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The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 127
The Falcon Fortress was built on hills and occupied an area of nine square kilometers.The outer fort alone spanned nearly three and half square kilometers, and this was where all the humdrum happened.In the inner fort was where the exciting trade happened.The central fort was off-limits to outsiders, unless they were invited.Currently, the air around the inner fort region was thick with ambition, a heady mix of expensive perfume and even more expensive ambition.Many private jets were landing on the runways one after another, and the helicopters also had special helipads built for landing.“It is 2:32 AM,” Sheryl checked her mobile and smiled. “You did a great job bringing us here on time. We might even have enough time to change into better clothes.”“I didn’t want to lose my hair, or my wife would divorce me, so I tried my best, and the winds also helped us,” the pilot replied.“Would your wife really divorce you if you lose your hair?” Denver asked him rather innocently.“I don
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 128
Sheryl radiated a quiet, sophisticated grace on one side of Denver, whereas Catherine was a whirlwind of nervous energy.Denver’s eyes darted from one person to another, all of whom were wearing masks, except for the staff members.Nobody was yelling or shouting.Most of them talked as if they were almost whispering.The quietness only thickened the atmosphere with tension, and the air crackled with anticipation.There were eighteen halls in total.The items being auctioned were listed at the entrance of every hall on a digital screen with images, making it easy for people to see.There were rare paintings being sold in one hall, and even rarer sculptures being bidded in another hall.But tonight, Denver was here to bid for something far more esoteric—the millennium herb.“Denver, look, they are selling 100 year old wine in this hall,” Catherine pointed out. “Shall we go and buy it?”“But you don’t drink, right? I don’t drink, either.”“Yeah, but… we can sell it for a greater price to
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 129
The auction hall was a spectacle of opulence, whether it be the silk clothes of the bidders, or the stupidly rich watches and the priceless jewels adorning their bodies.The bidding price escalated with dizzying speed.Tonight’s crown jewel was the Millennium Herb, a mere single, gnarled root, pulsing with an ethereal inner light. Its rumored properties—immortality, boundless vitality, the ability to unlock untold secrets of the universe—were the stuff of legends.Everybody sitting in the hall wanted to get their hands on this herb, believing that they could rewrite history with it.Catherine felt a jolt of pure adrenaline as the bidding price went from 300 million dollars to 700 million dollars.What’s even more shocking was that the number kept soaring, fueled by desperation and the sheer force of ego.The bidding eventually climbed into the billions.A tense silence settled over nearly half of the hall as some contenders had secretly given up on the item while others still went for
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 130
“W~H~A~T?!” Catherine was shocked she shrieked before she knew it.The man sitting in the front row was one of Denver’s brothers?As the attention of some bidders shifted to Catherine, Denver responded quickly by raising his number tag. “10 billion 1 million dollars.”“Number tag 63 bids 10 billion 1 million dollars,” Bald Falcon looked decently surprised because he didn’t expect the person next to Sheryl to challenge Tyron.It was one thing if Sheryl challenged him, but for some random guy sitting next to her to do it, this was quite surprising and thrilling.As a result, the attention of many people shifted to Denver.“Who is he?”“He has two girls sitting beside him. He must be a rich guy.”“No shit. He wouldn’t have outbid that amount if he wasn’t stinking rich.”As people kept talking, Ilene glanced over her shoulder and looked at Denver. “That build…” a corner of her lips slightly curled down, “is it him? But that voice just now didn’t feel familiar.”The fact that this man with
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 131
The scent of wealth and tension cooked the atmosphere in the auction hall.Only three people still fought head to head for the millennium herb.“Tag number 40, Leander of Shadow Consortium has upped the bid by 10 billion dollars, making it 170 billion dollars,” Bald Falcon was grinning like a Cheshire cat, as the price of the herb long exceeded anything the Falcon Group had expected.They thought that the herb might go for at least thirty to forty billion dollars. But now, it was closing in on 175 billion dollars.“200 billion,” Tyron said in a sharp voice. He clearly did not look happy with his announcement, as he was paying much more than he ever thought he would.Tyron looked at the Millennium Herb, a gnarled root humming with an almost palpable energy.Unlike others, he could tell apart the real one from the fakes. He could feel a pull from the herb, which he couldn’t ignore.“It seems the real deal,” Tyron thought. “I don’t know how the Falcon Group got their hands on it, but if
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 132
“You want to take the herb from HIM?” Ilene snorted. “He’s been gone for three years. Do you know what he’s been doing? Or how strong he has gotten?”Tyron frowned. “I’ve become a lot stronger in these past three years.”“You climbed from the eighth to sixth rank in these three years, but the records still speak for themselves. Denver still holds many unbroken records, so be smart,” Ilene got up from her seat.Half a dozen women bodyguards were next to her, standing in different lines.“Since Denver didn’t do any missions for three years, he will automatically lose his ranking, so he’ll need to start from the bottom again,” Ilene added. “By the time he gets to the top, you will have enough time to plan for a perfect massacre.”“Hmph, are you trying to take my eyes off the millennium herb so that you can coax him and get it somehow?” Tyron asked.“If you are so eager to embarrass yourself, then I won’t stop you. Godspeed,” Ilene said and spun on her toes once, letting out a blinding li
