Enemy at Door!

Seeing everyone was stopped in their tracks, Caleb nodded in satisfaction. He had to use Asher's name, or those pills would have caused a huge bloody fight. People might not know him, but they know who Asher was.

"Haha, You jest, young master Caleb, how can we take young lord Asher's belongings? I congratulate you on finding young Master Asher's belongings. Give my regards, farewell." A well-informed person quickly identified Caleb; he concluded that it was really Asher's Pills and promptly escaped the scene.

"Yes! How could we take Lord Asher's things? We also congratulate Young Master Asher on finding his Pills. Farewell!" Everyone began to congratulate before quickly escaping.

Ace also saw this scene from afar, and his complexion darkened. 'This young master Asher is also from the Kelby family. It seems they won't be easy to deal with. This mission will not be as simple as I think it would.'

Then, he vanished amid the clamor.

---

After watching everyone escape the scene like flies, Caleb moved towards the red bottles with his hands behind his back. He became arrogant again and relaxed after seeing no one dare to mess with 'him' and not fight for white-grade pills.

Caleb grabbed both red bottles and smiled ear to ear like some child who just got a new toy.

"Old man Matthew, did you find that little rat?" Caleb questioned Matthew about Ace with a wide grin.

"I'm afraid, no. That little brat ran too fast. He must've chosen to abandon these pills to escape with his life." Old Man Matthew said he was also beaming with joy. 'Brat, let's see if you dared to behave arrogantly in front of your elders again, haha.' He finally gets his 'revenge'! 

"Well, we got the pills, so that little rat didn't matter anymore. Let's go and report back to young master Asher. We can't let him wait." Caleb said in a hurry and quickly returned to the Kelby shop.

---

Currently, inside Kelby shop, on the 15th floor.

Caleb and Matthew were smiling like idiots. In front of them was Asher sitting in a chair, and a white jade table was between them. On the table were placed two red shinning Pill Bottles.

Caleb and Matthew were expecting enormous rewards for their labors.

Especially Matthew always wanted to be a floor manager, but he didn't have the capability. Now he had contributed two 'white grade pills,' and that's why he was on cloud nine.

"You did the right thing to use my name. Did you open these Pill Bottles?" Asher asked coolly.

He seemed calm outside, but inside, he was pleased after obtaining the two 'white grade pills' without much effort.

"We didn't dare to touch your belongings, young master." Both of them said at the same time.

Asher was delighted with this kind of attitude. He also didn't like others touching his belongings.

Asher lifted the red pill bottle from the table; he opened it to see the 'white grade pill.' But when he opened the lid, there wasn't a pill aroma that entered his nostrils. He smelled something ghastly rotten and disgusting.

Asher's facial color changed from white to blue, and he instinctively threw the red pill bottle.

'Cheeee'

The glass bottle shattered, and what appeared inside were tiny black 'pills.'

When Caleb and Matthew saw his reaction, they didn't understand what happened, but when they saw those 'little black pills,' their faces became appalled, and all the blood circulating within their bodies stopped with dread.

Matthew hurriedly kneeled and began to bang his head in front of purple-faced Asher.

"Y-YOU CALL THIS 'RAT SHIT' WHITE GRADE PILLS!!!??" Asher roared in extreme humiliation.

He had never touched anything dirty in his entire life and was an elegant and clean person. However, now someone had dared to 'give him rat shit' to smell!

How could he not lose his mind and become extremely enraged? Worse, others saw him doing the most disgraceful thing of his life. This was unforgivable!

Asher didn't know who did this to him, but he did know who gave him this 'rat shit.'

"You can bang your head in the afterlife. DIE!" Asher didn't give Matthew a chance to plead for mercy and sent a kick over Matthew's head using the full power of his cultivation base.

'Bang'

How could a mortal like Mathew endure a cultivator's kick? His head exploded like a watermelon, and he died because of his greed.

When Caleb saw Matthew's head becoming meat mush, he nearly threw out his stomach. But held it back because the devil was now coldly looking at him. He instantly kneeled with an ashen face.

"I want 500 half-white-grade pills this month. If you can't get it done, you can join this old man in the underworld! If anything happened here, leak even a little bit; remember this: I didn't torture someone for a long time. Now Scram!" Asher threatened Caleb with thick killing intent emanating from his whole body.

Asher can't kill him, no matter how angry he is. He would not kill a goose who lays golden eggs like this and only give him a mission that was not easy to complete.

'500 half-white-grade pills will teach this arrogant bastard a lesson. He was going out of hand day by day. It will put a leash on him.' That was Asher's actual thoughts.

"YES! Thank you for showing mercy, young master. I'll not disappoint you again." Looking at Asher's piercing, cold eyes, Caleb had no choice but to give in. His life was more important than his pride, and it was his fault in the first place.

'I should've checked those pills! Shit! He'll work me to death now!' Caleb cursed Asher in his heart while escaping from the 15th floor. He had to start working immediately if he didn't want to end up like Matthew.

After kicking Caleb out, Asher saw that last red pill bottle on the table. His anger reached a new level, and he barked, "Black Fox!"

"Yes, young master!" Black Fox appeared like a ghost.

"You saw it, right?" Asher was angry, but he didn't yell at her like Caleb.

"Yes!" Black Fox nodded her head.

No one could see her face, but her hazel fox-like eyes had a peculiar glint.

Asher became even more incensed, but she was his best subordinate, and he couldn't just punish her for this. It wasn't her fault, to begin with.

"I WANT that scoundrel alive no matter the cost. Find him for me and bring him here. I want to let him know the consequences of playing with fire." Asher ordered coldly while grinding his teeth in anger.

Asher hated that rascal to the bone who he didn't even know.

After all, if it wasn't for him, how could a glorious young master of the Kelby family like him have to smell 'rat shit.' He won't find peace until he tortures that dirty bastard!

"I'll investigate him for you now, young master." Black Fox said as she vanished again.

But this time, her voice was not emotionless anymore. There was a hint of delight in it, though, in anger, Asher didn't notice it.

---

After successfully escaping from the main market, Ace was finally back at the Inn. He dragged his exhausted body to his room and threw himself on the soft bedding.

'It was a crazy day. Well, I got a mission out of it, and a difficult one at that. But I really want to see that young master Asher's face when he opened those pill bottles and see my 'special present' and not those white-grade pills. Hahaha. That old fool will also be punished by him after that. He was the one who told that Asher fellow about those pills.' Ace laughed while musing about the special gift he sent.

But little did Ace know that Matthew was already dead and Asher was currently bloody for him. If he had known what kind of person Asher was, he wouldn't be this relaxed.

"I'll have to find information on this Kelby family tomorrow, make my plan accordingly, and proceed carefully." Ace just mumbled when he heard a light knock on the door.

'Thud thud'

"Sir, I'm here to deliver your dinner." A mellow yet charming voice sounded in the room.

Ace didn't think much about it and was going to open the door when he suddenly stopped in his tracks because he had this strange feeling that something was fishy.

He clearly remembered the voice of the maidservant from yesterday, the one he had given a ruby coin as a tip.

'She was also the one who delivered my breakfast this morning. Then why is she not here now? Did they change her?' Ace's brain started to work at full speed.

He was getting a bad feeling from his soul sense, and the soul sense warning was not to be taken lightly.

He was about to use his heavenly sense when the locked door,

'click'

It opened without the key and slowly started to spread.

Ace knew he had let his guard down because of the carelessness that came with his success after success, and now, the enemy had somehow found him! 

Now, he has to pay the price!