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“What is that matter, my friend? What balance does it say?” The elderly man asked. Jeremiah groaned and looked at the man.“It says that your account balance is forty-two thousand dollars…” he said, paused to observe the man’s reaction, then continued “…and that’s strange.” The man gulped. “Strange? How so?” The man chuckled nervously.“First of all, you said you wanted to withdraw fifty thousand dollars for your grandson and here it says you are eight thousand dollars short, but considering that it’s your account, you should have known that if you took the time to think about it”“What are you trying to say?”Jeremiah was very smart, so he was coming to a conclusion using all the information he had gotten so far and was also taking account of human psychology.“It means that when your grandson made the request you didn’t have time to think and just came to the bank to get it, which means the request was an urgent one and then there was your behavior when I told you what the balanc
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“Followed?” The elderly man asked.“Yes, I have strong suspicions that you were followed, and whoever was sent to follow you and make sure you did what you’re supposed to should be somewhere close—“ Jeremiah’s eyes widened.He recalled the guy with the neck tattoo in the old pickup truck, and suddenly, everything—especially what he had said on the phone—started to make sense.“My friend? What’s the matter?” The elderly man asked after witnessing Jeremiah’s sudden pause.“It’s nothing. As I was saying, your follower is probably parked at the top of the road leading over here”, Jeremiah said, and the elderly man furrowed her eyebrows.“If they are here to watch me, then why park so far away?” he asked.“That's because if they follow you into the bank, they’ll attract suspicion if they’re seen just standing around without doing anything. On the other hand, if they stay outside in the parking lot, they might catch the attention of the security guards. The best place to be is on the road l
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The machine asked if he wanted to do anything else, but he refused by pressing the “NO” option on the touchscreen display, and it spat out his card.The elderly man took the debit card that was sticking out of the machine and put it in his wallet then he faced Jeremiah.“Thank you for all the help. I’ll be going into the bank to withdraw what I can. Please forget everything I told you and just go about your day like none of this ever happened. That’s the best thing for both of—“ he said, but Jeremiah cut him off. He said, “How can you trust that they’ll let your grandson go free after you hand over the money they asked for?”“What?” The elderly paused and looked at Jeremiah with a confused expression. “What do you mean?”“For one thing, your grandson knows who they all are which makes him a liability they can’t have. Secondly, giving them what they want is basically giving up your only leverage in this situation and that’s not a very smart idea, because once you’ve done that, you bec
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The elderly man’s eyes fidgeted.Was Jeremiah serious about helping him? The elderly man grabbed the hand Jeremiah was offering him and was pulled to his feet.“So, what do I— I mean, we do?” The elderly man asked, completely trusting Jeremiah that he would get his grandson out of the mess he was in no matter what.“Firstly, I’d like us to introduce ourselves and our names. Not that I have a problem with being called your friend, but I prefer hearing my name when being spoken to” Jeremiah said. The elderly nodded, then said “Okay. From this moment onward, I’ll call you by your name. Jeremiah”Jeremiah smiled and said “Thank you. What about you? What’s your name?““Jackson. My name is Jackson Bailey”Jeremiah nodded.“Now we know each other’s names,” Jeremiah said, and Jackson smiled “It’s time to get down to business,”Jackson took a deep breath, exhaled, and was prepared for what he had to do.“Firstly, you’re going to call the number the kidnappers had called you with to request t
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Jackson looked at Jeremiah with a raised brow that denoted skepticism.“What do you mean by you have everything I need?” He asked.Jeremiah looked at the elderly man and said “Just trust me. Go into the bank and withdraw the money you have in your account. The forty-two thousand dollars and meet me here. You’ll see what I’m talking about”Jackson groaned skeptically. Though what Jeremiah said was very cryptic and vague, the elderly man, deciphered it and understood what Jeremiah was trying to do. Seeing the look of understanding on the elderly man’s face, Jeremiah interrupted him before he could say what he was about to say.“Before you refuse the money I'm offering, I want you to know that I'm only lending it to you so you can have the full ransom amount. I plan to get it back once everything is over. If things go according to my plan, the full fifty thousand dollars will be returned, so don’t worry—just go get your share of the ransom while I withdraw mine.”Jeremiah effectively d
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Jeremiah drove his motorcycle to the top of the slopped road and stared at where he had last seen the pick-up truck when he came to the bank.“I knew it,” he said, smirking under his helmet because the truck was nowhere to be seen. It seemed his suspicion about the driver was correct. However, the truck’s disappearance alone wasn’t his only confirmation that the driver was working with Charlie’s kidnappers, as the truck could have simply left while he was still at the bank, even before Jackson had left.Even if the driver had been talking over the phone about someone, which could have very well been Jackson, withdrawing money from the bank, that wasn’t what Jeremiah took as confirmation for his suspension. It was his nose. The moment Jeremiah drove to the top of the slopped road he used his nose to find Jackson’s trail and his nose told him that the pick-up truck was just there but left less than two minutes ago which matched when Jackson left the bank. His trusty nose was how he w
