Before Frank could say a word, Hana spoke. "That's unnecessary, Ms. Turin. I trust Mystic Sky Guild and Mr. Frankton's character. You can handle the investigation on your end while I take this perfect opportunity to relax.""What's that supposed to mean?" Jada asked, confused since she did not hear the earlier discussion."What else could I mean?" Hana asked sarcastically. "I'm joining the trip?""You?!" Jada promptly turned toward Frank, only to see him nod in agreement!"Come on, Mr. Frankton!" She groaned. "We just met her—won't we get into trouble by bringing her along?"Frank smiled but said nothing, while Jada sighed in exasperation and strode up. "If you do anything remotely funny—""You'd kill me, right?" Hana asked, cutting her short. "Really, birds of a feathers flock together. Even your lines are the same!"Nearby, Moxxi pursed her lips but said nothing.-Soon, the bus stopped at the foot of Mount Statera. As it was peak season and peak hours, the mountain was cr
The dame was clearly not to be messed with. "Sure, let's go! What, are you scared?"Even as the atmosphere tensed, an Audi A6 stopped outside.A young man in a suit alighted, followed by a tall, slender pretty face with short hair and thick makeup."Hello, I believe we chatted online and agreed to my booking," the youth said. "Who's the landlady here?"The dame ran up to him. "That would be me! Hurry on inside! Apologies for the mess, but these people are trying to steal your reservation, but I managed to fend them off.""For real!?" the young man growled coolly."For real!" the dame quickly said. "But don't worry—it's just a freakout. People like us working in the service industry have plenty of experience with that. How else would we make a living, y'know?"The young man was clearly a fair person and was infuriated by the dame's goading.Wheeling on Frank's group, he snapped, "Why don't you try another place if you can't get a booking? Why do you have to take it out on her?"
Toto sighed in exasperation and gestured at the dame's cottage with his chin. "It's that bitch fault. Our cottage offers the best facilities and services in this street, but that bitch conspired with her thugs to flood our ads with poor reviews. The booking site noticed and blocked us, so we're appealing—and now we have to wait over a month!"While he was calm before, Toto was gritting his teeth in her spite as if he could skin the dame."No way!" Jada exclaimed nonetheless. "There are plenty of people around here—there must be someone who couldn't get lodgings and end up here!"Toto sighed. "Don't even get me started. Would anyone think that there's places available with so many people everywhere? Heck, even if I tried to shout out to them, that bitch would just slander me every time she saw that I'm getting someone. If they ignore her, she would just start a fight. At that point, who would even stay with us?"Jada's interest was piqued at that point.On one hand, they had no oth
Frank chuckled. "Just wait and see."Jada sighed in relief, while the dame soon returned.Jada swiped her card on the dame's card machine, and seeing a hundred grand on screen, the dame exclaimed in joy. "A moment please! I'll get that couple to leave right now!"After she left, Toto approached Jada, saying, "Ma'am, I'm not trying to badmouth that bitch, but she's really disgusting. You'd have to watch your back.""No, you misunderstand," Jada quickly said, "We're just messing with her—don't worry, we're staying with you!"While Toto was left utterly confused, they heard the young man in a suit yelling from the opposite cottage, "You greedy hag! Fifty grand?! Why don't you just rob a bank?!"'"Oh, just admit you can't afford it! Quit pretending like you're rich if you're not!" the dame retorted, not at all embarrassed by her own actions."I don't care about money! I care about principles!" the young man snapped. "We agreed to eight grand per day, and you're raising the price on
After resting their legs for a moment, Frank's group headed out to check out the scenery.As soon as they stepped outside, they saw that the young man in a suit whom the dame chased away had returned.He had brought a large mob with him, and they encircled the dame's cottage while he shouted into a megaphone along with the others, "This is a public service announcement! The owner of this cottage is a conwoman! She raises the price of your stay as she likes and chases you off if she can't swindle you!"The dame was livid and ran outside with her broom, snapping, "You have too much time on your hands that you had to make trouble for me, huh?! I'll kill you!"Though she started whacking the mob that the young man brought, she was already old and therefore had not much strength to speak of.The mob naturally did not fear her. Moreover, the young man also made it clear that they were not leaving and not starting fights, so the dame's outburst merely fell flat."How about that, hag?" J
Dawn was no fool and could read the man's intention. "Are you serious? Trying to abduct a child in broad daylight?"Though times had changed, the devious nature of humans did not.Since there were crowds everywhere in the water park, the human traffickers would prowl here, catching victims unawares."Oh, my mistake! Sorry!"Seeing that Dawn knew Jojo quite well, he started to turn and leave."Wait!" Dawn strode up, intercepting him. "Where are your accomplices?""Accomplices? What accomplices? It's a misunderstanding, ma'am!" The human trafficker threw his hands up innocently."Do you take me for a fool? Call them here and turn yourself over, or I'll make you!""You'll make me? Really? Move, or I'll make you!" The human trafficker laughed in amusement—a woman was actually trying to flex on him?!"Make who?"Frank strode over right then, shielding Dawn behind him.The human trafficker laughed. "It's a tough life out there, pretty boy. Don't pull a muscle now."Frank punche
