The Supreme Emperor Reborn as the Broken Servant

Ch 7

Young Master Richard smashed his fist onto the leather interior of his private office, his breathing heavy as his face twisted in intense humiliation. "It was our recipe! It had to be!" Sterling Blair shrieked right beside him, her fingers clawing at her own hair in deep corporate panic.

"The trash driver must have crawled into my grandfather's secret archives before the banquet," Blair hissed, her voice shaking violently with rage. "He stole that ancient medical formula, rolled it into a mud ball, and used our property to trick CEO Cole!"

"You are completely right, Blair," Richard growled, his initial terror instantly warping back into deep financial arrogance as he adjusted his collar. "A useless doormat like Lucas doesn't suddenly become a god. He used an illegal, stolen asset to buy his way into the Horizon Group."

"But he thinks a single piece of paper can save him from us," Richard sneered, pulling out an encrypted satellite phone and dialing a number. "I don't care if Sarah Cole protects him. I am going to strip everything away from that beggar before the sun even rises tomorrow."

The call connected, and a heavy, raspy breathing filled the line, accompanied by the distinct sound of metal grinding against concrete. "Young Master Richard," a brutal voice chuckled coldly from the other end. "Why is the top heir of the Richard syndicate calling the underworld?"

"I need a complete erasure, Scott," Richard stated flatly, his eyes flashing with a venomous promise of ultimate, unadulterated violence. "The target is Lucas, the former driver who humiliated me at the auction house tonight. I want his head delivered to my desk."

"And his sister, Maya, in the ICU?" Iron Fist Scott asked, his low laugh sending a shiver through the room's electronics. "The Horizon Group just moved her to their private medical sanctuary on the upper floors of their corporate skyscraper."

"Kidnap her," Blair chimed in aggressively, leaning over the desk with a sick, twisted expression of pure satisfaction on her face. "Break into their sanctuary, butcher anyone who stands in your way, and drag that little bitch out by her hair."

"Consider it done," Scott replied, his tone full of absolute certainty. "My elite syndicate warriors will breach the tower tonight, and by dawn, Oakhaven will remember who truly rules the dark."

***

Meanwhile, high above the neon-lit streets, Lucas stood on the rooftop of the massive Horizon skyscraper, the cold rain washing over his face. He looked down at the glittering metropolis, his fingers lightly gripping the concrete ledge as his internal primordial qi rotated slowly.

He had already used the blank check to fully secure Maya’s long-term medical treatments, ensuring her ward was completely locked down. But his awakened divine soul could feel the shifting atmospheric pressure around the building, a dark, heavy weight creeping up through the shadows.

"The modern insects are entirely predictable," Lucas murmured softly to himself, his deep voice carrying a low, echoing wave of absolute calm. "They lose their logical reasoning when their fragile pride is shattered by a force they cannot comprehend."

Suddenly, the ambient temperature on the rooftop dropped to absolute zero within a fraction of a second, the falling raindrops instantly freezing into ice. The thick shadows near the central ventilation shafts began to distort violently, twisting into a dark, swirling vortex that swallowed the light.

Iron Fist Scott stepped out of the darkness, his massive arms wrapped in heavy iron chains that rattled loudly against the concrete. "Lucas," the gang boss sneered, a brutal, murderous grin stretching across his scarred face. "You really caused a lot of trouble for my employers."

"You brought a gang of street thieves to my sanctuary," Lucas said, his face an unmoving mask of stone as he turned. "Your life ends the very moment you take another step toward this ledge."

"I'm not the one you should be worried about, you arrogant trash," Scott laughed darkly, stepping aside and bowing his head low.

Another figure stepped out from the deep shadows, dressed in a pristine, perfectly tailored black suit that didn't hold a single drop of rain. His eyes didn't look human; they burned with an eerie, intensely familiar golden celestial radiance that sent a jolt through the air.

Lucas’s dark eyes instantly narrowed into sharp, dangerous slits, a sudden wave of agonizing memory flashing violently behind his eyelids. He remembered the celestial palace under siege, the warm blood of his empress, and the exact face of the man who stabbed him.

"It's you," Lucas whispered, his voice dropping into a register of absolute, terrifying divine ice that caused the skyscraper to tremble. "The disciple who drove the dagger into my back... the traitor who sabotaged my descent into the dust."

The suited man let out a sharp, mocking laugh, his golden eyes drilling straight into Lucas's awakened soul with supreme malice. "Twenty years of searching through this pathetic mortal realm," the traitor sneered, his fingers flexing tightly as his energy flared.

"I was the one who altered your memories and sealed your divinity within this fragile, useless servant youth named Lucas," he mockingly revealed. "My master sent me down as a Celestial Scout to ensure your cycle of rebirth ends permanently tonight."

"You used a trace of primordial qi at the auction house, Lucas," the scout continued, a cruel smile twisting his aristocratic face. "You thought you were being subtle, but your celestial signature flare was completely unmissable to those who know your soul."

He raised his right hand toward the stormy sky, a massive, crushing golden array appearing directly over the roof of the skyscraper. The concrete beneath their feet began to crack violently under the immense weight, the atmospheric pressure threatening to detonate the mortal building.

"Found you, Lucas," the scout smiled cruelly, his voice echoing like thunder. "Your wife's missing soul fragment is securely in our master's hands, and tonight, your cycle of rebirth ends forever.”