"Dunnington, before I begin teaching you, there's sothing I need to explain first."
The next day, Dunnington, still wearing the tattered Blackstone Robe, woke up early and ca before the courtyard to receive Locke's guidance.
Before beginning Dunnington's instruction, Locke explained to him, "Although you said that as long as I teach you how to beco stronger, you would offer everything you have to , I still feel I should explain the main reason why I'm teaching you."
"My child will likely be born soti in the future."
"I want to raise my child so that even if they cannot surpass , they must at least reach a level close to mine."
Dunnington listened quietly, his heart growing sowhat excited.
When ordinary people spoke of teaching their children, they naturally hoped their children would beco stronger than themselves.
But this benefactor before him had said that even if his child could not surpass him, they at least needed to reach a level close to him.
Could it be that this benefactor was actually a Saint-level expert?
That had to be it. Only a Saint-level expert would think their child might fail to catch up to them.
His luck truly was excellent. He had actually managed to obtain the guidance of a Saint-level expert.
"However, I don't have much experience teaching others how to cultivate, and I'm worried that if I teach incorrectly, my child's final accomplishnts might end up lower than what I expect."
"The reason I accepted you is because I want to use you to test the guidance thods I intend to use on my child. Based on the feedback and results you obtain under my guidance, I can improve the way I educate my child."
"Therefore, during your cultivation process, I need you to tell every bit of your progress and your truest thoughts without hiding anything. Can you accept this?"
"Please rest assured, my lord, I can accept it!"
"Please freely test your teaching thods on !"
After hearing Locke's words, Dunnington was instantly overjoyed.
Previously, he had already felt that encountering a Saint-level expert willing to teach him cultivation was extrely fortunate, but now, Dunnington truly felt that he was incredibly lucky.
The upbringing thods a Saint-level expert used for their own child—this was an opportunity countless people could never obtain even if they begged for it.
"Very good. Then let us begin."
Locke nodded.
"Dunnington, the essence of cultivation is actually the evolution of life itself."
"And evolution is divided into evolution of the body and evolution of the soul."
"As for bodily evolution, I will teach you the 'Qi-Nurturing Stance' for cultivating the body. As for evolution of the soul, I will teach you a magus's ditation thod."
The reason Locke placed special emphasis on bodily cultivation in Dunnington's guidance was because he believed that the child he and the Chief Sovereign of Death would have would at minimum be born at the Saint-level.
Thus, Locke felt that the first lesson he might teach his child would likely involve understanding the Laws and learning how to cultivate in a manner that better comprehended the Laws.
Dunnington was currently a fourteen-year-old youth. anwhile, when his own child was born, their thought processes might very well be comparable to Dunnington's current level, making this a suitable opportunity to test whether Dunnington could directly comprehend the Laws.
However, all of this required Dunnington's body and soul to first reach a certain standard.
Back when Locke was only a rank six magus, he had touched upon a trace of the Profound Mystery of Illusory Mist within the Water Laws. Only then did he gradually walk down the path of cultivation centered around "illusions."
At the very least, before Locke beca a Paragon, illusion techniques had always been his strongest ability.
Even now, after his soul realm had reached the level of soul embryonic transformation, Locke's illusion abilities had risen alongside it, reaching an even more profound realm.
Setting aside techniques such as Eye of Hell – Eighteen Levels of Hell, which directly attacked the soul, Mirror Flower, Water Moon had already reached a level where, within the concealnt magic formations laid down by Locke, it could deceive the Laws of the world themselves.
Once the day ca when Locke no longer required concealnt magic formations and Mirror Flower, Water Moon could still deceive the Laws of the world, then Locke's illusion techniques would truly have reached grand completion, attaining the point where falsehood beca reality.
Locke felt that the reason he had managed to touch upon the Profound Mystery of Illusory Mist within the Water Laws while only rank six was, on one hand, because his soul power truly surpassed that of other magi.
On the other hand, it was likely because he possessed sufficient understanding and awareness regarding "Laws" within his heart.
Thus, while teaching Dunnington, aside from guiding him regarding cultivation-related matters, Locke also began revealing knowledge concerning Laws and Edicts to Dunnington.
In the blink of an eye, ten years passed.
On this day, after waking up, Dunnington did not continue cultivating. Instead, he knelt before Locke's door.
Creak…
Opening the door, Locke frowned slightly upon seeing Dunnington kneeling on the ground.
"Dunnington, what are you trying to do?"
"Teacher Locke, I once told you that as long as you taught how to beco stronger, I would dedicate everything I have to you."
"Under your guidance, in rely ten years, I advanced from soone completely ignorant of cultivation to a rank seven warrior and rank seven magus. My gratitude toward you cannot be expressed through words."
"However, because of certain matters, my forr family suffered a catastrophe. Thus, I wish to ask Teacher Locke to grant a period of freedom."
