Chapter: *An* *Escape* *Plan*
The black robed, dark figure radiated a bloodthirsty and ruthless aura, he beamed a smile at the group. For a moment there, it caused their mind to grow tranquil and see this youth in a good first impression.However, Greenwood was shaking, his pupils constricted into a tiny dot and his mouth hang open."Special adviser?!" Greenwood managed to blurt out those words.The rest expression darkened, sweat drenching their backs.'isn't this the special adviser, Greenwood relied on for Intel? We were being set up!'Parker held the pendant of the necklace in his palm, it's warm glow giving him a slight reassurance, that he should be able to escape."Greenwood, pleasing to see you here" The youthful figure smirked, a red light flashes from his eyes."It's not pleasing to see you here. What's going on, old friend?" Greenwood couldn't simply believe the man had most likely betrayed him, so he still had a sliver of hope, that all this was a joke."What's going on? Your burial of course" The President answered instead.Greenwood's expression warped with terror and he shook his head."So it seems, you have been scheming against me since the beginning, isn't that right?" Greenwood's eyes turned blood red, he stared at the special adviser."Scheme? Lol, you were merely a pawn in the chess board, I just catfished you and let you do the rest. Your death will leave one less problem for the people, vile scum" The Special adviser ridiculed Greenwood with contempt and disdain.Greenwood roared with laughter, a hint of craziness could be felt."If I should be correct, the president didn't suffer any backlash, eh?" Greenwood looked crazy."That's correct but my main body isn't here at the moment. This clone has 60% of my full power but that's enough to kill you lots countless times" The President chuckled.Parker subconsciously breathed a slight sigh of relief, the president using a clone gives him a faint flicker of hope to escape successfully.Greenwood's squinted his eyes and a strange force transmitted information directly into the minds of Roy, Parker and Sharon."This is a set up. The plan is to escape right now, I will handle the special adviser, you lots should stall the Clone together, I have already activated a spatial disk, we just need to survive this for 5 more mins and we're out. Understood?" Greenwood stretched out his hand and the obsidian scepter appeared, he didn't wait for their replies.Without a moment of hesitation, an extremely blood red color dyed the void in crimson, turning the space to something akin to a purgatory. A bloodthirsty and savage aura erupted from Greenwood, the domain manifested, surged to envelope the black robed figure.The president smirked and was about to flick his sleeves when multiple domain pressures emerged, the stifling presences caused his expression to change a bit.A starry-like splendor covered the crimson void, brilliant rays of light twinkled, akin to stars studded in the universe, several nebulae could be seen within it, it's view was breathtaking but at this moment, it's domain pressure was terrifying.A gigantic snake, several thousands of metres in length appeared with the starry-like domain, it's predatorial gaze swept across the surroundings, causing even space to shudder, it's scales were shimmering with black and gold, a horn jotted out of it's head, although, it didn't superimposed with the starry-like domain but it's presence within it, suddenly doubled the terrifying pressure emanated.A sea of white bones surged into existence underneath the tail of the gigantic snake, the bones had a strange lustre and life, it seemed as if they were brimming with life force, ghastly ghoul energy shot out from them, faint cries and howls sounded out from the bones, striking out terror in the hearts of the onlookers."Astral domain!""Giant snake domain!""Ghoul domain!"All their voices superimposed to form a cacophony.# BOOOOMMMM!!An enormous amount of energy sprayed in multiple direction, causing an energy cloud to form. Within the cloud, crackling blue flashes of light snaked through. Greenwood took two steps back, the sweet sensation of blood in his throat reminded him of the damage, he had taken.A terrifying figure flicked his sleeves and the energy cloud dissipated, blue lightning snakes writhing around his body, forming something akin to a suit of armour, the person looked like a thunder god. Blue flashes of light covered his body, the blood red domain of Greenwood was meaningless.The black robed figure snorted and it's body tore through space."Lightning Overdrive!" The man's voice reverberated through the noise of thunder rumbling.His body writhed in lightning, already struck Greenwood before his voice could be heard despite the fact, he had spoken before actually attacking.Greenwood flew backwards through the