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Chapter 270: Where the Treasure Went
"You don't know either?" Ethan frowned. "Then why have the Montoyas been hunting you all these years?"The old man thought it through, slow."Perhaps that's the whole of it. Kill every Su, and the treasure falls to whoever's left standing. You don't need to find it if you erase the people who know where it is."That fit. The Montoyas were ambitious and cruel enough to buy that logic."What did it do? Why did so many houses want it bad enough to exterminate a clan?""I don't know. I only ever heard it was a small cauldron." The old man's voice thinned. "When it surfaced, nine-colored light shot straight up. The whole Black Dragon Star Domain lit up like day. That flash did it. No one saw what it could do. No one had to. Enough houses looked at that light and decided it was a prize worth killing for."The old man's eyes filmed over."A man with a treasure is guilty of owning it. That's all the crime we ever committed. The strong don't wait for a reason to take what they want. They inven
Chapter 269: A Man Who Never Forgets
Ethan hadn't gone three blocks before he felt the tail.He smiled, cold and private, and didn't quicken his step. He walked the main boulevard like a man with nowhere to hide and everywhere to be seen, and let the Montoya shadow tag along until they reached the Galaxy Guild hall.The shadow's color changed. The Galaxy Guild was a house even the Montoyas didn't poke. The Alliance might give a great family a face-saving nod; the Guild didn't give anyone anything. If this kid was theirs, touching his people became a problem with a whole other weight behind it.Yuliu Tuluo came to the front himself when the message reached him, and spotted the Montoya man loitering across the street. His eyes narrowed. He said nothing. He simply turned and led Ethan upstairs to the private parlor."How are the friends I brought to your auction?" Ethan poured himself a tea and let it sit before he asked."They left after the sale. Don't worry. I sent an escort to deliver them to the Chenlong systems myself
Chapter 268: A Sentimental Man
"All those soul-repair pills," Ethan said. "What for? You don't look soul-injured to me."It didn't add up. Yedu wasn't hurt. A man this size, this healthy, didn't burn treasure on Nine-Turn Golden Soul Pills as a hobby."Come with me." Yedu studied him a long moment, then turned and led him back.The Alliance grounds were enormous — half the size of an Earth continent, ringed with private villas. Every Diamond-rank member held a house here. Yedu's was less a house than a castle. They went down.The basement held a coffin.It should have been crystal, but it wasn't — it was Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Marrow, the kind of material kings mortgaged planets for. The walls around it were layered with warding after warding, each one patched and re-patched as the years wore on. Whoever had built this room had built it one repair at a time, never quite sure the next bandage would hold. Inside lay a woman. She shared Yedu's heavy build, his covering of coarse fur, the broad, massive frame that Eart
Chapter 267: Leave Naked and Unbowed
Ethan looked up at the mountain of a man and raised one eyebrow. Yedu winked — an absurd expression on a face that looked carved from granite.Ethan's mouth twitched. He let his voice carry."Brother. You took your time. Another minute and they'd have killed me outright. This Montoya lot didn't just slander me — they came here to murder me.""What?" Yedu's head snapped toward Noikaisen. The shout cracked off the walls. "You declaring war on the Mercenary Alliance, Noikaisen?"Noikaisen had jawed at Nuyas. He had no stomach for this. Twenty years ago Yedu had already planted one foot over the Demigod threshold. That was a level Noikaisen couldn't reach with his whole clan behind him. And the Alliance wasn't what it looked like — this backwater Black Dragon branch was the weakest in the entire organization. Every other hall sat on a Demigod. Several kept True Gods.He wasn't tired of life.He couldn't make it add up. A weak little thing around five-star Star Lord, and Yedu treated him l
Chapter 266: Land, Coin, and an Apology
"Apologize? To him?" Noikaisen's jaw locked. "You think I'm playing? You hid them. I don't make mistakes on this."He couldn't believe it. Three years. Three years of hunting the Su remnant across the star lanes. The trail had gone cold because they'd been hiding under his nose the whole time — inside the Alliance garrison itself. If that auction-house boy hadn't caught his eye, they might still be invisible.Beside him, the young scout stepped forward. "I can swear to it. The Su were living here. Not one — at least twenty. I stake my life on that.""On what?" Ethan smiled without warmth. "You say they're here. Where are they? Did you find them?"He let his gaze circle the room, slow and pitying."People say what they like. You swear what you like. But who is 'the Su clan'? Name one. If you can produce a single person you claim I spirited away, I'll admit I was wrong. If you can't, you've broken into my rooms, assaulted me, and lied to the Alliance director. Then we talk about my clan
Chapter 265: The Accuser Becomes the Accused
"If anything goes wrong, I answer for it." Noikaisen patted his own chest, and the gesture was supposed to read as honor. It read as impatience. "Every Diamond member we offend, I'll compensate. To his full satisfaction. You have my word."Nuyas could hardly refuse after that, and he knew it. "Then I'll send a few of my own people along. If this is real, we make an example. Kill them where they stand."Noikaisen nodded. He already had the room number memorized.Ethan had cycled off the somber space-documentary channel and onto a combat reel by the time the door caved in.He didn't jump. He didn't even sit up. He lay where he was on the sofa, head propped on one arm, and let his gaze drift lazily toward the breach.Noikaisen stormed in first, a wall of guards behind him. Nuyas trailed with a dozen Alliance members, every one of them a heavy hitter, their auras rolling through the room until the air itself felt thick enough to chew. Ethan's pulse knocked once behind his ribs — even he h
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