"After I take revenge and obtain justice for my family, I will return and devote my loyalty to you, Teacher Locke."
"Sigh…"
Hearing Dunnington's words, Locke let out a sigh.
"Dunnington, I already told you long ago that I'm teaching you because I wish to accumulate experience for educating my own child in the future."
"In other words, you are rely my experintal subject."
"From beginning to end, you have always been free."
"Teacher Locke, although you say I am rely an experintal subject, I know very clearly that if not for you continuously casting Healing Water on every night, there is no way I could have broken through so quickly. My body might very well have already been crippled from overtraining."
"No matter what Teacher Locke thinks, I already decided long ago to dedicate this life of mine to you."
After respectfully kowtowing three tis toward Locke, Dunnington turned around and prepared to leave.
"Wait a mont, Dunnington."
Looking at Dunnington's departing back, Locke finally let out another sigh and called out to stop him.
"The tattered garnt you wore when we first t is actually quite a good defensive treasure. If you intend to seek revenge, it would be best for you to wear that garnt."
The filthy, tattered short robe Dunnington had been wearing when he first t Locke was precisely the third talisman of the Death Overgod mission that Locke had co to this plane to search for.
Over all these years, Locke had never taken advantage of Dunnington's ignorance regarding the robe's nature as a treasure to deceive him and secretly take it away.
After all, Locke was confident that since the robe had appeared before him, it naturally could not escape the palm of his hand.
Just like Mira Locke, who obtained the Soul-Destroying Pearl, Locke also hoped the Blackstone Robe would continue accompanying Dunnington until the day Dunnington no longer needed it. Only then would Locke request an exchange for the robe.
As soone with the highest affinity toward the Edicts of Death, Dunnington's compatibility with the Blackstone Robe was far greater than Mira's compatibility with the Soul-Destroying Pearl.
Locke even suspected that the Blackstone Robe likely accounted for the majority of the reason Dunnington would eventually beco a Death Edicts Paragon.
Under such circumstances, Locke naturally did not wish for Dunnington to lose the opportunity to beco a Paragon rely for the sake of completing the Overgod mission sowhat earlier.
After all, barring any accidents, Dunnington might very well beco the first Paragon Sovereign Emissary under Locke's command!
…
However, what happened next completely exceeded Locke's expectations.
With the strength of a rank seven warrior and rank seven magus, Dunnington quickly found those who had acted against his family in the past and avenged his relatives and friends.
However, from those enemies, Dunnington also learned the true reason his family had been exterminated.
A gray short robe!
From the mouths of those enemies, Dunnington learned that the upper nobles of nearly every nation in this world were searching for a gray short robe.
Countless nobles and officials had used the excuse of searching for this robe to commit all manner of robbery and coercion.
Dunnington's family had rely been one among many victims.
After learning the truth behind his family's extermination, Dunnington beca enraged. Following the clues he uncovered, he began cleansing those corrupt nobles and officials one level after another.
Afterward, just as expected, Dunnington beca a wanted criminal throughout the kingdom.
Under the full-force pursuit of an entire nation, Dunnington only grew stronger and stronger, eventually breaking through to beco a rank eight magus before escaping that nation.
Unfortunately, in order to deal with Dunnington, that kingdom fabricated the claim that Dunnington possessed the gray short robe, causing experts from nurous kingdoms across the entire plane to pursue him.
During this ti, Dunnington fought and fled all the way, ultimately breaking through to the Saint-level and slaughtering all the experts who sought to kill him.
Afterward, believing himself invincible after attaining Saint-level power, Dunnington charged directly into the imperial capital, intending to destroy the rulers of those nations.
However, what Dunnington did not know was that behind those kingdoms stood even more powerful existences.
There was no need for Christina and the others to personally intervene. Figaroa alone, possessing the strength of a Five Star Fiend, casually killed the rely Saint-level Dunnington with a single move.
…
"Sigh…"
Watching Dunnington's soul get transported into the Necropolis Realm, Locke let out a sigh.
Originally, he had believed Dunnington would beco the first Paragon Sovereign Emissary under his command.
But after using his divine sense to observe Dunnington's entire life experience, Locke had already abandoned the idea of recruiting Dunnington as a Sovereign Emissary.
No wonder, in the future, even after becoming a Death Edicts Paragon, Dunnington never served the Chief Sovereign of Death and instead went to the Sea of Chaos under the Chief Sovereign of Destruction, Wordred.
It seed that if Locke had not interfered, the one who killed Dunnington would likely have been a mber of the Chief Sovereign of Death's Sovereign Army.
And with the Chief Sovereign of Death's pride, she would never do sothing like sacrificing the lives of soldiers who had rendered great rit to her rely to obtain the loyalty of a Paragon.
No—or perhaps even if the Chief Sovereign of Death had done so, Dunnington still would not have pledged loyalty to her.
(End of Chapter)
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