Chapter: Chapter 557: The Price of LoyaltyThe days following his confrontation with Mark felt like an endless storm to Justin. The stench of betrayal hung over him like a cloud, darker and heavier than any he had ever known. It was not just Mark's actions that wounded him; it was the realization that even those he trusted most were capable of turning against him. His empire, his family, the people he had built everything for, none of them were safe.In the quieter times when Justin wasn't surrounded by the unrelenting demands of his empire, the loneliness of the entire thing settled on him,In the silence of his penthouse, the cold glass walls offer no comfort. He knew this day would come. But it's still painful. The idea that someone he trusted, people who have stood by him for many years, can decide to betray him.It cuts deeper than any opponent that he had ever faced. But he didn't have the leisure to brood over it. The fight with Ethan was far from over, and Mark was just one casualty in this war. The loss of loyalty
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Chapter: Chapter 556: ReckoningThe room was silent when Justin re-entered. His expression was cold and disbelieving. There was no need for an explanation to the group still seated around the table for what had happened. The tension hung in the air. Every person in the room knew, it seemed, instinctively that a bomb had just gone off.And the consequences will cause serious damage. Mark sat at the head of the table. His fingers tapped the polished wood nervously. His usual confident demeanor was gone. It was replaced by a feeling of discomfort radiating from him. Justin could see it in the way his eyes avoided his gaze. But there had been more-something darker, something deeper. Silently, Justin walked toward the tabletop; his footsteps rang harsh in the otherwise silent room. Mark's eyes flicked up, catching everything else for the briefest instant before quickly looking down.“Everyone out,” Justin said, his voice harsh, commanding. There was no space for dissent.The team, sensing the heaviness of the moment,
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Chapter: Chapter 555: The Enemy WithinJustin sat in his office, staring at the files Mark had delivered earlier. The quiet hum of the city outside his window was a stark contrast to the storm raging inside him. A leak found in his own company—what he thought was kept safe—had just turned into a full-blown leak. People close to him are betraying him. And he didn't know who it was.In his head, Mark's words played on repeat, but it was the stabbing betrayal that hurt the most. He had single-handedly built this company as anything by steel-back-end deals, through a relentless strategy, and with the will to establish iron-clad grounds for its existence. And now, someone within his entire circle began tearing it all apart and selling to the highest bidder. A slap against the face, and Justin wasn't certain how to take it. He instantly picked the phone, dialing Mark's number. It rang once and twice, and right then came Mark's voice.“Justin?”“Where are we with the leak?” Justin’s voice was clipped, every word laced with an
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Chapter: Chapter 554: The Forgotten FoeUpon waking, Justin felt gnawing uneasiness. He had won relatively hard and long, but as he walked in the office that morning, something was not right; the air felt heavy, the tension intense and indiscernible. Somehow, Justin couldn't seem to shake an inner feeling that someone was still perhaps watching, waiting for just the right moment to make his move.“Good morning, Mr. Drogonuv,” Mark’s voice broke through the silence as Justin walked into his office. The assistant’s usual upbeat tone was tinged with something more serious. “We need to talk.”Justin raised his eyebrows but waved his hand for Mark to continue. "what happened?" Mark's expression was tense, and Justin immediately felt a sense of urgency in the room.“It’s about the company’s recent movements. "I notice a few discrepancies in our financial reports. At first, I thought it was simply an oversight, but I now doubt it," Justin's heartbeat sped up. “What kind of irregularities?”“A few transactions that don’t add up.
