12 The Protagonist Has Landed!

After calming himself down, Jack ran back upstairs and grabbed his Neo-VR watch inside his bag. He now understood why his bag felt so strange when he stared at it earlier.

Dammit! If he'd known such a thing would happen, he shouldn't have left his bag alone earlier… He should have cast it to the skies instead!

Should he just destroy the watches now? At least he could avert a massive storm that's headed for him. He glanced at the watch wrapped around his wrist, then, the image of a cute little girl popped up in his head.

Dammit, wouldn't everything just go to waste? He bought it from his dar- ahem! He bought it from Katelyn at an enormous sum!

Ignoring price, just the fact he bought it from Katelyn was enough to increase the value of the watch by leaps and bounds! It's value was more than something he robbed off a business rival.

To think Fay knowing about this would force me into reasoning something as dark as throwing away his valuable watch… Sigh…

"Argh! Just you wait Robert, I promise I won't punch you straight in the face!"

After roaring his heart out for a while, Jack sighed before letting out a sharp curse and dashing out of his room through the door he left open. As soon as the door banged shut behind him, Jack nimbly dashed into the elevator once more.

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"Hehe, when do you think Jack would be here? The game is beginning in a few minutes."

"I can't wait to see Jack's face when he finds out Robert disclosed the existence of Galactic Ascension to Fay. Hehehe… Keke… Cough Cough!"

"Wang Xing! Hehe, I should have recorded that moment. With your pale face, you look like someone who nearly died from choking on their saliva… Wahahaha!"

Gather around Jack's garden were a couple of teenagers donning fancy clothes and accessories, chatting and joking with one another with bright smiles on their faces.

Robert, Fay, Rylex and Kayla were busy mingling with the other 'royalties' hailing from different parts of the world.

Each of the teenagers on ground were powerful business tycoons with Thier net worth spanning over a hundred billion dollars! Just their names alone were enough to cause ferocious waves in the global business industry!

"Hello beautiful, my name is Jacob. It's a pleasure to meet someone as beautiful and godly as you."

Rylex turned around to see someone around Jack's age approaching her with a wide grin on his face. He was breathtakingly handsome with an elegant and graceful air to his stride.

The guy had long red hair that sprinkled down to his middle of his back, a chiselled and angular face, plus a pair of sharp amber eyes that glowed in a soft light every time he moved.

"Huh, Jacob? You dare to show your face here after last time?" Robert who was standing behind Rylex and discussing with someone suddenly spoke up as he stepped to the side and walked ahead of Rylex to glare at the newcomer.

"Hehe, Robert. You look good, how's that monumental b*stard doing? Still behaving like a spoiled brat?"

Jacob paused and gave Robert a cheeky grin, his eyes still flashed with a nearly indistinct day of coldness that seemed to penetrate one's skull!

Robert grinned back, but the air around him had already turned ice cold! He seemed to be preparing for a big fight with the red haired male standing before him!

"Are so quick to forget last time? It seems that a few weeks away from school had clouded your brain…" Robert grinned as he pushed up his glasses, refracting light in Jacob's direction. He gave off a scholarly vibe as he began to speak the next minute,

"After beating you in the last racing contest you seemed to have forgotten how weak and pathetic you are. As always, no matter how much gold a pig own… It's still a pig!"

Rylex simply stepped to the side to avoid getting dragged into the heated battle between men. She just gave Fay who stood besides her a sidelong glance .

A fight is about to begin right now… What the hell was going on?

"Are you… insulting me?" Jacob glared at Robert as he spoke, attained a fierce and ferocious aura that spread around his body.

If this was a magical world, and he was some rich antagonist with a bad*ss system, his ferocity would be off the charts!

"I'm not insulting you…" Robert dug one hand in his pocket and pointed an index finger at Jacob provocatively, "I'm just calling you a pig!"

Silence. Everyone who heard that turned around with widened eyes to see a crazed Jacob literally lunge at Robert with the intention to kill!

"How… Dare you!" Jacob roared as he threw out a punch the moment he got close enough to Robert who still had one hand in his pocket. He had completely lost it!

Robert simply smirked and lightly tilted his shoulder to the side, dodging the powerful punch that was sure to knock the air out of his lungs if it connected with his body.

All the others had gathered around the duo at this point, forming a circular ring for them to fight to their hearts content. After the duo finished up, they'd sympathize with the loser and send him to a good hospital.

Soon, Jacob had rained down a fierce torrent of punches and kicks which Robert nimbly evaded with a smirk still on his face. He just weaved around Jacob's punches and kept raining taunts on the poor guy.

"Didn't your father teach you basic fighting skills? You're throwing out punches like an old lady, and your stance is simply terrible! You look like a constipated cow standing like that…"

Jacob saw red! He was going to ruin Robert and the pretty face hidden behind those big glasses!

