Weapon seller in the world of magic

However, tragedy struck him on the night after the semifinals, when they went on a drive and had an accident. As a result, Alexander lost his left eye, and went missing for a year.

During this year, he was in the household of the girl’s father, who was also in the same field. Not knowing about his true identity, the girl’s father, who coincidentally got the assignment of transporting a prototype quantum AI chip, would hide it in a bionic eye before transplanting it into him, for unknown reasons.

In the end, Alexander married the girl and stayed at her place for a year.

However, the tragedy struck him again as they were attacked by Shen Triad, a rival of Pavel, after finding his whereabouts. His in-laws, his pregnant wife, and their entire gang were destroyed in the drone attack, with him ending up the lone survivor.

In pursuit of his revenge against Shen Triad, Alexander returned to his gang and took up the mantle.

With the help of the Quantum AI, Eva, he rose to the position of Pakhan, earned respect from his subordinates, and eventually became the leader of the underworld. And yet to date, his face remained a mystery for the police and the rest of the world. Only a few trusted leaders know how Alexander looks. For the public, he is a lawyer at Royal Gold Group, which he himself founded.

Weighing both of these lives against each other, the man with dual memories took deep breaths to clear his mind and mumbled. ”Apart from the fact that he couldn’t save his wife in the past, and now he still can’t eliminate Shen Triad. Alexander’s life is filled with bliss, but Sungjun has regrets. He had a brother who was falsely accused of the crime, all because he had a contract with an evil spirit king. By the time he got in contact with him, his life was already gone...”

At first, he addressed both of them as if they were someone else, but without knowing, he went on mumbling, filled with thoughts. ”When I was going to the Temple of Horus, Hyung was married, and Sis-in-law was pregnant with twins. 19 years have already passed. By now, they would be adults. As Alexander, I have a net worth of over 700 billion credits, which will put me in the top 20, maybe 30, if there are more people like me with secret wealth... Anyway, I’m clearly in a position to help them. And I should first fulfill my duties as Han Sungjun and then continue to live as Alexander...”

Taking a breath again, he spoke in his head. ”System, register my name as Han Sungjun.”

Ding!

[Your name is registered as Han Sungjun]

Followed by that, a new window opened, showcasing the details.

Name: Han Sungjun

Age: 29

Ethnicity: Goryeo

Arcane Path: Mage

Ability: Overlord’s Authority, Mystic Eyes (Locked)

Ability Rank: SSS

Mana reserves: 34,556

Mana Tier: 7 (Max: Tier-1)

Skills:

Mana Condensation: An ancient technique that lets the user absorb natural energy from the surroundings and refine it into mana.

Mana Armor: Use one’s mana to form a defensive layer and nullify the attacks.

OVERLORD’S AUTHORITY:

1) Chain of Command: Can recruit underlings (up to 10). For every underling recruited, strength is increased by 5%.

2) Eyes of Dominion: Can copy abilities from anyone the user sees [Need to be within a 20-meter radius. Only 3 extracted abilities can be used per 24 hours. Mana consumption depends on the strength of the ability.]

3) Sovereign’s Resistance: The user gains high resistance to the abilities the user stored under the Overlord’s Authority. All damages from such skills are reduced by 50%. Elemental resistance also rose by 20%

4) Dungeon’s Reins: Can temporarily control monsters in a dungeon (up to 10) [Need Tier-6 Mana to unlock.]

5) Inheritor’s right: The user can copy one ability from an underling and permanently add it to Overlord’s authority (Only 1 permanent ability can be stored) [Need Tier-5 Mana to unlock]

6) Trophies of the Fallen: The user can extract one ability from a dead monster the user killed and use it without limitations (Only 1 permanent ability can be stored) [Need Tier-4 Mana to unlock]

7) Sigil of the Chosen: Can Brand underlings with a Soul Sigil, giving them a permanent boost of 10% in strength and mana reserves (Limit: The user cannot enjoy any benefits from these special underlings, such as buffs or ability copy. Only underlings with tier-2 or lower can enjoy the boost.) [Need Tier-3 Mana to unlock]

8) Iron Loyalty: Passively enforce loyalty into an underling (Limit: The target has to be an existing underling) [Need Tier-2 Mana to unlock]

9) Throne of Mana: Can use underling’s mana as one’s own [Need Tier-1 Mana to unlock]

One week later;

Hangzhou City, Southern Wu, Zhonggou continent;

On almost an empty bridge, save for a few vehicles, a luxury sedan was going at a nominal pace, not intending to take advantage of less traffic to go faster.

