As Alex approached the house entrance, Sophia noticed that Alex
was behind her."Haven’t you had enough?"
"Believe me," Alex replied, "running into you is the last thing I wanted today."
Sophia stepped out, blocking his path.
"So, what is it then? Are you here to remind me of the biggest mistake of my life?"
"Mistake?" Alex’s tone grew colder.
"I could say the same. You think I enjoyed waking up and realizing I’d wasted my time with someone so shallow?"
"Shallow?" Sophia’s eyes flashed with anger.
"You’re just bitter because you know I’m right. You’re nothing but a loser, a gold-digger."
Alex laughed, shaking his head.
"You’re delusional. I don’t need anything from you, least of your money."
Sophia stepped even closer, her finger jabbing the air between them.
"Then what do you want? To ruin my life even more?"
"No, I’m not here to ruin anything." Alex locked his eyes with hers. "I’m meeting my fiancée."
"Your fiancée? You have a fiancée?" Sophia shocked.
"I’m here to meet someone named Sophia Lancaster at this address," Alex’s patience wearing thin.
"I’m not looking for you. So, if you can help me out, call her, and I’ll leave as soon as possible."
WTF?!
Sophia paused, her expression shifting from shock to realization.
"Wait... you're here for that Sophia Lancaster?"
Alex coldly replied.
"Yes! Can you please just get her? I don't have time for games."
Sophia bit her lip, trying to mask the confusion swirling inside her.
"There’s no need to call anyone. I’m... I’m Sophia Lancaster."
They stood there, staring at each other in stunned silence.
Just then, a voice called out from inside the mansion.
"Alexander Leonhart!"
An old man stepped out, his face lighting up with a wide smile.
"Master told me you would come today! What are you doing out there?"
"Grandfather," Sophia called.
The old man, Abraham Lancaster, turned towards them, his eyes twinkling with amusement.
He looked between them, his smile growing even wider as if he had been waiting for this moment.
"So, you've met Alex, your fiancé. It’s great to know you both know each other."
Sophia quickly interjected, "We are not—"
"Call your parents, Sophia," Abraham said, cutting her off.
"Gather everyone in the Great Hall. I have an announcement. You both are going to get married today."
Sophia stood, shocked.
"Finally, my long-held wish can be fulfilled today," Abraham’s voice trembled with happiness.
He walked over to Alex, his hand reaching out to grasp Alex’s.
"Come, let’s go to the Great Hall. You’ll meet your in-laws."
Sophia watched them walk away, disbelief and anger surging through her.
She had lost her virginity to that man, and now she was supposed to lose her future too.
"This can't be happening!"
She had dreamed of an extraordinary fiancé, someone worthy, someone heroic, not any rubbish!
Instead, she was now being handed to a man she could have picked off the street.
As CEO of Lancaster Group, known for her beauty and bright future, how could she marry such a man?
What would people think?
"No," she decided. "I'll stop this marriage, no matter the cost."
***
In the Great Hall, Abraham guided Alex to an honored seat.
"How is Master?"
"Still healthy after a hundred years," Alex replied.
"You’re young, successful, and humble. I’m fortunate to have a grandson-in-law like you. Sophia is a good person; please give her a chance to get to know you better."
Alex nodded politely, but he doubt the possibility.
Sophia didn’t look like she wanted the chance.
"Wonderful, wonderf—" Abraham laugh joyfully.
However, just then, an angry voice cut in.
"Are you insane?! Sophia cannot marry him!"
Lady Lancaster, Abraham's wife, angrily stormed into the Great Hall.
She was flanked by their two sons and two daughters-in-law, with Sophia trailing behind them.
