Jim Lawrence was furious. Actually, he was livid!It was Luke Jones’ big day; his immediate superior! It was an extremely grand, but also very important event. He was the organizer of tonight’s party, so there was absolutely no room for error.He had lost count of the amount of time he had spent to prepare for tonight’s party. It was all to ensure that tonight would be a smashing success and that nothing would ruin Luke’s special day. It was his ticket to getting promoted and getting on Luke’s good side!On the other hand, some lowlife had actually snuck into the party. If Luke found out about the incident—and if the intruder’s presence completely soured Luke’s mood—he would be in for some serious consequences!Once the security guards had received the order, they quickly advanced towards Zayn to escort him out of the venue.Jared stepped forwards to stop them. “Hold on! You can’t take him away!”Jim furrowed his brows and glared at Jared, displeased. “Jared, what are you trying
It did not take him long to discover Luke’s location. There was only one master fighter present at the scene, and it was Luke Jones. Other than that, the vast majority of the attendants were simply ordinary people. “It’s been about half a year since he started his training, yet Luke still hasn’t made any significant strides, huh? He’s still a Tier-1 master fighter,” said Zayn in a slightly displeased tone after calibrating Luke’s power. He remembered how he was on the verge of becoming a Tier-2 master fighter back when they last spoke.Frankly, he was being too hard on Luke. The vast majority of fighters required at least five years of training to become a Tier-2 master fighter. It could be said that it was extremely rare for someone to make a breakthrough within only a few short months. For Luke’s sake, Zayn took the time to do a background check on all of the party’s attendees. Fortunately, there were no hostiles, nor people who posed a threat to Luke. It looked like the waters
Agatha snapped out of her trance just in time to look Zayn in the eye.Suddenly, her heart rate began to pick up again. Her cheeks were burning ever so slightly. She shook her head to calm her nerves, before she replied, “N-No,” before a new thought sprung into her mind. She asked anxiously, “Um, you haven’t seen Mr. Jones at all, have you?”Of course Zayn understood what she was implying. He shook his head in response.Agatha sighed in relief and patted her chest. “Well! What a pity!” she remarked. There was a sunny smile on her face that completely went against the meaning of her words and what they supposedly meant. She could finally relax!Zayn never thought that a demure, prim beauty like Agatha would be such an ingenue; either way, she was really adorable. “Hmm, that doesn’t look like the face of someone who’s lamenting at all. In fact, if I didn’t know any better, I think you’re smiling!”Having her paper-thin affectation exposed so quickly caused another onslaught of blush
Zayn had to hand it to him—that man sure knew how to narrow his eyes menacingly. Maybe a commoner of the more normal, unremarkable standard would be intimidated by such a lame gesture. Unfortunately, he was going up against the decidedly superhuman Zayn, which basically meant that he brought a knife to a gunfight.“What a retard,” Zayn scoffed.“W-What? Say it again, I dare you!” the young man roared thunderously, as though he wanted to skin Zayn alive.Agatha, who was standing nearby, let out a girlish chuckle. It might as well have been gasoline, because it immediately aggravated the young man’s flaring temper. He was completely below him, yet he still had the gall to call him a “retard”? He needed to be punished—the young man wanted nothing more than to end Zayn’s life!Towering over the young man, he made use of his height to leer down at him. “F**k off.”The two men were having a staring contest. For some reason, the young man suddenly felt his heart pounding a little erratic
The sight of Luke Jones actually stirred up quite a sentimental storm in Zayn. It was not because he missed Luke, really, but because he was Zayn’s first real acquaintance after escaping the jaws of death.Snatching the Aeon Karpos and surviving the aftermath technically happened just a few days ago, but the concept of the past was a little different when one had waltzed with the Grim Reaper himself. Zayn was so convinced that he was a goner, and when it turned out he survived, it felt as though he had been reborn. He had a new lease on life!He could tell immediately that Luke had improved his fighting prowess, even if his progress was stagnated. There was still a slight gap that separated him from the second tier of the superior class, but it was likely good progress to someone like Luke.“Look! It’s Mr. Jones!”“Now that’s how a tycoon walks! Look at his gait; the air around him; the way he carries himself! That’s the gait of a king, for real!”“I mean, Mr. Jones is basically t
At that moment, Luke felt like he was on top of the world. Well, maybe not exactly the apex where the late Zayn Larson used to be, but he was pretty close to that within the nation.Thinking about Zayn made him sentimental.It was only a few days ago when he received news of the young man’s untimely death at Mount Septimus. It had been a bombshell to him, not least because Zayn was very much close to unbeatable and invincible to him. This was the man who had managed to attain unfathomable power and become the combat instructor for the Insurgent Trifecta in spite of his youth and relative wetness around his ears. His future prospects had been very promising, if not immeasurable. Give Zayn a few more years, and who knows how much further he would go beyond known limitations.And that was when a genius of this caliber died. Gone and disappeared like ashes and dust, like every other corpse.Suffice to say Luke’s opinion of Zayn was rather complicated. Unlike Sean Wilson or Gordon Hayes
The first person he saw was Zayn, and boy, was it unbelievable! Rumors and stories he had caught wind of simply confirmed Zayn Larson to be dead—he was pursued by a perfect class legendary nonpareil at Mount Septimus, who injured him gravely, before getting caught in a massive explosion!There had been search parties conducted around the mountain after the event, and the people involved were the ones who concluded Zayn as “deader than dead”, whatever that meant. However, only after a few days, the “dead man” was standing right before him—Without any critical injuries or long-term damage in sight!To make matters even more complicated, Jim could sense that Zayn had become even stronger now. Standing in front of him made Luke feel as though he was looking up a towering mountain. The feeling of being dwarfed was so overwhelming, Luke found his breathing stifled.As his thoughts roamed, the ground broke Jim’s fall with his right arm numbed. His contact with Zayn was no more than a tap
Contrary to her usual demeanor, Agatha retorted. “As if you’re one to speak! You goaded him into coming here—that’s just psychological manipulation and you know it! You’re just not man enough to admit it!”Their tiff quickly escalated into an all-out altercation, dragging everyone else into a whirlpool of chaos.Zayn’s frown deepened. On one hand, he was touched by Agatha standing up for him despite their less-than-optimal optics. On the other, the kind of abuse Jared slung at him was so debased, it angered Zayn.But what took the cake was Luke’s attitude. His inaction was grating. It was as if the guy thought Zayn had become a toothless tiger simply because some powerful enemies had their eyes on him—as if Zayn was no longer the mighty whom Luke should respect!Zayn snorted in disdain. It was by no means loud, yet it somehow reverberated throughout the room and exploded in everyone’s ears like a peal of thunder. It rocked their senses so hard, their faces paled. Luke, in particula