Chapter 2762

Yet what Conrad did not know was that the real Lord Babbit of the Reyne family had died, and the current Babbit was just a clone of Edmund.

Conrad had pledged his loyalty to Edmund but did not know any of Edmund's secrets. The honest truth was that Edmund hardly saw Conrad as a loyal servant either. Someone so happily willing to abandon their ally in a battle could not be trusted.

Edmund was only accepting of Conrad because he felt Conrad could be used. Conrad's biggest wish was to battle Babbit one day and then take over his power.

To Conrad, doing so would raise his status and even make him more powerful than the City Lord of Babbit, but such a plan was practically laughable to Edmund. It was simply impossible.

Why would Edmund make an enemy out of himself? However, that could become a tactic to control Conrad. Edmund had not fully recovered yet, and he had been stoking the flames between Wilbur and Dalton to get rid of Wilbur.

With the state Wilbur was in, there was no way