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The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 1281

While Alex Rockefeller looked at the girl in the frozen coffin, he had an incomparably complicated look in his eyes. He felt shocked, nostalgic, hurt, or perhaps even a little bit of everything.

Maya Howards and Anna Coleman both looked at Alex in surprise. “Are you sure? Did you mistake her for someone else? This… This girl that’s hidden underneath the blood pool… Is she really your high school classmate?”

Alex nodded once more. “I can’t be wrong. She is indeed my high school classmate. She even sat next to me back then,” Alex said.

“This is honestly… Way too unbelievable,” Anna said.

Maya, on the other hand, noticed that the girl’s name was Hayley Hanson. Meanwhile, the owner of Quois Haven also had Hanson as his surname.

“This means she really is Papa Hanson’s biological daughter!” Maya exclaimed.

“But why did he keep her here?” she asked.

This was the part Maya couldn’t quite figure out.

Being an attentive person, Anna could see rows of words on all four sides of the frozen coffin’s walls through the glass. Under the circumstances, and due to the angle, however, she couldn’t see the words very clearly. “There are words down there!” she pointed with her finger and said.

Alex formed a large palm with his spiritual power and grabbed the frozen coffin out of the pit. He placed it somewhere nearby. When they looked at the inner wall of the pit again, they could see everything clearly.

“What are these?”

Anna shook her head. “These don’t look like normal words,” she said.

“This is an ancient text, and this is a spell formation,” Alex said.

Cocking his head, he looked at the crystal coffin. Suddenly, he had an inkling about the entire thing. Traces of Hayley Hanson from the past began to appear in his mind.

“My name is Hayley Hanson. Pleased to meet you!” That was how Hayley introduced herself when they first met.

Hayley was beautiful, and she was also very tall. At the age of fifteen, she was already towering at 170cm. Since she could only sit in the last row, the class teacher arranged for her to sit next to Alex. After that, she joined the ranks as one of the most popular girls at school.

“Alex, why do you sleep in class every day? You can’t do that!”

“Alex, you’re a pig!”

“Alex, the school is organizing an arts festival. I really can’t find anyone. Help me out by playing the piano. I’ll buy you a meal later.”

“Pig head! Somebody bullied me!”

“Hey, Pig head… I’m leaving. I can’t take the university entrance exam with you, and I can’t get into university with you anymore. I must go somewhere far, far away… That’s right. I’m leaving the country. My father is migrating with our entire family. We might not be able to return! Don’t miss me. Forget it. You won’t remember me anyway!”

That evening, Hayley suddenly approached Alex and bid farewell to him. She gave him a bracelet before she left.

Back then, Alex was outraged. They had agreed to take the university entrance exam together and go to the same university. ‘What’s up with you suddenly migrating out of the country? You won’t even tell me where you’re going. Is this what you call a real friendship?’ thought Alex.

“Hayley, how could you leave just like that?”

“Do you even think of me as a friend? I won’t miss you. Go wherever you want. I don’t want to ever see you again in this lifetime. I don’t want your lousy bracelet!”

It was then that Alex tossed the bracelet back to Hayley. It hit Hayley on her back. Because Alex used a lot of force, the bracelet fell to the ground after hitting Hayley, and it broke. The beads fell off and scattered around the floor.

Hayley stood still without moving an inch. Her shoulders vibrated softly, but she didn’t turn around at all.

“Whatever. Anyway… I don’t care about you either, pig head!” Hayley said in the end.

After saying that, Hayley left quietly. It was three months before the university entrance exam at that time.

Ever since that day, Hayley seemed to have disappeared entirely from Alex’s life, leaving not a single trace behind. Alex used to hope that it was just one of Hayley’s jokes, that after a few days, she might suddenly appear by his side, telling him not to sleep in class, telling him not to copy her homework, and occasionally bringing him breakfast.

However, she didn’t. It was as if she had evaporated into thin air.

Alex tried looking for her through all his connections, but he couldn’t find her.

Even records of her house address and family relations in the school’s archives were blurry and ineligible. Alex couldn’t find Hayley at all.

Now that Alex looked into the crystal coffin again, he saw that the girl was dressed exactly as she did on the evening of the day she left!

‘It turns out that the faraway place you mentioned wasn’t abroad. Instead, you’ve been silently lying down here, a place where nobody knew,’ Alex thought.

Wham!

While Alex touched the crystal coffin, gazing at the girl inches away from him, his heart trembled softly.

A teardrop trickled down.

“Do you like Hayley?” Nicholas Hudson asked Alex once.

Back then, Alex had answered him as such. “Tsk, I don’t like that nosy girl. She’s always ordering me around with that feathered stick. In the future, she’ll definitely become a woman that nags a lot. I don’twant to have a control freak as a wife!”

When Alex said that, however, he felt a sweetness in his heart.

