After some time, Damian came to Lord Vedastus’ office after Fiora dragged him there.He still could not believe it. Lord Vedastus acknowledged him as his son-in-law?People always said that a marriage should happen between families with equal status. Who was Fiora, and what was Damian’s status?He was not good enough for Fiora.A rich man like that could never accept the fact that his daughter was marrying a normal person.So, Damian never thought that one day he would be able to marry Fiora. He just thought it sufficient as long as he could be by Fiora's side his entire life.If Lord Vedastus chose to marry Fiora off to another man one day, Damian would still wish her the best and leave secretly.He had already pictured that sad ending.Unexpectedly, Lord Vedastus was not as heartless as other rich parents. He could accept anyone whom Fiora liked.From that aspect, others were not really as good as Lord Vedastus.Soon, Damian arrived at the office.He had visited this offic
“Damian?“Damian!”Fiora raised her head and was completely stunned. She had been over the moon just a moment ago, but now, her heart was broken like it was pierced by thousands of steel knives.She did not understand why.“Damian!” Fiora screamed.Damian fell down on the floor with a thud. He lost his life before he was able to close his eyes, and one could still see the happiness within them.Fiora leaned over Damian’s body and sobbed.She felt devastated and hopeless.She could not accept what just happened before her.She cried for a long time before she turned around, glared at Lord Vedastus, and asked, “Why? Why did you do this? If you didn’t want us to be together, you could have just told me. Did you have to kill him? You’re cruel!”Did not want them to get together?Haha, not really.Lord Vedastus slowly sat down and put his gun on the desk. He exhaled and said, “Why did I kill him? Do you still need to ask? Isn’t what you did to Hayden more ridiculous?”Bam!Fio
It was drizzling, and Thomas stood outside Food and Medicine Hall with his head raised to the sky.Something was off with the time.There had been no word from Fiora after such a long time, and it was definitely not normal.Thomas frowned slightly and prepared for the worst.Right then, Blake gave him another call. This time, Blake only uttered one sentence, “Lord Vedastus has come to House of Vistaria.”His words were sufficient to paint the severity of the situation.Pisces asked, “Commander, shouldn’t Lord Vedastus be on the international flight with Fiora? Why is he in House of Vistaria? What’s going on? Why isn’t there any news from Fiora yet?”Thomas shook his head. He sighed and said, “We’ve failed.”Failed?Pisces widened his eyes. “What do you mean ‘failed’? Did our plan fail? That’s impossible. Every step we planned was perfect. How could we fail? Did something go wrong?”Thomas said, “There’s never a perfect and flawless plan. No matter how perfect your plan seems,
Lord Vedastus met Declan, but they were not on good terms. When they met, they did not even greet each other.Naturally, there was no need for it either.“I’d like to meet Luck,” Lord Vedastus went straight to the point.Declan glanced at him before he said, “You can’t just meet Luck as you please. You can tell me anything, and I’ll pass your message to Luck. In fact, I just talked to Luck and told him about the situation in Celandine City, so you have nothing to tell him.”That was a reasonable point.House of Vistaria was the messenger, and under normal situations, Lord Vedastus could not meet Luck. He had to pass his message through a middle person.But the situation was different now.“I want to meet Luck. I don’t have to repeat myself, do I?” Lord Vedastus said fiercely.He was furious.Declan frowned. “Sure, but you know the rules. If you want to meet Luck, you’ll have to…”He then placed a dagger on the desk.No one other than the middle person could see Luck. If ther
“If you want me to interfere now, you’ll have to pay a price.”Lord Vedastus looked at the screen. “What’s the price?”“Even if you regain Celandine City, you’ll just be a puppet. You’ll merely be in charge of looking after Celandine City. All of the city’s wealth will belong to Luck. You can see it, but you can’t touch it.“Of course I’ll give you some of it. I won’t let you starve you to death.”It was a huge price.Luck had already controlled Lord Vedastus in the past, but Art Trading Corporation still belonged to him.He could utilize the territory he had established and all his assets.In the future, he would just be a housekeeper who helped to look after the city. All the wealth in Celandine City would have nothing to do with him. He would be the boss on the surface but a puppet in reality.He would see a lot of money every day, but he could not lay a hand on them.That would not feel good.Even so, Lord Vedastus gritted his teeth and nodded resolutely. “I accept the pr
The rain slowly stopped.Thomas and Eric also finished their tea and discussion. Thomas personally walked Eric out and watched as he drove away.Just as Thomas was about to leave, he vaguely heard some curses from far away.When he raised his head and looked over, he noticed that an old farmer was bowing and apologizing nonstop to a man in a suit. He looked pitiful.Thomas looked at him carefully and recognized the old farmer. It was the farmer who always delivered vegetables to his restaurant.Even though Food and Medicine Hall would normally purchase ingredients for their dishes from outside, most of the vegetables were bought from these farmers. It provided some help to the farmers and made their lives better, so it was a good deed from Thomas.“Pisces, what’s going on there?” Thomas asked.Pisces ran over and looked around before he returned and said, “Mr. Hackett, who delivers vegetables to our restaurant, scratched the man’s car. The man’s asking for compensation.”Compen
If the farmer could not compensate him, he would have to dig his eyes out? The farmer had never heard anything like that before.The farmer was so devastated that he cried.He did not have the money, so what else could he do?The onlookers criticized the man in the suit, and many of them even threatened to call the police. Yet, the man in the suit looked around and yelled, “Why do you keep talking? Are you that dissatisfied? Okay, whoever’s unhappy can compensate me on his behalf!”In an instant, nobody said another word.If it had just been $5,000, someone would have been able to compensate him. If it had been about $50,000, someone richer would have been able to pay it.But it was $500,000.Would any normal person fork out that amount?The man in the suit spat before he looked at the farmer again and said, “What do you think? Do you want to dig on your own or let my people dig it for you?”The farmer was speechless and could keep crying.The man in the suit shook his head.
Dragon Claw was extremely happy. Nobody ever dared to compete with him when it came to darts. It never happened!He glanced at Thomas as he chuckled and said, “Lad, you don’t know me, so you don’t know how good I am at playing darts. I don’t want to bully an ignorant person, so I think you better pick a different competition. If we compete in darts, you’ll definitely lose.”He was incredibly confident.Thomas smiled faintly as well. “There’s no need for that. I’m pretty good at playing darts too. I make the owner of the dart booth cry at the carnival every year.”Dragon Claw laughed. “Are you kidding me? You want to defeat me with your poor skills?”“Why don’t we give it a try?”“Okay!” Dragon Claw said, “Let’s compete. If you win, I’ll refuse the $500,000 and you can take the old man with you. If I win, haha! I’ll dig out the old man’s eyes!”It was a terrifying bet.The farmer was so scared that his legs trembled. It was not that he did not believe in Thomas’ ability, but he
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