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 133
“No way… Is he really that former number six of the Hawkers?!”“That Don Denver in the flesh?”“He sure is big, but his body language and hairstyle seems a little different from what I remember.”“It’s been so long, so it’s possible for people to change in a few years.”As the other members of the Falcon group kept babbling, Bald Falcon smiled through his eyes, “I wasn’t expecting this at all, but this great. With you back in business, sir, a lot of things are going to change. If it’s for you, I do not mind giving you a ten percent discount.”“Brother Bald Falcon!” The others were quick to voice their thoughts. “Don’t declare it yourself without taking permission from the head!”“I’ll take the blame, so shut your bottoms,” Bald Falcon coldly yelled at them, which made them hold their tongues and squeeze their buttocks.“Can’t you give a twenty percent discount?” Sheryl asked.“I’m already giving myself a hard time with the ten percent discount, so don’t ask for me,” Bold Falcon stresse
The Return of Don Denver CHAPTER 134
Bald Falcon was talking with a few of his teammates. “Clear all the debts first, and then trade two-thirds of the remaining money for gold. Contact Lily Nighthawk. She will have enough gold.”“But she demands absurdly high amounts of money. Last time she asked for ten times more money, about 100K for a kilo of gold.”“We don’t have another choice,” Bald Falcon said. “We can’t store fiat currency in our treasuries, can we? So, even if we get gold worth 3 billion dollars for 30 billion dollars, it’ll be worth it in the end.”“Shouldn’t we talk to the head about this first?”“We do this every time, so what’s special now? Just do what I tell you,” Bald Falcon ordered as the head of the falcon auction.And then Bald Falcon had all the four fake herbs gathered into one place, while keeping them concealed, and waited outside the door.Denver, Catherine, and Sheryl were inside.“One man and two women inside,” Bald Falcon’s underlings voiced their minds. “They aren’t doing crazy stuff, are the
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Kuro brought the child’s body in line with Lark’s punch.Lark changed the direction of his attack at the last second and managed to hit Kuro’s shoulder instead.Kuro’s hand dropped the kid.Lark speared his shoulder into Kuro and took him further away from the children.Kuro used the sand under his feet to stop Lark’s momentum. He flipped Lark over the shoulder and smashed him to the sandy ground. Sand got into his eyes. “Any form of weakness will only lead to a loss. Your weakness seems to be your mother.”He firmly pressed Lark down with his foot, then caught Lark’s arm and twisted it viciously.“It’s too bad that she’s killed herself, or I would have turned her into a decadent whore just like the Kardashians and make her wear lingerie in public and nothing but body paint on Halloween. I bet you’d get turned on by it, wouldn’t it?”“Shut the fuck up!” Lark used aura to rid his eyes of the sand. He also tried to release aura to break free with force, but Kuro pressed down on Lark’s c
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After Sheryl heard about the commotion happening at the store, she realized that Shindo wasn’t lying.Without waiting, she dashed northward as Minerva was supposed to be in that direction, but Shindo easily caught up with her and punched the air.His punch released a destructive vibrational energy that utterly broke the tree branches to smithereens.Sheryl was sent packing into the waters. Her back crashed into the seabed hundreds of feet below.“To this day, so many monsters have tried to take my life, but they all failed,” Shindo once more punched the air from high above, sending a shockwave that put a giant spiraling hole in the waters and struck Sheryl.“Whoa…” Lark, who was watching that from a distance, couldn’t help but frown. “That geezer is freaking crazy. He’s probably as strong as Penal Hall Master Drake. Will Green Fang be able to handle such a monster?”Lark noticed that Sheryl had created a wooden barrier above herself to avoid receiving a direct impact of Shindo’s attac
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Lark didn’t think Sheryl would launch an attack as she was the one who had told him to not even think about fighting.He wasn’t sure if she was just taunting or really attacking, but the moment she unleashed tree roots onto Kuro, Lark also leaped onto the ship.Half of the branches flew toward Kuro.He kicked them and cut them all, albeit with effort. The pressure he put in his feet made the bull-head under him crack.The other branches attacked the rest of the people on the ship, while also trying to catch the little children.Shindo acted and struck the tree branches with coins he had taken out of his pocket. The coins destroyed the branches to bits, and he managed to stop all the branches.“Tsk,” Sheryl appeared annoyed. (As expected, he’s hard to fool.)“You pretended to attack Waka-sama, and tried to take the kids away from us,” Shino’s gaze turned hellish hot.But then the wooden footing underneath their feet came off and snatched all the children and brought them over to her wh
