They all call me Great Master

Facing the creditor's demands, Charlie Kredos showed no trace of panic, instead gazing at the elderly gentleman before him with an unexpectedly intense look.

"Sir, please do not use the word 'deceit'!

It might lead others to misunderstand the integrity of my profession as a 'Spirit Medium'!

We merely made a bet.

Alas, you merely lost,"

Old Charlie emphasized.

"Ha, lost?

Facing your sophistry of 'Your death will come right before mine,' I do not consider that I lost!"

The elderly gentleman clenched his cane, the veins on the back of his hands bulging.

Anger filled the elderly gentleman's heart.

Immediately, the devastating Power of Death began to resonate.

Vast expanses of shadows began to die.

They appeared unknowingly and perished just as unknowingly.

The cycle, seemingly by chance, cleared a vast area.

But no light appeared; there was only more shadows, surging like a tide, with the power of erosion, with the hatred that corrodes the mind, almost like a calamity.

This made the already angry elderly gentleman even more infuriated.

"Begone!

Return to where you belong!"

A low roar queued a skull to appear within the elderly gentleman's composed features.

It was not the skull of the deceased.

Rather, it represented the Power of Death.

Or rather...

It represented the god of Death.

The surging shadows, faced with unprecedented terror, receded even faster, going back to where they rightfully belonged.

In this area, only deathly silence remained.

Pure, white deathly silence.

Assessing the surrounding silence, Old Charlie showed an expression of awe and flattery.

"Your majesty truly inspires awe, even the mindless 'Shadows' fear you."

But witnessing this scene made the elderly gentleman even angrier, He, being Death, actually began to breathe heavily.

Because, He not only knew that Old Charlie did not hold any awe for Him, but He also knew that he had been deceived by him once again.

Just now, He had sensed it.

For the second time!

This was the second time he had been tricked!

A growing sense of humiliation made the elderly gentleman want to smash Old Charlie's head in with his cane.

Alas, He couldn't do it.

Unless...

He desired to return to Death itself.

"Do you think you have already won?"

the elderly gentleman murmured.

"No no no!

You have misunderstood me from the beginning, just as you sought me out from the start—

Firstly, I did not provoke anyone or anything.

Secondly, during the 301 years of your interrogation... uh, that should be the correct time in our reckoning, sorry, since achieving a lifespan almost like yours, I am still not accustomed to your timing. It's merely three days for you, yet for us, it has been over three hundred years, but it doesn't truly reflect the time I am familiar with.

This blurs my perception, even making me feel like I could live until the world perishes.

Aft

er all, at some point, both you and I exist in eternity.

I am truly sorry, did I make you misunderstand again?

Please do not be angry, we can talk about this.

Just as when we first met, I still remember your courteous and graceful demeanor,"

the Old Spirit Medium spoke slowly and deliberately.

And with each sentence, he hammered away at the elderly gentleman's sanity.

At the final sentence, the elderly gentleman really swung his cane.

However, he stopped at the last moment.

The old gentleman furrowed his brow lightly, pondering something.

Suddenly, his brow relaxed, and a smile appeared on his face.

"From the moment I discovered you, you have been trying to provoke me—no, you let me discover you on purpose, because…"

"…you had exhausted the power you 'cheated' from me by pulling your beloved grandson back from the Land of Reincarnation."

But the people you care about are not just him.

His parents, your son and daughter-in-law, you are still looking for them, aren't you?"

Faced with the old gentleman's questioning, the old 'Spirit Medium' did not deny it, but still emphasized.

"It wasn't 'cheating'; rather, during 301 years of torment, I unconsciously mastered some of the power you possessed and wielded."

As he spoke, the elderly Spirit Medium with silvery hair took off his monocle and took out a handkerchief to gently wipe it.

But the old gentleman was not angered this time.

Believing he had grasped the crux of the matter, he maintained his smile.

"Hmm, hmm, you have a Talent that even I admire."

However, you still underestimated my power!

Although you successfully pulled him back from his next life's cycle, you initially failed to notice that your grandson had acquired a trace of the Aroma of Death."

"Now he is like the Child of Death… No, even more favored by Death than the Child of Death, any person not favored by Destiny who appears near him will be watched over by 'Death and Calamity'."

By the time you realized something was wrong, your power was already insufficient to resolve this problem.

So, you chose to expose yourself again, to 'trick' me into coming here!"

Seeing the hand of the old 'Spirit Medium' wiping the glasses pause with steadiness, the old gentleman, thinking he had discovered another point, immediately became more cheerful.

"So, my lord, shall we make a bet..."

"Shut up!"

Upon hearing the word 'bet,' the old gentleman directly chastised, but then softened his tone as he looked at the old 'Spirit Medium' and again asked the original question—

"How did you manage to escape the restrictions?"

"What?

What are you talking about?

I don't understand."

The old 'Spirit Medium' looked puzzled.

"Very well!

You have renounced my last shred of mercy—you cheated a lifespan of eighteen hundred years from me the first time, deceived the Land of Reincarnation with my power the second time, and now, you want to deceive me a third time!

Detestable 'Spirit Medium'!

I curse all Spirit Mediums outside the Kledos Family, may they not die a good death!"

The old gentleman intoned lowly.

Suddenly, the pure white desolate land was struck with black lightning.

Amid the continuous black lightning, the figure of the old gentleman grew immensely, resembling a giant standing tall between heaven and earth, as he issued the curse using the 'Name of Death'.

Cursing all 'Spirit Mediums' beyond the Kledos Family!

This was misdirected anger!

Unable to strike at the elderly Spirit Medium in front of him, nor at the loved ones of the Spirit Medium, he targeted the profession of the old 'Spirit Medium'.

Of course, he still excluded the old 'Spirit Medium' and his family.

After all, he was intimately linked with him.

"You have displayed your arrogance once again.

Such an attitude will lead you into great trouble in the future.

You will most likely regret your actions today."

The old 'Spirit Medium' sighed, seemingly peering into the future.

The old gentleman, however, was disdainful.

He boarded his carriage, resumed his seat, and didn't entangle further with the old 'Spirit Medium' because he had discovered a way to make the old 'Spirit Medium' submit.

He would proceed with careful caution.

He wouldn't let the old Spirit Medium become aware.

And this would surely be a long-lasting effort, but what he was never short of was time.

The white horses pulled the white carriage, carrying the old gentleman away, leaving only the old 'Spirit Medium' exhaling a sigh—

"We merely made a bet; I never deceived you.

And besides, we only bet once; how could I possibly beat you three times?"