Chapter 1847: Chapter 1847: Moon, Shadowless!
"The south? Augustine Landon?"
Hearing the words of the Elder from the Mysterious Void Mansion, House Master Ryatt Morgan frowned and then looked at Winty Landon, "Protector Landon, do you know why Augustine went to the south?"
"My son went to see a friend, and then he headed to the Upper Domain."
Winty Landon responded.
He didn’t mention that Augustine went to find Wyatt, only saying he was visiting a friend.
"Is Augustine alright?"
Ryatt Morgan asked.
"Thank you for your concern, House Master; Augustine is fine."
Winty Landon shook his head. If his son were in trouble, he wouldn’t be as calm as he was now.
"Protector Landon, can you tell everyone which friend your son went to visit?"
Edison Dunn looked at Winty Landon with a grim gaze, asking in a low voice.
"Protector Dunn, it’s none of your business which friend my son went to visit. Furthermore, my son left before your son Atlas Dunn; could it be that you think my son sought someone to kill Atlas Dunn?"
Winty Landon replied with a mocking smile.
"You..."
Edison Dunn’s expression changed, momentarily at a loss for words.
What could he say?
Could he say his son got into trouble because he went to track Augustine?
However, as Edison Dunn’s face shifted, he finally gritted his teeth as if making some decision.
Edison Dunn looked at Ryatt Morgan and said, "Sect Leader, a few days ago, the reason my son left the Mysterious Void Mansion was to track Protector Landon’s son, Augustine!"
Wow!
No one expected Edison Dunn to say such a thing, and the room was instantly abuzz.
Atlas Dunn, tracking Augustine?
What was he trying to do?
For a moment, most of the people present looked at Edison Dunn with strange expressions.
Indeed, upon hearing Edison Dunn’s words, Ryatt Morgan’s face turned somber, "Protector Dunn, are you implying that Atlas Dunn got into trouble because he was tracking Augustine?"
"Yes!"
Edison Dunn nodded firmly, glancing at Winty Landon.
"Ridiculous!"
Winty Landon sneered, "Edison Dunn, not to mention that my son’s strength is far inferior to your son Atlas Dunn, making it impossible for him to kill Atlas. But even if my son did kill Atlas, it would be his own doing! I really don’t know where you get the courage to admit your son Atlas was tracking my son."
"And don’t tell me Atlas tracked my son just to catch a glimpse of his back from afar... My son has normal interests and no such inclinations!"
The initial part of Winty Landon’s speech was normal, but the latter part made the gazes of everyone present even more unusual.
They didn’t expect this Protector Landon to have such a ’sharp’ tongue!
What does it mean that his son has normal interests and no such inclinations?
Was he implying that Atlas Dunn doesn’t have normal interests and has such inclinations?
At this thought, they couldn’t help but get goosebumps all over.
"Winty Landon!"
Facing the strange gazes of the crowd, Edison Dunn erupted in anger, nearly roaring, "The dead should be respected; humiliating my son like this, isn’t that excessive?"
"Excessive?"
Winty Landon sneered, "Edison Dunn, are you mistaken? It seems you were the first to throw mud on my son while whitewashing your sneaky and evasive son... I’m excessive, and you aren’t?"
"Enough!"
Finally, it was Ryatt Morgan who spoke in a low voice to quell this farce.
"Protector Dunn, why did Atlas Dunn want to track Augustine?"
Ryatt Morgan’s sharp gaze fell on Edison Dunn.
"House Master, you must have heard about my grandson, Tommy Dunn, being killed... Until now, the clues my son Atlas and I have gathered are all linked to Wyatt. We wanted to find him but couldn’t locate any trails of his, so we had no choice but to focus on Augustine."
By this point, Edison Dunn didn’t hide some things anymore.
After all, he didn’t intend to harm Augustine!
As for having thoughts of getting rid of Wyatt, he might have had them, but he didn’t show them, "We just wanted to find Wyatt through Augustine and ask Wyatt if he knew who the murderer of my son was... Is that wrong?"
By the end, Edison Dunn’s tone turned somewhat desolate.
Even Winty Landon didn’t say anything more at this point or add insult to injury.
Though he believed that the deaths of Edison Dunn’s son and grandson were their own doing, this wasn’t the right time or place to voice such thoughts.
"Protector Landon, did Augustine go to find Wyatt?"
Ryatt Morgan looked at Winty Landon.
"Yes."
Winty Landon nodded, seeing Ryatt Morgan about to ask something more, he said first, "However, I don’t know where he went to find Wyatt... I just heard him say he was going to find Wyatt to head to the Upper Domain together. Perhaps now, they’ve already left the Lower Domain and reached the Upper Domain."
Ryatt Morgan nodded, then said, "With Augustine and Wyatt’s strength, even if they join forces, they can’t possibly be a match for Vice Mansion Leader Dunn... Thus, there must be someone else behind the murder of Vice Mansion Leader Dunn!"
"Protector Dunn, regarding the murder of Vice Mansion Leader Dunn, it’s entirely your responsibility to investigate towards the south... Whatever you need, I, and indeed the entire Mysterious Void Mansion, will fully support you!"
Ryatt Morgan looked at Edison Dunn, promising him.
The meaning of Ryatt Morgan’s words was nothing more than encouraging Edison Dunn to investigate boldly, with the Mysterious Void Mansion serving as his ’backing.’
