025. In the K region, my fiancée is there!

  The secretary, as if granted amy, scrambled out of the office. Shortly after, Marlis Gamoth Gun, dressed in a sharp suit, ehrough the door.

  "What do you want from me, sir?"

  Although they were father and son, Marlis had no affe for his father, who had ruled the try for two and a half turies. Among the many wives and children in the public eye, no one could surpass his throne. After outsting one heir after another, no one had any human left for this immortal king.

  The Grand Duke slowly straightened up; his nearly three-meter-tall frame could only slou the enormous chair. His enormous eyes gazed at his 34-year-old son as he spoke in a deep voice:

  "When will you advao Gamma level?"

  "Still a long way off." Marlis had his hands in his pockets, but before the words were out, an invisible force yanked him off the ground, and a yer of frost quickly covered his skin.

  His father, sitting ohrone, didn't even reflect his presen those ghostly blue eyes.

  "You'd better hurry up." The Grand Duke's voice echoed like in a yon, yered with the voien, women, old and young. He sat motionless, yet Marlis, a Beta level, felt his brain almost freeze.

  This was a nearly 300-year-old Gamma level powerhouse, long afflicted with hypoxia and osteoporosis, unable even to stand, yet with just one look, he could kill him.

  Marlis struggled to open his mouth but couldn’t speak. By the time he reacted, his body was already in the Surut Pace Square, 400 meters away.

  It was a ghost... The Grand Duke had crudely summoned a ghost to possess him and bring him out.

  Marlis felt a chilling fear. As he bent slightly, the thought of vomiting crossed his mind, and he immediately saw a deep crack open on his stomach. A mist, dragging shadowy trails, formed before him, and his father's voice echoed directly in his mind:

  'The ghost will supervise your training. No matter what, you must reach Gamma level by the end of the year.'

  As soon as the words were spoken, the mist immediately drilled bato his body.

  "Are you kidding... making me advao Gamma level?"

  Marlis staggered back a few steps, his face quickly turning pale.

  He had no desire for power; instead, having withe Grand Duke's sickly existence since childhood, he was filled with fear of the Gamma level.

  The Frost-Pted Republic allowed the Grand Duke to trol the duchy for so long precisely because he was in stant pain and torment. Only the special drugs and a unique life support system provided by the Frost-Pted Republic could sustain a Gamma-level powerhouse.

  The Frost-Pted Republieeded a proxy, someone who would faithfully obey their ands and use the blood and sweat of the Gunth people to provide them with milk and honey.

  The Grand Duke was more than willing to sell out the entire try in exge for this survival medium. Marlis had no desire to follow in the Grand Duke’s footsteps, being a twisted monster. More importantly, being spoiled and pampered, he was even less able to endure pain than the Grand Duke.

  The Grand Duke didn't want him to rule the try; he wa him into this mire and escape to the Frost-Pted Republic to avoid the pain.

  "There's no choiow... Damn it, how I reach Gamma level by the end of the year? If I ’t do it, he'll definitely kill me."

  Marlis was terrified. The Grand Duke, an expert in soul manipution, even in his old age, could easily have a ghost repce his sciousness and wear his skin.

  He didn't want to die, and he didn’t want everything he had to be taken by a ghost. Worse yet, his father, as a 【Shaman】, might use his soul to create a soul artifact or even transform him into a spirit demon, o rest in peace.

  "No, I have to find the Frost-Pted Republic people. At this point, only they save me."

  Marlis had no ce to defy his father’s authority and power; he could only seek help from the Frost-Pted Republic. As long as he showed loyalty, they would quickly remove this undead monster, and he didn’t care what happened after that, even if they recruited the Gunth people to fight wars.

  He hurriedly ran out of the Surut Pad boarded his hover car, instrug the driver:

  "To the Frost-Pted Embassy, hurry! It’s urgent!"

  However, the moment, a rge hand suddenly rested on his shoulder.

  "I know you're in a rush, but listen to me, don't be too hasty."