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Without Hayley Hanson keeping an eye on him, Alex Rockefeller probably wouldn’t even have made it into a third-rate university.

To be honest, being watched over by someone was a sort of happiness on its own.

That was probably what “young love” referred to!

“Alex, what happened to you?” Maya Howards saw Alex behaving oddly, and she saw a tear falling down his cheeks. For some unknown reason, her heart ached. She rarely saw Alex in such a state.

Meanwhile, Anna Coleman, being the tigress she was, started speaking straightforwardly. “Hey, master. What’s wrong with you? Why are you crying?”

Maya glared at Anna.

A single glare was enough to make Anna freeze. Anna was actually feeling afraid. She then obediently kept her mouth shut.

“She sat next to me in class! Since the first day of senior high, we’ve sat next to each other for three years. Three months before the university entrance exam, she suddenly disappeared. She’s… A very good friend of mine!” Alex said.

Maya fell silent, and so did Anna.

“This means that Hayley really is Papa Hanson’s biological daughter. But why did he bury her in this blood pool? Why did he use so much blood from black cats to feed her? Could he be hoping to revive her?” Maya said after a while.

Alex was slightly stunned.

This was a likely possibility!

Could Hayley have suffered from a terminal illness and discovered that he had little time left? Was this why she was forced to stop school and ended up sealed away in this place?

When this thought came to Alex’s mind, even he became a little shocked.

He quickly checked on Hayley’s condition inside the frozen coffin. However, it was difficult to find out how she was doing based on his observational Chi alone.

Click!

Alex found the switch on the side to open the coffin. After flicking it on, the coffin’s lid slowly opened, exposing Hayley’s body.

As soon as Hayley came into contact with the outside air, her face gradually turned from the reddish tone it was before to a pale white.

Meanwhile, Hayley’s heart actually started to make a soft beating sound.

“She’s still alive!” Alex was both shocked and joyful.

Meanwhile, Maya could hear the soft beating from Hayley’s heart as well. “Is she really still alive?” Maya was incomparably shocked.

“That’s right. She’s still alive. She can still be saved!” Alex exclaimed.

If Hayley’s heart was beating, it meant she still had a pulse.

Alex immediately checked Hayley’s pulse. Using his spiritual power, he tried to protect her body. However, just as Alex tried to transfer spiritual power into Hayley’s body, her body reacted.

Her condition had worsened. Her face became even paler, and she was barely breathing.

Not only was Alex’s spiritual power not healing Hayley’s body, but it was destroying the remaining functions in her body that still worked.

Alex was shocked. He quickly withdrew his spiritual power.

Right after that, he used his ordinary Thirteen Acupunctures of Hell. Only then did Hayley’s condition stabilize.

“How did it go? Can you save her?” Maya asked.

Alex shook his head. “Her body has a unique condition. I can’t think of a way in such a short while… Looks like Papa Hanson created the huge formation under the villa to save his daughter.”

After thinking for a while, Alex jumped into the pit earlier to check out the spell formation with the ancient text.

Alex discovered that this formation was the Life Extension Spell Formation from the chapter on witch doctors in the Ultimate Book of Medicine. However, Mr. Hanson clearly didn’t learn all of it. He ended up creating an incomplete formation. After that, he thought of using the Blood Cult’s Bloodthirsty Demonic Art to make up for the incomplete portion.

Not only did it require a vast pool of blood, but it also needed special blood from individuals with unique bloodlines, as well as their bloodline’s energy, to maintain this incomplete spell formation.

“Sigh. Although there’s only a slight difference, it could result in a huge mistake! How did you think of using demonic cultivation to make up for the Zharvakko spell formation?” Alex asked out loud.

With a flip of his hand, Alex summoned the Dragon Bone Sword. It instantly started carving on the stone walls, correcting the original mistakes on the Life Extension Spell Formation. After that, Alex placed the crystal coffin back in its original spot.

“Master, why did you put it back in there?” Anna asked.

“This place is beneficial for her. We’ll temporarily keep her here. We’ll come back for her once I think of a way,” Alex answered.

“Could she be a member of the Blood Cult too?” Anna asked.

“Impossible!” Alex was stunned momentarily.

“Even if she were, I’d still want to save her,” he added after a pause.

“Don’t worry. I’ll keep it a secret for you,” Anna said.

Alex found no treasure, but he ended up finding a female classmate he had a crush on before. Alex had a lot of mixed emotions. After that, they left the underground blood pool and returned to the villa to continue looking for evidence.

However, there wasn’t any clue that linked them to the Blood Cult.

Despite that, Anna found a journal in a room. “Master, I found a journal. Your picture is on it!” she called out.

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Alex Rockefeller was stunned for a moment. He immediately grabbed the journal away from Anna Coleman.

However, the first thing that came into sight was a picture. It was a picture of himself and Hayley Hanson.

