“After my strength increased and I could enter the Ninth Division, only then did you take me to the Ninth Division.”“Oh, right. Recently, wasn’t there a selection to join the Diplomatic Mission Team? I heard that those who join that team must have extremely high talent.”“Is there a way to increase talent? I want to join that team.”“As long as I can become a member of the Diplomatic Mission Team, I can travel around the world and find Richard faster.”Up until now, Zorric could still lie very easily. He looked at Ravenna with hopeful eyes, wanting her to help him increase his talent.As long as he became strong enough, he could find a way to ask for help from his old friend to get a candidate from Country Rio Dio.Seeing the strong desire and ambition in Zorric’s eyes, Ravenna spontaneously furrowed her brow. She stared at Zorric with a deep gaze.After a moment, Ravenna finally replied, but her words were completely devoid of emotion.“You are very talented. Not just in the countri

Even the child had to go through a simulated bone marrow transplant operation.“I’m not afraid, I’m not afraid...”“Grandma at the orphanage said I’m the child brought to the orphanage by Sister Athena. I was picked up in the wilderness.”“Dad and Mom just couldn’t find me. It’s not because they didn’t want me, it’s not that they didn’t want me...”“One day they will surely come and take me home. I’m almost three years old. I must not cry.”“If Dad sees me crying, he won’t like me, he won’t want me anymore...”The eyes of the strong and patient little boy were fixed intently on the large door. He clenched his small fists tightly, and his body trembling without stopping showed how terrified he was.He was very scared. He was afraid the door would suddenly open.He was very afraid that the man in the white coat would suddenly walk toward him carrying a syringe. What he feared most of all was that he would never have a chance to see his parents again in his life.He was not an unwanted

Unusual? Nothing at all…Huh? Wrong!Merry suddenly seemed to recall an accidental conversation. She instinctively furrowed her brows and lifted her face to look at her younger sibling before speaking.“It seems… I think I heard a rumor from the subordinates. Apparently, there’s been some movement in the forbidden area over the past few days.”The forbidden area?Wasn’t that the place Talyra had visited before? At that time, Talyra had Richard’s jade key.The woman didn’t just enter the forbidden area once. She also carried a virus out of it.If it weren’t for that incident, Athena wouldn’t have been disturbed. She wouldn’t have gone to imperial city or met Richard either.Moreover, the forbidden area was the most restricted zone in Division Nine. Even the royal family and noble families were not allowed near it.How could there be movement there?“What kind of movement?” asked Athena, feeling increasingly tense.Meanwhile, Merry, standing across from her, simply shook her head. Her a

“That child was brought from the orphanage in Salof city, Division Nine. Do you want to take him straight to Smaora Country, or conduct the operation here?”The two eyes of the official sparkled as they looked at the child who was curling up in fear. The dark eyes of the boy stared back, full of pleading and also fear.The boy had a handsome face and seemed not yet to have turned three, yet it appeared he already understood many things.“Children in our country can only cry when they are three years old; they understand nothing. But the child from Division Nine looks very different.”“Look at his eyes—he can give a gaze full of pleading for us to free him. It seems he knows that we want to do something with him,” said the official, with a satisfied and admiring expression.He observed the boy curled up there from head to toe with a careful assessment. This little boy could make their Country Troibiailling to trade anything for him!After finishing his assessment, the official looked a

“Please, I’ll be a good boy. I can wash clothes and do many things! Please take me away from here, okay?” The boy clutched the hem of Zorric’s shirt, his eyes brimming with tears.His whole body was trembling violently from the fear he was feeling. This did not escape Zorric’s notice, stirring once again the fear and sadness he had felt when he was a child.Back then, he had been just like the boy standing in front of him now. He had been abandoned and abused, then sold for money. Because of that his pride had been wounded, making him thirst for greatness and for recognition from others!At this moment, he saw his younger self reflected in this boy. The boy was begging him to save his life.Just like Zorric had once hoped there would be someone to save him when little Zorric was locked up in a dark room.“I’m not your dad. Smaora Country spent a lot of effort to get you. So, your life or death has nothing to do with me at all,” Zorric replied as he pulled the boy’s hands off his shirt