Thomas said, “Lord Vedastus just held a meeting to get rid of me recently, and now it is your turn? Can you villains change your methods once in a while?” Dragon Claw shrugged. “Lord Vedastus invited you? I had no clue at all. That old man does things without telling me anyway. But let me tell you this, Thomas. This invitation of mine is far better than Lord Vedastus’s. Why not use this opportunity and resolve all grievances and bury the hatchet between us?Was that even possible?Would Dragon Claw even believe in what he himself said?“Alright then, see you there.” Thomas agreed.“Courageous indeed. I shall be waiting in Plum Blossom Forest in three days’ time.” With that, Dragon Claw left.Pisces came over and took a look at the invitation letter in Thomas’s hand. He then said, “Dragon Claw has to be up to no good. He was just at Godfrey’s yesterday to ask his help in making a hidden weapon to kill you. Today, he is here to pass you the invitation card. Heh, anyone can see tha
No one was able to figure out what was on his mind.Thomas and Dragon Claw were seated as they faced each other, while Pisces and Heron were standing right outside the gazebo. Other than the waiter who was there to serve them, no one else was in the vicinity.Thomas smiled as he said, “Is there anything wrong? Why are there no bodyguards for yourself?Dragon Claw laughed, “You really know how to joke, Mr. Mayo. I did not invite you here to end your life. I am truly sincere in treating you to a meal!”While they were still talking, delicious food started to fill the stone table in the gazebo. The food on the table would cost at least a hundred thousand dollars.“Are you satisfied, Mr. Mayo?”Thomas nodded. “Not bad, the food is not bad indeed. But what was the reason behind your invitation? Do not beat around the bush, just get straight to the point.”Dragon Claw smiled, “Mr. Mayo, you are really straightforward. Alright, then I will not beat around the bush as well. I invited yo
Dragon Claw went to great lengths in order to recruit Thomas. Everything that was within his capabilities was already offered on his end.When asked to choose between Thomas and Lord Vedastus, Dragon Claw did not hesitate and placed his money on Thomas. This was his way of acknowledging Thomas.The problem was, would Thomas agree?Thomas slowly picked up the glass on the table and emptied the glass of wine. “Is there some misunderstanding here, Dragon Claw? You thought that I went against Lord Vedastus to gain control over Celandine City? In that case, how would that differentiate me from Lord Vedastus?”Dragon Claw said, “I understand that you have high aspirations, but with the benefits offered to you, why would you refuse them?”Thomas answered, “If I wanted to accept your proposal, I would have done that long ago. Why would I wait till now? I knew what my future would be like from the moment I obtained the Ancestral Water but refused to drink it.”Thomas knew that it was impo
Dragon Claw laughed out of anger.He snorted three times and said, “I thought I was the one being arrogant. But who knew that you, Thomas, are far more arrogant than I am! Do remember to not put up too much of an act, lest you be destroyed by your arrogance!”Just as Thomas was about to respond, he suddenly felt that something was wrong with his body. He could no longer muster strength in both his arms and legs, moreover, he felt dizzy as well.Was the wine poisoned?!It was out of his expectations that Dragon Claw would actually resort to such a dirty method. In fact, it was unnecessary for them to resort to such inferior and dirty methods at their level. But Dragon Claw did not care too much about that. As long as it works, he would be using it.Dragon Claw said gleefully, “Do you know what was mixed into the wine, Thomas? Let me fill you in. It is a drug called ‘Heart Severance', which is tasteless and colorless. When it is mixed into the wine and consumed, your limbs will go
“Today, your life ends, Thomas. Goodbye!”At the end of the day, every complicated matter was put to rest with simple solutions. To deal with Thomas, a glass of wine and a bag of drugs were all that were needed.There was no complicated planning or strategy involved.“This is the end!”Just as Dragon Claw was about to shoot Thomas, his limbs suddenly went soft and he felt dizzy as well. It was like he was drunk, being unable to muster an ounce of strength.The gun in Dragon Claw’s hand fell onto the table with a loud thud. He did not even manage to pull the trigger to end Thomas’s life.“Sir?!”Heron wanted to head into the gazebo and find out what went down. Unexpectedly, he saw Thomas sitting firmly in his seat while shaking the gun in his hands from side to side. “Take another step and I will pull the trigger.”Heron did not dare to move a single muscle.In such a short time, the situation had been reversed completely. Thomas, who was on the passive end had taken up the act
In fact, Godfrey was not stupid. He was brilliant! He was smarter than anyone else as he could calculate any profit precisely.Thomas explained, “Aside from the $200,000,000, I even gave Godfrey a special gift. It was the gift that made him choose to collaborate with me.”A gift?Dragon Claw asked, “What gift? Is it more valuable than the $200,000,000 that I gave?”Thomas waved his hand in dismissal. “Of course not, but the gift I gave is more special, and it can’t be measured with money.”He cast a glance at Pisces.Pisces took the hint before he smiled faintly and said, “This gift is a gaming account. It’s a top-grade account in Holy Beast World that has all skins, pets, mounts, and reputation!”What?Dragon Claw looked dumbfounded.How could a gaming account compare to the $200,000,000 that he had given in cash?Of course not!Thomas said, “Holy Beast World is currently the most popular game. It has more than ten million players all over the world. If this account is sold
Therefore, to make sure that the gaming account would become his asset, Godfrey had to make sure that Thomas was safe. He would not go back on his word and remain a fence-sitter.When dealing with such a sly businessman, Thomas had to leave room for maneuver. That was the difference between Thomas and Dragon Claw, and it was also the reason why Thomas was better than Dragon Claw.After listening to Thomas’ whole explanation, Dragon Claw was completely speechless.The feeling of being defeated when he confidently thought he would win was devastating. That was the price of playing a petty trick.“Damn it! Godfrey Cadden!“You chose to betray me just for a stupid gaming account?“This is an unfair loss.”Dragon Claw was extremely unhappy. He had thought of different ways that he would lose to Thomas, but he did not expect to be betrayed by the one whom he had bribed. It was highly upsetting.While Dragon Claw thought Thomas would shoot him down… Thomas surprisingly did not fir
After resting for a few minutes, Dragon Claw basically recovered. He did some stretching and realized that he did not feel weak anymore. He had become energetic once more.“The Cadden family’s medicine really deserves its reputation,” he could not help but compliment.Then, Dragon Claw looked at Thomas and said, “You’re always so confident in yourself. Thomas, do you honestly think you’re invincible?”“No, I don’t think I’m invincible, but I know I won’t be defeated by the likes of you. It’s simply because righteousness will always defeat evil,” Thomas said indifferently.“What a good saying… Righteousness will always defeat evil.” Dragon Claw clapped before he said, “Honestly, I’m almost moved. I really don’t want to hurt you, but I can’t disobey my superior. Since I’ve been given a mission to get rid of you, I have to do it.”Thomas chuckled. “I’m not stopping you. You can do whatever you want. Be my guest!”“Great!”Dragon Claw got up. “Let’s play a clean game! You and I will
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