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    Uriahughed maniacally. "Master''s right! You''re one in a billion, surviving our Million Edge Ward!" Frank chuckled in wry amusement. "Bill is right about one thing you watch too much anime!"


    As he finished, he leapt forward, aiming his fist squarely at Uriah''s face.


    Uriah dodged it by inches and leapt up with a sweeping kick while thrusting his dagger at Frank''s chest.


    His friends joined the attack as well, their daggers glinting coldly or their punches streaking violently at Frank. They were all equally matched, however, with neither side getting an advantage!


    It was a battle of the gods, and naturally, men were made to suffer.


    Thankfully, there was not actually anyone nearby, though none of the couches, TVs, or chandeliers survived.


    Even as the fight continued over thirty strikes, a thunderous rumble ensued as the entire mansion copsed! Watching in the distance, the Mystic Sky Guild members and Bill turned pale in shock.


    Their chief was always unstoppable, but he was actually having trouble making short work of those thugs, and an entire mansion actually copsed because of the damage?!


    Bill''s instinct screamed danger and for him to run, when a blur suddenly streaked toward him, standing in front of him and holding a dagger against his neck.All text ? N?velD(r)a''ma.Org.


    Who else could it be, if not Uriah?


    But at the next instant, Uriah''s eyes rolled up in their sockets and he fell backward.


    Before he copsed on the ground, someone caught him and threw him forcefully at the rubble that was the mansion.


    And who else could it be, if not Frank?


    "Thank you, chief... You saved me!" Bill eximed, terrified as this was the first time he came so close to dying.


    It certainly showed on his pale face, as sweat trickled down his cheeks and his lips seemed to turn dark, and he copsed on his knees as they buckled.


    Frank was dusting himself in turn before turning back toward the rubble.


    If the mansion did not copse, affording him a brief opening, those thugs might really have been able to take his head after another sixty rounds or


    So.


    On top of that, Frank could not


    Cern any potential in them f


    scarier than he expected! belongs to


    cultivation, making the coet


    "Set a fire," he growled.


    "A fire...?" Bill murmured, uncertain.


    "Yeah. And watch the bodies-make sure that they are all burned down to ash."


    And with that, Frank turned and left to see Vicky.


    "Wait, there''s someone that powerful in existence?!"


    Vicky could hardly believe what Frank was saying-mere thugssting over thirty blows against Frank?


    She would have an easier time believing that the sun rose from the west!


    "That''s what I''m saying." Frank sighed. "I must fake my death and hide to avoid them rooting us out."


    "Fake your death? Do you have to go that far?"


    Vicky was actually confused by Frank''s reasoning a fake death might end uping true if things went awry.


    Moreover, the waves that were


    stirred from the staged death would


    also lead to unintended


    consequences, and they would lose


    more than what they bargained for.


    Frank was reluctant to do it either, but things were just too opaque. "They''ve been watching me all this while, and there''s no unmasking them On the contrary, dying would


    not arouse further


    That was the only way to be sure.


    "It just sounds dangerous!"


    Vicky remained concerned, leaving Frank smiling in wry amusement.


    "It''s not all that dangerous," he said with a shrug. "They are quite powerful but are also far from lethal to me. Don''t worry."


    It was not a lie, and he just wanted this entire mess to be over sooner.


    "Remember, don''t tell anyone at any costs," Frank reminded Vicky. "It doesn''t matter who they are—tell them I''m dead!"