The human trafficker was left speechless by Frank's retort—to think that the same trick that bailed him out countless times was foiled so easily!If the authorities really knew, his ass would be in jail!"Come on, just let me go! I won't argue anymore, okay?" he groaned.A man even strode out of the crowd, reasoning, "Yeah, kid. Just let it slide—live and let live, yeah?"Frank glared at him with sheer disgust—the mob really had no principles!"This man is a human trafficker, and you'd just let him be?!""Why don't you prove that?! Don't you slander me!" the human trafficker snapped.Frank smirked before he suddenly picked up the human trafficker and threw him into the distance, leaving the crowd around him stunned.Frank looked scrawny and frail, only for him to be so strong he could throw a two hundred pound middle-aged man like a baseball!"Wait here. I'll get your proof."Frank was aware that he must never interrogate the human trafficker in front of the mob. With their i
The human trafficker turned to run, but he was unable to as a mysterious force pinned him in place before pulling him back to Frank. "Judging from the way you strut right into this place, I'm guessing you have protection?""So you do get it" The human trafficker laughed. "I'm warning you—you'd better let me go now, or you'll pay for this!"Frank smiled and nodded. "In that case, why don't you call for them? Let's keep up this cycle of punishment."The human trafficker shook his head repeatedly—he was no fool, as his so-called protectors would never win against Frank's power. If he subdued all of them, there would not be anyone out there to bail him out.Frank chuckled. "Not talking, huh?'The human trafficker shook his head, determined.Frank nodded. "I admire your courage. But let's see if that holds soon enough!"Picking up the human trafficker, he flung him up into the sky, letting him fall freely for a long while and only catching him just before he hit the ground."So? H
Frank snorted. "Alright, I'm hanging up. I'm getting started over here soon.""Yeah. Good luck," Jouri replied.Hanging up, Frank looked up at the waterfall overhead, and then at Skyler, who was standing beside him. "So? Is it time yet?""Almost… Now!" Skyler's eyes were glowing even as she stared at her watch."Alright."Frank looked up just as the skies abruptly darkened. "Ah, there it is—the eclipse."The sun seemed to disappear, and the world was suddenly shrouded in darknesses.And beside him, a stone door imbued with the power of the spiritron vein also rumbled as it parted."Got it!" Frank rushed inside without another word as soon as he saw it."Hmph. I'm surprised that you could reach this place." A cold, wrathful voice resounded inside even before Frank got a hold of his surroundings.Looking up, Frank found a youth in a black cossack and sporting grey-white hair, standing upon a cliff as he looked down on him.Frank chuckled. "Hehe. Like I said, I've come to kill
Frank narrowed his eyes. "Is that so?'Crane shrugged. "I don't mind giving it to you straight—members of Torrent are actually… Ahem. A part of Torrent himself."Frank paused. "What's that supposed to mean?""You don't get it, do you?" Crane grinned. "Then let me put it to you this way—every member is a clone of Torrent.""A clone?" Frank gasped in realization."Yes," Crane nodded. "That's why I believe that challenging Crane is just suicide. You have no idea how powerful he is—only death awaits you down that path."Frank smirked. "Oh, but I don't think so."Crane rolled his eyes. "Fine, whatever—now listen closely. You will find Torrent in the Mystic Trail, but you would only find that place when the sun and moon coincide, and the entrance is beneath the waterfall south of Horton."As he finished, he snorted coldly. "I have no idea if you can actually do it, but I'm hoping you do kill him… Heh. I'm getting tired of being stuck under his control for so long."Then, waving off
Frank abruptly turned, immediately noticing one of the Cranes crouching, ready to spring forward and blindside him."Got you!" He laughed."Hah! You fell for it!"Just as Frank swung a punch to pulverize that Crane, he suddenly burst into pus that splashed at Frank's face."Damn it!" Frank took a step back, surprised that the clone's presence was identical to the real Crane, and a trap on top of that!"Die!"The Cranes around him each whipped out a dagger, all of them stabbing at Frank at the same time."Get off!" Frank bellowed, unleashing a shockwave that sent all the Cranes flying across all directions."Frank! Above you!" Skyler suddenly shrieked."Yes! I'm right here!" A strange laughter sounded above Frank just as he wiped the pus off his face.Crane was suddenly directly above him, launching an aerial kick straight at Frank's head, and Frank had no time to dodge!"Die!" Crane's smile curled into a twisted angle as he saw that too.He was very confident with this kick
