907 Settling Down

Alex was amazed by the sudden transformation. He thought Adrian would be one of those guys that actually backstabbed their sister at the last moment, pretending to change to lower her guard. At that time, he planned to interfere, though. But fortunately to him, he didn't need to do that.

'Such a complicated family… At the very least, it's not going to be ruined by such a person…' Alex thought, observing the situation.

Adrian glanced at Alex and realized he was the one saving his sister. However, he ignored him for a moment and faced his sister with a serious expression.

Before saying anything, he took out the same token as the one she gave earlier and handed it together with her token. "This is yours. I am not qualified to be the Patriarch. I am afraid that I will repeat the same mistake, and I have also tried to kill you. Besides, I have officially failed Father's test."

"Silly boy. Father indeed gave you this test, but the judge of the mission is me. And my final judgment is you succeed. Congratulations, Adrian. You will be the next patriarch." She gently smiled.

"But—"

"That's my final judgment. It's absolute." She paused for a moment, feeling the anxiety coming from Adrian. "You indeed made a mistake, and I believed those who you killed along with their families couldn't forgive you. But you need to live on bearing that mistake in your shoulder, so you don't make the same mistake.

"The weight in your shoulder will be heavier than ever now you have become the only candidate for the position. That's why I am glad that you haven't fully lost yourself in the dark." She smiled. "As for me… I am still aiming to be an expert that no one can underestimate even with my blind eyes. That's why I am going to take the recommendation letter from Father. Consider it a payment for me this whole time."

Just like that, she shoved back the tokens into his hands before leading Alex to her courtyard to hide him there.

Before she left, Adrian called her one more time. "Sister… This time… I will do everything in my ability to make the Grayfig Family suffer. I will not let them touch you during this period. Thank you and sorry."

Listening to him, she smiled and waved her hand without facing back. She kept going until she disappeared from his eyes.

At the same time, Adrian stared at Alex's back with a mysterious expression before looking back at the two spies from the Grayfig Family that wanted to kill them.

They would surely suffer before dying as Adrian planned to torture them for information and attacking them.

Meanwhile, Alex smirked when he watched how these two made up. "I wonder whether your brother can handle the Grayfig Family well…"

"Don't worry. He should be able to handle them well, albeit he will surely get beaten after this." She chuckled. "That's my idiot younger brother… What can I say?"

"Yeah. It will be either tonight or tomorrow. I am sorry for dragging you into this."

"I have agreed to the terms. If they come, let me handle them." Alex shrugged.

"It's fine. I plan to meet my father after this and have him increase the security. Keep your sword sheathed for now." She shook her head. "Because I bet they are going to attack us during the journey to Unsurpassed Blade Sect. It will be at that time you shall unsheathe your blade. After we enter the sect, they won't easily make a move after all."

"Hmm…" Alex thought for a moment and nodded. "Alright then. But I don't think I will show my strength when there are many people from your side, you know."

"Don't worry. I have another plan for that, albeit it will be a bit costly." She sighed.

"A sacrifice?" Alex asked.

"Yes. Since we are going to be accompanied by my family experts, I will be using a body double, so the Grayfig Family will target the caravan instead. And I will make sure that my brother targets the main pursuers, eliminating all of them. Meanwhile, we are going to sneak around until we arrive at the sect."

Alex thought for a moment and asked, "How about we target them instead?"

She furrowed her eyebrows before shaking her head. "No. He is going to be protected by a few Martial Saints, mostly above 6-Star Martial Saints, so it's impossible. The least I can do is to use this chance to weaken their strength…"

Alex let out a sigh. He wanted to destroy them because he didn't want a potential enemy tailing on where he didn't notice. Martial Saints were like ants to him, but at the same time, he couldn't do it because he had sealed his strength and chose to live this way. "Alright."

"Besides, this friction is going to intensify when we enter the sect, and I am curious why you know the Grayfig Family have an invitation."

"Your family got one; why couldn't they?" Alex shrugged.

"Fufu…" She chuckled before they finally arrived at her courtyard.

It was quite a remote courtyard, but space was bigger than what he saw from the start, so she must have chosen this place because she got more space to train. At the same time, there were many wooden dummies around the field, half of them were cut.

"Ah, I forgot to clean this up." She panicked for a moment and cleaned the place up by storing everything inside her space ring for now.

"There is no servant that comes to this place?"

"I usually have one, but I asked them to leave me alone before I found information about the Earth Shaking Worm. So, I rushed toward the forest and forgot to settle everything. Besides, this place is quite remote, so you can wander around this place without a problem."

