"Thank you, Dad. I would take revenge myself, but my cultivation level is useless now. I can only rely on you and the other Lagorio family elders!"
Lily’s expression was grateful.
"You're my daughter. I'll never allow you to be bullied!”
Trenton smiled, features soft.
"Oh, right. Why is there not a single trace of Lance, Dad? Quite a few members from other families went along with him. Who knows if they have some news!"
Lily asked after she thought of it.
Trenton shook his head again, hopeless. ' There’s no news at all. I asked them before I came back, and they haven’t found a single clue. And those families are ready to stop searching!” "Why are they giving up? How cruel. It's their family members that have disappeared, and they're not going to bother?"
Lily grew angry after she heard that. If the other family members send in search parties, there would be more people on the job, and there would be a higher possibility of finding the lost members.
Now though, they were giving up on the search. That meant that the possibility of being able to find Lance had shrunk.
"Ah, it's different from them. They've been searching for a few months already. Some are the sons of a Patronum, some are sons of an Elder, some are even grandsons of an Elder. Basically, the lost family members didn't hold very high positions. That’s why they don't want to waste their time and resources since their search has not been fruitful. Besides, the place that Lance and the others went into is near the dangerous zones. Nobody dares to venture deeper into it!"
Trenton felt helpless. "My daughter, it's likely that Lance is truly dead, and that his body had been consumed by monsters," he told Lily. "I hope that you will be able to accept this reality.”
Trenton paused before continuing, "But we'll still conduct the search parties for another twenty days. If there's still no news after that period, we'll have to give up. We can’t just go on searching forever, right? The other families have also given up, and our chance of succeeding is even smaller!"
All right. Dad. I get it!
Lily nodded her head forlornly. She mulled over the situation, then she thought of something. “Oh, right, Dad. I'm guessing that the Four Ancient Clans don't know anything about the ultimate god status?" she asked Trenton.
The Four Ancient Clans were colossal and powerful families. A family like the Lagorio family was nothing before them. Any one of the Ancient Clans was just that formidable and did not care about the reclusive families at all.
Of course, the members of the Four Ancient Clans also never mingled with the mundane. They have cultivated themselves contentedly within their own grounds, and nobody dared to provoke them.
The Four Ancient Clans also rarely interacted with one another.
"Heh. We, the reclusive family members are not fools either. Why would we tell them something like that? If we do, we probably don't even stand a chance to get the scraps!"
Trenton chuckled and was about to leave." This is the one secret weapon the reclusive families have. If we have a chance to turn the tides, why would we want to be oppressed by the Four Ancient Clans?"
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