2025-01-07 20:23:27A well dressed gentleman was standing behind the guards. He looked like a very rich fellow, and the guards seemed to respect him as he walked towards them.
"But sir..." "No buts", he interrupted, raising his right hand in the air. Then he bent forward and lent a hand to Adrian. "I heard everything. Let the young man come." As Adrian came to his feet, the man shook his hand. "My name is James Halton, I am Mr Rodriquez's personal assistant. I heard everything you said about Miss Lyana. Are you sure about what you are saying?" Not that he was super sure, but the system had been his informant. So far, everything the system said had been true. He could heal from serious injuries in a matter of seconds. He could locate Lyana without having any prior idea of where she might have been. If the system was right in all of that, then it must be right about her life being in danger. "Yes sir. I am sure about this." "And you think you can save her?" About that, he didn't know what he was needed to do but something told him he needed to see her first. Then the system would tell him what to do. "Well..." They were interrupted by rushed footsteps which came in their direction. "Mr Halton! Mr Halton!! It is the little Miss!! She is having a serious episode!" James Halton turned around in shock. He didn't need to hear anymore before he sped after the female servants who had come to call him. And Adrian followed him instinctively, knowing something was happening to Lyana. He checked the visible screen, she still had about five minutes left to live. He could still save her. As they reached the super large hospital room, Adrian could feel the tension across the room. The seeds of tragedy growing slowly, waiting to unleash. "Please doctor! Save her!!" Matilda cried beside the bed, holding the hands of the dying girl. The doctors were trying everything they could. The female servants stood together at a corner, sobbing. James Halton rushed to the side of Matilda and looked the lead doctor in the eye. "What is going on, Doctor Lewis? The girl is becoming worse." Doctor Lewis shook his head. "I'm sorry, Mr Halton. We have tried everything, and there's nothing more we can do now. Her chances of survival are way below one. We can only hope for some miracle." "Hope for a miracle?" Halton squeezed the doctor's coat in anger, it looked like he was going to attack him. Then his eyes fell on Adrian. "You! You said you could save her. Then come forward and do something!" Every eye turned to Adrian, wondering how this misfit was going to do anything to save the billionaire's daughter when well trained medical personelle had failed to do a thing for her. "This thing?! I thought I instructed those two dimwits to throw him out!" Matilda boiled. It was as though she was disgusted by the very sight of him. "Who is this?" Doctor Lewis questioned. "Someone who hasn't given up on her!" Halton ushered Adrian forward as the doctors protested it. "What are his credentials?" The doctor asked again. He had none. "We cannot allow him to do anything to her." "The doctor is right, James." Matilda seconded. "This thing cannot even keep himself clean, how can he keep Lyana alive?" "She has about 59 seconds left." Adrian faced James Halton, not minding what the others were saying. If he was going to save her, then they couldn't delay it any longer. "Come on. Do your thing." James Halton gave way for him as he stepped beside Lyana who lay unconscious. "No. We cannot allow an outsider to lay hands on our patient. Especially an high ranking patient like Miss Lyana, and especially not this person dressed in rags, wet with blood and water. We cannot allow this..." Lewis found his voice cut off as his head crashed on the wall behind him and his throat burnt at the choke hold of James Halton. "Shut the fuck up, doctor!" Meanwhile, Adrian held Lyana's other hand and awaited his instructions. "System. Now." He whispered in his heart. "Don't fail me now." A shining light grew between his hand and Lyana's, and it grew brighter, fazing everyone in the room. "What is he doing?" "Is this magic?" "You see, James. I told you he was a fraud!" "Someone stop this man..." Then the light receded, and in Adrian's hand was a little oval glass gourd of glowing white liquid. "GIVE THE POTION OF LIFE TO MISS LYANA. YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS LEFT." Instantly, he swiped the glass open and turned it over on her lips. The potion came out in drops. By the third drop, Lyana Rodriguez coughed and her eyes opened to the sight of Adrian. "Did she just... Open her eyes? Is she awake?" A maid whispered. "She is alive." Another responded. "He truly saved her life." Everywhere was as quiet as a grave house as each person stared at another in shock, then at Adrian, then at Lyana who was slowly sitting up by herself. "What happened?" Lyana muttered, seemingly unaware of her sickness. "Why is everyone staring at me?" In a moment, the silence became chaos as the entire room erupted into jubilations. The maid servants all hugged one another in tears while the doctors shook their heads in shame. James Halton and Matilda held Lyana as if she had come back from the dead, suprised at how good she looked. It was as if she was never ill in the first place. "CONGRATULATIONS, MR BLOOD. YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR FIRST MISSION. YOU ARE NOW OFFICIALLY GRANTED THE STATUS OF ANCHOR." Adrian's work here was done. He had saved the life of the billionaire girl. He had no more reason to be in that room, especially after the loads of insult he had taken today. With everyone else distracted by their jubilations, Adrian turned around to leave. Just as he reached the doorway where the two security guards stayed, he heard a voice calling him. "Wait up, gentleman!" It was James Halton. He must want to thank him personally for what he had just done. "You have done an incredible service to this family. I am certain the chairman would want to meet you himself. You can ask him for anything you want. Anything at all." Adrian was not going to do any such thing. He was not the biggest fan of the Rodriguez family. They had always stepped on the lower families to glorify themselves with their riches. He was not ready to sit on the same table with Federico Rodriguez or any member of that family. Also anytime he remembered what happened tonight with Ricardo and Teresa, his anger doubled. "No, thank you." He declined. "I don't need any reward." Adrian turned around, leaving James Halton with a shocked expression. "I still do not know your name." He requested. "Adrian Blood." A cab stopped in front of Adrian. How convenient to find them when a life was not on the line. As he returned back home for the rest of the night, his phone, almost completely destroyed by the traumas of tonight, vibrated continuously. "CONGRATULATIONS. YOU HAVE BEEN REWARDED WITH ONE MILLION DOLLARS AND TEN CHARACTER POINTS AFTER COMPLETING TODAY'S MISSION!"
