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Boom!A burst of internal qi detonated on contact, shaking the foundations of the forest. The trees bent backward under the pressure, and for the briefest fraction of a second, the unnatural darkness protecting the man in the hood distorted. Elijah caught it immediately.There. A physical reaction.But the vulnerability lasted less than a blink before the dense shadow stabilized, snapping back into place as though irritated by the attack. Then the air around Elijah changed. It didn’t get darker—it got heavier. The air turned thick, almost solid, and he had to force his body through it.That was all the man in the hood needed.A thick tendril of shadow smoothly extended from the darkness in front of him—not fast, but with inescapable inevitability, and coiled tightly around his wrist. Elijah’s eyes fell downward as a paralyzing cold surged up his forearm. It wasn’t a drop in temperature—it was deeper. A freezing force reached into the core of his cultivation, making the energy in hi
Chapter 491
The wind of the night tore through the trees as Elijah Langston shot deeper into the darkness, his figure cutting through the night like a released arrow. The pressure of his movement bent the air, scattering leaves in wake. He landed in the center of a clearing, and his murderous gaze swept the perimeter.There were no snapped branches, displaced soil, nor lingering spiritual residue. There was only a silence so absolute and complete that it felt fundamentally wrong. The Man in the Hood was gone.Elijah’s jaw locked.Then, a voice echoed from everywhere and nowhere at once, slipping through the air like a whisper. “You should have let go of this.”Elijah turned sharply.Whoosh!A massive wave of darkness rushed toward him. Without hesitation, Elijah crossed his forearms, his qi surging through his body as he braced for impact.Boom!The force slammed into him like a falling mountain. He was forced backward, the ground beneath his boots cracking outward in a jagged, spiderweb patte
Chapter 490
Elijah finally spoke.The puzzle pieces at the back of his head was started to shift. He had always known the Man in the Hood was one of the foreign architects involved in the massacre, the face of the operation that coordinated the mercenaries. But there were the true elites who controlled the board—the ones who stood at the top of table, operating through proxies.If this Hex Master was merely a regional manager, a puppet serving a higher council... then who was pulling his strings?Elijah’s mind flashed back to the words of the Shadow of Death. The nation-level threat had told him that he stood no chance against the elites who had originally submitted the contract to assassinate his mother—the Whispering Shadow Alliance’s failure, where the wrong person had taken the bullet. Were those untouchable elites the same foreign architects sitting on this “Order of Seven”?The cloaked figure exhaled a loud breath, raising a single hand in a gesture of warning. “Coming after me will open
Chapter 489
Elijah Langston’s fist tightened until the tendons in his hand strained against his skin, yet he offered no verbal response. He simply stood perfectly still in the night, his cold gaze locked onto the unnatural abyss covering the face of the Man in the Hood.Here he was. After fifteen years, he was finally standing a few feet away from one of the architect of the Langston massacre. He had run through a thousand different thought of what this person would look like, but this was more disturbing.From where he stood, Elijah could easily tell that the swirling void was not an ordinary manipulation of shadows. It was actively drawing energy from a mystical source that felt fundamentally wrong to the natural order of the world.Even when Elijah focused his spiritual sight—eyes that could dissect the flow of qi and perceive the hidden truths of planes, his vision hit a wall. The darkness absorbed his spiritual probe completely, shielding the coward hiding behind the anomaly.“The longer you
Chapter 488
The rest of the squad immediately followed suit. Broken by the unimaginable torment of the glowing symbols, the remaining mercenaries scrambled for their blades, plunging the steel into their own chests and throats, ending their own lives on the floor.Thud! Thud! Thud! The parents in the back of the hall clamped their hands over their children’s eyes, trying to shield them from the mass suicide.Some of the highly trained mercenaries who had slaughtered the entire Langston bloodline fifteen years ago could not endure even a full minute of torment, eagerly choosing the cold embrace of death just to escape the pain.For a long minute, the Carringtons simply stood against the wall, staring at the pile of skinless bodies littering the floor of their home.In that silence, the exact words Elijah Langston had spoken in the courtyard began ringing in their minds, finally making sense.'Once you step inside that hall, you must not leave. And if you dare to step out, do not try to return, or
Chapter 487
The terrified Carringtons scrambled backward, and pressed their bodies against the far wall of the Great Hall. There was absolutely nowhere left to run. The mercenaries had blocked the entrance, their drawn katanas looking like it was capable of slicing through solid bone without resistance.The Red Mask leader let out a harsh huff through his gear, taking a step forward. “It seems no one possesses the courage to embrace a painless death tonight. Since you desire an agonizing end, that request will be graciously granted. We will start by severing your hands, then we will take your legs, and we will butcher whatever sticks out until we finally decide to go for the head.”“Why are you doing this?! We did not offend you in any way!” Deb screamed, her voice cracking with fear as she threw her arms around her parents, burying her face in her father’s chest.“We take orders without question. We have been on standby in the shadows for long, and tonight we received the command to exterminate
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