Child of Destiny

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Most of the higher-ups of all the organizations around the world were too focused on the situation concerning the founder and the principal of the Magic Ace Academy and Top Military School, which were schools known as the Twin Dragon Makers around the world.

These two old monsters had attracted everyone’s attention, making them the center of the world at this moment.

In the meantime, while everyone’s attentions were attracted to that direction, Grandmaster Benn had already made his move.

Swoosh!

He was traveling at extreme speed, traversing dozens of kilometers in the blink of an eye. His destination was the location where Shin had disappeared from the radar. It was also the area where the ruined underground temple of ancient Buddhist Monks was located.

Throughout the perimeter of this place, the members of the Technology Faction of the Sun-Moon Government were currently conducting a lockdown, which would prevent anyone from entering or leaving the place.

They had even set up their advanced devices throughout the perimeter. They were about to establish a spatial lockdown, which would take at least two full weeks before it fully enclosed the area.

However, before the spatial lockdown could even form, Grandmaster Benn suddenly broke through the energy barrier.

Boom!

“Who is that!?”

“Identify yourself and surrender!”

“How dare you trespass in here!? Are you challenging the Sun-Moon Government!?”

“Who is foolish enough to provoke our Technology Faction!?”

Multiple figures suddenly emerged and flew in the air along with their mechanical armors. They raised their firearms and pointed them at Grandmaster Benn, who was calmly standing in the air.

These dozens of people were about to launch an attack when their faction head, the Mechanical Dullahan Oliver Hall, suddenly appeared.

“That’s enough!” he said in a calm tone before signally everyone to leave. “Go back to your post. Let me handle this situation.”

Some of them were about to raise their doubts, but the seniors within their group urged them to leave through their communication devices.

They had also finally realized that the person before them was not someone that they could easily mess with.

Fortunately, their Faction Head was currently present, or else they would never know how they had died in the process.

Oliver Hall waited until all his subordinates left and cleared the area before talking.

Beep! Beep!

“It seems like Senior Benn is quite impulsive this time. I wonder why you have graced us with your esteemed presence,” he said while scanning the other party’s parameters through his special device.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

At the same time, a series of warnings suddenly rang inside his head, telling him the danger level of this person before him.

’It seems like he has grown even stronger since the last time we met,’ he thought before squinting his ’eyes’. ’He is still yet to fully step into the Exalted Realm, but even I can sense an immense threat from him.’

What made him warier was the fact that even with his special devices, he was still unable to see through the opposing party’s overall parameters. Instead, he was seeing the regular parameters of a normal person.

This clearly indicated that the current control of the other party over their powers reached a transcendent level of mastery, which was the sign of breaking through the next realm.

’It seems like he has reached the perfect state for his Mentalism Method and has overcome all its imperfections,’ he suspected that Grandmaster Benn was not far from reaching the legendary realm in terms of Mentalism.

Grandmaster Benn did not immediately respond, seemingly letting the other party finish his assessment.

He only opened his mouth after making sure that the latter had gotten a good look at him. “The troublemaker student of mine happened to step into this place. I am currently looking for him, so I hope you can let me look around without being bothered by your people.”

Beep! Beep!

Alarms kept on ringing inside Oliver Hall’s mind while keeping an eye on the other party. He was not a fool who would act as if he did not understand what Grandmaster Benn was talking about.

He could also tell that Grandmaster Benn seemed to have gotten some idea about what they were trying to do in this place.

As the sole student of this old monster from the Elders Council, Oliver Hall understood that Shin must have a special treasure that could save his life in certain predicaments. There was also a high chance that Shin had contacted his master through some means, telling the latter about his current situation.

Adding that they were also suspecting that Shin was the child of the Heavenly Demon and Celestial Phoenix, Oliver Hall could tell that the situation was a bit trickier to deal with.

This place was quite huge, especially with the numerous mountains present within the area. This caused them quite a lot of delays when setting up the entrapment barrier.

Now that Grandmaster Benn was here, things would become a bit more complicated, especially when they still had no clear evidence about Shin being related to Evangeline Rose and Adam.

To make the timing a bit worse, two of the five pillars of the Sun-Moon Government were currently not present because they were to investigate what the leaders of the Twin Dragon Makers of the Soaring Continent were up to.

Oliver Hall himself also needed to constantly monitor their movements remotely with the help of their satellite to avoid any unnecessary accidents.

He had also mobilized some of their satellite cannons as a precautionary measure. It was because of this that he was unable to put all his concentration into this place, where they happened to have a similarly ’important’ operation.

He wanted to get the World Government involved in this matter and pull them toward their side. After all, the matter concerning that monstrous duo was similarly significant.

Unfortunately, he had to disregard that plan after discussing it with the other pillars. He was not sure why the head of the five pillars strongly opposed working together with the World Government in this matter, but he had to obey regardless, especially when the other three had refused his suggestion as well.

Given all the timings, he also could not help but consider that everything was just a plot to lure everyone away and save the little kid from them.

Beep! Beep!

“I am not sure what Senior Benn is talking about,” he chose to act innocently, wanting to see what the other party wanted to do first.

“You are one of the rare geniuses in history, Oliver. You have even found a way to reach the pinnacle level of strength, rivaling the others standing at the peak of this world and even surpassing old bones like us,” started Grandmaster Benn before saying. “I doubt that you know what I am talking about.”

Beep! Beep!

“From what I can see, Senior Benn is not far from reaching that level as well,” said Oliver Hall.

He took another pause before addressing another matter. “If Senior Benn wants to stroll around, then I am not against it. But think Senior Benn needs to clear some of my doubts first.”

Grandmaster Benn naturally had an idea what the other party was curious about. Unfortunately, he had no intention of answering such questions.

He waited for a couple of seconds, seemingly silently counting inside his head, before sighing. “If that is the case, then I don’t have any reason to stay here.”

With that, he took out a teleportation talisman and channeled his mental energy into it.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

A vast amount of energy suddenly surged throughout the surroundings. It had disrupted the barrier that the members of the Technology Faction were planning to establish.

“You-…!”

Seemingly realizing something, Oliver Hall suddenly made his move, planning to stop the activation of the teleportation.

Unfortunately, he could not fully stop the teleportation process since the talisman that Grandmaster Benn had used was at Forbidden Level, which indicated that it had reached the Exalted Realm level of strength.

All he could do was to limit the activation range, restricting it around Grandmaster Benn. He had shrunken the range of the teleportation talisman so that only Grandmaster Benn was the only one to be set out of this place.

However, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Grandmaster Benn smirking at him before completely disappearing.

Swoosh!

He could only watch as the latter disappeared from his sight, confused about what that smirk meant.

Whoosh!

But while he was still in the middle of his confusion, he suddenly sensed a similarly strong fluctuation coming from another direction. Moreover, that direction was opposite to this side and the far end of the continent.

Beep! Beep!

“Tsk! It looks like I have fallen into their trap,” he mumbled before looking right inside his mind. “It seems like someone has interfered with the analysis process of my chip as well.”

“I wonder how they have done it,” he continued to mumble before flashing a smile that didn’t look like a smile. “Interesting. This makes me more curious about the person who can create such a frequency that can interrupt mine.”

“I guess it is also time to get a few more updates and upgrades with some of my parts.”

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