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“Mister Wolf, this is entirely my fault and I should not ask you to risk yourself for my mistakes, but you are the only one who can help my wife. I’m beggin g you. Have mercy and try.” Vincent fell to his knees and pleaded..
For the sake of his wife, the almighty Southern King was down on his knees!
“Mister Poole, please get up. I told you, the likelihood of this working is so slim that you can beg me all you want, but there’s still nothing I can do about this.” Leon sighed with resignation.
“We don’t care how likely it’s for you to succeed. All we ask is that you try. Don’t worry. If your energy foundation gets dama ged, we’ll do whatever we can to find the ingredients that will make the pill to fix it, Vincent said sincerel y. He understood that Leon did not wish to take the risk and hoped that resolving Leon’s concern over h is energy foundation would convince Leon to help.
“Um,” Leon hesitated.
Vincent was right and damages to one’s energy foundation could indeed be fixed by certain pills, but it would be extremely time– consuming and would require wild plants that grew for over five hundred years.
Even the Shear Family failed to find such rare material and it would only be more challenging for Vince nt.
Sensing Leon’s hesitation, Fane fell onto his knees as well.
“Mister Wolf, I know that this is going to be difficult for you, but please save my mom! It doesn’t matter if you succeed! We’ll never forget about it if you do us this favor,” Fane begged.
“Fine. Just get up! I’ll give it a go!” Leon smiled bitterly. He was never a ruthless person and was moved by the Pooles‘ plea. After all, damages to his energy foundation could be fixed, but if he refused to act, Gloria would surely perish.
“Thank you. Thank you so much.” Both Vincent and Fane were overjoyed and stood in excitement.
“Let’s not delay this any further. We need to check on Missus Poole right now,” Leon said, and the three immediately rushed toward the room.
Inside the room, Gloria was barely breathing on the bed.
Leon hurried into the room to check on her pulse, only for Doctor Chase to stop him.
“Mister Poole, this kid’s just a scammer. Why did you let him back in? Missus Poole is in critical condition. right now and you nee that it was unlikely for Gloria to survive the journey to the hospital, but she managed to live until then, her chances. of recovering would be greater than staying home.
“How dare you?!” Vincent lounged at Doctor Chase, his powerful energy oozing out.
“Baam!”
Unable to withstand the force, Doctor Chase slammed into the wall behind him and collapsed onto the ground.
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Feeling his insides turning, he spat blood.
“You scammer! I’ve asked the Holy Doctor and he told me that the adrenaline injections have negative side effects and have to be used with caution! You gave my wife adrenaline injections under poor judg ment, causing her situation to worsen to this state! If something happens to her, I’ll make sure you suffe r for this!” Vincent glared daggers at Doctor Chase.
If Doctor Chase did not question Leon’s skills, Vincent would not have chased Leon out and Gloria would not
be in such a critical condition.
Though Vincent knew that he was responsible as well, Doctor Chase was the person who caused the s ituation. and it was considered an act of mercy that he did not fill Doctor Chase.
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Terrified, Doctor Chase fell onto his knees and pleaded, “Mister Poole, please spare me! I only meant t o wake Missus Poole up and I didn’t know that adrenaline injections have negative side effects. I didn’t mean to.‘
“I know that you didn’t mean to, or you would have been dead by now!” Vincent roared.
“Thank you, Mister Poole.” Drenched in sweat, Doctor Chase struggled to get up nervously, knowing th at his fate was tied with Gloria’s. If Gloria survived, Vincent might be willing to overlook his mistake; an d if something happened to Gloria, Doctor Chase knew that Vincent would tear him into shreds.
Leon checked Gloria and as he expected, the cold force took over Gloria’s heart after the Adrenaline inj ections and she was one step away from death.
Not daring to wait any longer, Leon immediately placed his fingers on the pressure points around Gloria’s
chest.
The Six Points of Fate could save her life as long as she was still breathing. Unfortunately, Leon was not skilled enough to utilize the full potential of the Six Points of Fat e, and the cold force infiltrated into Gloria’s heart, so he must use his spiritual energy to slowly extract t he cold force, which could be draining.
Considering Leon’s current strength, he did not have enough energy at his disposal and it was precisel y the reason why he stressed that he could not help Gloria.
Regardless, he was pushed to try and could only swallow a Spirit Nurturing Pill to prepare for the battle
ahead.
Soon, he began to fire his energy and sent his spiritual energy into Gloria’s body. The cold force within h
From the others‘ perspective, it was as though Gloria’s body was freezing and the temperature around h seemed to be dropping as well.