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Jeremiah ignored the hooligan and instead scanned him from head to toe, assessing how much of a nuisance he was going to be. It was clear he had come looking for trouble, ready to resort to violence, given the weapon in his hand.“Are you deaf?! I said who the fucking hell are you?!” The man yelled again, this time pointing the tip of the baseball bat at Jeremiah as a threat.Jeremiah gestured that the hooligan should hold on for a moment.“Gimme a second and I’ll give you all the time and attention you want,” Jeremiah said then strategized his next moves and how he was going to save Charlie.He definitely didn’t want anyone in the building to know why he was there as they would use it against him— making Charlie a hostage and that would be annoying as hell.It would also put Charlie’s life in jeopardy which would be counterproductive to why he was there in the first place. Jeremiah looked at the building.He closed his eyes and used the full range of his senses. From his sense of
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Inside the apartment building, in one of the rooms on the top floor sat the Kingpin of the operation on a luxurious couch and was watching a game of football on his massive fifty-five-inch television.On both sides were two skimpy-dressed girls who couldn’t get their bodies off of him.The Kingpin had his right hand inside the shirt of one of the girls, fondling her breasts while the left hand held both the cigar he was smoking and his betting ticket for the current game he was watching.On each corner of the room was a hooligan who served as his protection and they were all properly armed.The Kingpin took his eyes off the television for a moment and looked at something that caused the veins on the sides of his head to throb.“How long are all of you fuckers going to take before you finish counting that, huh?!” He yelled at the gathering of five scared kids between his couch and the television.They all sat on the floor, counting heaps of cash in their middle while supervising them w
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One week later, Jeremiah leaned back against a cherry-red and gold Bugatti Veyron, the glint of the city lights dancing along its sleek curves. His tailored obsidian suit clung perfectly to his frame, his silver tie fluttering slightly in the evening breeze. The engine purred beneath the hood like a beast waiting to be unleashed. He glanced at the time on his wristwatch, a sly smile creeping across his face as the apartment door opened.He looked up.And there she was.Victoria emerged in a stunning midnight-blue dress that shimmered with every step. Her curls bounced as she descended the stairs, and Jeremiah couldn’t help but admire the moment like it was a scene from a movie.“Hurry up, we’re going to be late,” he said, a playful edge in his voice.“I’m coming!” she replied, hurrying her pace before she reached him—and planted a kiss on his lips that made the world pause for a second.“When’s he popping the question again?” she asked, at the same time telling him that maybe he was r
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“The Leader?” Jeremiah asked with a grimace, the name tasting like ash on his tongue.“That’s right,” the being declared, his voice echoing like a god’s judgment through the twisted air. “I *am* the Leader—and this is my dimension. Here, I rule as supreme.”Jeremiah’s eyes narrowed. “And that name you called me—Bazar’q Omàrin? Why?”The Leader tilted his head slightly, a cruel smirk tugging at his lips. “Because that is your name. Not this watered-down nonsense—Crimson, Jeremiah—names handed to you by humans who never knew your truth. You were Bazar’q Omàrin, once the high sovereign of the mighty Oxyl Dimension... until it all turned to ash.”Jeremiah’s fists clenched as a dull pain throbbed in his temples. “And how do you know that? How do you know *me*?”The Leader's grin stretched, eyes flickering with malevolence. “Because, you banished me to hell!”With that roar of hatred, he surged forward in a blur, his fist crashing into Jeremiah’s ribs with the force of a meteor. The impact
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‘Where is he? The one who started all of this?’ Jeremiah’s thoughts were a storm as he tore through the sky in a vicious, high-speed duel against the nine-winged skeletal wyvern. His golden eyes flicked through the blood-red horizon, desperate to catch even a glimpse of Grey Lucian. Since the chaos began, Grey had vanished—eerily absent. The longer Jeremiah failed to find him, the more unease spread like rot in his gut.But the demonic wyvern wasn’t giving him the luxury of distraction.Every flap of the beast’s bony, mana-wrought wings whipped up cyclones of cursed wind. Each strike came fast, lethal, and relentless. Dodging them required all of Jeremiah’s focus—there was no room for error, no space to think about Grey, or even the cultists scattered across the battlefield, who were clearly summoning something catastrophic. The thick, malevolent mana surging from their positions felt like an omen of ruin.For just one heartbeat, Jeremiah’s mind slipped—and it was one too many.The w
