All Chapters of War God Returns: Lein Ashford : Chapter 211
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Chapter 211
Lein hit that line like a stone thrown into a pond.The first wave, twenty people from the front row, came at the same time. Lein didn't slow down. His body dropped under the first fist coming from the left, his feet pushed sideways, and his shoulder drove into that man's waist with enough force to send him crashing into the three people behind him.Four from one motion.From the right, two men came with clubs. Lein jumped upward, his feet landing on the first man's shoulder as a launching point, pushing off to jump higher, and both feet swept downward hitting both their heads simultaneously before he landed lightly between them.Six.Someone from behind tried to lock both his arms. Lein bent forward, threw the man over his shoulder, directly into two people running from the front. Three bodies stopped at the same time.Nine.The rhythm didn't break.A slap to the right side of the head. An elbow rising to a chin. A low leg sweep catching three sets of ankles at once. Lein moved left,
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Drace arrived first. His iron gauntlets drove forward in a three-punch combination, left right left, each fist leaving a pressure wave in the air from the Soul Realm energy flowing into them.Lein stepped back one pace from the first punch, angled two centimeters from the second, and dropped under the third. That last fist passed over his head with a wind sound that wasn't small.Drace wasn't done. His knee rose toward Lein's stomach.Lein turned his body, letting the knee pass by the side of his waist, and was already behind Drace before the man realized his target was no longer in front of him.From the left, Mael came in.His bandage-wrapped fist shot toward Lein's head from a different angle, not from the front but rising from below, an uppercut combination that had shattered cheekbones more than once in his career.Lein dropped two centimeters.The fist passed the edge of his hair.Before Mael had pulled his fist back, Lein's elbow moved into Mael's ribs in a brief motion that lo
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Drace moved first again, but differently from before.His iron gauntlets trembled, the runic engravings on their surface glowing with a dark reddish-black light, and the Soul Realm energy flowing into them began turning the air around his fists into something denser."Iron Burial Fist!"His fist drove forward, and the pressure wave radiating from the motion wasn't an ordinary one. This felt like a moving concrete wall, trying to destroy not just the body but the space around the target.Lein stepped left. The wave passed him and hit the asphalt behind him, leaving a star-shaped crack in the road surface.Drace didn't stop. His technique wasn't a single shot, but a barrage. Left fist, right, left again, each impact into the air releasing the same pressure wave, filling the entire space in front of him with attacks that couldn't be avoided by simply stepping back.And Lein clearly wasn't stepping back in any ordinary way. He moved sideways, sideways again, diagonally, his body always in
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"Stop just dodging, bastard!"Soren's voice cracked between breaths that had long since stopped being steady. "Face us!"Kira followed from his right, the daggers in her hands no longer radiating the same energy as at the start. "All you can do is dodge? Is that really all you have?!"They knew there was no way to hit that man through ordinary means. Too agile, too good at reading everything. The only possibility was to make him strike back, make him move toward them instead of away, and that was when the opening that hadn't appeared in ten minutes might finally show itself.Lein smiled.Still moving, still avoiding a Phantom Edge that Crane released at half strength, but smiling."You sure you won't regret saying that?" His voice was casual, like someone commenting on the afternoon weather. "Alright. I'll get a little serious."The smile disappeared.And his body disappeared with it.Soren stood there with a Void Weave he had just released into empty space, and before he could regist
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Edran's legs were shaking.Not the kind of shaking he could control with willpower. This came from somewhere deeper than willpower, from something the body does automatically when the mind can no longer deny what's standing in front of it.But he was Edran Varcrest. The head of a family who had held this position for twenty years. He didn't shake in front of anyone.His teeth pressed together, his jaw locked, and his legs stopped shaking by force."Me?" His voice came out, still carrying some tone in it even if not as strong as usual. "Run? Never. I am the head of the Varcrest Family. I won't—"SMACK.Edran's head snapped to the left. Two of his teeth hit the asphalt along with blood running from the corner of his mouth, and the pain that immediately radiated from his right cheek through his entire face was the kind he hadn't felt in twenty years because nobody had ever dared."How dare you slap me, bastard!" His eyes came back to Lein, anger trying to cover something more real undern
