All Chapters of War God Returns: Lein Ashford : Chapter 151
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Chapter 151
The black sedan pulled slowly into the Morgan Family Residence yard, parking in the same spot as when it had left.The door opened.Lein stepped out with a large bundle in his left hand, wrapped neatly in special paper from Ironwood Carve, and walked toward the front door with steps no different from someone returning from a perfectly routine errand.On the porch, Cedric stood, Vivienne beside him. Silas and Marsha slightly behind.They watched Lein approach the door with expressions they couldn't fully control.What actually happened?!Why is he back?!Wasn't he supposed to be dead?!Lein stopped right in front of them, looked at the faces trying to appear normal and failing completely, then gave a faint smile."Sorry, I'm a little late."His eyes swept across them one by one, pausing briefly on each face with a look that communicated far more than his words did."A few dogs got in my way. So I had to deal with them first."Silence.Cedric clenched his teeth.Vivienne swallowed.Sila
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Silence fell over the living room.Cedric opened his mouth, but nothing came out. The question left no room to answer without bringing himself down in the process.Two seconds passed.Then Augustus's voice broke it from his main chair."Wait."Low but heavy. The tone of a man who had just connected dots he didn't want to connect.Every head turned toward him.Augustus looked at Cedric with eyes that had lost all their warmth."You sent Lein to buy meat at Ironwood Carve. And there, he was attacked by a group of thugs working for Adrian."Not a question. A statement waiting to be challenged."Does this mean..." his voice dropped one level lower, more dangerous than when he shouted, "that you and Adrian were working together to kill Lein, Cedric?"The room seemed to lose its air.Celine raised her head with an expression that had completely changed. Her eyes moved between her father and Lein, then back to her father.Cedric stood in the middle of the room with a locked jaw, not making a
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Cedric steadied himself, his breath coming out heavy. His hands were still clenched, his eyes fixed on Lein, full of rage.He then took one more step forward. But..."ENOUGH, FATHER!"Celine's voice cut through the room like a blade.Every head turned toward her. Celine had risen from the sofa, her face no longer holding the composure she had been keeping. The corners of her eyes were red."This is all your fault." Her voice shook but didn't back down. "Not Lein's. You were the one who planned this. You were the one who sent him there. And now you're angry because he didn't die?"Cedric stared at his daughter with wide eyes.His daughter was defending that man in front of him, in front of the entire family, with words he had never heard come out of Celine's mouth before?Something inside his chest caught fire."YOU!" His finger shot toward Lein, his voice exploding. "You made my daughter bold enough to say things like that to her own father! You really are a bastard!"His feet moved,
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Lein closed his bedroom door and stood there for a moment, back against the wood, eyes shut.One long breath.Just to have Celine, just to be able to stand at one woman's side and prove that he was worthy, the price he had to pay was this. Being treated as an enemy, being plotted against, and being blamed for everything that was never his fault to begin with.A challenge that was anything but light.He pushed himself away from the door and walked to the small desk in the corner of the room. A empty cup and a water heater sat there waiting.At this point, Lein needed a cup of coffee, a seat at the edge of the window, and a moment to let the fullness in his head come down a little.His hand had just reached for the coffee tin when his phone vibrated.One vibration. An incoming message.Lein picked it up with a casual motion and opened the screen.The name of the sender made his hand stop.It was from one of the government agents he had placed to keep watch over Lily and their mother. Th
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Cedric lay in bed, his breathing steady, his face that had been so tense now relaxed in a sleep he hadn't chosen. Vivienne sat at the edge of the bed, her hand holding her husband's.Celine stood in the doorway, looking at her father for a moment.She wasn't angry anymore. Or maybe she still was, but the anger felt distant now, buried under something else that weighed more."Mother doesn't need to worry. I'll come back later."Vivienne turned with eyes that were still red, giving a slow nod.Celine pulled the door shut carefully, then stood in the corridor.She needed to find Lein.Her father had gone too far this time. Not just trying to separate them through pressure and threats, but actually planning Lein's death. Conspiring with Adrian, paying thugs, sending Lein to a place they had already prepared to make sure he never came back.Celine walked toward Lein's room on the second floor. She knocked on the door with her knuckles, three light taps.No answer.She waited a few seconds,