Some of the cold force swarmed into Leon’s body, which he suppressed using the spiritual energy in his
After some time, the cold force in Gloria’s internal circulation was finally eradicated, leaving only her hea
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Leon did not allow himself to relax.
The cold force that took root in the heart was the trickiest to get rid of and it would be ten times harder to
eradicate the cold force.
Leon knew that this was only the beginning.
Time flew by and Leon paled as the spiritual energy within him was close to reaching its end, yet he onl y managed to repel one– third of the cold force within Gloria. Without sufficient spiritual energy to act as a shield, the cold force b egan to rebound onto him.
“Pfft!” Unable to withstand the cold force, Leon spat blood.
As he predicted earlier, Gloria’s condition was far too severe for him to cure and as a result of attemptin g, he suffered the damage as well.
“Mister Wolf, wh- what is happening?”
The Pooles were stunned at the sight of Leon spitting blood and stared anxiously. However, since Leon was still trying to help Gloria and they did not comprehend the situation, none of them dared to touch L eon out of fear of interrupting him.
“Mister Poole, I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can make it,” Leon muttered, all the while keeping his hands on Gloria’s body, knowing that she would die within a split moment as soon as he let go.
“Are you running out of true energy? It’s fine. Let me help you!” Without much time to think, Vincent jum ped in and placed his palm against Leon’s back, before letting his true energy flow toward Leon.
“No, I’m not using true energy-” Leon paled. He used using spiritual energy to repel the cold force and if Vincent started transferring his true energy to him, it might have the opposite effect and injure both Leon and Gloria in the process.
To Leon’s bewilderment, the true energy that flowed from Vincent’s body to his helped to repel the cold force. On top of that, it stimulated Leon’s energy center; Leon’s true energy combined with Vincent’s, replacing th e spiritual energy that was about to run dry, before flowing toward Gloria’s body through Leon’s finger.
“True energy works, too? That’s great!” Leon was overjoyed. He used his spiritual energy on the Six Points of Fate and did not realize that true energy could be used as well until this very mome
He soon concluded that since spiritual energy and true energy came from the same origin, it was not at
With both true energy and spiritual energy within Leon’s body, not only did his body accept Vincent’s true energy, he somehow man
If he was not trained in martial arts, this would have been impossible.
“Mister Wolf, did I make it worse?” Vincent muttered hesitantly. He thought that Leon based his training o
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“No, you came to the rescue just in time! Just keep transferring your energy and I’m ninety percent sure that I can get Missus Poole to open her eyes!” Relieved, a smile appeared on Leon’s face.
Vincent was far more powerful than he was and with Vincent’s true energy, it would be easy to repel the cold force that took root within Gloria’s body without having to worry about the rebound.
“Really? That’s great!”
The Pooles were overjoyed, especially Vincent as Leon said repeatedly that there was no hope at all. T he situation took a sharp turn and Leon claimed that there was a ninety percent chance of saving Glori a, so Vincent was over the moon.
Time flew by and with the help of Vincent’s true energy, Leon managed to repel all the cold force in Gloria’s heart.
“Mister Poole, you can stop now,” Leon said, before stopping the compression on Gloria.
“Mister Wolf, how’s my wife?” Vincent asked hastily.
“She’s fine and should wake up soon. I just need to write her some prescription and she should heal in no time. Some of the cold force entered my body when I was treating her just now and I need to repel it from my body as well. I can write the prescription later,” Leons said, before walking to the side to sit on the ground to focus on his circulation.
“But-” Vincent anxiously wanted to learn more about the situation as his wife was still unconscious, but decided to give up out of fear that he would disturb Leon.
“Dad, is Mom better now?” Snow and Fane came closer.
“I don’t know.” Vincent shook his head.
The three shot one another worried looks when Gloria finally started moving.
“Ahem,” She coughed and opened her eyes.
“Mom, you’re awake!”
Snow and Fane darted toward the bed and each took one of Gloria’s hands in excitement.
Tears welled in Vincent’s eyes in relief when he saw his wife regaining consciousness without spitting bl
Doctor Chase, who waited in the room, was stunned by the sight before him. As a professional doctor, h
To say that this was a medical miracle would be an understatement.
“Snow, Fane! Wh- What happened to me?” Gloria pinched the bridge of her nose and asked weakly, the
“Mom, you passed out and Mister Wolf brought you back.”
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Fane said excitedly.
“Who’s Mister Wolf?” Gloria asked dazedly.
Every time she would faint, she was taken care of by Doctor Chase and she only thought that this time was
more of the same.
