Chapter 1392:


    By dawn, Maia would be dead. And the families of the in guests would tear apart whatever remained of Maia’s legacy with grief and vengeance as their excuses.


    Cooper Group would rise again, unchallenged and untarnished.


    What was a little bloodshed? In this world, massacres were merely stepping stones for the powerful.


    Yet before her triumph could solidify, a fleet of armored vehicles skidded to a stop around her. Their headlights shed across the trees.


    Doors swung open with practiced precision. A full tactical squad stepped out—silent, disciplined, lethal.


    Then udius emerged.


    Kiley’s breath hitched. udius? Here? He was supposed to be in Otruitho, far from this carefully orchestrated chaos.


    She opened the car door and hurried toward him, calling, “udius! When did youe back?”


    But udius did not so much as flick a nce in her direction. His pace—slow but determined—angled straight toward the banquet hall, nked by soldiers who fell into formation the moment he moved. Two neat lines formed beside him, escorting him with unwavering vignce.


    “udius!” she snapped, herposure cracking as she followed her younger brother. “Stop right there! Things have gone too far. Don’t be stubborn!”


    She quickened her steps, heels sinking in the grass. “Do you truly want to provoke our father again?”


    udius halted. His back remained to her, rigid, shadowed by the chaos beyond.


    When he finally spoke, his voice rasped with a depth that scraped the air.


    “Father?” He let out a short, humorless exhale. “I don’t have such a father.”


    Then, without waiting for her response, he continued toward the growing inferno of screams and shattering ss.


    Although his strength was boosted by the injection of X-079, his muscles were still stiff and his movements werebored after prolonged suffering. His eyes skimmed the churning mass of bodies ahead. Kiley’s words reyed in his mind, and in an instant, he understood exactly what she had nned.


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    udius flicked his hand sharply, his voice low but ringing withmand. “Get over there immediately—and make sure Maia is safe.”


    “Yes, sir!” Several team members sprang into motion, but the team leader remained rooted in ce.


    udius shot him a hard look. “You too.”


    The team leader stiffened. “I can’t. I have to stay with you. In ten minutes, the medication will wear off—you won’t be able to stand.”


    udius’s jaw tightened. “If something happens to Maia… I won’t survive it.”


    With that, he surged ahead, every step fueled by frantic determination. “If you won’t go, then I will.”


    A sheen of cold sweat broke across the team leader’s forehead. He hurried after udius, panic gnawing at hisposure. The situation had veered far beyond protocol—far beyond anything any of them had prepared for.


    News had just reached him: a terrorist attack at Harmony za’s banquet center. Chaos was spreading fast. And in this chaos, udius was absolutely not safe.


    The team leader quickened his own stride, instinctively moving closer to shield him.


    Behind them, Kiley watched udius’s retreating figure and paused mid-step.


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