Legend of Wyatt
Chapter 1071: Not Convinced

Chapter 1071: Chapter 1071: Not Convinced

As soon as Kylen Gagnon finished speaking, Wyatt Barnes hadn’t even had time to refuse when a group of Gagnon Family elders had already begun speaking, preventing Wyatt from having a chance to refuse.

At the same time, the Gagnon Family head, "Randy Gagnon," and the other two Protector elders also looked at him expectantly.

How could he refuse?

Of course, if he really had set his heart on refusing, he could still refuse.

But when he thought about the future benefits he would be obtaining from the Gagnon Family, he dismissed the idea of refusal.

"Then I’ll join in on the fun."

Following that, Wyatt nodded and agreed.

For him, acting as the "chief judge" in the alchemy competition held by the Gagnon Family wasn’t stressful, and it also allowed him to closely observe a group of alchemists’ "techniques."

Although he had never seriously studied the art of alchemy, the memories left by the reincarnated Martial Emperor in terms of alchemy were enough for him to dominate across the Cloud Skies Continent.

It must be known that the reincarnated Martial Emperor was an "Emperor Grade alchemist"—far superior to a Grade One alchemist!

As a person who had merged with the memories of an Emperor Grade alchemist, Wyatt found it effortless to critique the alchemy skills of fifth and sixth-grade alchemists.

Wyatt initially wanted to refuse simply because he feared the trouble.

However, now, even if he feared the trouble, he had to get involved.

As the saying goes, "Eat from others, and you owe them; take from others, and you are obliged." Although he hadn’t yet taken any benefits from the Gagnon Family, he would inevitably need to in the future.

Because that was his primary "purpose" for joining the Gagnon Family!

"Stop!"

Suddenly, a severe shout entered Wyatt Barnes’s ears, causing him to involuntarily look towards the person who had shouted.

"Jadiel Gagnon?"

Quickly, Wyatt saw that the person who had shouted was none other than the Gagnon Family’s Second Young Master, "Jadiel Gagnon," who was shouting at three middle-aged men sneakily trying to leave.

When Wyatt followed Jadiel’s gaze and saw these three men, he recognized them at a glance.

These were not strangers but precisely the three middle-aged men who had blasphemed against Winnie Romero lying in the ice coffin outside the Gagnon Family and had been injured by him earlier.

Later, these three sought revenge, and one of them, a man in green, joined forces with Gagnon Family elder "Dion Gagnon" during this alchemy competition to expel him.

Unfortunately for them, they had not succeeded.

Even Dion Gagnon had ended up killed by his hand.

Since then, Wyatt had not paid any attention to these three, mainly because he was busy dealing with the Gagnon Family’s Third Young Master, "Damari Gagnon," and thus had no time to deal with them.

Now that everything was resolved, he had successfully become an "Honorary Minister" of the Gagnon Family.

The three middle-aged men, seeing him rise in power, clearly wanted to leave.

But are there really such good things in the world?

Wyatt’s gaze toward the three middle-aged men turned cold, and his expression slightly darkened.

As Jadiel Gagnon shouted angrily, including Wyatt, all present turned their gaze towards the three men, causing them to freeze as if turned into statues.

"Lord Wyatt Barnes, spare our lives!"

Quickly, one of them turned around and, with a "thump," knelt on the ground, kowtowing and pleading for mercy from Wyatt.

"Lord Wyatt Barnes, spare our lives! This has nothing to do with me."

Another one also knelt and began kowtowing.

Now, only the middle-aged man in green turned around, remaining standing there, glaring hatefully at Wyatt—the killer of his uncle.

"Hmph! Elder Wyatt is not someone you can belittle with your mere eyes."

Instantly, an angry shout erupted.

Following that, Wyatt felt a gust of wind by his side, evidently someone had brushed swiftly past him at high speed, catching him off-guard.

Boom!

By the time he reacted, he immediately heard a loud noise.

Subsequently, he saw where the green-clothed middle-aged man had just stood, now occupied by a figure resembling a bamboo pole, none other than one of the Three Great Protectors of the Gagnon Family, "Elio Gagnon."

In the air not far in front of Elio Gagnon, a mist of blood spread, and the green-clothed middle-aged man was nowhere to be seen.

Wyatt knew.

That green-clothed middle-aged man was now dead, annihilated by the force of Elio Gagnon, his body exploding into the mist of blood that filled the air.

Elio Gagnon, a Protector elder of the Gagnon Family, a Martial Emperor powerhouse.

His strike had effortlessly killed the green-clothed middle-aged man. So effortlessly, in fact, that the forces of heaven and earth hadn’t even started to manifest before the man had already perished, completely vanishing from this world.

"Lord Wyatt Barnes, spare our lives! Lord Wyatt Barnes, spare our lives!"

"Elder Elio, spare our lives! Elder Elio, spare our lives!"

The remaining two middle-aged men, seeing their accomplice eradicated so quickly, changed their expressions drastically and kowtowed in terror, their heads soon bloodied.

"Elder Wyatt, how should they be dealt with?"

Elio Gagnon turned around, looked at Wyatt, and forced a smile on his face.

However, with his gaunt cheeks and skin stretched over bones, his smile appeared uglier than if he were crying.

