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Chapter 1273 - Chapter 1273 Chapter 391 Getting Rich Still Depends on the

Chapter 1273: Chapter 391: Getting Rich Still Depends on the Spoils of War from the Strong_3 Chapter 1273: Chapter 391: Getting Rich Still Depends on the Spoils of War from the Strong_3 Like a puzzle game.

From some scattered clues, he faced enormous challenges.

With the Rune Stone by his side, he felt that he would eventually comprehend some real truths.

As he was pondering, Ivan by his side muttered, “Mr. Leonard Churchill, is the meat roasted yet? Ivan’s stomach is growling…”

“It’s ready.”

Leonard was reminded by this, focused his gaze on the roast meat, and then realized he had been so engrossed in thought that he had completely forgotten about it.

“Wow, then I’m starting to eat~”

The moment the words left her mouth, she excitedly jumped onto the grill.

She didn’t mind getting covered in the scorching grease and started to eat ravenously.

Leonard watched the little loli, his eyes full of a warm, spring-like smile.

This time, too, he owed a lot to Ivan; otherwise, he might not have survived the earlier ordeal.

Looking at Ivan, Leonard flipped his hand, and a sparkling Crystal Core appeared in his palm.

This “Pure Space Crystal” was formed from the girl’s tears, perfect for absorbing and aiding in Law Comprehension, or for crafting Cards and Scrolls.

Too bad that when he asked earlier, Ivan herself didn’t know what was going on.

Her intelligence couldn’t explain the magical abilities she possessed, which seemed more like a natural talent she was born with, like breathing.

Moreover, the seal on her eyes seemed truly to be controlled by emotions, unlocking only in certain specific situations.

So, Leonard let it be.

But through this battle, having understood Ivan’s abilities, he felt more confident facing dangers next time.

This “stare-and-you-die ability” would leave anyone who encountered it bewildered.

Oh, I almost forgot, he had also acquired a supreme treasure from the battle.

The Silver Moon Sect’s creature [Moon] was still inside the girl’s belly.

Previously, stealing the item was only to force the White Family and the Silver Moon Sect to join the battle; he hadn’t expected to be able to take it with him.

But somehow it had come into his hands.

As it happens, the Moon was also a relic exclusive for enhancing Mental Power, and since it was in his possession, he had no intention of returning it.

However, he didn’t dare to take out such an item now; he would wait until he went to the Old Continent to consider what to do with it.

…

His thoughts flashed in his mind, and as he watched Ivan happily eating meat, Leonard smiled and returned his attention to the diary.

But suddenly, seeing something, his brows furrowed.

It wasn’t about the content of the notes, but his own fingers.

At that moment, the fingers he used to flip the pages were not holding the corners with his thumb and index finger as usual, but with his thumb and middle finger in an orchid-like pinch.

Looking at this posture, a sense of femininity washed over him.

“…”

Leonard stared at his hand for several seconds, his gaze growing more and more grave.

This unconscious act made him feel a sense of crisis, and he muttered in his heart, “Has the glove started contaminating the soul already…”

Leonard knew that this was a side effect of the overuse of [Black Demon].

Although this contamination seemed minor, the hidden dangers were significant.

He had learned on the Underworld Train that [Black Demon] was in fact part of the relic [The Resentment of the Lanling Sierte Witch’s Dress] left by Emperor Lanlingster.

If he wasn’t mistaken, it was the gloves of the Great Emperor’s cross-dressing attire.

Now it seemed the effect of the contamination was… feminization?

Leonard couldn’t help but recall a saying from his past life, “To practice this technique, one must castrate oneself.”

Although the Black Demon gloves were powerful, it seemed that using that power required the acceptance of some new elements.

Leonard narrowed his eyes slightly, disliking the feeling of being controlled by a relic.

Without hesitating, he pulled out a small knife and stabbed it into the back of his hand, blood flowing freely.

The pain ensured he would clearly remember this looming threat.

Leonard didn’t look much at his wound and continued with the diary, silently thinking, “Looks like I need to use it less until I’ve completely tamed this relic…”

…

Half a month went by in a flash.

Leonard was hiding out in a deserted area.

Though the East Wilderness had many dangerous places, his current strength meant he could go almost anywhere.

His food supply had run out, and everyday he hunted, fed Ivan, and then found a place to read and digest those Spoils of War.

Life was quite leisurely.

But what he didn’t know was that after the ordeal at City of Thieves, the East Wilderness had been thrown into complete chaos.

