Chapter 959: Peaceful Resolution
Damien had actually already guessed some of Lucas’s origin.
In fact, Damien could tell from Lucas’s aura and his martial arts skills that he must have come from one of the mysterious and powerful armies of the country and that he must have a high status.
But Damien still couldn’t guess which army.
But knowing this alone was enough for him.
Therefore, Damien would never fight with Lucas, who was from the military, because even if he won, he would end up offending the military, which was simply a death wish.
He had always been a smart man, and judging the situation was his forte.
This was why Damien changed his att.i.tude the moment he guessed Lucas’s ident.i.ty and instantly restrained his killing intent.
“Mr. Gray, your explanation is very reasonable, but the Peerless Martial a.s.sociation has lost three experts after all. We can’t let the matter go just like that.
“I will have people continue to investigate this matter thoroughly. If I find out that the truth is unlike what you said, don’t blame me for coming back to the Howards’ to look for you.
“Since you’ve said that you’ll hand Ezra Howard over to the Peerless Martial a.s.sociation, I will take him away.” Damien pointed at Ezra, who was still lying unconscious on the ground.
Lucas nodded and said with a smile, “That’s natural. You can take this person away and investigate this matter as you please. If you really think that it’s my responsibility, you can come and look for me at any time.”
He was once again giving both of them an out.
Damien took another glance at Lucas before suddenly waving his hand and exclaiming, “Let’s go!”
Then he took the ten or so experts of the Peerless Martial a.s.sociation and Ezra with him, leaving the Howard residence.
Only after seeing with their own eyes that all the people of the Peerless Martial a.s.sociation had left did the Howards seem to snap out of their dreams and stare at each other in disbelief.
“Have… the people of the Peerless Martial a.s.sociation left just like that?”
“Are we really saved? Hah, great! We’re all perfectly fine!”
“This is all thanks to Mr. Gray! You’re our great savior!”
“Yes, thank you for saving us, Mr. Gray!”
…
The Howards were extremely grateful to Lucas.
No one paid attention to Ezra, who had been taken away by the Peerless Martial a.s.sociation.
But it was obvious enough. Ezra had done so many terrible things for the sake of power and his own benefits. He had gotten two experts of the Peerless Martial a.s.sociation killed and had been completely given up by the Howards. The Peerless Martial a.s.sociation definitely wouldn’t spare him.
…
In a luxurious villa near the center of the Howard residence…
Felix was sitting on a sofa and listening to the servants talk about what had just happened excitedly. He didn’t move for a long time.
“So… in the end, he was the one who saved us…” Felix sighed with a complicated look on his face.
He didn’t expect that his grandson Ezra would inform the Peerless Martial a.s.sociation about everything that happened in their family without hesitating at all just for the sake of seizing power. His actions had almost caused the destruction of the Howards.
He also didn’t expect that Lucas would be the one to save the day and convince Damien, the chief of the Peerless Martial a.s.sociation’s US headquarters, to give up on taking revenge and leave the Howard residence.
Life was indeed unpredictable…
“Grandpa, the doctor just said that you can’t move about freely yet. Take your medicine.”
At this moment, an extremely beautiful girl in her twenties walked over with a gla.s.s of warm water and a few bags of pills and placed them on the small coffee table in front of Felix.
This woman was naturally Pamela.
Previously, her father, Samuel, had gotten people to drag her away and lock her in her room, causing her to be absent for the matters that had happened in the Howard residence.
She had hurried over only after Felix vomited blood and was helped to his villa. She then found out about everything that happened from Felix.
Felix looked at the pills without touching them and instead sat on the couch and asked her despondently, “Pamela, tell me. Have I really done the wrong thing?”
After hesitating for a moment, Pamela looked at how aged her grandfather, who was usually strong-willed, was at the moment and gently in a mellow voice, “Grandpa, I don’t know what I should say about what you’ve done previously. But you’ve indeed underestimated Lucas and his power.”
Hearing this, Felix smiled self-deprecatingly.
“You’re right. I did underestimate him too much. I only wanted him to work for the Howards. Once I couldn’t use him, I’d destroy him. It turns out that I was absurdly wrong!
“If I hadn’t seen what happened tonight, how could I believe that he, a young man in his twenties, would be able to deter the chief of the Peerless Martial a.s.sociation’s US headquarters? No one would believe this kind of thing!”
After sighing, Felix suddenly remembered that his granddaughter Pamela had desperately tried to stop him when he wanted to deal with Lucas previously, telling him that Lucas was terrifyingly powerful. Moreover, she had even once stood in front of Lucas to s.h.i.+eld him and prevent Samuel from killing him.
“Pamela, do you know more about Lucas Gray?” Felix suddenly asked.
Pamela gritted her teeth and nodded. “I do know a little bit about him, but it’s enough to let me know that he’s definitely not an ordinary person. We absolutely can’t provoke him easily!”
Then Pamela told Felix all about her sudden encounter with a group of terrorists in that remote town abroad more than a year ago, during which Lucas had suddenly appeared and single-handedly took out 30 to 40 terrorists armed with various firearms.
After hearing Pamela’s story, Felix widened his mouth in shock, unable to say a word even after a long time.
“No wonder… he actually has such powerful martial arts skills. No wonder he was so dismissive and disdainful when facing the weapons and bullets of the Howards…
“Haha, since he could appear in such a remote place and completely eliminate a group of terrorists on his own, how could he possibly be an ordinary person? He… he doesn’t belong to the same world as us!
“No wonder he doesn’t care for the position of the Howards’ helmsman at all. Hah. Not to mention the Howards, I doubt he even takes the eight top families of DC seriously…
“Yet I treated him as a p.a.w.n that I could use. Haha, it was an absolute mistake on my part! Ahem!”
Felix sighed self-deprecatingly before suddenly coughing several times. A few mouthfuls of blood spewed out of his mouth.
“Grandpa! Grandpa, how are you?”
Pamela instantly panicked and helped support Felix. Extremely fl.u.s.tered, she ordered the servants, “Quick, get the doctors! Grandpa suddenly vomited so much blood!”