“Thank you for saving me,” the lady with her face covered in blood lowered her head before Denver. “My name is Barbaria. Please allow me to thank you with a meal.”“You’ve lost too much blood. First get yourself treated,” Denver was saying. “Oh wait,” he took out a red pellet from his pocket and tossed it to her.“This is…” Barbaria’s eyes widened. “Blood Pearl! It’s too precious for someone like me.”“Just take it,” Denver told her. “And don’t let yourself be bullied.”Barbaria quickly swallowed the pill without any help of water. The injury on her forehead was healing fast. She wiped the blood off her face and thanked him again. “I will never forget this favor. Let me go and bring some delicious food for you while you are working here.”“I’m not in the mood to eat.”“If you want to work, you gotta eat,” Barbaria replied. “That’s what my mother always used to tell me.”Denver’s expression changed as she left the scene.If he grew up with his mother, would she have also told him somet

At the council zone.All the people that attacked Sheryl were not able to subdue her.She didn’t engage in a fight with them, either, as it would be disadvantageous to her. If she were to take her sword out, she would be killing them.This would give Natalia even more grounds to punish her.So, Sheryl played it safe and kept dodging the attacks that came at her and used this fight to better her skills, especially her movement arts.The guards were no slouches. They used coordinate attacks to try and corner her, but her movements were so fast and angled that afterimages appeared.Natalia was irritated that the guards were attacking the mirages instead of the real body. She could see Sheryl darting in zig-zags, leaving shadows behind.“Shadow Wing Mirage technique… She’s closely avoiding the combo attacks of her opponents,” Natalia was thinking, but then she saw Sheryl stepping back, almost gliding backward while watching all the opponents and keep track of their movements. “Hawk Eye Re

Brook was going past the royal castle on foot.His eyes briefly locked with the gate guard who wasn’t Ronny but the one who worked before him.Brook smiled, but the gate guard didn’t smile back.Brook silently walked away.After going some distance, he took his mobile out and looked at the list of people he had set as his targets.A total of thirteen.“Madam Silk… the woman who seduced and ruined the reputation of many celebrities and politicians… Nobody knows her real face as she always wears a mask. Killing her would get me close to many known personalities in the country.“The Phantom Broker, Lord Cipher, Blackwater Boss, the Silvervein family, the Seven Hands of the Night Market, and last but not least… the Goldblood Accountant. If I kill even one of these 13, it’s good enough to make me a don, but if I can send all of them to the bottom of the ocean…”He let out a wide grin.“I’ll become the don of dons! A mega don! The greatest don there is!”A couple of minutes later.As Brook

Serena was watching the fight from a distance. Nicole and Gunnar were also there for different reasons.Nicole just tagged along, whereas Gunnar wanted to keep Serena in check in case she were to attack Denver.“How the hell did he get past Brook’s aura defense?” Serena found it hard to believe even though she had witnessed the fight. “Is his lightning just that powerful?”“The way he attacked with lightning… it’s obvious that he used psychic aura,” Nicole opined. “That gives him the ability to push through Brook’s aura.”“That would work only if Brook’s aura was weaker,” Gunnar voiced his mind. “From what I saw, I think it had to do more with the nature of the lightning itself.”“Nature of lightning?” Serena and Nicole looked at each other.“Wait, his ability is called blood lightning,” Serena said. “Surely, it will have some special properties. But how can it still get past a pure aural defense? That’s ridiculous."Serena didn’t like that idea as it would put the likes of Lily at a

Denver and Natalia were eyeing each other.Drake could tell that Denver’s expression may be calm, but there was heat in his gaze. “There’s no need to fight if we do both things at the same time. Doula’s funeral and your interrogation can happen at the same time.”Many council members present there liked the proposition. “If you don’t have anything to fear, then you shouldn’t refuse this offer,” they told Denver, but he wasn’t even looking at them.His gaze did not move away from Natalia.Like a young apex predator, he did not back down from contesting with perhaps the most arrogant of all council members.“I don’t like those eyes…” Natalia pointed at him. “Drake… he clearly doesn’t want to cooperate, so why are you still standing like a statue? Go and beat him up. Then you can interrogate him all you want. I give you the permission to torture him without restraint.”While Drake appreciated that he was being given such freedom, he wasn’t sure if he should fight right now or not.It was