At the time, he had sprawled all over the desk in class while he napped. Hayley moved her head close and used her phone to take a selfie of the two of them. When Alex saw this, he couldn’t even recall when she had taken this photo. She even printed it out.

In fact, there were a few words behind the photo. “Me and pig head!”

When Alex looked at the journal again, he felt even more mixed emotions.

Hayley had started writing this journal when they entered the third year of senior high. Every journal entry she wrote included the word “pig-head”.

If there wasn’t a photo as proof, and if Alex had seen the journal on its own, he wouldn’t even know what “pig-head” represented.

Anna looked at Alex with a strange expression. “Master, it turns out that she’s not just the classmate who sat next to you. She’s also the first person to have a crush on you! Sigh. Look at these words. They completely represent the thoughts of a young girl in love. See what you did. You’ve already started hurting people when you were in middle school! Did you toy with her feelings and abandoned her in the end? After that, you forced her into committing suicide. Is that why she ended up like this?”

Alex glared at Anna twice. He then waved at Maiko Chiba. “Maiko, come and make her shut up.”

Maiko rushed over. “Master, are you asking me to kill her?”

Anna was shocked. She didn’t know how to fight a ghost general.

Alex immediately choked on his own words. “I only asked you to shut her up.”

“Oh!” Maiko’s following action was a little brutal. She directly kissed Anna on the mouth.

Anna was so terrified that she gave out a loud cry. However, the cries soon became a muffle. She really could feel a mouth on her lips. However, the problem was that she couldn’t push it away even after she tried. Each time she tried to push forward, she’d touch nothing but air.

In the end, even her muffled yelps disappeared.

The world became quiet.

Alex held the journal in his hand and started reading it with a melancholic expression on his face. By the end of the journal, he read something like this, “I’ll be leaving very soon. I have one hour left!”

“I might stay in a deep slumber forever in the underground, and I’ll never get to see sunlight again. One day, I’ll just die properly!”

“Goodbye, my little pig! I know you’ll be mad, and I know you’ll hate me. But this is the fairest way for you! Without me nagging beside you all the time, you ought to be happier! I hope I can still dream. I hope that my dream will still have you in it!”

Alex felt as if his heart was getting chopped into pieces. However, he still couldn’t figure out the reason for all this.

He started flipping to the front of the journal and carefully read through the lines to look for the reason.

Finally, he saw it.

It was actually a curse!

Blood Curse!

It was written on the journal.

“This day has finally arrived! Dad told me that I inherited a curse from my mother. I didn’t believe it at first. But this morning, when I woke up, I discovered Benny dead on my bed. I knew this was the fate that I couldn’t escape from!”

“Dad said I could slow the curse down by drinking human blood, but I didn’t want to become a female demon like that!”

“I’m a human, not a demon! If I drink blood, he will definitely think I’m a monster. He’ll despise me.”

“I don’t want to!”

“I’d rather die!”

‘A curse?’

Alex closed his eyes. After that, he rushed over to the underground pool of blood to re-examine Hayley’s body. However, he still couldn’t find anything.

That was because he knew nothing about the Blood Curse. He didn’t know what it was at all. Even if he had the Ultimate Book of Medicine, he was helpless. The only way to lift the curse was to first understand its source.

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When Alex Rockefeller turned around, he discovered that Maya Howards had also come down.

Maya could feel what Alex was feeling. She walked over and pulled him into her arms. “If you feel like crying, go ahead! I know how much harder it is to forget your first love, not to mention bidding farewell under such circumstances.”

At first, Alex felt heartbroken. However, after being gently approached by Maya like this, and smelling her strong fragrance, all his emotions from before disappeared. “I don’t want to cry! She isn’t exactly my first love. It ended before it even began,” Alex said.

But was this what he really thought?

Comparing Hayley Hanson and Lady Dorothy Assex, who was more important to him?

Alex actually didn’t have an answer!

“I didn’t think Papa’s daughter would be your first love,” Maya said.

“Let’s go! She’s been affected by the Blood Curse. However, I know nothing about this kind of curse. If we want to rescue her, we must start with the Blood Cult! Unfortunately, the Blood Cult was annihilated by the Justice Alliance of America over a century ago. Now, the members still alive have all gone into hiding. For the sake of their cult’s work, they are willing to sacrifice their lives at any given time. This is the most terrifying part. It’s almost like… They’ve been brainwashed,” Alex said.

Maya sighed. “I didn’t think that Blood Curse would require one to drink human blood. It’s way too evil. In that case, do you think Papa Hanson has also been afflicted by such curse?” she asked.

“Perhaps!” Alex answered.

After that, the two of them returned to the first floor. In fact, they even sealed the entrance completely. Although the blood pool Papa Hanson had created for his daughter was a little odd, it would still be beneficial for Hayley Hanson’s body even after Alex had amended the spell formation. The Life Extension Spell Formation ensured that Hayley wouldn’t die.