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Robert grinned as he danced around elegantly. He was effortlessly evading Jacob's heavy punches, weaving and dancing around the enraged red haired boy.

The crowd around them had grown as everyone had gathered to watch the fighters after being attracted by the commotion. Each of them were letting out soft laughter and private whispers.

"Isn't that Jacob Bluestone? Prodigy Elite of Spatial Bluestone Technologies? Jack's biggest business rival in the tech business?"

"Robert Starcolm is so cool! See the way his cooly dodging Jacob's hits with one hand in his pocket? Coolity +100!"

"Coolity isn't a word you idiot! Don't tell me you made it up yourself or else I'll kick you ass! What school did your family dump you in to begin with?"

While others were discussing, a certain silver haired man with prominent asian features was busy laughing his ass off. His voice was loud and his laughter unrestrained.

The tall male had his long jet-black hair tied up in a pony tail with a silver band. He had a round and delicate face with a thin moustache on his face.

As of now, tears had gathered at the corner of his eyes, and his shoulders were quaking non-stop! He was practically convulsing with laughter, and had no intention of covering up his bold actions.

In his hand was a glass of wine which he seemed to have taken a sip out of earlier. While he was laughing, the glass shook and the wine scattered around.

Luckily it didn't land on the dark skinned Mal standing besides the silver haired teenager.

"Wang Xing don't laugh too much or you might cough out your guts later…"

The person besides the silver haired boy, Wang Xing, a dark skinned teen spoke in a soft voice as he nudged Wang Xing in the gut with his elbow.

His name was Axai, Wang Xing's personal assistant. He was a centimetre shorter than the tall Wang Xing, and had a plump and rotund figure.

"Wahahahaha… Hehehe… Ke! Ke! Cough! Cough!"

Soon after laughing, Wang Xing choked on something and began to cough out loudly and violently. His face attained a pale and unhealthy shade of red.

"You b*stard! You keep jinxing it! I'll give you a good beating the next time you do that!" Wang Xing roared madly in Axia's face after he finished coughing. His pale face had regained some colour and vibrance compared to a second ago.

"Hehe. I did nothing except stating the obvious… You aren't supposed to laugh that hard after drinking…"

At Axia's reply, Wang Xing's brows shot up and he simply exploded!

"Do I look like a kid, you moron! How dare you say such a stupid thing to me!"

Axia just raised a brow and shrugged nonchalantly before averting his attention back to the fight. From his deduction, the battle below is about to reach it's climax.

Wang Xing roared madly with bloodshot eyes, but he respected himself and didn't charge at Axia like a maddened bull. He simply turned away with torching eyes.

"Pow!"

One of Jacob's punches - a sneak attack on the unsuspecting Robert - had finally!

Following the heavy punch that landed on the side of his stomach, Robert felt like all the air in his lungs was knocked out as he staggered to the side. His eyes were torching as he held the side of his stomach in pain.

When everyone saw this, their brows jumped!

Not only was Jacob's blow extremely powerful to the extent of knock Robert off balance, it also left it's victim stunned for a short but dangerous time.

Before Robert could react, Jacob dashed towards him and elbowed the bespectacled Robert in the gut! Following this strike, Robert coughed out a mouthful of blood as his body suddenly caver in as his glasses fell down from his face.

"I said I'll kill you! You friggin' son of a b*tch!"

Jacob threw out another punch, wanting to knock Robert down for good. He was enraged to a point of near insanity, and everyone were too stunned to stop him.

He was going too far! This was supposed to be a quick spar, how did it turn so bloody all of a sudden?

"You idiot, leave Robert alone! Can't you see he's already suffered enough?" Fay shrieked as she stepped forward, ready to give Jacob a good beating! Beating up someone who was already down? How dare he!

Before she could charged ahead, Rylex suddenly stretched out her fair and slender arm and grabbed Fay's shoulder. Her grip was firm, but lacked sufficient power.

Fay wanted to shake it off, but when she couldn't shake off the arm, Fay turned her head to glare at Rylex behind her.

"A bit disappointing when compared to last time… I should have beat up more, and maybe this 'rendezvous' would have been delayed to a more appropriate time."

Everyone glared in the direction of the voice, if it was someone unimportant, they'd beat him up to a pulp and leave his body in the slums for a day or two. How dare he say such words with his measly net worth?

But when they saw who the culprit was, their bodies stiffened as their lips clamped down on one another. Tears nearly rolled down their cheeks - tears of pai- ahem! Tears of joy!

The hooded figure struck an awe inspiring pose before lifting his head slowly to reveal the face shielded beneath the hood.

The protagonist of this novel, has arrived!