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Alex came onto the fourth floor with one sheet of paper and set it face down on Beatrix's desk."Before you turn that over," he said, "tell me how Red Tower makes its money."Beatrix looked at the paper, then at him."Fire," she said. "Everything that burns on purpose. Every forge in the state runs on a Red flame-charm, and every one of those charms has to be renewed by a Red magician every month, for a fee. Same charm in half the kitchens in New Avalon.""Every month.""Every month, for five hundred years." She shrugged. "It's the best business in this country. Nobody stops cooking.""Black.""Cleanup and curses." Beatrix ticked them off. "You want a building taken down, a field cleared, a warehouse of spoiled stock disposed of — you hire Black, and they charge what they like because nobody else does that work. And then there's the other half.""Say it.""Curses." Her mouth thinned. "Hexes for hire. A merchant pays Black to put something on a rival's shipment and the rival's cargo ro
Chapter 741
Alex didn't move for a long time.The old man didn't either. He just stood there at the edge of his own path, hands still shoved in his pockets, waiting for whatever came next the way you wait for weather.Nothing came next. Not right away.Alex looked at the black shell where his place used to stand, and the thought that finally rose up through everything else wasn't grief.It was guilt.This was all about him.Monica was innocent. Yolanda was innocent. A dog and a bird that had never once wandered beyond this road had no stake in this fight. He knew it with sickening certainty: if he hadn't come here, they would still be alive.They were just people who happened to live in the house he came to.Caught in a crossfire that had started before they'd ever met him.And Alex already knew, standing there, exactly whose crossfire it was.Ragnar's grandfather.He didn't have proof. Not yet.This had the shape of that order all over it.He just couldn't prove it...."Tell me everything again
Chapter 740
Beatrix looked at Alex and whispered. "What did you give them?"Alex looked at her and smiled."The perfection of magic formula."Beatrix waited for more.There wasn't any more."That's it? That's the whole answer?""That's the whole answer.""Alex, forty people just knelt down in the dirt for that book. Nobody kneels for a formula.""They did."...Here is what she didn't know.For a long time now, Alex had been buying magic books.Not a few. Not the good ones. Every single one that money could reach.Public texts, first — the cheap ones, the school primers, the certification manuals any student could buy. Then private collections. Then auction lots he never bid on in person. Then entire libraries, bought sight-unseen from families who'd lost the last person who could read them, crated up and shipped without anyone ever asking who the buyer was.None of it went to a shelf.All of it went into his space inventory. And from there, all of it went to Gaia.The Mother AI had been recordin
Chapter 739
White Tower stood two hours outside New Avalon, at the end of a road the state had stopped repairing.Beatrix drove them herself."You should know what you're walking into," she said."I read the file.""The file's three years old. It's worse now."She wasn't exaggerating.The gate had rust on it. Half the outer wall was scaffolded, and the scaffolding itself looked older than the crack it was holding up. Weeds came through the courtyard stones in lines, following the joints, the way weeds do when nobody has pulled them in a very long time.Alex counted four people in a courtyard built for four hundred.Two of them were sweeping. One was asleep in the sun."Five hundred years," Beatrix said quietly. "This place taught magic for five hundred years.""How many students this year?""Nine.""Out of how many applicants?"Beatrix didn't answer that one, which was an answer.If somebody had told Alex the White Tower would close next month, he wouldn't have been surprised. He wouldn't even ha
Chapter 738
The pill went into production on Tuesday.Beatrix stood at the head of the line, sleeves shoved up, lab smell still clinging to her hair.The Mana Affinity Pill was powder first — a formula meant to be swallowed, pulling the mana already drifting in the air straight into whoever took it, sharpening their reach for it instead of the person having to hunt for it themselves.She weighed the first batch by hand. Twenty grams. Forty. Four hundred.Then every line came alive behind her — four hundred pills an hour, each one, running clean.She stared at the readout like it might change on her. "It's holding. Every batch. Exactly the same.""You sound surprised."“There has never been a pill like this here before.” Beatrix looked at the sticker Alex was working on."I watched you burn through four hundred failed talismans before this worked." She looked up at him.Alex rubbed his jaw. "Took long enough to find a formula that wouldn't break down at scale."The second product came off a differ
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Cornelius Hargrove hung there in Alex's fist and finally understood the question.“You won’t dare to hurt me," he said.“Any reason you believe you are untouchable? Because thsis mayabe your last chance to still alive. “alex said."Ferrowgate." Cornelius was talking fast now. Faster. " Ferrowgate. Was on my back, if youd are to hurt me. They will destroy you and Regetn group."Sixty miles away, in Ferrowgate’s glass office with a view of the whole city, a very old man listened to a tile on his desk.Silas Kessler was seventy-one. He had white hair, a good suit, and a face like a closed ledger.He had not raised his voice in forty years. There had never been a reason to."Charges are live, sir," the tile said. "We have three inside — the girl, the Steinmeyer woman, and the target. Hargrove's in there too with some magicians form tower.""Yes," Kessler said."Sir — Mr. Hargrove and the magician are in there.""I heard you."There was a pause on the line."Sir, we can give them thirty se
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