After walking out of the villa, Anna Coleman bid farewell to Alex and Maya.

Meanwhile, Alex and Maya slowly walked down the street.

By then, the sky had already turned dark. When they checked the time, they saw that it was already five minutes to twelve.

“Your birthday will end in five minutes,” Alex said to Maya. “In the end, I didn’t give you a worthy birthday gift,” he added.

“Haven’t you already given me a gift? If you think that wasn’t enough, you can extend its time,” Maya said.

She was referring to the kiss.

Alex looked at her. Suddenly, he picked her up and pinned her against the trunk of a random BMW before kissing her passionately.

***

The next day, certain news had spread throughout California.

Rockefeller Group had gone through a change of hand. Previously, it had been taken away by John Rockefeller. Now, it returned to its founder, Madame Brittany Rockefeller. Moreover, Madame Brittany would now lead the well established company in the cosmetics industry, Lush Cosmetics, to cooperate with Rockefeller Group extensively.

As soon as the news came out, Rockefeller Group’s share price instantly skyrocketed and hit the raising limit.

One ought to know that Rockefeller Group had gone downhill a year ago after it received negative media attention. Meanwhile, John and Noah Rockefeller weren’t exactly gifted at business management. As a result, Rockefeller Group had always been on a decline in the industry.

In reality, many of Rockefeller Group’s shareholders were displeased with its performance. Now that Madame Brittany had made a forceful comeback, many shareholders of the company seemed a s if they were on steroids. They were all prepared to make a great deal of money off a strong woman like Madame Brittany.

However, during the general meeting of shareholders at ten that morning, over ten shareholders went through a reshuffle they had never experienced before in the face of Madame Brittany.

Knock, knock, knock…

After Maya walked in, she respectively placed nine document holders in front of nine people. “For the shareholders who have received a document holder, you have one day to cough up your shares. You’ll be given a fifty percent discount based on the market price. The company will repurchase all your shares,” Maya said.

As soon as she said this, the shareholders who received the document holder all jumped out of their seats.

“What? What right do you have to make us sell our shares? And a fifty percent discount?”

“What is the meaning of this? Is this robbery? Madame Brittany, I’m afraid you must be dreaming, right?”

“I disagree. I absolutely will not agree to this.”

Madame Brittany smiled calmly before flicking a fingernail that she had just painted with nail polish. “What’s the hurry? You can all first take a look at the documents inside,” she said.

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“Documents?”

“What documents? Do you mean the documents in this document holder?”

A few of the shareholders came to their senses. They quickly opened the document holder in front of them and took out pieces of paper from within. After fixing their eyes on the documents, their expressions changed drastically at the same time.

This was indeed similar to what happened to Paige Rockefeller.

These documents contained all the records of bribery involving these shareholders during their time in the company. There was solid proof of all their wrongdoings. Apart from that, there were also records of crimes they had committed in the last ten years.

For example, there was the shareholder who complained the most, Leslie Wolvendom.

Although he wasn’t involved in many bribery cases, he molested a few young girls using lowly means three years ago. There was solid evidence of those incidents, and on top of that, he even hired someone to break another person’s legs and threatened the victim’s family members… If such evidence were to be collectively handed to the officials, this fellow would have to at least go to prison for ten years.

After the nine people finished reading the documents, they all plopped down limply in their chairs.

After that, some people also felt reluctant.

Never mind selling off their shares at half the market price. Based on how Madame Brittany Rockefeller would take over Rockefeller Group and cooperate with Lush Cosmetics, that huge potential was what each of the shareholders vyed for. The value that this cooperation could rake up would be immeasurable.

They really were reluctant to give it up.

“Ms. Rockefeller! I’m willing to pay back twice the amount of the money I stole from the company. Ms. Rockefeller, please don’t repurchase my shares, alright? I’ll do whatever you ask of me!” one of the old shareholders stood up and begged. “Regardless of anything else, we’ve been through a lot with Rockefeller Group. One should always show some mercy,” he added.

“Mercy?” Madame Brittany chuckled coldly while she looked at the shareholder who spoke. “Ryan Lakewood, is there any mercy to be shared between us? Even if there was, it’d be my mercy for you! Meanwhile, what could you possibly have against me? If you bothered to show me any mercy, you wouldn’t have immediately sided with John Rockefeller a year ago when something bad happened to William and me!”

After Madame Brittany finished speaking, that person opened his mouth but couldn’t say a single thing.

“Alright, the nine of you can leave the conference room right now. Go and sort out the stocks trade,” Madame Brittany said while waving her hand.

“Come with me!” Maya Howards instantly said.

Those nine shareholders looked at each other, and they refused to leave right away.

Maya laughed coldly. “Are you not going to leave? I can responsibly tell you that you might still get a fifty percent discount if you sign the contract today. Once I change my mind, it might not be a fifty percent discount anymore. Instead… I’ll buy all the shares you own with a single dollar.”

