There was a dead silence that paced the whole restaurant. The people really didn't understand what the status of the situation was. When Cory had announced that he would pay for everyone, the pretty lady had thought that he was saying it to save face, and that was why she had been following him closely from behind. But now that Cory had stopped at the counter and announced to the waitress that he would like to pay, she couldn't begin to imagine her disbelief. "You really are going to keep pretending?" The lady scorned, standing just behind him. Cory felt no reason to look at her. He just wanted to pay and leave immediately. "This is not too late. You can still swallow your pride and come to your senses. Do you think this is a joke? Is your crush around? Are you trying to impress her, or do you think -""Shut up!!" Cory spun around, snapping at her. The lady gasped when he snapped at her. She could never have imagined that Cody would be brazen enough to yell at her. She was suppo
It would seem as though an icy flood of water was poured on Cory from his head to the toes. This was the last thing he wished for himself. Not when there were a hundred prying eyes waiting to mock him. The system has never lied to him. The system has always helped him complete his tasks. Then what went wrong this time?Suddenly, he recalled what had happened when he treated Anna. He had treated her and had done as the system had instructed. But the treatment didn't take an immediate effect. Could that be the same situation here? Could it be that the system was getting acquainted with the process because it was the first time? "Why are you so quiet suddenly?" A sudden voice knocked him out of his thoughts. When he turned, he saw a proud Elaine with a smirk in her face. She must really be enjoying the moment. "Did cat catch your tongue? Oh, now you are not bold anymore?" She scorned, walking closer to him. "Didn't I warn you? I told you that big talk does not cut it. Now what? You
Elaine felt glued to the spot. She was just trying to escape. She wanted to use the parley going on between Cory and the manager to her advantage, but it seemed as though luck was far from her. She was worried that Cory would take this seriously. She turned around to look at him. There was a fake smile on her face. She didn't want him to see through her worries. "What are you saying? Don't tell me that you took what I said seriously." Elaine scoffed, wearing an indifferent face. Cory just stared at her for a while. He could see right through her. "And why not? Why won't I take it seriously?" Cory asked. "I mean. You should know that it was just some random talks. Nobody would take such a thing seriously." Elaine defended. "I'm sure that everyone here will agree with me." Elaine looked away from him to the rest of the people. "Or won't you all?" She called at the people. None of the people answered her this time. They were skeptical. They were still worrying and bothered about w
Cory was surprised. He couldn't have imagined that Harry would know his slave. He quickly took a glance at Elaine and then back to Harry. Looking back at Harry, he noticed that Sheiley was also stunned to see Elaine. At this point, Cory couldn't help but wonder who this Elaine really was. "Isn't this the most beautiful and popular actress of the trending Love series?" Harry looked so thrilled as he gazed at Elaine. "She is. This is the great and classy Miss Elaine." Sheiley nodded, looking quite surprised too. Cory was the only confused one here. How come he was the only one who didn't know this Elaine?Well, before Cory got the system, his life was pretty boring. He had no friends, no help, or nothing like that. So, all his life, he was always about riding the company scooter and delivering packages to customers. He never had the chance to sit by himself for a day. Most times, he would get back home late and slump into bed, still dressed and dirty. Things changed a little bit w
Sheiley could not choose her reactions as she stood there groundless. What had just happened was beyond her comprehension. No matter how hard she tried to understand the situation, she couldn't just bring herself to it. She couldn't even turn to watch as Cory drag Elaine away. Cory had just beaten fifty men in the blink of an eye. How in the world was that even possible? Not only that, after Cory was done beating the men, he had also referred to the beautiful and popular Elaine as his slave. Did Cory know Elaina? If so, how the hell did he get to know her to be able to refer to her as such? Or could it be that Sheiley was hearing things?This series of confusion ended up giving Sheiley a strong headache. The groaning sounds coming from the fifty men distracted her, knocking her out of the troubling thoughts. When she lifted her gaze, she saw Harry struggling to get back on his feet. She quickly hurried to him. Harry was her main priority as it stood. "Where is he? That crazy ba
The call had been dropped, but Harry was still hanging on to what his father had just said. Anna, the only daughter of Lord Theo, now has a boyfriend? A man with supernatural qualities?Although Harry has never known Anna personally, he had read about her. There were several articles published by anonymous sources about the private life of Anna. Anna was said to be the kind of lady who leads a celibate lifestyle. She never associated herself with young men, no matter the status and connections of their fathers. Nor how rich the man was. In short, Anna had almost set a company on fire because she refused to be an arranged wife for a notable trillionaire. Many people had concluded that she wanted to remain this way because she was training her heart to be cruel in order to inherit the Mafia legacy of her father. But now, his father had just told him that Anna finally got a boyfriend?!What were the odds? Who was he? He definitely must be a god come down from the heavens. "Who could
