Chapter 57: The First to Stick Their Neck Out

The three of them walked side by side into the estate. Inside, Blake Balam was entertaining a guest of extreme importance. The man looked only around thirty. He wore expensive clothes, carried himself with effortless confidence, and had the kind of presence that made a room feel smaller. As the head of the Balam family, Blake was usually the strongest figure among the province's Martial Arts Family clans, the one everyone deferred to. Yet in front of this young man, he seemed almost servile, his...