Meanwhile, after leaving Ralph and Glen at the train station, he went to another side of the outskirt.

After searching for a few minutes, he finally found what he was looking for.

The four scums who had made life miserable for him in the past!

Inside an old structure, four middle-aged men could be seen sitting around a table and enjoying a meal that was definitely not made in the outskirts; they must have brought it back with them from San Pluto.

What Ivan found odd was that one of the men had a bandage around his head, but this wasn’t a problem he had to worry about.

Leisurely walking over, the four men immediately spotted him.

“Who are you?!” One of them shouted at Ivan and immediately reached for his laser gun; the others also became alert seeing a white-haired young man walking toward them.

Ivan didn’t respond; his face was as hard as a rock, and his eyes were colder than winter as he continued to walk over in casual steps with both hands in his pants pockets.

“Hold on, he looks kind of familiar,” The man with a bandage around his head said to the others as he stared at Ivan with squinted eyes, his eyes lit up after five seconds of carefully looking at Ivan’s face.

“Ah! It’s that Ivan kid, he came back” The man announced. A malicious smile immediately formed on his face as he jumped up happily, ignoring his head injury.

The others also took a closer look before their eyes brightened in the realization that their friend was right; it really was Ivan.

“Haha, to think he’ll come back after managing to run away. Looks like he missed us” One of the men laughed and tossed his laser gun to the side as he started to rub his palms together.

“Hehehe, of course, he would miss us. I knew that this kid was a masochist a long time ago; he came back since he missed getting hit by us,” another man said while licking his lips, and the others laughed.

“I was so furious after getting punished because of this brat back then, who would have imagined that the tower master was there that day? He was so lucky. I thought I would never get a chance to get my revenge; to this, he would come to me himself.

Come, come, you’ll explain how you got the guts to escape in my absence and even dared to let the tower master punish me because of you.” The leader amongst the four men laughed with a cold glint in his eyes.

Back then, at the awakening center, they had encountered Ivan, Ralph, and Glen, but the tower master had been there and had even punished him for bullying a potential Nexulyte of the tower. Chapter Continue:

The man had been enraged after returning, he had undergone physical punishment and his pay had been halved. He thought he would never be able to resolve this knot in his heart since the tower master seemed to think highly of Ivan and he would never see the brat again.

As Nexulyte, he has obviously gone to the tower for training as well. His talent was just so bad, and he had barely passed; he had been assigned here since then to watch over a stupid outskirt instead of living a good life in the city.

‘Looks like his talent is bad as well and he has been thrown away just like me! Good, I’ll show you the consequence of trying to escape me’

The leader thought to himself as he stared at Ivan with sharp eyes, his gaze would have cut Ivan into a thousand pieces if possible.

Ivan ignored their taunts and kept walking over; he stopped after reaching a five-meter mark away from them.

“What are you doing? Who told you to stop? Get over here right now!” One of the men yelled impatiently.

“What walk? Crawl on all four you lowlife, better obey because no one will be able to save you this time”

Another laughed.

Ivan scanned their faces with his eyes. Their current location was still relatively close to people, and they would hear if a commotion broke out; he couldn’t start yet.

Bending down slowly, the four men grinned widely thinking he was really going to crawl. But even suddenly grabbed a handful of dirt and threw it at their faces and bolted in a direction away from the living area.

“You bastard, how dare you run after throwing dirt at me? Come back here and take a beating!”

One of the men was unlucky, and a small part of dirt had entered his mouth; he immediately chased after Ivan.

” He’s a Nexulyte now, so he can take more beating; catch him!” The leader shouted and gave chase as well.

“Kekeke, he’s running in the wrong way; I would go to where a lot of people are if I were him” one of them laughed as they pursued Ivan.

“It doesn’t matter; no one can save him even if he runs into a market,” The leader sneered.

They chased Ivan for a good five minutes before the latter finally stopped, and the four men stopped as well.

Their current location could only be described in two words.

Ancient ruins.

It was like a long abandoned city with very old buildings, cracked ground, and large skeletons of monsters. It looked like a piece of land that escaped an apocalypse; it was a small settlement outside the border and no one actually came here.

“He stopped? Did he think he intentionally led us out of the outskirt to deal with us? How naive”

“He’s only been away for six months and since he came back, he must be a Mortal King at most. We are all Mortal Kings as well, and our leader is a True king. Does he think he can face us alone?”

” You made a bad choice, Ivan; you even came outside the border. If anything happens to you here, we can easily blame it on a stray monster; you’re trapped here with us” The leader choked out with a cold laugh.

Ivan slowly turned around and faced them, his face extremely cold and his eyes were narrowed and sharp like that of an intelligent monster.

“You got it wrong…you’re the ones trapped here with me”

Ivan mumbled softly but his voice reached the ears of the four men and sent a cold shiver through their bodies.

Their faces paled, and they took a step back subconsciously; Ivan’s expression just now frightened them for a moment.

“What bullshit are you spitting out? What nonsense are you saying? Do you think you can fight all of us?” The leader snapped through gritted teeth, embarrassed of being scared by a young boy who had just become a Nexulyte not long ago.

But before he could say anything else, Ivan suddenly stepped forward and disappeared from their sight only to reappear in front of the leader.

“Tell me…do you bleed?”

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