Invisible Security Guard-Chapter 2253 - 2272: Soren Simon Wants to Remarry

"You’re getting harder and harder to figure out!" Ayden Acme flew alongside Yusuf Zuck, constantly observing him.

"In what way am I hard to figure out?" Yusuf Zuck asked, baffled.

"Those two snow demons said they wanted to give you a strange treasure, and they are probably hanging around here for that treasure. Yet, you refused without even thinking about it. Really... haha, it’s quite eye-opening!"

"Come on, I thought it was something serious. But do you think your granddaddy Yusuf lacks treasures? What treasure doesn’t your granddaddy have?"

"Whose granddaddy are you?" Ayden Acme said, half laughing, half crying.

"Haha, anyway, I’m not interested in any strange treasures. Today I spared them because the lady is with child, and I couldn’t bear to kill them. What I admire most is steadfast couples!"

"They all say that when disaster strikes, spouses fly apart, but there’s still beauty in this world. A husband protects his wife, and a wife looks after her husband, which is worthy of respect."

"Absolutely, if it’s your choice, then stand by it, even if it means death!"

"I like the sound of that," Yusuf Zuck nodded.

"Where are we headed now?" Ayden Acme asked.

"To the great city of Dante Stewart! After I help you swipe that treasure, I’ll be truly free. Otherwise, I still owe you a favor."

"Haha, no rush to repay my favor."

"No way, we agreed before. Once I repay your favor, we part ways with a farewell!"

"Farewell with what? With oil?" Ayden Acme asked, confused.

"It means goodbye, going our separate ways, haha!" Yusuf Zuck laughed heartily.

Ayden Acme nodded, looking a bit resigned, without saying anything.

The two flew toward the direction of the Northern Dark Sea, without using the Spacetime Door to travel. They still wanted to find out what was happening with Patrick Ruiz’s realm.

After flying for three days and four nights, they passed another large city, and Ayden Acme told Yusuf Zuck that this city was called Nine Cauldron City, the Clan stronghold of the Simon family and the main city of the Simon family.

"Why have we come here?" Yusuf Zuck frowned.

"Just passing through, have to. Do you want to enter?" Ayden Acme asked.

"Let’s go in. Anyway, no one knows us here. Let’s go in and find out what’s going on—whether those young folks have reappeared and what’s happening with the Ten Great Clans. I believe there will be definite news in Nine Cauldron City!"

"Okay, let’s go in." Ayden Acme nodded, and the two swiftly landed.

This Nine Cauldron City has nine corners, and in each corner sits a giant cauldron, towering ten thousand feet and stretching beyond sight. The cauldron is black, and it’s unknown what material it’s made from. The nine cauldrons form nine corners, connecting into a circle that tightly encloses Nine Cauldron City.

Approaching this Nine Cauldron City, Yusuf Zuck could feel the supreme majesty and Supreme Divine Power emanating from the nine cauldrons.

It would be challenging for outsiders to break through the city’s barrier. Though the Simon family ranks last among the Ten Clans, it’s still extremely formidable.

"The Simon family’s nine cauldrons are made from Earth Heart Stone, with each cauldron taking ten thousand years to refine. So the construction of Nine Cauldron City took a total of ninety thousand years!"

"For ninety thousand years, the Simon family dared nothing else but built this city and forged the nine cauldrons. Although they are ranked tenth, Nine Cauldron City’s defenses are the strongest. They know their weaknesses, and so the weaknesses become their strengths."

"That’s grand, ninety thousand years..." Yusuf Zuck stood in speechless awe, the Simon family’s scale is unimaginable.

"But what is the Earth Heart Stone?"

"Earth Heart Stone is an ancient rock from the beginning of Patrick Ruiz’s time, not only imbued with the power of Patrick Ruiz but also incredibly hard. Due to its hardness, it’s nearly impossible to refine. It takes the entire clan’s effort and ten thousand years to refine just one cauldron. Once completed, no fire in the world can damage the nine cauldrons."

"What about the Eternal Fire, how about that?" Yusuf Zuck chuckled.

"That... there’s no record of that yet, but if you use the Eternal Fire, it probably won’t be easy to refine the nine cauldrons either. It would take some time."

"That makes sense." Yusuf Zuck nodded. The Tree of Eternity has grown into a towering tree, with incredibly powerful flames, but the cauldrons have been forged over and over again, refined to perfection, and thus will be very hard indeed.

"Everything seems normal, and people passing by look cheerful. It seems nothing significant has happened; it’s only been two hundred days." As the two queued to enter the city, they observed that the atmosphere in Nine Cauldron City seemed good, not tense at all.

"Hmm." Yusuf Zuck nodded, it seemed like nothing had happened.

...

Two hours later, the two sat in a tavern, drinking, having gathered enough information. Nothing had happened in Patrick Ruiz’s realm. In fact, in the past two days, the Simon family had something to celebrate: Soren Simon was getting married!

That’s right, getting married. Even though the old guy has plenty of grandchildren, he’s throwing a massive wedding!

Indeed, it’s a proper marriage, not the kind of marrying a concubine, but a formal marriage with a grand feast, even bowing to ancestors.

Soren Simon’s wife passed away a long time ago, and although he hasn’t lacked women over the years, the position of a formal wife has remained vacant. Now he’s marrying again, formalizing a second wife!

Logically speaking, in Patrick Ruiz’s realm, no family head remarries after a wife’s death. They can have countless concubines and indulge nightly, but they cannot remarry because remarrying will cause chaos in a family.

Your son is the family head, in charge of everything. If you marry this young one as a wife, your son has to call her mother, and then her son becomes the firstborn son, competing with the children from the first wife for status!

Thus, a clan becomes chaotic. Consequently, no one remarries; they don’t lack women, so why remarry? Why appoint a new wife?

But Soren Simon, this old guy, is holding a grand remarriage, announcing it to the world, even sending invitations to the other Nine Great Families for the old ancestors to witness and drink at the wedding!

Of course, whether the old ancestors come or not is up to them, reliant on Soren Simon’s reputation.

"Is Soren Simon going overboard?" Ayden Acme rubbed his forehead.

"Marrying a concubine as a wife is something even small clans wouldn’t do. Has the old guy gone mad, wishing chaos upon his family?"

"His sons and grandchildren aren’t handling it, so why should you care? Let’s drink to that!"

"I feel it’s not just that simple. What’s that old guy Soren Simon up to?" Ayden Acme scratched his new stubble.

"Why don’t we stick around and see if anything happens? It feels unusual, there could be a story!" Ayden Acme suggested.

"A story?" Yusuf Zuck squinted his eyes, indeed, the old guy Soren Simon seemed a bit off.