Jared chance novel Chapter 6257

Jared forced himself back to his feet. Cold sweat kept breaking out across his forehead from the stabbing pain in his chest, but he still shook his head.

"I won't die."

He lowered his eyes to the monster's corpse on the ground.

Something complicated passed through his gaze.

A fused monster at the peak of True Immortal Realm Level Three...

If Lydia hadn't cut it down with that last strike, he would have been the one left here today.

"Where's the Basilica Elder?"

Something hit Jared all at once, and he snapped his head up.

The end of the passage was empty.

Cedric was gone.

"He ran the second you drove your sword through the monster's chest."

Luther's voice came from behind them, edged with regret. "I'll go after him—"

He hadn't finished speaking when a scream suddenly tore in from the distance.

That voice... it was Cedric's.

Jared's stride hitched for a split second. Then he forced down the pain tearing through his chest and rushed toward the sound.

Luther followed right behind him.

The three of them pushed through the passage and came out on the other side of the vale.

The moment Jared saw what was waiting there, his steps stopped hard.

Cedric's body lay on the ground.

A thin line of blood cut across his throat, and fresh blood was still slowly seeping from the wound.

His eyes were stretched wide.

That look was still frozen on his face too—something between shock and disbelief, like even at the very end, he still couldn't accept that this was where he'd die.

Lydia stood beside the corpse.

Blood was still dripping from the wraithblade in her hand.

Her face gave nothing away.

If anything, it looked almost cold.

"He tried to run," Lydia said. "So I killed him."

Jared stayed quiet for a moment before he spoke.

"I... wanted to leave him alive."

Lydia turned and looked at him. "What for? Keeping someone like that alive would only bring trouble."

Jared said nothing.

He couldn't.

He couldn't tell her the only reason he'd wanted to keep Cedric alive was because he still needed him to control the soul-returning array and release Sidney and his wife's remnant souls.

But now...

Cedric was dead.

Jared turned and looked toward the stone dais at the end of the passage.

It had already been blown apart. The soul-returning array had been completely destroyed in the fight just now, its complicated markings shattered into countless pieces scattered across the ground, beyond repair.

Something in him dropped straight to the bottom.

"Jared?"

Lydia caught the change in him at once and frowned. "What is it?"

Jared didn't answer. He only reached into his robes and slowly took out the soul crystal.

Inside the soul crystal, the two streaks of white light had dimmed even further.

They drifted more and more slowly, then slower still, like two exhausted souls on the verge of stopping altogether.

Jared's fingers trembled slightly.

The Celestial Basilica had been wiped out. The soul-returning array had been destroyed. Cedric was dead too.

Sidney and his wife's remnant souls...

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