Chapter 0255

As the story unfolded, time marched relentlessly on.

Outside Jackman’s Pharma, Matthew lay in a pool of his own blood. The gashes from Alexander’s lethal cash

no longer bled, but his breaths were shallow and desperate.

Nearby, one of his four bodyguards was down to his last breaths too, his head a gruesome mess from

Alexander’s handiwork, flies buzzing in a frenzy that sent shivers down his spine.

“Kid, you…” Despite his fading strength, Matthew’s glare was murderous. “Don’t get cocky. My big brother is on his way, and he’s a beast. Ranked eighty-three in the Chart of Fighters, he’ll take you out with ease!

“To insult the Jackman family is to sign your death warrant. Even if you’re tough as nails, you’re a dead man walking!”

Alexander stood a stone’s throw away indifferently, and he looked at Matthew like he was already a goner.

To the average Joe, Matthew was untouchable royalty, the Jackman family’s golden boy. To Alexander, the War Temple’s top dog, he was just another bug to squash.

The screech of tires ripped through the silence.

A sleek Maserati skidded to a halt in the plaza, and out stepped a smirking Leandro in his fancy Croc shoes. He sauntered over.

Each step was measured, a perfect rhythm. He walked like a man charging up for battle, his presence alone

enough to make even the toughest fighters think twice.

Ranked eighty-three and not to be messed with, Leandro was a force of nature.

with hope

in his eyes, screaming,

to hurt me like this, to insult the Jackman family, he’s got to pay with

a brother. He stopped a few yards away from Alexander with a sinister smirk. “So you’re the one stirring up trouble

impassive as he

Compensation?

don’t waste my

had to lift a finger. You must be pretty skilled to hurt people with cash, definitely at the

slow breath, shaking

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could finish, Asher next to him had gone ghostly white, shaking like a leaf in the

overwhelming presence.

“Alex!”

arm, quivering. “Let’s just drop it, okay? We’ll head back to the village. You can explain to Amber,

of

spoke, he tried to pull Alexander away, aiming

Alex? Amber?

up, his eyes lighting up with

washed-up soldier, Alexander?”

firm as if his feet were planted in the earth,

at Leandro, he smiled and said, “So you knew it

it’s you,

hands together, his knuckles popping loudly as a visible swirl of white

little talk with Amber, convince her

without a fuss. Looks like I can skip that

he whipped his right hand out, sending five razor-sharp inner power slicing

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