Dawn Miles felt the Power Domain growing stronger and narrowed her eyes slightly.

"The Harrow Clan are the mortal enemies of my clan. What is your relationship with them?" Grace Sherwood demanded.

"How do you know we have a relationship?"

A slight smile touched Grace Sherwood’s lips. "The Matsumoto Family is no more."

Dawn Miles’s pupils contracted instantly, and her fingers clenched into a fist. "What did you do to him?"

"A Regulator will be here any moment. You’d best not make any rash moves."

However, the Regulator outside only felt the pressure in the air growing heavier and heavier. His expression changed in an instant as he quickly backed away, not daring to approach the ancestral hall.

Inside, Dawn Miles looked calmly at Grace Sherwood and asked lightly, "Do you think he dares to come in?"

The words had barely left her lips when a voice imbued with "Power" carried into the courtyard. "May I ask who you are, Your Excellency?" 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

There wasn’t a trace of anger in the voice; it was even respectful.

Inside the room, the smile on Grace Sherwood’s face slowly froze.

The girl before her seemed harmless, but a sliver of fear rose in her heart. She hastily averted her eyes. "Miss Sinclair, I don’t want to hurt you, but you’re with people from the Harrow Family... I’m just so scared..."

Grace Sherwood covered her face and knelt on the floor, looking utterly fragile as tears seemingly streamed from between her fingers.

Just then, the voice of the Regulator from outside was heard again.

"Your Excellency, are you a lord from The Holy Mountain?"

Dawn Miles ignored the voice from outside. Instead, she looked at Grace Sherwood and said coolly, "I can make you a Grandmaster, and I can also leave you with nothing. And that man outside won’t risk his life fighting me for you..."

Grace Sherwood’s body trembled slightly, for she could hear the seriousness in Dawn’s voice.

Just like when they first met, she prostrated herself on the ground and replied fearfully, "Miss Sinclair, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have doubted you. The key and the Sheepskin Scroll are in my room. I’ll send someone to get them immediately."

Dawn Miles looked at her and hummed a soft "Mm." The sound made the expressions of those both inside and outside the room change at the same time.

The person inside looked relieved and immediately got up to call for someone outside. The person outside, however, looked nervous and took a few more steps back.

"My lord, is there anything you need me to do?" The Basic Supervisor’s brow furrowed slightly, his gaze fixed on the room.

But the person inside did not reply.

"My lord?"

"Just passing through. You may leave," Dawn Miles replied coolly, speaking into a voice changer.

The Basic Supervisor stared at the courtyard in confusion for a long moment. Recently, The Holy Mountain had dispatched many experts; it was said that an Intermediate Supervisor had been sent to each continent.

’Could she be an Intermediate Supervisor?’

’But I’ve never heard of a female Regulator from The Holy Mountain, have I?’

With a look of confusion, the Basic Supervisor walked a little further away.

As Dawn Miles felt the Power Domain recede further into the distance, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Using her entire body as a conduit to channel the Power of Heaven and Earth was much more difficult than using her meridians. It consumed an immense amount of stamina, but the energy it channeled was dozens of times greater.

That was why the Regulator outside had thought her cultivation level was higher than his.

She had exhausted a great deal of stamina to intimidate the Regulator, and now, the arm behind her back was trembling uncontrollably.

If that Regulator were to suddenly turn back and attack now, her only option would be to flee with all her might.

Forcibly suppressing the weakness spreading through her body, she walked to a nearby chair and sat down directly. Looking at Grace Sherwood in the distance, she asked, "Where is he?"

Grace Sherwood flinched. "He should be under our control by now."

But Dawn Miles just said coolly, "His power is immense. Your people are no match for him."

***

「Meanwhile.」

Elias Lennox watched the people surrounding him, a smile playing on his lips. "You didn’t really think I wouldn’t know who you are, did you? Members of the Azure Clan?"

The faces of the men from The Sherwood Clan immediately darkened. They exchanged a look. "In that case, die, you Harrow Rebel!"

But Elias Lennox, opposite them, merely smiled and counted down, "Three... two... one."

SNAP—

A snap of his fingers.

One of them suddenly spun around and opened fire on his own clansman next to him.

The man was the driver who had been disguised as part of The Matsumoto Family.

Elias Lennox leaned against the wall, watching the men kill each other as the smile in his eyes grew wider and wider.

Only after everyone had fallen to the ground did Elias Lennox straighten up. He walked over to one of the men and pulled an incessantly ringing phone from his pocket.

He glanced at it. The two words "Family Head" were written on the screen.

He chuckled, tossed the phone back onto the body, pulled his hood back up, and walked off with his hands in his pockets.