"Why do you call me Uncle David?"
After hesitating for a long time, David finally found a loophole. According to the other party's story, he had passed the trial and set out for the Northern Grassland a hundred years ago. Going by the normal age of a Sword Saint, wouldn't that make him at least a hundred and thirty-four years old?
Dog Bro immediately fell silent...
Sure enough, Gou Dan's hastily improvised story didn't hold up. How was Gou Dan so good at making up stories that he could fool a whole group of high-ranking officials, yet couldn't even fool an Old Knight and a little girl?
No, he could definitely smooth this over!!
"I'm not very familiar with the language of you humans. Just now, this little girl called you Uncle David. Isn't that your name?"
Sunny: "Pfft..."
David: "..."
This... seemed to make sense, somehow...
However, David did not pursue the matter any further. The situation was strange, and this Sword Saint's origins were unknown. Whether what he said was true or not, the fact that he could crush David in strength remained. Exposing him might not necessarily be a good thing...
For now, he would just try to believe him...
With that thought, David said, "I know a place that should be safer than the City Lord Manor..."
Meanwhile, as Dog Bro followed David to that so-called safe place, a tremendous transformation occurred within the territory of the Black Goat Diagram.
Countless creatures in the jungle grew frantic. They roared madly at the sky dyed Ink Black, their emotions filled with fear and fury. The Ink Black in the sky grew denser and denser within the Black Goat Diagram's territory until, in the end, it poured down like a black river from the heavens, with vast