Chapter 162: Going Up

While his cult of personality enthralled the masses below, Evan had already extricated himself from the curtained salon, ascending to a third-story balcony overlooking the frenzied auditorium like some numinous divinity surveying his creation.

"There - is that not Tiktoc's master? I've heard their overlord is a mere youth!"

Sharper eyes discerned his shadowed silhouette, prompting others to squint futilely upwards in hopes of glimpsing this dreaded subjugator whose singular might had cowed Lumina's indomitable institutions.

"Hmph, I am the man your combined strengths shall never overmaster," Evan declared in ringing tones as his backed hands drifted skyward, aloft on unseen cosmic tides.

In that moment, Evan's entire silhouette shimmered with a radiant golden aura, ascending gracefully amidst the awestruck gazes of the crowd, as if a divine being holding the power of life and death.

"I, Bear Furniture, wish to join Tiktoc, just as Clark Group has done!" The owner of Bear Furniture cr