Cory looked down at himself and realised why Elaine had been swept off her feet. All though he was now buff and well chiseled, he wasn't used to it yet. If he was, he probably wouldn't have removed his clothes right there, and then. "You don't know what you are talking about." Cory brushed off what she had said. Why would anyone in their right mind offer to serve another person for the rest of their lives?"Please don't take me for a fool." Elaine walked closer to Cory, looking really concerned. "I mean it. Don't take my words for a joke." She kept walking until she was close enough to him. She reached out to one of her hands to touch his carved chest. She could see his flesh heaving to the beat of his heart. She wanted to touch his chest with the tip of her finger. Cory grabbed her hand, stopping her finger from touching him. She looked up at him. "Is this real?" She asked, looking genuinely confused and interested. At this point, Cory really couldn't pretend not to be interes
The next morning, Anna was in the backseat of her Maybach talking over the phone with her father, Lord Theo. "Anna, you do know that you are not in the state to move around." The voice of a concerned Lord Theo was heard on the other end of the phone. "You don't have to worry, Father. I'm fine. Cory made sure that I was fine and you could testify to it, too. Throughout the night, I didn't have that ruthless coughing session. That's the first time ever." Anna tried to convince her father. There was silence on the other end for a while. Then a sigh. "Still, you have to be careful. You are the only one I got. Aside from the fact that someone has to inherit all my wealth, I don't want you for any kind of stress. You know this, too. You know that if you want the whole university in your room, I will make it happen." Lord Theo urged. Anna chuckled at what he said. "Who would believe that the most feared Mafia Lord in the whole country is talking so sweetly?" Anna teased. "Silly girl."
Anna could not understand what was happening. She had stepped to the front, away from Cory, to look closely at the man walking towards her. How could this be her father? She was about to lose her mind. At this point, she had no idea how she was still able to hold up her peace and not go nuts. This was just enough to make her question her sanity. "What's happening? How could this be ---" Anna turned to the back to ask Cory. She suddenly choked on the words. Turning around, Cory was nowhere to be found. It would seem as though he had vanished into thin air. She quickly rushed back into the hut to look for him but she couldn't find him. She ran outside again. She didn't know what to make of all these that were happening to her. She really did wish that she would have an explanation for it. "Did you see him walk out just now?" Anna asked her father, who had stopped walking right in front of the door of the hut. Lord Theo shook his head softly, taking a deep breath. The man slowly p
Anna choked so hard on her breath that she almost passed out. She had no idea what was happening or what had just happened. She couldn't wrap her head around it, let alone make a meaning of it. But it was real. She could see it right in front of her. There was someone who had just been sliced into several pieces. "Father..." She was having trouble rolling those words over. She couldn't even move closer to the corpse. The head was still hanging in the air. Thud! The head and neck dropped on the floor. She flinched, almost sprouting some unknown wings. She should move forward and touch the corpse. She should fall on the pieces of her father and weep her eyes out, but she couldn't. This was just way too much for her to process. She was trying to understand how this was possible in the whole wide world. How could it ever be possible?She could recall openly that she had left her father back at the mansion. The old man couldn't even move an inch, let alone get to her. She could see
Anna was lost in the moment and couldn't place her own emotions, not even after she had climbed into the car. It was a cab, and Cory had just hailed at the cab. What had just happened in the building was still very much fresh in her mind. There was no way she was going to throw that away or be distracted from it. She took a glance at the corner of Cory's face. Then, the glance intensified, graduating into a keen gaze. Cory, on the other hand, was staring at the front. It would seem as though she was not even there. "Are you not going to explain it to me?" She asked him eventually. Cory still would not look at her. She didn't want to act as though this meant nothing to her. She hated the fact that Cory was ignoring her. She knew that she could not force the words out of his mouth. He had to be willing, else her worries and questions would forever remain unattended to. The manner at which Cory was staring, Anna could deduce that there was something else on his mind. Although they