  His body stiffened, and in the instant, he saw in the car's rearview mirror a handsome man sloear beside him. The man casually ed an arm around his shoulder as if they were buddies, saying offhandedly:

  "Don't worry, Lord Marlis, no matter how anxious you are, death is iable."

  By the light, Marlis reized the man's fad immediately excimed, "You... you're Li Aozi!"

  "Oh wow, Lord Marlis, so you also visit the Serpe." Li Aozi clicked his tongue, "Don’t be scared, I just have a few questions for you."

  "Five me for not trusting you; your reputation is too illustrious. As a GTB fugitive, I’m really scared."

  Li Aozi didn't care:

  "Is that so? Suit yourself, but I promise, as long as you behave, I won’t hurt you."

  Lord Marlis readily raised his hands in surrender. Having just been terrorized by his father and the ghost, he was now terrified of death.

  Besides, Li Aozi's charm was extraordinary, and his popurity among the people was quite good, so Marlis instinctively felt that Li Aozi wouldn’t deceive him.

  "Smart choice."

  Li Aozi chuckled:

  "o call the driver. He’s probably sleeping in some trash . The sanitation workers will wake him up tomorrow m. Now, I have a few questions for you, and you must aruthfully."

  Marlis nodded, "At your service."

  Li Aozi nodded slightly and called out to the front, "Barnum, drive!"

  "I'm not getting involved in this mess!"

  Barnum, sitting in the driver's seat, retorted but instinctively shifted gears and stepped on the gas. The hover car's engines roared to life, lifting the vehicle off the ground as it sped through the streets towards the outskirts under Barnum’s trol.

  "Buckle up."

  The capital was still under curfew, but as a vehicle of the Grand Duke's family, no one dared stop it. Barnum floored the gas, rag over the scorched streets, and Li Aozi's interrogation began.

  "Go ahead and ask, I won’t resist." To show his cooperation, Marlis voluntarily discarded his phone, security tracker, and even handed over his personal gun.

  —The man in front of him was not only breathtakingly handsome, but his killihods were equally terrifying.

  Marlis didn't want to die, under any circumstances, so he simply surrendered.

  Li Aozi was a bit surprised, looking down on this coward—both Beta level. Look at Du Zexin, a 【Meic】 who never shied from a charge. Then look at you.

  And to think the dossier said Marlis was a 【Warrior】; Li Aozi could hardly keep it together.

  But sihe other party was so afraid of death, the interrogation would be easy.

  Marlis had read Li Aozi's file; his advisors had told him Li Aozi was brave but foolish, nothing to worry about. He believed the Frost-Pted Republic would handle everything.

  Marlis also thought: A Frost-Pted Republi who didn’t even attend college might have some bat power, but he shouldn’t be able to ask sensitive questions.

  "I’m looking for 【Inquisitor】 Alexia Emmanuel Justin." Li Aozi said calmly, "Where is she?"

  This question wiped the calm and posure off Marlis's fastantly.

  "You must be mistaken, are you talking about the 【Absolver】, the 【Questioner】...?"

  "No, sir, I know you heard me. You kly who I’m talking about."

  Li Aozi's tone was very calm, but the tent made Marlis feel as if a cruise ship ressing down on his chest.

  ‘How does he know? We only pass this information by word of mouth. He ’t possibly know! He must be bluffing, but... his tone and expression don’t suggest he’s lying...’

  Could there be a mole?

  What a joke, only he and the Grand Duke should know about this.

  Could the Grand Duke have betrayed such crucial information?

  Revealing the 【Inquisitor】 is as terrifying as leaking nuclear unch codes.

  Marlis's heart skipped a beat, almost suffog, as cold soured from his forehead. His expression shifted from shock to panic, then to dread, and finally, he stared at Li Aozi in disbelief, remaining silent for a full ten seds before saying:

  "You actually know the Inquisitor, how do you know the Inquisitor, and you even remember her real name... This isn’t right. You Frost-Pted Republic people—no, this is from the old days—how could you possibly know about this?"

  "This..."

  Li Aozi answered matter-of-factly:

  "Acc to the Yellow Cuckoo Blood Pact, I’m her fiancé. Is that reason enough?"

  FAL