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Chapter: Chapter 553: A New HorizonThe dust has settled. But the war was not truly over. Ethan's fall from grace was swift and unyielding. But Justin knows the road ahead isn't without challenges. As the remnants of Ethan's empire collapsed, Justin is forced to face the reality that his tireless victories have come at a terrible cost.The meeting room is quiet. It was the silence that came only after a fight. Board members who were once concerned about Justin's methods, Now they looked at him with a different respect. They understood the stakes, the price paid for survival in this ruthless world.But for Justin, respect is not as important as the weight of his decision. He sat at the head of the table, looking around at the face he was leaning on. Mark stood on the side. His normally confident demeanor was now marked with a delicate caution. Ava sat across from him. Her eyes narrowed as she examined the information in front of her. “Ethan's downfall has left a void in the market,” Justin said in a low but firm tone,
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Chapter: Chapter 552: The Final BlowThe days that followed the media explosion were chaotic. Ethan’s empire, once a towering structure of influence and wealth, was now a crumbling shell. He had endured the tumult of the tragedy caused by the scandal of Samuel Dayton, more than anything that Justin had ever expected. It had spread so far and caused investors to back out. But Justin was well aware that it was not yet over. He was indeed cornered, but that did not mean he was out of the game.One evening, Justin sat in his office, the dim light from his desk lamp lighting up long shadows on the wall. His thoughts are sharp and organized. With no room for complacency at this moment. It is time to end it all. Ethan has been a thorn in his flesh for far too long. And Justin knows the only way to truly destroy him is to take away everything that matters to him.As he searched through the documents on the table Mark walked in with a solemn expression. “we have a situation. Ethan is trying to play his last card. Word is that
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Rise of the Rich and Powerful Jamie Ashford
On the day Jamie lost his mother to cancer, he also lost his only accommodation and his girlfriend. Years of torture, humiliation and servitude from his stepfather and stepbrothers, Jamie was nothing more than a miserable bastard to the Reynolds, one they so desperately needed to do away with. His mother’s death was their perfect opportunity as his stepfather evicted him from his house, abused him and his dead mother publicly, and ordered the doctor to sell her corpse to organ harvesters.
His stepbrothers made a spectacle of him and his dead mother, treating them as though they were worse than animals. And to crown their hall of humiliation, they took his girlfriend and cost him his job. With everything lost, there was nothing to live for anymore. Jamie owed the hospital over $100,000 and his boss over the same amount. His life was at risk, his existence was meaningless, and everything was set against him…
Except for a sudden alert of $10,000,000,000 and a call from the world’s richest and most powerful man, claiming to be his grandfather. Jamie wasn’t a bastard after all; he had a family—a rich and powerful family at that—and he was their rightful heir.
With a net worth of tens of trillions of dollars and the power to shut down the world with the snap of his finger…
What fate awaits all those who did him wrong?
What end has he destined for those who mocked his dead mother and her dignity?
What was in the heart of the trillionaire for those who made his life hell and paraded their measly change over him?
Revenge is best served cold…Or whatever temperature the Rich and Powerful Jamie Ashford wants!
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Chapter: Chapter 408 Tom snapped his fingers. “I see! So this was a planned ambush. The soldiers are not the target for these thousands of carnivorous fishes, humans are.”He finally turned to where the cephalopod was hiding with a cold glare. “You’re planning on flooding the city of San Francisco, aren't you? Or at least, part of it? Then you will use these piranhas and electric eels to hunt down the humans.”He pointed at the creature. “The entity that created you wants you to flood the city with your hydrokinesis.”The creature was not happy about this. [So you've figured out my plan, huh? You know, if you guys had won the battle at the surface, you would have eventually left, only to come investigate this depth another time.][But by then, the spatial isolation cage you created would have been lifted, and we would have moved these piranhas and eels to another section of the ocean. You would have never found them.]Of course, Tom is well aware that this flooding couldn't possibly affect the entire cit
