Legend of Wyatt
Chapter 1093: Courting Self-Destruction

Chapter 1093: Chapter 1093: Courting Self-Destruction

Kartier Gagnon’s sidekick, an old man, moved so swiftly that Wyatt Barnes had no chance to react.

In the blink of an eye, the world before Wyatt turned into a sea of fiery red. He felt like he was immersed in an ocean of fire, the scorching breath rolling over the ground causing sweat to gather on his forehead and face.

Boom!

With a thunderous noise, Wyatt saw the fiery red sea in front of him tremble violently and then, like an arrow released from its bow, retreat rapidly away from him, shrinking before his eyes.

Ultimately, the red sea transformed into a person, an old man, an elder entirely shrouded in flames.

Yet, now the fire encasing the elder seemed to wane, progressively losing its power.

"Waah!!"

At that moment, the old man whose complexion had turned inexplicably pale started convulsing, and then violently spewed a mouthful of clotted blood.

Blood splattered everywhere, forming a distressingly bright red rose.

"You... you..."

The elder stood at a distance, his gaze landing on the red-dressed woman by Wyatt Barnes’ side, to be precise.

Since the beginning up until that moment, the red-dressed woman had stood quietly beside Wyatt, almost unnoticeable.

Neither the elder nor Kartier Gagnon had ever taken her seriously.

She appeared too young, so young that they did not perceive her as a threat.

However, now, their gazes inevitably fell upon the woman in red.

They suddenly looked up, as if realizing something.

Above the head of the red-dressed woman, the forces of heaven and earth that had started to stir since a moment ago finally coalesced into an ominous sign, as shadows of ancient Horned Dragons swiftly formed together.

One thousand.

Two thousand.

Three thousand.

...

Still increasing.

Finally, the number of ancient Horned Dragon shadows settled at eight thousand.

Eight thousand ancient Horned Dragons’ power!

"The Fire’s Mystique... Sword’s Mystique..."

Staring at the sword-shaped flames rising from the woman in red, the elder exclamated in horror, a trace of fear evident in his eyes.

"A Demon Emperor?"

After a brief pause, the elder took a deep breath, his eyes filled with wariness as he stared at the red-dressed woman and tentatively asked.

In the elder’s eyes,

the stunning, red-dressed woman seemed to be only a bit over twenty.

To comprehend two kinds of ’Emperor Realm Mystiques’ at such an age,

this woman in red was clearly a ’Emperor Realm powerhouse’ like him!

It was impossible for human warriors to become ’Emperor Realm powerhouses’ at such an age, so the woman in red could only be a ’Demon Emperor powerhouse’!

The Demon Emperor, the ’Emperor’ among demons, is on par with the ’Martial Emperor’ among human warriors.

"Do you want to kill him?"

Confronting the elder’s inquiry, the woman in red did not respond but instead asked in a frosty tone.

If one looked carefully, they could see an extra layer of frost forming on the already cold and stunning face of the red-dressed woman.

Standing there, the woman in red was enveloped in a burning aura of sword-shaped flames.

Yet, the elder upon whom her gaze now fell didn’t feel any warmth but was assaulted by waves of bone-chilling cold from all directions, sending an extreme chill down to his very marrow.

The elder also didn’t reply to the woman in red’s question, but his eyes betrayed increasing terror.

"Those who wish to kill him... must die."

The woman’s lovely lips moved slightly as she spoke succinctly. As the word ’die’ fell, her entire form had already vanished from Kartier Gagnon’s eyes.

"Elder Lester, be careful!"

Kartier Gagnon’s face twisted in panic, he hastily cried out in alarm.

However, by the time he realized what had happened and looked towards the elder, he saw the elder’s body twitch and collapse with a thunderous crash, quieted forever.

The elder’s eyes were wide open in death, unable to close them for the last time.

He couldn’t comprehend to his dying breath how a ’Demon Emperor powerhouse’ came to be by Wyatt Barnes.

Before the fallen elder’s corpse, the woman clad in red stood still, her red dress fluttering in the breeze like a flame ablaze.

"Elder Lester..."

Muttering in a daze, Kartier Gagnon’s gaze shifted from the elder’s corpse to the woman in red, his face instantly turning deathly pale, utterly devoid of color.

Had he known that beside Kylen Gagnon, Wyatt Barnes had such a powerhouse by his side, he would never have dared to set his sights on Wyatt.

Even if Wyatt had killed his own brother.

Thump!

Under Wyatt’s astonished gaze, Kartier Gagnon fell to his knees on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly toward the distant woman in red, "Please spare me, elder... Please spare me!"

"I won’t kill you."

The woman in red cast an indifferent look at Kartier Gagnon groveling on the ground, her voice as cold as before.

"Thank you, elder! Thank you, elder!"

Kartier Gagnon hurriedly expressed his gratitude, his head knocking on the ground with louder thuds, soon bleeding profusely.

Whoosh!

The woman in red moved, like a spirit darting through the flames, and in a flash returned to Wyatt’s side. In a soft voice, she said, "Killing him would dirty my hands."

"Leave it to me."

Wyatt Barnes replied with a smile.

The red-dressed woman was none other than the amnesiac ’Winnie Romero’.

Wyatt himself had only learned of this the day before.

Winnie Romero, who had lost her memories, was now fully capable of mastering the power within her body.

Now, she was a martial artist at the First Level of the Transforming Void Realm, having mastered two "Third Level Emperor Realm Mysteries".