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The cars wheeled in with different shades of colours. Regally defined and strong in wealth, a banquet such as this was only open to the elites among the elites. Ricardo Rodriguez walked in with enormous pride, ready to take his chances like he had intended."Finally, I am here. I will achieve the greatest thing today. Something that father himself could never achieve. And then that woman would know that I am a man of myself." He boasted to the ears of nobody but himself. The words that Aurumia uttered still pierced the part of his heart where his rage was most concentrated. Before, he had thought that his plans were in shambles after the plane he boarded was hijacked. Even though his life was saved while everybody else was left to die, he was still distressed that he would not get to attend this grand banquet, the main purpose to his visit. But then everything changed when the plane showed up at the airport again and the passengers were confirmed safe. Instead of being the sole surviv
Chapter two Hundred Sixty Nine
"My name is Baldwin Manchester. I am a man of little words but many things, but most especially, a man of peace". The strange fellow finally introduced himself, seeing that he had how succeeded in grabbing the attention of Adrian Blood. "Many years ago, I met your father. I mean, your real father. I know you never met him yourself, but I can assure you he was a spectacular man." Baldwin Manchester continued."I do not want to hear stories of your adventures. What exactly do you want?" Adrian Blood demanded, knowing that an unexpected visit, clouded in ambiguity as this was not a visit for pleasantries. There was a catch, and he could not quite catch the truth of it yet.The man looked around, as if to certify that nobody was there to listen."I need your help, Mr Blood." He whispered, leaning closer in a dramatic fashion. "Or should I say, Mr Waters?"Adrian Blood knew for sure that this man came here for business. He wanted to use his knowledge of Adrian's parentage to corner him i
Chapter Two Hundred Sixty-Eight
Adrian Blood was having a meal at a nearby restaurant. He had just acquired a place to stay and he was just waiting for the keys to the building where he would stay for the few days he was going to be in London. All his life, he had never imagined that he would fly out of Ravendale city, fly out on an airplane. His foster mother had always struggled, paying for his existence with every little strength in her aging bones. To the point that she took a bullet because of him. And in the end, she was not even his real mother.A ding came from his phone. Opening it, he found his sister's face on the screen. She had dropped him a voice message. It was a long time since he last spoke to his sister. The last time he showed up at the secret mansion, he met only his uncle. He has said that Lyana had gone off to be with her boyfriend, Jacob. Adrian Blood still remembered Jacob's true intentions, he just had no way of letting his sister realize how bad of a person the boy was. But all that will ch
Chapter Two Hundred Sixty-Seven
The chairman sat up straight this very instant. He was well enthralled by the proposal at hand, as unexpected and as shocking as it was. How could she know about Hans Zimmer or that he was looking for him? "Do you know where he is, dear?" His voice cradled around careful attention, knowing that this could be his chance to finally lay his hands on what had evaded him for so long.Lyana spoke with huge confidence. "Not only do I know where he is, I can give him to you, seeing how desperate you are to find him. Desperate enough to kidnap an innocent child."The chairman was thrown another ball of fire wrapped in suprise. How did she know about the captured boy? It was impossible. The boy was found on that mountain of rocks and nothing where Hans Zimmer's cold body was abandoned. Could it be that Lyana was there that night too? Could she have witnessed everything without being seen by anyone at all? That would be extraordinarily mind blowing and completely inevitable. Come to think of i
Chapter Two Hundred Sixty-Six
"Yes, Dad". Her voice was so real, far from that of a ghost. "It is me, your baby." She said, the same innocent girl which he raised for many years. It was the same Lyana, not dead afterall.Whatever happiness she had anticipated from him, he was not ready to give. "How..." He grumbled, knowing that he had been made to believe a lie for the many weeks that had passed by, thinking he was rid of her.Ricardo had said that she was nowhere to be found after the police capitol went up in flames. He had suspected that the Astana family might have had something to do with her disappearance, seeing how Luther Astana vanished at about the same time Lyana was last seen. But when he was paid that strange visit by Martin Astana and his friends, her name was never mentioned. He knew those three men well. They had no reason to hide such an important card especially when it was their ultimate trick to checkmate. Then the chairman had suspected that they had no clues as well as to where she was. They
Chapter Two Hundred Sixty-Five
Chairman Federico Rodriguez was grinning to the screen as he indulged in the content of every news channels which spanned across and beyond the walls of the city. He had spent good money to ensure that things would go the way he desired and as the headlines read "Heir to Rodriguez Holdings part of survivors!", he knew he had been able to evade what had been set to be an absolute scandal. "The young billioniare was one of the hundred passengers who survived the miraculous events of the London Flight which took from Ravendale, after it had been hijacked by armed men, later identified as members of the newly reformed terrorist group, the Dark Society. Ricardo shared his thoughts with our correspondents, happy that he was able to survive the journey after he was the main victim of special target in the hands of the leader of the terrorists, Savitar Farouse".The men who stood beside him were happy to see him smile. For the past few hours, the chairman had been up on his toes, making call
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