"With his strategic mind, becoming a regional emperor wouldn't be considered a waste of his talents."
Although letting Garret escape would bury some hidden dangers for himself, Alex didn't take it to heart too much.
He had accidentally fallen for Garret's trick. He wasn't forcefully having his IQ lowered to let the tiger return to the mountain like those villains in the original novel.
Having experienced this once, he definitely wouldn't fall for it a second time. When they bumped into each other next, he would just annihilate this old fox and be done with it.
Alex suddenly noticed something. He bent down to focus his gaze. A look of surprise revealing itself in his eyes.
Hanging on a branch of this dead log was a storage ring.
He picked it up, poured his spiritual energy into it and sensed carefully. Stored inside were exactly the secret manuals and resources the Noir Family had plundered from their Hale Holy Land.
