CHAPTER 449: CONFLICT

Bang!

On the back, Dean and Yun were busy fighting against these ghost masters. They knew that the White Family Patriarch had no time to help them.

The consecutive use of the rank 7 magic spells had basically depleted the White Family Patriarch’s mana.

Even if he was already at rank 7, but he could not use rank 7 magic spells like using ordinary spells.

It drained too much of their mana.

"Yun, protect Evan!"

"He’s getting further... huh?" Yun was stunned when she saw the scene in the distance. "Why is he...?"

Bang!

A ghost appeared and attacked Evan from behind, but Evan seemed to notice that something was wrong because he quickly evaded to the side and avoided being killed by the ghost.

"Evan!"

The others called out in surprise.

But Evan didn’t pay attention to them and instead looked at the person who attacked him... Aren White.

Seeing the thick ghost aura around Aren, Evan’s eyes widened in disbelief.

"You’re... a ghost master, Aren?"

It has been two years since Evan last went out with his team members. After advancing to rank 7, Evan found out that Leon had left Wansu City in a way that caused many people’s dissatisfaction and disappeared for a long time. He had also fulfilled the promise with the Fourth Head of the Wansu City to take care of the team for a year and then they could take care of themselves.

Besides, with their strength and ability, there was truly no need for him to take care of these children.

Evan also went out of Wansu City very often and made his journey to the deep forest. He had heard from Aya that eating their meat, especially coupled with the method that Aya taught him, would help him to increase his mana quickly.

Thanks to that, he managed to reach rank 7 late stage.

His mana had increased a lot and Evan was quite satisfied with his progress. He could guess that Aya was definitely faster than him, but he was slowly but surely making a step forward to get closer to her.

This should be good.

Evan would only come back from time to time to pay a visit to the White Family Patriarch and the White Family Patriarch’s brother. Moreover, he also had to keep touch with the White Family members because he would be the White Family Patriarch in the future.

Of course, Evan didn’t wish to inherit this position anytime soon.

He still hoped that his uncle and father could stay alive and continued working for a long time. Anyway, he was only 20 years old and Evan felt that he was still too young.

This time, he returned because the Fourth Head of the Wansu City gave order for him not to go but to lead his former team again. Evan wanted to refuse, but the Fourth Head of the Wansu City said that if he didn’t do it, he’ll increase the tax for the White Family.

The White Family had many stores and also very rich, but it didn’t mean that they were free from taxes.

Instead, the Fourth Head of the Wansu City made sure that the White Family paid a lot in taxes.

When Evan knew the system that the Fourth Head of the Wansu City arranged for them, he knew that it was not easy for the White Family to remain as the big family in Wansu City. They had to turn over a lot of money to Wansu City in the form of taxes.

Of course, this also depended on their stores and so on.

But no matter what, Evan knew that the Fourth Head of the Wansu City’s threat worked.

Evan had to take care of the White Family behind him.

Of course, Evan knew that the reason why the Fourth Head of the Wansu City wanted him to take care of this team was because the Fourth Head of the Wansu City’s grandson is here. But no matter what, Evan would not specifically take care of anyone.

And what Evan didn’t expect the most was that his own cousin would become a ghost master.

"Yes." Aren looked at Evan calmly. His pale face looked even more ghostly under the influence of the ghost aura.

With Aren’s weak body, the White Family Patriarch had long heard that Aren might not be able to pass 20 years old. Even after practicing magic and advancing in ranks, it couldn’t help to restore the life force that has been lost because of his weak body.

It was like a broken container.

No matter how much was fed, there would be leaks coming out from the broken sides.

So even if Aren chose to become a ghost master, he might not be able to last one month after contracting the ghost. Because the ghost will continue to feed on his non existent life force until there was nothing and Aren will die.

"Are you stupid? If you become a ghost master, you will die faster!" Evan said with a frown.

"I know," Aren said calmly.

He knew it very well.

From young, the thing that Aren heard the most from the White Family Patriarch was the fact that he would die early.

Living under the shroud of death, Aren felt that life is really meaningless.

He’ll die very quickly and there was nothing that the White Family Patriarch could do. Even though the White Family Patriarch has been working hard and managed to advance to rank 7, he could not solve Aren’s problem.

So Aren felt that it was really useless.

He practiced magic with the hope that magic will help him to prolong his life.

But after practicing for a while, the White Family Patriarch said that it was impossible. Of course, the White Family Patriarch will never say it straight in front of his face, but Aren heard the White Family Patriarch talked about it.

Talking about how Aren will never be able to live past 20 years old.