Chapter 100

Chapter 100

A helicopter touched down on the airport runway, where a sleek private jet waited with its engines softly humming.

As the rotors slowed, Kelly Kingston led Alex across the tarmac.

Her posture was poised, her gaze focused.

"The old man's already inside," Kelly said, her tone calm yet purposeful.

Around the jet, Kingswell personnel snapped to attention, saluting Alex.

One young recruit, stared in awe, still grappling with rumors that Alex was an elite figure in the organization-handpicked by the King himself.

And there stood Kelly, the so-called "Cold Goddess of Kingswell."

Her brilliance and beauty wer the stuff of legends, making her the dream of many

men.

The young recruit wasn't immune-his secret stash of Kelly's photographs, carefully clipped from online newspapers and magazines, was proof enough.

And he wasn't the only one.

Inside the jet, Alex found the old man resting on a makeshift hospital bed.

Although the man's face was peaceful, Alex knew the stillness belied his

true

condition.

"He's improving," Alex murmured, though frustration flickered in his eyes.

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Despite all his skill, he couldn't heal the man. The reality was humbling: the old man was at a higher level than Alex.

Alex had lingered at Level 99 for three years, seemingly blocked by an invisible barrier.

Months ago, his master the immortal sage said, "Go to Vancouver. You'll meet your wife and find the old guard who holds your

secret.'

marriage fall apart. Now here lay the old guard himself, unconscious

it took

on the man's arm once again, trying to channel his

body was an endless void, soaking up every bit

of progress.

Alex refused to quit,

his forehead-then

need to rest," a soft

to see Kelly, her icy demeanor thawed by

caught off-guard. "Why do you care about

composure returned with a snap,

she

want to save him?" she

my past,"

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flicker of sadness crossing

my past, I'm just

about me?

expression went rigid. "No," she said

could sense the

rocked the plane, followed by

under attack by an unidentified aircraft! Please

thunderous booms

in place while Alex strode through the chaos without bothering to

detonation shook the jet, causing the lights

herself, one hand gripping

the plane's rear

barely visible against the dark sky, was launching a barrage of

some

hard.

narrowed. "It's military-grade." From inside the cabin, the

showered from overhead panels,

composure, made sure each recruit was strapped in, then met Alex's gaze

now?" she shouted above the

can't outrun it. This plane has maybe five minutes left before

fresh hit shook the aircraft. Alarms blared, and emergency

gear and prepare to

chill cracking with a flicker of concern. "You're

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