After Mateo led the way, Thomas arrived at a construction site.When Thomas saw how hard the sweaty laborers were working, he felt a little touched. Speaking of which, why were they at such a place?“Is the teenager you talked about working on this construction site?” Thomas asked.Hold on, if he was about the same age as Mateo, he should be studying in school now. Why was he working on the construction site?He had to be underaged!Mateo reached out to point at a teenager who was shoveling sand, and he said, “That’s him, Aiden Brown. He's the most capable player I've seen among all the players who play the support role.”He had to be an extraordinary player to receive such a good comment from Mateo.However, it was hard to imagine that a genius teenager like him would work so hard on the construction site.Mateo went over first and spoke to him in a familiar manner. “Aiden, it's me.”Aiden put down his shovel and wiped the sweat off his forehead. He smiled faintly as he stare
Beat him up? Well, Thomas did not care about that.He was more interested in the reason why Aiden could not leave the place.So, Thomas asked, “Why does a teenager like you, have to work on a construction site? I want to know.”Aiden remained silent.He could not reveal the reason.The contractor scoffed and said, “What else could it be? He owes me money. His father lost money in gambling, and he owed me a lot of money. He couldn’t pay me back, so he mortgaged his son to me. He has to work for me for three years without pay before he can leave. He's only been working here for half a year, but you want to take him away? Such a thing doesn’t exist!”Thomas frowned after he heard that.His father had lost money in gambling and sold his son off to the creditor for three years so that the boy could work off the debts. What kind of b*stard father would do such a despicable thing?No wonder Aiden dared not leave.But this was nothing for Thomas.Everything related to money was nothi
Therefore, Thomas drove the two kids to a cybercafe.As soon as they walked through the door, the manager impatiently said, “Underaged teenagers are not allowed to enter!”Thomas did not reply to him. He just took out two $100 bills and put them on the table. “We’re here to look for someone. We’ll be out in a minute.”As long as you had money, everything could be easily settled.The manager put the cash money into his pocket. “Be quick.”Thomas led Mateo and Aiden as they walked into the cybercafe. Then, they checked out every seat.Mateo said, “Levant has his own seat. We don’t have to look for him.”As he spoke, he looked at the corner of the cybercafe. A group of people were gathered around and watching someone playing a game. Among them, a haggard-looking man stood out the most.He had dark circles, and his hair was messy. The table was full of cigarettes, and he was as skinny as a skeleton.He looked like he was a person who hung out in the cybercafe all the time.Althou
“Most importantly, he was never away from the keyboard. He was battling in every round, but it's really difficult to achieve that!“It would be fine if he did not kill other players, but he did not die either. That requires a very high level of technique, especially when you want to maintain a zero death tally in the headwind field. What kind of operation would you need to achieve that?“The last thing is he had zero support. Oh gawd, not everyone can do that. At least I can’t. When you’re in a fight, you'll need a little support. If you want to win without any support, you have to be clear about your opponent and teammates' abilities. You even have to possess precise judgment to leave at the most critical time.“Forget normal people, 99.99% of the professional players are unable to achieve this. Such a person is one in a million.”Mateo paused for a while before he added, “Then, I seriously studied the game he played, and I found his operation to be amazing. Oftentimes, his operat
His words made Levant’s expression change.Indeed, Levant used to be arrogant in the past. He looked down on everyone and thought that he was the best in the world until he met Diego, who defeated him terribly.Since then, Levant knew that there was someone better than him.He did not hate Diego. Conversely, he always went to Diego because he wanted to learn something from Diego.From then on, Levant had set a goal: He wanted to defeat Diego!Unfortunately, this goal soon disappeared because Diego became handicapped after Supreme Club chopped both of his hands off.After Levant heard the news, he was extremely sad.His strong faith instantly collapsed. It was also the reason why he gave up on himself. He purposely hid his skills and left Supreme Club.Thomas sensibly realized this because the relationship between Diego and Levant appeared very similar to the relationship between Thomas and Capricorn.Thomas continued. “Supreme Club destroyed Diego and your faith. As a man, sho
He just broke the knife with his bare hand. That really shocked Levant. This was the first time he raised his head and looked at Thomas seriously. He did not look as scornful as he did earlier.Levant was sensible. A person with a background like his had met countless big shots, so he was able to identify whether a person was actually great or just pretentious.After he saw what Thomas was capable of, he knew that this man had to be extraordinary.Therefore… Levant extended three fingers and said, “I can go with you and join your club, but I have three requests.”“Please state them.”“First of all, provide me with 24-hour bodyguard service. Secondly, build a team with me as the core. Thirdly, I’ll only sign a one-year contract with you. We only have one goal this year, which is to become the champions!”Thomas chuckled. He would satisfy all his three requests.In one year, no, in a month, Thomas would make Art Trading Corporation fall!“I agree to all your requests. Let’s go.
