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CHAPTER 278 PART 2
The sound was sharp and specific and horrible. Enzo's mouth opened in a scream that started deep in his chest and came out through his teeth as a high, thin whistle. His arms dropped to his sides and hung at angles that human arms were never designed to hold. His knees hit the asphalt and his body swayed but he didn't fall forward."Where is Marcus Steel?" Maurice stood over him with his chest heaving. "Tell me where he's hiding and I'll make the end fast. Lie to me and I'll take your legs next.""I told you," Enzo's voice was ragged and broken and pushed through clenched teeth. "I'm not with Marcus Steel. I don't know where he is. I came here with Bruno Marcelli to find him. We're on the same side, you idiot.""Liar.""I'm telling you the truth.""Then why were your men in a formation protecting someone when I arrived?""Because you threw a sword at my head! What was I supposed to do, invite you for dinner?"Maurice's hand closed around the back of Enzo's neck."Last chance. Where is
CHAPTER 277 PART 1
Both men wanted this over fast.Maurice Springs looked past Enzo Ricci at the bodyguards arranged in a defensive ring behind him and saw Marcus Steel's backup. Reinforcements. The kind that multiplied if you gave them time. Every second Maurice spent exchanging strikes with one man was a second that allowed more to arrive.Enzo looked at Maurice and saw the senior brother Marcus had described. The one who was considerably less patient. The one who was considerably less friendly. The longsword that had just pinned one of his men to a tree trunk confirmed the description with brutal accuracy. If this man had allies in the trees waiting to be called forward, finishing him quickly was the only viable strategy.They agreed without a single word exchanged between them. Maurice dropped his longsword. Enzo dropped his short blade. The weapons clattered on the asphalt at the same time, almost synchronized, and both men shifted into bare hand stances with the automatic precision of fighters who
CHAPTER 276 PART 2
Enzo Ricci moved without announcement. No stance. No telegraph. No warning breath or preparatory shift of weight. His palm shot forward in a strike aimed at the center of Marcus's chest with the explosive precision of a fighter who had ended confrontations with surprise as his primary weapon for thirty years.Marcus met it with one hand.The palms connected and the sound that came off the collision was not the flat slap of skin on skin. It was deep and heavy, like a mallet hitting the side of a bell underwater. The air between them compressed and blew outward in a ring that kicked dust off the asphalt in every direction.The exchange lasted exactly one second.Enzo slid backward three full steps. His shoes left black streaks on the road surface. His arm dropped to his side and his fingers opened and closed twice as blood flow returned to a hand that had gone temporarily numb from the impact.Marcus didn't move. Not backward. Not sideways. Not a single inch.Enzo stared at him. The pro
CHAPTER 276 PART 1
The SUV sat in the middle of the highway like a crushed aluminum can someone had stepped on and left behind. The front end had compressed entirely into itself. Both airbags had deployed and hung limp and deflated from the steering column like dead jellyfish. Black smoke rose from the engine compartment in thick, lazy coils that caught the convoy's headlights and turned them into yellow fog. The driver was slumped sideways against the door frame, bleeding from his forehead where it had bounced off the steering wheel, conscious but not interested in moving.Marcus Steel's right foot was still planted on the crumpled hood. His left foot had slid back half a meter from the impact. The asphalt beneath it was gouged into a deep groove, the surface torn apart in a line as though someone had dragged a plow blade through wet concrete. His pants were dusty at the ankles. His shoes were scuffed.Not a scratch anywhere else on his body.He smiled at Bruno Marcelli with the mild interest of someon
CHAPTER 275 PART 2
The lead driver's foot eased off the accelerator and the car drifted to a crawl. Bruno looked up through the windshield and his expression shifted from fury to confusion.A young man stood in the center of the highway.Around him, Bruno's advance team lay scattered across the asphalt. Six men. All of them on the ground. Some face down. Some on their backs. One curled on his side holding his ribs. They were arranged in the specific pattern of people who had encountered something their training manual didn't have a chapter for.Bruno stepped out of the car. Enzo stepped out beside him. The night air hit Bruno's damp collar and made him shiver once before rage replaced everything else.Marcus Steel stood in the center of the road with his hands in his pockets and a mild expression on his face, as though he had been waiting for a bus that was running slightly late."Well," Bruno's lips curled. "You saved me the trouble of finding you. I was going to drag you out of whatever hole you crawle
CHAPTER 275 PART 1
The Four Symbols Formation had lived in the martial world's collective memory for centuries. The strategic texts it was derived from circulated through training halls, underground libraries, and forbidden manuscript collections long before anyone alive could remember who originally wrote them.Generations of fighters studied the formations the way scholars studied religious scripture. Every variation memorized. Every counter-variation catalogued. Every application tested against real opponents in real combat until the knowledge became something fighters treated as ancient truth handed down from masters whose names had been lost to time.Maurice Springs had studied those texts with exactly that kind of reverence. He had spent months in exile tracing every line, every diagram, every tactical principle until the Four Symbols Formation felt like an extension of his own body.It did not occur to him until Marcus Steel said it out loud that a man who lived long enough could have authored th
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