void, like a kite with it's strings cut, coughing up blood.Greenwood was shocked, the man was so fast, he couldn't react before getting hit.Numerous charred flesh and burn marks was on his body, his robe had also burnt but just the chest region, afterall, it wasn't just ordinary.Greenwood managed to stabilize himself and thrust the space towards the incoming enormous lightning man, speeding in his direction, the scepter's tip radiated a strange light, seemingly causing every energy particles to become slow and even space to be twisted, the surrounding space seemed to have folded and sluggish.The writhing flash of blue light got caught in this folded space but it was ruthlessly torn apart, thunderous booms echoed out, drowning all sounds in it's wake, the figure's fingers held the tip of the scepter as if it was nothing. Countless blue bolts of lightning struck down, forming a lightning cage around Greenwood."You are weak, boy. Just like the rest of them. You think, you can hold me down? Hahahahaha, a mere top silver ranker like you can't compare to a peak Silver ranker as myself" The special adviser voice sounded out, the thunderous booms had quieted down.....In another part of the battlefield.The three powerful domains stacked together to create a terrifying pressure to suppress the president, although the three domains couldn't fuse due to lack of similarities and complex nature, the stacked effect was still something, hardly any silver ranker could withstand it.However, the clone of the president wasn't just 'any' Silver ranker, this was 60% of a gold ranker.The president stretched out his hand and it seemed as if the void was collapsing, the hand grew in size until it became the skies, covering everywhere, not even the starry domain or the giant snake nor the sea of bones could impede it's movement.Chapter: *Half-step* *Gold* *Ranker*The hand stretched out and grasped space, the stacked domains sounded akin to a fragile glass falling on a hard ground. The starry universe's stars exploded one after the other, even the nebulae couldn't withstand the force, it crumbled and exploded. The gigantic ephemeral snake that looked so realistic, it felt like it actually real, however, it was shrieking, multiple wound marks started surfacing on it's scales. The hand that resembled the heavens pressure caused the snake's wound marks to grow larger and more frightening till it's body started collapsing and it exploded. Sharon staggered backwards, coughing up blood with every step taken, her face was as white as a sheet of paper, her aura grew increasingly weaker, her golden body dimmed. It was evident, she had taken a serious injury in her cultivation.The seas of bones seemingly wailed and screamed in terror, the mountain of bones shuddered tremendou
Chapter: *Severely* *Damaged*Countless streams of light converged into a gigantic pathway in the skies, the residents of a town raised their heads into the skies. This blinding light was almost rivaling the intense sunlight in the skies and it was very eye-catching. Suddenly, the pathway shuddered tremendously and exploded into motes of light, dissipating in the air. Three strange figures fell from the explosion, smoke rising from their bodies, forming a trail as they fell.# THUDD!They crashed into a building, kicking up thick smokes of dust and wreckage. The residents of the building screamed in alarm and people gathered around immediately. Suddenly, they all gave way to a black robed, old man looking like he was in his sixties, his back was hunched but the powerful undulations of a yellow ranker could be felt on him, his white eyebrows were very droopy and his eyelids had almost covered his eyes as if he was asleep. The man placed his hand behind his back and walke
Chapter: *Gathering*In a vast space, towering trees and scattered rocks covered this plain, breaking the resplendent rays of the sunlight. A gigantic metallic grey mansion stood on the precipice of a mountain, thick miasmic fog of clouds enshrouded it's surroundings, multiple colors of light flickered on it's color, giving it a mysterious look. If one looked at it from afar, it looked like it was floating in the air. It exuded a terrifying presence, even a silver ranker wouldn't dare approach this mansion casually, it looked akin to an ancient primordial beast, infact, anyone below gold-ranker couldn't come 15 metres close to the mansion, an invisible pressure would push the person out. What was even more shocking was the horrifying fluctuations of multiple gold-rankers coming from the insides. In an extremely decorated room, multiple jade crystals were imbedded in the walls, sending out it's colored light spilling across the room. Seven figures sat down around a long tabl
