[Are you sure about this, Sir?]

A voice filled with life, yet not alive, asked. The man who was asked the simple question remained silent as he looked out the window of his office, his office enshrouded in darkness, yet outside the window, sparkling lights could be seen from other buildings.

He kept his silence for a while before he finally asked, “About what?”

[About the first prince’s movements?]

[They’re quite dangerous in my opinion]

“Haha.” The man chuckled softly, his gaze still out the window as he kept his eyes on the twinkling lights and the bustling life of the city underneath.

“Young blood, Andersen. Young blood.”

That was all his reply.

[Are you certain, Sir?]

[Would the others remain silent about this?]

“Why wouldn’t they?” The man asked but there was no answer to that question. The man smiled and said, “My son has the most tenacity I’ve ever seen. He’ll pull through.”

[Yes, I admire the first prince’s traits as well]

[But playing with fire on that level can still end up burning him]

“No. No. No. Not him. My younger son. His tenacity is unmatched. We just have to wait and see what he does.” The man said.

[And what if the same incident happened again?]

“Then let it happen.” The man simply replied before he added, “It is in the blood of the conqueror to conquer. Nothing else matters.”

[…]

“Haha. Don’t worry. Don’t worry. As a father, it only makes sense that I have the back of my children.” The man replied before he turned to look back, in the middle of darkness, at almost nothing but just because there was nothing, didn’t mean there was nothing.

“Right?” The man asked with a smile that was as terrifying as the stare of death. In fact, it was the literal stare of death.

Shoo…

A gust of wind in the closed office rose, but in a few seconds it calmed down. The man turned to look out the window once again, silence stretched across the space. He finally said, “What a beautiful night.”

“What a beautiful night for chaos.”

~~

“My younger brother sure is hot headed.” He couldn’t help but admit as he placed a plethora of files on a desk where a woman with exquisite features sat. The frown marred on the woman’s face did nothing to lessen her beauty or perhaps even enhanced it.

“You’re dumping your work on me again.” The woman said with obvious annoyance in her voice.

“Oh, come on. You know you’re better at it than I.” He made an excuse and sat down on the opposite side and sighed. The woman knew he was genuinely worried about something so she couldn’t help but ask but just as she was about to ask, something clicked in her mind and she immediately gritted her teeth as she said in anger, “You can forget about getting any tonight.”

“What?! What did I do?!” The man stood up as if the greatest injustice had happened to him. The woman just looked at him with a glare that was enough to shut him up and make him sit back down.

“I should have learned from dad and not married.” He couldn’t help but mutter under his breath before his eyes widened and he looked at the woman across who was also his wife, “Did you look into my future again?”

“Yes.” The woman straightforwardly replied.

“Haa… No wonder.” He replied with a sigh.

He knew coming up with excuses wouldn’t work as his wife could look into the future of even his father, although very slightly, so if it was him, his entire life was bare in front of her. Even if he were to try his hardest, he would never be able to hide anything from her.

“So? Are you not going to help him?” But his wife couldn’t remain angry at him for long. Not to mention she was worried about her brother in law as well who was born before her very eyes and she practically had a huge hand in raising him. He was her son in a way so of course she would be worried about her.

“No. It was my stupidity that put him in that position in the first place. Had I not shown weakness due to my soft heart and let dad raise him in his own way, he wouldn’t have been in that situation.” He explained the best he could but even he knew that he was making excuses so his wife knew more than well.

“Sometimes, it is better to let them grow on their own.” He replied as he looked behind his wife, out the window at the twinkling lights of the buildings in the night.

His wife knew what she was looking at and couldn’t help but see her father-in-law and her husband as one. Although her husband vehemently denied he was like this father, they were similar in many ways. Their tastes, their habits, and even their hobbies. They were too similar, no matter what they said.

And right now, she could tell what her husband was thinking.

He was worried.

He was worried about his younger brother, the little brother whom he had raised with care and love. Although he was acting tough now, he was very concerned at the moment as well. That softness was what made her husband who he was and she couldn’t help but fall in love with him even more.

“I guess you’re getting some tonight.” She muttered under her breath which was enough for her husband to hear. A beaming bright smile appeared on his face as he heard her words. He couldn’t help but smile and took a few files from the pile and began to work on them.

“I’m telling you, you still play too hard to get.”

“You’re one to talk.”

“Haha…”

“Haha…”

Amidst the indistinct chatter of the couple, he noticed the gust of wind above his head but he dismissed it. He was focused on enjoying that moment with his wife more than anything else.

‘I’m sure he’ll pull through.’ And although he was worried about his brother, he had full faith in him.

~~

“Kugh!!!”

Wei Jun slid back and forced his feet into the ground to stop. His feet ached as he looked up. At the monster of a man who had crossed the realm of the grandmaster and was about to enter the commander realm of a cultivator.

There were only a few hundred of them in the entire world, and barely a hundred in the entire empire. Wei Jun was about to witness the birth of one. Well, almost the birth of one since he had interrupted his breakthrough before it could be completed.

He could have done so earlier, but he didn’t want to take the risk. Fighting a martial master with an unstable core that was going through a breakthrough was too dangerous. The chances of a core going berserk were too high, and the destruction from that would be enough to wipe out an entire city.

Even though Wei Jun was miles away from any living being, he himself would be in danger. There would be no way he would be able to make it out in such conditions. Even the party member’s teleport wouldn’t work due to the berserk and unstable Qi in the air, making it difficult for a connection to be built.

He had tried to make a surprise move to finish the fight as quietly as he could even that was useless.

Li Fan Sho was too strong to come down just like that.

Thap!!!

One step out in the open, and Wei Jun could feel the strong fluctuations of Qi around him. To say it was strong was an understatement. It was monstrous to be more precise. And most of all, Wei Jun felt it. The different feeling he had felt before in his life.

The feeling when his brother cornered him in that boxing ring, his presence was simply enough to make his body freeze. It was undeniable that Li Fan Sho currently held the same presence. All things considered, the man before him was the child of destiny, the most talented and luckiest person to be ever born. His presence was enough to make Wei Jun reminisce about the presence he felt back then.

The presence of the strong.

Thap!!

Another footsteps and Wei Jun planted his feet firmly into the ground to not be pushed back. Sure, Li Fan Sho was strong and it made sense that Wei Jun felt fear right now. It was normal for the weak to fear the strong.

‘But, it’s in our bloodline to not remain weak.’ He recited the words his brother had said to him that day. If he feared the strong, then all he had to do was become stronger.

Planting his feet firmly into the ground, both his swords ready, an aura of death around him, he was ready.

Looking at the black haired man before him who exuded nothing but strength, along with fear, Wei Jun felt the excitement as well.

The moment to decide everything. The final moment.

“The moment of Death.” And with those words, Wei Jun jumped at the black haired man who had a cold look in his eyes, both fearlessly and with great fear in his heart.

Pang!!!!

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