Overlord - Power of the Dragon

The moment he saw Jacob emerge, Bill was filled with delight. He then ran up to Jacob.

"You're finally here, young man. This way, please." Holding onto Jacob's hand, Bill heaved a sigh of relief.

"Mr. McMillan, since I have made you a promise, I would definitely turn up." Jacob was cognizant that Bill was worried that he would stand him up.

Feeling embarrassed, Bill could only smile awkwardly. Please after you young man.

Given how servile Bill was behaving, everyone in the hotel wondered who Jacob was.

When Stefanie saw how proudly Jacob was walking in contrast to her obeisant father, she fumed, "What's wrong with you? My father had waited for you at the door for half an hour, and didn't you notice that his condition seems to be deteriorating? Do you even know how to heal someone?"

Stefanie had resented Jacob from the very beginning. However, she gave him the benefit of the doubt after being impressed by how he stopped Bill's condition from getting worse.

A short while later, when she noticed Bill's cheeks losing color again, she felt Jacob was a scammer, looking to cheat them out of their money.

"Stefanie, stop making a fuss and apologize at once," Bill barked with a stern look on his face.

"There's no way I'm going to do that. Look, he's barely a fully grown man. How can he be a miracle doctor? I think he's nothing but a con artist."

Glaring at Jacob, she felt he was the reason Bill didn't want to see the doctor.

When Stefanie refused to obey him, Bill was so furious that he began to have trouble breathing.

Cough! Cough!

Just when he was about to speak, Bill ended up coughing intensely instead.

Dad! Stefanie dashed forward to support Bill.

Nevertheless, she was given a fright when she saw the black blood Bill had coughed out.

At the sight of the scene, Jacob furrowed his brows at once. Evidently, Bill's injury was worse than he thought. In fact, he was surprised how Bill managed to survive for so long.

"Quick, carry your dad to a room." Jacob ordered Stefanie, who was already in a panic.

Unfortunately, she didn't move at all because she didn't trust Jacob. Frowning at Stefanie's inaction, Jacob snapped, "Do you want to watch him die?"

After she was shouted at, Stefanie quickly helped Bill to a private room in the hotel.

Inside, Jacob searched for Bill's pulse right away. However, his expression turned grim the moment he did.

While Jacob was treating Bill, a bespectacled man in a white doctor's coat barged into the room.

Dr. Watson quick! Take a look at my dad. He has just vomited blood!" The moment she saw him, Stefanie felt as if she had managed to grasp a sliver of hope.

"What? Let me see." Jonathan, the doctor, quickly opened his medical bag.

"Move away."

Stefanie pushed Jacob aside and held Bill up. "Dr. Watson, my dad's life in your hands now. Please save him!" she pleaded.

At that moment, Bill was close to losing consciousness as his breathing was increasingly labored.

"Don't worry, Ms. McMillan. I will do my best."

Just as Jonathan spoke, he began to take Bill's pulse. The longer he did so, the more intense Jonathan's frown became. Stefanie was unsettled when she noticed his expression and didn't dare make a sound.

"Ms. McMillan, your father's damaged lung is the cause of his hidden ailment. This is a chronic disease that needs to be treated slowly. However, someone has forcefully kicked his immunity system into overdrive. Although it might seem effective in the short run, it would only cause his condition to further deteriorate. I'm afraid Mr. McMillan is in a precarious situation now.

Before I came, who did you bring Mr. McMillan to see?" Jonathan explained in a grave tone.

When she heard the doctor's words, Stefanie flew into a fit of rage and looked in Jacob's direction. It was he who had treated her father just now. As it was just as the doctor had described. Her father did make a turn for the better, but Jacob's method ended up hurting Bill more.

"You con man! If anything happens to my father, I'll never forgive you!" Stefanie roared at Jacob with a scowl on her face.

If not for the fact that she was supporting Bill and could not leave, she would have lunged at Jacob to beat him up.

"How can you accuse me of being a con man? Have I cheated anything out of you? If not for me, your father would have been a corpse by now. I can't believe how ridiculous you can be!" Jacob snorted.

He hated how Stefanie kept insisting he was a scammer and how nasty she was despite being a woman.

"You…"

Despite feeling incensed, Stefanie knew that the priority was saving her father, and it was not the time to argue with Jacob.

"Dr. Watson I beg of you, please try to find a way. Please…"

Stefanie felt so distraught that she was on the brink of tears.

Opening his medical bag, Jonathan took out a black pill and put it into Bill's mouth. Then, he proceeded to open a bag of silver needles and inserted them into Bill's acupoints.

"Doing this won't save him. You will only harm him," Jacob commented when he saw Jonathan's acupuncture technique, making the latter knit his eyebrows.

"What are you trying to say? Do you doubt me? Don't tell me you know acupuncture."

Acupuncture was part of traditional medicine. Unlike modern medicine, where one could master it between three to five years, one needed at least eight to ten years before one could master acupuncture. In fact, some might not even do so despite decades of learning.

Given that Jacob only looked about twenty years old, Jonathan figured that there was no way he would be a master at it, even if he had started learning in his mother's womb.