“Why don’t you show me what you got!” Blake leaped toward Gabe, grinning like a beast full of anticipation and excitement, and unleashed an avalanche of fists, which Gabe blocked with visible effort.The first impact shattered the calm. Following that, each impact caused the towering sunflowers in the distance to dance wildly. Atarah’s hood was also blown back, revealing her face. She had slick-back hair and a chiseled face that could comfortably cut through any man’s heart. She raised her hand and blocked an attack that came out of nowhere.It was Mia’s kick, which was blocked with just Atarah’s forefinger.Mia frowned in shock. (I put my strength into the attack, and she blocked it with a finger? Just how strong is she?)Mia landed on her feet and squatted down to dodge the diagonal kick crafted by Atarah, but she could see that Atarah’s eyes were following her closely. It was as if Atarah could see Mia moving in slow motion.Atarah changed the direction of her kick midway and broug
Atarah saw the explosion on the barrier, and Blake almost got sent out through the first layer of the barrier.“Interesting. Even though you’re not big, your brute strength almost matched Blake,” Atarah tossed Mia aside and turned to face Gabe. “You are definitely worth fighting. But if that’s the best you can do, then you don’t have a chance of defeating me.”“Why are you people here?” Gabe asked her. “What’s your reason?”After seeing Atarah let go of Mia, he didn’t feel the urgent need to fight her. So he was trying to extract as much information as possible.“Didn’t Blake already tell you that you need to defeat him if you want to know why we’re here now?” Atarah replied. Even though there was a glow in her eyes, her lips always made a straight line except when she talked.Gabe’s gaze shifted in the direction of the barrier, where Blake used the barrier as a cushion to bounce off of it and then fly back toward him. “So he’s not done…” Gabe clenched his fist tightly. (I didn’t want
In an open restaurant, Gabriel and Ray were sitting at the same table.Ray didn’t look that comfortable because he had never sat at the same table as Gabriel, so he felt both honored and nervous right now.The waiter brought the premium beef, but before he put it on the table, Gabriel said, “Don’t. It smells like poop. Take it away.”The waiter was shocked by Gabriel’s overly crude remark.“We’ll pay for it, so take it away,” Ray told the waiter. “Bring us water instead.”The waiter nodded and left, still looking shocked.“The oils they used to make that beef are so bad indeed,” Ray said before Gabriel could say anything. “If we eat that, we’ll get sick. If all the other restaurants are like this, then we’ll have a hard time filling our stomachs.”Gabriel opened a file and was reading it. The first page had information on Russell Lynn. “This guy Russell Lynn seems to be quite popular.”“He’s quite successful, indeed,” Ray replied. “He’s a multi-trillionaire, and is called the richest
Gabriel was sitting in the back of a yellow taxi.The driver was whistling as he was hearing news on a radio.“A new ring that can increase any ten stat points has been found by Player Seok,” the radio host said. “He put it up for an auction, and it was sold for 182,000 dollars last night. I wish I could find such a rare item as well.”“A mere game item was sold for such a high price?” Gabriel said. “What game is it?”“Obviously, Dream Creed,” the driver excitedly said. “You must be living under a rock if you don’t know about it. More than four billion people play the game, after all. My wife and I also play it. I managed to buy this taxi because I found a rare necklace and sold it for 60K. You don’t come across rare and higher-grade items every day. It took me eight months of playing to get my hands on such an item, but it was totally worth it because I only played for three to four hours every day, and on some days, I didn’t play at all. But my wife is growing as a player and is ear
Frizz, the 63-month-old golden retriever, immediately charged toward the entrance after sensing the threat.It was planning on attacking the intruder and removing the danger, but when Gabriel’s eyes met with the dog’s eyes, Frizz’s feet suddenly hit a brake, and it made a weird sound you make when your soul is frightened out of your body. Tucking its tail between its legs, Frizz ran away in the opposite direction.Regan Creed, the old man in his eighties, stopped throwing grains to the birds. He never heard Frizz or any dog make such a terrified howl. Dogs were masters of acting. Even if you just hit them a little, they could scream like the world was ending. However, Frizz’s scream this time seemed genuine.Moments later, Gabriel entered Regan’s sight.Regan didn’t recognize this old man who was built like a tank. But he could sense hostility from this old man’s eyes. The birds also flew away, as if they could sense the danger.As Gabriel took every step toward Regan, he was finding
A few years earlier.“Why did you have to side with just the Arris family?” Russell was arguing with his grandfather. “You should have allied with the other two families, too.”“I would have if it was possible,” Regan didn’t even want to talk about it. “I wanted the Arris family to build the infrastructure for Creed Zone. That’s all I thought about at that time.”“But the Arris family is not the strongest. It’s the Agnar family that’s the strongest out of the three supreme families,” Russell retorted. “You think they’re going to just watch as you give some of our profits to the Arris family every year? They will wait for the right opportunity and then take revenge on us. They live on a remote continent, Grandpa. They don’t depend on tech like the rest of the world. If they all decide to come at us, I will not be able to do anything to them with my hacking system.”“You can also hack people’s minds and bodies with that system, can’t you?” Regan asked him.“Yeah,” Russell deeply frowned
The air was thick with tension and the scent of impending rain, as Gabe and Atarah were in a stare off like predators that had crossed paths.Atarah’s daggers moved ever so slowly, and the shadows of those daggers danced on the ground and whispered secrets and echoed the horrors of all the souls she had taken with them.The woman, who was infamously known as Steel Rose, by many people in the underground who feared her strength and skill now set her sight on Gabe.She had the habit of hunting treasures and collecting bounties, turning the hearts of men to dust in the process.Now, she was planning on at least turning Gabe’s heart to ice.“As you wished, I’ll force you to spit out everything,” Atarah stepped ahead, her dagger releasing a burst of cold energy that froze the surface of the earth and the nearby plants and bottom parts of the trees.Even Gabe’s legs were covered with frost, but he released lightning and easily freed himself before he thrust his palm forward.Gabe’s palm met
The rose white petals attacked Gabe while the dagger attacked Mia. This was a move which showcased just how much experience Atarah had got over the likes of Gabe and Mia.These people from the Agnar clan were all battle-hardened, after all.Gabe used all his speed to dodge the attacks and rush in Mia’s direction, but Atarah brought her foot in between and made him fall and roll.The dagger rose out of the ground right in front of Mia, soaring straight at her heart, seeking to turn it into ice.In that fraction of a second, Mia’s adrenaline rushed because she didn’t want to die. The fear of dying brought out something that was bound to happen one day.Yellow petals formed out of thin air and swirled around the dagger and brought it to a halt right before it hit Mia’s heart.Atarah’s expression changed as she saw the yellow petals shimmering gently under the sunlight.{You have achieved the Lunar Blossom!} Stemmer’s excited voice rang in Mia’s mind. {Even though it’s late afternoon, the