As soon as Maya said this, the facial expressions of a few of the shareholders changed drastically.

Last night, Paige had sold over fifty one perfect of Rockefeller Group’s shares to Madame Brittany at the price of one dollar. The news spread around shareholder group chats in Rockefeller Group. Clearly, everyone knew about what happened the night before.

Madame Brittany had summoned Thousand Miles Conglomerate, the Summers family, and the Yowell family in one go. These were all powerful people with huge influences. At any point, if there was a disagreement, they could easily chop off Paige’s legs and take over her shares with brute force.

These shareholders couldn’t even be compared to Paige. How would they go against that?

“I… I agree to sign!”

One of them stood up and succumbed. The others couldn’t withstand the pressure either. They had no choice but to willingly sell their shares.

At this point, the shares Madame Brittany possessed surpassed seventy percent of the total shares.

Despite having to spend lots of money, causing a lot of distress for Rockefeller Group, and creating a dire lack of working capital, Madame Brittany immediately announced her strategy. Rockefeller Group would become a subsidiary of Lush Cosmetics, and it would become the most extensive production base for Lush Cosmetics’ products.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

As soon as Madame Brittany said this, the remaining shareholders all started clapping.

***

In the blink of an eye, two days had passed.

For the past two days, Rockefeller Group’s share price hit the raising limit each day. Although Lush Cosmetics wasn’t listed, its influences on the beauty and cosmetics industry were already taking effect.

Meanwhile, Alex Rockefeller was surprisingly unoccupied for these few days.

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He would always bring Winniefred to walk around the area.

The little girl was a big foodie. She would eat everything, everywhere. Her mouth just wouldn’t seem to stop eating. She would usually just stand still and drool, especially after she noticed any ice cream stall.

“After having ice cream, you have to go to school tomorrow, alright?” Alex gave her a lecture.

Waltz had arranged for her to attend the best kindergarten in California owned by Thousand Miles Conglomerate. However, the little girl would keep clinging to Alex, even during sleep.

Last night, she even had an idea of having Alex, herself, and Zella sleep on the same bed.

“Other little kids have their parents sleep next to them. But Winnie never got to. Now that I have Papa, why can’t I sleep with Papa and Mama then?” she said.

This made Alex and Zella behave extremely awkwardly with each other. Not wanting to crush the little girl’s hope, Alex slept on Winniefred’s right.

However, he didn’t expect to fall asleep that night.

More importantly, he realized that the little girl ended up sleeping at the end of the bed, yet both he and Zella were cuddling with each other. That moment was extremely awkward for the both of them.

After hearing the words “go to school”, Winniefred immediately started pouting. “Papa, I really, really, don’t want to go to school! The other kindergarten kids are so childish. The teachers there are too! They’d be a bad influence on Winnie. I heard childishness is contagious!”

Smack!

Alex patted her back gently. “Where did you hear such nonsense from? You have to go. If you don’t, then there’ll be no ice cream for you.”

“Papa, can I not go to school if I don’t eat ice cream? Winnie won’t eat it then.”

“… In your dreams. You have to go even if you don’t eat ice cream, else you can’t call me Papa!”

“Papa!” Winniefred threw her ice cream away and hugged his thigh. “Don’t abandon rne! Waaaaaa…”

This immediately caught the attention of many on the street since it was odd to see an adorable little girl hugging a grown man’s thigh.

Suddenly, a woman rushed up to them and picked Winniefred up. “Baby! Oh, my baby! Mommy finally found you, oh how I’ve missed you!”

Winniefred froze up, staring at the woman in horror.

Alex was confused as well. He furrowed his eyebrows and thought. ‘This woman is probably mentally ill, huh? Perhaps she lost her child and has gone insane?’

Alex instinctively used his third eye to check on the woman’s mental state since he’s received the Ultimate Book of Medicine. However, he didn’t find any problems in her at all.

Just as he was about to get Winniefred back, the woman ran off with her as she screamed. “Arrest this kidnapper! He’s a kidnapper! Everyone please! help me stop him and beat him up!”

Alex really was shocked this time around, yet he had another problem to worry about now.

Three heavily built men came rushing toward him, screaming and threatening that he would be tackled. The woman, on the other hand, immediately ducked into a coaster van with Winniefred in her arms. The car engine was activated in mere seconds, rushing off from the scene of the crime.

“Papa, Papa! Save me!” Winniefred screamed loudly.

However, the woman just wouldn’t let her go, and she even started chuckling. “This little girl is so pretty. She’s probably the prettiest among the ones I’ve caught! She’ll definitely sell for a good price.”

The driver nodded. “Yeah, I’m even a little reluctant to sell this pretty little thing!”

Just then, the driver noticed a man dropping down from the sky, blocking the road. The man’s eyes were filled with murderous intent.

