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Chapter 222: The Strategy Behind the Lie
Logan felt the cold smile settle on his face.This was exactly what he had needed.He stood on the stage and let nothing of what he was actually thinking reach his expression. The satisfaction was quiet and contained, the way satisfaction always was when a plan executed precisely as designed.He had lied.The accusation had been constructed with precision. He knew Richard Scar hadn't cheated. He knew Richard was exactly the kind of competitor who despised underhanded methods. The man was arrogant, yes, but the arrogance came from genuine ability, from years of work and study and earned confidence.Logan had watched Richard during the competition with Carl Jim. The focused, clean way he answered. The absence of hesitation. The complete engagement with the material. Richard Scar was good and he knew it, which made an accusation of cheating the one thing he could not walk away from.The plan had been simple. Accuse him. Let the accusation land where it would hurt most. Wait for the rea
Chapter 21: The Challenge Re-Accepted
Logan looked at Richard Scar and let the accusation sit in the air between them.Richard's expression had shifted. The earlier composure was gone, replaced by something tighter, more controlled. His hands were at his sides, not quite clenched but close.Logan continued, his voice carrying easily across the stage. "Gordon Pilgrim needed someone who could guarantee a win. He found you, but you don't have any connection to Black Creek Falls. You visited once, you hated it. You told people you would never go back."He paused."So why would someone with no connection to a city agree to represent it in a challenge worth billions?"The room was silent.Logan looked at Richard directly. "Because Gordon promised to aid your usual cheating habits. He offered to protect your secrets, keep your methods hidden, make sure no one looked too closely at how you got your ranking. In exchange, you came here and won for him."He raised an eyebrow."Tell me I'm wrong."Richard's jaw tightened. His eyes ha
Chapter 220: The Deception Exposed
Roman set the documents down on the stand. His voice carried a different quality now, something that had been absent since Carl Jim conceded."Mr Mitchell, you're telling me that Richard Scar cheated in the competition just now.""I'm telling you that Richard Scar cheated in the competition just now. And I'm telling you that his global ranking was not earned legitimately."Richard's voice was sharp. "You have nothing. You have no proof.""I have proof. I have records of every major competition you've entered. I have comparisons of your performance in private assessments versus public competitions. The pattern is clear."A Black Creek Falls merchant called out. "Don't listen to him. He's just bitter because he couldn't compete."Another voice. "He's making things up to save face."Richard pointed at Logan. "You're nothing. You're nobody who walked onto a stage because you thought you could make a name for yourself."Logan looked at him without any shift in expression. "And yet I'm the
Chapter 219: The Interruption Called
Logan could follow the logic.He still thought Roman should have held his ground.He looked across the room toward the special section where Gordon Pilgrim had been sitting throughout the afternoon. Gordon was looking at the briefcase and the documents with the particular focus of a man who had forgotten, for just a moment, to maintain the surface he had been presenting. The careful, measured gentleman was not what Logan was looking at right now. What he was looking at was the thing underneath, the part that had designed this entire afternoon from the beginning.The greed in Gordon's face as he stared at those documents was visible and unguarded.Nobody else noticed. The New Horizon City section had their heads down. The Black Creek Falls section was still celebrating. Roman was gathering files, the officiators were preparing.Logan was the only one watching Gordon's face at that moment.He opened his mouth."Richard Scar is a sore loser."His voice cut through the room. The noise sto
Chapter 218: The Final Signature
Roman looked at the documents in the briefcase. His voice carried the defeated, mechanical tone of someone reciting something they needed to get through quickly."The import channel rights for regional raw materials," he said. "We finalize the transfer here. I'd rather do it now and be done with it than drag this out further."A New Horizon merchant spoke quietly to his neighbor. "This is humiliating.""Don't say that out loud.""They can't hear me. They're too busy celebrating."The Black Creek Falls section was not waiting. The insults continued flowing, loud and unrestrained."Look at them," someone called out. "Sitting there like they've been defeated in war.""They have been defeated. They just don't want to admit it.""Carl Jim. Carl Jim was their best. And he couldn't touch Richard.""Richard Scar. Say his name. He's the one who did this.""He's the one who took everything from them."A woman from the Black Creek Falls section pointed at Roman. "Look at him. Standing there with
Chapter 217: The Weight of the Threat
Gordon's words moved through the New Horizon City section like water finding cracks.A man in the third row spoke quietly to his neighbor. "The Gemstone Association. He's right. Roman can't risk that."The neighbor nodded. "Three hundred million. That's not something you gamble on an unknown.""Who is that man anyway? Why did Roman let him up there?""Desperation. Pure desperation."Another voice joined in. "We should distance ourselves from this. If he fails, we don't want to be associated with him.""Already doing that. I don't know him. Never met him.""Same. He's not one of us."The quiet, gradual turning away was not dramatic. People who had been watching Logan with cautious hope began recalibrating quietly and arriving at different conclusions.A New Horizon woman spoke up. "Roman, this is your decision. But we need to think about what happens to all of us if this goes wrong."Another voice. "We can't afford the fine. We can't afford the association's displeasure.""We barely su
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