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The entire bar fell silent, with everyone staring blankly at the lean person holding a hand that was twice the size of his own. No one could react for a moment, but eventually, the eyes of the Lion King, whose hand Xavier was holding, darkened with wrath. “Brat! Weren’t you the one I warned earlier to mind your business?” He snapped, his voice brimming with unhidden killing intent. Xavier, however, wasn’t bothered. Instead, continued maintaining his composed demeanor. “This lady here does not want to follow you, why are you forcing her?” He inquired calmly making everyone instant exchange stunned gazes. “This—this fool!” The bartender, whose gaze hadn’t left Xavier since the beginning scoffed with frustration and then hurriedly left what she was doing to rush over. “Lion King, hahahah. Please don’t mind this friend of mine. He appears to be too drunk to know what he was doing,” she stated with a smile, tearing Xavier’s hand away from the lion king. The Lion King quickly cast a glance at the bartender and growled but then hesitated before snorting. “I will let him go on your account then,” he said unhappily before sparing Xavier a dangerous glare and then ignoring him, casting his unhidden hungry-filled gaze back at the terrified beauty. “You’ve caused enough scene here already, let’s get going now,” he said darkly and threateningly before looking at his brother. “Let’s pick her up,” he said and the first lion king nodded his head, scaring Grace to the core. Although she was completely drunk and her mind was no longer functioning properly, she instinctively shrank back when she realized what the two were planning, her heart pounding fiercely with fear. Grace had heard many times from news about something like this happening, but she had never expected to encounter it the first time she decided to run away from her comfort zone and drown in her sorrow. She looked around for help but saw none. Instead, a few people watched her with pity, while the majority laughed, cheered on the Lion King, and praised the spectacle as a display of beauty. Just as Grace thought she was doomed, however, the composed voice she had heard earlier, which she thought was that of a savior sounded again. “Did I tell you that you can go with her?” The entire bar became eerie silent again, but it was soon broken and before long hushed voices filled the entire bar. “Is this guy a fool or what?” “Instead of being grateful for the Lion King’s forgiveness, he still chose to push your luck?” “Given his weak physique, wasn't he even supposed to keep a low profile instead of provoking people who could end his with a single snap!” Everyone mumbled and even the bartender, who had earlier pleaded on behalf of Xavier was stunned for a while before she sighed helplessly. She looked back to the Lion King and wanted to beg them again, but before she could open her mouth, they had already addressed her. “I listened to you earlier because of my respect and appreciation, but please, don’t try your luck too much,” they said in unison, their voices laced with an unmistakable menace. The Bartender immediately sighed upon hearing them and then looked at Xavier helplessly. Eventually, she shook her head and glanced back at the Two Lion Kings. “Please, for my sake, don’t give him a life-threatening injury.” “That, we can do,” the two responded and looked back coldly at Xavier. “Since you hate minding your goddamned business so much, get your ass over here and move this b!tch to our room for us!” The second King, whose hand Xavier had earlier held growled and the bar became silent again with everyone staring at Xavier, wondering what he would do. Contrary to their thoughts, however, Xavier, who had been calm all along did nothing. He just continued standing and watching lazily, acting as though he didn't feel the alarming intent closing in on him. “Bastard! Are you deaf?!” The voice of the second Lion King boomed, sending the hearts of the hearers banging against their chests, but still, Xavier did not react. This finally infuriated the two Lion Kings to the extent that they felt like killing someone. “Please forgive me,” the second Lion King said coldly to the bartender, then not waiting for a response stormed toward Xavier. “What I hate the most is people interfering in my affairs, offending me, and disrespecting my order. For daring to do all those, I’m going to castrate you,” he said coldly, then not waiting for any reaction, delivered a powerful kick to Xavier’s crotch. As soon as everyone saw this, their hearts skipped a beat, following which, their entire body went cold. They sighed deeply, suddenly feeling strong pity for Xavier. “He could have minded your business but unfortunately chose not to..” “This made me recall the last person who offended the Two Lion Kings. Hadn't he become a past today, yet, another little guy will join.” “What a stupid hero. Wouldn’t he live the rest of your life in pain and regret now, knowing he could have easily refused to help the needy,” the crowd sighed one after the other. Even Grace couldn’t help but be scared to death, watching what was going to happen. She opened her mouth, wanting to plead for mercy for Xavier, knowing she would never forgive herself if Xavier ended up getting hurt because of her. “Plea-“ she began to cry out when without any warning, her jaw dropped and her eyes constricted sharply. It wasn’t only hers, but literally everyone in the bar. If Xavier was like a thin pole, the Lion King attacking him would be a small mountain—muscular and imposing. Yet, at this moment, Xavier was casually holding his leg in his hand. That’s right and just then, a calm and composed voice filled with disbelief sounded. “You will castrate me just because I don’t want you to commit a wicked deed?”
