The Rise of a Master: It Starts With Rejection

Chapter 677

"Felix, come over here!" Clement called out excitedly when Felix stepped back into the

room.

Clement had every reason to feel overjoyed-Darcy was the apple of his eye, and since he and Willow could not have another child, it felt like the entire family narrowly escaped a brush with death today.

Hence, to the couple, no amount of gratitude toward Felix could ever feel like enough, especially since they were hitting it off so well in conversation.

"Sorry, something urgent just came up. I need to step out for now," Felix said, his expression genuinely apologetic.

Clement and Willow quickly got to their feet. Clement replied, "No problem. Take care of what you need to do. We'll catch up another time."

Felix had no choice but to leave abruptly-he had just sensed a Dragonspine's energy, and nothing could take precedence over that. If he did not act immediately, it would slip out of his range

of perception, and the chances of running into it again would be slim to none.

in an instant, he disappeared, speeding toward the direction where the Dragonspine's energy pulsed faintly in the distance. Having killed Mason earlier, Felix already knew from the Scarlet Thread technique that the Jacobs family was far from ordinary. If encountering a

moving-it was stationary now. Just as Felix prepared to enter, his phone buzzed with a call from

be Mr. Hoffman?" he

soon as Felix answered the

eyes. The old schemer only ever reached out when he needed

in Canraville, every other one I've encountered wasn't on the map you gave me-they'd already been taken. Were you just feeding me stories for

Gerald replied, sounding completely unbothered. "Well,

Chapter 677

As long as the Dragonspine hasn't been refined yet,

a technique only Felix could currently master, meaning that,

the address memorized?" Gerald asked, steering

was not some remote hideout either-it was a fairly well-known area, making it unlikely to be linked to the Elders' Council. Considering how rare and valuable Miracle Cards were, even the

Hoffman, about Madam Spring-"

for hours!" Gerald interrupted with a loud laugh. "What's that? You can rub elsewhere?

enough, Felix barely got her name out before Gerald was already