Immediately without anyone time Lewis rushed forward on shaking legs to get a closer look at what had just happened. His mind couldn't process what his eyes had seen. There was absolutely no way Alex should have been able to destroy that golden bell with just his bare fist. Especially not after Henry King had secretly made it five times stronger than normal.
Lewis tried to calculate in his head what kind of power it would take to completely shatter a bell with that much magical energy flowing through it. And to do it with a single punch using no weapons or spells. The numbers didn't make sense to him. That level of strength was completely off any chart he knew about. “I told you I passed beyond the Warrior Realm a long time ago.” Alex brushed the golden dust off his knuckles and started walking back toward the platform like nothing unusual had happened. Master Lawrence and Mrs. Lawrence stood frozen in place, staring at the scattered pieces of metal on the floor. Their minds struggled to accept what they had witnessed with their own eyes. Both of them had reached the fourth stage of the Warrior Realm after years of training. On their best day, they might be able to put a small scratch on a bell like that. But to completely destroy it with bare hands in a single hit? That was impossible for people at their level. A terrifying thought crept into both their minds at the same time. Did that mean Alex, the nobody they had looked down on yesterday, was actually stronger than both of them combined. King of War Henry King stood completely motionless, his mind racing faster than his body could keep up with. Everyone else in the room had seen Alex destroy the golden bell with his bare fist. But Henry King's trained eyes had caught something much more significant. There had been a technique woven into that punch - an ancient fighting style that very few people in the world even knew existed. He had heard stories about this technique before. He had even watched other warriors attempt to copy it after hearing the legends. But none of them could ever master it properly. They all failed to capture the true essence of the movements like the original owner could perform them. The original owner was the Dragon King himself. The only man alive who was said to stand above every other fighter in all the magical realms combined. People called him the Lord Supreme. He had appeared out of thin air five years ago like he had dropped down from the heavens. Most people believed the gods had sent him to earth specifically to save mankind from destruction. Anyone who had been lucky enough to witness him in battle would swear that was the truth. Stories said he could face down a thousand demons at once without even working up a sweat. At that moment Henry King felt his legs begin to tremble beneath him. A cold realization hit him like ice water. Alex had been gone for exactly five years. The same amount of time since the Dragon King had first appeared. That couldn't just be some random coincidence, could it? But then he looked at how Master Lawrence and his wife had been treating Alex like he was nobody special. There was absolutely no way a regular person could climb from nothing all the way up to Dragon King level in just five years. The idea was so ridiculous it made him want to laugh out loud. Henry King stared hard at Alex and forced himself to push the crazy thought out of his head. If Alex really was the legendary Dragon King, he definitely wouldn't have come back here empty-handed like this. He would have arrived with his full title and army behind him. And he sure as hell wouldn't have sat there listening to all the disrespectful garbage everyone had been saying to him. If Alex was truly the Lord Supreme, every single person in this room would already be dead for the way they had spoken to him. Still, there was no denying that Alex had to be incredibly powerful to completely destroy that golden bell with nothing but his bare fist. “How did you do that? How did you destroy that bell with just your bare hands?” Rose finally climbed down from the platform, her legs still shaky from everything she had just witnessed. Everyone around her remained frozen in amazement, their minds still trying to process what Alex had accomplished. Alex shrugged his shoulders like nothing important had happened. “I just hit the golden bell with my bare hands. It wasn't that strong to begin with.” His casual words sent the entire hall into chaos. People started shouting and arguing with each other. Some pointed at the scattered pieces of metal on the floor. Others threw their hands up in disbelief. Henry King stepped forward through the crowd, his voice cutting through all the noise. “I saw what you really did. You were imitating the Dragon King's combat technique. Just copying that fighting style can boost someone's power by up to 1000% depending on how well they can replicate the movements.” The moment Henry King said “Dragon King,” the whole room went dead silent. Then people started backing away from each other in pure terror. Some covered their mouths with their hands. Others looked around frantically like they expected demons to burst through the walls at any second. The Dragon King was the most powerful man in their entire country. Everyone knew the stories about how the gods themselves had sent him down to earth to save humanity from the age of demons. People stared at Alex with a mixture of fear and amazement. The fact that he could copy even one of the Dragon King's combat techniques was incredible. Where in the world had he learned something like that? The Dragon King's fighting methods were supposed to be completely secret. No one had access to training manuals or teachers who knew those moves. At that moment Rose felt her heart racing as she processed what Henry King had just explained. She couldn't believe that simply copying the Dragon King's attack style could create such devastating power. And somehow Alex had managed to pull it off perfectly. Even though she now understood it was an imitation and not Alex's own natural strength, she didn't think any less of him. If anything, she was more impressed than before. Lewis stepped closer to get a better look at Alex, his voice filled with reluctant respect. “Being able to use the Dragon King's skill means he has to be a real awakener.”Latest Chapter