“Ah! What the f*ck!” The driver stepped on the gas, intending to run the man over.

Unexpectedly, the man reached out an arm and stopped the car with ease.

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Alex was very much annoyed.

All he wanted to do was bring Winnie out to have a good time, get her some ice cream and bribe her so she’d go to school obediently. He really didn’t expect to bump into some professional kidnappers.

More importantly, they even tried to accuse him of carrying out such foul actions.

“Do I really look like some weakling to the point that I can’t protect a little kid?” He mumbled to himself.

Alex continued to hold onto the hood of the van. Hence, no matter how hard the driver stepped on the gas, the van just wouldn’t budge.

The driver was sweating cold bullets at this rate, never having seen or heard anyone achieving such strength. ‘Is this man even human? He can stop a whole van with one hand!’

“Madame Wealth, that man is blocking our car. What do we do?”

Madame Wealth was the woman holding Winniefred in the backseat. She glared at the driver. “What to do? Do you not know that you could just run the guy over?”

Droplets of cold sweat dripped down the driver’s forehead, and he felt chills down his spine. “I… I already did. Madame Wealth, I think… I think we’re done for today.”

Just then, he heard the man in front of the car yell, “Stop the car and get out!”

Alex’s tone was paired with a solid and irresistible force of mental power.

The driver’s mind was fogged up. He immediately stepped on the brakes and stopped the car.

Just then, the three men who tried to stop Alex from taking Winniefred back a while ago managed to get up on their feet. Alex’s Chi had previously knocked them down. They continued shouting,

“Arrest that kidnapper! Arrest him now!”

“Kill him! Kill that d*mned kidnapper!”

Their loud screams, along with the van blocking the road, were enough to confuse the bystanders. All of them thought that Alex really was a kidnapper, rushing over to give a hand.

It is only normal for people to despise kidnappers, especially parents who had children of their own.

There had been many news broadcasts about how a kidnapped child could ruin an entire family. Everyone in the family was devastated… And the child that got kidnapped ended tip having their limbs and tongue cut off as well.

Any child who disobeyed the kidnappers would be killed, and the nicer ones would be sold, falling into a never ending pit of suffering.

In mere moments, dozens of kind hearted bystanders came to help after hearing the three kidnappers shouting.

Alex’s murderous intent became stronger by the second. He knew that he wouldn’t be able to explain any of this to Zella. Moreover, Winniefred would have to suffer from this as well. He just couldn’t possibly hold in his anger.

Facing the kidnappers’ heckling, Alex said lightly, “Kidnappers must die!”

Shing!

Alex immediately drew out the Sword of the Universe. With just the first slash, all three heads were chopped off, sent flying mid-air. Blood spouted from their necks like water fountains, drenching the asphalt in red.

The kind hearted passersby who had initially apprehended Alex started screaming in horror. They ran away in horror, wishing they could run on all fours.

Since the driver was affected by Alex’s mental power, he got out of the car and stood aside.

Madame Wealth, who was still in the car, couldn’t help but widen her eyes and yell, “My brothers! Oh, my brothers!”

Two of the three men that Alex had just killed were indeed her biological brothers.

Seeing this, many bystanders started calling the police. Killing three people in broad daylight was just too cruel and monstrous. No one could handle such brutality.

“How can this kidnapper be so arrogant?”

“How dare he kill someone just because he couldn’t kidnap the child? He should be condemned in hell! He should be sentenced to death immediately!”

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However, some seemed to understand the situation more clearly than others. “Wait, that’s not right! Shouldn’t kidnappers run away after a failed abduction? Why would they go as far as to provoke the entire family just to get that kid?”

Someone in the crowd spoke up. “Kidnapper? No! That’s the kid’s father! The people he killed are the actual kidnappers! They just thought that the little girl was pretty so they tried to kidnap her! I saw everything, and I even had it recorded! Those kidnappers deserve to die! Good kill, mister! You did well!”

“What?!”

“He’s the girl’s father?”

Just then, many noticed Alex pulling the van door open. He snatched Winniefred out of the woman’s arms. The woman, on the other hand, seemed to have lost all ability to move. Alex had many ways to achieve this, after all.

“Papa! Papa!” Winniefred started crying hysterically the moment she landed in his arms, referring to Alex as ‘Papa’. This incident had really traumatized her. She thought they were up against the same group of people from before.

At this moment, all the passersby finally knew that Alex was the little girl’s actual father.

Wee-woo-wee-woo!

Police sirens filled the air as Craig brought along his men from the military. He had to personally come to the scene with his team since somebody had beheaded three people in public. Anyone who found out about this would indeed be traumatized.

However, he didn’t expect to see Alex, who was from the Divine Constabulary. Craig ordered his armed men to stay down since Alex was one of them.

He approached Alex. “Elder Rockefeller!”

Alex turned to Craig. “Oh, Mr. Selby. You’re here.”

