---- Chapter 2388 Andrew grinned, not bothering to waste more words on Benny. The two Murphy family experts felt their scalps tingling and instinctively wanted to flee. However, Benny was their employer. If they abandoned him now, there was no way he would survive. Besides, how would they ever exin themselves to the Murphy family patriarch when they returned? The two had no choice but to force down their fear and trembling. "Please stop!" one of them called out desperately. "We apologize! Please don''t strike again!" With a sharp snap, Andrew flicked his finger.
The twisted steel spike in his hand shot out at a speed too fast for the eye to follow. Both Murphy experts immediately cursed in their hearts; certain death was next. But after a second of stunned silence, they nced at each other, realizing that they werepletely fine. There were no holes in their chests, no heads blown apart. The pain never came. ---- Then, they heard a raspy groan behind them. Both froze as their necks stiffened, and they slowly turned around Benny was lying on his back staring upward with eyes wide open, dead and unblinking.
The fatal wound was obvious: a hole punched clean through his chest where his heart had been. Andrew''s flick had been perfectly lethal. "What..." The two bodyguards stood there,pletely nk, as if their souls had been ripped out. Andrew, showing no hesitation after the kill, simply walked past the two paralyzed men and disappeared into the street momentster. He did not even bother harassing them further. The moment Andrew left, chaos erupted outside the auction house doors, "Mr. Murphy was killed right here in the street!<fn10ff> This text is hosted at FindN()vel</fn10ff>
This is absolutely insane!" "Holy hell, even two martial saints couldn''t protect him? Are we sure this isn''t some god-tier assassin?" "Whoever that guy was, he''s terrifying! This is Chetvine... Even here, people usually show some damn respect!" "Wait... that guy looked familiar, didn''t he?" ---- "lL remember now! That was the Lloyd family''s Dragon Prince! The one who just returned to Chetvine and broke through alll the blockades set by the Cunningham family, the Robertson family, and countless other powers!" "Benny really did it this time. He pissed off the wrong guy!
That''s the biggest monster in Chetvine. Man, that''s rarer than winning the lottery!" After a long while, the two Murphy family experts finally regained their senses. Their first instinct was to run, but they immediately abandoned that thought in the next second. Running was pointless. Whether it was the ruthless Murphy family patriarch or the Lloyd family''s Dragon Prince, they were both far beyond their ability to escape from. If they fled, they would spend the rest of their lives consumed by fear, living in a personal hell from which they could never recover.
The two men made their final decision. They carefully lifted Benny''s corpse and returned to the Murphy family estate to await the patriarch''s judgment Back inside the auction house, Enzo, the auction manager who had previously shed with Andrew, was drenched in cold sweat. He was so terrified that he nearly fainted from fear. Enzo had actually been partially responsible for Benny''s ambush ---- at the doors. It was he who had instigated the whole thing, wanting to watch Benny teach Andrew a lesson as payback for the humiliation Andrew had inflicted on him earlier.
However, he had never expected Benny to crumble so fast. Rather than drawing blood from Andrew, the de had shattered entirely in his hand. What shocked Enzo most of all was that Andrew had actually dared tomit murder so openly. And the victim was no ordinary person; it was the heir of the Murphy family, one of Chetvine''s major powers.<style>
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