Child of Destiny

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Three days later.

The local government of the Sun-Moon Continent found something strange when they noticed that the forces of the Magic Ace Academy and Flying Dragon Corporation had started pulling out from the continent.

They found something suspicious, particularly those higher-ups who were keeping an eye on their movements.

After all, they had already investigated Shin’s background, so they were aware of his relationship with the Springfield Family.

They were quite suspicious of their movements. After all, they suspected that Shin’s real background had something to do with the Heavenly Demon and Celestial Phoenix.

Regardless, they could not do anything drastic against them even if they were quite suspicious.

Even though they could not do anything excessive against these forces, they could still raise the issue and pull the World Government to their side. After all, those two were still considered the world’s most notorious ’criminals’.

They could at least pressure the Springfield Family to force some information from them. After all, even if they had the backing of the Elders Council, the World Government was still a force that they could not afford to underestimate.

Adding that the Sun-Moon Government was joining the prey, the situation could turn against their favor.

Unfortunately, among the people who were retreating from the Sun-Moon Continent, none of them looked ’suspicious’. Shin was not even among them, which was their real target.

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“He is not among their people?” asked General Calcio Ernando to his subordinate, who oversaw the monitoring of the movements of the Magic Ace Academy and Flying Dragon Corporation.

His faction, the Faceless Faction, was the one who were dealing with these troublesome situations.

“Are you sure about that? Have you found any other people who are possibly under a disguise?” he asked, making sure that they had not overlooked anything.

“We have not found anyone that suspicious so far, General. We have even borrowed some of the special apparatuses from the Technology Center,” said the subordinate before quickly adding. “Even the Mechanical Ghosts are dispatched to make sure that we have not overlooked anything.”

“But they have noticed that Grandmaster Benn is not around when they are leaving. Aside from Joaquin Giovanni and the top experts of the Flying Dragon Corporation, to lead their forces back.”

Hearing this, the supreme general could not help but squint his eyes, knowing that the old monster was planning something. “This old friend is probably plotting something. Go tell the first unit to keep an eye on him.”

“Also, pass your report to Oliver Hall. I am sure that he will be interested in this. After all, that old man is the only clue we have now,” he added.

The subordinate immediately bowed, acknowledging the orders, before disappearing.

Not long after, another subordinate arrived and quickly reported. “The forces of the Springfield Family and Green Family are still in position. They seem to be unwilling to go anywhere until they finish ’helping’ us, wiping out the forces of the Black Serpent Mafia and Voidwalker Tribes that manage to sneak inside past our security.”

“So, they are planning to divide and focus their forces, huh?” mumbled General Calcio, realizing the plan of the opposing party.

By cutting off their baggage and eliminating their weaknesses on the field, they were able to focus their strongest forces without worrying about anything else.

“This can only mean that the real war is going to start soon,” he mumbled, knowing what kind of disaster was about to strike the world.

“The chaos that the Springfield Family is stirring and spearheading will only grow stronger as time goes by. The Black Serpent Mafia will also not let this lie down. They will surely launch a counterattack sooner or later, creating an even larger chaos that will sweep the entire world.”

As someone who was standing at the pinnacle of the Mentalism Path, he naturally could tell that the brewing storm was already reaching the point of no return.

“It seems like we also need to make our preparations if we don’t want to be among the forgotten ones,” he mumbled before turning to his subordinate and giving his order. “Tell the pass this to the Military Faction. Tell them that we will be busy with our preparations, so they have to deal with this problem themselves.”

“We will not be able to lend them a hand right now since-…” he was in the middle of giving his instructions when another subordinate suddenly stormed into his office.

Bang!

Displeased, he was about to scold that subordinate when he noticed that this subordinate was one of the heads of his Faceless Faction, someone with the strength of a half-step Transcendent Realm Expert.

Noticing something wrong, General Calcio paused for a moment, letting his subordinate catch his breath, before asking. “What is it, Second Palace Lord?”

The Second Palace Lord regulated his breathing for a moment, seemingly implying that he spent quite a lot of energy just to reach this place despite his current realm.

The supreme general patiently waited for the Second Palace Lord to calm down and recover himself, realizing that the news that the latter had brought was not trivial.

After a while, the Second Palace Lord had finally recovered himself and started reporting. “I have brought some news from our station at the sea border of the Sun-Moon Continent and Soaring Continent.”

He paused for a moment, trying to organize his words, before continuing. “It-… it seems like-… the Founder of the Magic Ace Academy has personally made his move.”

Hearing those words, General Calcio Ernando could not help but raise his brows quite high, realizing the gravity of the situation.

The Founder of the Magic Ace Academy, it sounded like a regular title. However, the top experts throughout the world were well aware of what this title represented.

The Great One, which was the main title of this person, stood for being one of the first batch of people who had reached the Realm of Transcendents, the very first Transcendent Realm Martial Artist.

“It has been a while since that old monster decided to distance himself from the matters of the world. What forced him to act?” he asked, realizing that the situation was getting worse than he had expected.

“During one of the joint operations of the Magic Ace Academy and Top Military School to launch an ambush on one of the most important bases of the Black Serpent Mafia, Martial King Lin Huang and Undefeatable General Manuel Morales were ambushed by a mysterious expert on Transcendent Realm Expert and almost succeeded in finishing them off,” answered the Second Palace Lord.

After another brief pause, he continued. “Based on the information that we have gotten from our spies, this mysterious expert is suspected to be among the rumored secret force of the Black Serpent Mafia.”

“The Snake Head,” mumbled General Calcio, seemingly realizing something.

“Faction Head?” asked the Second Palace Lord after being interrupted.

“It’s nothing,” The supreme general shook his head and waved his hand, telling the latter to ignore it, before signaling to continue.

The Second Palace Lord nodded his head and continued with his report. “Aside from the Founder of the Magic Ace Academy, the Principal of the Top Military School has also made an appearance.”

“We are still not sure about their movements. But based on the information that we have gotten, they are supposed to launch a counterattack on the Black Serpent Mafia.”

“However, what confused us is the direction where these two old monsters have disappeared to,” the Second Palace Lord hesitated for a moment, feeling that there was something wrong with the report, before continuing. “The two of them seem to be heading to the Deep Blue Continent rather than the direction of the exposed secret base of the black Serpent Mafia at the border of the Dark Continent and Lost Soul Continent.”

Hearing this, General Calcio could not help but further raise his brows, sensing that there was something wrong with this report.

Seemingly getting a bad feeling about this, he suddenly stood up and said. “Tell the other factions that I will be going.”

“Ah! Faction Head will be heading there personally?” asked the Second Palace Lord.

“Aside from me and the other faction heads, who else do you think will be able to keep an eye on those people?” said General Calcio. “I am quite curious about the thing that has attracted those two from their seclusion.”

“I am sure that I am not the only one who will investigate this matter. The other forces will most likely send people to the same realm to see what those two are planning.”

The Second Palace Lord hesitated for a moment before raising his concern. “But don’t you think that the situation is a bit too suspicious? It is as if they have purposely leaked the information and lured everyone.”

“You have a point, and I understand your concern, which is why I am planning to bring another person to avoid such risk,” said General Calcio.

He paused for a moment before instructing. “Head to the Technology Faction as well and tell Oliver that I will need his long-range observation satellite to monitor the overall situation on that side so that he can also prepare for timely assistance.”

Just like what General Calcio Ernando had suspected, the Sun-Moon Government was the only one to realize the suspicious movements of the two school founders of the Soaring Continent.

The other organizations had also made their respective moves, planning to investigate the reason why these two old monsters of the Soaring Continent had broken their seclusion.

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