Legend of Wyatt
Chapter 82 ’Ghostly Shadow

Chapter 82: Chapter 82 ’Ghostly Shadow

In the spacious courtyard.

An elder standing to one side, his face gloomy.

"Grandfather, what’s wrong?"

A youth dressed entirely in white emerges from a room.

"That Wyatt Barnes seems to have some connection with the President of the Alchemist Guild, ’Inky Simmons’..."

The elder’s brows furrowed, slowly expressing his thoughts.

"How is that possible, him, a member of a branch family, an outsider at that, how could he possibly have connections with the Alchemist Guild."

Rayan Lee kept shaking his head, unwilling to believe it.

"These past few days, Inky Simmons goes to see Wyatt Barnes every day at noon, for reasons unknown."

Johnathan Lee spoke with slight trepidation.

Although he was the Grand Elder of the Lee Family, he was nothing in front of Inky Simmons.

Not to mention that Inky Simmons was stronger than him.

Just by virtue of Inky Simmons being an eighth-rank alchemist status, if Inky Simmons wants to deal with him, he doesn’t even need to do it himself. He just needs to say a word, and a bunch of people will rush up to kill him, all to curry favor with Inky Simmons.

Such was the influence of an eighth-rank alchemist.

"Grandfather, am I supposed to just accept the fact that my finger’s been cut off? I can’t accept it!"

Rayan Lee’s face darkened, his breathing becoming ragged.

"Rayan, don’t worry. I will definitely help you take your revenge... Now that Inky Simmons and Wyatt Barnes appear to have some connection, I will step aside and let others deal with him."

A scornful smile appeared on Johnathan Lee’s face.

"Grandfather, what do you mean?"

Rayan Lee looked puzzled.

"Money can move ghosts."

Johnathan Lee’s brows lifted.

"Grandfather, you mean, hire ’Ghostly Shadow’?"

Rayan Lee’s eyes lit up.

Ghostly Shadow, a top-notch assassin organization in the Crimson Heaven Kingdom, rose to power twenty years ago, sweeping across the Crimson Heaven Kingdom like a storm.

As long as Ghostly Shadow accepted a task, the success rate was one hundred percent.

Of course, this was closely related to Ghostly Shadow’s rules.

To post a task with Ghostly Shadow, you had to pay a deposit and state the target.

Three days later, you had to confirm the task.

See if Ghostly Shadow was willing to accept it.

If they refused, the deposit was returned.

If they accepted, they collected the remaining task fee.

Ghostly Shadow only accepted tasks they were confident in.

In Rayan Lee’s view, the assassins from the Ghostly Shadow organization were so powerful, wouldn’t it be easy to kill Wyatt Barnes?

Deep in the night.

A lofty figure flew out from the Lee Family Mansion.

Soon, he arrived at an old building in a remote area of Aurora City and stepped in.

The lobby was vast, the light slightly dim.

Behind the counter, a young man with a somewhat pale face, noticing the motion, raised his head to look at the newcomer, his gaze icy cold.

"I’m posting a job. Lee Family, Wyatt Barnes! This is the deposit."

The man was very straightforward, pulling out a stack of bank checks and slapping them on the counter, then turned and left.

"Lee Family, Wyatt Barnes."

The young man dutifully recorded the information.

Dawn.

As the first light of day bathed the earth, Wyatt Barnes emerged from his room and stretched lazily.

It’s another new day!

"Huh?"

Wyatt glanced over to find two young girls in his yard chatting cheerfully.

"Jovie, you came over so early, did you miss me?"

Wyatt narrowed his eyes, greedily taking in the girl’s sexy devilish figure...

"I didn’t come for you, I was looking for Sister Keer."

Jovie Lee shot Wyatt a glare, snapped irritably.

Wyatt didn’t seem to mind, he continued breakfast while sneakily eavesdropping on the two girls’ conversation.

They were talking about the fun things they did when they were children.

After breakfast, Wyatt went out alone, leaving the Lee Family Mansion.

Inky Simmons had brought him good news yesterday. The two remaining rare materials needed to inscribe the ’Residual Blood Inscription’ would arrive in Aurora City within a couple of days.

So, he started preparing the other materials.

To inscribe the ’Residual Blood Inscription’, eleven types of materials were required in total.

The other six were quite common.

He went to the large trading market in Aurora City and walked into the pharmacy that sold the six treasures for refining the body.

Three of the six materials were relatively common herbs.

"Manager!"

As soon as he entered, Wyatt greeted the manager.

Sensing Wyatt’s confusion, the manager quickly ushered him into a small room in the pharmacy.

"Manager, what is this about?"

Wyatt was puzzled.

"Someone wants you dead."

The manager’s gaze hardened, he spoke bluntly.

"What?"

Wyatt’s pupils contracted.

At that moment, Wyatt felt somewhat illusioned that the manager’s demeanor had changed.

If the previous manager was considered just a shrewd businessman,

Now, the manager was exuding an air of mystery.

It seemed his previous guess about the pharmacy manager was correct, this manager was not that simple.

"The Grand Elder of the Lee Family ’Johnathan Lee’ posted a task with ’Ghostly Shadow’ last night, and you are the target."

The manager stated frankly.

Ghostly Shadow?

Wyatt’s gaze hardened.

He had heard of this famous assassin organization in the Crimson Heaven Kingdom.

"Are you part of Ghostly Shadow?"

Wyatt suddenly laughed.

"That’s right...During the day, I am the manager of this pharmacy, but at night, I am the person in charge of Ghostly Shadow in Aurora City."

The manager slowly nodded.

"Manager, doing this seems somewhat against the rules of Ghostly Shadow, or does it?"