Craig asked, “Elder Rockefeller, this… What happened here? Why…”

Alex pointed towards the corpses on the ground, then to the driver and Madame Wealth. “I bumped into some kidnappers trying to abduct my daughter. So I killed three of them. Is there a problem here?”

Craig wasn’t focused on the kidnappers at all. He was just shocked as he asked, “Elder Rockefeller, you… Have a daughter?”

“That’s her right there.”

Alex then took a glance at the military team. “Mr. Selby, are you going to arrest me?”

Craig immediately waved both hands in panic. ‘Are you kidding? Why would I even dare to do so?’ he thought.

He then turned to look at the kidnappers and shook his head, chuckling to himself. “Well, these b*stards really know how to pick their targets, huh? They actually tried to kidnap Elder Rockefeller’s daughter. That’s literally bad luck upon bad luck for them. They’re asking for death at this point.”

Alex dismissed him. “I’ll leave the other two to you. Investigate who’s behind all this. I heard that they’d kidnapped quite a few kids! So if you ever find them, call me.”

Alex then gave Craig his number.

Craig nodded. “Don’t worry, Elder Rockefeller. I will most definitely give my all in the investigation. I’ll inform you once I have any clues!”

After that, Alex picked Winniefred up and left.

This caused many passersby to guess who Alex was since Craig was so respectful toward him. Moreover, he referred to Alex as an Elder; hence it was obvious that those kidnappers were asking for it.

Three hours later, Sky and Anna came to look for Alex.

“Master, I heard you killed three kidnappers in public today?” Anna asked.

Alex rolled his eyes. “Well, aren’t you a know-it-all? How did you find out about that?”

Anna said, “Someone uploaded a video of you chopping all three of their heads off. And it spread throughout the whole country like an atomic bomb! How could I not know about that?”

Alex furrowed his eyebrows. “The news spread that quickly? How big of an impact did it cause?”

Anna gave him a thumbs up. “Master, your actions were done out of justice! Many are praising you for making such a righteous decision!”

Sky smiled. “Alex, the impact of this incident was indeed quite big, but we have banned anyone from speaking about this. So don’t worry, it’s no big deal. Just be more mindful of the consequences from now on. I only came here to talk to you about Soraya. The old lady has been staying at my place for three days now!”

“Uhm…” Alex froze. when he heard this.

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When Sky said that, Alex noticed the sheer helplessness in his eyes. He looked as if he was about to cry.

‘I guess it’s only reasonable.’

‘Old lady… I’m guessing it’s Soraya’s grandmother, Lexia. She’s considered an extremely important figure in the family, considering she’s one of the president’s wives.’

‘As one of the team leaders in Divine Constabulary, it was only normal for Sky to be extra careful with her.’

‘The lady is quite old. If anything were to happen to her in his home, or if she just died right there and then, he would be in big trouble.’

“Did she come alone? And just moved into your place?” Alex asked.

“Alone? There were eight of them! All women! How could I handle all of that?” Sky started complaining. “I can’t even go home now. When I do, I’d be scared for my life, scared that something might happen to any of them.”

After hearing this, Alex almost snorted in laughter.

“Why didn’t they come look for me instead?” Alex asked with a smile.

Sky replied. “You and your aunt have made such a commotion in Alaska. Besides, you’re the president’s grandchild, so I guess they were just trying to avoid conflict. That’s why they wanted me to be the middleman. But I’ve been handling them for days! I can’t go on anymore. All they do now is play poker in the constabulary in the morning and head back to bed at my place! How can we work properly like this?”

Alex pondered for a few seconds.

‘Soraya and the others have been trapped in Moonlight Lake for like, five days. I guess it’s time to release them.’

‘Five days is enough time for a lot of things to happen. I’ll show them mercy since we’re relatives.’

“Alright then, let’s go to Moonlight Lake!”

After that, the three headed straight to their destination.

***

In the middle of the lake, Shaun, Lochlan, and the other four half-stepped grandmasters were lying on the deck like dead fish. All of them looked like they were about to take their last breath.

Even grandmasters needed food and water to survive, after all.

They had sufficient water all around them, but it felt awful having to starve for five days. Not only did they lack food, but they were utterly unable to make contact with the outside world. This was just pure torture.

“If I get out one day, I will definitely kill that Rockefeller b*stard! No, I would kill his entire family! I would kill his entire bloodline!” Shaun laid there as he mumbled to himself, filled with hatred and bloodthirst As a grandmaster that had been praised and worshipped, he had never experienced such torment in his lifetime.

Just then, an old lady’s voice rang in their ears. “Whose bloodline are you going to kill?”

Upon hearing this, all of them shuddered.

It’s been five days!

After five days of being trapped in an unknown space, they felt as if they were caged in from the entire world. It seemed as if not even a fish could enter their area, let alone humans.

Hence, when they heard a stranger’s voice, all were extremely excited and overwhelmed.

