The Rise of a Master: It Starts With Rejection

Chapter 681

Without warning, the middle-aged man struck a palm through the air toward Felix.

Caught off guard, Felix barely had time to raise his arms to block. The impact sent him, chair and all, staggering several feet back with a loud thud.

Blood spurted from Felix's mouth, and his face turned ashen.

"Felix!" Melissa cried out in panic, rushing toward him. The middle-aged man, however, didn't even flinch. He simply turned around and left, making no further moves.

"I'm fine. I don't think he was trying to kill me," Felix said, shooting Melissa a meaningful glance as he spoke.

Was he telling her to keep quiet? Feeling confused, Melissa said, "Despite the situation, you're still worried about me saying too much?

"Are we just going to let this slide? Call the police!" she suggested, trying to play along, even if she didn't fully understand his intent. "There's no need for that. Just help me sit down," Felix replied.

A street away, Asher and Aiden sat in the back seat of a car. The middle-aged man from before was now standing beside the vehicle.

reported. 'Felix is, at most, at the Aetherial Realm. There's no way he's at the Oceanus Realm's level."

turned to his brother. "Aiden, that old man was trying to use

pressed on, unwilling to let it go. "What if he had photos or something more concrete? Would you have believed him

Asher on the head. "Everything can be fabricated. I only

hour had passed. Melissa suddenly noticed the color returning to Felix's face. His previously pale complexion now looked completely normal. "You were faking it just now?"

was only testing me. He didn't have any real intention to kill." Melissa was taken aback but

You're in the Oceanus Realm too. Even if you were caught off guard, there was you no way a hit from someone in the same

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know he wasn't serious?"

muttered something about

left his house that morning, he had found a note slipped under his door. It

attacked him

idea who was helping him or who had sent someone to test him. However, if it meant the situation could be resolved so easily that would certainly be better than wasting his time and energy investigating. Melissa didn't return for the rest of the day. After closing up the clinic, Felix cleaned up and locked the door. That was when he saw

I want you to try it

Nelly's cold pasta salad, Felix had casually complimented it in passing.