Chapter 104: The Day of Judgment

The world seemed to fracture into two distinct realities at the villa by Phoenix Lake. Outside, the night air was filled with the silent, menacing efficiency of the Aegis First Guard. Soldiers in black tactical gear moved with ghostly precision, their faces impassive behind their visors. Inside, a bubble of stunned silence enveloped Rachel Lin as she stared at her husband, the man now addressed as 'Lord Ares'. Hou Dianyin, whose arrogance had been his shield for decades, was the first to have...