The five-person squad of the Southern Continent Holy Tribunal, three died in battle within the City of Thieves. Their deaths caused an uproar akin to a hornet’s nest being disturbed, with soldiers from the Eastern Wilderness of the Southern Continent launching frenzied attacks on the major cities.

The conflict suddenly escalated immensely.

While the common folk were clueless about what was happening, the upper echelons in the Eastern Wilderness, as well as those of the Southern Continent, knew that the crux of the storm lay with the other two who had escaped.

Every major city in the Eastern Wilderness was plastered with high-priced Bounty Orders.

Although nobody knew what the higher-ups were searching for, the substantial bounties led to various secret powers emerging, with bounty hunters frantically searching everywhere for those two individuals.

Not just in the major cities of the Eastern Wilderness, but even in the heavily guarded Sinless City of the Southern Continent and the Gold-digging Dock of the Old Continent, several fierce battles took place.

It appeared that a top-level card master of unknown origin tried to infiltrate the Eastern Wilderness and then clashed with people from the Southern Continent.

It was all a covert struggle between intelligence operatives.

Meanwhile, Mr. Leonard Churchill, the person at the center of the affair, was completely unaffected.

Even the storm that swept through the entire Eastern Wilderness didn’t affect him in the slightest.

Half a month had gone by without anyone knocking on his door, which let him know that the measures he had arranged were effective.

Finding them in this wilderness was like searching for a needle in the ocean.

If they had not been found in half a month, it was even more unlikely moving forward.

Of course, there was another possibility, which involved some mysterious method that could not be countered with sheer strength.

Mr. Churchill never worried about things beyond his ability.

He had done everything that could be done.

Now he was fully focused on researching spatial secret skills.

Having seen Ivan’s abilities, Leonard realized the people of the Southern Continent would definitely not let things rest.

Now was not the time to show himself.

He was waiting for the Rebel Dragon Army to come to him.

After causing such a large commotion, they surely knew about it.

On this day, in a certain mountain ravine.

Elephant-sized eagles that had soared in the ravine just an hour before were now the sizzling meat roasting on a campfire.

Little Ivan crouched beside the fire, drooling and gazing longingly at his rations.

His expression was as if, were he to look away for a moment, the cooked meat might just fly away.

Leonard continued his daily routine of meditation.

At that moment, he put down the “Meditation Journal” that he had read many times over.

With a flick of his finger into the void, a pitch-black space rift appeared.

But it didn’t last long before the rift vanished.

Leonard’s eyebrows raised as he muttered, “Still not quite there yet…”

His tone suggested he was somewhat dissatisfied with his progress.

However, if others knew that he was able to tear through space in just half a month, their jaws would undoubtedly drop.

But Mr. Churchill’s expression remained undisturbed, as this was the result he had anticipated.

With the JOKER’s gift of extraordinarily high enlightenment and the Rune Stone, not comprehending it would have been the real surprise.

However, since the “Meditation Journal” didn’t contain a complete spell, and he only had his own explorations to rely on, it was still difficult to achieve the degree of spatial translocation that he wanted.

The only piece of good news was that, which he had long been yearning to master, the exclusive Demon God Secret Skill of the artist sequence called “Fantasy Universe,” he had now made a breakthrough.

However, this secret skill dealt more with macro-concepts, like world structure… too vast to assimilate in a short span of time.

“Thank goodness for the Rune Stone; without it, ten or eight years might not have been enough to even get started…”

Leonard also felt he still had too much to learn.

As he muttered to himself, suddenly his eyes sharpened as he looked at the mist not far away, as though sensing something.

There was a visitor!

In this wilderness, untouched for eons, it was no coincidence someone would arrive.

Before Mr. Churchill could react, a hearty voice called out, “Eh, Brother Leonard, you actually noticed me?”

The person cloaked in the mist seemed equally surprised by being detected.

Upon hearing the voice, the guarded look on Leonard’s face dissolved into nothingness, and he stood up to greet, “How did you find me?”

At that moment, out of the mist stepped a handsome blond man, none other than the long-unseen Aragon.

Aragon explained with a smile, “The leader left spatial coordinates on Ivan.”

“Oh?”

Leonard responded indifferently, not surprised at all but having guessed this explanation beforehand.

He had been waiting for the people of the Rebel Dragon Army, and now that they had arrived, he could truly be at ease.

Compared to Leonard’s slight surprise, Aragon looked at the two beside the campfire, safe and sound, and his expression became thoughtful, “But you… Brother Leonard, you’ve really taken me by surprise.”

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