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Chapter 781 – Augustus’s Fear and Disbelief
*****“Sir Augustus,” he began haltingly, “I… I just remembered. The mission you entrusted to me two weeks ago… I haven’t completed it yet. I really must leave to see it done.”The man swallowed hard and tugged his wife up by the arm, signaling for his children sitting further back in the third section to follow.Without hesitating again, they hurried out quickly, almost tripping over themselves in their rush.That was all it took.The rest of the guests, as if fearing they might be caught in some deadly plague by staying a second longer, scrambled to their feet, panic replacing their hesitation.They shuffled, stumbled, and dragged their families out, all of them desperate to escape the hall before the situation exploded further.Not even the slightest trace of their previous loyalty showed again; instead, all of them were after their survival right now, no one wanting to be collateral when the imagined storm broke.One by one, they fled unti
Chapter 780 – Augustus’s Disbelief
*****“Looks like I also hadn’t come to terms with the huge gaps between us.”The words cut through Augustus’s rage like a hot blade cutting through butter, causing his fist to freeze mid-air, his momentum halting, and the killing intent around him faltering like a candle guttering in the wind.The F-rank fighter, who had already squeezed his children’s hands in what he thought might be his final moment, stood frozen, drenched in cold sweat.In the following second, every gaze turned once more… this time, toward the new voice.It belonged to an elderly E-rank fighter in the first section, his expression calm and almost bored, as he gestured casually to his kin.“We’re also leaving this farce before the situation, which was already dangerous, spirals into something none of us can salvage,” he said flatly, making no effort to lower his voice or soften his tone.For a moment after hearing this, Augustus just stood frozen, too staggered to respond.
Chapter 779 – Augustus’s Rage
*****(Bonus Chapter)For a moment that felt like an eternity, Augustus merely stared blankly at the F-rank fighter, disbelief flashing across his face.‘Did this insect just interrupt and defy me… again?’ This thought echoed in his mind.The F-rank fighter’s body was trembling all over under the weight of Augustus’s suffocating aura, and his face was pale, his knees nearly buckling.But even then, his eyes burned with pure defiance, his jaw locked tight.“Suffer your what?!” the man spat again, louder this time, his voice hoarse but firm.His disgust bled into every single word. “We’re all obviously staring down a crisis, something we should be planning together to fix, and yet you…” His eyes narrowed with pure rage. “You still think the world spins around you. You still dare to look down on Miss Ayra, even now? Looks to me like the Scoan family is indeed tired of living!”The man spat with rage, fuming frantically as though he was going to explode.Seeing him like this, nea
Chapter 778 – The Defiant F-rank Fighter II
*****Augustus suddenly froze after hearing the man’s words, his eyes widening in disbelief.For a second, he merely looked at the man as though he had grown another head, his mind struggling to process the insult that was just publicly hurled at him by an F-rank fighter… a mere F-rank fighter.Earlier, Augustus had convinced himself about why mere F-ranks and the unranked had dared to speak so brazenly before him.He had excused their outburst against him and his family as nothing more than the product of adrenaline, chaos, and fear.But now… the dust had settled, the fire had cooled, and order had been restored, yet an ordinary F-rank fighter still dares to defy him and speak so brazenly to him?It was unthinkable to him.He was Augustus Scoan, a new E-rank powerhouse and a being who could now wipe an F-rank from existence with the same ease as an F-rank swatting a fly.His name already commanded respect, and his very presence demanded submission… yet an insect had dared to
Chapter 777 – The Defiant F-rank Fighter
*****“There’s no use dawdling on mistakes. The only path forward is to make amends where they must be made.”Augustus calmly and casually folded his arms against his chest, regaining some of the air of authority he had lost.“I will go personally to the Myron family in the coming days and explain the misunderstanding directly. And besides, if memory serves me well, that lass Lyria is but a third-generation member of the Myrons… a child with no true authority. So who is she to command fear from us?”His arrogance returned in full force, appearing blatant and unrestrained, directly shattering the brief softness he had shown before.Witnessing this, all brows across the hall instantly furrowed, some in confusion, and others in disbelief at the audacity of dismissing what had clearly been a warning far greater than he wanted to admit.And before the crowd could fully process it, Augustus clapped his hands lightly, his expression already settling back into the mask of superiority he
Chapter 776 – Back In The Hall
*****Still inside the banquet hall.It had been over one hour since the Amodu family and Sarah were escorted out in disgrace, yet the silence within the vast room remained unchanged.No one spoke, no one reacted, and no one moved.Instead, the air in the hall remained heavy with the residue of humiliation and shock, the silence so absolute that it pressed down on every chest like a crushing weight.Everyone just remained standing where they had been from the start, staring quietly in a daze, the memory of everything that had happened in the past hour flashing in their brain… things so surreal that if they hadn’t witnessed them with their own eyes, they would have found it too difficult to believe.From the first section, where the lofty upper second-rank families had been seated, to the second section of the third-rank families, all the way down to the descendants and guests filling the third section of the hall, the effect was the same.Every man and woman stood in stunned si
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