Chapter 216
Inside the Jeep speeding away from that street, Edran Varcrest couldn't stop sweating.His broken hand throbbed with pain that gave no pause, but that wasn't what was keeping his body from settling. What he couldn't get out of his head were those eyes. Eyes so cold and filled with killing intent.He was certain that monster wasn't going to simply forget tonight. He would come back, sooner or later.Edran pressed the accelerator harder, his trembling right hand trying to keep the steering wheel straight. He had to get to Valcrest Premier Hospital. Get treated. Get Lucien and Sera and everything that needed to be taken.Then leave.Not to another city. Not hiding in a villa outside Aldenmoor. Leave the Varek Continent entirely, as far as he could possibly get from that man and from the Hale family name that hadn't even existed in his world until three days ago.He pressed the gas harder still.---On the street the Jeep had left behind, Lein stood for a moment, let out a short breath, t
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Edran's Jeep stopped in front of Valcrest Premier Hospital with tires that barely had time to fully settle before he shoved the door open.His broken hand screamed when it hit the door, but he had no attention for that right now.The hospital lobby at this hour should have been quiet. One or two receptionists, a half-drowsy security guard, lighting dimmer than during the day.But what he found was a corridor with too many people moving too quickly for this hour of the morning, and a doctor in a white coat already waiting for him near the entrance with an expression Edran didn't want to read."Mr. Varcrest." The doctor approached, his tone too careful. "We... there's something we need to tell you—""What is it?!"The doctor swallowed. "Young Master Lucien... he's not in his room, sir. We just found his room empty about two minutes ago."Edran stared at him for three full seconds.Then his feet moved toward the elevator."Mr. Varcrest, your hand—"He was already not listening.The eleva
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"Sir." Lucien's voice came out quieter than he wanted, but there was no other way because his position didn't give him many options. "I'm truly sorry. I know I was wrong. I'm the one who hurt Cael. But—""Cael is dead."Dorian said it the way someone does when they've repeated it inside their own head so many times that they no longer have the energy to wrap it in any tone other than what it is.Lucien went quiet.His mouth that had been ready to continue the sentence stopped midway.His eyes moved to the man carrying him. Then back to Dorian. Then to that man again."What... what do you mean he's dead? Then who is—""I'm just someone who looks like Cael." Lein's voice was flat, with no additional explanation that needed to be given."Th-that's not possible." Lucien shook his head, but the motion sent pain from every direction. "There's no way two people look that similar. Your face, your height, everything—""My son died two days after you and your people sent him to the hospital." D
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Lein stood in the yard filled with bodies still lying under the streetlights.His eyes swept across all of it once."I'll count to three." His voice came out in a way that didn't need to be loud to be heard by everyone. "If the count ends and you're still in front of me, don't blame me for what happens next. One."Nobody moved in the first second."Two."Then everything moved at once.A hundred and twenty people and five cultivators who had previously been unable to stand properly suddenly found a way to do so. Bodies wincing from pain forced themselves up off the asphalt, hands propping up dizzy heads, legs that were shaking but didn't stop moving. They didn't run in any organized direction. They ran toward their respective Jeeps in a way that could only be described as highly efficient panic.Car doors were opened and closed within seconds. Engines started almost simultaneously. Tires spinning on asphalt.Before Lein raised his voice to say three, the yard was already empty.Nothing
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Lein saw the expression in Dorian's eyes and already knew what was on his mind before any words needed to be said."I'll come visit you again once my matters are settled."Dorian raised his head."I lost my father five years ago." Lein continued in a tone that wasn't sentimental but wasn't cold either, just honest. "He was a lot like you. A hard worker, didn't say much about himself, but always there when needed. You remind me of him." He paused for a moment. "So I already think of you as my own father."A few seconds passed.Dorian's face, which had been holding something back, slowly changed. Not an explosion, nothing dramatic. Just a brightening, in a simple and genuine way."You're welcome to think of me as your father." His voice was slightly unsteady at the end but he didn't hide it. "The door to this house will always be open whenever you come back."Lein smiled. Not wide, but it was there."Thank you."They finished breakfast without many more words. But the silence between th