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Lein stood in front of his luxury home, worth a hundred million, under a sky that had gone completely dark. The exterior lights were on as usual, but something was different from normal. No ordinary movement behind the windows.He went inside.Inside, six people were already waiting. All of them in suits, but not one of those suits was still presentable. Torn collars, wrinkled sleeves, ties that had ended up somewhere unknown. Those faces greeted his arrival with the same expression, a mix of relief and shame they couldn't hide.A bruise on the right cheek. Stitches on the left temple. And one man in the corner of the room sitting with his right arm propped up in an improvised sling, the bone not where it should have been.Lein swept them all with one look, then one of them, a large man who usually stood the straightest among all of them, stepped forward with a body that leaned slightly to one side because his right side couldn't move normally."Mr. Ashford." His voice was quiet. "Bef
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The headlights of the black Mercedes-Benz cut through the darkness of the forest, lighting up a path that kept narrowing until it finally couldn't be followed any further. Large trees stood close together ahead, roots jutting up from the ground, bushes that gave no room for wheels.A dead end.Lein killed the engine. He stepped out of the car, the door closing with a sound immediately swallowed by the silence of the forest.He stood there for a moment, then his eyes closed.His senses spread outward, moving from his body like ripples expanding from a single point where a stone had been thrown, passing through the trees, through the underbrush, reaching every corner of this dark forest in a way that no ordinary set of senses could explain.Shortly after, he felt three presences.Two that were weak, two that weren't moving freely. One that stood with an energy different from an ordinary person.A cultivator.Lein opened his eyes. He then stepped into the forest, leaving the car and the
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But then, something on Ryoken's face changed.His wide eyes slowly narrowed, and at the corner of his bleeding lip, a smile formed. Not a forced one. It came from a genuine place, from a part of him that hadn't been touched in a long time.He got up.Not like someone in pain trying to hold on, but like someone who had just found what they had been searching for."Just as the Supreme Leader said." His voice came out heavy from breath that hadn't fully returned, but there was a life in it that hadn't been there before. "You really are strong."His feet took position. Right foot slightly back, knees bent at the right angle, weight distributed with a precision that only came from thousands of hours of training. His left hand came up in front of him, fingers straight and together. His right hand pulled back to his side, a fist ready to go.A solid stance.Back straight. Shoulders down. Chest facing forward with a calm that was different from before. This wasn't the posture of someone who w
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Ryoken bit down on his lip.Hard, until blood ran out.Panic?!Him? Ryoken Daz?His hands clenched. His knuckles went white, bones pushing against the skin from the pressure. His eyes stared at Lein with a hatred looking for somewhere to land, a rage trying to replace something he didn't want to admit.He was someone people were afraid of. Nobody had ever made him panic, nobody, except the Supreme Leader. And he was not going to let this man become the second.Ryoken got up.Every part of his body honestly protested the movement. Ribs attacking from inside every time his chest expanded, a shoulder that refused to move to where it was supposed to, a nose still streaming warm blood down to his upper lip. But his feet found the ground, his knees straightened, and he stood.His eyes never left Lein.This time, he wasn't going to wait to be hit first.His feet drove into the ground with every bit of strength he had left, and his body shot forward. Four meters disappeared in less than a sec
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Ryoken opened his mouth.The words that came out were not the kind that usually came out of his mouth. Not threats, not insults, not the name of a technique ready to be launched."Wait." His voice broke in the middle. "Please. I... I give up. Let me live."Lein looked down at him. Nothing changed on his face. Still cold and without mercy."This is for Lily."Then his right fist came down with a terrifying force.CRACK.Ryoken's nose, already broken before, was completely destroyed this time, the cartilage collapsing inward, blood spraying forward and sideways at once. Four front teeth were knocked clean from their roots, scattered across the ground of the crater around him. His lower jaw shifted from where it should have been, his left cheek swelling within seconds until the eye on that side was nearly shut.Ryoken Daz's face no longer looked the same as it had moments before.Lein raised his hand again."This is for my mother."SLAM.The second punch hit the same point with undiminis