Chapter 65 Sacrifice

  The news spread like wind and soon reached all corners of Galos City.

  Everyone, including the Lord of Isaac City, was stunned. They were shocked by the Magic Guild's brutality and lawlessness. In their view, the current Magic Guild is simply a gang that doesn't follow any rules. The reason why the various forces in Galos have been able to maintain a superficial calm all along is because everything has always been done secretly.

  The struggle between the various forces has always existed, but no one dares to put it on the table.

  Often, the two forces are secretly fighting to the death, but when the leaders of both sides meet, they still talk about the wind, flowers, snow and moon as if nothing had happened. Just like that auction, among the various forces present, who didn't have some grudges against each other? But under the temptation of the 33 bottles of Ofa medicine, they still bid calmly in the guild hall, without seeing anyone killing each other on the spot until blood flowed into rivers.

  Everyone knows that Garlos is now the only one in the Magic Guild.

  But who would have thought that they would be so arrogant and overbearing, completely disregarding the rules of the game, and directly putting their underground struggle on stage. In just one afternoon, the Magic Guild swept away more than 20 businesses of the Merlin family, including several casinos jointly operated with the Blood Color Brotherhood, as well as two merchant ships docked in the canal.

  This afternoon alone, the Meilin family lost a countless amount of gold coins.

  For a time, many forces were indignant, especially the Bloodsucking Brotherhood, which had several casinos smashed. Aaron Matisse almost got heart disease: "Damn it, Grian, you're looking for death, if you continue like this, everyone will die together!"

  But who dares to go to the Emerald Tower to reason with Grian in the face of his anger?

  More than a dozen leaders of the forces are not fools, as soon as the Devil's Valley incident broke out, the Magic Association immediately launched a counterattack against the Merlin family. There is an obvious connection between them, and everyone knows that Grian is taking revenge. At such a sensitive time, who would dare to be so tactless as to send themselves to their deaths?

  The chaos continued until dusk before gradually subsiding.

  At this time, the Merlin family was in a mess. When the news came in the afternoon, Old Merlin was so angry that he fainted on the spot. After waking up, his face was still pale, and he asked the servant to find his brother Evan.

  "Look at the good deed you've done!" Old Meilin, who had woken up, seemed to have aged several decades all of a sudden. That Mathews, who used to be full of energy, now looked so old and weak.

  "Big brother... listen to me explain..."

  "What's the explanation?" Old Merlin's face turned iron-gray, his somewhat turbid eyes staring fixedly at Evan: "How many times have I told you? When doing things, they must be done cleanly, absolutely no loose ends can be left behind. Look at what you've done! Three traitors from the Magic Guilds, two of whom were poached by other forces, and another one is even more serious - he was actually found out by the Magic Guild itself! I completely cannot understand, what do you want to do? Why didn't you silence them? Do you think that the Merlin family can still be as unbridled as before?"

  Evan opened his mouth, still wanting to defend himself: "I just wanted to try and see if I could persuade them to work for the family, after all they are all mages... it's a pity to kill them like this, I'm also thinking of the family..."

  "Thinking of the family? Haha...” Old Mei Lin's breathing was urgent, and there were already some bloodshot eyes: "Are you happy now? In just this one afternoon, the Mei Lin family has been greatly injured. Do you know how much money we lost in this one afternoon? Including the two ships on the canal, a total of 37 million gold coins! Evan... This is 37 million gold coins! Does our family's annual income have that much? Moreover, what was loaded on those two merchant ships was something that helped Duke Lord smuggle. Farrio had just managed to help us get connected with this line, but after this incident, do you think Duke Lord will still trust us?"

  Hearing this enormous number, Evan was completely stunned.

  "Never mind..." Old Mei Lin let out a heavy sigh, with a hint of disappointment: "Let's not talk about this for now. If I must say it, I also have some responsibility in this matter. Knowing you've always been indecisive since childhood, and yet I still had to let you handle this... How has Cromwell been lately?"

  "Cromwell is making rapid progress and has already broken through level 12 yesterday."

  "Not bad......" Upon hearing the news, Old Mei Lin's face finally showed a hint of relief, but immediately afterwards, his expression turned gloomy again: "Recently, this child has become more sensible, it's just that as a member of the Mei Lin family, sometimes one can't help but make some sacrifices..."

  "Big brother......" Evan hesitated for a moment, his expression showing some hesitation: "Cromwell is the only heir of the Merlin family... even if he wins this duel and kills the alchemist of the Magic Guild, but from now on, he will be completely ruined, a magic conductor who can never improve again. Is it too cruel to Cromwell?"

  "This is a necessary sacrifice..." Old Mei Lin's expression was somewhat melancholy, but the gaze in his eyes was exceptionally firm: "Everything that the Magic Guild has today actually came from that magician named Ferre. Do you still remember my battle with Grian? At that time, if he hadn't taken out a bottle of awakening potion, Grian would have already died. I knew then that as long as this young man was around, the Magic Guild would eventually unify Galos City. The subsequent auction of Ofa potions confirmed my conjecture. The two major families simultaneously tried to curry favor with the Magic Guild... Do you think they were trying to fawn over Grian? Wrong... They wanted to fawn over that young master of potions!"

  "But I heard that Ferre is just a low-level magician, and Cromwell doesn't necessarily have to..."

  "Low-level magician?" Old Merlin smiled wryly: "Didn't Cromwell tell you that the opponent used only one spell to blast him out of the Emerald Tower? This is a true magical genius, possessing super strong spiritual power and magic, even I need to use great mage level power to defeat him. Such a magical genius, letting him grow up would be too terrifying... this time's duel, he must die!"

  Lao Meilin finished speaking and closed her eyes wearily, no longer looking at Evan's shocked expression.