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.'

fall apart. Now here lay the

as it took off

the man's arm once

body was an endless void, soaking up

of progress.

an hour, Alex refused to

his forehead-then

rest,"

her icy demeanor thawed by

off-guard. "Why do you care about

snap, her gaze

she

half-turned away. "Sir, are you sure you want to save him?" she asked quietly.

link to my past," Alex

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Chapter 100

Kelly murmured, a flicker of sadness crossing her features, "it's

my past, I'm just a

about me? Something you're not

rigid.

could

the plane, followed by a

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

and thunderous booms

lock the old man's bed in place while Alex strode through the chaos without bothering to buckle in,

detonation shook the jet, causing

braced herself, one hand

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

black aircraft, barely visible against the dark sky, was launching a barrage

jet's countermeasures sprang into action, intercepting some rockets in dazzling bursts, but others

hard.

narrowed. "It's military-grade."

showered from overhead panels,

her composure, made sure each recruit was strapped in, then met Alex's gaze across the dim, flashing

she shouted above the

glanced at the feed again. "We can't outrun it.

hit shook the aircraft. Alarms blared,

survival gear and prepare to bail!" Alex ordered. "We're

wavered, her usual chill cracking with a flicker of concern. "You're

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