The Consortium's Heir

Chapter 879

However, Darius still told Edward and Bridget where he was. "I'm with three of my classmates; they're drunk. I need you two to come here to help me get them back to the dorm." He hung up when he heard them cheerily agree. His expression became thoughtful—he'd never acted like this in the past, no matter how poor he'd been.

Since his return to the Reid family, he seemed to have lost certain mannerisms and the basic ability to care for other human beings. He leaned back and shut his eyes, trying to figure out how things had turned out this way.

To his surprise, as soon as this thought occurred to him, he felt his life force suddenly start circulating through his body despite not having channeled it. At the same time, he felt a fresh stream of life force flow into his body, meaning he was about to ascend to a new stage in his meditation. Darius raised an eyebrow in shock.

For a while now, he'd been feeling like his life force had been enveloped in a layer of transparent film; he couldn