"What is this loser trying to do?" Someone asked amongst the crowd. The guests have been divided into two. While a part of them was rooting for Cory, the great number of them was happy for Havill. They were now backing Havill and didn't want Cory to have a comeback. Wouldn't it be madness to claim to be capable of outspending fifty-four billion dollars?Not even the likes of Lord Theo would be willing to splurge that amount of money on something so random and baseless. "I think he's trying to make things up.""I thought he was a smart youth. I had no idea that he was only trying to fan his ego. Making things up to save face would not help him here! Maybe someone needs to explain this to him."The people didn't lower their voices. They were so loud that even the attendant could hear them mocking Cory. Cory had no business with them. He was not fazed by it. He only wanted to listen to the attendant. She was the only reasonable person who would understand what he was trying to talk ab
"What!!!!" It sounded more like a chorus that had been practiced by a band rather than a sound of exclamation from a group of people. Not one of the people in the store was left unfazed. In fact, the attendant was the most horrified at this point. She was shaking heavily as though she would pass out any moment from then. It was way and beyond her imagination. She was thinking of what the executives of the company would do to her! She had also just heard that the new owner of the Consortium was around! What if he walked in right now into the store and saw this!This jewelry that she had refused to sell to the prince of Saudi Kingdom because he had priced it a little lower than two hundred million! Now, this necklace had been smashed on the floor. The lady didn't really know what to say or how to react. While she was still trying to process the shock,"What the hell are you doing?" Havill was heavy on the voice. "Are you tired of living? Didn't you hear the history behind this? How
Havill was groundless as he stared at Cory brainless. He didn't know which of the situations to reflect on. Was it the fact that Jared knew Cory and would put his father's business on the line for Cory? Or the fact that Cory had just paid a ridiculous amount of two hundred and fifty billion dollars to impress him?! Or the fact that he had just watched Cory smashed 250,000,000,000 dollars into powder and had emptied it in a bucket of water?! Or the fact that Cory was now standing right in front of him, asking him to drink the water?!Havill was more than conflicted. He couldn't even place the thoughts at this point. His body was shaking, yet he was doing all he could not to give himself away easily. He wanted to say something to Cory as he used to in the past. But this time, he couldn't find his voice. His voice was gone. It would seem as though someone had vacated his lungs of the words and his mind of words. He just stood there staring like a statue. Cory's gaze was very intentiona
By the time Cory was done, everyone was scared to the ends of their wits. No one dared to look him in the eyes. Someone who had the guts to do this kind of thing to a powerful man like Havill, who is he? Where did he come from? Why hadn't anyone had of him and his class?There was fear crawling from one face of a person, then leaping to the face of another. It was a very chaotic scene in the store. The silence there was so defeaning that it would seem as though there was no living soul present in the store. Cory turned around from Havill. When he turned, the guests almost sank into the floor. Some of them wished that the ground would open and they would disappear into it. In fact, some of them that originally were rooting for Havill wished that they could just vanish into thin air and be rooted from earth. There was one of the guests that was doing a live video on Utok and Emtok simultaneously, but when Cory turned around to look, the fellow dropped the phone at once. Luckily, h
Even Cory, who had recently stopped behind one of the couches, was stunned when those words hit him. Although he wasn't the one whom Anna directed the words to, yet it felt like he had been hit by a ballistic missile. Before Cory could call her name,"Anna!" Lord Theo had beaten him to it.Cory had almost forgotten that he wasn't the only one here. And that Lord Theo was actually the most affected by what Anna had just said. As soon as Anna said those words, she bent down, picked up her bag, and started to walk out of the building again. "Anna! Come back." Lord Theo called at her. He was bewildered and worried. He looked really scared. "Let me explain to you, Anna. Anna!!" The old man did all he could to convince Anna to stay, but she would not listen. She left and walked out of the living room and through the hallway. She walked past Cory and didn't even spare him a glance. It would seem as though he was an insignificant insect. Cory really didn't pick an offense in this. While
Havill, who had passed out ever since he drank from the bucket, suddenly pushed his body up to look towards Jared, who had just spoken. "That means Cory is the new owner of the Consortium?!" He asked with his voice pressured as well as breath labored. Jared took a glance at him, nodding to the question. When Havill heard this, he wheezed and then dropped down again. As if dead. Everyone was in total shock at this moment. But Tiara quickly snapped out of it when she realised that Havill was not in a good state. She quickly hurried towards Havill to help him. "Call the medics. Call them now!" She called orders at her husband, who got to work almost immediately. It would be no good news if words get out that the company had someone pass out. It would smear the image of the Floating Tower. No one wants such a thing for their brand. The guests were flabbergasted. They were stunned out of their wits. Most of them were still grounded in their spots, not sure of what reaction to choose
Lord Theo gasped when he saw this image that was standing right in front of him. He was finding it very hard to draw a closure. He wasn't sure whether this was a human or some generated apparition. He didn't know if he was in his right mind or if he had fallen into a trance. All his life, he had never had the opportunity to scale beyond the altitude of the physical construct. Neither his body nor soul had been able to cross the border of physical influences. So, he knew for a fact that he was in his right senses and was seen with his eyes. But then, if that was the truth and he was seeing with his human eyes, then who the hell was standing right in front of him, towering over him like a supreme being?Lord Theo could swear with everything he held dear that Cory was standing in front of him just a millisecond ago. A millisecond is just like dividing a second into its one thousandth variation. This meant that even if Cory was going to move out of his sight, was there any chance that
There was no car in the open garage of the mansion, so Cory couldn't make the journey less stressful. He could talk to Lord Theo about a car, and the man would give a car right away, but he didn't want to go back inside the house. He had left that behind and didn't find a need to want to go back. Beyond that, he was worried about what happened to him in the building. Nothing like that had ever happened to him. Never in his lifetime. When he first came in contact with the system and a portal had opened in the realms, where he had been able to see his father. That was the only time he had seen and experienced something so close to the spiritual being. Although he didn't see himself when he was transforming into that gigantic and magnificent creature, yet it was his body. It was his body that had been transformed. He would be a total fool to pretend as though he had no idea what it was about. He felt it!!!He had transformed into something beyond his own ideas. Beyond his own logic an