The Man's Decree (Favo novel) novel Chapter 5359

Yuliana drew a deliberate breath, stepped forward, and slid herself between Jared and the tutor. Her voice remained calm, yet ripples of unease twitched beneath her eyes.

“Mr. Chance, our student was indeed at fault first, yet severing an arm in public is... extreme. Lord Gale holds considerable influence in Celestia. If this gets magnified, you will gain nothing. Allow the academy physicians to treat the student now. I shall report the matter to the king and see it handled properly—will that suffice?” she asked.

Gone was any notion of seeing Jared as a pawn.

An Earthly Immortal Realm Level One cultivator who crushed an Earthly Immortal Realm Level Seven opponent while debating philosophy was clearly no one's expendable piece. Even if he served a faction, he himself was surely a centerpiece.

Such a man must not be provoked—not until she discovered what, exactly, he wanted there.

Jared spared Yuliana a brief glance, then fixed on Westley, who was clutching his mangled arm. “You called me worthless. Looking at you now, I see the true waste of talent. You were never worth my full strength.”

“Y-You!” Westley trembled from skull to heel, yet he couldn't step forward. Teeth grinding, he hissed, “My father will never forgive this. You'll regret it—just wait!”

“I'll wait,” Jared replied, voice flat as winter stone. “But the next time you flaunt empty bravado, I won't stop at one arm.”

With nothing more to say, he turned and walked toward the academy gates, dismissing the crowd as if they were autumn leaves on an already-swept path.

His back remained straight, almost regal. Though everyone knew he stood at Earthly Immortal Realm Level One in terms of cultivation, every celestial cultivator present felt, with sudden certainty, that the heavens themselves would part rather than block his stride.

Yuliana's gaze followed Jared's retreating silhouette until the crowd swallowed him. A tangle of emotions—frustration, admiration, grudging awe—churned in her chest like storm clouds circling a single, stubborn ray of sun.

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