CHAPTER FORTY-ONELinda continued to gently drag Kael until they got to the car park before she let go of his hand and turned to look at him with a frown on her face.“What is it, Linda? Why did you stop?”“Your friends! What are their names again?”Kael looked back, and then he returned his eyes to Linda who still had her frown intact.“What happened to my friends?”“I don’t like them, Kael . You should stop going around with them, they look like people who are going to betray you.” Linda said emphatically, but Kael looked very much confused at her words.“Betray me? But you just met them, and you don’t even know anything about them. How then do you know that they are going to betray me?”“My instincts, Kael . I just have the feeling that they are not good for you, and you should definitely listen to me. I know that I am right, I just know it.” Linda folded her arms, and then she rolled her eyes in a disparage.“Kael thought about her words for a few seconds, and then he sighed heavi

CHAPTER FORTY-THREEKael continued walking into the building until he got to the door that led to Lucas’s room. Luckily, it was noon, and none of the D-rankers were around.“Aunty Dara?” He tapped his hand on the door, but he got no response. He moved closer to the door and placed his ear against it.“Aunt Dara? It’s me, Kael. I have some good news.” He listened again, but he couldn't hear any sound from inside the room.Unable to withstand the urge to find out what was going on, he withdrew his ear from the door and then grabbed the handle at once before twisting almost immediately.“Aunty?” He opened the door, but he couldn’t find his Aunt, his jaw dropped, and his heart almost flew away from his chest.“Aunty?” He scoured the corners of the room, but even his cousin was not in the room as well.“Carl? Where are you guys?” He asked with so much apprehension, but he couldn’t get any response, not even the tiniest sound.“What’s going on?” His voice became really shaky, as he remember

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVEKael walked into the Apex Apex Headquarters main building, wondering what he was really doing there, while he struggled with the tension that nestled in his body. He moved through the hallway in front of the entrance of the building, ignoring the gazes and remarks of some of the people who knew that he had just gotten into the Emerald Guild.“Kael Ashworth? There you are!” Said the deep familiar male voice from behind Kael, causing him to turn almost immediately to know who it was.“Good day, Mr. Morrison .” Kael greeted him calmly as soon as he was able to recognize the head of the awakeners committee who appeared from behind him with a smile all over his face.“Hello, Kael. I have been looking all over for you. I didn’t even realize that you were here, and I asked your friends to find you and bring you to me.”“My friends?”“Oh, yes. The otter S-rankers, Susie and Elvis. They got into the Emerald Guild as well, right?” Mr. Morrison asked with a smile on his face,

CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN“I am going to confront them,” Kael concluded within himself, and he started to March toward them, swinging his arms in alignment with the rage that crept into his mind as he looked at Linda in the arms of another man.“She’d better have a good and convincing explanation for this.” He thought to himself as he continued walking toward them, while they remained caught up in their moment.Without having any plans to let them know that he was close to them, Kael stood behind Linda and the young man who was already holding onto Linda with both hands, while she continued to chuckle at the words that he leaned forward and whispered into her ears.For some reason, Linda decided to turn to her right, and as soon as she saw Kael standing close to her, she quickly pulled out the hands of the man who was holding onto her and took two steps backward with her face bent to the ground.“What’s wrong? What did you do that for?” The man asked Linda and tried to get close to her agai

CHAPTER FORTY-NINE“Kael ? Is everything alright? You are acting like you haven’t seen me in ages.“ Mrs. Belov said as she gently pulled away from her son’s body, and looked at him in the eyes.“I thought I had lost you guys again, Aunt Dara.” Kael expressed the relief he felt in his eyes and even sighed heavily to get rid of the tension in his body.“How do you mean, Kael ? The man who took us, what’s his name again?” Mrs. Belov said with a little confusion laced in her voice, and then she thought for a while before continuing.“Yes! Mr. Morrison , that’s his name. He said you sent him to bring us to this place.” She looked at Kael to confirm her words.“Yes! That’s right, Aunty. That’s true, I sent him to bring you guys to this place. How could I have forgotten?” Kael suddenly got a hint of what his Aunt meant and decided to cover up immediately, even though the middle-aged woman suspected that he wasn’t really telling the truth.“Didn’t you send him to bring us to this place? You