Arcanum: Chaos Path

Chapter 19: Rowling's First Meeting with Pales

For Leonard, this was a perfectly ordinary day. Aside from the fact that one of his new colleagues was promoted to a Beyonder at lightning speed, which surprised him a bit, there wasn't much difference from the previous days.

At least, that's what Leonard thought until he got home.

"Someone."

However, when Leonard opened the door with his key as if he was familiar with the place, before he could go in, he suddenly heard the usually taciturn Pales suddenly speak up to remind him.

This made Leonard, who was originally in a lazy state, instantly alert. He looked into the house and saw a figure sitting on the sofa in the living room since he didn't know when.

He was a man who looked to be in his early twenties, with very outstanding facial features. He had obviously noticed the movement at the door and raised his head slightly to look at him. His emerald eyes looked at him with a hint of smile.

Who is this?
Leonard was alert but also deeply confused, because he was sure that he didn't know the young man in front of him at all, and he didn't know where he came from.

"Who are you? It's not good to break into someone else's house without the owner's permission!" Leonard said this while observing the young man in the house, ready to take action or evacuate at any time.

"I'm sorry, it was indeed presumptuous of me to come visit you so suddenly, but I did it for a reason." Luo Lin gave a slightly apologetic smile, looked at the wary Leonard, paused, and added:
"After all, Mr. Leonard wouldn't want me to visit you at the Blackthorn Security Company and publicly tell you about the old man in your life, right?"

Hearing this, Leonard's pupils suddenly shrank. The existence of Pales could be said to be his biggest secret. Although Leonard himself was still wary of Pales, he had never revealed the existence of this old man to others. Now that the secret was suddenly revealed by a stranger, he was horrified.

It can be said that if Leonard were a small animal, he would have been furious at this moment.

Luo Lin smiled faintly and said, "So can we talk now, Mr. Leonard?"

"You..." Leonard frowned, he was obviously hesitant, and at this moment, Leonard heard Pales' voice in his ear.

"You can talk to him."

"Old man, do you know him? How is this happening?" Leonard immediately asked, but this time he got no answer.

This made Leonard a little disappointed, but he no longer worried about it. After looking at Rowling deeply, he walked into the house and sat down on the sofa opposite Rowling.

"Don't be so restrained, this is your home." Rowling looked at Leonard, whose body was obviously tense, and reminded him with a smile.

"Thank you for your reminder, sir." Leonard almost squeezed out these words from between his teeth, and then he couldn't help but lower his voice again and asked, "Old man, stop playing dead. What's going on?"

"I'm not sure, but his aura is somewhat familiar." This time, Pales finally stopped playing dead and said hesitantly, "A bit like... my descendant."

However, just as he finished speaking, Pales saw the young man sitting on the sofa opposite him leisurely take out a monocle from his pocket and then slowly put it on his left eye.

Pales: ...

Sorry to bother you.

Pales, who had originally sensed a familiar blood aura and wanted to find out how the other party found him and what their purpose was, stayed behind. At this moment, his entire spirit became stiff.

If mental images were visual, Pales' mind would be a picture of a groundhog screaming. But Pales's reaction was also extremely fast. After a brief brain short circuit, he quickly realized one thing: his glasses were worn in the wrong position.

Amon wore his monocle on his right eye, while the young man in front of him wore it on his left eye.

The most crucial thing is, if Amon really discovered His existence, this area would definitely be blocked at this moment, and danger would have surely arrived, but in fact, Pales did not feel any danger.

So after thinking for just a second, Pales realized one thing - the boy in front of him was deliberately scaring him.

Pales: ...

My fists are hard and I want to beat up that naughty kid.

"Old man, old man, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you talking again?" Leonard seemed to have noticed something was wrong at this time and kept asking.

"Shut up, I'm fine," Pales said unhappily. Then, without knowing what he did, a blurry shadow formed next to Leonard. The shadow then spoke, "I don't think you came to me just to scare me, right?"

Leonard next to him suddenly widened his eyes, obviously he had never seen such a scene before.

Luo Lin looked at Shadow Pales with interest, then asked in a provocative tone, "If I say yes, will you hit me?"

As for why Rowling acted so naughty, the answer is actually very simple. On the one hand, he couldn't control his restless hands. After all, what kind of person would travel to the world of the Lord of Mysteries without scaring Pales?

On the other hand, it is to digest the fun man potion.

As it turned out, Rollinpied's move was indeed very successful. It only scared Pales, but allowed him to digest about one-third of the potion. If it was an ordinary Sequence 9 potion, it would probably melt in his mouth.

But he didn't digest it all at once. Was it because it wasn't fun enough, or was it because Pales was in really bad condition... Rowling was thinking in his heart, still smiling on his face.

"Ha!" Pales sneered and asked, "What do you think?"

"I think you will." Seeing that a certain old man might really intend to beat someone up, Luo Lin naturally didn't plan to be naughty anymore. Instead, he took out an exquisite iron box at lightning speed.

Luo Lin then pushed the iron box towards Pales and said, "Ancestor Pales, I'm actually here mainly to acknowledge my relationship with you and give you a gift. This is my welcome gift."

"Recognize your relatives?" This time, before Pales even opened his mouth, Leonard exclaimed in surprise. He looked at Rowling, then at Shadow Pales, and then, as if remembering something, he suddenly realized, "Oh, right, the old man said you're his descendant..."

"Are you really my descendant?" Pales could naturally feel the aura of the Zoroast family bloodline on Rollin, but this made him even more surprised and suspicious.

After all, Pales could never have imagined that the Zoroast family, which had almost completely declined and whose bloodline was close to dying out, would produce such a guy.

"My name is Rollin Zoroast. Speaking of bloodline alone, I am indeed of the Zoroast family, and a descendant of you, ancestor Pales." Rollin introduced himself confidently. He glanced at Shadow Pales and reminded him, "Wouldn't you like to see my greeting gift, ancestor?"

(End of this chapter)