Chapter: *Hidden* *Agenda*Royal prince Seyi stroked his chin thoughtfully."The Royal capitol will help you investigate and quell some of your troubles, this is you having our backing openly but the only catch is, we get 10% more resources shipped into our kingdom" Seyi gazed at the President with a smile. The President's facial muscles twitched uncontrollably, as if he's about to burst but he managed to suppress it and took a deep breath. 'Hmph. You bunch of scoundrels, exploiting me in my moment of weakness, if not because of Sapa Nation is significantly divided, your royal capitol wouldn't even be qualified to have a trade deal with us'.The president gritted his teeth. "Deal!" The President managed to say. Royal Prince Seyi naturally knew what he was thinking but he merely smiled. Afterall, they were all adept schemers and taking advantage of another is the most appropriate thing to do in this situation, it's a dog eat dog world. Only the strongest gets to make a decis
Chapter: *Syrie*"Terrorist? Give me full details, Ignox" A slight crease furrowed the head doctor's brows, he reclined on his chair, a spark of light seemingly igniting in his eyes. "Ahem! The three mysterious people in your hospital sir are named Sharon Madison, Parker Lasso and Roy Kent. They allegedly attacked the President in his secret meditation chamber with the infamous Greenwood but thankfully, the president prevailed and captured Greenwood. Alas, the other three escaped and are now seen in this territory, heavily injured. There's no mistaking it, sir. The president has issued a bounty on their heads" Ignox quickly explained in detail, his expression respectful and indifferent. Ignox held not just respect for this man but more apparent is fear, terrifying and bone-deep fear rooted in him. There was no doubt, Ignox knew the monstrous background this man came from. He had simply came to this town to gain worldly experience and not even the village head knew of his backgrou
Chapter: *Offer*Roy assessed his current condition and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. But thinking about it logically, his life and death was indeed within this man's hand. If he was at his peak condition, perhaps he had a chance of resisting the man and even successfully escape with his life intact.But as it is, he couldn't even muster a hundredth of his strength, he was almost no different from a regular human. Just slightly stronger but this little bit of strength is negligible. "Very well. Apart from getting cover from the presidential gaze, what else do I get in return?" Roy has sense an elaborate scheme in this and he was just going to be one of the little pieces. "Well, as an honorary guest of my clan, anywhere you go, you will reserve preferential treatment and we assure you cultivation resources but pertaining to the merits you have performed for the clan. And if you add the cover up then it isn't a bad offer, no?" Syrie leaned against the wall. The smile of h
Chapter: *The* *Lasso* *Family*The woman had a graceful bearing and kingdom-toppling beauty, her bearing could hint anyone, she is from a noble family and her every movement exuded such grace and nobility. Her skin was pale white and looked without blemish, she looked similar to those K-pop artist in our world. The white haired man named Hiruzen raised his head and the phantom like expanse of the universe behind his back disappeared, his expression eased up a bit and became more gentle. "And we ain't a pushover, we have been existing in this sapa nation since time immemorial, almost as long as the imperial family. Talking about history, we have the deepest save the imperial family. If he thinks, he can leisurely pin some blames on us then he's sorely mistaken" A terrifying glint seemingly exploded from his eyes, causing those around to shiver subconsciously. "Indeed but I don't think, we can go head-to-head with the President just yet. The President had manag
Chapter: *Moving* *On*Thomas rubbed his chin in thought, it seems, he was struggling with something within him. "Fine! I will double your fee, Mr. Thomas. Don't you dare push it!" Hiruzen sighed. This Thomas has always been a reliable source of Intel for the family for more than a decade now but he had never accepted the multiple offers to be a part of it and the reason was because, Thomas love staying on the sideline, if he joined the Lasso family then he would be forced to interfere in any of their personal matters and this is something, he chose not to do. But this doesn't stop him from giving out information once in a while, Thomas is one of the most rooted members of the society with expanded influence into the government, sects, families and all. Although, this had incurred the ire of numerous organizations to try and silence him but he has surprisingly survived countless assassinations and ambushes. "Hahahaha. Since you have put it like tha