Chapter 5761

“Easy now, son,” another elder, Bartram Barrington, rumbled, stroking his rounded chin. “It’s not that we don’t believe you, but this is just too absurd. Young man, can you present evidence to prove such marvels?”

Like Garrick, who had died, the council could not reconcile such power with a mere Human Immortal.

Gavin and Yvette felt sweat bead along their brows. They tried to speak, but Arden’s knife-edge glance sliced the words before birth.

Paxton kept his silence, golden eyes fixed on Jared as though he would read the stranger’s soul by sheer will.

Jared, for his part, remained as calm as still water, returning Paxton’s stare without a single flicker of emotion.

To the elders, that silence resembled not confidence but the hollow hush of hidden guilt.

Arden gave a chilly snort. “Master, the matter stinks of subterfuge. A drifter of low cultivation boasting impossible might -clearly a demon sect plant using the oldest ruse of all. Detain him, and we shall have the truth by nightfall.”