“Here’s what happened,” Fane briefly explained the situation, making sure to include the fact that Leon spat blood in the process of saving Missus Poole. Though he did not know what caused Leon to spit bl ood, it was obvious that Leon’s life was in danger.
“I see. Where’s this, Mister Wolf? We must thank him.” Learning the risk that Leon took to save her, Gloria struggled to get up, wanting to thank Leon in person.
“Mom, Leon took over by the cold force and he is currently trying to recover from it,” Snow explained.
The family of four turned to look at Leon gratefully, as he tried to focus on his circulation.
His power level only reached the Advanced Acquired State, which was a far cry from the Realm of Supreme
Master that Vincent was at.
When Vincent transferred his true energy to Leon earlier, the brute force of the energy coursed through his circulation and purified the energy within Leon’s body. It was a once–in–a–
lifetime opportunity as Leon sensed that he was on the verge of a breakthrough, so he focused and att empted to reach the peak of the Acquired State.
Seeing how Leon did not show any sign of responding, Vincent turned his attention back to his wife. “Gloria, how do you feel right now? Any better?”
“Yeah, much better. You’ve taken too big of a risk. If this failed, you would’ve caused Mister Wolf to get i njured.” Gloria sighed.
“It’s fine. Any risk is worth it if it means that you will wake up. Besides, I was prepared to use whatever re we have to find the ingredients for the pill that will help Mister Wolf’s recovery should the foundation of his power be truly damaged!” Vincent said,
“Vincent, you shouldn’t have. You should know that I’ve been ill for some time now and no doctor on earth can fix me.
Vincent did everything in his power in the past years to help her. She could sense that her time was nea
“Mom! You, you’re going to be fine,” Snow bit her lip to suppress the urge to burst into tears.
Both Vincent and Fane remained quiet as their hearts sank.
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The Pooles misunderstood and were not on the same channel as Leon right from the start.
Leon meant that he was going to cure Gloria once and for all, while they thought that he merely helped Gloria in regaining consciousness as Doctor Chase did in the past.
After all, Gloria was seen by many doctors and no one, including the Holy Doctor, had the means to cure her. It was only normal for the Pooles to assume that it was already a miracle that Gloria woke up at all.
“You don’t have to worry, Missus Poole! Your illness has been cured completely and you won’t faint out of the blue again!” Leon said as he got up and walked over. After focusing on his internal circulation, he managed to repel all cold forces that infiltrated his body and reached the peak Acquired state at the sa me
time.
“What? I’m cured? Am I hearing this right?” Gloria’s jaw dropped as she turned to stare at Leon in disbe lief.
“Yeah! Leon, stop messing with us!”
Everyone inside the room, including the Pooles, Doctor Chase, and Mister Hendrix, were stunned and gaped
at Leon.
“I’m not messing with you. If you don’t believe me, you can take a look at Missus Poole’s skin.” Leon po inted at Gloria.
The others turned to stare at Gloria, noticing that while she remained fair, she was no longer as pale an d started showing a rosier tone.
“Missus Poole, if I’m not mistaken, your limbs always felt like they were freezing before this. Why don’t you feel for yourself? Your limbs should feel much warmer now,” Leon continued with a smile.
Snow and Fane immediately reached for their mother’s hands and feet, and even Vincent reached to grab one of Gloria’s hands has tily. When they finally realized that her temperature resumed to normal, they were
overjoyed.
“Leon, so you’re saying that my mom’s completely cured and she won’t pass out again, right?” Snow gra
“Yeah! I’m going to write Missus Poole some prescription to reinforce her immune system and so long as she takes her medicine in time every day fo
“That’s great! You’re such a talented doctor!” Snow could not help but throw her arms around Leon.
All the other Pooles were shocked by the sight and their eyes darted between Snow and Leon.
They knew that Snow was betrayed in love in the past and were concerned about her. Seeing how Snow hugged Leon, they soon realized that she developed feelings for him.
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Vincent was especially impressed.
He was slightly appalled by Leon when Leon refused to disclose who taught him martial art and at that point, Vincent gave up on matchmaking Leon and his daughter. However, Leon risked his life to save Gloria and apart from feeling grateful, Vincent started th inking about having Leon as his son–in–law again.
As Fane mentioned before, Snow and Leon looked perfect together.
“Um, I was too excited. Sorry,” Realizing what she was doing, Snow blushed and pulled away, before tu gging her hair behind her ear sheepishly, not knowing how easy to read she was.
“Mister Poole, do you have a piece of paper and a pen? I’ll write down Missus Poole’s prescription.” Fe eling slightly awkward, Leon changed the subject.
