Not long after, Marc Valdez walked out of the office building. Along the way, many members of the ministry greeted him. But at this moment, he had no mood to pay attention to anyone. With a grim face, he walked briskly towards the parking lot.
Members of the ministry were surprised by Marc Valdez’s behavior today. He seemed completely different from the approachable person they knew. Moreover, many people who brushed past him could clearly sense a suffocating coldness emanating from him.
“Mr Valdez, where are you rushing off to?” Just as Marc reached the entrance of the parking lot, a voice reached his ears.
Marc Valdez furrowed his brows and looked up, only to see a group of people approaching steadily. The leader was none other than White Tiger.
“Who are you people? Do I know you?” After a slight pause, Marc looked at White Tiger and asked in a stern voice.
“Someone as important as Mr Valdez naturally wouldn’t know me.” White Tiger smiled faintly. “Let me introduce myself. I’m White Tiger, one of the former commanders of the Western Army Corps.”
“What do you want with me?” Marc Valdez’s pupils slightly contracted as he spoke.
“My boss, Commander Gardner, would like to have a meeting with you at SHADOW. I hope you can honor us with your presence.” White Tiger continued with a smile.
“Sorry, I have some urgent matters to attend to. When I come back, I’ll visit Commander Gardner at SHADOW myself!” Marc Valdez took a deep breath inwardly.
“I’m sorry, Mr Valdez, but I’m afraid you won’t be able to go anywhere before meeting Commander Gardner!” White Tiger narrowed his eyes slightly.
“Humph!” Marc Valdez snorted. He didn’t pretend to be clueless any longer and looked at White Tiger with a serious tone, “With you, you won’t be able to stop me!”
“Really?” While speaking, White Tiger drew his battle knife.
“I know you’ve concealed your cultivation. Today, I happen to feel a bit itchy. I hope you can show me a thing or two!”
“Are you really going to stop me?” Marc Valdez stared at him with anger.
“Go ahead! If I’m no match for you, I won’t stop you from going anywhere!” After saying that, White Tiger turned to look at the SHADOW brothers behind him. “Retreat five hundred meters!”
The SHADOW brothers nodded and walked away.
“In that case, let’s see how much strength you, as a Corps Commander, possess!” Marc Valdez threw his shoulder bag on the ground. Then, he took out a few steel rods and a gun head from the bag, quickly assembled them, and held a three-meter-long spear in his hand.
At the same time, a powerful pressure emanated from his body.
His cultivation was not weak, surpassing White Tiger by half a level, at the Late Stage of the War God-Emperor realm.
“Come at me!” Marc Valdez said in a low voice, and his figure rushed towards White Tiger like a ghost. At the same time, he shook his hands, and the three-meter-long spear solidified in the void, sending several intimidating forces towards White Tiger.
“Alright!” White Tiger responded in a deep voice. Instead of retreating, he advanced, and the cold gleam from his battle knife collided with the incoming attack.
A dull sound reverberated, and both sides’ attacks dissipated simultaneously, causing them to retreat about seven or eight steps from each other.
“Hmm?” Marc Valdez, stabilizing his stance, furrowed his brows slightly. Clearly, he didn’t expect White Tiger to hold his ground against him.
“Surprised?” White Tiger shrugged his shoulders and smiled lightly.
“You did catch me off guard!” Marc Valdez responded, “To have such skill at such a young age, you truly live up to being Commander Gardner’s brother. However, if that’s your only strength, then you’re a bit weak.”
“I’m in a hurry, so I won’t waste any more time with you. Bring out your trump card, or you won’t get a second chance to strike!”
As his words fell, Marc’s aura and power surged instantly. The aura of a War God-Emperor enveloped the surroundings. Following that, the three-meter-long spear created dozens of residual images in the void before condensing into the true form of the War God-Emperor.
“Take that!”
In the next moment, with a deep voice, he forcefully thrust his spear forward. His War God-Emperor’s power, accompanied by a tremendous amount of energy, attacked White Tiger.
“I can handle ten more spears from you!” White Tiger’s voice echoed simultaneously. His wrist continued to rotate, and countless blade glimmers flickered before a virtual battle knife appeared above his head. Immediately after, as White Tiger slashed with his knife, the virtual knife form tore through the sky and collided with the opponent’s God-Emperor’s power at lightning speed, generating a howling wind and thunderous force.
Boom!
A thunderous explosion resounded through the sky, causing hundreds of small birds in the courtyard to fly away in panic, fluttering towards a distant place. At the same time, a powerful airwave rippled outwards, shattering the windows of most of the cars in the parking lot into powder. Over a dozen cars closest to the two combatants were directly flung away, crashing down and becoming a heap of scrap metal dozens of meters away.
Marc Valdez spewed out a mouthful of blood and slid about fifty to sixty meters before coming to a stop. His aura became unusually chaotic, and blood continuously flowed from the corners of his mouth.
“You… you actually managed to unleash such a strike…” Marc Valdez took a deep breath to suppress the turbulent energy within him before speaking. He could also sense that White Tiger hadn’t exerted his full power with that strike just now, otherwise, he would be either dead or severely injured by now.
“Is that so surprising?” White Tiger shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.
Hearing the commotion, two to three hundred people from the courtyard gathered, their faces filled with astonishment when they saw the scene. During broad daylight, someone had dared to brazenly attack Lord Valdez in the Ministry’s courtyard. This was audacious beyond belief.
“Lord Valdez!” Subsequently, many of them looked towards Marc Valdez and shouted loudly.
“You scoundrels! Who are you? How dare you harm Lord Valdez? Are you tired of living?” a middle-aged man exclaimed angrily as he approached.
“SHADOW operatives, no unauthorized personnel allowed!” a SHADOW member responded sternly to the crowd.
“Hmm?” The middle-aged man paused for a moment upon hearing this. “Are you guys from SHADOW?”
“Don’t believe us?” the SHADOW member asked. “Do you want to see our identification?”
The middle-aged man inwardly gasped in shock.
“Even… even if you’re from SHADOW, you can’t just harm people at will. If Lord Valdez has done something wrong, you should…” a woman from the group began speaking.
“SHADOW operatives carry out their duties. Do we need your consent?” the SHADOW member interrupted her.
“You…” The woman furrowed her brows.
“Once again, we warn you. Anyone who obstructs the capture of a wanted individual by SHADOW will be treated as an accomplice!” The SHADOW member spoke again, pulling out his Crescent Moon Saber from his waist, while a chilling aura emanated from him.