“Very well, go ahead with your plan.”“Yes, Sir!”River turned around and left.Lord Vedastus picked up a teacup and took a sip before he muttered to himself, “Thomas, are you trying to strike Art Trading Corporation from all aspects? Haha! You have a pretty good plan.“But I'll let you know that no matter how you attack me, you'll always lose in the end!“Art Trading Corporation is unbreakable.”Lord Vedastus was absolutely confident that he could guard Art Trading Corporation's territory in esports. If Thomas wanted to grab it from him, he would simply fail.…… At noon, the sun shone brightly.Thomas brought his new team to the esports center in Celandine City. There would be a selection based on the qualifying matches there.Avengers Club wanted to be the champion. The first step was to win the qualifying match so that they could be qualified to participate in the official competition.Opponents in the qualifying matches were usually not capable.That was a fact. In the
As the team leader, Levant led his team members into the preparation zone.Thomas was not a team member, so he naturally could not enter. He just sat in the spectators’ seat and watched the qualifying matches with everyone else.Theoretically, there should not be many audience members during the qualifiers. However, it was different in Celandine City. The place was filled with the most exciting atmosphere in the esports world. Even though it was just the qualifiers, many people were there to watch it.People were happily cheering for the teams. Some people even brought megaphones and shouted. They waved the flags of their favorite teams and cheered.Thomas was also immersed in the atmosphere when he personally felt how exciting it was.At this time, the members of both teams met for the first time in the preparation zone. It was supposed to be a normal encounter, but Levant was shocked.It was because the members of the opponent team were not members of Climbers Club, but members
No one knew how far down the title Emperor of Luck was inherited.They had finally caught Luck.Following that, Eric leaped into action and reeled in his haul as fast as he could. With that, all the remaining accomplices of Luck were caught in one fell swoop!The two million innocent citizens were saved, as all of them took the antidote.Once again, Thomas saved the day.In order to express their gratitude, the citizens decided to erect statues of Thomas in Celandine City and many other cities as well.In the House of Vistaria.Phoebe ran towards her father hurriedly. She then smiled at him and said, “What did I tell you, dad? Thomas will definitely turn things around, right? I won!”Declan was so agitated, that he started tearing up.Thomas was really too amazing. He was capable of turning things around, even in such a predicament.At the same time, the curse that had plagued the Mars family for over a thousand years was finally broken. From then onwards, Declan was finally
Luck was dumbfounded. Why was Thomas still alive and kicking?“No need to doubt your own eyes. I am indeed still alive.”The crowd parted, making way for a very familiar figure. It was Thomas, the very Thomas whom the public watched him die.As he walked, he said, “Our previous research has already reached ninety-nine percent completion. But no matter how hard we tried, the final one percent remained out of our grasp. At that time, I thought that perhaps the only way was to drink the Ancestral Water and experience the poison itself, which would allow me to have a breakthrough for the final one percent.“And that was what happened. I managed to do it.“After drinking the Ancestral Water, I finally understood what the one percent was and successfully created the antidote for Ancestral Water. Now that the antidote has been created, it will sever your connection with the Ancestral Water.“You will not be able to kill anyone anymore.“You have lost, Luck.”Lost?Luck's eyes were wi
It was obvious that Eric could not afford to take a gamble this time. But he had no choice. His only choice was to listen to whatever the other party said and prepare a helicopter in twelve hours’ time.That was not all. He was also supposed to request for his superiors to help Luck get out of the country.The thought of it made Eric furious.“Damn it!”He left in anger to deal with the rest of the matter.The sky of Celandine City was covered with clouds.The patriarch, Declan, was in his garden in the House of Vistaria. He stared at the withered flowers as he grieved.His entire life was spent supporting Mr. Cole in hopes that he would be able to create an antidote to Ancestral Water. But at the end of the day, Mr. Cole accomplished nothing.His two disciples — Capricious Holy Hand Elliot, and Thomas — were both dead.There was no one in the world who was capable of creating the antidote for Ancestral Water anymore.“Alas...” Declan sighed. It seemed that it was impossible
At that moment, the general public was suddenly dumbfounded, as if struck by lightning. Everyone was down in the dumps.Many of those with poor psychological strength directly collapsed on the ground.They believed Thomas' death could be exchanged for their own safety, but who knew, in the end, they got nothing, and Luck, as usual, used their lives as a bargaining chip to force the authorities to listen to His Majesty's words.No antidote to Ancestral Water would ever be created by chance.The lives of people were still in His Majesty's hands.Whenever luck wanted them to die, they would die without any ability to resist.However, this was not the most frightening part. What was even more frightening than this was that the only person who could create the antidote to Ancestral Water had been forced to die alive by them.It would be impossible to create the antidote to Ancestral Water without Thomas.Mr. Cole and Elliot had all died, Thomas was the last person who mastered the
