"What are we betting on?"
Kent took a savage gulp of liquor.
He hated to admit it, but he really was a coward!
"We're betting that I can make you face your own heart! If I can't, I'll stay away from Miss Helen from now on..."
Aaron put forward a proposal that was highly tempting to Kent.
After all, Kent and the two matrons were both deeply worried that if the two kept meeting, Miss Helen might end up embroiled in some scandal of premarital infidelity!
If that happened, the Count would surely kill them!
"And if I succeed... you leave Helen. How about it?" Aaron revealed a devilish smile.
"Make me face my own heart?" Kent drained the remaining liquor in his glass. "Fine... I accept."
Whether I've faced my heart or not is entirely subjective anyway. As long as I refuse to admit it, you can only lose!
He thought smugly.
"Very well. I declare... the contract is established."
Aaron spoke in an inexplicable tone.
Kent was, after all, a Beyonder. At that moment, a powerful sense of unease suddenly rose within him.
"You..."
He looked at Aaron, suspicion in his eyes. "You... are one of those people too?"
He even suspected that Aaron had given Miss Helen some kind of love potion!
"You tell me?"
Aaron snapped his fingers.
Snap!
Kent immediately toppled face-first onto the bar and fell into a deep, snoring sleep.
The Fourth Primordial of the 'Shadow' phase was the 'Shadowless One,' and over this period of time, Aaron had already figured out the core ability of the Fifth Primordial on this path—it was related to 'dreams'!
'Shadow' itself possessed authority over dreams.
Based on this principle, Aaron named its Fifth Primordial the 'Dream Realm Traveler,' or perhaps the 'Nightmare.'
As for the Sixth