The Second King was also killed by Ryder, who was now lying on his body without a head.
Ryder hastily kept the body in his inventory before he went into his bedroom.
Closing the door of his room, he sat on the ground before bringing out the body of the Second King and started absorbing his powers. The process moved smoothly as one more king's strength was absorbed by Ryder.
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Unaware of what was happening back home, Aluren and the Vice President of this country were going to a resort with Gander, believing that Ryder was there.
They didn't know that they were instead going away from Ryder.
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Back in the New Capital, the team of Necrosis was trying to contact Alice to tell her that she needed to come there for the tournament, but her phone was off for a long time, so even they were finding it hard to get to her.
Necrosis had even sent a worker of their company to personally inform Alice about this at the mansion of Shu.