The Rise of a Master: It Starts With Rejection

Everyone remained on high alert, but within a minute, eight late-stage

Transcendent Realm experts appeared, arriving from different directions and in no particular order.

"Relax, I'm not here to cause trouble," one of them said with a smirk. "I heard that Mr. Zeller welcomes all late-stage Transcendent Realm experts and offers an Ascension Pill every two months. Is that true?"

The others immediately chimed in with agreement. It turned out they had all come to be bodyguards, almost leading to an unnecessary misunderstanding. The timing was just too coincidental-eight experts arriving simultaneously was bound to raise suspicion.

Hearing this, Felix chuckled. "Of course. If you place your trust in me, my promise stands."

Whether some secretly worked for the royal family didn't matter. Felix was no longer someone who could be easily crushed. If anyone tried anything, he could kill them without hesitation.

Besides, the first ten experts he had recruited were mostly people he already knew well, so there was little cause for concern.

More importantly, the royal family was the real enemy. Even if Felix couldn't outnumber them, he at least had to show that he wasn't an easy target. Let them understand that forcing their way through wouldn't be so simple.

black off-road vehicle rolled to a stop. Zayn,

from the shadows or descend with overwhelming force. But sending only Zayn? What kind of approach was this? It was hard to make sense of

Whitwell, you actually guessed right," Deborah transmitted her

history? For Gordon, what better way to rival the past emperors than

time, it was Deborah's turn

disciple? Things have already

to risk entering one of

Lands. His feud with the royal family isn't something that can be smoothed over. Otherwise, he wouldn't have chosen to openly refine pills in the first

"Felix, we've had our differences, mostly over Nerissa. Honestly, I was

clasped his hands together in a gesture of respect,

in Martial City's history that a royal family member had publicly apologized

hadn't expected this. Whether Zayn was sincere or not, the fact that Zayn was willing to cast aside the royal family's pride in front

Palmer, you're too polite. I wasn't entirely without fault back then

of goodwill, especially when what Felix needed most right now was time. If playing along with the royal family's pretense could buy