"I don't know who this I-Dot is, but it is true that the group of beggars I used to live with all died back then..." Alvin said in a low voice when he saw Magnus and the others looking at him.
"Why don't you also tell us how you killed all those innocents?" Julian asked in a mocking tone.
This time, Alvin did not reply to the old man. He just remained silent as though he had not heard the question at all.
"Tsk..." Julian snickered coldly. "I won't allow my granddaughter to marry a cold-blooded criminal like him. You will either agree to cancel the spirit fusion, or I will report his existence to the court."
Magnus sighed. "Let's hear the whole story first before we jump to any decision..."
Before Magnus could finish, Julian interrupted him. "It is already a great leniency that I agreed to ignore his existence. Don't push me any further. It won't be good for you..."
"Father, they are just kids. It won't be good if we harm their spirit..." Zerra said.
"Fool, who gave a lowly servant like you the right to speak? Just because you are a member of the Everhearts now, don't forget what your real background is..." Julian bellowed coldly.
Zerra and Jaine hurriedly shut up when they saw Julian's angry expression.
"Enough," Magnus suddenly said in a loud voice. "Fine, you can break their spirit apart. But I hope what you know will remain within you, that includes your subordinates. Otherwise, I will turn a blind eye toward our ties with the Everhearts and make you disappear once and for all."
Julian snorted coldly when he heard this. "If you think everyone is afraid of you, let me make it clear, the Everhearts are certainly not one of them."
He then extended his left hand toward Alvin and the right toward Jane. Suddenly, as though attracted by a magnet, both of them flew toward Julian.
Alvin attempted to struggle free from the pulling force, but he felt utterly powerless at this moment. He could not even move a finger under Julian's overwhelming strength.
Once he caught hold of Jane and Alvin, Julian's eyes glowed with a purple hue, and Alvin felt as though something had entered his body, something he could not see.
Suddenly, the life wheel tattoo on his hand floated up from his palm. The Yin-Yang Dragon tattoo on Jane's hand also floated up into the air.
"Break," Julian said coldly when he saw the two spirit tattoos in front of him.
Boom.
With a loud bang, the two tattoos broke into pieces.
"Argh..." With a scream, Jane passed out with blood flowing from her mouth. Alvin's state was also not good. His face turned pale, and blood flowed out of his mouth and nose. Still, he remained conscious due to sheer will.
Julian looked indifferently into Alvin's eyes and tossed both Jane and Alvin to the floor as though he was throwing away some disgusting trash.
"Jane..." Zerra ran forward and held the unconscious Jane in her arms, with tears in her eyes.
Alvin was also kneeling on the ground with a blank look on his face. The two spirit dragons, Blacky and Whity, lay motionless in front of him as though they were just lifeless dolls.
Magnus scratched his head annoyingly when he saw this. He looked at Julian as though he wanted to tear him into pieces.
Julian took a step back when he saw Magnus looking at him with his now ruby red eyes.
Magnus took a deep breath, and the red glow in his eyes gradually vanished. "If it was in my youth, I would have already checked the color of your heart..." he said to Julian coldly.
Magnus then walked up to Jane and took out a finger-sized white bottle from his storage ring. "Open her mouth," he said to Zerra.
Zerra nodded and pried Jane's mouth open. Magnus dripped one drop of a milky white solution from the bottle into Jane's mouth.
He then walked up to Alvin and dripped one drop into his mouth as well.
Suddenly, thick elemental energy of different attributes started to gather around Alvin and Jane. The broken glass-like pieces of their bloodline tattoos started to spin into two whirlpools in mid air.
The still bodies of Blacky and Whity were also sucked up into the whirlpools.
Julian's expression changed when he saw this. "What the hell are you doing, Magnus? You agreed to this. Are you now going against your own word? I did not know you Nyxborns are this unreliable..."
"Shut up." Magnus stomped his feet on the aircraft so hard that the entire aircraft trembled for a moment.
In Magnus's left ear, a black hoop earring similar to Alvin's slowly materialized out of nowhere. His eyes once again changed to a ruby red color, and several summoning gates appeared around everyone.
Red-eyed humanoid wolf-like creatures holding pitch-black spears walked out of the summoning gates with a fearsome aura, as though they were going to destroy everything that came in their path.
"We Nyxborns are not so good at controlling our anger, so don't test my patience..." Magnus said in an icy tone as he stared at Julian.
Julian looked around him and involuntarily swallowed his saliva as he met eyes with the wolf-like creatures staring at him with killing intent.
He snorted in a low voice and kept quiet.
At this time, the thick presence of mana around Alvin and Jane slowly settled down, and from the whirlpools, two beams of light flashed and entered Alvin and Jane's bodies respectively.
Slowly, on both of their hands, two different tattoos replaced the previous ones.
On the back of Alvin's palm, a black tattoo of an ancient-looking compass with nine needles and a snake coiled around it materialized.
While on Jane's forearm, the tattoo of a magnificent winged dragon appeared, which looked awe-inspiring and lifelike.