Without relying on Origin Force, just with the Mysteries alone, she could unleash an attack comparable to the strength of ’eight thousand ancient Horned Dragons’.

It was for this reason that Wyatt Barnes appeared so confident and unperturbed.

Because he knew that as long as Winnie was there, he would be safe.

Later on, Winnie indeed did not let him down. In an instant, she killed the Martial Emperor powerhouse beside Kartier Gagnon, her movements as smooth and decisive as flowing clouds and streaming water.

"The one who wants to kill him... must die."

The words that Winnie had said to the Martial Emperor powerhouse beside Kartier Gagnon still seemed to echo in Wyatt’s ears.

Her tone was indifferent, yet tinged with a trace of anger.

At that moment, Wyatt’s heart was filled with warmth.

He knew that even though Winnie couldn’t remember the past, she had acknowledged him from the bottom of her heart; this was evident by the anger she showed on his behalf.

Whoosh!

Just then, a sharp whistling sound of rapid wind came closer, growing more distant.

It was Kartier Gagnon making a move to escape towards the outside of the canyon in the instant before Wyatt had the chance to act, intending to flee.

What a joke!

Wyatt Barnes had once taken down an Elder of the Gagnon Family at the Eighth Level of the Transforming Void Realm.

Would it not be a piece of cake for him to kill Kartier, a martial artist at the Fifth Level of the Transforming Void Realm?

"Escape? Do you think you can escape?"

However, just as Kartier Gagnon managed to flee dozens of meters away, he suddenly heard a voice dripping with sarcasm approaching from ahead.

As he looked up towards the direction of the voice, he discovered a familiar figure already waiting there.

A young man in purple robes appeared before his eyes.

"You... how could you be so fast?!"

Kartier Gagnon’s pupils shrank, and as he stopped in his tracks, he asked in a panic, "Are you... are you a ’Peak Void Realm powerhouse’?"

"It seems you’re not that stupid."

Wyatt gave Kartier Gagnon a slightly surprised look. His current strength was indeed comparable to that of a Peak Void Realm powerhouse.

Thud!

Realizing that he could not escape from Wyatt, Kartier Gagnon once again knelt to the ground, begging for mercy.

However, this time the object of his pleas had changed. He was now begging Wyatt, "Elder Barnes, spare my life! Elder Barnes, please spare me!"

"As long as you spare my worthless life, I promise I’ll never return to the Gagnon Family, won’t compete with Jadiel for the position of family head anymore... Elder Barnes, mercy! Please spare me!"

Kartier Gagnon kept kowtowing, desperately begging for his life.

At this moment, where was the appearance of the proud legitimate Young Master of the Gagnon Family in Northumberland? He looked more like a miserable wretch without any dignity.

"Someone as cowardly and afraid of death as you, worthy of being head of the Gagnon Family?"

Wyatt looked at Kartier Gagnon with disgust, not wanting to waste any more time with him. With a simple motion of his hand, a palm strike ended Kartier’s life.

Kartier Gagnon, if he had just given up his hatred towards Wyatt from the start, might have lived well as the great Young Master of the Gagnon Family.

But he chose to seek revenge on Wyatt, and in the end, he brought about his own destruction.

"Which way should we go now?"

At that moment, Wyatt heard a familiar voice.

"Elder Kylen?"

As he glanced at the nearby area, he saw Kylen Gagnon emerging from that ’Illusionary Formation’.

While he wasn’t surprised, he was quite astonished.

With his mental power and observation of this ’Illusionary Formation’, it would have taken an ordinary Martial Emperor at least half-an-hour to escape.

Yet, Kylen Gagnon had managed to emerge in just about fifteen minutes.

"Elder Kylen?"

After hearing Wyatt’s voice, Kylen Gagnon couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, "Finally out."

Fifteen minutes earlier, when he turned his head and discovered that Wyatt and Winnie Romero had disappeared, and then noticed that the sleazy middle-aged man who had been in front of him was also gone, he realized that he might already be trapped within an ’Illusionary Formation’.

Immediately, he began searching for a way to leave the ’Illusionary Formation’, and in the end, he left it in just a quarter of an hour.

Soon after, Kylen Gagnon’s pupils narrowed slightly.

His gaze now fell upon the elderly corpse on the ground, and the familiar face made him frown, "Isn’t this Stuart Lester?"

As one of the Gagnon Family’s Three Great Protectors, Kylen Gagnon was a veteran of the family and recognized most of the elders.

Among them was Stuart Lester.

Stuart Lester, an elder with a different surname in the Gagnon Family, a person who followed their Young Master.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, Kylen Gagnon slightly lifted his head, his gaze settling in the distance.

"Kartier Gagnon?!"

With just one glance, he recognized the owner of the body several dozen meters away, and his pupils shrank slightly.

"Elder Barnes, what is this...?"

Taking a deep breath, Kylen Gagnon looked towards Wyatt, his face full of confusion.

"Elder Kylen, don’t you find it strange that they are here?"

Facing Kylen Gagnon, who looked over with a puzzled face, Wyatt smiled faintly and asked.

"It is a bit strange."

Kylen Gagnon nodded.

"Actually, there wasn’t anything I wanted here."

Wyatt sighed and explained the whole sequence of events without omission.

"What?!"

Kylen Gagnon’s face drastically changed, "All of this was a trap set up by Kartier Gagnon? The purpose was to lure Elder Barnes into the trap and to kill you?"