Game World's Awakening-Chapter 136: The possibility of a painful betrayal

Although Elliot wanted to disbelieve what he was hearing, something in what he said made him think he might be right.

If he remembered as a child, his grandfather always got in between when his father started to get suspicious about his low talent. His father himself couldn’t understand it, but his grandfather made a rule in the Clan while he was alive that said anyone who reminded Elliot about his low talent would be punished severely.

Everyone had to abide by it. Originally, Elliot thought it was a rule made to protect him from scorn.

Even Loen City knew about it, so no one openly made fun of him.

But...

What if it wasn’t for that reason, but rather so that no one would touch the subject and thus manage to keep it hidden for as long as necessary?

Also, while it is true that he suspected that it was Jeff the traitor who sold his father and now he is fully convinced of that, he does remember that his father before disappearing had had an argument with his grandfather.

Even his grandfather died a few days after his father disappeared, and what the doctor said is that he fell into a terrible depression, leading him to commit suicide with his own power from within.

But all of that had holes in it, and the biggest one is that, going through a depression so terrible it would kill you in less than 1 week, would anyone send Tyler Clark away from Loen and put Alexander as leader of the Clan?

If he claimed to love his grandson, Elliot, why did he choose those who despised him the most as leaders?

Then...

What if everything he knew so far was wrong? If his grandfather were responsible for everything, it would make sense how easily his father disappeared. While Jeff was very trustworthy, no one, like his father, knew his son’s tricks and hiding places.

There’s one more thing.

After his father’s disappearance, his mother desperately ran and pulled him out of the Clan to take him to a secluded area of town, where she wanted to get away from it all. When he asked her about his grandfather, she ignored all that and simply decided to leave everything behind.

All this made Elliot unable to find ways to contradict what Jeff was saying.

After a long time, a lot of things started to make sense. And while there were still gaps, they seemed to be more due to a lack of information than anything else. Everything seemed to add up right now.

But now there was a question on his mind, resurfacing with what he had told him.

"Is my father alive?" he asked.

Jeff averted his gaze to the floor. Even he didn’t know. freёwebnoѵel.com

But he knew the answer Elliot was hoping for wasn’t that. Maybe he himself didn’t know the answer he was hoping for, but Jeff did.

"I don’t know. And I don’t think anyone does, but... he’s presumed dead." He replied.

"Why dead, if you say that possibly no one knows?" he asked.

Jeff smiled with slight derision. "Killing the son of a saint is easier said than done. Have you heard that saying?"

"Yes..." Elliot nodded.

"Saints have many ways to save their loved ones when they are in danger of death, even if they are on the other side of the world." He said and continued. "No one can underestimate a Saint, they are overwhelmingly powerful beings that only the Gods could look down upon. But, the Lady and the Little Miss still died, and he did not come to save them."

"Even though their kin killed them, he didn’t show up." Jeff shook his head.

"If that’s not the biggest proof that he’s dead, then what is?"

Elliot’s eyes flashed with anger, and his body suddenly erupted with a surge of fury. A kick landed on Jeff’s stomach, sending him flying.

Subsequently, four more kicks hit him, and a punch pinned him to the ground.

Cries of pain came from his mouth, but also pleading, "You said you wouldn’t kill me!" He screamed.

The pain and the pleading were audible in his voice.

Then Elliot stopped.

He was furious.

That Thread of Vengeance was calling for him. It was telling him it had to kill him.

But he stopped.

’He’s still of some use at something.’ He thought.

He decided to ask him more questions, but he couldn’t get any more important information after that.

The truth was that Jeff only knew a little about the enemies. Key things like: Roy, the Master of the Elemental Academy, which he already knew because that old bastard also had the Thread of Vengeance in his body.

Also, from Alexander, nothing new.

He knew about Agora, but no one specific. Still, according to Jeff, the local government was into that issue, which seemed to encompass too much for him. And, considering that Agora is the largest politically among the coastal cities, he had to assume that they are high-level politicians from there.

Tanafler and the Capital... There were problems there in every way. Because they had everything. The kingdom’s two most powerful cities in politically and of guild power.

The only thing he could confirm was that a wide range of diverse characters, powerful and distant from each other, participated in his father’s disappearance.

The motive he did not know.

But he didn’t feel he was too far away from finding out.

’If my grandfather has anything to do with it, I’ll have to find out inside Clark...’ He thought.

There was something else, too: the Clark Ancestral Grounds.

’That’s in Loen, but I don’t know exactly where. My father never told me. He just told me that when I went there, I couldn’t say anything about what I saw...’ Elliot felt frustrated.

Loen was a big city, but where could there be Ancestral Lands?

The clue...

’Maybe the only clue I have is how old we’re talking about. Possibly it must be 400 years ago, since the Clark Family was founded sometime in the first 100 years since the emergence of the Global Awakening System.’

’If I thought about it carefully...’

’At the time of Ancestor Lee? 500 years ago, there were several continents of society here before the system... With the appearance of the system, according to history, a large continent was formed and desolated by the beasts. It was Ancestor Lee who recast it...’

Elliot’s eyes shone brightly then, and he smiled.

’The Ancestral Library of Loen.’ Thought. ’That’s right, there is such a place.’

The problem was that that place was in the hands of the Government and only important people, such as the Secretary of Government and two others, could enter.

Even though it is in this city, the King appointed part of his royal guard to protect it. It was not essential or top secret, but it was one of the only libraries in the world that had books from 350-500 years ago.

It was the heritage of the kingdom, in a sense.

Now he just needed to find a way to get in there. He needs contacts.

He focused on the upcoming Leveled Leagues. Winning there would give him enough status and contacts to try to get in there.

Although there was a problem with the current Government Secretary, who seemed to be in league with his enemies, there were things he could use. He just needed to play his cards right, maybe it would all work out.

Elliot ended Jeff’s interrogation when he couldn’t give him more information.

"Since I told you I would let you live, I will. But from now on, you’ll have to work for me." He said. "There is something you must do. But for now, we must fake your death." Elliot smiled coldly, and suddenly, a wave of bone-shattering, bone-crushing, terrifying attacks fell on Jeff.

He had some power. About 32 points in strength, but he had no resistance beyond 20. His body ended up turning to pulp in Elliot’s hands before he fell unconscious.

After taking photographs, he made it look like he was setting Jeff on fire.

Maybe he would use those photographs in the future.

After that, he took Jeff on his shoulders and thought about bringing his Warrior, but then he flinched.

He turned sharply to where his warrior was and ran quickly to him.

’Did someone kill him? I didn’t even feel like he fought.’ He quickly reached behind the mansion, but only a few leaves and a remnant of energy were moving.

"There was someone here." Jenna said, noticing some clues.

"Yes." Elliot nodded. "He killed my warrior in one blow. He’s powerful. But there’s no information on him in the documents."

"Any informants from the organization that guy was saying? The ones wearing black and gray capes."

Elliot thought it might be like that, too.

"Let’s quickly go back and inform Miss Anna. Maybe she can find him."

They both ran back to the village and finished killing the remaining Misfits. After that, they set fire to the drug fields, which already had fuel prepared beforehand.

The same people who planted them prepared large quantities of fuel in case they had to abandon the base. They would burn these as a cover to flee.

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