Eric sighed deeply, "Thomas, even though things have reached this point, you still remain so kind.""I have nothing to say except to choose death because the research failed." Thomas let out a long breath. "Before I die, I want to talk to my family on the phone."Originally, Emma and the others came to Celandine City because they wanted to be reunited with Thomas.Who knew it had turned into a life and death situation?The world was like a chess game; everything was unpredictable.When Thomas was video calling with his family, Emma was already bathed in tears at the other end. She was crying and shouting at Thomas to not be impulsive, and saying perhaps there was still room for things to turn around.That was what she thought, but it was not the case.Every minute Thomas dragged on, more people perished as the result of Ancestral Water, and the crowd’s fear and rage grew.Thomas’ life no longer belonged to him."Honey, take care of the baby."I love you."Those were Thomas’
For such demanding research, half a day was really too short.Thomas had recruited the best doctors and researchers he could find to work on a detailed study of Ancestral Water.In the past, it was difficult to achieve breakthroughs in the research on Ancestral Water. That was because figuring out how to create an antidote for the Ancestral Water was challenging. On the other hand, it was also because obtaining the Ancestral Water was incredibly difficult. Because they only had a few samples, the results were underwhelming.However, it was different now. Because the entire city's water supply had been turned into Ancestral Water, they were able to collect the samples at their convenience. This made it much easier for Thomas and the others to get the materials.With Thomas in charge, hundreds of researchers were conducting a massive study in just half a day. Unfortunately, things did not go according to plan.Thomas still failed. “We almost got it.“We were so close to makin
How sinister. “All we want is nothing but—safety.“As long as we’re safe, we definitely won’t make it difficult for everyone. If we’re safe, no one will die.“Now then, I have a small request to make to ensure everyone’s safety.“I demand that Thomas drink Ancestral Water immediately! This person is a real hassle for His Majesty, and we must keep him under our control for our own protection. Please forgive us for the inconvenience.“We'll only give everyone half a day to consider this. The emperor will begin killing people if Thomas does not step forward and drink Ancestral Water by this afternoon.“Okay. I've said everything I wanted to say. Goodbye.” The TV screen went dark, and so did Eric's face.He kicked the trash can over and said fiercely, “What is this? You're the only person in the world who can create an antidote for Ancestral Water’s poison, Thomas!“Once you drink Ancestral Water, you’ll be controlled by them!“Won't you have to obey Luck's every command by the
After listening to Thomas’ description, Eric also displayed a look of shock and said two words, “As expected.”What did he mean by, as expected?Was it possible that Eric knew that Luck was behind it from the start?“Thomas, follow me.”Eric took Thomas into an empty ward and locked the door. The two sat in the corner of the ward.He whispered, “There is a piece of news that I haven’t announced to the public, that is, besides Celandine City, there are more than ten cities that have problems. Do you know which cities they are?”Thomas’ eyes lit up. He already knew what Eric wanted to say.At the previous meeting, Eric had clearly stated that more than ten cities across the country had been controlled by Luck. Now, there happened to have more than ten cities where residents had been poisoned.Was there such a coincidence?Thomas said, “The residents are poisoned by Ancestral Water. Over ten cities are all under the control of Luck’s forces, so it is almost a certainty that Luck
“I didn’t. I saw the news early in the morning and was shocked. I haven’t dared to drink a sip of water until now.” Pisces took a deep breath and said, “Is this a natural disaster or a man-made disaster? It’s really terrible.”No matter whether it was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it was no small matter.Soon, Thomas drove to the hospital.Eric had been waiting here for a long time. As soon as he saw Thomas coming, he quickly let him enter the ward.He saw a patient lying on the hospital bed with his eyes closed, and his body was trembling. Although it was very hot, he was as cold as if he had just been lifted out of the freezer.A doctor walked over and said, “Mr. Mayo, let me tell you the general overview of the current situation.”The virus was spread through water sources.After drinking water with the virus, the virus would lurk in the human body.However, lurking did not mean that it would cause an outbreak.At present, over one hundred thousand people had b