A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6610

"What possibility?" Gareth's voice came out rougher than before.

"You don't kill me."

Jared's tone stayed level.

"You work with me. I give the Abyssal Exchange what it wants, and the Abyssal Exchange gives me the protection I want.

That way, what you gain is worth more than anything you'd get from killing me."

Gareth's pupils tightened.

Jared held his gaze and kept going.

"Kill me, and all you get is what's already on me.

Work with me, and there's no limit to what you can gain."

"The Aureate Way has a total of one hundred and eight arts of the Way, and the Aureate Codex is only one of them.

As for the secrets of the Chaos Sanctum, I've only uncovered a tiny piece of them.

The value of all this will keep rising as my cultivation rises."

A cold curve touched the corner of his mouth.

"Kill me, and what you get is dead loot.

Work with me, and what you get is something alive.

Kill me, and all you can take is the present."

"Work with me, and you can take the future.

Envoy Gareth, you're a merchant. You should understand better than I do which choice pays more."

Gareth fell silent.

His brow pulled tight, deep lines cutting across his forehead.

In his red-gold eyes, too many things flashed at once—hesitation, doubt, resistance.

Every word Jared had said was true.

Cedric was already dead.

A dead chapter master had no value left to the Abyssal Exchange.

Picking a fight with a young man whose potential had no visible ceiling, all for the sake of a corpse—no matter how he ran the numbers, it was a losing deal.

But if they let Jared walk away just like this, where would that leave the Abyssal Exchange's reputation?

Gareth was trapped between two impossible choices.

Aurelius watched the hesitation spreading across Gareth's face, and his heart dropped.

He knew it—if Gareth let Jared talk him into this, the Ember God Palace was finished.

He had to stop it.

"Envoy Gareth, don't listen to him!"

Urgency sharpened Aurelius's voice.

"Jared's lying to you. Every word out of his mouth is fake.

He's trying to drive a wedge between us!"

Aurelius turned to face Gareth fully, his red-gold eyes blazing with impatience.

"Envoy Gareth, think about it. Jared killed Cedric. That's an undeniable fact.

If the Abyssal Exchange lets him go like this, how will you ever show your face in the celestial realm?"

"What will the other powers think of you?

They'll say the Abyssal Exchange is nothing—its chapter master got killed, and it didn't even dare take revenge!"

Gareth's frown deepened.

Aurelius wasn't wrong either.

If they released Jared now, the Abyssal Exchange's prestige would take a brutal hit.

"And Envoy Gareth—think a little further."

Aurelius pressed on, his voice rising with every word.

"Jared is fickle and ruthless. He dared kill even Cedric—what is there left that he wouldn't do?

You let him go today, and tomorrow he'll turn on you without a second thought.

A man like that can't be trusted!"

Gareth stayed silent for a long time, his red-gold eyes moving back and forth between Jared and Aurelius.

Jared looked at Gareth.

There was no urgency in his violet eyes, no tension at all—only a calm so complete it felt almost detached from the moment.

He waited for Gareth to choose.

Whatever Gareth decided, Jared already had a way to answer it.

If Gareth chose cooperation, all the better.

That would save everyone a bloodbath.

And if Gareth chose to stand against him, that was fine too.

When Jared finished speaking, Gareth genuinely froze.

He truly did not know what Jared's strength was.

But with Jared standing there this composed, this controlled, there had to be a trump card behind it. Otherwise he would never have been this calm.

The moment Jared saw Gareth stop moving, he slowly summoned the Dragonslayer Sword.

A streak of violet blade-light burst from Jared's waist like lightning tearing open the world.

It ripped across the sky with a force that promised ruin and slashed straight at the Solar Pyre Dominion Array of the Ember God Palace.

Where the blade-light passed, space split into black cracks.

Violent spatial turbulence poured out of them and swallowed the surrounding heartwood and mountain stone whole.

The violet blade-light slammed into the red-gold spiritual barrier.

Boom—

The impact broke with a deafening blast.

The entire Cinderfall Range shuddered violently. Mountain stone crashed down from the peaks, forest trees ripped out of the ground, and every bird and beast within 100 miles fled in blind panic.

Across the red-gold spiritual barrier, dense flame sigils flared to life all at once, unleashing terrifying heat as the formation fought to stop the violet blade-light.

But the chaotic force sealed inside that violet blade-light was too overbearing.

Chaotic force was the source of all elements.

It was the source of all the laws of the realm as well.

In front of it, the divine fire law released by the Solar Pyre Dominion Array might as well have been a grandson standing before his grandfather.

It didn't even dare resist.

Crack—

A faint breaking sound came from the spiritual barrier, like the first hairline fracture spreading over frozen ice.

Then the crack raced outward.

One became ten, ten became a hundred, and a hundred became a thousand.

Fractures webbed across the red-gold spiritual barrier in a dense, spreading mesh, like a colossal spiderweb swallowing the whole array.

Boom—

The spiritual barrier shattered completely.

Red-gold fragments rained from the sky in a blazing downpour.

Every shard burned with flame, lighting the entire Ember God Palace as bright as day.