Mated to the Beast of the Wasteland (Gillian and Merrick) novel Chapter 306

Chapter 306 See Me as His Brother

Chapter 306 See Me as His Brother

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Maddox watched the two carry out their fruitless search. He opened his wrist terminal and pulled up Merrick’s contact.

He typed, “Gillian has vanished. Send the pear blossom stone here right away. She is in critical danger.”

Chelone Warship cut through the sky.

Merrick was already rushing toward the site.

Nearly all scaled parasites above level 3 had been wiped out in the last major battle.

Only low-ranking grunts remained this time. Freya held control of Blue Phoenix and the Cryolotus Wrist Terminal, dominating the arena from within.

Outside the barrier, level 9 flower beasts and the Sovereign Guard kept the enemy pinned down. The outcome of this battle was already settled.

Merrick traveled toward Gillian without the slightest worry.

Freya messaged him in a spare moment, “Commander, I have unlocked the encrypted files inside the Cryolotus Wrist Terminal using Blue Phoenix. Should I send them to you immediately?”

The scaled parasites were running out of momentum. Freya had cracked the protected documents on the terminal.

She only glanced at the content for a split second before closing the file. Too many hidden truths came with too much mortal danger.

Merrick typed back at once, “Send it over.”

The file arrived almost instantly.

Merrick thought back to what Maddox had said before and opened the classified record without hesitation.

He needed to uncover the whole truth.

The video held evidence left behind by Maddox fourteen years earlier.

The timestamp confirmed the footage dated back exactly fourteen years.

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Merrick took a deep breath and played the video.

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The Cryolotus Wrist Terminal captured far more than just the main subject; it recorded a full 360-degree view of the surrounding environment.

In the recording, Maddox stood quietly in front of a wall of raging fire.

He had only been twenty-five years old back then.

His small figure looked lonely amid the flames, his face still young and inexperienced. Maddox had not always been unshakable and all-powerful.

Merrick kept watching. He saw a boy lying unconscious at Maddox’s feet. The familiar face belonged to ten-year-old Merrick himself.

Merrick rubbed his temples. The scene felt utterly foreign. He had no memory of this moment at all.

He truly could not recall a single thing.

Merrick curled his fingers into a fist, yet he closed his hand around nothing but empty air. A hollow ache settled in his chest.

Merrick composed himself and kept playing the video.

A wall of fire separated them from the woman trapped behind the flames.

Maddox could only watch as the primal core left behind by his birth mother burned away completely and turned into ash.

The woman he had always regarded as his real mother began begging and making excuses. “Maddox, save me. This fire is burning my skin raw.”

Maddox asked coldly, “Why did you try to kill Merrick? What did he ever do to you?”

The woman shook her head frantically. “I never tried to kill him. I was only treating his illness. He will die without this treatment. Please save me. I have always been good to you. How can you treat me like this?”

Maddox saw straight through her lie. “If you were truly my mother, you would not beg for mercy right now. The Cardinal Flame burns flesh to ash, and I cannot put it out. You were the one who gave this power to me.”

Through Maddox’s calm questioning, he exposed her lie and firmly denied that she was

Skylar.

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Only three people knew about the Cardinal Flame: Skylar, Maddox, and himself. It had been a gift from Skylar to Maddox, the last relic she left behind.

No crimson hide could possibly know about it.

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