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“Let's just beat everyone and steal all the valuables they got,” Lark was laughing with excitement, cracking his knuckles and ready to fight.Sheryl was also planning to fight, but only after getting closer, she noticed the old man standing behind Kuro Yama.“Give up on the idea of fighting,” Sheryl uttered.“Huh? What’s the big deal?” Lark frowned in annoyance. “Why did you suddenly change your mind?”“Don’t you see that red-eyed monster?”“Red-eyed?” Lark looked toward the ship and noticed the burnt-marked old man. “Who is he?”“The strongest man of Japan,” Sheryl said.Lark’s eyes widened. “Killer King Shindo…” Lark had heard about him before. “The Shadow of the Yakuza Boss. Why is he on this ship now?”The identity of Shindo was enough to make Lark loosen his fists.Kuro stood on the bull-head of the ship, smiling sharply at Sheryl. “I have seen many foreign beauties, but your class is magnetic on another level.”Sheryl, while chewing bubble gum, stared down at Kuro. “Save your en
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At two o'clock in the night.Sheryl was at the top of the Rose Tower she had recently built, looking around for any disturbance.“Natalia must be itching to destroy us,” she thought, remembering the first time she met the old woman in the Nameless Zone.Natalia was old at the time, but she lifted a car with one finger and picked up her cat that was hiding under the car. She had searched the entire Hawk Park for her cat back then.“I wasn’t strong enough to fight that old monstrosity and win in the past, but now, things changed,” Sheryl clenched her fists. “I will pay her back for all the trouble you’ve given me and my boss over the years.”“I must say…” Lark smiled as he entered the rooftop,” this tower is pretty neat and beautiful with all the flowers for view and fragrance. “And… damn… what a view!” He reached the edge of the rooftop and stood next to her, looking down at the shore from an elevated position with flowers mildly glowing at the shore. “The ocean with the stars and all…
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The waves at the shore calmed down, and some of the fishermen took the boats to the sea.Minerva was forced to sit on the wooden bench on that chilling night. She was shivering from the cold.She demanded Lark to let her go, but Lark told her she could leave through the sea route if she so badly wanted to go back home.“You…” Minerva looked at Alex. “One-armed guy. Release me, and I’ll make you rich. I’ll give you a million dollars. Even more if you beat the shit out of Lark.”“I’m afraid I’m not strong enough to beat him,” Alex replied.“You still haven’t answered my question, Madam Minerva,” Lark said. “Did any man ever buy you flowers?”“I don’t have time for dating. I barely left Hawk Park before. And I’m satisfied with my current life,” she said.“You’re already in your thirties, so when are you going to get married? Clearly, your mom doesn’t seem to care about you, or maybe she’s purposely making sure that you’d never get married.”“Stop spouting bullshit,” Minerva growled. “My
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“Minerva is here?” Sheryl slightly frowned as she heard that name come out of the mouth of one of Lark’s subordinates. “She’s one extremely arrogant bitch who preaches about peace while stabbing her chef for not cooking the meal fitting her mood.”“Should I send her back then?”“No, she’s the daughter of Golden Falcon,” Sheryl said. “I should talk to her to see if she changed her mind on going back to her dad or not.”In the past, Denver persuaded Minerva to go to her father who was the head of the Falcon Group, but Minerva didn’t listen to him.Because Denver lost his memories, Sheryl thought she should do the job in Denver’s stead.A few minutes later.Lark and Alex personally escorted Minerva to the eastern port.Seeing the newly built port and the boats and ships, Minerva was wide-eyed. “What the hell is all this? Are you guys starting a sea trade?”Natalia, who was watching it through a secret camera in her earring, was even more shocked and angered. “So they’ve already started t
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On the same night.The council of mothers were furious that they didn’t receive any response from Don Denver.“Are you sure that the message has been delivered?” Natalia ground her teeth and glared at her subordinate.“Yes, President.”“We can’t just act in haste because they didn’t respond,” Natalia couldn’t hide the anger in her face. “What this brat is doing is abominable, but we need to make sure that he really is defying the king’s rule. Send the peacemakers.”“O-Okay,” the subordinate was terrified because she hadn’t seen Natalia so angry before.At the western border of the Nameless Zone.Alex and Lark were sitting on top of a tall, thick wooden wall that blocked entry from the land from three directions.Alex was staring at the beer in the glass but wasn’t drinking it.“What’s bothering your mind so much?” Lark asked, relaxed sitting back in the chair and enjoying the cool breeze of the night.“Nothing. It’s been years since I drank alcohol,” Alex replied.“It’s not alcohol. J
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The next day.Sheryl was at the eastern sea shore, creating wooden boats and ships with her ability.All the locals were pretty impressed and overjoyed by her skill. All the old ships were in ruins, so they had no means to go to the sea.But now, Sheryl resolved that issue within an hour.She created over 100 vessels which would allow them to roam the seas.As Sheryl was installing some seeds into the wooden ships, Alex came to her. “What are those for?”“These seeds repel the sea monsters,” Sheryl said, “as they belong to a poisonous aquatic plant.”“There are monsters in the sea? You mean, regular monsters or abnormal ones like in the caves?” Alex quickly asked.“Oh, what you’ve seen in the caves is little,” Sheryl smirked. “The serpent lord was originally a sea monster which later settled in this region.”Alex’s eyes widened. “So it was fighting on the ground where it was weakest?”“Mm, in the sea, it would be harder to fight it I suppose,” Sheryl did not have much experience fight