Chapter 288
At that moment, the second the words "black file" left Jonathan's mouth and traveled through the line, there was a shift on the other end that was so immediate and so palpable that Jonathan could feel it even through the silence.A pause.Not the natural kind, not the brief hesitation of someone gathering their thoughts or deciding how to phrase something. This was the pause of a man who had just heard something that changed the entire temperature of the conversation, something that required recalibration, something that could not be responded to lightly or casually or over an open phone line in the middle of the night.And then the voice came back, quieter now, more guarded, carrying a weight that had not been there a moment ago."You want me to access the black file?"The question was careful. Precise. Not disbelieving exactly, but close to it, like the man on the other end needed to confirm that he had heard correctly before he allowed himself to fully process what was being asked
Chapter 287
At that moment, Jonathan's grip on the phone tightened, and when he spoke, his voice came out low and sharp, carrying the kind of edge that only appears when a man has just realized he has been made a fool of and is now watching the entire humiliation replay itself in his mind with perfect, brutal clarity."I thought as much," he said, and there was something raw underneath the words now, something that had been sitting compressed and silent throughout the entire conversation with his wife and was now finally being allowed to surface. "I was thinking about it. I have been thinking about it constantly since it happened. Everything moved so fast in that hospital room. Everything happened so quickly that I could not process it properly. I could not get my mind around it in the moment, could not put the pieces together the way I needed to because I was in the middle of it and it was happening to me and I was already on the ground before I even understood what I was kneeling for."He stopp
Chapter 286
The air outside hit Jonathan the moment he stepped out, cool and indifferent, and he moved through it quickly, crossing the distance to his car with the focused, purposeful stride of a man who had been waiting to make this call for the better part of the last hour.He got in.Pulled the door shut behind him.The interior of the car wrapped around him in darkness and quiet, and he sat there for exactly one second before he pulled out his phone and scrolled to the number. He pressed call and brought the phone to his ear, and it rang once, just once, before the line connected.He did not bother with greetings."Have you gotten anything?" he said, his voice dropping into the low, direct register he used when he was operating outside of the version of himself that existed inside that house. "The information I sent you. Have you found anything?"The voice on the other end was measured and professional, the voice of someone who worked carefully and did not speak until they had something wort
Chapter 285
At that moment, the question about Zachariah hit Jonathan like a stone thrown into still water, and the ripples moved through him fast and unsettling even though nothing on his face showed it.He did not know anything about Zachariah.Not really. Not in any meaningful, detailed way that would satisfy the kind of question his wife had just asked with that particular look in her eyes. And he was fully aware, standing there in that living room, that saying he knew nothing was a door he could not afford to open right now. Not after everything else he had just navigated in this conversation. Not when Serena was already in a state of heightened attention, already reading him more carefully than usual, already looking for things that did not add up.So he reached for what little he had and he shaped it into something that sounded like more."There has been some news about that," he said, and his voice came out with the measured, slightly distracted quality of a man recalling something he had
Chapter 284
Serena's laughter faded, but the bright, sharp energy behind it did not go anywhere. It simply transformed itself into something else, something that carried an edge to it now, the edge of a woman who had just realized she had been kept waiting on something she deserved to know about far sooner."Why did you not tell me earlier?" she said, and the question came out pointed and direct, the way only a question from a wife can come out when it has been sitting unasked for too long. "Why did you keep this from me all this time? All of this, him being a military cleaner, all of those details, and you just held onto it?" She looked at him with her arms crossing slowly over her chest. "You fed me scraps and kept the real information to yourself. That is not fair. That is truly not fair at all and I want you to know that I am not happy about it." She paused, and then something shifted in her expression, a small, calculating light coming into her eyes. "But since you have finally told me, si
Chapter 283
At that moment, Serena nodded her head, and the satisfaction on her face was the kind that settles deep, the satisfaction of a woman who had pushed and pushed and finally gotten what she came for."Good," she said, and the word came out rich and warm, like something she had been waiting to say for the entirety of this conversation. "Very, very good." She looked at him with eyes that carried just a trace of lingering disbelief, the kind that softens once the crisis has passed but does not entirely disappear. "Because I have to tell you, for a moment there, I genuinely could not understand what was happening. I was standing here thinking, why would this man not want to be part of this? Why would he hesitate even for a second?" She shook her head slowly. "You know how much I hate this person. You know how deeply and completely I want to get one over on Rose, how long I have been carrying this, how much it matters to me. And you were just standing there like you wanted to let it go. Lik
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