Inside, a drunken woman was seen slumping against the passenger seat.

”Did you have to drink that much?” her husband asked, glancing sideways at her. His voice contained a slight irritation.

”Success tastes better with champagne, Honey,” Jiang Xueli mumbled in a lazy tone. She closed her eyes, leaning her head back against the headrest with a half-smile curling her lips. ”Well, I worked very hard for this movie. I deserved a few glasses of champagne.”

”Yeah, you surely worked very hard, doing great service to your male and gay fans.” Mingze scoffed at her remark, looking straight down the road.

Xueli’s muddled eyes glare at her husband, and she shouts in a drunken stupor. ”Hey! We have been through this already. The scene demanded a few near-topless acts. And we used a body double. I’m not even the one who is in there. What are you so bitter about?”

”But for the rest of the world, it is Jiang Xueli, not some girl named Lin Suyin. You don’t read the articles bashing you left and right?” Mingze calmly responded to her before his gaze retreated to the road. ”You aren’t just an A-list celebrity Actress. You are also a mother, at that.”

”Yeah, yeah, whatever... save those lectures for when I’m sober...” She complained aloud in a drunken voice before lightly dozing off into sleep.

His eyes flicked toward her, hardening a little bit, but before he could continue his conversation, the sharp trill of her phone interrupted them. Her hand fumbled lazily at the side pocket of her coat, taking it out and pushing it to her husband. ”Ugh, just... You deal with it.”

Mingsu sighed, taking the phone from her with a quiet shake of his head. Glancing at the screen, he furrowed his brows. ”Dear, it’s your uncle.”

She didn’t react to it, as if she didn’t care much.

He swiped to answer. ”Hello?” ”Hello, Uncle Li, this is Zhao Mingze.”

”Ah, yeah, Xueli is too tired... She is taking a rest.”

The voice on the other end was hurried, low. ”No, wake her up. It’s urgent. Xueli’s father is...”

Mingze listened for a second, and then his eyes widened. His hand clenched the phone a little tighter. ”What? Hospital?”

”Hospital?”

Xueli blinked, turning her head sluggishly toward her husband. ”What happened?”

”Your father seems to have been admitted to the hospital.”

”Give it to me,” she said in a hoarse voice. As he slightly stretched it to her, she swiftly snatched it from him and spoke. ”Uncle, what happened?”

”Xueli, your father’s condition looks quite bad.” Her uncle’s voice was filled with urgency. ”It’s stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer.”

A breath hitched in her throat. ”Wha...”

Her father was a highly successful and honest police officer who retired as the Hanzhou City Police Department’s Chief Superintendent General, the second-highest ranking in the city’s law enforcement. But, as a father, he was a complete failure.

Even when her mother died, her dad was busy with so-called an important mission.

Her dad never cared to ask her when she returned home with injuries from the dungeon.

Even when she was reevaluated as an S-rank Hunter, her dad didn’t send any congratulations to her.

Even when she entered the fashion industry and later the entertainment field, he didn’t care.

And even when she accepted Mingze’s proposal of marriage and they set a date, her father simply agreed and didn’t care enough to have a proper talk with her husband either.

And yet the small, wounded part of her stirred in emotion upon hearing that his father was suffering from such a disease.

”What hospital?” she asked in a hushed tone.

”Zheda Shaw hospital,” her uncle replied.

She exhaled, pressing her palm to her forehead. The remnants of champagne in her system dissolved into nothing, cleansed by her mana in an instant.

”Take me there,” she looked at her husband seriously. The husband inwardly sighed and pressed on the accelerator.

After a while;

Xueli’s heels clicked sharply down the hospital corridor, eventually reaching the VIP section: Room 503.

The man waiting outside the hospital room, her distant uncle and yet closer than her own dad, hesitated before shaking his head. ”Your brothers... Your step-brothers made it clear they wouldn’t come.”

A bitter chuckle escaped her lips as she shook her head. ”Of course, they wouldn’t. They hate him even more.”

With a deep breath, she then pushed open the door. Her father lay in a hospital bed, a pale ghost of the formidable police officer he once was.

”Xueli,” he rasped in a voice fragile as paper.

She stepped forward and kneeled to the bed’s height.

He lifted a trembling hand, and without thinking, she moved closer. His fingers brushed against her cheek. ”I wasn’t... a good father,” he whispered. ”I can certainly see that now.”

A lump formed in her throat at those words. She still replied. ”Appreciating that now is a little late, don’t you think?”