"Disgusting…" Skyler murmured through her hand.Despite being skinned and scalped, the women were all still alive and singing to the music that was playing despite their anguish."Talk about a terrible fetish."Frank was scowling too—why were all the members of Torrent such sick deviants? It seemed like his plan to wipe them out was absolutely correct!"So, you killed my clone?"The lanky man on the couch slowly turned to level his bloodshot eyes at Frank.His lips were wet with bed as they curled upward into an eerie smile."Clone?" Frank narrowed his eyes."Hehe. It's a sage art."Crane shrugged as he stood up and wiped the blood off his lips. "It's only natural that you don't understand… Still, you deserve praise. If you can kill my clone, that means you're not just slightly stronger than Ghost."Naturally, the man was none other than the real Crane.Still, as Skyler studied him from a corner, even she could notice the strange twitch of his fingers, and his veins were pro
Even as Crane ran, he was looking over his shoulder, his heart pounding. "No… I won't win in a one-on-one!"No, as long as I get back to my real body… we can do this together!" He frowned, having seen how Frank sliced off the pinkies of those hood rats. It hence quickly dawned on him that Frank was not just slightly stronger than Ghost, as Torrent had put it!"Almost there!" He gasped when he saw the signboard of Pegasus Showtown in the distance. "As long as I get there and rendezvous with my real body, that brat will lose—"That was when he turned and saw that a shadow had caught up with impossible speed."What?!" Crane's eyes almost popped out in bewilderment. "What speed is that?! Are you kidding—"Even as he spotted the shadow, the shadow turned into a youth with an impassive visage.His fist outstretched, he was clearly punching toward Crane's forehead!"Argh…"Even as Crane looked on, the youth's punch slowed down by tenfold, but his fist kept closing in.Then, whe
Seeing Skyler sigh, the tattooed thug presumed that his extortion worked.He strode up, grabbing Frank's shoulder. "No one's gonna help you, boy. Pay up, or you're not leaving.""Exactly! You're not getting away!" the crowd of hood rats hollered. "Last chance."Frank's eyes were cold and fixed on Dani, however. "Are you going to intervene? If you do, you can keep that check. If you don't…""Ugh. Fuck off! I don't care!" Dani spat, her expression smug as she folded her arms before her chest. "Who do you think you are to threaten me?!""Exactly! Pay up, and you can leave!""Yeah! Ten grand, at least!""You probably don't know my boss Wyvern, but when he's here, you won't get away with just ten grand!"Even as the crowd closed in, Frank shook his head. "Well, you had your chance. Don't blame me for what happens next.""You're giving us a chance?! Hah! Who—argh!"Even before Dani could finish gloating, Frank was suddenly in front of her, grabbing her viciously by the wrist."Arg
"Five grand?! Did you hear that?! He just threw five grand!""Must be a rich kid coming here for a secret rendezvous, out of prying eyes? Those types are the easiest mark!""Fuck! And Dani got one of us… It hurts me more than losing at the races!"Frank could hear the buzz around him but ignored it as he strode past the men flanking him and headed toward the street that stank of blood."Stop!" A big tattooed man grinned sinisterly as he intercepted Frank.As his buddies encircled Frank as well, Frank snorted—it seemed that they took his reaction for a sign of weakness and thought that he could be cowed.The tattooed man rubbed his chin as he leered at Skyler's voluptuous figure, chuckling. "Look, boy. I'm short on cash, so let me take a loan. I'll pay you back some other day, how about that?"His friend laughed. "Exactly! You just gave Dani five grand, and we won't ask for more… just four, how about that?"Skyler scowled in turn and glanced worriedly at Frank beside her—was he
Frank himself had just stepped out of the nightclub when his eyes narrowed."Blood," he murmured, his nostrils twitching."Blood?"Skyler sniffed the air, puzzled. "I can't smell it.""It's from the opposite street… I smell the blood of over a dozen people.""A dozen?!" Skyler did a double take.He could identify the number of people who were killed?! That was just ridiculous!"Come on, let's take a look."Just as Frank led the way toward the source of the stench, a woman suddenly came up, catching Frank off guard and throwing herself into his arms."Hmmm?" He looked down to see that she had thick makeup, average looks, and a rather pudgy belly."Argh! He touched me!" she pointed at Frank and shrieked even before he realized what was happening."What?!" Skyler was staring at the woman too, mystified."Oh, sister! You just didn't see it!"The woman kept hollering, pointing at Frank's face. "Your boyfriend grabbed my ass! Is that how you teach him manners?!""Teach him ma
Wyvern screamed even as he clutched the stump that was his hand, screaming so shrilly one might mistake his voice as inhuman."Oh, just shut up." The lanky man glowered and launched a kick, reducing Wyvern into puddles of blood and pieces of innards, splattering all around the lobby. "Argh!!!" the devilish lady screamed as she watched the carnage unfolded."Another sound, and you'd end up just like him." The lanky man turned and frowned at her impatiently."Hngh…" The devilish lady promptly clasped a hand over her mouth, tears welling up in her eyes as she trembled."What the hell?!"Outside, Wyvern's lackeys heard the screams and ran inside, looking for him. "Hey, where's Wyvern?!"However, the lobby was too dimly lit for them to notice the blood and guts scattered around the walls, and they only sensed that terrible stench."Hngh…" The devilish lady was too scared to speak, and tears trickled out of her eyes."Fuck!"One of the lackeys strode up and seized the lanky man