“Why were you there? How did you know that there will be an encounter in that place?” Jake questioned Mabelle as he stirred his coffee. “I have my assets. They tell me where there is a scoop, and by chance, that time, it was about the operation of the gang that you encountered. And I saw everything that happened,” the woman replied.Jake exhaled and stretched his neck from left to right. Then he sighed loudly. “Alright. I don't have any choice but to believe that, do I? Now, what about your brother?”The woman looked down at her hands, which were on her lap. Her eyes began to well up with tears. “My younger brother used to work for the Smithsons Pharmaceutical Company. He was an all around employee working for the CEO. But then, he discovered a secret deal concerning an illegal enhancement drug. And he was hunted because of that,” Mabelle narrated. “They thought he would expose that to the public.”“Then what does that have to do with magic?”Mabelle looked him in the eyes. "I saw

Jake told his bodyguards to stay in the car and wait for his orders. Then he asked Sebastian to go with him inside the building. “Your face tells me that something is wrong,” Sebastian said as they both went up the stairs to the entrance of the building. “You look in pain.”“Just ignore me,” Jake replied. “But you have to watch out.”“For what?” “Just prepare yourself,” Jake responded immediately, then came to a halt when he reached the front of the rotating door. “Something is coming, that I can’t tell as of now.” Then he continued to enter the building.Sebastian simply shook his head and stared at Jake's back with an open

“Do you have any last words, Drummond?!” Andrew asked while sneering and looking at Jake. “You wanted to meet my pet, right? Now meet Atlas and be a good food for him!”Ken held onto the wall and pushed himself up from being seated. His right hand, as well as two of his left ribs, were broken. He then weaved a hand sign using his left hand and Atlas, the three headed wolf, was suddenly engulfed with purple glowing magic armor. The creature roared once more and it was so loud that the whole place was shaken.“I must admit that you’re strong,” Ken said while struggling to even step forward. “I would like to see more of what you can do, but we have to end this here.”Jake nodded his head and smiled. “You too. Both of you were indeed very strong. I can prove that with this creature in front of us. And I can’t believe that Anthony got hold of this power in his hands.”“We the Vipers also have our own goals,” Ken replied. “We just work for the Smithsons for money. Money that we will be nee

Every day, the number of unemployed citizens increased, causing the crime rate to rise as well. And the cost of basic necessities continued to rise, while newly discovered diseases spread quickly. Despite this, only the underprivileged were affected, while the rich and billionaires continued to gain power and wealth. Jake returned to his office with Sebastian. He hadn't even sat down when a tanned-skin woman dressed in formal office attire walked in and told him he had a meeting in five minutes. “Can we postpone that? It’s already late,” he said.The woman bowed before answering. “I am sorry, Young master. But this is urgent. The president and the board are expecting you there.”“Is that so? Alright. I’ll be there. I just need to wind up a bit,” he replied with a sigh. Then the woman bowed again, went out, and closed the door gently. “Maybe It’s about the inflation,” Sebastian suddenly said. “It has been affecting us since the beginning of the year and this month is the worst.”

It was already late when Jake got home. He was holding his lower back when he entered the main door of the house and he proceeded to the kitchen to look for food. But there wasn’t anything in the fridge that he liked. So, he just went up to his room and changed into more comfortable clothes.And while removing his shirt, he noticed something on his stomach. It was a long horizontal scar just below his navel on the right side. He touched and examined it in the mirror. It was the spot where he was stabbed with a broadsword in Eldramoria. It wasn't there when he awoke from his coma, so he wasn't sure as to why it had suddenly appeared.Then he suddenly remembered the pain of being stabbed there. “What is happening?” he asked himself while still feeling the scar. There were a lot of questions running that he couldn’t find the answers to. He put on his shirt and sat on the edge of his bed, then dialed Mabelle's number. He could only think of her in relation to the video sent to the cops