A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6289

Jared didn't go after them.

He slid his sword back into its sheath and turned to look at Darian.

Darian's face had already gone paper white.

It had known Jared was powerful, but it had never expected this.

More than a thousand Demon Dragons hadn't even lasted the time it took an incense stick to burn in front of him.

Power like that was already beyond anything it could stand against.

"Darian," Jared said, his voice even. "I'll give you one chance. Kneel, and I can spare your life."

Darian's body gave a slight tremor.

It looked at Jared, then at Roland, and something pulled tight in its eyes.

Then...

It slowly knelt.

Its enormous body lowered to the ground. Its dragon head bowed, and its hoarse voice scraped out, "I... admit defeat."

Roland watched it happen, and the look in his eyes turned complicated.

He hated Darian.

He had carried that hatred for countless years.

But now that Darian was really kneeling in front of him, Roland found the satisfaction he'd pictured all those years didn't come nearly as easily as he had expected.

"Roland..." Darian's voice came out low. "I know you hate me. But when I turned to the demons back then, I was forced into it. I had no other way. "

Roland's face shifted. "Forced into it?"

"You think I wanted to be the demons' lapdog?"

There was a rough bitterness in Darian's voice. "Back then, the Sky Dragon Lineage was already being crushed by the celestials. We were on the verge of being wiped out. If I hadn't turned to the demons, the Sky Dragon Lineage would've been exterminated long ago. At the very least... at the very least, after siding with the demons, the bloodline of the Sky Dragon Lineage could still continue. "

Roland's fists clenched until the joints ground against each other with a sharp crack.

"You still have the nerve to say that? After you turned to the demons, how many of our clansmen from the Sky Dragon Lineage did you kill?"

Darian fell silent for a moment.

"The ones I killed were the ones who refused to submit. If I hadn't killed them, the demons would've slaughtered our entire clan. I had no choice. "

A shadow passed through Roland's eyes.

He knew there was some truth in what Darian was saying.

Back then, the Sky Dragon Lineage really had been driven to the edge.

With the celestials suppressing them, if they hadn't found someone to rely on, the Sky Dragon Lineage truly might have been wiped out.

But that still didn't make what Darian had done right.

"Mr. Chance." Roland turned and looked at Jared. "I want to... handle this myself. "

Jared looked at him, then gave a small nod.

"This is a family matter within your Sky Dragon Lineage. You decide. "

Roland walked up to Darian and stood there in silence for a long time.

Then he finally spoke.

"Darian, I'm not going to kill you. "

Darian lifted his head, his eyes filling with undisguised surprise.

"But you're taking us somewhere first."

"Where?"

"To the lair of that demonic cultivator behind you."

Darian's body went stiff.

"That demonic cultivator... already ran."

His voice dropped low.

"Three days ago, he vanished out of nowhere. Before he left, he took everything with him. He didn't leave a thing behind."

Jared frowned.

"Ran?"

"Yes."

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