2024-08-21 09:43:02"You're truly unruly, uneducated, and nothing more than a frog in a well, thinking you're so great!”
Sophia scoffed with disdain.
“That's why I despise talking to someone as lowly as you!"
Alex chuckled, “Believe me, I am trying to be honest here.”
"You? A powerful man?" she sneered, glaring at him with utter disgust.
"You can't even begin to understand how powerful I am or the people I've encountered who are far more powerful than you. They could erase you with just a sneer."
Alex laughed.
"The powerful men you know might be the ones seeking my favor, pleading for me to marry their daughters just to stay in my good graces. Trust me, you're incredibly lucky to have crossed paths with me."
What a braggart!
Sophia rowed her eyes in disgust.
She wanted nothing more than to throw something at his smug face.
How shameless could he be, pretending to be so powerful when all he had was an old military backpack?
"You might pretend not to know me and try to bind me with marriage just to get my money," Sophia retorted.
"But I warn you, that’s never going to happen. If my family finds out I slept with a poor man like you, you’ll be erased from this world. So you’d better keep your mouth shut and forget everything that happened here."
"I…"
"I don’t want to hear another word from you. Now, get out of this room," she demanded, her eyes blazing with fury.
"But…"
Alex tried to protest.
This was his room.
“NOW!”
Yet, seeing the fury in Sophia’s wide eyes, he chose not to argue.
He quietly put on his clothes, grabbed his old military backpack, and looked at Sophia one last time.
"I…"
"Get out!" Sophia’s yelled at the top of her lung.
"Alright."
In the elevator, Alex sighed, running a hand through his hair.
He knew the woman was under the influence of a cruel aphrodisiac, one that would end her life if she didn’t have sex with a man within the hour.
If there were any other way to save her, he would have done it already.
But that kind of sinister poison had no antidote.
"What the hell have I done? I came here to meet my fiancée, but before even meeting her, I’ve already slept with another woman. Maybe this is what they call a legendary bachelor party."
As Alex walked out from the elevator into the lobby, it was around five in the morning.
The hotel was quiet, with only a few people scattered around.
Yet, as he crossed the lobby, a group of men in black—about forty of them—suddenly appeared, forming two lines and bowing deeply as he passed.
He glanced at them with little interest, his expression one of boredom as if this was something he was long tired of.
A middle-aged man stepped forward from the group, kneeling before him in a knight-like stance.
"I am Alfred Kingston, at your service, Young Master," the man declared with reverence.
Alex looked down at him. "Alfred, do you know why I’m here in such simple clothes?"
"Young Master,
please enlighten me," Alfred responded, his head still bowed."I’m here incognito," Alex explained. "And all this unnecessary fuss—are you trying to blow my cover so everyone knows who I truly am?"
"I apologize for my short-sightedness," Alfred quickly stood, turning to the men behind him.
With a swift gesture, he signaled for them to disperse, and the line of men quickly melted away, leaving the lobby empty once more.
"Tell me what you’re here for," Alex said as he walked toward a nearby sofa.
Alfred followed closely behind, like a faithful servant.
"Yes, Young Master," Alfred responded promptly.
He reached into his coat and pulled out a small box.
Opening it, he revealed a black card with gold trim and a .235-carat diamond embedded in the center.
"This is the World First Royale Mastercard. With unlimited credit, just use it as you see fit."
Alfred humbly handed it to Alex.
"This card also comes with a dedicated 24/7 concierge service that is highly personalized for you alone.”
“You’ll have access to a team that can fulfill almost any request, whether it’s securing last-minute reservations at the finest restaurants, arranging private jet travel, or gaining entry to exclusive events.”
“It connects you to the most secretive circles—no one will ever say no to you."
Alex looked at the card without any interest.
Alfred continued.
"I also arranged for the newest Sport car Bugatti La Voiture Noire, a one-of-a-kind model equipped with the latest artificial intelligence technology and self-driving capabilities.”
“But since you are here incognito, I guess you won’t like it, — so here is a villa in case you need to have a long stay."
Alfred explained with caution.
Alex nodded.
"Good to see you understood. I’ll keep the card for emergencies, but you can hold onto all the other gifts you’ve prepared."
“Now, tell me what you want.”
