They all call me Great Master-Chapter 613 - 610: Secret!

To subjugate the prideful is no simple task.

If possible, Arthur would have preferred to rely on time to establish a good relationship, and then use that relationship as a bond to tie their interests together, making them inseparable.

But Arthur lacked time.

So, Arthur had no choice but to select another method—

Suppression!

Or, to be more precise, shatter the pride of the prideful.

And to shatter what the prideful took pride in was no small feat.

Just like facing Lady Amanda before him.

Arthur needed not only his identity as the 'legitimate Orange Cat,' but also to demonstrate the strength of the 'contemporary Orange Cat,' and beyond that, the strength of the new Black Cat Faction.

Although that was only the 'strength criterion' he had drawn out through his second Exquisite Human Puppet Grindelwald.

But who knows this?

Even if Didian, Sapir, Longbain, and Garcia, who were involved, were asked, they would only think that joining the Black Cat Faction required being at the Great Arcana Level.

And that was enough.

Enough to deceive Lady Amanda in front of him.

Of course, there was still that tiny bit missing from the key point.

So—

"A dead end is no reason to sink into despair.

To wallow in self-pity...

That is!"

As he spoke, Arthur saw the look of bitterness emerge on the lady's face.

Arthur knew the time had come.

Without delay, the young Spirit Medium continued.

"Are you willing to join my new Black Cat Faction to make the name of Cat Faction.Black more fitting? Or do you prefer to continue with the status quo?

I won't give you advice.

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Your life can only be ruled by you.

I will stay in South Los for about another week, and before I leave South Los for Inner Bay, I hope you can give me an answer."

Having said this, Arthur turned as if to leave again.

But in his heart, Arthur had already determined the answer.

The prideful, even if their pride is shattered, will not sink as a result.

Their broken prideful heart is bound to be patched up and picked up again.

And then?

Naturally, to return to the pinnacle.

What Arthur had seen in the Phantom Realm of the past leaders of Cat Faction.Black, Cat Faction.Raccoon, and Cat Faction.Flower said it all.

And the descendants of these leaders?

There might be unworthy descendants.

But certainly not including Lady Amanda.

If Lady Amanda were truly resigned to decadence, she wouldn't have stopped him just now.

Now?

The same applies.

"Wait!"

Lady Amanda spoke up again.

"Do you have something else?"

Arthur asked.

"Yes, about Cat Faction.Raccoon and Cat Faction.Flower—about their sudden disappearance back then, does your Cat Faction.Orange know anything?"

The lady nodded and then asked directly.

About this matter, Arthur knew.

In the notes of the Demon Hunter Old Sunk, Arthur had found out these details.

But as for the exact reasons for their disappearance, the notes did not say, and Arthur did not know.

However, at this time, he couldn't show that.

Therefore, Arthur restrained his smile, shook his head, and then raised his right hand, placing his index finger to his lips.

Without saying anything, just one gesture.

But it was enough of an explanation.

Watching Arthur with an "I know, but I can't tell" expression, Lady Amanda let out a soft sigh.

Then the lady gestured for Arthur to return to the shop.

Pulling out a chair, she sat down and murmured to herself,

"Is there indeed a 'Great Secret'?

At that time, the Cat Faction. Raccoon and Cat Faction. Flower leaders suddenly sent messages saying they had deciphered the solution left by our ancestors to the 'dead end ahead' problem.

That moment coincided precisely with the critical breakthrough made by the leader at the time.

Moreover, on the previous evening, that leader had told the successor that it shouldn't start from 'Ascend Step' or 'Entry', but from the very first 'Ritual'.

All three nearly simultaneously deciphered the puzzles left by 'Holy Era' leaders.

It was all too coincidental.

The leader at the time found it strange, but even stranger was that afterwards the Cat Faction. Raccoon and Cat Faction. Flower leaders sent out distress signals.

The contemporary leader immediately entrusted everything to the heir and ordered us to relocate; then, without delay, set off, only to encounter an ambush by those bastards!"

As she spoke, Lady Amanda clenched her fists.

Arthur's skills of Eagle Eye and Insight had been flashing incessantly since just recently.

He was checking if Lady Amanda was lying.

Even though she was from the Cat Faction, Arthur's guard remained up.

And quickly, Arthur came to a conclusion.

The lady had not lied.

However...

She had held something back!

To this, Arthur was not surprised.

The lady's age and hidden identity would naturally make her cautious in handling matters.

If she told everything to Arthur, an 'outsider'.

Then Arthur would be wary.

Even though he had revealed the phantom of an 'Orange Cat', their relationship was not so intimate.

Bearing one's soul without such intimacy meant setting a trap for the other party.

But this bad situation did not occur, allowing Arthur to breathe a sigh of relief and begin analyzing the lady's words.

Clearly, the other three Cat Faction leaders who witnessed Aeolia 'creating a new path' also established their factions' 'paths'.

However, these three must have realized they lacked a 'boost' like Mimi.

Therefore, to fundamentally solve the problem, it is undeniable that the talents of these three were truly astonishing; they managed to diminish the difficulty of 'Ascend Step' by changing the 'initial Ritual' and 'Entry Ritual'.

But...

Why not tell directly rather than having later generations decipher it?

This could not be explained away by any trite rationale about not appreciating what comes too easily.

Clearly, those three leaders had no choice but to do so.

And afterwards!

At the end of the Silver Age, the sudden messages from the Cat Faction. Raccoon and Cat Faction. Flower, leading to the incident where the Black Cat was ambushed!

It all reeked of intrigue.

Especially the fact that both factions of Cat Faction. Raccoon and Cat Faction. Flower disappeared.

This made Arthur even more concerned.

'What happened back then?'

Arthur pondered deep inside.

But on the surface, the young 'Spirit Medium' remained calm, simply saying in a soft voice—

"What was taken from us will be returned.

In tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold manner."

No grand statements, just a straightforward declaration.

Yet within that simple statement lay Arthur's subtlety.

He had said 'our'.

He had also kindled 'hatred'.

Being in the same camp against the same enemy naturally garnered considerable favor.

Not to mention, Arthur's earlier groundwork made such favor come bursting forth.

Lady Amanda sitting across from him lifted her head, seizing the 'opportunity' provided by Arthur's words, she directly responded—

"If that's the case, we too are willing to lend a hand."