Joseph's four children were divided into two major factions during the battle for the inheritance. One faction was composed of the eldest son Trike, the second son Sam, and the third daughter Cecilia, while the other faction consisted of only the youngest son William.
In private, Trick and Cecilia also formed a small alliance to advance and retreat together, living in the gap between the two mountains of Sam and William.
Although the situation William faced at the moment was one versus three, it was quite stressful. But thinking about it from another angle, William was able to make the other three heirs join forces to compete, which is enough to show how strong he is and how deeply he is feared.
William's soft power will not be shown here for the time being. Let's just talk about his hard power, that is, his capable subordinates.
Except for Cecilia, the other three children who are eligible to inherit all have high-level ability users to drive them, and only those with abilities who have reached the ghost level or above can be called guard "officers". Of course, the ghost level is the highest level among all successors' esper subordinates.
Let’s take a look at the four bodyguards:
Terry Chapman's escort: Cavelin.
Sam Chapman's escorts: Upton, Wharton.
Cecilia's bodyguard: None.
William Chapman's escorts: Lionel and Wade.
At first glance, it seemed that Sam and William, each with two ghost-level ability users, were fighting against each other. But in fact, William's strength surpassed Sam's.
Although the quantity is the same, the quality is different. Everyone knows that the soldiers are not too many but the best, especially... "Fire Crow" Lionel, recognized as the strongest among the ghost-level guards.
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At 10 a.m. on September 2, Bao Xiang District, Hanoi City.
Sam is a person who makes plans before taking action, and the so-called "conspiracy" requires intelligence support. The reason why he chose not to go to Bandar Seri Begawan for the time being is that he is waiting for Wharton's report.
He doesn't need to worry about Wharton's safety. Even if Bandar Seri Begawan is really a dragon's den and a tiger's den, Sam is confident that Wharton will be safe. However, Sam's confidence has little to do with Wharton himself. The source of his confidence comes from his other guard, Upton.
Upton's ability is "Strong Luck", which literally means "very strong luck". The effect is also very simple: after "Strong Luck" is applied to the target, its luck will skyrocket.
To give a closer example: Before Wharton went to Zamboanga, Upton used his ability on him. The result was that Wharton encountered Pim's taxi as soon as he left the airport, saving a lot of time to find the assassination target. time, and the original planned activities were not compromised.
Wharton knew Upton's ability, so when he saw the assassination target coming to his door, he knew that "hard luck" had played a role. But what he didn't know was that "Gang Luck" had saved his life not long ago.
On the evening of September 1, after Wharton arrived in Bandar Seri Begawan, he hailed a taxi outside the airport and went to the Golden Palm Hotel. As a result, the driver bullied foreign tourists and took Wharton around the city. By the time Wharton arrived at the Palme d'Or, it was almost an hour later than planned.
This is actually the effect of "strong luck". Because if Walton came to the Palme d'Or Hotel at the normal time, he would bump into Wade and Maehara Douyang at the door of the hotel.
Wharton's combat power is relatively mediocre, and he is definitely no match for one against two. Therefore, Wharton will die, and this is the trajectory his life should take.
Upton is not a magician, and he won't see anything like a "death look" on other people's faces. But he is not good at detecting luck, but he is very good at changing luck. Sam, Wharton and Upton have all been given "hard luck". Basically, as long as the three people with luck protection do not seek death themselves, they will be safe. Very.
"Hard Luck" is actually similar to Puche Shi's "Motto". For the enemy, they both have the ability of "knowing the essence of the opponent's ability but being unable to do anything about it." It might be easier to deal with the Pu Chai Attendant at his current level, just try to make him unable to speak (the ghost-level motto still requires the ability user to take the initiative to speak out the instructions. The time Pu Chai Chai made the inspection car hardened was a passive protection of the ability. Lord), and for something as mysterious as luck, there are not many means of restraint.
