***** The Vanguard went completely blank and wouldn’t return to his senses even after a long time. “I must have misheard,” he finally mumbled to himself and shook his head hard. “What did you just say happened to my daughter?” he asked again, doing his best to maintain a calm voice that came out sounding hysteria. “Ma…” The driver yelled again, but before he could speak further, the Hacker interrupted. “We are very sorry, master, we failed to protect the young mistress,” he said with regret and resignation, knowing that there was nothing to hide anymore since the beans were already spilled. The Vanguard, realizing he hadn’t misheard the first time, suddenly shook, and the cell phone he was holding fell hard to the floor. He trembled hysterically before also falling to his butt. “Master! Are you okay?!” a guard near the middle-aged man rushed to support him. However, as the guard took a few steps closer to the Vanguard, an invisible force struck him, causing him to explode, sca
***** ‘Where is this warm energy coming from?’ In the car, Olivia, who had fallen asleep for a while suddenly thought from her subconscious mind and in the next second, her eyes flustered before snapping open. What she saw next was the side profile of an incredibly handsome young man who was focused on the road ahead with a serious face, seemingly to be pondering something. ‘So handsome!’ Olivia unconsciously thought and following that, her heart became filled with butterflies. ‘Is this the usual saying that real men typically become even more handsome whenever they are busy?’ She pondered, unable to tear her gaze away from the handsome face. Had it been when Olivia was still refusing to accept her feelings for Ares, she wouldn’t have bothered to fantasize about him and would have even forced herself to think of him in a repulsive way. Now, however, her heart was only filled to the brim with love and she subconsciously squeezed the hand holding hers, causing Ares to promptly look
***** Neither Ares nor Olivia spoke another word throughout the rest of the ride home, yet, even the slightest trace of tension could be felt in the car, instead, it was filled to the brim with love and affection. And upon the couple’s face, unhidden excitement was heavily etched. “We are here,” Ares stated as he packed in front of the not-so-big nor small villa, startling Olivia up from her reverie. “So quick,” she responded subconsciously before making the effort to open the door. Before she could, however, Ares had already opened it for her, saying; “You are in a fragile condition now, so, I wouldn’t want you to stress yourself again.” “You!!!” Olivia immediately glared at Ares with a red face, embarrassed to the core. Ares only winked playfully at her and with that, he helped Olivia out of the car, ignoring her untruthful angry look. They turned around to walk to the villa when they saw Ava, standing with a thunderstruck expression on her face as she gaped at both Ares and
***** Meanwhile, on an island in Rex City, which Olive had purchased a few weeks ago, a massive cargo ship was docking right now. Standing ashore, a few men in black stood with a tense expression on their faces, staring at the Cargo ship. "Have you guys figured out why the master is deploying all the brothers here?" one of the three leaders in front of the men on the shore asked, glancing to the side, but the other two shook their heads. "Master wanted us to blow up the entire city before, but now that his order is for us to stop and he’s coming himself, what right do we have to speculate?" One of them inquired while the second one only frowned. Seeing that he wouldn’t be receiving any response, the man who had asked the question shook his head before looking back toward the ship. By this time, the Cargo ship was already done ducking. "March!" the three men at the front barked in unison and following their command, the men in black behind them marched forward in a highly discip
*****Inside a living room that was filled to the brim with a tense atmosphere, four people sat in absolute silence.Two of them had faces etched heavily with shock and disbelief while one of them was filled with nervousness, as for the last of them, no matter how much he tried to hide it, the look of pride and joy on his face was just too obvious.These four people were Ava, Smith, Olivia, and Ares.Ava and Smith just learned the news of their daughter’s condition, that she is pregnant for Ares.The news was just too shocking that even the usually fierce Ava couldn’t react for a long time.She and her husband sat with their mouths and eyes wide open, gaping at their daughter as though she had just revealed a heaven-and-earth destructive level of news.This silence lasted for almost an hour before finally, Ava suddenly shook her head.“I must be dreaming,” she mumbled to herself, then she slowly rested her back against the couch backrest and then shut her eyes, dumbfounding Ar
***** Mason had been completely busy and engrossed in preparing for the next day’s action after returning to the villa that day. He had even utterly forgotten about the men he gave the task to monitor Ares round the clock, but that was before he received a sudden message from them. At first, Mason was too lazy to check the message, however, he changed his mind after thinking that it might be an important message. The content of the message was; «We’ve gotten a piece of important intel which might be important, concerning the target.» Mason’s eyes immediately constricted upon reading this. “A piece of important intel that might be important to me?” He mumbled to himself before suddenly, a sort of fear took over his heart. ‘Hope it isn’t that that bastard had found out that I’ve been busy laying around traps for him?’ The instant this thought crossed his mind, Mason became terrified. Perhaps, he wouldn’t even have gone through the trouble of being bothered to poison Ar
*****“You are telling me that that so-called Vanguard who had outright rejected my goodwill to join my sect is also determined to kill the so-called grandmaster you have found?”Inside a dark meeting place, the grand elder who presently pressed his phone against his ears asked.He had initially not wanted to answer the call, given how he was in an intense meeting.However, hearing what his son had just reported to him, his mood became even more great.“This is great.” He suddenly laughed, scaring everyone in the meeting place as they had never seen him laugh before.Even Mason, who was at the other end of the call was scared badly.He hurriedly checked the ID of the person he was calling, to make sure he hadn’t made a mistake. However, seeing that it was really his father, he swallowed hard.‘Have… have I bathed the wrong soap?’ he thought as his heart began to pound hysterically.However, it looked like his father hadn’t finished giving his shock, as his next word finally s
*****“You think a no-name person would be capable of killing the enemy we weren’t able to kill even after deploying almost all the power of our sect times without number?” The Patriarch inquired, sounding incredibly disappointed.The grand elder immediately understood why no one was excited about the news he just shared.‘No wonder nobody else but me could be the brain of this sect,’ he thought with a sigh in his mind before carefully looking at the Patriarch.“Number one, we don’t know whether the grandmaster found is the same one we had fought against for centuries,” he suddenly stated calmly, no longer showing any of his previous excitement.Before anyone could react, the elderly man continued. “It might be that person’s descendant, moreover, even if it’s that person, for him to have shown his face now after disappearing for some years only indicated that they are now very certain of their strength.”Everyone’s brows immediately furrowed, hearing the grand elder’s explanatio