2025-03-21 15:09:23Reginald’s heart pounding loudly. This was his moment to shine because this will go a long way to help his reputation and life.
He adjusted his suit quickly, puffed out his chest, and forced a confident smile onto his face.
“Elara Vasquez!” he said with a practiced chuckle. “What an unexpected honor. We’re all truly blessed to have you here.”
Then he turned to the crowd with an exaggerated sweep of his hand, his smile widening with every word.
“You see? Didn’t I tell you all? Elara and I go way back. She'd graced my wedding.”
The reaction was instant. Gasps. Whispers.
“Holy shit. Reginald wasn’t lying?”
“Elara Vasquez? At his wedding?”
“No way... He actually pulled it off?”
“I thought he was bluffing. But damn... this guy’s connected.”
“Forget everything I said...he’s the real deal.”
Vivian practically glowed. She held her head high and nudged Sage in the ribs.
“See that? I told you Astrid made the right choice. This is what it means to marry into power. We're going to be rich.”
Astrid broke free from the soldiers restraining her, standing tall with a proud, defiant posture. She straightened her shoulders, lips curling into a proud little smile. Her eyes gleamed with satisfaction, her friends will worship her now.
Reginald took a step forward.
“Elara,” he said, turning back to her, the smugness in his voice was unmistakable. “I need your help today.”
He lifted a hand and pointed straight at Kai.
“That man. He crashed our wedding. Humiliated our family. Hit Sage, insulted my fiancée, and attacked my mother-in-law.”
“He’s delusional. Obsessed with Astrid. And worse, he did all this under your roof. I knew you’d want to deal with this personally.”
Astrid let out a dramatic sigh and stepped forward too.
“Elara… I didn’t mean to cause trouble. I had the guards draw their guns because I was scared. Kai has been unstable ever since I left him. I tried to move on, but he just won’t let me. The love sick man follows me everywhere I go and now he's here on your property and causing trouble.”
“We only wanted a peaceful wedding.”
She lowered her eyes, voice trembling with well-practiced emotion.
"Yeah, that's right," one guest spat, "He walked in here like a damn beggar, beating the bride’s family up!"
Another added, "Honestly, Astrid's family is way too soft. People like him should have their hands and legs broken and tossed out like trash!"
"Yeah, he needs to pay for what he’s done," more guests joined in, their voices full of venom.
Reginald grinned smugly, his arrogance oozing out. He turned to Elara with false humility, "If you could just teach this piece of shit a lesson he'll never forget, I'd be forever grateful."
All eyes turned expectantly to Elara. With her tight-knit relationship with Reginald, everyone knew the next act was sure to be something to watch.
But Elara remained still. Her cold, dangerous gaze swept over the room, causing a ripple of unease among the guests. Her eyes finally landed on a nondescript corner—Kai. Her expression shifted, eyes suddenly gleaming with recognition.
"Master," Elara’s voice was full of reverence as she bowed deeply before Kai, sending shockwaves through the crowd. The armed soldiers she led followed suit, their synchronized salute echoing loudly, “Master,” their voices ringing through the hall, sharp and crisp, like an icy blast that froze the blood of every person present.
The temperature seemed to plummet, and the room fell into an eerie silence, suffocating with fear.
Reginald’s face turned pale, disbelief flickering in his eyes. "Elara, there must be some mistake..."
Before he could finish, a cold, hard spear was pressed to his temple.
"Shut up if you want to live," Elara growled, her eyes locked on Reginald with pure menace. Her gaze then swept over the trembling crowd, her voice growing colder with every word.
"Master, I can’t stand these lowly vermin insulting you like this."
"Please, give me your orders on how to deal with this trash."
The banquet hall fell into a deathly silence. But the sound of muffled, fearful tremors could still be heard, as the guests realized the truth: it was over!
They were all at Kai’s mercy now!
The power of life and death was in his hands!
