Lord Protector novel (Zeke Williams) novel Chapter 1687

He gasped out his request, “K-Kill me...”

“I'm afraid that's impossible until I get my hands on Missy's whereabouts.”

Jackson went dead silent as if he was about to change his mind and tell them the truth. Right now, the biggest temptation for him was being set free from this torture.

At that moment, a commotion came from below the mountain. Frowning, Zeke rushed outside to check on the source.

It turned out the members of Azure Dragon were in the middle of a conflict with another party.

“Stay right here until I'm back. I'm going down to figure out what's going on.” Zeke leaped off the cliff seconds after he delivered his instructions.

He surveyed the scene and took in how the other party was behaving arrogantly as they had a verbal conflict with Azure Dragon.

Curious, he asked, “Can anyone tell me what's going on?”

Alfred swiftly explained, “Great Marshall, they wish to request an audience with you. I told them we would revert to them as soon as we inform you of their presence, but they insisted on traveling to the summit and even started a fight with a few of us.”

Zeke tapped on Alfred's shoulder and assured him, “You made the right call to stop them here.”

The one leading the party broke the silence and greeted, “Hello, Great Marshal! It's been quite a long time, hasn't it?”

Zeke turned around and found the man familiar. However, he couldn't recall the identity of the man at all.

He asked, “Who are you? What brings you here today?”

“Tsk, how forgetful of you, Great Marshal. I'm Joseph Lewis, an inspector from Eurasia's Ministry of Celestial Affairs.”

Zeke finally recalled the identity of the man in front of him.

The Ministry of Celestial Affairs was the one in charge of overseeing the spiritual objects of the nation.

However, Zeke had a bad impression of those affiliated with the ministry since they failed to carry out their duties despite being paid a fortune every year.

Their negligence and laziness were the reasons those affiliated with Netherworld managed to steal so many of the nation's spiritual drugs. Eurasia was rich with resources, yet the ministry had only discovered less than one percent of them.

In fact, they probably confiscated more spiritual drugs from people that randomly stumbled upon them than they did by searching.

On top of that, Zeke had discovered the higher-ups of the ministry selling spiritual drugs to others more than once. They were the ones betraying the nation.

Worst of all, as the ones in charge of distributing the spiritual drugs, members of the upper echelon were the ones they cared most about.

Only half of the spiritual drugs ended up making it to the commoner martial artists as well as the army. This was precisely the reason Zeke's soldiers were constantly dying—because of the lack of spiritual drugs to help them.

There wasn't enough supply for the ones putting their lives at stake for the nation. Zeke had always held the Ministry of Celestial Affairs accountable for that.

However, Zeke couldn't do anything about it since the ministry possessed the Imperial Decree from the previous presidents.

Zeke asked in a contemptuous manner, “So? What brings you here today?”

Joseph asked in return, “You must be trying to pull my leg, aren't you? I'm sure you're well aware of the reason we're here today.”

“What is it? Stop wasting my time and get to business.”

“If that's the case, my apologies for being frank. We're here because the ministry is now taking over possession of Summerbank. You don't have to waste your time here anymore, Great Marshal.”

“Come again?” Zeke turned around, glaring at Joseph. He added after a few seconds of pause, “How dare you show up when my comrades and I have put our lives at stake to defend this place? Where were you during the battle with members of Netherworld? There's no way I'm allowing you to reap the fruits of our labor!”