Chapter 045 – An Unexpected Sudden Turn of Events

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‘Why—why is he asking an outsider such a question and not me, his project supervisor? Moreover, why is he being so respectful?’ Barth wondered in fear and upon guessing what the answers to his questions could be, his face turned pale.

"Sir—sir Patriarch, are you perhaps speaking to me?" he asked hopefully. But in the next moment, his hope was shattered as he saw the Old Man completely ignoring him as if he didn't feel his existence.

Barth was enveloped in a wave of coldness.

Meanwhile, David, who was the most stunned by the recent events—confused about how someone as powerful as the patriarch of the renowned Blackwood family would know and show respect to his son—forcefully shook his head to clear his confusion upon witnessing the lack of response Barth had just received.

‘This must be a godsend chance for survival,’ he thought, his dead hope reawakening.

Without hesitation, David rushed his frail body toward the old man, wanting to fall to his knees when Xavier, who saw t