Chapter 189
Author: Rex Magnus
last update2024-11-25 22:48:44

*****

It was as if the souls of everyone present had been ripped from their bodies right now, leaving behind lifeless bodies.

No one moved, not the landlord, not Selene, not the two still-baffled officers, and the stunned crowd.

Every single person other than Darius had been so sure that Xavier was finished—that he’d be pummeled into an unrecognizable heap, or, if fortune favored him, left a cripple. But the reality before them was a brutal contradiction.

Their eyes continued darting from the four immobile bodies on the ground to Xavier, who continued standing calm and unarmed, and back again, bewilderment twisting their faces. At the same time, their minds raced with different questions they had no idea how to voice.

This suspended moment seemed to drag on for what felt like a torturous eternity until, eventually,

“I’ve always heard that people tend to become nice once they are nearing their graves,” a sudden calm, emotionless, and unhurried voice echoed, slicing through the si
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