Wyatt’s gaze shifted.

"Rules are dead, people are alive. I would rather not see my business partner being killed by someone else, cutting off my source of wealth for no reason."

The manager spoke bluntly.

In his opinion, the money that Johnathan Lee used to hire killers was not even enough to match the small profit brought by Wyatt Barnes’s Six Treasures Body Refining Liquid.

He naturally knew how to make a choice based on the weight of the matter.

"So what you mean now is that you refuse his task?"

Wyatt Barnes asked.

"Of course."

The manager nodded.

"If I now assign you a task, targeting this Johnathan Lee, would your Ghostly Shadow accept it?"

Wyatt Barnes asked again.

"Of course, Ghostly Shadow recognizes money, not people... However, the Grand Elder of the Lee Family would come with a hefty price."

The manager responded.

"How much?"

"One million taels!"

"So expensive?!"

"Of course, after all, Johnathan Lee is the Grand Elder of the Lee Family, an eighth-level practitioner of the Original Pill Realm... If you really want to assign this task, seeing as we are partners, I can give you an 80% discount."

"80% off? That’s still 800,000 taels, you Ghostly Shadows are too greedy."

"You can owe us, we won’t charge you interest, and you can deduct it from the profit of the Six Treasures Body Refining Liquid."

"Forget it, I can’t afford 800,000 taels... I’ll handle this myself."

"You?"

"What? Do you doubt me?"

"Somewhat."

"Well, you Ghostly Shadows don’t have to kill him, just help me with one small thing..."

With the manager’s agreement and after purchasing the necessary herbs, Wyatt Barnes satisfiedly left the drugstore.

Eight hundred thousand taels...

To kill one Johnathan Lee.

This was not worth it for Wyatt Barnes.

However, Johnathan Lee had indeed submitted a task to the ’Ghostly Shadows’ to assassinate him.

A cold light flashed in Wyatt Barnes’s eyes.

After purchasing the remaining materials, Wyatt Barnes returned home.

Inky Simmons did not visit at noon.

Wyatt Barnes had taught him all that he could teach.

The rest relied on his self-perception.

Three days later.

Deep in the night, at the Ghostly Shadow’s base in Aurora City.

"How is the task I posted three days ago confirmed? Killing a Condensed Pill Realm, first level martial artist. One hundred thousand taels should be enough, right?"

Johnathan Lee looked at the young man behind the counter and asked.

"One hundred thousand taels? Are you joking?"

A pale young man, a flash of cold light in his eyes, sent a chill down the spine.

"What’s the matter?"

A thump stunned Johnathan Lee, leading to a bad premonition.

"According to the information collected by Ghostly Shadows, Wyatt Barnes is the top-ranked teenager genius in this ’Hidden Dragon List’ of Aurora City... Just for that, we should at least charge you three hundred thousand taels."

The young man slowly said.

"Three hundred thousand taels? Okay."

Johnathan Lee gritted his teeth. Even though he felt a little stingy, he agreed.

"Guest, I am not done talking yet."

The young man knitted his brows.

"What else do you want to say?"

Johnathan Lee was puzzled.

"We have also found that Wyatt Barnes has a close relationship with Inky Simmons, the president of the Alchemist Guild. Since Inky is with the Alchemist Guild, killing someone closely related to him poses a huge risk for us. Therefore, taking all these factors into account, we, the Ghostly Shadows, have set our price for the task on Wyatt Barnes at one million taels."

The young man continued.

"One million taels?"

Johnathan Lee was stunned.

Even though he had guessed the task wouldn’t be accomplished when Inky Simmons was mentioned, he did not expect the Ghostly Shadows to set Wyatt Barnes’s price at one million taels.

He didn’t even carry that many bank checks with him.

Even if he did, he wouldn’t be willing to spend them.

Wyatt Barnes was merely a small fry at the first level of the Condensed Pill Realm, and even though his strength was a bit peculiar, it was only on par with the third level of the same realm.

To him, killing a small fry like this was as simple as mowing the lawn.

"Guest, may I ask if you still want to publish this task?"

The young man looked at Johnathan Lee and asked.

"No, please return my deposit."

Johnathan Lee quickly shook his head.

What a joke!

One million taels...

With this much money, he could even post a task to kill a martial artist of the Original Pill Realm at Ghostly Shadow.

After Johnathan Lee left.

A middle-aged man slowly emerged from the room.

"Manager."

The young man hastily bowed to the man who arrived.

If Wyatt Barnes had been there, he would have recognized at the first glance that the middle-aged man was indeed the manager of the drugstore.

"I am curious about how he will kill Johnathan Lee..."

The middle-aged man’s heart stirred, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

Lee Mansion.

"Grandpa, how did it go?"

Upon seeing Johnathan Lee return, Rayan Lee immediately asked.

He knew why Johnathan Lee had left, so he had been waiting for the results at home.

"I cancelled the task."

Johnathan Lee shook his head.

"Huh?"

Rayan Lee was stunned. "Grandpa, why?"

"Hmph! Ghostly Shadow actually quoted a price of one million taels."

Johnathan Lee’s face darkened.

"What?! One million taels for a Condensed Pill Realm kid? Are they robbing us?"

Rayan Lee had a look of disbelief on his face.

"They found out about the connection between Wyatt Barnes and Inky Simmons, so they were wary and quoted such a high price... Rayan, don’t worry. Even if the Ghostly Shadow doesn’t take the task, Grandpa will not let that Wyatt Barnes live."

Johnathan Lee made a promise to Rayan Lee.

"Thank you, Grandpa."

Rayan Lee said excitedly.

As long as Wyatt Barnes was alive, he would not be able to eat or sleep peacefully.

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