Memories of the Kane Mansion.
A middle-aged man lay in the master bedroom bed, his face inexplicably flushed, looking gravely ill.
Next to the bed sat a young man, whose features somewhat resembled those of Butler Joyce.
"Cough, cough, I must look terrible, Joyce. You wouldn't despise me, would you?"
The man on the sickbed still had the mood to joke, but the Joyce beside him wore a very sorrowful expression.
"Brandon..."
Joyce gazed at Viscount Kane lying on the bed, unwilling to see his childhood companion, who was like a brother to him, approaching the end brought by death.
But the severe internal damage caused by the failed breakthrough to Legend was beyond Joyce's ability to heal, and what was more crucial was that Brandon's source of Magic Power had completely collapsed. Even if a legendary Priest were present, they would be powerless to reverse the fate.
Moreover, he was but a Legendary Assassin, and Joyce had never felt so powerless.