Chapter 3529 Waiting All Along
Gloria hated Floyd the more she looked at him.
He’s the worst! He’s like a stinking worm crawling around in the mud. I can’t believe he has the gall to seek comfort from me! What’s in that brain of his? Water?
She exploded, “My God! I should’ve killed him from the beginning! He’s utterly shameless! What makes him think he can be my partner? Because he’s a man showing his weakness and seeking comfort from me? What a joke! How could Levi have a disciple like that? It’s tarnishing his reputation!”
Gloria cursed Floyd out again and again to vent her anger.
Bone Grandmaster laughed and said, “This is merely a testament to how far that fellow has fallen for our Lord Gloria! He would probably give you his soul if he could!”
At last, his praise improved Gloria’s mood.
Chuckling, she replied, “So what? He is of no use to me! How marvelous would it be if I had Levi wrapped around my finger instead?”
Disbelief was palpable in Bone Grandmaster’s expression as he sputtered, “That’s a grand challenge, one that even I find rather unimaginable. If you can control Levi, you can control everyone on the face of this Earth!”
Gloria merely shook her head and lamented, “Too bad Levi is nothing like his useless disciple, Floyd! Plus, I would’ve lost interest a long time ago if Levi was so easy to control.”
“That’s true!” Then, as though he had thought of something, Bone Grandmaster asked, “Lord Gloria, if you despise Floyd so much, why don’t you just kill him?”
Xylas piped up, “He’s right. Anyone you dislike should be sent to their grave, Master! Their families, too!”
To their surprise, Gloria smiled knowingly and waved off their suggestion. “There’s no need for that. I need to keep him around to drive a wedge between him and Levi. In fact, if he’s a little bolder and assassinates Levi instead, that would be a pleasant surprise for us all.”
This was Floyd’s only value to Gloria.
Once his relationship with Levi soured beyond repair, they would turn Floyd into enemy number one.
Everyone would loathe him, including his former friends and his master. It would also ruin his family.
In the end, Floyd would have no one and nowhere to turn to, and he would spend the rest of his life living in guilt, a fate far worse than a common pest.
He would probably take his own life when he caved under everyone’s enmity.
Gloria believed the psychological torment would be far worse than any physical pain.
Floyd’s eternal suffering was Gloria’s final goal, and the poor man probably never imagined that the woman he worshiped had mapped out his tragic end from the very start.
Alas, Gloria would exhaust every bit of value from him before throwing him into hell.
Just then, Gloria declared, “I need to think of ways to become stronger! I haven’t stopped devouring spiritual ley lines, but normal spiritual energy and energy sources aren’t as effective to me. The things that could propel me to newer heights would be the two super-spiritual ley lines from the Ecclesiastic Order and Yartran! I can’t even imagine how powerful I would become after devouring those two ley lines! I’m sure I’d be able to kill Levi in a split second then!”
Even Gloria’s imagination failed her.
Bone Grandmaster urged, “Why don’t you devour the super-spiritual ley lines quickly, then? What are you waiting for, Lord Gloria?”
“He’s right, Master! Time is of the essence!”
Shaking her head, Gloria explained, “That won’t work! Levi must have been waiting for me to devour the super-spiritual ley lines.”
Her followers were stunned.
“Really? No! How could Levi know about it? We just found out about it ourselves!”
Bone Grandmaster and the others clearly did not believe her.
Gloria smiled and said, “You don’t understand Levi’s character! Meanwhile, I’ve been studying him since the Ecclesiastic Order made contact with the outside world! I understand him better than anyone else! Since the incident at the Ecclesiastic Tower, he has already known that I’m a growth-type cultivator and that I’m rapidly strengthening my abilities!”
