The Rise of a Master: It Starts With Rejection

Chapter 160

When Felix arrived at Villa No. 7, it was pitch dark inside, as if no one lived there.

But since Kane had said the old man was inside, Felix would like to think he was right.

He rang the doorbell. If he wasn't the one who needed the old man's help, he wouldn't have done so with such patience.

After a full half-hour of ringing the bell, the courtyard gate finally opened, but no one came out. The door to the villa opened only after Felix had walked a few steps further. It was still pitch dark inside the villa, and there was no one around.

A table lamp in the living room was turned on with a click, and there was an old man sitting in an armchair.

"You must be with them. Are you trying to buy my Shimmeroot? You're quite persistent. You've been politely ringing the doorbell for half an hour.'

Felix walked over and said earnestly, "Sir, I truly need the Shimmeroot to save someone's life. I hope you can make an exception. Name me whatever conditions you have."

The fact that this old man had managed to escape Kane's watchful eyes indicated that he knew martial arts, catching even Kane off guard. That was why he had stationed a martial artist at the villa this time. There should be no more mistakes made. The old man shook his head and said, "I'm not selling it, nor do I need anything. You should leave now. The fact that I even agreed to see you is my final act of generosity."

Now that Felix had come this far, there was no way he was leaving without the Shimmeroot. The matter with Curtis weighed heavy on him, and he needed to resolve things with Xena as soon as possible. He couldn't afford to drag it out any longer. "Try to list your conditions. What if I can meet your conditions? Just as you're a martial artist, I, too, have something you may not be aware of."

A faint smile appeared on the old man's face.

"From the moment you walked in, I could tell you were different. But you're still young, and you don't understand how cruel this world can be. Go. Don't come back again."

At that moment, Felix suddenly picked up a cup from the coffee table and, with a light twist, broke it in half. He casually tossed one half into the dark corner of the room.

"In that case, I will let you owe me a favor. We will talk again," said Felix. With that, he turned his gaze to the dark corner where the cup had flown. "Right now, you can only move your legs slowly Listen to me and walk over here, or

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something worse will happen to you."

When Felix threw the cup, the old man had already been startled. As far as he could sense, there were only the two of them in the room. How could there be a third person?

Yet, after a few moments, a figure did emerge. The person walked in with a strange gait, as if he could only move his legs, and his upper body was paralyzed.

"Killian! Is that you?"

The old man clearly knew this person. His facial expression changed drastically.

"After all these years, you still think I'm alive, and you've even found me here!" The old man's body trembled with anger as he asked, "Why did you come back? According to the contract, I was supposed to be free! Why do you still want to hunt me down?" Felix, meanwhile, found the situation odd. The middle-aged man he had hit kept glancing back and forth between him and the old man, as if he couldn't tell what their relationship

was.

Then, the man named Killian suddenly let out a bitter laugh and fixed his gaze on Felix. "You've misunderstood. I'm here... to kill him.