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The battlefield plunged into eerie silence. Even the screaming winds beneath the dome seemed to hold their breath.Jeremiah stood at the center of it all, his dragonoid form casting a monumental silhouette against the warped sky. His scales shimmered with hues of black, red, and gold, glowing like molten metal in the dome’s unnatural twilight. Wings unfurled behind him like the banners of a god of war, stretching high and wide, stirring the air with every twitch.Mages, scattered across the estate in strategic lines, froze. The resurrection magic that had reanimated their fallen held no expression, no breath—just cold bodies awaiting orders. All of them stared at him, at the beast who had tanked a god-killing spell and still stood.Jeremiah’s molten eyes locked onto the mages who had conjured the lightning-fire hybrid spell. There was no mercy in his gaze. Only retribution.He leapt forward.The impact of his takeoff split the ground behind him, sending fragments of earth skyward and
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The sky darkened unnaturally, casting an eerie twilight over the estate. Jeremiah looked up as the last arc of shadow joined with the rest, sealing them inside a massive black dome. It shimmered with power, humming low like a monstrous heartbeat. The siege had begun.He turned to Lynette. “It’s begun.”“Yes,” she said quietly, eyes locked on the sky. “It has.”Jeremiah glanced down at the box in his hand. Obadiah’s head, expression frozen in death, stared back at him. The man had been a teacher, a guide, a rock of wisdom. And now he was gone. Murdered.“I’m sorry this happened to you, teacher,” Jeremiah murmured, his voice a low promise. “But on your behalf, I’ll make those fuckers pay.”With grim reverence, he set the box down. Then he and Lynette walked toward the convoy, where confusion had begun to blossom into panic.A chorus of murmurs rose as everyone saw the sky had changed. The dome wasn’t just a covering — it was alive. Pulsing. Feeding something.“What the hell is this?” th
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[“How? The gate is—“] the driver of the first car asked but went silent to his surprise the gate suddenly opened. [“But how?!”] the driver asked in a panic.Jeremiah had used wordless magic to unlock and open the gate.[“Don’t worry about it and just keep driving”] Steven interjected, stopping the driver beside him from thinking too much into what happened.Because this security detail was provided by the city of Bakers View and not of the Garrick Royal estate, they didn’t know about Jeremiah’s real identity as Lord Crimson or that magic existed. That was why Steven stopped the driver beside him from asking questions and just moved things along. [“Okay, Captain”] the driver reluctantly said and then hit the gas, leading the cars into the estate. All the while, the third car which hadn’t been connected through the channel didn’t know what was really going on. Second after second, the cars got closer to Jeremiah’s house and when they got there everything looked perfectly fine, surpr
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Jeremiah weighed his options and came to a final decision on which path to take. “We should go back” he declared. “Go back? As in back to the house?” Reginald asked, an intrigued look on his face.“Yes, back to the house” Jeremiah replied matter-of-factly.“Why?” Reginald inquired.“Though I wish you weren’t here, I honestly feel better with you or should I say Lynette by my side rather than elsewhere where y’all can be attacked by who knows how many enemies, and she, for whatever reason, dies because remember, a single temporary death from hers means you’re gone, forever,” Jeremiah said and Reginald groaned as he reflected on every word.“Alright then. I guess we’re going back” Reginald replied. He then looked at the driver and said “Tell the front car that we’re going back to the apartment”“As you wish, Your Majesty” the driver replied, clearly not on board with the decision because he had picked up on signs of there being a problem and would prefer if they left the city— meanin
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Obadiah chuckled.[“I think you underestimate me, young master. But, if you want to know then I found it because of the relic I gave you. You know the one that lets us communicate? Well, you’re able to track the other twin if you have your hand on one and know the right spell”]Jeremiah groaned.“You didn’t tell me it could do that,” he said.[“I apologize, young master. It must have skipped my mind”]“Is that so? Alright then. I’ll head back to the house with Dad and everyone else” Jeremiah said.[“That’ll be great, young master. I’ll be waiting for all four of you”] Jeremiah groaned. “Alright then. Bye,” he said and then ended the call. Looking at him, Reginald asked “So we’re going back to your house to speak with the shaman? I wonder what he wants to talk to us about”“Nothing. He doesn’t want to speak to us about anything” Jeremiah said as he stuffed his phone into his pocket while Reginald grimaced.“He doesn’t? How do you know that?” Reginald asked. With a frown, Jeremiah s
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“I’m sure the young master and his majesty are discussing something important which is why we haven’t moved yet” Kingston reassured. “It’s not about the lack of movement that has me exasperated. I came to this city to spend time with Jeremiah and I haven’t even done that. If we travel back so quickly it would mean that this trip was a complete letdown.” She said. Kingston groaned.“So what do you want to do, Lady Lynette?” Kingston asked “Being the young master’s fiancé, you’re just as influential as he is to those who know the truth. So much so that the artificial intelligence back at the house obeyed your instruction when it wouldn’t have for anyone else besides the young master” Lynette groaned, reflecting on Kingston’s question that asked her what she wanted to do.“Since you’ve already linked yourself and Master Reginald together, you’ve basically protected him from all forms of harm for the next thirty-nine years, so you don’t have to follow us back home if you don’t want to.