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Chapter: Chapter 407 It was a multiple-layered net made of nanotech steel that's hard to cut through, even with the jet-steaming water attacks that the cephalopod can create with its hydrokinesis.Even if the incarnation manages to cut the steel, since it's nanotech, it can quickly fuse itself back in repair.This wasn't going to keep the incarnation cashed circling, though. Tom knew that the creature was much stronger than it had been letting on the entire time, but he didn't need it to be caged for long either.Tom simply wanted to buy time to dive deep into the ocean and find out exactly what this incarnation didn't want him to see.It worked. The creature is caught in the metal net and as it falls towards the water, it hurriedly utilizes water around it from blades that can cut through the steel lines. But it quickly found that this net is made from nanotech steel and can repair itself.Thus, it inevitably fell into the water and began to sink below. Tom finally got what he wanted and he arrived in t
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Chapter: Chapter 406 The horrifying bellows that were coming from the other side of this inter-dimensional crack were getting intense as they burned away more souls of the second-order S-Rank dark entity causing this current chaos.The spatial isolation cage was shaking as a result but it didn't necessarily show any signs of collapse, which greatly pleased everyone. Honestly, this current strategy of theirs is working because there's Tom Yates and his miraculous spatial isolation cage to hold everything down.Jamie was watching all sides from where he stood. The AS99 soldiers are doing their part, Chief Cassandra is doing her part, and then there's Tom Yates, carrying the heavy load of this deadly mission while fighting the primary incarnation.Jamie glanced at his general who was with him, blasting off a bunch of sea lions that were now surrounding them. “Hey, can you at least tell me what level of evolution Tom is at?”Stella shook her head as she kept blasting one plasma bean after the next, aiming he
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Chapter: Chapter 405 With the wind attribute in her bloodline, she possesses The Wind Blade.The wind blade is exactly what it sounds like. The ability to manipulate wind into the shape of a blade, except the shape of these blades made out of windis usually three-sided, and constantly in motion.When thrown, the compacted wind forced together to make these spinning blades explode with extraordinary power. In this terrain of water, her element wasn't weak at all, especially against these creatures. At the velocity at which her wind blades spin, they can be caught by almost anything. Therefore, Chief Cassandra knew that she would not be falling behind in terms of performance with the guest.As some of these sharks began swimming towards her and her soldiers were ready to tear into them, Chief Cassandra manipulated the wind around her and raised a hand as energy pooling out of her unique reserve acted as the center, around which the high velocity wind blades formed.As Chief Cassandra raised her hand, the
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Chapter: Chapter 404 After all, the inter-dimensional crack from which the hidden big boss S-Rank dark entity is controlling its incarnation was also wrapped into this humongous spatial isolation cage. Therefore, those wisps are moving towards it, clearly to return to the Over-soul where they will reintegrate the entity itself.Chief Cassandra pointed at those fractional souls. “Don't let them escape back into the inter-dimensional gate! Burn them all!”With the nanotech suit, setting the perfect trajectory shot was much easier for the AS99 soldiers. Hence, they can precisely shoot their holy lake crystals despite how high up they are in the sky.The shots were released with these nanotech guns, and in every impact, there's a burst of air as these souls are being burned into nothing.One, two, three, four …..fifteen…. nineteen. The first wave of attack by the AS99 soldiers struck nineteen escaping souls, burning them into nothing.This caused what felt like an earthquake, caused by a loud roar that could
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Chapter: Chapter 403 Struggling to keep the water ropes tightly around its tentacles, it shifted its octopus head to communicate telepathically. “It's you, isn't it?! You did this!”The right edge of Tom's lip curved upward and he scoffed, but gave no reply to that creature. “Alright everyone, it's time to step in. Be alert! With those last words of caution, Tom made a widening motion, which caused a small circular opening to spread, enough for the wide battle formation of the San Francisco's AS99 soldiers to pass through unhindered.They immediately rushed inside before the opening closed up.The cephalopod chuckled with a sinister tone. “You must have a loose screw in your brain! You actually stepped in here! Good! As long as I kill you, these tricks will come to an end!”The creature sent water jets at a velocity that could puncture holes into the human flesh right at Tom.This sight was a bit worrisome for the rest as Tom is the only one not wearing a nanotech suit. Despite being evolved, water jet
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