“I do. I’ll bring them here for you.” Fane hurried out to find a pen and paper, before handing them to Leon.
Leon left a few recipes for medicine and explained how the medication worked in detail.
Vincent took a deep bow at Leon with the recipes in hand and said, “Mister Wolf, I’m sorry about misjudging you earlier. Not only have I declin ed your act of kindness, but I was also about to commit violence. I’ve been wrong. Do accept my apolo gy.”
“Mister Poole, you don’t have to be sorry. It’s just a misunderstanding. It’s nothing, really,” Leon said.
“Also, thank you for saving my wife’s life and curing the illness that has made her suffer for years. I can never repay the debt we owe you. Please accept this cheque,” Vincent said before handing Leon a che que.
“It’s fine! Mister Poole, I’m not a professional doctor so I vow to never take money for helping people. B esides, I’m friends with your son, and helping Missus Poole is merely what I should do.” Leon pushed t he cheque away gently with a smile.
“Um, alright, then. If you don’t want to take the money, I won’t push you into accepting it.” Vincent was surprised that Leon did not expect anything in return for risking his life to save Gloria and was further impressed by Leon’s character. “I’ll never forget what you did for us. From now on, whatever you need, I’ll go through fire to deliver it to you!” Vincent continued with determinatio n.
“Thank you, Mister Poole.” Leon smiled and did not refuse Vincent’s offer again.
He crossed Jacob multiple times, which meant he must have provoked the Northern King as well. Vince
“Mister Hendrix, go gather the ingredients written here!” Vincent said, before handing the recipes over.
“Yes, sir,” Mister Hendrix said, before leaving with the recipes.
Vincent then turned his attention to Doctor Chase, who hid in the corner. “Doctor Chase, it’s time we settle the debt between us! You knew that the adrenaline in into my wife anyway. Were you trying to kill her?” Vincent roared maliciously.
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“Mister Poole, please spare me! I just mean to get Missus Poole to wake up. I didn’t mean to,” Terrified, Doctor Chase fell onto his knees.
He did not think much of the side effects of the adrenaline injections and he wanted to revive Gloria as soon as possible so that Vincent would reward him handsomely. Naturally, he could not possibly confes s his true. intention at the time, or Vincent would kill him right there and then.
As the Southern King, Vincent would encounter no issue with killing a mere doctor.
“Vincent, that’s enough. Doctor Chase helped me through the past two years. Since he didn’t mean to make a mistake, just spare him,” Gloria said.
“No way! This scammer doesn’t have any sense of morals and almost got you killed. I refuse to let him go!” Vincent gritted out furiously.
“Please! I was wrong! Please have mercy on me,” Drenched in sweat, Doctor Chase pleaded.
“Vincent, just leave him alone. I’m fine right now. Why would you hold him here?” Gloria always had a
gentle heart and continued to plead for Doctor Chase.
Vincent hesitated. His wife just woke up and he did not wish to upset her over someone so insignificant . In the end, he decided to compromise and nodded. “Doctor Chase, seeing how you’ve worked hard to help Gloria in the past two years, I’ll let you go! You’re fired and you’re going to stay out of my sight from now on!
He said coldly.
Doctor Chase was the family doctor that he hired with a tremendous amount of money and merely firin g him
was considered merciful.
“Thank you. Thank you for showing me mercy.” Relieved that he survived, Doctor Chase bowed.
“Don’t thank me. You should be thanking Mister Wolf. If he didn’t manage to save my wife, I would’ve kil led you!” Vincent snorted.
“Yes. Thank you, Mister Wolf.” Doctor Chase turned to bow at Leon. He thought that Leon was a scam mer and was impressed by Leon’s skills in saving someone on the brink of dying.
“Alright, you may go now!” Vincent spat darkly.
Doctor Chase hurried out of the house and a servant went into the room after he left. “Sir, lunch is ready
“Mister Wolf, let’s have lunch together. I must toast to you to express my gratitude and apologize for the
rudeness I’ve shown earlier,” Vincent said.
“I’ll take you up on that offer, then,” Leon agreed with a smile.
As Gloria was still frail and needed rest, she could not attend lunch with the rest, so Vincent arranged fo
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After lunch, Vincent sent Leon back to Cynthion Group.
In the president’s office, Cynthia stood from her chair when Leon stepped inside. “Leon, you came just i n time. There’s something important that I need to tell you.”
“What is it?” Leon massaged his temple in confusion, feeling slightly light–headed from all the wine that
Vincent made him drink at lunch earlier.
“My brother just called me, saying that he has leads on where to find wild Panax that has grown for five hundred years,” Cynthia explained with a smile but was cut off before she could finish.
