I’m Here To Save All Of You

His eyes locked onto the pocket of my ritual clock, where the end of a braided black cord peeked out.His hand darted into my pocket and roughly pulled out a clear-quartz pendant.It was a protective relic Joel had bestowed upon me when I left. The crystal was flawless and almost luminous. Its facets were carved with intricate banishment sigils.“Did you plan to bless us with this?” Ted held the pendant up to his face, which was full of contempt.“What is this, some one-dollar junk you bought from a street vendor? Do you really think it’s special?”I kept my eyes on the quartz and flatly said, “It can deflect one fatal omen.”“Ha!” Ted let out an enraged laugh. “A fatal omen? You’re not a psychic, you’re just a delusional loser!”With that, he raised his hand and hurled the clear-quartz pendant to the floor.Crack!A crystalline snap echoed in the small room.The pendant shattered into pieces.I could feel the last trace of protective energy within it dissipating into nothin

Ted looked at me. There was a turbulent mix of struggle, doubt, and a flicker of fear he did not even recognize in himself.I did not give him time to process it. I laid the truth bare.“Those new twin towers your company built point directly at the city’s largest cemetery. And to make matters worse, someone tampered with the architectural layout. They twisted the building’s energy grid into one of the most destructive geomantic death traps that exists, the Piercing Hex. It’s a configuration designed to channel malignant energy straight into the family line. Grandfather and you were the first targets. The server crash was just beginning. In three days, that malignant surge will hit at full force. Grandfather won’t survive it. And the company will fall into absolute ruin, and this family will be destroyed.”Every word landed like a physical blow and shattered the last of Ted’s defiance.“Why should I believe you?” He was clinging to the last shreds of denial.“You don’t have to.” I

Then, he turned to me. His voice possessed a resolve I had never heard in him before.“Ethan, tell me, what’s our next move?”I smiled.“We use their own plan against them. Announce publicly that we’ll hold a major strategic cooperation press conference three days later and formally sign the deal.”I had just built the stage for the final showdown.Three days later, Stratton Corporation’s strategic partnership press conference was held in the city’s most prestigious hotel ballroom.The place was packed with the press. Cameras were flashing nonstop.As Stratton Corporation’s biggest rival and the mastermind behind this scheme, Pedro sat in the front row’s most prominent seat as a “guest of honor.”Beside him was the “indispensable” William, who worked hard to make the deal happen.They exchanged a look of tacit understanding, awaiting the moment of the Stratton family’s utter downfall.When the signing ceremony began, it was my turn to go onstage.Everyone expected me to outl

Pedro’s company, rocked by the explosive scandal, saw its stock price begin a catastrophic freefall in real time during the live-stream. What awaited him were regulatory investigations and prison.Mason was dragged out of the ballroom by two security guards, limp and helpless, like a discarded mutt.He wept and screamed, “Dad, I’m sorry! Please, Dad!”However, Ted did not spare him so much as a glance.He merely lifted his hand wearily.“Get him out of here. I don’t want to see him again.”Just like that, the storm came to an end.That evening, in the Stratton family hall, Ted stood before me and bowed deeply to me.“Ethan, I’ve wronged you for far too long.”I did not stop him.He owed me that much.He pulled out a stock transfer agreement he had prepared in advance and slid it across the table toward me.“This is a fifty-one percent stake of Stratton Corporation. From today, you are the head of this family.”I did not refuse. I signed.The moment the ink touched the p