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Chapter 761: One Last Battle
The purge left the wasteland noticeably thinner.Entire sections that had been crowded only an hour earlier now had gaps running through them, with several camps already being dismantled as the people Kai had expelled gathered their belongings and prepared to leave. Some went quietly, too frightened to risk attracting his attention again, while others carried the bitter expressions of people who still believed their punishment had been unfair but possessed enough sense to keep those thoughts inside their heads. The dead were removed quickly, the wounded treated, and what remained of the alliance slowly reorganized itself around those who had chosen to stay loyal when it mattered.Emily watched all of it from the edge of the gathering.Kai stood nearby with his hands behind his back, looking almost bored now that the internal problem had finally been dealt with. Abigail was speaking with Elder Harkan a short distance away, while Vivienne stood farther off with several people from the d
Chapter 760: No Use for Cowards
That single question did more damage than the pressure crushing the stage ever could.For several seconds, nobody among the rebellion’s core moved. Then one of the men closest to the front dropped to his knees. Another followed almost immediately, and within moments the same people who had been standing confidently behind their new leader were kneeling across the broken platform and the ground below it, all traces of arrogance gone. The change was almost embarrassing to watch. A few minutes earlier, they had been shouting about strength, succession and taking control of the wasteland. Now some were already bowing deeply enough that their foreheads touched the ground.“Lord Kai, wait.”“We can still be useful.”“This was a mistake.”“We were misled.”The excuses began coming one after another.Kai stood there without expression.One of the stronger elders among them hurriedly raised his head. “The invasion is coming. You said it yourself. You need fighters. Everyone here has cultivatio
Chapter 759: Choose How You Die
The reaction did not come all at once. It moved through the wasteland in waves, beginning with those closest to the stage before rolling outward through the thousands gathered behind them. For a heartbeat there was only stunned silence, then someone recognized Kai, another recognized Abigail, and suddenly the people who had known them before their disappearance began reacting very differently from everyone else. Those who had remained loyal to Emily and the old command structure visibly relaxed, as if the weight that had been sitting on their shoulders since the rebellion began had finally been lifted. A few disciples even shouted Kai’s name, and once the first cheer broke through, several others followed, relief quickly becoming excitement.The reaction on the other side was nothing like that.Cultivators who had known Kai before but had chosen to support the rebellion went pale almost immediately. Some stopped breathing properly, while others instinctively took half a step backward
Chapter 758: The Weight of the Real Monsters
Kai, Abigail, and Vivienne stayed hidden for a moment longer.None of them moved when Emily stepped out and revealed herself to the entire wasteland. The shock that followed was immediate enough that it seemed to freeze the assembly in place. Thousands of cultivators stared at the woman they had spent the last several hours mourning, arguing over, replacing, and in some cases openly abandoning. Even the people who had remained loyal to her looked as though their minds needed a moment to catch up with what their eyes were seeing.Emily stood there calmly, her real face exposed and her aura no longer hidden, while the question she had just asked still seemed to hang over the wasteland.Why exactly had any of them thought she was dead?The broad-shouldered man on the stage recovered first.The surprise on his face lasted barely a second before something much uglier replaced it. He looked Emily over carefully, clearly searching for signs of injury, and whatever he sensed seemed to satisfy
Chapter 757: The Dead Woman Speaks
The pressure did not remain without a source for long. From the far side of the assembly, a group of cultivators began moving through the crowd, and wherever they passed, people instinctively forced themselves aside despite the weight pressing down on them. There were not many of them, perhaps a dozen at most, but every single one carried enough strength to stand apart from the ordinary elders gathered in the wasteland. At their centre walked a broad-shouldered man dressed in dark robes, his face hard and his steps unhurried, as though the thousands of people struggling beneath his aura were already beneath his authority.Kai’s eyes narrowed slightly.So this was where the loose thread led.The group climbed onto the makeshift stage without asking permission. Allen tried to move, but the pressure immediately concentrated around him, forcing his body stiff before he could take more than a step. Elder Sophia fared little better, while the Grand Elder’s expression turned ugly as he strug
Chapter 756: The Weight Above Them
The argument might have gone on for another hour if someone near the centre of the gathering had not finally raised his voice above the rest.“There is a simple way to settle this.”Enough people heard him that the shouting gradually weakened. The speaker was a broad-shouldered cultivator from one of the larger sects, not old enough to carry the same ancient weight as Harkan or the Grand Elder, but powerful enough that nobody dismissed him outright. He stepped forward when the attention shifted toward him and looked across the divided crowd.“If everyone believes they have a better candidate, then stop wasting time arguing. Let strength decide.”The reaction was immediate.Some frowned.Others became interested.Allen’s face hardened from the platform, already disliking where this was going, but before he could interrupt, the cultivator continued.“We’re standing at the front line against an enemy that understands only power. Whoever leads us should be capable of standing above the re
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