Anna was lost in the moment. She was just wailing over her own troubles and worries when a sudden voice had come out of nowhere. The back figure of the person walking away from her looked rather too familiar for her to ignore. In fact, she didn't have the luxury of ignoring anything at this point. How could she? Her door had been locked perfectly, and there were even men standing watch outside of the door. She didn't even hear the door open, let alone feel a presence until the words hit her. The recurring facts that ran all over the incident made her push her body up in the bed, as now she was kneeling in bed. "Cory?" She was skeptical as she called his name. She wanted to be sure that she was able to place her confusion and get squared up with the main matter;The real situation was the fact that someone familiar was in the room with her and had asked her to leave with him. Cory hesitated at the door and then turned to look at her again. When their gazes met, he saw a whole la
Standing in front of the heap of dead warlords, Cory shut his eyes and took in all the air of victory around him. He had to be sincere with himself. There might still be a lot of spiritual figures out there in the open waiting to cause another havoc or rain another wave of terror. He had never had any reason to be scared of them. Although one of the reasons why he had come to the island was just to be wary of them. Right now, after killing all these warlords, he couldn't help but come to a conclusion that even if he was running from trouble, trouble would still find him. Henceforth, the determination to carry on with this new level of task overwhelmed him. He had unintentionally unlocked another realm and phase of challenges that he could never let anyone else figure out except himself. All his life, he had learned how to keep such big secrets. How could he be referred to as the Immortal Dao if he didn't know how to be exclusive with some of the things that have been haunting him
Lord Theo, who was already exhausted from the errands and worries affiliated with the plot they were carrying out, raised his head slowly to look at his daughter, who was fired up by what she was saying. "What are you talking about, Anna? Please go back to bed. You need it." The man dismissed causally as though he had expected her to be up by now. At this point, Anna really didn't know what to feel. She wished that she would be able to choose her feelings, but she couldn't. There was a great measure of disappointment in what she was feeling at that moment. And there was something else, too. Something which she couldn't really reach. She wanted to sigh, but because she was huffing and puffing, she was even having a hard time catching her breath. "Answer my question, father." Her voice became even louder this time. She was trying to make it obvious to him that she wasn't here to joke around. She was here to talk about and review what was bothering her the most. It would be a great
Anna's eyes slowly opened. When her eyes opened, she felt fatigue, a pool of fatigue washing all over her body. She shut her eyes again to be certain what the problem could be. She slowly opened her eyes again, confiding in the act of precision and timing. Yet the feeling lingered. The fatigued remained. If there was anything, it even became heavier. She tried to roll in bed to the other side, but she felt extremely weak. She had no idea what was happening to her. Rolling on her stomach, she tried to heave her body to a comfortable position, but nothing seemed to work for her. She fell back on her face in bed and started to grunt. "What the hell is happening to me?" She muttered, seeking to understand what the problem might be. The moment when she rolled from one end of the bed to the other, things were beginning to ease gradually. The fatigue and weariness were beginning to wear off. This time, her mind was clearing out gradually. There was a room in her mind to house as many w
"We must go right away." One of the senators stood up and was headed towards the door. "I'm sorry we can't." The doctor suddenly stepped into the way of the senator. The senator looked so offended and pissed out of his mind. He was staring at the doctor as though the doctor was a piece of garbage who ought not to stand in his presence, let alone lift his gaze to look at him. He scoffed and turned to look at the rest of the senators behind him. "What the hell is wrong with these minions? Is it really our fault that we have indulged them and made them feel so comfortable in our midst?" The senator sounded very judgemental as he rolled those words out. He really didn't care that the doctor could hear him. The senators didn't care about anything at all. They don't care about other people other than themselves. As long as things are going their way, they wouldn't care less to do whatever they thought to be okay. "Now, move out of my way before I rip you into shreds!" The senator thre
Linda and her father were as still as a hill. They couldn't even make a sound. They couldn't see each other. Talking about seeing, Linda's eyes were drooping over her breasts at this point. It seemed as though the poison continued to lower the thread of the eyes down and down until perhaps it would get to the soles of her legs. This really didn't matter to her yet because the room was too dark for either of them to see each other. Before they were looked inside this room by the two hefty henchmen, they had seen clearly that it was super bright outside. It was noon. How come when they were locked in here, it was extremely dark? They had not been taken to an underground location. In fact, the underground location they had just come from was well lit and brighter than this. Although she couldn't use her eyes well, Linda could still tell this much that this was a very dark room. "Why is it so dark in here?" She asked her father, looking in the only direction she could afford. Down.