Sam thinks highly of Upton and hides his abilities well. Upton's guard codename is "Wu Kill", which means that under the influence of "Strong Luck", no one can hurt him. This codename makes it difficult for others to understand his abilities in a literal sense, so the outside world's understanding of Upton is almost zero.
But thinking about it on the other hand, William and Palmer only arranged for Xiao Qing to deal with Sam and others whose strength was unknown, which showed that their confidence in Xiao Qing was definitely no less than Sam's confidence in Upton.
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At the same time, Room 1601 of a hotel in Bandar Seri Begawan, Wandao County.
Xiao Qing, who had high hopes from William... hadn't gotten up yet, and was scrolling through her cell phone in bed.
And her twin sister Xiao Qi was sitting on the bed flipping through the book of self-redemption. She stayed up all night and finally recorded a new story in her mind into the book of self-redemption not long ago. What she is doing now is to refine the story again.
"Oh? Have you finished your fictional historical short story about the Ming Dynasty?" Xiao Qing asked.
"It's almost there. There are quite a few main characters. It's enough to be used several times."
"I remember that Cecilia doesn't have a ghost-level guard officer, and her tiger-level subordinates only have three or two kittens. How are you going to mobilize so many troops to deal with her?"
Xiao Qi closed the book of self-redemption and looked at her sister with helpless eyes: "Details determine success or failure. Even a lion fighting a rabbit has to use its full strength. Besides, you know that I have almost no ability to protect myself. You can’t handle this book seriously if you don’t deal with it seriously.”
The sound of rustling clothes was heard from the bed, and Xiao Qing was finally ready to get up: "You are too careful. Your Book of Self-Atonement is an almost incomprehensible ability, and it is rare to be able to use it beyond the next level. Griffin used to It was your men who were defeated. That guy thought he could defeat you when he reached the dragon level, but he ended up being trapped in a book without knowing it."
"For us ability users, the ghost level is a watershed. In battles between ability users below the ghost level, it is common to challenge and win by leapfrogging the level, but it is rarely heard of above the ghost level. You can defeat dragon level opponents. , This can prove your strength."
"Why does it sound like you are praising yourself?" Xiao Qi raised her eyes: "I defeated Griffin because of the natural superiority of my ability. You defeated him with 100% pure strength."
"Hehehehe..." Xiao Qing lifted the quilt and got out of bed: "You are right, I have reached the threshold of dragon level now, and I am just one step away from advancement."
"No wonder William asked you to assassinate Sam. Sam has two ghost-level guards. With your quasi-dragon-level strength, it is not difficult to deal with them."
Xiao Qing was modest: "You can't say that. The main reason is that Sam hid his two bodyguards very well. Now that the war is about to begin, we don't even know what their abilities are. Wharton's nickname is Traveler. From listening to it, you can tell that he was named based on his hobbies and has nothing to do with ability; Upton’s nickname is even more bizarre, it’s called Wulu, and I don’t understand the meaning at all.”
"Don't guards all use such mysterious and weird nicknames to hide their abilities?" Xiao Qi counted on his fingers: "My recorder, your Rain Girl, Maehara Douyang's idol, and so on. There are Mechanics, Blood Rose, Miles Without Borders, Knights, Shadow Swordsmen... not all of them are in this style."
The ones Xiao Qi mentioned, Mechanic, Blood Rose, and Knight respectively correspond to Wade, Ada Yang, and Bein. As for the remaining two:
"Wanli Wujie" is Jin's nickname, and "Shadow Swordsman" refers to Trick's only guard, Caiflin.
"Lionel is the only one who uses the name of his ability as a nickname." Xiao Qi concluded: "But that's because his ability is Fire Crow. It's hard to give him a nickname. Calling him Crow King is too much. It’s ugly.”
Xiao Qing patted her sister on the shoulder: "You are right to be cautious. I have become a little conceited since I defeated Griffin. In tonight's battle, we will all face opponents we know little about. If we are careless, we will miss and even lose our lives."
Xiao Qi stretched out her hand and fist bumped with her sister: "Go all out."
"Give it your all."