“Seriously? That’s great!” Overjoyed, Leon immediately sobered.
He reached the bottleneck of the Peak Meditation Phase and with a wild Panax that has grown for five hundred years, he could produce the Foundation Pill that could help him work past the bottleneck.
He asked for Harvey’s help earlier to search for the wild Panax he needed and the wait was worth it. Fi nally finding leads on what they needed, Leon was over the moon.
Cynthia caught onto the scent of alcohol on Leon’s body and scowled. “You sure are enjoying yourself out there while you toss all the work to me. You’re one thick–skinned chairman!”
“I’m not having fun. This is called building my social network,” Leon argued, before changing the subjec t.” Let’s get back to talking about the five–hundred–year–old wild Panax!”
“According to what my brother said, a five–hundred–year– old wild Panax was found in our neighboring city, Seacove City. Three days from now, it’ll be sold at an
auction,” Cynthia explained.
“Alright. I’m going to Seacove City right now!” Leon said impatiently before turning to leave.
“What’s your hurry? The auction doesn’t start until three days later. We can depart two days from now!” Cynthia hastily reached out to grab Leon by the arm.
“That’s true,” Leon sobered, before gaping at her, “wait, you’re coming with me? What about your broth er? Is he coming?”
“My brother’s busy and he told me to go with you.” Cynthia blushed.
In truth, Harvey was not otherwise occupied and Cynthia was the one who suggested that she could go with Leon. It was her chance of traveling with Leon to be alone with him.
Leon did not suspect her intention at all. He did not know Seacove City at all and he only needed one of
In the following days, Leon stayed in the office to learn the operation of the company alongside Cynthia.
Cynthia was interested in Leon and she confessed her attraction in the past. Ceasing the chance of thei
on her instead.
Leon was not blind to Cynthia’s feelings toward him. Though he was reluctant to accept at first, he was only a man and after working by Cynthia’s side, he slowly got used to her presence.
Cynthia was the second most beautiful woman in Springfield City and her beauty was of a different genre
than Iris and any man would be enticed by her looks.
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Leon was merely a man and since he was single, he could not be immune to her charm.
Before he knew it, Cynthia left a mark in his heart and as their relationship progressed, the two realized that they meant more than friends to one another even though they were not officially dating.
So long as Leon agreed, Cynthia would happily become his girlfriend, but he knew that Iris remained to be the love of his life and he could not bring himself to accept Cynthia’s feelings.
Despite his reluctance, Cynthia was happy with their progress regardless.
She knew that Leon was still recovering from the breakup with Iris and was in no rush to start a new rel ationship. She had the time and patience to wait until he forgot about Iris before she could slip in and re place Iris.
A day before the auction, Cynthia drove Leon to Seacove City and the two selected a five– star hotel to stay the night.
Inside the hotel room, Cynthia and Leon just settled down when a young couple came knocking on thei r door.
The couple was dressed in expensive clothing and one could easily tell that they came from a wealthy f amily.
The
young woman seemed to be the same age as Cynthia; she was fair and elegant– looking, dressed in a skirt and high heels that highlighted her long, slim legs. Though the young woman was a beauty of her own, she hardly held a candle to Cynthia.
“Cynthia, it’s been so long!” The young woman gave Cynthia a big hug.
“Yeah, since we graduated from college.” Cynthia smiled and hugged back enthusiastically.
The young woman was Sandra Doyle, Cynthia’s best friend at college and the two were close despite n ot seeing one another since graduation. They continued to talk on phones or through messages and th eir friendship remained as strong as it was in the past.
Cynthia notified Sandra ahead of time about her trip to Seacove City. She wanted to take the opportunit y to see Sandra and since Sandra lived in Seacove City, she would know more about the auction and might be able to provi de certain user information.
“Cynthia, who’s this gentleman? Is he your boyfriend?” Sandra glanced at Leon. Though Leon was
handsome in a way, he was not dressed in any luxurious brand products, which made him appear slightly out of place next to Cynthia..
“He’s-” Cynthia hesitated and instinctively turned to look at Leon. She desperately wanted to claim Leon to conclusions.
“My name’s Leon Wolf. I’m Miss Shear’s assistant,” Leon said.
Cynthia did not announce Leon as Cynthion Group’s chairman and most employees in the company
assumed that he was merely her assistant, so Leon decided to play the part.
Seeing how Leon refused to say that he was her boyfriend, Cynthia felt slightly depressed.
“So he’s just
an assistant!” Sandra said with the realization that Leon was not anyone important.