The very moment that he departed for Waltz City, Zayn was very emotional. To him, Waltz City was his stronghold; it was his real home. On the other hand, he was born and raised in Waltz City where he had way too many concerns that he left behind. He wondered how Sean Wilson, Gordon Hayes, and Lil Hyde were doing.He wondered if they were well and if they were still hoping and waiting for his return in their hearts.Most importantly, how was Faye doing?He wondered if Faye had already made a breakthrough in her training to become a master fighter after consuming the Aeon Karpos.He also wondered if Faye, being an ordinary person with her gentle nature, would be scared out of her wits when she discovered that she was so powerful out of nowhere.The image of Faye suddenly discovering her unrivaled strength that could send a person flying with just a casual punch and becoming discombobulated emerged on Zayn’s mind. He found it rather amusing. He figured that it would certainly b
Something was wrong. Could he have mistaken someone else’s house as his own because it had been too long since he returned?However, it could not be right either. He was certain that his house was the huge villa right before him. “Hey, who the heck are you? Stop right there!”Zayn had just entered the house when a middle-aged man walked out of the house immediately, pointing at him and scolding him rudely. The middle-aged man appeared to be a little over 40 years old with a beer belly. He held the leashes at the end of which were two ferocious dogs. Zayn could confirm that he had never seen this man before. Noticing the situation, Zayn felt an ominous presentiment in his heart. Could Faye and her parents have gotten into some accident?Zayn panicked. He had to figure out the situation. If anything bad were to happen to Faye and her family, he could not accept it!The man was even more furious to find that Zayn had the audacity to trespass. He yelled aloud, “How presumptuous o
Zayn felt upset and dejected in his heart. He felt as if he was drenched in a bucket of ice water while the excitement he felt earlier vanished into nothingness. It had only been a little over half a month, so why did Faye sell the house?Furthermore, they had shared memories in the house. The middle-aged man looked at him cautiously and asked in a soft voice, “Sir, are you the previous owner of this house?”Zayn nodded. He suddenly remembered something, so he walked into the house with long strides. “Yikes, you’re not allowed to come一”The man had just spoken when Zayn immediately glared at him. He was rendered speechless at once, so he quickly shook his head and said, “Go ahead, go ahead. Come in if you wish.”Zayn could not be bothered with the man. He marched into the house right away.Upon entering the house, he noticed that everything was left intact. He could see the familiar furniture and smell the familiar scents…He could almost remember everything that happened h
Zayn did not waste any more time with them. If there was something he knew for sure, it was that buying back that house was not going to be as simple as he would have liked.He gave Luke a call. Time to let his underlings handle this. Zayn had far more pressing issues, anyway—he had to find Faye.No way in hell was he going to accept a reality where Faye was gone from him.Immediately after arriving at the real estate department, Zayn’s question sprung out of his lips without any visible pause: why did Faye sell the house?The receptionist’s answer shocked Zayn. In fact, it prompted him to echo aloud in disbelief, “You’re telling me… my wife sold the villa on her own accord?”“Well, Mr. Larson, she’s the owner of the property, isn’t she? Hence, she sold the house ten days ago.”“Do you know why she did that?”The receptionists leveled a strange look at him. “You’re pulling our legs, right, Mr. Larson? You are Miss Faye’s husband, aren’t you? Do you not have the slightest inkling
“Mr. Meyers, could you please give us just a bit more time to, uh, prepare the amount?” George begged, his tone as submissive as a servant. “You see, we—”Mr. Meyers did not even let him finish. “Coffee, Mr. Carter?” he asked with a blithe grin, pouring George a cup as though he was the host welcoming his guest with full hospitality.George’s high-strung nerves were not the least assuaged. The young man before him was overwhelming him with an ominous, stressful aura that drinking coffee felt like a discordant distraction. Hurriedly, he restated his plea with much more emphasis, “Please, Mr. Meyers. We are humble folks. We just need a bit more time—”He abruptly let out an ear-splitting scream when Mr. Meyers doused the old man’s face right out from a cup, point-blank. It would have damaged George’s eyes if he did not manage to shut his eyes out of instinct.George was old—too old for such an abuse. The sudden movement caused him to fall out of his chair and tumble to the floor.He
As soon as his words left the air, Micah tapped the floor with one foot.In a snap, the tile beneath him began to crack. A jagged line snaked from where he stood and reached under the table close to the family, before bang! The table split in half.The Carters were normal people. They were not accustomed to seeing anything quite like this, so unsurprisingly, their only reaction was to quake in terror.Putting out whatever fight there was in these unwashed folks could not have been easier for a superior-class third-tier fighter like Micah.George struggled but finally managed to get back to his feet. His cheeks were red, the searing pain still stinging—it was distress he had ever experienced before even with a life lived this long. “Please, Mr. Meyers, I’m sure you’ve researched the nitty-gritty about our family long before you showed up here. We’re that dirt-poor, sir. You could kill us all right now, and still won’t find anything that could clear that debt,” he stated. “Neontech h
Micah had always been quite the poster child for hubris. He grew up lavished with praise of his ingenuity, and almost as though proving it, he achieved the superior class when he was merely 28. It had been such a glamorous moment—particularly since he outshined all of his peers with this single feat alone.He was 35 this year, and already he had reached the third tier of the superior class. He got there so quickly that it was almost impossible to believe, and so everyone—from his masters to his peers and inferiors—thought the world of him.Meanwhile, he thought he was more than that—he thought he was the most radiantly talented this world would ever see. He was sure he could reach the perfect class one day, and even come close to the mystical Invincibilis. It was not impossible if he was the one going for it.All that feeling of uniqueness went out of the window the moment Zayn appeared like the sun with its infuriatingly blazing glory dwarfing whatever brilliance Micah had had. He
“You can’t get down on your knees, Dad! The pride of the Carter family… The moment you fall down to your knees is the moment we Carters lose our dignity!”“Listen to him, Grandpa! You can’t seriously get on your knees! If someone has to kneel, let it be us young’uns!”The Carters began to beg their grandpa to do otherwise. While they sounded indignant and aggressive a few minutes ago, right now, the family’s stance had weakened.The furor went on for long enough that George fixed them with a glare before thundering with a majestic air befitting the patriarch of the family, “Quiet down, all of you!”His eyes registered the agony on the family’s faces, and he felt his heart twisting in equal amounts of pain. He could not help but soften his tone when he added, “My fellow Carters! The future of the family is in your hands. Think about Zayn. He started out as a normal person too. Then, he grew and became so much better until…”George’s mind wandered back to the past as the pang stung