"It's alright." Alex waved his hand and inspected the place with his Spirit Eyes. Even though she said it was quite remote, he found a rank 8 Gathering Array. There were a few more things that he noticed, but it wasn't as big as the Gathering Array.

She then led him toward the main room, where she talked to the people who came here. "This is the main room. I will make you a tea first before going to my father. Is that alright?"

Alex didn't reject her.

He stared at her this whole time, watching how she moved smoothly around this place as if she could see them perfectly. Alex could sense the Sword Domain as the generalized position, but if many things gathered in the same place, even he would be confused.

However, Aria certainly didn't get confused by that, so it made him wonder how powerful her senses are.

"That's right. One more question. What if my father wants to meet you?"

"Can I reject?"

"I will reject it for you then." She nodded. She then left the room, leaving Alex alone.

Alex thought for a moment and summoned Njomo. "Can you stay hidden inside her shadow?"

He looked at Alex for a second and nodded before vanishing.

[I have returned here. It seems you have gotten an interesting person to work with. To think you even invite her…]

"Oh?!" Alex was startled to see the blue screen suddenly appear in front of his eyes, but soon recovered. "Well, you have gone through my memories, right?"

[Indeed. I can say that she has huge potential. There is a certain world that can fix her eyes, but they are too remote, so it's hard to go there. At the same time, it's not like a normal surgery will affect her because the eyes need to be completely fused with Spiritual Energy.]

"Let's not talk about her eyes. I want to talk about her potential. What do you think?"

[I approve of her calmness and abilities, but she still needs to work hard. Final Judgment: She has a huge potential.]

"Yeah." Alex nodded before sensing someone was coming. "Hmm? That Aria shouldn't come back this soon… Talk to you later."

[Alright.]

He activated his Spirit Eyes and found a man coming toward him. At the same time, he found this energy was similar to the one he saw earlier.

Because of that, he decided to not move and waited until that person opened the door.

Creak.

The one who appeared was none other than Adrian. However, his right cheek was like that of a squirrel as he seemed to have just been beaten by a certain someone.

Still, Alex felt that this guy had a clear mind again as he didn't feel any weird sensation coming from him, which usually brought him trouble.

"We have met again. I am sorry for barging." Adrian clasped his hand politely. For whatever reason, Alex had saved his sister's life, so there was no way he would be rude toward Alex.

"Come in." Alex nodded while observing his expression. "Do you want to talk about something?"

"Yes." He nodded but didn't come toward Alex. Instead, he stood still in front of the door and asked, "May I know—No, this is not important. The more important thing is… I want to thank you for saving my sister's life and stopping me from doing something that I will regret for the rest of my life."

Alex raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "I was just passing by at that time, so it was pure luck."

"Even so, I still need to thank you."

"Then I receive your thanks." Alex nodded.

He then stared at Alex for a moment and asked, "May I know what kind of thing happened during that time?"

"Have you asked her?"

"She probably won't tell me anything."

"Then I will do the same. I am not trying to hide anything, but I will give you a clue, and this is the truth. It's something you shouldn't know." Alex smiled.

Adrian closed his eyes and gritted his teeth before nodding to Alex. "I see. In that case, you don't need to tell me anything."

Alex nodded.

"I don't know your true intention, but since my sister has trusted you, I won't say anything much. Even though she praised me earlier, her eyes for people are better than mine, so if she trusts you, it means you are alright. That's why…" He slightly bowed his head. "Please take care of my sister in the Unsurpassed Blade Sect."

"Ho?!"

"From your attire and power level, I can assume that you are either a disciple there or another person who wants to join the sect. Considering you are beside my sister while hiding in this room, you must be the latter. And I have seen your ability, so I know that you will be entering the sect with my sister."

Alex sweatdropped as he thought. 'I wonder what the difficulty of this world is in a video game? Not about their power level, but their intelligence level. I assume that the Agar World where I met Alicia and the others was Easy, and the upper world after that was Medium. This one was hard, I guess… Considering all of them seemed to be able to guess everything with little information.'

Alex didn't know what kind of future he would have if he were teleported to this world first.

"I have said my pieces. I am sorry for taking your time…" He apologized again. But before he left the room, he asked one more thing. "Uhm… Can you say I am sorry?"

"Ehm, no. You better do it yourself because this is your family's problem. An outsider like me has no right to participate." Alex shook his head.

He could only sigh upon hearing his response and nodded while closing the door.

[You would surely get obliterated if you grew up in this world. You wouldn't have enough time to handle the trauma in your heart and other things before dying.]

"True." Alex let out a long sigh.

[There is no "Try Again" function too.]

"Shut up." Alex smiled.