“Fiona, are you bothering Mr. Cruise again?”The office door opened, and Javier walked in with Vincent and Joey. The moment Fiona heard his voice, she got up and walked over to her grandfather, her lips already slightly pursed as if she had just found the reinforcements she needed.“Grandpa, Brother Luke wants to marry Kina. You’ll let him, right?”The room fell silent.Javier, Vincent, and Joey stopped where they were, their eyes shifting between Fiona and Luke as they tried to process what she had just said. Even Luke found himself at a loss for words.“I...”When exactly had he ever said he wanted to marry Kina?‘This girl... how could she just say something like that?’Luke stared at Fiona in disbelief until she gave him a quick wink, and he finally realized she was just messing with him. His shoulders relaxed as he let out a quiet sigh. He really should have known better than to take anything Fiona said ser

After arriving at the Blazing Phoenix Gang’s headquarters, Luke went straight to see Malcov. He found him inside the conference room, where the other high-ranking officials of the gang were already waiting.Apparently, they were waiting for Leon as well.Half an hour later, Leon finally arrived. Following closely behind him was a white-haired woman, one of the high-ranking officials of the White Dragon Knights.Her name was Amanda, the third most fearsome fighter among Leon’s officers.Both of them wore serious expressions as they entered the conference room. Seeing their faces, Luke couldn’t help but feel that whatever news they had brought was not something trivial.Could it have something to do with Jason Zheng?“Mr. Cruise,” Amanda greeted him politely.Luke returned the greeting with a slight nod before turning his serious gaze toward Leon.“What is it? Is my family in trouble?” he asked.Leon gave

The men immediately stopped what they were doing when they felt the slight tremor beneath their feet.It wasn’t nearly as strong as the earthquake from the previous night, but after everything that had happened, even the slightest movement of the ground was enough to make them uneasy.Several of them instinctively looked around. Dust trickled down from the unstable piles of rubble. A few loose pieces of concrete shifted against one another with a faint scraping sound.“It’s happening again,” someone from Ken’s group muttered worriedly.Another man looked toward the source of the movement and suddenly narrowed his eyes.“Wait. Isn’t that Luke?”The others followed his gaze. Sure enough, Luke was standing several meters away with Kina and Natalia.Despite the tremor and the strange uneasiness hanging over the area, Ken’s eyes immediately brightened when he saw him.“Luke!”He quickly walked toward him. However, before he could even finish his greeting, Luke turned his attention toward h

The young masters simply looked at one another. None of them wanted to argue with Luke.Who would dare?After all, Luke had already made it clear that going outside meant certain death. No matter how much they wanted to help Natalia, none of them were foolish enough to throw their lives away just to prove they had courage.So Ken’s group had no choice but to stay where they were and wait.They could only count the passing minutes in their heads. Some of them tried using their phones to contact their families or ask for help, but there was no response. The signal in the area was unstable, and whatever network remained functional was clearly struggling under the circumstances.Others simply sat around, anxiously waiting for something to happen. A few, despite everything that was happening around them, even managed to take advantage of the situation to admire Kina from a distance.It was almost impressive how quickly some people cou

Luke watched as the young master was carried away on a stretcher by the paramedics. The young man looked terrible after what had happened to him, but fortunately, he was still alive. Considering the force with which the monster had thrown him against the wall, that alone was something to be grateful for.The incident had left almost all the young masters too shaken to speak properly. Most of them were now sitting quietly while authorities and their respective families questioned them about what had happened. Some tried to explain everything they had witnessed, but no matter how they described it, their stories were difficult to believe.Dozens of horned monsters had suddenly appeared out of nowhere and attacked them?And if that really happened, where were those creatures now?That was a question the young masters themselves couldn't answer. There had been so many of them earlier, yet they had all disappeared just as suddenly as they had appeared.The worst part was that nobody had an