Chapter 716
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Clive’s angry roar echoed through the hall.
Ivan followed immediately, his voice booming. “The Sage is a fraud. His crimes are too many to count. I can confirm that every charge Ashton leveled against him is true. If a monster like this remains on the throne, Javonbury has no future. It’ll be a nightmare for us all.
“I stand with Ashton. He’s the only one who can bring new hope to this city.”
His words rang in everyone’s minds.
The crowd stood frozen, their mouths agape as they wondered if they had heard correctly. No one expected Flint’s own sons to turn on him so decisively. It was a brutal backstab that dealt a lethal blow to his reputation.
“What’s going on? Have they lost their minds?” someone whispered. “Why would they do this? Is it really for some bullshit‘ justice‘?”
“Something’s not right. This is all wrong. Ashton was more prepared than any of us realized. He didn’t just come here to fight. This whole play for the throne was a goddamn surgical strike.”
“How can the Sage not even control his own sons? Between them, Hazel, and Rhonda, the Sage has been abandoned by everyone close to him. How can a man like that rule a city?”
“Forget all that. The truth is that Clive and Ivan just confirmed the treason. There is no way out now. Can the vanguards and the sentinels really stay on the sidelines?”
In an instant, the weight of the crowd’s judgment shifted toward the Empyrean Sentinel and the Dominion Vanguard.
Logan and his men kept their heads down, unable to meet the public’s eyes.
Logan’s fists clenched so hard that his knuckles turned white. He repeatedly cursed Flint in his mind for being such a useless liability.
If he had known it would turn into this, he never would have set foot in the estate. But now, his only choice was to stay silent and wait for a winner to emerge between Ashton and Flint.
“Why, you!”
Flint’s gaze hardened with icy killing intent. He glared at Clive and Ivan like a cornered predator.
“I treated you better than anyone! I built this empire for you. Why betray your own father? Have you forgotten whose blood is in your veins? Do you really intend to commit parricide?” he snapped.
The sting of this betrayal had pushed his killing intent to the breaking point.
“Why?” Clive’s eyes were bloodshot as he threw all caution to the wind. “You old bastard, have you forgotten how our mother died? You murdered her just to keep your impotence a secret. She had just given you a son. How could you do that to her?”
Ivan roared, “Fucking bastard! I’ve still got some pride left in me. If I kept calling you my father, I’d never be able to face my mother in the afterlife. You deserve to die. Even if I go down today, I’ll make sure you go down in infamy.
“You’re an impotent, so you aren’t even a man. You can’t even touch the women you keep around you. You’re pathetic!”
Ivan burst into a manic, vengeful laugh.
A bolt of savage killing intent shot forward like an arrow, aimed directly between Ivan’s eyes. It was a kill shot.
Ivan froze, his body locked down by Flint’s pressure, making him unable to move a muscle.
Just as the strike was about to land, Ashton grabbed Ivan and jerked him back. A swirl of black stormwind erupted around
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Ashton, shredding the incoming storm of energy into nothingness,
“See?” Ashton sneered. “That bastard doesn’t give a damn about his own flesh and blood.”
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