"Look, he already said so himself," As Shakun spoke, he prepared to try the flower's taste, "Besides, if he poisons me, other than getting himself killed too, what benefit does he gain?"
"General, you must not!"
Seeing Shakun still refusing to listen, the adjutant instantly felt despair.
His head suddenly heated up, and he rushed forward to snatch the white petal from Shakun's hand. He stuffed it into his mouth and said, "General! This 0927 is truly suspicious! To prove my words, I can only use my own death to show you."
Chomp~ Chomp~
The adjutant swallowed the Omen Petal in one gulp.
At this moment, Loran stared at the adjutant in shock. He also hadn't expected things to suddenly take such a turn.
'It's over!'
'My secret will definitely be exposed. I am dead this time.'
"Uh..."
However, the thing the adjutant imagined never happened at all.
He touched his face and looked at his hands. There wasn't the slightest sign of poisoning on him.
'Could it be...'
'That this really is a Luck Petal?'
"Adjutant!"
Seeing the adjutant completely fine, Shakun became even angrier, "You just can't stand seeing me do well, can you?"
After saying that, Shakun roared angrily and kicked the adjutant.
But because Shakun wasn't standing steadily, and because he lost his balance while kicking the adjutant, his whole body suddenly fell backward, and the back of his head slammed into the tea table. The table instantly let out a loud cracking sound—
BANG!
"General Shakun!"
The adjutant was so frightened that he hurried forward to help General Shakun up. But because he had been kneeling too long, his legs had gone numb.
So the moment he stood up, his legs gave out, and he directly fell onto Shakun.
Slash!
A soft sound of a sharp blade entering flesh rang out.
At the same moment, Shakun let out a miserable scream. His eyes widened as he looked at the adjutant in disbelief, "You... you... URGH!"
General Shakun's head tilted, and he died.
The adjutant was scared half to death. He quickly crawled off Shakun and turned him over, only then seeing that the back of Shakun's head had smashed the glass, and a sharp shard of broken glass was pointed directly at the back of Shakun's neck.
Originally, as long as Shakun got up in time, he would at most have suffered a cut.
But after the adjutant's final fall onto him, the glass shard directly pierced into the back of Shakun's neck and accidentally killed him.
"General Shakun!"
"General Shakun!"
The adjutant stared at Shakun in disbelief. Then he desperately shook Shakun's dead body, which still had its eyes open, and shouted, "BROTHER!"
'Brother?'
Loran also looked at the two in shock from the side.
He hadn't expected General Shakun and the adjutant to actually have that kind of relationship. No wonder Shakun died so miserably.
("The main effect of the Omen Petal is causing all kinds of accidental deaths among the target's family members. If you can't determine who Shakun's relatives are, just place the Omen Petal on him. Let him suffer terrible luck from constant deaths in the family. That way, he won't suspect you, and because of grief and sadness, he won't have the mood to handle anything. Naturally, he won't have time to deal with me either.")
Those were Ethan's exact words.
So Loran knew the Omen Petal could kill people around Shakun. And the key point was, if people around Shakun died, what did that have to do with him?
No one could prove he caused something like this, right?
That way he could protect himself.
But who could've imagined, the Omen Petal would end up being eaten because of the adjutant's suspicion, and that this adjutant was actually Shakun's brother.
'So...'
'General Shakun just died like that?'
Loran spread his hands helplessly. He could only say Shakun was truly unlucky.
'Unlucky?'
'Then...'
Loran suddenly thought of the Flower of Misfortune that Ethan had him plant in Shakun's garden.
'So that is it!'
'From the very beginning, Boss Ethan had already arranged everything.'
'First he planted the Flower of Misfortune to make Shakun unlucky, then he brought out the Omen Petal for Shakun. And because of his bad luck, Shakun inevitably ended up falling under the Omen Petal's curse.'
'Holy shit!'
'This whole plan is just too amazing.' [T/N: The author is glazing himself.]
Only at this moment did Loran feel lucky that he was the one cooperating with Ethan, 'Because honestly speaking, Lord Ethan is way too smart, way too powerful.'
———
"Achoo! Achoo!"
Ethan sneezed several times in a row.
Feeling uncomfortable, he rubbed his nose and said, "Who the hell is talking shit about me! Damn it!"
"Could it be because I'm too handsome, so someone's jealous of me?"
Ethan muttered to himself while opening the magic book.
He guessed someone in the magic book probably wanted to trade with him, which was why he sneezed.
But the moment he opened the magic book, he saw the system announcement pinned at the top, along with the exploding world chat.
[Pinned Announcement: Region 1 Lord Shakun has died unexpectedly. Therefore, the position of Region 1 Lord will now pass to the second-place holder. Congratulations to Natan for becoming the new Lord of Region 1.]
["What's going on?"], Player A said in shock, ["How did Region 1's Shakun suddenly die?"]
["I have a friend in Region 1. I heard Shakun fell to his death,"] Player B said, ["Apparently he got angry and tried to kick one of his subordinates, but ended up falling over and smashing into a tea table, then died by accident."]
["That's way too unlucky, isn't it?"], Player C said, ["I thought he'd get settled at the end of the Lord PK Tournament."]
["I didn't think much of him either. That guy was kinda dumb."]
["Dumb or not, he was still the ruler of a whole region. Who knew he'd just die like this."]
["Hahaha! I guess he'll leave his name in the history of the Mist World,"] Player D laughed loudly, ["This Shakun is almost on the same level as that lord who got blown up by shit. Both died for weird reasons."]
["But..."]
Player B continued, ["I heard from my friend that Shakun's accidental death was really strange."]
["How so?"], Player A curiously asked.
["I'm not too sure about the details, but some people said they heard Shakun shouting 'Ghost!' this morning. Others said Shakun killed too many people, so the vengeful spirits came back for revenge,"] Player B excitedly spread rumors, ["Anyway, Shakun died very strangely. And not long after he died, the entire villa garden suddenly bloomed with white flowers."]
["White flowers? That's so weird,"] Player D said, ["But this world has always been weird. Do you think those white flowers caused it?"]
["Very possible! I heard those flowers were cleared out once, but they grew back not long after. Anyway, they're really strange."]
Everyone kept chatting nonsense in the world channel.
Ethan was watching with his heart pounding too. He also hadn't expected the world channel to be full of prophets. What he did had clearly been extremely secretive, yet this bunch of idiot players actually managed to analyze most of it just from random clues.
As expected, comment sections have always produced talented people since ancient times. [T/N: Lol!]
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