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The expression on Reginald Hole's face grew even smugger and filled with arrogance. In his eyes, the title of city lord and the power of the Hole family were the highest, unshakable laws in Hakward City. The Dean Killer crossed his arms over his chest, staring at Lucas as if the man before him were merely a large bug that happened to be able to bite."You think your ranking in that bloody arena makes you untouchable by the laws of this city, Lucas?" shouted Reginald, his voice filled with feigned anger to show his authority in front of the donors. "Kneel! Apologize to Eren, Via, Clara, and even to all the guests of honor tonight! If you don't, tomorrow morning your name will be blacklisted from every business sector, and the city security forces will hunt you down to the ends of the earth!"Lucas was silent. He slowly shook his head gently, flashing a very cold, faint smile—a smile that abruptly made the aura around him feel suffocating."To be honest, ever since I became a God, I hat
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The atmosphere of the Thousand Dragons University Hall was dead silent. The stillness enveloping the place felt suffocating, broken only by the fearful breathing of the elites and nobles who had previously looked at Lucas with petty gazes. Now, not a single one of them dared to make a sound—not even to let out a long sigh.Lucas surveyed his surroundings with a cold and bored expression. The revelation of his identity in the Arena of Life and Death did not make him proud at all; to him, all these terror-stricken gazes in the hall were merely shallow drama from people too weak to realize their own position.He tilted his head slightly, then looked down at Evelyn, who was still cradling warmly in his embrace."This gathering seems to be completely useless now," Lucas whispered calmly, his voice contrasting with the frozen terror in the room."I am already sick of the low-class drama here. What do you think, Evelyn?"Evelyn raised her face. The shock from Lucas's secret identity still li
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Behind the silence, the atmosphere shattered with a harsh groan coming from beside the cracked marble. Dio—who had previously lain helpless, his body soaked in blood and his consciousness hanging by a thread—slowly began to move his fingers. His swollen eyelids opened heavily, just as his blurred vision caught a sight that struck his pride far harder than any of Lucas's blows."This humiliation... I cannot simply accept this..."Especially seeing Via—the woman who had always acted as though she were a queen by the side of Dio, the seventeenth-ranked fighter—looking as if she were ready to turn her back on him... Seeing his lover’s eyes filled with utter adoration directed toward Lucas.Dio’s blood boiled. The agony racking every broken bone in his body was instantly eclipsed by the rage and humiliation burning through his chest."V-Via... you... you damn bitch..." Dio groaned in a raspy voice, spitting a splatter of blood onto the floor.Dio narrowed his eyes, glaring at Lucas, who st
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"Let me go, you damn bastards?! Don't you know I'm one of the prospective heirs of an influential family in this city of Hakward?!"Edward's hysterical cries, slamming against the asphalt just outside the main gates, left behind an echo of ironic wretchedness. The prospective heir of the Wine family—who only moments ago stood as the embodiment of untouchable power and luxury—had now been swept off the main stage like dust on a glass tabletop. The destruction of the Wine family, an economic pillar controlling one-fifth of the city's capital market, had not come through years of bloody warfare, but in a mere matter of minutes at the fingertips of a young man they had dismissed as a 'discarded outcast.'Inside the hall of the University of a Thousand Dragons, the atmosphere grew increasingly thick and piercing. The cracked marble, carved out by the brutal battle moments before, stood as a silent witness to the terrifying magnitude of Lucas’s figure. The air in the room was saturated with
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Edward's frustrated scream shattered the rattling echo of his phone on the marble floor. His body collapsed to his knees, his eyes staring blankly at the dimming screen of his phone. The crown prince of the Wine Family, who had always stood most prominently atop the throne of arrogance, now looked no different from the ruins of an old building collapsing under a sweeping storm.That sight was like a thunderclap shattering the sanity of everyone in the Thousand Dragons University hall."The Wine Family... collapsed in a matter of minutes?!""Not just losing business control, but an absolute 100% stock transfer?!""How can this be?! This is the Wine Family! An economic pillar supporting a fifth of the city's capital market!"Panicked whispers erupted wildly like fire catching oil. Young elites and senior nobles stared at each other with pale faces. The gazes once filled with contempt for the 'discarded son' now reversed into pure terror.Amidst that storm of panic, Lucas stood as calm a
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Dio’s blood-choked breath sounded ragged amidst the stifling silence of the hall.With the remnants of his strength and his consciousness slipping away, the seventeenth-ranked fighter of the Black Dragon Arena forced his blood-matted eyes wide open. His body trembled violently—not just from the burning agony of his shattered wrist and jaw, but from pure terror creeping into the depths of his soul."Y-You... w-who the hell are you...?" Dio whispered in a hoarse, indistinct voice, coughing up lingering streams of blood from his mouth.In Dio’s eyes, the precise assassination techniques, the absurdly absolute control over his inner force, and the sheer dominance Lucas had just displayed were not things that could be learned at any military academy or noble household. That was a murderous instinct that could only be practiced and forged in the hell of illicit, life-or-death combat."A fighter... as strong as you... couldn't possibly be a nobody in that arena..." Dio continued, his eyes ra
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