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.'

that marriage fall apart.

engines roared as it

the man's arm once again, trying to

body was an endless void, soaking up every bit

of progress.

Alex refused to quit, each minute draining him

sweat slipped down his forehead-then

rest," a soft

to see Kelly, her icy demeanor thawed by genuine

caught off-guard. "Why do

a snap, her gaze

she replied, stepping

away. "Sir, are you sure you want to save him?" she asked quietly. "It could be

to my past," Alex

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sadness crossing her features, "it's better

head. "Without my past, I'm just a ghost."

about me? Something

went rigid. "No," she said

he could sense

explosion rocked the plane, followed by a yiolent

urgent: "We're under attack by an unidentified aircraft! Please secure yourselves; we're taking evasive

of light and thunderous booms rattled the

strode through the chaos without bothering to buckle in, as if turbulence meant nothing

detonation shook the jet, causing

one hand gripping the

kept moving, he slipped into the plane's rear section, checking the

dark

action, intercepting some rockets in dazzling

hard.

no ordinary plane," Alex muttered, eyes narrowed. "It's military-grade." From

showered from overhead panels, and the engines

recruit was strapped in, then met Alex's gaze across

now?" she shouted above the

feed again. "We can't outrun it. This plane has maybe

shook the aircraft. Alarms blared, and emergency

prepare to bail!" Alex ordered. "We're abandoning

a flicker of concern. "You're not

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