“Who’s there?”

“Who said that?”

They turned around and found another boat silently coming their way from the east side of the lake.

“How is this possible?”

They had tried getting out from the east multiple times. Hence they had no idea how this boat found its way in. Lochlan was so overwhelmed that he was going to cry. “Madame Lexia! It’s Madame Lexia! Madame, I’m Lochlan, I’m right here!” he screamed.

The one who spoke up a while ago was the second wife in the Melvis family, Lexia Rogers.

There were many people on the deck of the other boat. Alex, Sky, Anna, and the other few women from the Melvis family, such as Soraya’s mother, Stephanie Rogers, were also present.

Just then, Alex spoke up nonchalantly. “Guardian Baker, were you the one who wanted to end my bloodline?”

Upon hearing that voice, Shaun turned his head towards the deck. He knew this voice all too well. It belonged to that bastard, Rockefeller.

‘If it weren’t for him, how would I be stuck in the middle of Moonlight Lake, unable to get out?’

He then noticed Alex sitting at the side of the ship, watching him with scorn.

“Looks like you still haven’t learned your lesson after getting trapped here for five days. You should continue staying here then!”

Shaun said, “How dare you? You may be an Elder in the Divine Constabulary, but I’m one of the Great Guardians! You’re crossing the line here! Are you trying to turn traitor?”

He then turned to Lexia. “Madame, this man is colluding with Zachary Xavier! He’s an international secret agent, pretending to be the president’s grandchild. Arrest him now! Else he’s going to cause trouble!

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Lexia took a glance at Alex and nodded towards Shaun. “He really is the president’s grandchild.”

“Ah…”

“What? He’s really his grandchild? How is that possible?”

All of them widened their eyes. They just couldn’t believe it.

Stephanie, on the other hand, couldn’t seem to find her daughter at all. In a panic, she asked, “Shaun, where’s my daughter? Where is she?”

With that, Shaun fell silent. After two seconds, he pointed toward Alex. “Him! He was the one who did some kind of trick in this area and killed Soraya!”

“What?” exclaimed the women in the Melvis family.

Stephanie glared at Alex furiously. “You… You’ve crossed the line! Soraya is your cousin, for God’s sake! How could you have killed her? Bring my daughter back! I’ll kill you off myself! A soul for a soul!”

Stephanie went hysteric and punched Alex mindlessly.

However, there was just no way that she could possibly hit Alex.

“Stop panicking!” Alex grabbed Stephanie by the wrists. “You believe him just because he said your daughter died?”

“What do you mean by that? If she’s still alive, where is she?”

“I’ll just bring her over to you.”

Alex smiled softly and took a step out of the boat, hopping right into the lake. However, he didn ’t sink into the water at all, managing to stand on the surface with ease, as if he was walking on hard ground.

In just seconds, he disappeared.

“Huh? He disappeared?” Stephanie exclaimed. The rest of the Melvis family were shocked as well.

Sky was just as confused and surprised as the rest. This was his first time ever seeing the powers of a talisman, after all.

Anna, on the other hand, was not confused one bit. Back in Michigan, when Lex was captured, she had been trapped within a talisman as well, almost ending up getting pregnant despite being a virgin. If it weren’t for Alex, she would’ve ended up with aterrible fate.

She patted Sky on the shoulder and smiled. “My master’s powers are quite mysterious, huh? Are you shocked this time?”

Sky smiled back. “Anna, you really have to learn more from Alex. If you do, you’d be able to exceed my abilities, or even Uncle Zachary’s! Your future would be limitless.”

Suddenly, Anna was reminded of Maya, a genius who managed to become a half-stepped grandmaster within three months. Anna sighed. “Talent is the most important factor, though!”

At the same time, as Alex disappeared from everyone’s sight, he had entered another area of the talisman. This part was called The Gates To Hell.

When one was stuck here, they’d be affected by the talisman drastically. Due to sheer pressure on their bodies, their movements would be restricted, and they might even start hallucinating.

When he came into the area, he noticed Soraya lying on the boat, her clothes a mess. Both her arms were moving around, doing unsightly matters out in the open. It was unclear what illusions she was having at the time but Alex noticed a lot of blood on her body.

Swoosh…

Alex reached his hand out and changed the position of the talisman, destroying all hallucinations in this area.

He inserted a flow of mental power into Soraya’s brain, sobering her up. “Wake up, Soraya!”

Almost instantly, Soraya crawled up to her feet.

Noticing Alex in front of her, she seemed shocked. “Rockefeller! So it was you! Don’t you dare come any closer and do that again!”

Alex stared at her silently, not saying a word.

Soraya lowered her head to check on herself. Something just felt odd to her. There was a pool of blood under her body. It hurt a lot. Shuddering, she wanted to cry but was extremely helpless. She yelled at him. “You… You b*stard! What have you done to me?”