And Edison Dunn’s appearance here today was precisely for Ryatt Morgan’s words; otherwise, he would have already gone to investigate alone.
He understood in his heart.
Even with the strength of the entire Dunn Family, investigating his son Atlas Dunn’s cause of death wouldn’t be nearly as efficient as leveraging the full power of the Xuankong Mansion!
After receiving the promise of Ryatt Morgan, the House Master of Xuankong Mansion, Edison Dunn boldly set out to explore the south.
As days passed, he soon reached the vicinity of the Mansion of Azure Clouds’ residence.
"Protector Edison Dunn of Xuankong Mansion, requesting to see House Master Barnes of the Mansion of Azure Clouds."
Alone, appearing above Coiled Dragon Lake, Edison Dunn folded his hands in a respectful gesture towards the empty air, his words courteous and humble.
Upon closer inspection, one could notice a faint bead of sweat emerging on Edison Dunn’s forehead.
Obviously, facing such a formidable entity as the Mansion of Azure Clouds, even Protector Edison Dunn of Xuankong Mansion felt a considerable amount of apprehension.
In fact, Edison Dunn hadn’t initially planned to come to the Mansion of Azure Clouds.
But he found nothing after searching around the area, not a single clue.
Thinking that the Blackarmor Army of the Mansion of Azure Clouds often stationed inside Coiled Dragon Lake might have clues about his son Atlas Dunn,
he gathered his courage to enter Coiled Dragon Lake, insisting on meeting with the House Master of the Mansion of Azure Clouds.
He wanted the House Master of the Mansion of Azure Clouds to help inquire whether any soldier stationed at Coiled Dragon Lake had seen his son, Atlas Dunn.
"Protector Edison Dunn of Xuankong Mansion, on behalf of the House Master of Xuankong Mansion, seeks an audience with House Master Barnes!"
Recalling the promise of his own House Master, Edison straightened his back a bit and added.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
...
Soon, ten Blackarmor soldiers appeared.
The leading centurion immediately looked at Edison Dunn, asking, "Are you Protector Edison Dunn of Xuankong Mansion?"
"Yes, indeed!"
Edison Dunn nodded, "You must be the centurion, right? I, Edison Dunn, am here, representing the House Master of Xuankong Mansion, seeking an audience with your House Master Barnes... please relay my request."
The centurion nodded, "Please wait here for a moment."
Edison complied immediately, not daring to posture in front of the other just because the other was merely a martial artist in the Great Saint Realm.
As the saying goes, ’One has to bow under others’ rooftops’, and since he had come to seek help from the Mansion of Azure Clouds, angering them over trivial matters would certainly be counterproductive.
"Protector Edison Dunn from Xuankong Mansion? On behalf of his House Master, seeking an audience with the House Master?"
Even the centurion of the Blackarmor Army had no right to meet their House Master, so the first to be informed of this matter was Asa Honorston.
"Isn’t Edison Dunn the father of that Atlas Dunn?"
Feeling a stir within, Asa Honorston’s lips unknowingly curved into a cold smile.
"Bring him to the central hall to wait."
He instructed the centurion who reported, then left.
As the centurion turned to leave, Asa Honorston’s ethereal voice floated back into his ears, this time via transmission, "Make sure all your subordinate soldiers keep their mouths shut about Edison Dunn coming to the Mansion of Azure Clouds!"
"Yes!"
The centurion halted in mid-air momentarily, responded respectfully, then finally left.
Though Asa Honorston didn’t hold a position within the Blackarmor Army, every rank within it—from the commander to the ordinary soldier—treated him with great respect.
"Protector Dunn, this way, please."
Upon returning, the centurion gestured to Edison Dunn to follow with a ’please’ signal.
"Thank you for your trouble."
Edison Dunn nodded, then followed the centurion to the Main Mansion of the Mansion of Azure Clouds and, upon the centurion’s indication, entered the central hall.
The large central hall was empty, with Edison Dunn standing still, waiting quietly.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to move; it was because this was the central hall of the Mansion of Azure Clouds. Any accidental action that might offend the House Master would render his visit pointless.
A quarter of an hour passed.
A half-hour passed.
An hour passed.
Still, Edison Dunn hadn’t seen the House Master Barnes of the Mansion of Azure Clouds, yet he didn’t dare utter a single complaint, continuing to stand there dutifully.
Crash!!
Approximately two hours later, the central hall’s main doors began to move and closed together shortly after.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
...
Simultaneously, all the doors and windows of the central hall shut one after another.
Instantaneously, the entire central hall plunged into complete darkness, where one couldn’t even see their outstretched hand.
"Is this how the Mansion of Azure Clouds treats its guests?"
In the darkness, Edison Dunn’s somber voice echoed, his tone faintly trembling, lacking confidence.
"Tsk-tsk... stop flattering yourself. You, a guest of the Mansion of Azure Clouds?"
An eerie second voice emerged from the darkness, its tone somewhat androgynous, making it unclear whether it was a man’s voice or a woman’s.
"Who are you?!"
Edison Dunn’s voice sounded a bit flustered.
Following this, a trace of dazzling light could faintly be seen, emerging from nowhere within the dark hall, revealing Edison Dunn’s figure gradually.
"Moon, Shadow, Less!"
The ethereal voice sounded again, enunciating each word.