“Stop right there, this is a private estate. No trespassing!” One of the four men in Daoist robes at the entrance spoke to Gavin Langstaff.
“Is Elder Santos here?” Gavin Langstaff asked in a low voice as he walked.
“Hmm?” The man was slightly taken aback. “Who are you and what business do you have with Elder Santos?”
“I have urgent matters to discuss with him, so step aside!” Gavin Langstaff responded sharply.
“Sorry, but if you don’t disclose your identity, we can’t let you…” The man continued speaking.
“You better not test my patience!” Gavin Langstaff interrupted coldly. He was already furious!
“To see Elder Santos, an appointment must be made in advance; otherwise…” The man frowned slightly.
Bang!
Before he could finish his sentence, a gust of wind swept out from Gavin Langstaff’s hand and sent the man flying. He fell to the ground and spat out blood before becoming motionless.
“Huh? You’re really asking for it!” Another man shouted after seeing what happened.
Immediately after that, he raised his hand and charged towards Gavin Langstaff without even considering whether or not he was a match for him.
“Baz, come back! You’re no match for him!” Another person shouted loudly.
However, before the words had even fallen off their lips again, Gavin Langstaff once again swept out with another palm strike. Like before, the second person flew dozens of meters away before falling to the ground lifelessly.
Gavin Langstaff was now full of anger with nowhere to vent it; these people had run into his gun barrel.
“Who… who are you?” The other two men looked at Gavin Langstaff in horror.
“This is Elder Santos’ estate, how dare you come here…”The tall one trembled as he spoke.
“Let Lord Langstaff in.” Just then, a voice from an old man came from inside the courtyard.
“Yes, sir.” Upon hearing this voice, the two men breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.
“This way please, sir.”The tall guy made a gesture of respect and invited them inside.
“Humph,” Gavin Langstaff snorted and entered while flicking his sleeve..
Two minutes later, they arrived at a lawn within the estate. Lord Langstaff looked towards the elderly man standing not far away and called out, “Elder Santos!”
“Lord Langstaff, don’t take it to heart. The people below don’t understand the rules.” An elderly man, known as Caesar Santos, smiled faintly.
While speaking, he walked towards Gavin Langstaff. “Lord Langstaff, what brings you to me today?”
“Elder Santos, I’ve gotten myself into a bit of trouble,” Gavin Langstaff replied.
“Oh? With Lord Langstaff’s status and power, there shouldn’t be any problem he can’t solve,” Caesar Santos chuckled before pointing towards a nearby villa. “Lord Langstaff, let’s sit down and talk inside.”
“Alright.”
Gavin nodded before turning to walk towards the villa.
Bang!
However, just as he had walked about twenty or thirty meters away from Elder Santos, a gust of wind lifted him up into the air and slammed him heavily onto the ground one hundred meters away. He tumbled several times before collapsing in pain.
It was clear that his attacker intended to kill him with that one move – at least half of Gavin’s bones were broken and he was barely hanging on by a thread.
“Why… why did this happen?” Gavin struggled to speak while coughing up blood on the ground as he looked at Caesar Santos in disbelief.
“If you want someone to blame for this attack then blame Commander Gardner! It was him who wanted you dead!” Caesar strolled over towards Gavin with an indifferent expression on his face.
“Your situation has already spread throughout the entire city; tens of thousands have seen you attempt to assassinate Commander Gardner.”
“Now not only SHADOW but also Central Sky Office and Capital Defense Bureau are searching for your whereabouts, there is no way for you to escape.”
“You… are all worried about me falling into their hands?” After taking another deep breath, Gavin spoke again with difficulty.
“Do you know why Commander Gardner wants revenge against you?” asked Caesar Santos as if looking at a pitiful creature while glancing briefly at Gavin.
“What do… you mean?” A puzzled expression appeared on Gavin’s face. “Isn’t it because I stood up for the Harding clan which made him want me dead?”
Sneered Caesar coldly. “You underestimate Commander Gardner too much!”
“If all he wanted was your death then why go through so much trouble? Just based on your actions alone in standing up for the Harding clan would have been enough reason for him execute you publicly!”
“So… what is his goal then?” It seemed like something clicked within Gavin as he asked cautiously.
“He wants to create an opportunity for the Prime Minister by reorganizing the cabinet!” continued Elder Santo coldly with disdain written across his face.
“As a member of the cabinet, you openly killed Commander Gardner in public. Such a big event must not have been your idea alone. There must be someone behind it!”
“You… are you saying that the Prime Minister will use this as an opportunity to uproot our people?” Gavin Langstaff continued to cough up blood.
“Otherwise, do you think Commander Gardner would take such a big risk just to kill you?” Caesar Santos spoke again.
Gavin Langstaff took a deep breath and closed his eyes. “Give me… a quick death.”
He finally understood that since Commander Gardner had plotted against him, his fate was sealed. No matter where he hid, he would either die at Commander Gardner’s hands or at the hands of someone else behind him!
“Rest assured, I will take care of your family!” Caesar Santos responded in a low voice.
As he finished speaking, he raised his hand and was about to slap Gavin Langstaff.
Suddenly, a powerful aura swept over from the entrance of the mansion with strong winds blowing and lifting both men guarding it into mid-air along with the door itself.
From this aura alone one could tell that whoever was coming was definitely an expert at Supreme Realm level.
“Hmm?!” Caesar Santos felt danger approaching from behind and shrank back slightly in fear.
Without thinking much further, he used all his strength and met Otis Hum’s palm head-on as they collided with each other sending them sliding backwards for thirty or forty meters respectively while their breathing became ragged after exchanging blows once only!
“Otis Hum! Is that you?!” Caesar Santos stabilized himself before looking towards an old man nearby whose eyebrows furrowed slightly – Central Sky Office’s minister, Otis Hum!
“You’ve been hiding pretty well! If it weren’t for Gavin Langstaff leading us here we wouldn’t have found your whereabouts so quickly,” Otis Hum said lightly while four or five hundred members from SHADOW and Central Sky Office gradually entered through the mansion gates one by one
“So you deliberately sent Gavin Langstaff to find me?” At this moment Caesar Santos naturally understood what had happened earlier on
“What if we didn’t?” Otis Hum replied calmly again: “Otherwise do you think our capital is really so incompetent? That we couldn’t find someone for so long?”
“We have long suspected that there is a supreme realm powerhouse lurking in the capital of the ancient martial arts world, but we have been struggling to find any clues or leads to their whereabouts.”
“You did us a small favor today, Lord Langstaff!”
“You guys sure know how to play dirty!” Caesar Santos furrowed his brows and gave Gavin Langstaff on the ground a glare as he spoke.
“Compared to you guys, this is nothing.” Otis Hum responded calmly.
“There’s one thing I’m curious about though,” Caesar Santos looked towards Otis Hum and continued speaking. “Since you intentionally used Gavin Langstaff as bait, why did you come alone?”
After speaking, he pointed towards hundreds of SHADOW and Central Sky Office men.
“Do you really think that just bringing these insects with you will be enough?”