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Chapter 755
Weeks earlier, in the middle of a war with the Black Tower, Beatrix put a stack of purchase orders on Alex’s desk and did not sit down.Rain was coming down the fourth-floor windows in sheets. Below them New Avalon was all wet lamplight and moving umbrellas, and every one of those orders had a Red Tower address within two miles of it.“Explain these to me.”“They’re land purchases.”“I can read.” She pushed the top sheet across. “Warehouse leases. Ninety of them. Every single one sits inside walking distance of a Red Tower branch, and we are currently at war with a completely different tower.”Alex didn’t look up.“Then it’s a good week to buy warehouses. Nobody’s paying attention.”“Alex.”“Sit down, Beatrix.”She sat.…“There are three organisations in this country that want to destroy us,” he said. “Black. Red. Ferrowgate. All three of them are talking to each other and all three of them are waiting to see how the first one goes.”“So you’re preparing for Red before Black is finis
Chapter 754
Red Tower had three hundred red tower and thirty thousand magicians in the Arcanum State.That night, there were almost none of them in a Red Tower.…It was not carelessness. It was the business.Red sells fire by the month. Every forge, every bakery oven, every kitchen stove in the state runs on a flame-charm, and a flame-charm has to be renewed by hand, at the customer’s door, by a man who walks there.Red’s people lived in their own houses. They slept above shops in the market districts, in rented rooms near the harbour, in cottages on the roads out east, so they could be at the first door by seven in the morning on the first of the month."White Tower had summoned every fighter drone, every ex-black-magic recruit, it commanded to attack all of the Red towers."Red Tower never summoned anybody, because it was ambushed.…At the Halloway branch there were twenty-six people inside at midnight.Four cooks. Nine record-keepers. Two men on the gate. A duty elder named Corliss who had d
Chapter 753
Six hours earlier, on the roof of the Regent Group building, a machine the size of a carriage was running in the dark.No lights on it. No sound except a low hum you felt in your teeth.Gaia the Mother AI had gone up the week after thirty men climbed the east stairwell, and it had not been switched off since. Every drone over the White Tower answered it.Every drone over the Regent building. Every drone in the Arcanum State, all the way out to the coast.Alex stood in front of it with his hands in his pockets.“Say it again,” he said.“Two hundred and ninety-six,” Gaia said. “Moving out of the Red Tower’s north gate in nine groups. They are not travelling together and they are not travelling as magicians.”“Where are they going?”“Every route converges on the banquet grounds. Estimated arrival, twenty-one forty.”“Two hundred and ninety-six.” Alex almost smiled. “He rounded up.”…Beatrix found him there twenty minutes later with her coat still on.“Cancel it,” she said.“No.”“Alex,
Chapter 752
For two days the United State of Magic could not talk about anything else, and it kept getting stuck on the same three things.The first was simply that Black had lost.Every person in that country had gone to bed that night knowing how it would end.Thirty thousand magicians against a school for poor children. Two hundred and fifty branches against thirty.Nobody had even been able to get odds on it, because nobody would take the other side.They woke up and Black Tower did not exist.The second thing was worse, in a way, because it was so hard to hold in the head.It had taken one night. Not a siege.Not a season of skirmishes and lawyers and negotiated withdrawals, the way tower wars had always gone.Six and a half hours, start to finish, and by sunrise two hundred and fifty black buildings were standing in white paint with white light burning gently in their grounds.People drove out to look at them. Whole families, in the middle of the week. There were queues on the Dunmoor road.
Chapter 751
"Do not waste words—attack him together!" another elder barked. In an instant, all five raised their hands in sync, channeling their murderous qi into a devastating coordinated strike.Alex watched five old men raise their hands and understood, with complete clarity and no particular drama about it, that he was going to die.There was nothing left.He had put all of it into a dragon's skull an hour ago.He could lift the sword or he could stay standing, and he could not do both, and five men who had been sealed under a floor for thirty years were about to hit him with everything a five-hundred-year-old tower had thought worth saving for the end of the world.He got the blade up anyway.Habit, mostly.The five strikes came at him across the broken courtyard.And went out.Not blocked. Not turned. They came apart in mid-air about eight feet from him, unravelling into nothing at all, and what was left of them fell as harmless grey dust across the flagstones.White light was pouring in fr
Chapter 750
Nobody in the Arcanum State slept that night.By two in the morning it was the only story in the country, and it was still pitch dark, and that was somehow worse — every picture coming in was a picture of something happening in the middle of the night, half-lit, shaky, filmed by people who should have been in bed six hours ago and were instead standing in fields.Every paper had someone outside a tower gate.The state broadcaster had gone to continuous coverage at eleven and never gone back.There were forty people camped on the ridge above the Black Tower headquarters with long-lenses and no light to use them in, and a smaller crowd outside the White Tower in New Avalon with nothing to film at all, because the White Tower was dark and quiet and had been all night.And there was betting, all of it done before the sun went down.Open, loud, entirely legal betting in every hall and market in the country, on a war that at midnight had been three hours from starting.Black had two hundred
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