"Whatever."

Wyatt shrugged nonchalantly.

At the same time, he withdrew his gaze, no longer bothering to look at the two middle-aged men again, effectively treating them as if they were mere air.

After a moment of surprise, Elio Gagnon turned to look at the Gagnon Family head, "Randy Gagnon."

"Those who offend Elder Wyatt don’t deserve to live in this world."

Randy Gagnon spoke calmly, his tone devoid of any emotion.

"No..."

As Randy Gagnon finished speaking, the two middle-aged men kneeling on the ground trembled violently, suddenly raising their heads with a drastic change of expression.

Boom!

Almost at the moment they looked up, a loud noise spread and thundered in their ears.

In front of everyone, they followed in the footsteps of the middle-aged man in green clothes, turning into a sky of blood mist and completely disappearing from this world.

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

...

For a moment, the group of alchemists who had come to participate in the "Alchemist Competition" couldn’t help but gasp.

Their gaze towards Wyatt Barnes was filled with awe.

"This Elder Barnes, after joining the Gagnon Family, seems to have a status even above the head of the Gagnon family!"

Someone couldn’t help but exclaim.

"That’s quite normal... after all, he is a ’Grade One Alchemist’!"

"Some people must be regretting terribly now, right?"

...

Many whispered privately, and some people’s eyes unconsciously fell on a middle-aged man not far away.

The middle-aged man stood there with a grim expression.

"I remember this man... he was previously on good terms with Wyatt Barnes, almost becoming friends. However, when Wyatt was targeted by the Elder Dion Gagnon from the Gagnon Family, he avoided Wyatt like the plague."

"I remember him too... back then, he even denied knowing Wyatt!"

"Just in a blink of an eye, once Wyatt revealed his identity as a ’Grade One Alchemist’, his fortunes soared! Had he not acted that way, he might have ascended to heaven along with Wyatt."

"That’s destiny! Some people are not lacking in opportunities, but because they fail to seize them, they can only sigh in vain in the end."

...

More and more people discussed animatedly, their gaze towards the middle-aged man tinged with a touch of pity, and even more so, some had a gleeful expression.

The middle-aged man was none other than Finley Yellow!

Standing there, surrounded by the snippets of conversation, each word pierced his ears like sharp needles, causing his body to tremble involuntarily.

These discussions no doubt reopened his wounds!

His heart was already filled with regret, and hearing these satirical comments was like adding fuel to the fire, deepening his regret.

"Why did I have to act like that?"

"If I hadn’t done that, I might not have needed to participate in the ’Alchemist Competition’ and could have joined the Gagnon Family as a member!"

...

Along with regret, his heart was also filled with self-blame.

Whoosh!

Finally, unable to bear it any longer, he rose into the air and disappeared from everyone’s sight in the blink of an eye.

Clearly, he no longer wished to continue participating in the ’Alchemist Competition’.

Finley Yellow’s departure was noticed by Wyatt Barnes, but he showed no emotion.

Previously, Finley Yellow had abandoned him to save himself, which he could understand.

But afterward, Finley Yellow claimed he did not recognize him.

From the moment Finley Yellow made that statement, Wyatt had already considered him a stranger, so even if Finley Yellow left, it did not stir any emotion in Wyatt.

"The Alchemist Competition begins!"

Following Zen Gagnon’s light shout, the people around snapped back to reality and stopped discussing Finley Yellow who had just left.

"It’s starting!"

"In the Gagnon Family’s historical ’Alchemist Competitions’, there seems to never have been a ’Grade One Alchemist’ as a judge!"

"Today, even if I get eliminated, it’s still worth the trip."

"Being eliminated by a Grade One Alchemist, even if spoken about, is enough to make people envious."

...

A group of alchemists talked animatedly, their words filled with excitement.

Hearing these discussions, Wyatt Barnes was somewhat speechless.

As for the high-ranking members of the Gagnon Family, they could understand this, as even they would have felt the same if they were in the place of these alchemists participating in the ’Alchemist Competition’.

Soon, the Alchemist Competition began.

The Alchemist Competition was divided into preliminary rounds, semi-finals, and finals.

The preliminaries eliminated half the people.

The semi-finals eliminated the remaining thirty people, who were then eligible to join the Gagnon Family.

The finals determined the specific rankings of the thirty, who received the rewards of the Gagnon Family.

In the Alchemist Competition, whether the preliminaries, semi-finals, or finals, everyone concocted the same Pill Medicine, with Wyatt Barnes personally inspecting the final products as the chief judge.

In the inspection aspect, in the Gagnon Family’s previously held ’Alchemist Competitions’, they only checked ’purity’.

But Wyatt Barnes did more than that.

Beside testing the ’purity’ of the Pill Medicine produced by the group, he also discerned the sophistication of their techniques from the medicines, thereby determining who was more outstanding.

Initially, during the ’preliminary’ round, it was acceptable for Wyatt Barnes to do so.

However, by the time it reached the semi-finals, someone started to complain, "Elder Barnes, his pill’s purity is clearly not as good as mine, why can he advance while I must be eliminated?"

An alchemist pointed at another alchemist beside him, looking towards Wyatt Barnes, with a face full of dissatisfaction.