LOGINPedro’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
Ted stood frozen as he watched the scene unfold before him with a storm of conflicting emotions in his eyes. He had never imagined that his younger brother and his adopted son, the two people he trusted most, would conspire to destroy him with such ruthlessness.Lying on the floor, Pedro’s complexion had turned a sickly shade of bluish-purple.I walked over to him and knelt before him. “The Piercing Hex was meant to kill Ted in three months.” I looked into his eyes. “But unfortunately for you, you crossed my path.”Pedro’s eyes widened. He tried to say something, but he could only manage a gurgling moan.I stood up and clapped twice.In the next instant, every light in the ballroom went out, except for eight spotlights positioned around the room.Those eight points corresponded perfectly to the eight anchors of the ritual array I had constructed.“North. South. East. West. Northeast. Northwest. Southeast. Southwest.”I uttered each direction clearly.With every mention of
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
Refusing to accept it, Mason slipped away in the chaos and went to talk to William.“Uncle William, you heard that, right? Dad’s completely under his spell! He’s a fraud! We have to find a way to expose him!”William’s expression was just as sour. He put a hand on Mason’s shoulder to calm him, but his gaze was frighteningly cold.He slipped away to a corner and made a call. “Mr. Moses, we have a problem. It seems a true psychic has arrived at my family. He’s managed to weaken a section of our energy trap.”A vicious voice hissed from the other end of the line. “A psychic? I look forward to seeing just how capable he really is!”Pedro Moses had also sensed the disturbance in the geomantic trap.Ted had completely shed his ridiculous materialist arrogance and started actively seeking my counsel on matters of energy flow and design.He approached me with the company’s construction blueprints and cautiously asked where the flaws lay.His respectful demeanor did not move me.If
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
As he said that, he reached out to snatch the leather satchel resting on my lap.I did not even look up. My wrist flicked.A slender steel pin soundlessly slipped between my fingers and swiftly sank into his forearm.“Ah!”Mason cried out in pain. His entire arm went numb in an instant and dropped limply to his side. He could not even hold his fork.He stared at me in terror, as if he had seen a ghost.“What... What did you do to me?”I ignored him and turned my gaze to the middle-aged man sitting across from me, Mr. Danson. He was the father of the “poisoned” woman.I said calmly, “Mr. Danson, your daughter wasn’t poisoned. She’s pregnant. The illness was a reaction to the pregnancy being unstable.”A sudden expression of shock rippled across Mr. Danson’s face.I then turned to William, who was staring at me in stunned silence. I fixed my gaze on his head.“Uncle William, your aura is collapsing into a dark spiral. A violent spike is forming above you. Before midnight, yo







